Speaker talks Putin’s downfall

The University of La Verne’s Cultural and Natural History Collections hosted speaker John Echeveste, co-founder of VPE Communications and former CEO of La Plaza De Cultura Y Artist, recently. 

The University of La Verne hosted its annual Kristallnacht Remembrance Lecture featuring author Steven Wasserman speaking about his book, “Grasping at Straws: Letters from the Holocaust,” Sunday in the Campus Center Ballroom.

Deborah A. Miranda, author of “Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir,”  this year’s selection for the One Book, One University series, gave a lecture at noon Wednesday in the Athletics Pavilion.

In association with the “Welcome Here!” exhibition showing in the Harris Gallery, the department of art and art history held an artist’s talk featuring Arnold Turnstall, photographer and art director at the University Galleries at Myers School of Art in Akron, Ohio, and one of the 16 artists in the show that closed this week.