University Calendar

"Now Give Three Cheers" -- The Timeless Magic of Gilbert and Sullivan

Thursday, September 17 - Friday, July 16 All Day - Oviatt Library, C.K. and Teresa Tseng Gallery
http://library.csun.edu/About_the_Library/goingson.html

An Oviatt Library Special Collections exhibition featuring the David Trutt Gilbert and Sullivan Collection with its Peter Goffin posters, music scores, Bab Ballad books, theater programs, advertising cards, and other ephemera.

Pan African Studies Department's 40th Anniversary Celebration

9:00 am - 5:00 pm - University Student Union (USU) - Grand Salon
http://www.csun.edu/csbs/departments/pan_african_studies/index.html

The festivities, which are expected to include entertainment, poetry readings and refreshments, will pay tribute to founding faculty members Adewole Umoja (formerly known as Archie Chapman), Bill Burwell, Arthur Jones and the late Jerome Walker. Tributes will be made to emeritus faculty including Vern Bryant, James Dennis, the late David Fulton, Rosentene Purnell, Barbara Rhodes and the late Tiyo Soga.

The PAS Department was officially formed in 1969 as the Afro-American Studies Department. It was organized in the wake of campus protests and the mass arrest of hundreds of students who were angry about the treatment of students of color.

Dept. of History's Alumni Book Discussion

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm - Sierra Hall (SH) Room 451, Whitsett Room
http://blogs.csun.edu/news/2009/10/19/jazz-age/#more-1316

Cal State Northridge history professor Tom Devine will lead a discussion of Kevin Boyle’s award winning book, “Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age.”

“Arc of Justice” is the story of Ossain Sweet, an African-American doctor who came to national attention in 1925 when he was tried for murder after attempting to defend his newly purchased home in a predominantly white neighborhood of Detroit. An unruly mob was trying to force Sweets and his family out. Boyle, a history professor at Ohio State University, won the National Book Award for non-fiction and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for his work, which explores Sweet’s trail against the backdrop of the Jazz Age and the nascent civil rights movement.

Chookasian Armenian Concert Ensemble & Dancers

8:00 pm - 10:00 pm - Plaza del Sol Performance Hall (PH)
http://www.ArtsNorthridge.csun.com

The Chookasian Armenian Concert Ensemble gifts us with traditional songs and folk dances of Eastern & Western Armenia, performed with the ancient acoustic instruments from Armenia. This multiple award-winning company presents the full spectrum of ancient and traditional Armenian music in both the Eastern and Western Armenian musical styles, ushering audiences of every ethnic group through the portals of old-world Armenian music!