Sixth Civil Discourse Social Justice Student Research Conference
Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 10:30am to 6:00pm
Opening Remarks begin at 10:30AM
Student Panel #1: 11AM-12:15PM
Student Panel #2: 2-3:15PM
Keynote Address:
“Mutual Aid for Survival and Mobilization”
with author, lawyer, and activist Dean Spade, 4PM-6PM
Dean Spade is a lawyer, author, activist, and filmmaker working at the intersection of queer and trans-liberation and economic and racial justice. Author of Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next), https://www.versobooks.com/products/2722-mutual-aid, Spade will be speaking on mutual aid and solidarity across social justice movements in the time of COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter.
This event is co-sponsored with Queer Studies and funded through the CSUN Diversity and Equity Innovation Grant. Read more
5th Annual Student Social Justice Conference
Thursday, April 21, 2022 - 9:00am to 5:30pm
The keynote speaker at 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM will be geographer Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore, who co-founded Critical Resistance (http://criticalresistance.org) and is one of the preeminent scholar-activists on prison abolition. Dr. Gilmore will speak on her upcoming book Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition (https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1597-change-everything). The keynote speaker at 4:00 - 5:30 PM will be Chamorro environmental justice lawyer Julian Aguon, author of memoir/manifesto The Properties of Perpetual Light (https://www.julianaguon.com) Read more
COVID-19 and Vulnerable Communities: Structural Inequality and the Pandemic
Wednesday, October 13, 2021 - 2:00pm to 3:15pm
This webinar focuses on the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on vulnerable communities, including Pacific Islander and/or working class communities, examining the reasons for this vulnerability; the lack of attention on COVID’s effects on these communities; and some of the ways that these communities are organizing to track data on the pandemic and to protect their community members. Read more
Call for Student Paper Submissions: Fourth CDSC Social Justice Student Conference
Friday, March 5, 2021 - 11:00pm
Students: Please submit an abstract that provides a short summary (no longer than 200 words) of the content of the presentation/project/creative work. Abstract Submission Deadline: March 5th, 2021 Submit here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc0nh2vRwwFMl5Qgxcl7UNXsoUAn1wLp_o2wBeQ6uoyKrvTDg/viewform
The conference features keynote addresses by graphic novel artist Thi Bui and documentary filmmaker Ciara Lacy
CDSC 4th Annual Social Justice Student Research Conference
Tuesday, April 27, 2021 - 9:30am to 5:30pm
Panel I: Tracing Trajectories of Gender, Race, and Sexuality - 9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. PST
Panel II: Carcerality and Justice - 11 :00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Keynote Speaker #1: Ciara Lacy - 12:30 p.m. - 1 :45 p.m.
Panel Ill: Representation - 2:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
Keynote Speaker #2: Thi Bui - 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. Read more
Southeast Asian American Journeys: 45 Years of Resilience, Advocacy, and Organizing
Tuesday, November 17, 2020 - 11:00am to 1:00pm
SEARAC is a national civil rights organization that advocates for justice and equality for Southeast Asian American communities on a local, state, and national level. Its work hopes to inspire and empower future generations to fight for social equity for refugee communities, communities of color, and other social justice movements. Katrina Dizon Mariategue will speak on SEARAC’s work promoting refugee advocacy, developing leadership amongst Southeast Asian American youth, building interracial solidarity, and struggling against migrant detention and deportation. Read more
CDSC 3rd Annual Social Justice Student Conference via Zoom
Wednesday, April 29, 2020 - 11:00am to 4:30pm
Please use the following link to register: https://csun.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mwNRiBI2Tl-X6AYjzRBmaw.
There are three, seventy-five minute long panels of four students each at 11 AM, 12:30 PM, and 2 PM Pacific Time.
The keynote speaker is Dr. Jamaica Osorio, Assistant Professor of Indigenous and Native Hawaiian Politics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Dr. Osorio is an activist and an award-winning poet/spoken word artist. Their performance/talk (entitled “From our Frontline to Yours: Moʻolelo Aloha ʻĀina in a time of Transformation”) focuses on the Native Hawaiian struggle against the building of a thirty-meter telescope on Mauna Kea. Read more
Ethnic Studies and Teacher Preparation Statewide Webinar Series
Thursday, May 28, 2020 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
15th Annual GWS Undergraduate Student Conference
Monday, April 22, 2019 - 9:00am to 5:30pm
The class of GWS 400 Senior Seminar 2019 is proud to invite you to the 15th Annual Undergraduate Student Conference. Students will present their research projects to the CSUN community. Our Keynote Speaker will be Dr. Michelle Tellez, from the University of Arizona. Hope to see you there! Read more
Social Justice: By, For, Of People
Friday, November 2, 2018 - 9:00am to 4:30pm
The Deaf Studies Association and the Deaf Studies Department proudly present the workshop series SOCIAL JUSTICE: By, For, of People. Speakers include Liann Osborne (When Mindfulness and Racism Interact), Rose Larson (Modern Day Human Trafficking in the Deaf Community), Lean Noov (Deaf Asian American Identity and Solidarity), and Minochen Yan, John Pak, Kimberly Han, and Desiree Duong (In Between Worlds: Asian Deaf Perspectives). Read more