Academic Events

Dr. Giovanni Batz (Maya-K’iche’) is a CSUN alumnus and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chicana/o Studies at UC Santa Barbara.  Read more

"A Kiss across the Ocean” examines an array of interactions and exchanges between British musicians catalyzed by the early
punk movement and Latinas and Latinos in the United States. Read more

The Department of Gender & Women’s Studies is proud to announce its first GWS Lecture Series. The purpose of the Lecture Series is to share with the broader CSUN community feminist scholarship that is produced by our own faculty, faculty from other departments that are committed to feminist research and action, and our very special guest speakers. We strive to build a campus-wide conversation on issues that concern women and harmful binary systems that historically have affected not only our lives as humans but also the survival of the planet. Read more

Guaraní and Spanish are languages that belong to different families, with dissimilar linguistic systems. Colonization placed these two languages together in a small country in Latin America: Paraguay. Furthermore, the rather isolated character of the location, and the social dynamics among colonizers and indigenous peoples made Guaraní (and not just Spanish) the language spoken by the majority of the population. This unique scenario makes Paraguay a prime setting to study language contact phenomena. In this presentation, Dr. Bittar will discuss characteristics of Guaraní-Spanish bilingualism in Paraguay, the challenges of documenting linguistic practices in the country, and the broader impact of language contact research for bilingual communities. Read more