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
The Fourth Invasion: Histories and Resistance of the Maya Ixil Peoples
Monday, March 6, 2023 - 11:00am to 12:15pm
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. His research focuses on extractivist industries, social movements, and the relationship between historical Indigenous and Maya territorial dispossession and transnational migration from Central America to the US. In his book talk at CSUN, Dr. Batz will discuss the notion of the “fourth invasion” and examine the continued resistance maintained by Maya Ixil peoples against the construction of the Palo Viejo hydroelectric plant in Guatemala.
The University Library Celebrates LGBTQ+ Pride Month 2022
Wednesday, June 1, 2022 - 12:00am to Thursday, June 30, 2022 - 12:00am
On this page, you can learn about how the University Library is celebrating Pride Month, check out Pride events in the Los Angeles area, and browse recommended books and resources. Read more
1992 Los Angeles Uprising: 30 Years Later - Conversations About Cultural Solidarity, Community Building and Hope
Friday, April 29, 2022 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Distinguished speakers: traci kato-kiriyama, Writer/Artist/Performer, Nikkei for Civil Rights Redress and Reparations, Member of HR 40 Coalition; Do Kim, Civil Rights Attorney, President of The K.W. Lee Center for Leadership, Member of Black-Korean Alliance; Allan Aquino, Master of Ceremonies, Asian American Studies Faculty; Edith Chen, Moderator, Asian American Studies Faculty; Ced Hackett, Moderator, Director of DuBois-Hamer Institute for Academic Achievement Read more
#atCSUNIBelong: 2022 AAPI Heritage Month Celebration: Video and Image Testimonies / Block Party
Thursday, May 5, 2022 - 2:00pm to 6:00pm
Make a Video or Image Testimonial at the Black House Block Party. How you self-identify may differ from how those around you perceive your identity. How do you see yourself and how does external perception shape your own self-identity? The AAPI Heritage Month Committee is collecting testimonies related to this kaleidoscopic question of identity. Read more
Student Carbon Harvest Project
Friday, March 18, 2022 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Do you want to learn how to harness the power of nature and use home landscaping to reduce carbon across the campus environment? This event is for you! 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
Converging Currents: Intergenerational Dialogues in Organizing
Tuesday, November 30, 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
This webinar brings together two community organizers from the Asian American Movement of the late 1960s to 1990s and two organizers from the 21st century prison abolition movement to engage in a dialogue about community organizing and activism. In addition to asking how these organizers became involved in organizing, how their involvement in activism has changed over time, what is the meaning of solidarity and liberation to these organizers, this webinar investigates fundamentally how organizing has changed over time from the late 1960s to the present? Thus, this webinar seeks to generate dialogue across different generations of activists and from different communities to delve into questions of social justice and political mobilization. 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
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