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Reframing Bilingual Experiences Through the Formal Study of Bilingualism

Tuesday, March 28, 2017 - 4:00pm

Amalia Llombart-Huesca, Phd.D.

Amàlia Llombart-Huesca, Ph.D., Cal Poly Pomona will present some key findings that recent research has revealed about the cognitive, emotional, academic, and social advantages of being bilingual.

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States, Exclusion, and the Politics of Identity

Monday, April 3, 2017 - 11:00am to 12:15pm

States, Exclusion, and the Politics of Identity

Joe Wiltberger, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Central American Studies, CSUN "Latinx Immigration in a Climate of Uncertainty"; Azza Basarudin, Lecturer, Dept. of Gender & Women’s Studies, UCLA & CSUN “Feminists contesting the State and Moderate Islam in Malaysia”; Ibrahim al Sultan, Graduate student in Mass Communication, Journalism, CSUN “Stateless people living in Kuwait”; Nayereh Tohidi, Professor of GWS and Director of MEIS “Navigating Islamist Extremism & Islamophobia in Iran and the US.”

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2017 Annual ASIMP Symposium: Innovations in Africa

Tuesday, April 4, 2017 - 9:00am to 3:30pm

2017 Annual ASIMP Symposium

Please join us for the 6th Annual African Studies Interdisciplinary Minor's Program Symposium. The theme this year is Innovations in Africa with keynote speaker, Dr. Lytton Williams, a MD from Sierra Leone, who will speak about intellectual property with regards to patents (12:30-1:45).
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Gloria Chacón: The Contemporary Indigenous Novel in Mayan and Zapotec Lands

Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - 12:30pm to 1:45pm

Gloria Chacon

Gloria Chacón is Assistant Professor in the Literature Department at UCSD. She earned her Ph.D. in Literature from the University of California Santa Cruz. Postdoctoral work in the Native American Studies department at the University of California Davis as well as a postdoctoral CLIR Fellowship at UCLA’s Charles Young Research Library has shaped her unique interdisciplinary and transnational approach to indigenous literatures.   Read more

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