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CDSC 3rd Annual Social Justice Student Conference via Zoom

Wednesday, April 29, 2020 - 11:00am to 4:30pm

CDSC 3rd Annual Social Justice Student Conference 2020 via Zoom

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

Anthropology from an Ethnic Studies Approach

Monday, March 30, 2020 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm

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Dr. De León will speak about what led him to merge his interests in Anthropology and Migration Studies.  He will share his insights on career pathways in the sciences and ethnic studies.

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Ethnic Studies, Critical Race Theory, and the Neoliberal University Symposium

Thursday, March 12, 2020 - 9:00am to 5:00pm

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For years, various policies and practices have made it difficult for students, especially poor students of color, to obtain an education within the CSU system. From tuition hikes, to impaction, to the executive orders announced in fall of 2017, students have taken on the fight to create equitable educational opportunities. The symposium will focus on some of the barriers students face, including the intersections of racism and economics, as well as tools that empower students in these struggles, especially Ethnic Studies and Critical Race Theory.

Speakers include Melina Abdullah (CSULA), Christopher Newfield (UCSB), Daniel Sólorzano (UCLA), Assembly member Shirley Weber, and Senator Maria Elena Durazo, among many others.

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