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A Talk by Heidy Bacá (Maya-Ixil) on Memory in Guatemala and Creating Community Cinema

Monday, October 28, 2019 - 12:30pm to 1:45pm

Heidy Bacá (Maya-Ixil) is from Nebaj, Guatemala. As a member of the independent film collective Cine en la Calle/Street Cinema (CCC), Bacá has also organized several film festivals of the same name since 2013. She has produced short documentaries focused on recovering the testimonies of survivors of the genocide. Heidy Bacá’s most recent production, alongside director Jayro Bustamante, is the feature film La Llorona (2019).

At CSUN, Bacá’s talk will address the role film and documentary productions play for Maya communities in the construction of a historical memory on the genocide.

Thursday, October 10, 2019 - 11:00am to 7:00pm

Please join Civil Discourse and Social Change on Thursday, October 10^th for an all-day conference, “Against Forgetting: Feminist Art, Activism, and the Comfort Women.” The conference will be held in Manzanita Hall 240 (the Aronstam Library) between 11:00AM-7:00PM. See attached PDF or JPEF flyer, which includes a full schedule of events and a list of conference participants.

RSVP for the conference at the following Google form link: https://forms.gle/cpt86uqBvQwJpqkP9

For more information, please do not hesitate to contact Jinah Kim <jinah.kim@csun.edu>, Junliang Huang <junliang.huang@csun.edu>, or Clement Lai <clement.lai@csun.edu>. Read more

Sacred Body, Sacred Land

Tuesday, September 24, 2019 - 2:00pm to 3:15pm

Sacred Body, Sacred Land: Connecting to our healing ways Read more

Presentation and reception for "Another University Is Possible! CSUN Student Activism against EO 1100R and EO 1110," Photo Exhibit

Monday, September 16, 2019 - 12:30pm to 2:00pm

Presentation and reception for "Another University Is Possible! CSUN Student Activism against EO 1100R and EO 1110," a photo exhibit featuring the work of Dr. Clem Lai and Dr. Kelly Fong from the Department of Asian American Studies Read more

Genocide in Guatemala: A Crime of International Significance

Wednesday, September 4, 2019 - 11:00am to 12:15pm

Hector Reyes Chiquin is a human rights attorney. He has worked for the Archdiocese's Human Rights office and is currently working at the Center for Legal Action in Human Rights (CALDH) in Guatemala. He will discuss the historical genocide case against general Efrain Rios Montt who was sentenced to eighty years in prison for committing genocide against the Maya Peoples of Guatemala. Read more

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