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Conditional Belonging: The Racialization of Iranians in the Wake of Anti-Muslim Politics

Wednesday, October 11, 2023 - 2:00pm to 3:15pm

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Join us for a lecture and discussion with Dr. Sahar Sadeghi regarding her recently published book Conditional Belonging: The Racialization of Iranians in the Wake of Anti-Muslim Politics  (NYU Press, 2023). Dr. Sadeghi will detail Iranians’ complex and contradictory relationship with race, belonging, and identity through a comparative analysis of the Iranian experience in the United States and Germany, focusing particularly on the immigrants’ different processes of racialization. Read more

The Collaborative Piñata

Wednesday, October 4, 2023 - 12:00pm to 5:00pm

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Join us for a conversation on La Piñata Colaborativa [The Collaborative Piñata] and a piñata workshop with Dignicraft, and Purepecha master artisans Raúl Guzmán and Eduviges Solorio.

The Collaborative Piñata is an ongoing project with the community of Purepecha artisans who have emigrated from their ancestral land on the island of Janitzio, Michoacan to Rosarito, Baja California. Many Purepecha families living near the US-Mexico have become expert piñata makers for a US-based market, as a source of livelihood. Read more

Student Organizing & Tuition Hikes

Thursday, September 7, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

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Learn about the pending student tuition hikes and the history of student organizing and how it got done from various different student groups at CSUN. A Q&A portion will also discuss the common misconceptions of the tuition hikes and how to act against them.

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Sixth Civil Discourse Social Justice Student Research Conference

Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 10:30am to 6:00pm

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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

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