| Chair: Kent Baxter | Compiled by: RosaMaria Chacon |
a bit of R & R headed our way as we enter the last weeks of the semester ……for those of you grading at the end of this month, know that some rest is in sight……or at least some pie
Announcements
Today Nov 12th 2-3:30 No Màs Muertes for lack of water and other basic human necessities. Part of the Central American Studies Lecture Series, with Gene Lefebrve, CoFounder of No More Deaths, an organization dedicated to stopping the deaths of migrants crossing the desert.
Latin American Film Fest beginning Today Nov 12th–15th…For more information, go to http://www.csun.edu/social-behavioral-sciences/events/2015-latin-american-film-and-art-festival
“Sisters in Islam” & the Struggle for Gender Justice in Malaysia, a book talk by Dr. Azza Basarudin Nov 17th 4-7, Oviatt Library–Ferman Presentation Room
“The Role of Chinese-Language Writing in Chinese American Transnationalism” by Professor Xiao-huang Yin of Occidental College Nov 19th 2-3:30 Manzanita Hall 361
Dorothy Barresi will read at Book Soup Bookstore with poets Lynne Thompson and Carine Topol Friday Nov 20th 7pm. You All are invité–8818 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood.
32nd Annual Powwow Nov 28th 10am – 9pm at CSUN Plummer Lawn: Dance, Music, Children’s activities, Arts/Crafts Vendors/Raffle (Scott Andrews has tickets now)…..Put away the cranberry sauce and come and walk off some calories.
Stepanie Satie will be performing her solo play Silent Witnesses at UC Berkeley as part of their Jewish Studies, Arts, and Lecture Series Jan 28th. The play is based on interviews with child survivors of the Holocaust.
Reminders
Hope you All showed a Vet some love yesterday in one form or another even if you be anti-war. If not, there is still time this weekend.
Department Meeting mañana………..Steve is doing Snax….Survey Says, Grad business and more…
Fall Awards <a pleasure for our students and for us> Help the Amenities committee give away some $–Help round up student submissions and Write those shorter/easier Recommendations. Deadline Nov 24th
Opportunities
CSUN Portfolio Challenge/Win $300. First Place or $200. Second Place or $100. Third Place. Please tell all your students about this opportunity. Deadline 5pm Nov 20th An entry requires two entries that showcase a personal achievement or experience from a job/internship to a hobby. For more info, Send your students to http://www.csun.edu/it/portfolium-challenges
Apply for the Distinguished Speakers Fund, due by Nov 23rd 5pm in the Dean’s office. Be sure and use the new form that Sheena recently sent us.
CSUN has received a $250,000. gift to provide future teachers working with Armenian students a strong foundation in Armenian culture and language. The TF Educational Foundation will create annual scholarships for Liberal Studies students in ITEP with a minor in Armenian studies.
Achievements
Katherine Mason published her short story “Shade” in the online magazine Hobart. Her work has previously appeared in Monkeybicycle–love that title–and other venues.
Scott Kleinman presented “Text Analysis with Lexos” for the NEH funded workshop Building and Strengthening Digital Humanities through a Regional Network at San Diego State U October 23rd.
Bob Chianese’s Art Inspired by Science: Imaging the Natural World is now an e-publication. It is based on his commentary about an art exhibit he co-juried. Check out http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/589276
Michael Bryson delivered his paper “An You Be Mine, I’ll Give You to My Friend: The Dawn Song, Marriage, and the Authority of the Father in Romeo and Juliet and Paradise Lost” at the recent Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association conference in Portland, Oregon.
Dorothy Barresi’s timely poem “Income Gap Widens as Jobs Increase” appears in Askew (issue 17). “Pleasure” is in Spillway (#28). And “Cloud Chamber”and “What I Worry about at Night is Not what I Worry about in the Morning” are also forthcoming in Chapparal. plus……..Dorothy gave a poetry reading with graduate students Freddy Garcia, Lusine Makarosyan and Socheata San for the Redondo Beach Poets Series at the Coffee Cartel in RB. In case you have lingering doubts, CSUN ruled.
Kudos to All!
until another Thursday ~