Sixth Civil Discourse Social Justice Student Research Conference
Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 10:30am to 6:00pm
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
Launch of the Institute of Feminist Studies and Social Action
Wednesday, April 26, 2023 - 4:00pm
Please join the Department of Gender & Women’s in the launch of the Institute of Feminist Studies and Social Action (IFSSA). Our keynote speaker is the renowned Palestinian scholar, Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian from the Hebrew University. The title of her talk is “Feminist Geopolitics: The Cunning of Gender Violence." The event will be on Wednesday, April 26, 4 PM at the Orchard. Read more
Tunisian Women's Activism: The Struggle for Social and Gender Justice Continues
Thursday, April 13, 2023 - 9:30am to 11:00am
Tunisian women have long participated in struggles for liberation, first in anticolonial movements, then against state corruption and dictatorship in independent Tunisia especially during the 'Arab Spring.' Dr. Grami’s talk will discuss the rich history of the women’s movement in Tunisia to help us understand how women interact with various forms of power to renegotiate their identities and their status Read more
The Fourth Invasion: Histories and Resistance of the Maya Ixil Peoples
Monday, March 6, 2023 - 11:00am to 12:15pm
Dr. Giovanni Batz (Maya-K’iche’) is a CSUN alumnus and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chicana/o Studies at UC Santa Barbara. His research focuses on extractivist industries, social movements, and the relationship between historical Indigenous and Maya territorial dispossession and transnational migration from Central America to the US. In his book talk at CSUN, Dr. Batz will discuss the notion of the “fourth invasion” and examine the continued resistance maintained by Maya Ixil peoples against the construction of the Palo Viejo hydroelectric plant in Guatemala.
Guest Speaker: Dr. Giovanni Batz (Maya-K'iche'), The Fourth Invasion: Histories and Resistance of the Maya Ixil Peoples
Monday, March 6, 2023 - 11:00am to 12:15pm
Dr. Giovanni Batz (Maya-K’iche’) is a CSUN alumnus and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chicana/o Studies at UC Santa Barbara. Read more
Luis Valdez: Aesthetics of El Teatro Campesino
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 7:30pm to 8:30pm
Luis Valdez, acclaimed Chicano playwright, and filmmaker, will discuss, with Theatre professor Jorge Huerta, Valdez’s career and his new book, Theatre of the Sphere: The Vibrant Being—an actor’s guide that fuses ancient Mayan and contemporary Western performance aesthetics within an interdisciplinary framework. Read more
LGBTQ+ Organizing in Guatemala
Thursday, November 3, 2022 - 4:00am to 5:15pm
In her CSUN
webinar, Morán will discuss the varied issues that impact the LGBTIQ+ community as well
as the varied ways in which the community has organized and fought for their rights in
Guatemala. Read more
A Kiss Across The Ocean
Tuesday, November 8, 2022 - 3:30pm to 4:45pm
"A Kiss across the Ocean” examines an array of interactions and exchanges between British musicians catalyzed by the early
punk movement and Latinas and Latinos in the United States. Read more
Dr. Téllez
Wednesday, October 19, 2022 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Dr. Téllez is an Associate Professor
at the University of Arizona,
teaching in the Department of
Mexican American Studies,
who writes about transnational
community formations, Chicana
feminism, and gendered migration. Read more
Oriel Siu: Undoing the Foundational Fairytales - One Children's Book at a Time
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
CSUN Alumna and children's book author Dr. Siu offers a full reading of her latest children's book, Christopher the Ogre Cologre, It's Over! and reflects on the dangerous foundational fairytales still taught at schools, their origins, and the need to contest them with the power of our stories. With live Q&A! Read more