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Guest Speaker Events

Third Annual Humanities Advocacy Day

Tuesday, March 10, 2020 - 11:00am to 12:45pm

Luis J. Rodriguez

The College of Humanities has invited writer/poet/activist Luis J. Rodriguez from 11 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. at the Plaza del Sol Performance Hall in the USU.  He’ll be speaking on the value of a humanities education from 11 AM -12:15 PM and then there will be a reception in the lobby of the Plaza del Sol until 12:45 PM. Read more

The Feeling of Being Watched, a film by Assia Boundaoui

Friday, November 22, 2019 - 2:15pm to 4:30pm

Assia Boundaoui

In the Arab-American neighborhood outside of Chicago where director Assia Boundaoui grew up, most of her neighbors think they have been under surveillance for over a decade. While investigating their experiences, Assia uncovers tens of thousands of pages of FBI documents that prove her hometown was the subject of one of the largest counterterrorism investigations ever conducted in the U.S. before 9/11, Read more

Premiere Screening of Pacific Destiny

Tuesday, November 19, 2019 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm

Pacific Destiny

The USA’s rise as a global superpower was unlike anything ever seen. It inspired as an expression of humanity’s most uplifting and inventive spirit. But for some, the USA is now an alarming superpower. China, once called a “sleeping giant” – is today astonishing the world with historic success in lifting hundreds of millions to new heights of well being and accomplishment. But for some, China is now a threatening giant. The future of these mighty nations, indeed of  Pacific Destiny continues

Gendered Trauma and the Politics of Unchilding

Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - 12:30pm

Incarcerated Childhood and thee Politics of Unchilding

Lecture followed by book signing with Dr.Nedera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, human rights advocate. UNCHILDING: the political work of violence designed to create, direct, govern, transform & construct colonized children as dangerous, racialized others, enabling their eviction from the realm of childhood itself. Read more

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