Sobibor - A film by Konstantin Khabensky
Tuesday, November 27, 2018 - 4:00pm
This is a story of the rebellion of the human spirit again the mindless exterminating machine. In October 1943 the prisoners of the Nazi camp Sobibor led by Alexander Pechersky organized a revolt – the only successful rebellion in the death camps in history. Read more
Meet Author Lucha Corpi
Tuesday, November 13, 2018 - 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Join the renown Chicana poet and writer Lucha Corpi, as she talks about her bilingual writing and her perception of La Malinche (the key figure of Mexican history and the legendary interpreter of Hernán Cortés), Read more
Dao Becomes Female and Its Discontentment - Presented by Dr. Robin Wang
Thursday, November 15, 2018 - 12:45pm to 2:45pm
This talk will take the femininity/feminine/female as a center stage to investigate Daoist thought and its possible contribution to contemporary feminist critiques. Robin R Wang is Robert H. Taylor Professor in Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles and 2016-2017 Berggruen Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University.
Read more49th Annual Africana Studies Week
Thursday, November 1, 2018 - 5:00pm to Monday, November 5, 2018 - 2:00pm
Please join us for the 49th Annual Africana Studies Week. For a schedule of events, please Read more
The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran - A Book Talk by Masih Alinejad
Thursday, October 11, 2018 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Masih Alinejad is an Iranian journalist, TV presenter, women's rights activist and author of the memoir The Wind in My Hair. As the founder of My Stealthy Freedom campaign against compulsory hijab in 2014 which is now the largest civil disobedience campaign in the history of Islamic Republic, Alinejad is challenging Read more
Indigenous Communal Government and the Guatemalan State
Thursday, October 11, 2018 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Indigenous Communal Government and the Guatemalan State Read more
Distinguished Speaker Padre Melo
Wednesday, October 10, 2018 - 2:00pm to 3:15pm
Distinguished Speaker Padre Melo Read more
Open Access 2018: Radical Transformations
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 - 1:00pm to 4:00pm
This year the Oviatt Library celebrates the open access movement once again with Open Access: Radical Transformations, at which we will present our Fifth Annual Open Access Award! Read more
México Beyond 1968: Revolutionaries, Radicals, and Repression During the Global Sixties and Subversive Seventies
Monday, October 8, 2018 - 11:00am to 12:15pm
Guest Speaker: Dr. Enrique C. Ochoa Read more
82 Names Syria Don't Forget Us
Thursday, September 27, 2018 - 1:45pm to 3:30pm
Syrian prisoners recorded their names on this scrap of fabric in hopes that one of them would be able to smuggle it out—That person was Mansour Omari. Featuring Mansour Omair, Directed by Maziar Bahari. Guest speaker: Maziar Bahari. Read more