Gore Capitalism, Narcopolitics, and Femicide in Latin America & the Caribbean
Tuesday, April 30, 2024 - 10:30am to 6:00pm
Institute for Feminist Studies & Social Action presents
Gore Capitalism, Narcopolitics, and Femicide in Latin America & the Caribbean
Date: April 30 10:30 am – 6 pm
Location: ORCHARD Read more
11th Annual Maurice Amado Foundation Lecture in Jewish Ethics
Wednesday, March 13, 2024 - 12:30pm to 1:45pm
The ancient world offers surprising insights into contemporary gender politics. Ancient Jewish texts describe a variety of sex and gender categories, which profoundly shaped Jewish ideas about law and gender beyond a simple binary. The flexible thinking in these texts shows us how to reassess our received narratives about the relationship between religion, gender, and law today. Read more
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
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
The 10th Annual Maurice Amado Foundation Lecture in Jewish Ethics: Cultivating Complex Resilience and Engaging Vulnerability in Today's Troubling Times
Wednesday, February 8, 2023 - 7:00pm
Dr. Bell will use Jewish texts and experiences to show how we can go beyond a return to normalcy by cultivating “complex resilience,” which allows us to learn and grow through disruption. Read more
Archival Intimacies: Queering South/East Asian Diasporas - Tracing the Geographies of Queer South Asian Diaspora
Thursday, May 12, 2022 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Speakers: D'Lo, Sheena Malhotra, Debanuj DasGupta. Website: https://one.usc.edu/program/tracing-geographies-queer-south-asian-diaspora RSVP link: bit.ly/satrangpanel Read more
1992 Los Angeles Uprising: 30 Years Later - Conversations About Cultural Solidarity, Community Building and Hope
Friday, April 29, 2022 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Distinguished speakers: traci kato-kiriyama, Writer/Artist/Performer, Nikkei for Civil Rights Redress and Reparations, Member of HR 40 Coalition; Do Kim, Civil Rights Attorney, President of The K.W. Lee Center for Leadership, Member of Black-Korean Alliance; Allan Aquino, Master of Ceremonies, Asian American Studies Faculty; Edith Chen, Moderator, Asian American Studies Faculty; Ced Hackett, Moderator, Director of DuBois-Hamer Institute for Academic Achievement Read more
Careers in Sustainability Panel
Tuesday, April 12, 2022 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Careers in Sustainability Panel Get more information and register for this event.
5th Annual Student Social Justice Conference
Thursday, April 21, 2022 - 9:00am to 5:30pm
The keynote speaker at 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM will be geographer Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore, who co-founded Critical Resistance (http://criticalresistance.org) and is one of the preeminent scholar-activists on prison abolition. Dr. Gilmore will speak on her upcoming book Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition (https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1597-change-everything). The keynote speaker at 4:00 - 5:30 PM will be Chamorro environmental justice lawyer Julian Aguon, author of memoir/manifesto The Properties of Perpetual Light (https://www.julianaguon.com) Read more