Guest Speaker Events

Independent journalist Todd Miller will speak about how the border industrial complex has boomed in the United States since the 1990s, it has created a Border Patrol paranoia in the country, and it has been financed and exported to a world where displacement due to economic, political, and environmental violence has become the norm. Read more

In honor of Black History Month and Africana Studies 50th Anniversary, please join us for Strict Flexibility: An Afternoon of Black Short Films with Johnnie Hobbs, III. For more information, please Read more

Come for a great evening with Jesse Williams: acclaimed actor, producer, and activist. This moderated Q+A will discuss his experience with social activism, intersectionality, as well as his time on Grey’s Anatomy.  Read more

The Philosophy Department, Liberal Studies Program, and the College of Humanities Distinguished Visiting Speakers Program at CSUN present an invited talk by Prof. Nancy Cartwright. Nancy Cartwright is Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, University of Durham and at the University of California, San Diego. Her research interests include philosophy and history of science (especially physics and economics), causal inference, causal powers, scientific emergence and objectivity, evidence, especially for evidence-based policy [EBP] and the philosophy of social technology. Her current work, for the project ‘Knowledge for Use’ [K4U], investigates how to use scientific research results for better policies.  Read more