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Guest Speaker Events

82 Names Syria Don't Forget Us

Thursday, September 27, 2018 - 1:45pm to 3:30pm

82 Names

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

CSUN Chat with LAPD Chief Michel Moore

Wednesday, October 10, 2018 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm

LAPD Chief Michael Moore

The CSUN Department of Criminology and Justice Studies and the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences are proud to present CSUN Chat with the Chief, an open conversation between the LAPD and the CSUN community. For more information and to register for this FREE event, please Read more

Susan Burton and A New Way of Life

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 4:00pm to 6:45pm

Susan Burton Flyer

You are invited to a lecture and round table discussion with Susan Burton, activist and movement builder on behalf of formerly incarcerated women. She is the founder and director of A New Way of Life Reentry Project (ANWOL) https://anewwayoflife.org/. Susan was among the 5 finalists for CSUN's 2018-2019 Common Read, and while her book was not ultimately selected, it has received national attention. Her ANWOL Project in the Watts area of South Los Angeles has become a model across the country of direct services to women returning from prison.  The event will also highlight the student organization, Revolutionary Scholars, comprised of formerly incarcerated students and students who have been impacted by mass incarceration. These and other activist students are invited to take part in a roundtable with Susan after her talk. Read more

Locker Room Talk...Or Toxic Masculinity? featuring Byron Hurt

Thursday, October 25, 2018 - 2:00pm

Byron Hurt Picture

Byron Hurt will focus on how hyper-masculinity in American popular culture normalizes male violence, how race, class, and gender oppression intersect, how homophobia and transphobia makes LGBT communities vulnerable to male violence, how positive male leadership and bystander intervention can end gender-based violence, and how to use cis male privilege to ally with women and girls to create shifts in male culture. Read more

Donald Trump’s (Rhetorical) Gender Gap

Tuesday, October 2, 2018 - 2:00pm

FakeNews logo

Donald Trump has a complicated relationship with women. On the one hand, he claims to love them, to revere them, and to champion their causes. On the other hand, he’s openly sexist and misogynistic, and he has been credibly accused of sexual violence by nearly 2 dozen women. Gender theorists have done much in the past 30+ years to explain how someone can hold those two attitudes in their mind simultaneously, but many people remain perplexed that Trump manages to convince so many other people that these attitudes are not just compatible, but desirable. Rhetoricians have spent centuries trying to understand how someone like Trump manages to persuade people to support him, and rhetoric can help us understand how Trump uses persuasive symbols and why people are persuaded by him. In this talk, Dr. Ryan Skinnell, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at San Jose State University, uses concepts from the book he edited, Faking the News: What Rhetoric Can Teach Us About Donald J. Trump, to help explain how Trump’s gender gap works rhetorically. Read more

BUILD PODER Research Week For STEM Transfers

Monday, September 10, 2018 - 12:30pm to Friday, September 14, 2018 - 3:00pm

The University Library

BUILD PODER is hosting a week-long series of workshops and events to inform CSUN STEM transfer students what research is, why research is important, and how to get involved in research. Read more

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