Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health: Diversifying the Graduate School Pipeline
Thursday, September 27, 2018 - 3:00pm to 5:30pm
Increasing Health Equity Through Community-Research Collaboration Conference
Thursday, October 4, 2018 - 8:00am to 4:30pm
Non-profit professionals, researchers, social services providers, and students are invited to join IBHRI and CSUN BUILD PODER as we discuss how non-profits and researchers can work together to increase health equity in local communities. Read more
Susan Burton and A New Way of Life
Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 4:00pm to 6:45pm
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 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
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
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
Banned Books Readout with Pizza 2018
Thursday, September 27, 2018 - 12:45pm to 3:30pm
The Oviatt Library presents Banned Books Readout with Pizza with Author Melissa Broder Read more
Join Us For a Screening of Intelligent Lives
Wednesday, September 12, 2018 - 6:00pm
Intelligent LIVES stars three pioneering young American adults with intellectual disabilities – Micah, Naieer, and Naomie – who challenge perceptions of intelligence as they navigate high school, college, and the workforce. The film challenges what it means to be intelligent, and points to a future in which people of all abilities can fully participate in higher education, meaningful employment, and intimate relationships. Read more
Sex in the Library
Tuesday, May 1, 2018 - 1:00pm to Wednesday, May 2, 2018 - 6:00pm
Join us at the Oviatt Library in the Jack & Florence Ferman Presentation Room for this dynamic two-day event series on gender and sexuality. Read more
Join Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost for Automation and the Future of Making Things
Thursday, April 26, 2018 - 5:45pm to 8:00pm
Autodesk programs have been used to design Tesla electric cars and One World Trade Center in New York City, for special effects in movies such as the Harry Potter series and Avatar, and in video game series such as Call of Duty and Halo. Read more