Does More Immigration Mean More Crime?
Tuesday, February 27, 2018 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm
The Department of Criminology and Justice Studies is pleased to announce the very timely presentation, Does More Immigration Mean More Crime?. Our guest speaker, Dr. Ramiro Martinez, Professor at Northeastern University's School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and the Department of Sociology, will be discussing the myths and realities connected to immigrants and criminal offending in the United States. A question and answer will follow. Light refreshments will be served. Read more
Memory, Culture, and Identity in El Salvador—Carlos Henríquez Consalvi, director and founder of the Museum of Word and Image
Friday, April 6, 2018 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
A presentation by Carlos Henríquez Consalvi, director and founder of the Museum of Word and Image. Carlos Henríquez Consalvi “Santiago” was born in the Venezuelan Andes. He studied journalism in Caracas. In 1972, he traveled to Managua—destroyed by the earthquake—to help the victims. Later, he got involved as a journalist in the opposition against the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza. In 1979, after the fall of the dictatorship, he participated in the establishment of alternative media in the region. Read more
Big Lecture: Laverne Cox
Thursday, March 1, 2018 - 6:30pm to 9:00pm
Two-time Emmy Nominee actress Laverne Cox will be our guest at Big Lecture Read more
Offerings from prison: a collaborative photo essay at a Santa Muerte altar
Friday, February 23, 2018 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Dr. Laura Roush will present a photo essay in progress featuring anonymous sculptures that were left as offerings to the Santa Muerte (Saint Death) at a public altar in Mexico City. Read more
Roxane Gay: With One N
Thursday, March 8, 2018 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
The CSUN Women's Research and Resource Center, in collaboration with the CSUN University Student Union, is excited to welcome author and cultural critic Roxane Gay to our campus. Read more
Los Angeles Veterans EITC Project
Thursday, February 22, 2018 - 8:30am
The CSUN VITA Program and Citi invite you to a press conference to launch the Los Angeles Veteran EITC Project. Read more
Oscar Lopez Rivera
Tuesday, February 6, 2018 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Oscar Lopez Rivera a Puerto Rican Independence Leader and Community organizer. Read more
Dr. Henry Oster, author of The Kindness of the Hangman
Friday, March 16, 2018 - 1:00pm
Dr. Oster will speak about his gripping, inspiring memoir of a young German boy who survived Auschwitz, Buchenwald and other horrors of the Holocaust. What impels civilized human beings to commit unspeakable crimes against their fellow man? How do the survivors find the strength to go on? Can they ever forgive? Can we ever forget? The Kindness of the Hangman is the never-before-written account of one lost German boy, totally alone, clawing to survive in the tidal wave of Nazi genocide. Read more
Dr. Edgar Esquit
Monday, January 29, 2018 - 11:00am to 12:15pm
Education and the Reproduction of Life in the Maya Communities of Guatemala Read more