TEDx CSUN: Human Potential
Saturday, April 29, 2017 - 10:00am to 3:00pm
What exactly is it that makes humans different from any other species on the planet? Is it our language? Our ability to adapt? Or perhaps it is the empathy we hold for one another and the rest of the living world. The list seems endless. We suggest another answer: potential. An independently organized TED event. Read more
Sex in the Library
Monday, May 1, 2017 - 3:00pm to Tuesday, May 2, 2017 - 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
The Role of Community Radio in Honduras
Monday, April 17, 2017 - 2:00pm to 3:15pm
"The Role of Community Radio in Honduras", with Leonardo Guevara, News Coordinator at Radio Progreso, the Voice of Dissent in Times of Violence Read more
Gloria Chacón: The Contemporary Indigenous Novel in Mayan and Zapotec Lands
Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - 12:30pm to 1:45pm
Gloria Chacón: The Contemporary Indigenous Novel in Mayan and Zapotec Lands Read more
Documentary Screening by Dignicraft: Artesanos
Tuesday, April 25, 2017 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Documentary screening followed by Q&A. Read more
"Lenguascapes / Langajes"
Wednesday, April 12, 2017 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Guest Speaker: Urayoán Noel Read more
Documentary Screening by Dignicraft: "Artesanos"
Tuesday, April 25, 2017 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Screening followed by Q&A. Read more
Border Crossings: Migration, Survival and Resistance
Monday, April 17, 2017 - 12:30pm to 1:45pm
Presentation, Art Work, and Exhibit Read more
Amy Reed-Sandoval - Reproduction as Resistance at the Mexico-U.S. Border: A Philosophical and Ethnographic Assessment
Wednesday, April 19, 2017 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Professor Reed-Sandoval employs the tools of philosophy and ethnography to explore, from the perspective of the women who do so, the act of crossing the Mexico-U.S. border while visibly pregnant in order to give birth in the United States. Read more
Dr. Gorica Majstorovic: Humanities, Hispanism, and The Dream of America in Alfonso Reyes
Thursday, April 13, 2017 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Alfonso Reyes (1889-1959) wrote “Notas sobre la inteligencia americana” (1936) and Ultima Tule (1942) to interrogate standard notions of universal humanism, and advocated—among other ideas—an American utopia, while fully acknowledging coloniality as the central problem of modernity. Drawing from Reyes’ “Visión de Anáhuac” and its evocation of the ancient city of Tenochtitlan Mexico, this talk sets into conversation Reyes’s subsequent Read more