Current Challenges On Development and Globalization
Wednesday, October 26, 2016 - 5:15pm
Professor Mahmood Sariolghalam will provide his view of development not only through an academic prism but also drawing on his experience and observations from 587 conferences in 114 countries; Read more
National Parks: America's Best Idea
Wednesday, October 5, 2016 - 6:30pm to 8:30pm
"The National Parks: America's Best Idea" is CSUN's event to celebrate the National Park Services Centennial. This town-hall style event will feature several CSUN alumni, each of whom holds a prominent position in the National Parks system. "There is a huge need in the national parks for diversity, and CSUN is well positioned to encourage students to consider careers in the national parks," said Mechelle Best, Chair of the Department of Recreation & Tourism Management. When: Wednesday, October 5, 2016 at 6:30 P.M. Where: Johnson Auditorium in Jacaranda Hall. Seating is limited. RSVP by 5pm October 3.
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Muerte Violenta
Monday, September 26, 2016 - 12:30pm
Daniel Arnavat, Journalist, Photographer and Samuel Aliven Lizama, Judge, will discuss the book Muerte Violenta, a collection of essays addressing the violence facing El Salvador post Civil War. Read more
WISE: Career Networking
Thursday, October 13, 2016 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
The Bonita J. Campbell Endowment for Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) presents their Career Networking Event Read more
Dr. Alice Dreger: The “I” in LGBTQI: Reasons to Add—and Reasons Not to Add
Wednesday, October 26, 2016 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Dr. Dreger is a well-known historian and activist with the intersex and transgender movements. She led, for example, the movement to stop the shockingly barbaric practice of sex-assignment (“normalizing”) surgery in infants, which up until a few years ago was standard medical treatment. Dr. Dreger has also led a life in the defense of scientific freedom. In Galileo’s Middle Finger, she reminds us that science often forces us to give up some of our most cherished moral and social beliefs, Read more
Qin’s Path to Empire: Tracing Qin’s Ancestors through Archaeology
Monday, September 26, 2016 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Presented by Prof. Zhao Huangcheng (赵化成), School of Archaeology and Museology, Beijing University Read more
National Sacrifices in Pre-Qin Period
Monday, September 26, 2016 - 11:00am to 12:30pm
Presented by Prof. Wei Cao (曹玮), Professor of History at Shaanxi Normal University (which is one of CSUN’s first partner universities in China) and the Chief Curator of Emperor QinShiHuang’s Mausoleum Site Museum (also known as Terracotta Warriors Museum). Read more
The Criminalization of Women: Formerly Incarcerated Women Speak Out
Tuesday, October 4, 2016 - 4:00pm to 6:30pm
Guest Speaker: Susan Burton, Founder and Director of A New Way of Life Reentry Project Read more
Borrando La Frontera, presented by Ana Teresa Fernandez
Wednesday, October 26, 2016 - 4:00pm
Artist Ana Teresa Fernández presents a public talk on Borrando La Frontera (Erasing The Border) Read more
Guest Lecture: Queer Necropolitics: Everyday Death Worlds and Shifting Domains of Struggle
Monday, September 19, 2016 - 12:30pm to 1:45pm
Queer Necropolitics brings into focus regimes of attribution of liveliness and deadliness of subjects, bodies, communities and populations and their instantiation through performatives of gender, sexuality and kinship, as well as through processes of confinement, removal and exhaustion. In this talk, Dr. Posocco explores these arguments and includes a discussion of the queer necropolitical dimensions of her ethnographic research on transnational adoption circuits in Guatemala. Read more