2017 CSUN Freshman Convocation
Thursday, September 14, 2017 - 6:00pm
This year's Freshman Convocation will take place on the Oviatt Library Lawn and the featured keynote speaker will filmmaker, musician, speaker, and activist, Bree Newsome!
Continuing Students are also welcome to join the fun by simply coming to the Oviatt Lawn prior to 6:00 p.m. Once freshman guests are seated, the remaining chairs will be available for guest seating. Seating in this area may be limited. However all guests are also welcome to watch from the Sierra Quad Lawn.
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Fight Hunger and Homelessness Among CSUN Students
Tuesday, May 2, 2017 - 4:00pm to 6:30pm
Brought to you by Civil Discourse & Social Change Read more
Historian & Author Robin D.G. Kelley
Monday, May 1, 2017 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
"Over the Rainbow: Second Wave Ethnic Studies Against the Neoliberal Turn" Read more
The 13 Colors of the Honduran Resistance Book Tour
Tuesday, May 2, 2017 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Join author Melissa Cardoza, Honduran feminist writer and songstress: Karla Lara, the voice of the feminist resistance in Honduras for an afternoon of song, storytelling and healing. Read more
Asian American Studies Distinguished Lecture and Student Awards Ceremony
Thursday, April 27, 2017 - 5:00pm to 8:00pm
We cordially invite you and your families to join the ceremony as we celebrate and honor our students for their achievements and contributions. The invited lecturer this year is Ms. Lisa Hasegawa, the UCLA Asian American Studies activist-in-residence fellow and the Assistant Director of Federal Relations 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