Gardening in Unlikely Places: Growing in Containers with Yvonne Savio
Wednesday, April 22, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Learn tips from a Master Gardener Yvonne Savio about how to grow food in containers. Read more
VOICES FROM THE ANCESTORS - Book Reading
Tuesday, March 24, 2020 - 2:00pm to 6:00pm
Book Reading, Speakers, and Reception Read more
Jason de León, Ph.D.: Anthropology from an Ethnic Studies Approach
Monday, March 30, 2020 - 2:00pm to 3:15pm
Jason De León, Ph.D. is a Professor and McArtur Fellow, Anthropology and Chicana/Studies & Central American Studies at UCLA. Read more
Third Annual Humanities Advocacy Day
Tuesday, March 10, 2020 - 11:00am to 12:45pm
The College of Humanities has invited writer/poet/activist Luis J. Rodriguez from 11 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. at the Plaza del Sol Performance Hall in the USU. He’ll be speaking on the value of a humanities education from 11 AM -12:15 PM and then there will be a reception in the lobby of the Plaza del Sol until 12:45 PM. Read more
Celebrating 50 Years of Hip-Hop: C.I.P.H.E.R. Inaugural Symposium
Friday, April 21, 2023 - 10:00am to 5:00pm
Please join the Center for the Interdisciplinary Pursuit of Hip-Hop Elevation & Research (C.I.P.H.E.R.) for its inaugural Symposium: Celebrating 50 Years of Hip-Hop with special guest Sway Calloway. Come for live Hip Hop performances and history, stay for the dancers, graf installations, and food! Get more information and RSVP for this event.
Hong Kong in Crisis: Perspectives on the Popular Movements of the 2010s and the New National Security Law
Tuesday, February 15, 2022 - 2:00pm
The Asian Studies Program is proud to present the Distinguished Visiting Speakers Series with special guest, Jeffrey Wasserstrom from UC Irvine. This illustrated talk will focus on patterns of protest and the tightening of political controls in Hong Kong during the last few decades. Get more information and RSVP for this event.
Central American Studies Symposium 2019
Monday, December 9, 2019 - 9:30am to 6:30pm
Central American Studies Symposium 2019 - Memory and Imaginaries of the Future Read more
The Feeling of Being Watched, a film by Assia Boundaoui
Friday, November 22, 2019 - 2:15pm to 4:30pm
In the Arab-American neighborhood outside of Chicago where director Assia Boundaoui grew up, most of her neighbors think they have been under surveillance for over a decade. While investigating their experiences, Assia uncovers tens of thousands of pages of FBI documents that prove her hometown was the subject of one of the largest counterterrorism investigations ever conducted in the U.S. before 9/11, Read more
Premiere Screening of Pacific Destiny
Tuesday, November 19, 2019 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
The USA’s rise as a global superpower was unlike anything ever seen. It inspired as an expression of humanity’s most uplifting and inventive spirit. But for some, the USA is now an alarming superpower. China, once called a “sleeping giant” – is today astonishing the world with historic success in lifting hundreds of millions to new heights of well being and accomplishment. But for some, China is now a threatening giant. The future of these mighty nations, indeed of Pacific Destiny continues
Gendered Trauma and the Politics of Unchilding
Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - 12:30pm
Lecture followed by book signing with Dr.Nedera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, human rights advocate. UNCHILDING: the political work of violence designed to create, direct, govern, transform & construct colonized children as dangerous, racialized others, enabling their eviction from the realm of childhood itself. Read more