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San Fernando Valley Award for Fiction Reception

Friday, September 6, 2019 - 10:00am to 11:30am

Chiara Barzini

California State University, Northridge and Friends of the Oviatt Library cordially invite you to the San Fernando Valley Award for Fiction Reception to honor Chiara Barzini, author of Things That Happened Before the Earthquake. Read more

CAS Human Rights Speakers Series

Wednesday, September 25, 2019 - 11:00am to 12:30pm

Flyer for Human Rights Speakers Series on 09/25/19

The Association of Applied Studies in Ecology and Environmental Sustainability - ECOS - arose in December 2017 as a group of women and men concerned about the socio-environmental problem facing the country, who decided to organize and put all their knowledge at the service of construction of a fair and sustainable society moving towards reducing inequalities. Read more

The Art of Seeing: Another Chinese Realist Theatre in the 1920s

Thursday, October 3, 2019 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm

The Art of Seeing

Presented by Dr. Man HE, Assistant Professor of Chinese at Williams College. The role of ideology in modern Chinese theatre has been well studied; but what about the role of sight? How did Chinese dramatists translate the realm of senses, newly shaped by their experiences of seeing the world around them, into works of theatre in the early twentieth century? How did modern Chinese theatre (or huaju, spoken drama) mediate the science, art, and act of “seeing” to overwhelm and formulate both spectators and dramatists? This talk analyzes Yu Shangyuan’s (1897-1970) early drama work The Art of Seeing: Another Chinese Realist Theatre in the 1920s continues

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