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Sandy Brown's "Oh, Yes She Did!" Live at CSUN

Thursday, September 22, 2016 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm

Actress Sandy Brown

Sandy Brown's "Oh, Yes She Did!", Winner of the NAACP Award for 'Best One-Person Show', is a thrilling, theatrical ride starring HBO Actress and Comedienne Sandy Brown blending drama, humor, song, dance and multi-media, as Sandy Brown morphs into legendary Black Women who triumphed over challenges and changed the course of Social Justice in America. Read more

Guest Lecture: Queer Necropolitics: Everyday Death Worlds and Shifting Domains of Struggle

Monday, September 19, 2016 - 12:30pm to 1:45pm

Silvia Posocco

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

Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast 2016 Conference

Friday, June 10, 2016 - 7:30am to Sunday, June 12, 2016 - 4:00pm

Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast 2016 Conference

California State University, Northridge (CSUN) will host the Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast 2016 Conference on the CSUN campus in Northridge, California from Friday, June 10-Sunday, June 12. College and university faculty, K-12 schoolteachers, independent scholars and graduate and undergraduate students with an interest in Asian or Asian diaspora studies are invited to join. In addition to online registration ($125 for professionals, $35 for students and general community members), we will also have on-site

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Martin Pousson's new novel, Black Sheep Boy, reading and reception

Thursday, May 26, 2016 - 7:30pm

Black Sheep Boy

Martin Pousson will launch his new novel-in-stories, Black Sheep Boy, at Skylight Books on Thursday, May 26, at 7:30 PM. The novel includes stories that won the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Writing. Skylight Books is located in Los Feliz at 1818 N. Vermont Ave. The launch is free, open to all, and will include a reading, signing, and reception party. Read more

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