Annual Helena María Viramontes Lecture in Latina/o/x Literature

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We are thrilled to announce the return of the Annual Helena María Viramontes Lecture in Latina/o/x Literature with this year’s featured author, Javier Zamora. Zamora is the author of Unaccompanied, a poetry collection that explores family separation, immigration, undocumented status, and US Salvadoran identity formation. In 1999, Zamora migrated through Guatemala, Mexico, and eventually crossed the Sonoran […]

Alea Iacta II: Narrative and Ancient History in Video Games A Zoom Presentation

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The David Hood Chair of Ancient History and The CSULB Center for the History of Video Games and Critical Play Proudly Present Alea Iacta II: Narrative and Ancient History in Video Games We are pleased to announce the second talk in our series of lectures that explore the representations of the ancient world and ancient […]

Black Women’s Health, Wholeness and Well-Being: Towards a Radical Healing and Transformative Resistance

Zoom

The Department of Africana Studies invites you to join us in celebrating Black History Month Part II - Black Women Focus on Tuesday, March 22, from 11:00am - 12:30pm. The title of this virtual forum is Black Women's Health, Wholeness and Well-Being: Towards a Radical Healing and Transformative Resistance.    Zoom Link:  https://csulb.zoom.us/j/87960991706?pwd=UW1rZU1vVEZJQVZCMGtIaXRwM1Q1QT09 Meeting ID: 879 6099 1706      Passcode: 076743

Indigital Media: Recovering Indonesian Archives

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This talk explores the creative and transformative ways that artists, filmmakers, scholars, and activists have responded to a history of trauma and violence in the post-genocide era in Indonesia. “Indigital Media” asks how communities reimagine and recover decimated cultural archives, focusing on transnational media projects that act as counternarratives to state propaganda and open up […]

GIRLS LIKE US: EXPLORING TRANS FEMINIST HERSTORY

Zoom

This talk, presented in coordination with the CSULB Women’s & Gender Equity Center (WGEC) and the CSULB Trans Advocacy Coalition (TAC) as part of our campus commemoration of Women’s History Month, will explore the history of trans women and trans feminist organizing both within the U.S. women’s and gay liberation movements and beyond. It will […]

El Planeta Rojo Book Presentation

Anatol Center (AS 119) , United States

  On behalf of the Latin American Studies Program we would like to invite you to the presentation of the novel Planeta Rojo (2021) by our very own Eliécer Almaguer published in Cuba this past January. This event is organized by Latin American Studies in collaboration with the Spanish Graduate Students Association, and will be presented by […]

Strangers I know

Anatol Center (AS-119) , United States

The Clorinda Donato Center for Global Romance Languages and Translation Studies is pleased to invite you to a face-to-face book presentation of Strangers I Know (2022; La straniera, 2019), written by Claudia Durastanti and translated by Elizabeth Harris. Finalist for the 2019 Strega Prize, Italy’s most prestigious literary award, Strangers I Know is a transatlantic story of deaf […]

India’s Response to the Russia-Ukraine War

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The Yadunandan Center for India Studies at CSULB is proud to present a conversation about India's response to the war in Ukraine We will be joined by Dr. Tanvi Mandan, a Senior Fellow in The Project on International Order and Strategy and the Director of The India Project at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Madan is […]

The 2022 Elena Diane Curris Global Issues Lecture: Finding My Place in a Changing World A Perspective of Faith

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Guest Speakers: Rabbi Scott Fox, Father Christos P. Kanakis, Professor Kathryn Chew (Moderator), Dean Jihad Turk Elena Curris, a caring person with a creative and adventurous spirit, served California State University, Long Beach, in several advancement and public relations capacities. At the time of her unexpected passing, Elena, a 2009 graduate of Leadership Long Beach, […]