November 2020
DIGITAL ROUNDTABLE: RACE, NATIONALISM, AND FANTASIES OF THE MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE
The CSULB Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, with the support of the CLA Faculty Council’s Inclusive Excellence Committee, invites students and faculty to attend our sponsored digital roundtable: Race, Nationalism, and Fantasies of the Middle Ages and Renaissance Register in advance for this webinar here. Popular western media often claims inspiration from the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and the results are famously inaccurate in representing the past. Scholars have addressed this disconnect first by cataloguing inaccuracies and then by engaging with the…
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The Life and Legend of Catterina Vizzani: Sexual Identity, Science and Sensationalism in Eighteenth-Century Italy and England
The George L. Graziadio Center for Italian Studies is pleased to invite you to a virtual book presentation of The Life and Legend of Catterina Vizzani: Sexual Identity, Science and Sensationalism in Eighteenth-Century Italy and England by Dr. Clorinda Donato (CSULB). In this new volume published by Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, Liverpool University Press, Dr. Donato analyzes the medical, societal, and narrative transcultural stakes in the life story of the transgendered Catterina Vizzani, and the right to live free from…
Find out more »IT COMES IN WAVES: HOPE AND FAILURE IN INDIA’S BATTLE WITH THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS, AND WITH ITSELF
The Yadunandan Center for India Studies is proud to present a lecture by Rukmini Shrinivasan, a data journalist, about the COVID-19 pandemic in India. COVID has spread to over 8,000,000 people in India and killed over 125,000. Where does the virus take India from here, and is there a way to change course, even now? Rukmini Shrinivasan is a data journalist. She served as the first Data Editor for The Hindu and later as the Data & Innovation Editor for…
Find out more »Approaches to Building a Career in Translation
The Clorinda Donato Center for Global Romance Languages and Translation Studies is pleased to invite you to "Approaches to Building a Career in Translation," a guest lecture by Laura Nagle (Freelance Translator, French and Spanish to English). Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 Time: 4:00 pm (PST) Zoom Link: https://csulb.zoom.us/j/84006191993 For more information about the event, please contact Manuel Romero at Manuel.Romero@csulb.edu.
Find out more »Dr. Raphael Sonenshein: Assessing the 2020 Election
The CSULB Jewish Studies Program is again very pleased to welcome back to Long Beach, Dr. Raphael Sonenshein, our favorite “political therapist.” He will speak via Zoom Webinar on Wednesday, December 9th, at 7:30 pm. In his talk, he will review United States politics with particular attention to the recent presidential election campaign. Dr. Sonenshein is a professor of political science and the Executive Director of the Edmund G. “Pat” Brown Institute of Public Affairs at California State University, Los Angeles. An expert…
Find out more »EXISTING 2021-22 IRA proposals due
EXISTING 2021-22 IRA proposals due to cla-operations@csulb.edu by 5PM
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Generations of South Asians in the US: Generation Z and competition in the New Millennium
The Yadundan Center for India Studies is proud to present a lecture by Shalini Shankar titled "Generations of South Asians in the US: Generation Z and competition in the New Millennium." Please click the link below to RSVP and receive a reminder and the Zoom link closer to the date of the event. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf4s2LvXeYY_mY4VTS2J7JlsDG8z-8xOb37K6OmdNDNEwxbqg/viewform For questions or additional information, please email us at indiastudies@csulb.edu.
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