Join us for food, drinks & prizes! Meet the clubs: Sigma Tau Delta, Professional Development, Creative Writing Circle, Poetry, Northridge Review & more Learn about Majors & Minors Creative Writing… Continue reading English Open House
The Department of Linguistics/TESL Presents Sarah MacDugall Ph.D. Student, University at Buffalo Background: The question of whether a hotdog is a sandwich has been asked around dinner tables with friends, at water coolers with coworkers, and in an interview between Stephen Colbert and late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Despite the cult popularity of… Continue reading The Sandwich Space: Using Statistical Breakdowns to Explore Semantic Categories
In conjunction with Queer studies 369, guest speaker Xenari Damain will decontextualize Muxe identity as a third gender in Juchitán society. This presentation will be followed by a short embroidery workshop which will center muxhedad of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec artistic forms of knowledge production as a decolonizing project. Students, staff, and faculty are invited… Continue reading Muxe Identity in the Flesh
The new Minor in Disability Studies is pleased to announce our official launch! In celebration, we kick off our first semester with our keynote speaker Ly Xīnzhèn Zhǎngsūn (Lydia… Continue reading Lydia XZ Brown on Intersectionality, Social Justice, and Disability Rights
This performance is free and open to the whole university community.
Join us for a conversation with artist and activist Lydia Emily as part of the Remnants of Resistance podcast series. Considered by many to be one of the preeminent female street artists of our time, her large-scale murals have appeared all over the world. Her art is deeply political, and our conversation will explore the… Continue reading Love and (R)evolution: A Conversation with Artist and Activist Lydia Emily
As part of CHS 460: Chicano Politics, guest speaker Sebastian Ferreda will conduct a “How to Podcast” workshop. With a focus on immigration politics at the federal, local, cultural, and ideological level, attendees will learn how to construct a narrative that is captivating and informative. They will also be exposed to the technology available in… Continue reading How to Podcast with Sebastian Ferrada
As part of Indigenous Awareness Month at CSUN, Debbie Martinez-Rambeau, who attended CSUN in the 1970s, will speak to students about her involvement in organizing the first powwow at CSUN. She will also share about her continued involvement in the annual event, and various traditions and protocols related to the event that celebrates American Indian… Continue reading Debbie Martinez-Rambeau and the History of the CSUN Powwow
The American Indian Studies Program presents a talk by acclaimed artist, poet, and playwright Dr. Velina Houston, USC School of Dramatic Arts and Board of Trustees Berklee College, Boston. This event celebrating Native American Heritage Month is open to the public.
Adnan Jaber & Michal Greenfield of Standing Together, a co-existence organization that builds community between Jews and Palestinians in Israel. Adnan Jaber is an entrepreneur and lecturer. He founded the PeaceTech Affinity Group. Michal Greenfield is an artist, community organizer, and operations coordinator for the interfaith organization NewGround.
A word from the special guest speaker: From weddings to college graduations and from prayers to painful fire-walking ceremonies, ritual is everywhere. At first glance, such activities might seem pointless. So why do we all engage in them? Anthropologists have long proposed that rituals persist because they convey certain benefits to their practitioners and their… Continue reading Why do we have rituals? Guest Speaker, Dimitris Xygalatas
