The CSUN Student Philosophy Conference is one of the most anticipated department events of the year. For a full day, students present their work in a professional setting, along with outside speakers, who share their own stories about the value philosophy has added to their lives. The conference ends with lots of food and celebration.… Continue reading The 12th Annual Student Philosophy Conference
Appropriation vs. Appreciation: Dean’s Discussion on Cultural Appropriation Date: Monday, April 21, 2025 Time: 3:30PM - 5:00PM Location: Whitsett Room | Sierra Hall Room 451 About this Event: Join us for an engaging panel discussion moderated by the Dean, exploring the complexities of cultural appropriation versus cultural appreciation. Featuring insights from students and faculty, this… Continue reading Appropriation vs. Appreciation: Dean’s Discussion on Cultural Appropriation
Special Guest: Mark Arax, Author and Journalist About this Event: Join us for an engaging and thought-provoking discussion with acclaimed author and journalist Mark Arax as he explores one of California’s most pressing challenges: the tension between growth and sustainability in the face of climate change. Drawing from his extensive research and award-winning works on… Continue reading Spring 2025 Whitsett Lecture: California’s Great Dilemma To Grow or Not Grow in a Time of Climate Change
Housing the Unhoused: How Can Space Planning Help? About this Event Date: March 11, 2025 Time: 11:30AM to 12:45PM Location: Sierra Hall, Room 451 | Whistsett Room Join us for an engaging conversation with Valery Augustin, founding principal of DNA A+D, a Los Angeles-based architecture and design firm specializing in residential, commercial, civic, and hospitality… Continue reading Housing the Unhoused: How Can Space Planning Help
Professor Williams will give a talk on “The Irei Project: A Buddhist-Inspired Monument to the WWII Japanese American Incarceration. In this talk, Duncan Ryuken Williams will first describe the history of monument-building by Japanese American internees and incarcerees confined in America’s concentration camps during WWII. Created under the leadership of Buddhist priests at Manzanar and… Continue reading “The Irei Project: A Buddhist-Inspired Monument to the WWII Japanese American Incarceration”
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
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.
October 15, 2024: In person at Whitsett Room & Online via ZOOM 2:00pm PST Indigenous Resistance Day 2024 In English and Spanish. This virtual and in-person book presentation will host guest speakers Angel Poyón and Fernando Poyón, both Maya Kaqchikel artists from Comalapa, Guatemala, and the Kaqjay Collective in Patzicia, Guatemala that organized their exhibition… Continue reading Bilingual Book Presentation/Presentación del libro: Sik’inik Chukojol Cholaj
