Events Archive

[ October 3, 2012; 2:00 pm to 3:15 pm. ] Pulido will give an engaging talk on portions of her 2012 book A People’s Guide to Los Angeles.

A People’s Guide to Los Angeles offers eye-opening alternatives to L.A.’s usual tourist destinations. It documents 115 little-known sites in the City of Angels where struggles related to race, class, gender, and sexuality have occurred. It introduces us to people and events... [Read more]

[ October 3, 2012; 5:00 pm; ] Clarissa Clò will present ”Colonialism, Migration, Southern Question in Rosalia Pianavia Vivaldi and Sibilla Aleramo.”

[ October 4, 2012; 12:00 pm; ] Celebrating National Latino Heritage Month, the Department of Chicano and Latino Studies has organized this event featuring poets from Mexico and the United States. We are fortunate to have such prominent authors visit our campus to read their poetry and discuss what it means to Live and Write On La Frontera.

This event is free and open to the public.

[ October 4, 2012; 7:00 pm; ] Kristen-Paige Madonia, author of the novel Fingerprints of You (Simon and Schuster, 2012)

Madonia is touring the nation after the publication of her first novel Fingerprints of You. The novel came out August 2012, and is earning enthusiastic reviews. Click here to visit Kirsten’s blog.

For a map to the Soroptimist House, click here.

All events are free and open to the... [Read more]

[ October 4, 2012; 7:00 pm; ] Aqui Entre Nos (Between Us, 2011), directed by Patricia Martínez de Velasco, is a heartfelt dramatic comedy about family relationships. The film runs 95 minutes and is in Spanish with English subtitles.

Q&A with Director Patricia Martínez de Velasco

Admission is free, and parking is available in Lot 7. Classes and large groups are welcome.

Please see flyer for upcoming screenings... [Read more]

[ October 5, 2012; 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. ] The CSULB Composition Program invites you to attend a workshop led by Andrea Lunsford, the Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor of English and Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University.

Lunsford’s scholarly interests include the following: contemporary rhetorical theory, women and the history of rhetoric, collaboration and collaborative writing, current cultures of writing,... [Read more]

[ October 5, 2012; 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ] The workshop on Friday, October 5th, at 2 p.m. is the first in a year-long series of interdisciplinary, cross-campus Science Fiction workshops led by Dr. Nhora Serrano of CSULB’s Department of World Literature and Classics and Mike Buckley of CSUDH. There will be four workshops per semester of the 2012-2013 academic year. Alternating location between CSULB and... [Read more]

[ October 10, 2012; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Jessie James, Kevin Chidgey, and Mathew Ramelb

This event is the first of three MFA Readings for the fall 2012 semester.

[ October 11, 2012; 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ] Dr. Susan Hyatt will give her first of two lectures as the visiting Distinguished Harman Applied Anthropology Scholar.

All are welcome to attend.

For more information, please contact Dr. Barbara LeMaster at Barbara.LeMaster@csulb.edu or 562.985.5171.

[ October 11, 2012; 7:00 pm; ] The Russian documentary film 900 Days (2011, 78 min.), directed by Jessica Gorter, addresses the Blockade of Leningrad during World War II. It presents an emotional picture of survivors whose personal memories are overshadowed by the heroic myth upheld by the authorities. The myth painfully contrasts with the horrific truth that the survivors were forbidden to mention.

This film will... [Read more]