Growing up, Yajaira Vilchis Alvarez had little exposure to her Mexican heritage. Years later, she discovered her passion for museums and art while visiting family in Mexico City. Alvarez’s love of cultural exploration and art brought her to anthropology, first in community college, and later at Cal State Fullerton where she would eventually pursue a […]
Cal State Fullerton’s Digital Ethnic Future’s Initiative, also known as DEFCon, will host two Python workshops this summer that are designed for humanities researchers. These workshops are a significant step forward in promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in the tech world by focusing on humanities datasets and DEI-related queries. Participants will have the opportunity to […]
Cal State Fullerton geography graduate student Heather Roberts received the prestigious Geosystems Award for graduate students at the California Geographical Society’s annual conference. Founded in 1946, CGS is the oldest statewide professional geographic organization. At the organization’s annual conference, CGS presents awards for outstanding research by undergraduate and graduate students. The society also present students […]
Geography students hosted All Points of the Compass, a one-day symposium that features research and presentations from undergraduate and graduate students, alumni and faculty. The projects that were shared showcased the impressive diversity of research conducted by CSUF geographers. Presentations were made on a variety of topics, including climate change impacts in Florida; Maasai culture […]
Cal State Fullerton’s Digital Ethnic Futures Initiative, also known as DEFCon, will host a transformative two-part event featuring acclaimed children’s book author and educator, Oriel Maria Siu. The event, aimed at dismantling foundational fairytales, will take place at the CSUF Data Visualization Center in Pollak Library, room 216 on Thursday, May 2. Siu, known for […]
Cal State Fullerton’s French program will host a screening of “Two Days, One Night” on Thursday, May 2, at 7 p.m. in Humanities-Social Sciences Building, room 110. Oscar Award-winning actress Marion Cotillard received another nomination for her searing, deeply felt performance as a working-class woman desperate to hold on to her factory job. The film […]
Cal State Fullerton’s Latinx Lab for Storytelling and Social Justice will host an event on Tuesday, April 30, featuring filmmaker Alex Rivera. His presentation on “Artificial Intelligence and Rasquache Imaginaries” will be held from 10-11:15 a.m. in the Titan Theatre. Rivera is a 2021 MacArthur Fellow, Sundance Fellow, Creative Capital Grantee and was one of […]
It was another successful year for Cal State Fullerton’s moot court team. Moot court, a simulation of U.S. Supreme Court proceedings, provides students with opportunities to compete in regional oral competitions in American Moot Court Association tournaments to earn bids to semi-national and national tournaments. CSUF moot court has consistently placed among the top universities […]
The College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the College of Education invite the campus community to participate in ¡Saca la lengua! This event will bring together the multilingual projects ELICT and AMIELA, which were born to give prominence to and include the linguistic diversity of CSUF students and their communities on campus. ¡Saca la […]
David Sandner, professor of English, comparative literature and linguistics, is the author of a new book, “His Unburned Heart.” The historically based novella tells the story of how Mary Shelley, author of “Frankenstein,” obtained her husband’s heart after it wouldn’t burn in his funeral pyre. The novella is related to a novel in progress, “The […]