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 […]
Cal State Fullerton DEFCon and the Latinx Lab for Storytelling and Social Justice collaborate to present the 7th Annual Digital Humanities Keynote and Discussion with guest speaker Linda Garcia Merchant. Garcia Merchant is at the forefront of innovative digital humanities practice and co-founder of the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Collective at The University […]
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 […]
Cal State Fullerton’s French Program will present a Thursday, April 11, screening of the film “BPM (Beats Per Minute)” at 7 p.m. in Humanities and Social Sciences Building, room 110. Released in 2017, the movie tells the fictionalized story of the Paris branch of the AIDS activism group ACT UP in the 1990s. The movie […]
Layla Bahar Al-Aloom, a lecturer in modern languages and literatures, has been honored with the 2024 California Language Teachers’ Association Outstanding Teacher Leader Award for her contributions to teaching Arabic and English as a second language. Bahar Al-Aloom was formally recognized at the CLTA awards brunch on March 10. “I am honored to receive the […]
Nicole Seymour, professor of English, comparative literature and linguistics, has been awarded a residential fellowship at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. This summer, she will conduct archival research on author Christopher Isherwood, whose 1964 novel “A Single Man” fictionalizes his experience as a Cal State LA professor. Seymour plans to complete a scholarly […]