Arts, Lectures and Gatherings

Lectures and Discussions Events

Artistic Rivalries with Katherine Zoraster
Fifty and Better Spring Session

Lundring Events Center & Online via Zoom

Artists often work and create together to formulate new styles. Just as often, they compete and respond to each other's work, leading to breakthroughs and new developments.

The Lost Art of Instrumental Music with Cary Ginell
Fifty and Better Spring Session

Lundring Events Center and Zoom

"The Lost Art of Instrumental Music" focuses on a time in popular music history when creativity in composing music without vocals not only flourished but was commercially viable.

The Technology of Ancient Art with Scott Jones
Fifty and Better Spring Session

Lundring Events Center and Zoom

This interdisciplinary course will explore the science and engineering aspects of ancient art from cave paintings to frescoes, mummy portraits and sculptures in stone and bronze.

The Soviet Union: An Insider's View with Asya Pereltsvaig, PhD
Fifty and Better Spring Session

Online via Zoom

In this course, we will consider the Soviet planned economy, its repressive dictatorial political regime and its imperial nature.

Architects Who Defined the California Landscape with Eleanor Schrader
Fifty and Better Spring Session

Online via Zoom

This class will explore works of distinguished California architects such as Paul Williams, Wallace Neff, Richard Neutra, Rudolph Schindler, Julia Morgan, John Lautner and others.

Examining Cults with Jason Hensley, PhD
Fifty and Better Spring Session

Online via Zoom

This series will examine cults in general, and then probe deep into specific case studies like Jonestown, Waco, and a more modern cult, NXIVM.

Las Californias Indígenas: A Short History of Three Californias
Dean’s Speaker Series

Overton Hall

Historian Damon Akins will discuss alternative narratives centering Native Californians, a population that outnumbered Californios 30:1 throughout the Mexican period, 1821-1850.

“Pachappa Camp: The First Koreatown in the United States”
History Lecture Series

Ullman Conference Center 100/101

Edward T. Chang, PhD, will discuss the first Koreatown in the United States, which is in Southern California.

Deconstructing Disability: A Multigenerational Family Perspective
DEIJB Lecture Series

Online via Zoom

Tammy Bachrach, PhD, of Azuza Pacific University, and Mina Chun, PhD, will discuss their research study focused on the experiences of a family following the death of a family member born with Down syndrome in 1961.

“Weaving Stories for Indigenous Presence and Futures”
Dean's Speaker Series

Navajo scholar Amanda Tachine, PhD, will share findings from her book, Native Presence and Sovereignty in College: Indigenous Weapons to Defeat Systemic Monsters. This lecture has been rescheduled from November 2024.

Vacation Homes, Enchanted Family Memories and Inequalities
Michelle Janning, PhD

Swenson Center for Social and Behavioral Sciences, Room 101

Sociologist Michelle Janning, PhD, will present research findings from her new book and discuss how family vacation homes are a compelling site to examine social roles, relationships and social inequalities.

Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions
DEIJB Lecture Series

Swenson 101/102

Kristine Jan Cruz Espinoza, PhD, will present "Deep Roots, Strong Branches: The Foundation and Future of Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions."

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