Lectures and Discussions Events
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dean’s Speaker Series
Historian Damon Akins will discuss alternative narratives centering Native Californians, a population that outnumbered Californios 30:1 throughout the Mexican period, 1821-1850.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."