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Broome Library is excited to present its June lecturers for GLBTQ+ Pride Month!
On Monday June 7th at 4:00pm Pacific, J. Cagandahan, RN, offers their lecture 鈥淭hrive with Pride,鈥� which will cover basic cultural competency of the LGBTQIA+ demographic and acquaint attendees with the language that is unique to the transgender experience.
On Wednesday, June 9th at 4:00pm Pacific, scholar S. A. Smythe will be speaking on 鈥淏lack Trans Imaginaries.鈥� All interested may .
On Wednesday, June 16th at 4:00pm Pacific, Addison Rose Vincent will speak on 鈥淕ender Inclusive Communication.鈥� All interested may .
On Thursday, June 24th at 4:00pm Pacific, CI鈥檚 own Steve Stratton will speak.
For more details on speakers and descriptions of the lectures, please see .
CIS Friday Integrative Series
Every third Friday: 02/19, 03/26 and 04/16
Time: 12-1:15 PM
Location: CIS Zoom meeting room
The CIS invites faculty to meet to discuss and develop strategies for integration and to meet faculty from across the division.
Have you had enough social isolation?聽 Have you had enough academic isolation? This monthly Friday series is an informal opportunity for conversation with colleagues from other disciplines about the challenges we were facing in teaching and researching in a time of COVID.聽
This Friday series is intended to be a place for people to come together to develop strategies for integration:
- Integrating teaching and research
- Integrating perspectives from various disciplines in the classroom
- Integrating perspectives from various disciplines in research (individual or team)
This will be an open conversation.聽
What: possible prompts/questions:
- What does Integrative Studies mean to you?
- What are some of the ways that you practice Integrative Studies in your teaching and scholarship?
- What are some of the ways that you would like to develop Integrative Studies in your scholarship and teaching?
- How do you integrate your research and teaching?
- What does interdisciplinarity mean to you and how do you integrate it into your teaching and your scholarship?
- What would you like to see from the CIS to aid you in this?
- Sharing your scholarship across disciplines; make connections with colleagues around issues.
- Themes you would like to propose to discuss
Friday Integration Series flyer
Arts Under the Stars
is back for another year of community and creativity, featuring a variety of projects, performances and collaborations.
Call for Research and Creative Ideas, Creative and Event Leaders, and Participants
Arts Under the Stars is a multimedia research and arts presentation. Over 20 different programs have participated presenting research from Chemistry and Nursing to Political Science and Psychology. If you are interested contact Heather Castillo at heather.castillo@csuci.edu
The theme for Arts Under The Stars 2020 is Home and all of its meanings to various programs. Proposals can come from any student, faculty, or staff member at CI.
Arts Under the Stars will be held on Saturday, May 2 at 6:00 pm.
For more information contact Heather Castillo at 805-437-2052 or heather.castillo@csuci.edu.
Our Stories Matter: Discussion Series
The Center for Integrative Studies and the Center for Multicultural Engagement will be hosting a discussion series consisting of focused interdisciplinary evidence-based perspectives - at least two at each - presented by CI faculty and/or invited experts who will speak on and discuss specific topics related to fascism, white supremacy, current events (local to global), in the context of CI's stated values of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
This discussion series will take place on the last Wednesday of the month to develop a regular community discussion of pressing and divisive issues. Possible discussion topics include fake news, intersectionality, DACA and immigration, free speech and democracy.
Spring 2019 Series
Date: Wednesday, May 1
Time: 5:30pm
Location: Del Norte 1530
Democratic legislatures rely on deliberation to hone legislation and build consensus around policy change. Over the last three decades, changes in American Politics have militated against the conditions for meaningful deliberation in the U.S. Congress.
Join us as Sean Kelly, Political Science, discusses the antecedents for this practice, and provides suggestions for reform that can improve the quality of deliberation in Congress.
The Global Food Security Act provides funding through the State Department to international development organizations, focusing on world hunger and food insecurity. Megan Schraedley, Communication, will discuss how diverse understandings of complex concepts can be unified through the use of strategic language in order to gain agreement on and pass important policies.
Megan Schraedley, a Communication Lecturer, examines how humans organize around food and create meaning. Her research examines injustices and stigmas in the food system, including food pantries, small farms, and grocery stores. Sean Kelly, Professor and Chair of Political Science, and former American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow, worked for the Senate Democratic leadership on health care reform issues and has written numerous books.
Date: Wednesday, April 3 2019
Time: 5:30pm
Location: Broome Library 2480
Join us for an interdisciplinary discussion of political ideologies.
Michael Powelson, CSUCI Lecturer of History, asks, "What is Socialism?" Given its uses and abuses in current discourse, he will offer some historical context for better understanding the concept. And Matthew Mendez, CSUCI Assistant Professor of Political Science, studies American politics, with a focus on representation, race and ethnicity. and political behavior. He will present on political ideology in the United States. How do political scientists define it? What are the ideological differences between the elites and the mass public? How do niche ideologies like socialism and libertarianism affect the political landscape? Their presentations will be followed by a facilitated discussion of the issues raised.
Date: Tuesday, March 5, 2019
Time: 5:30PM to 7:30PM
Location: Broome Library 2480
Join us to hear Annie White (Early Childhood Studies) and Jasmine Delgado (Art) discuss their interdisciplinary collaboration, "My Stories," honoring diverse student learner identities. At Santa Rosa Island, students are provided a safe space to share their social and cultural identities through narrative stories, visual art, clay and sculpture, and interpretive dance modalities. Faculty share the impact these stories have on various CI programs, students, peers, families, and communities.
Dr. Annie White's research on New Zealand's Learning Stories approach has had a positive impact on policy and assessment practices in California and beyond. Jasmine Delgado's work uses the language of print, fabric, and collage to address the relationship of various Los Angeles sub/urban landscapes to the community that they serve.
Date: Wednesday, February 6, 2019
Time: 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Location: BRO 2480
Join us as Theresa Avila (CSUCI Assistant Professor of Art History) and Fran Elson (a fused glass artist and child of Holocaust survivors in our community) discuss the use of visual displays of people's stories and painful memories. This talk contributes to our understanding of how fragmented identities are developed and pieced together through art and graphic images, helping create awareness of social injustices that have impacted many generations of Latino and Jewish families.
Dr. Theresa Avila specializes in the history, practices, and systems that impact contemporary Latin@x communities within the United States. Fran Elson's multimedia Holocaust memorial project titled "Broken" honors her parents and their families, expressing the fragility of our freedoms through fused glass.
Other events of interest
Student Research
4th Student Research Lunch
Presenting: Dr. Robin Mitchell and her students research on Propaganda & the Impossible Black Female Body: The Tale of Suzanne Simone Baptiste L'Ouverture
Date: Friday, February 22, 2019
Time: 12pm - 1:30pm
Location: BRO 1320
Student Research Lunch Flyer(, 5.9M)
