Cal State LA, Communication Studies Department

Today at 5:00 pm. Join Dr. Cynthia Wang and others.

Coming up on Tuesday:

Eagle-Con 2021 lands this week. Get your free tickets here:

Current Cal State LA students can sign up for food pantry: https://www.calstatela.edu/deanofs/cal-state-la-food-pantry

We can do it, too. #commrocks #berniesMittens

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Cynthia Wang has been named one of the 15 Diverse: Issues In Higher Education Emerging Scholars for 2021. We are so proud of Dr. Wang! #commrocks https://editions.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/

COMM alum, Javon Johnson, is making performance waves. #commrocks One of the nation's most prominent spoken-word artists, Javon Johnson takes to the Playhouse stage to share his very personal experience as a Black man in America at a pivotal time in our history. In Still., Johnson blends powerful imagery, witty prose and beautiful lyricism in this timely, unforgettable theatrical event. Written and Performed by Javon Johnson... Directed by Donny Jackson See more

Cal State LA students and alumni are invited to join the Career Development Center for Virtual Career Week from September 28 to October 2. The highlight event is the Virtual Career Fair on October 1 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Students and Alumni may register on the Virtual Career Fair event page which will give them the opportunity to meet with employers such as Oracle, UPS, Entertainment Partners, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, City of LA Bureau of Engineering, Teach for America, FBI, Armanino LLP and many more. Here's a link to info: https://www.calstatela.edu/univ/cdc/virtual-career-week

While swiping up will get you nowhere, calling will! Get a flu shot!

TODAY! #commrocks

Welcome to Fall Semester! While we won't be seeing you in person, the Department has worked all summer to make your virtual learning, the best it can be! Thirty members of the department did the Alt-Instruction training this summer, to prepare for remote teaching and learning. Please reach out to us with questions through email, [email protected]. And as always, #commrocks #evenvirtually.

We usually take a photo on Fall Faculty/Convocation day. At least one tradition stands, in these pandemic times! #commrocks

Current students:

We are excited to announce the 2020-2021 Forensics Speech and Debate Team Executive Council! We normally would have their pictures hanging on the wall in the music building, but Facebook‘s wall will have to do.

We are delighted to be a part of this! #commrocks

The California State University stands in the strongest opposition to the policy guidance issued Monday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said California State University Chancellor Timothy White. It is a callous and inflexible policy that unfairly disrupts our more-than 10,300 international students’ progress to a degree, unnecessarily placing them in an extremely difficult position. And it deprives all of our students and the communities, state, and nation we serve of the remarkable contributions of these international students. The CSU applauds the California Attorney General’s decision to take strong action to oppose ICE’s policy guidance, and we will fully support this effort.

https://asicalstatela.org//student-se/book-voucher-program

Congratulations to Dr. Kamran Afary, and MA alum, Ziba Shirazi. #commrocks Book Announcement: Iranian Diaspora Identities: Stories and Songs by Ziba Shirazi and Kamran Afary Book Description:... Iranian Diaspora Identities: Stories and Songs combines oral history, storytelling, theories of communication, and performance studies into a unique study of an immigrant community. This book is the result of collaborative work between two Iranian-American immigrants, one a musician and artist and the other a professor. Using ethnographic, dramatistic, and oral history approaches, Ziba Shirazi gathered these stories of diaspora journeys of Iranians living in California and Toronto in the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution of 1979. The editors transcribed these stories and developed them into short performance pieces that include lyrics and songs and were performed in the United States and Canada to thousands of people in theater venues and libraries. These stories constitute a unique archive of the history of contemporary Iranian diaspora experiences. They are autobiographic vignettes that have helped constitute an artistic vision of Iranian exiles' own sense of community and their migratory experiences that inform the transformations they experienced in family, gender, and spiritual beliefs. In addition to providing an archive of experiences, the book uses social drama and storytelling to advocate for a new methodology for documenting Iranian diaspora accounts. It constitutes a new contribution to the existing literature on Iranian diaspora and furthers an exciting contribution to scholarship in qualitative research in communication studies. Review: "Starting with a deceptively simple question, 'When and why did you leave Iran?' Ziba Shirazi and Kamran Afary have uncovered a trove of compelling, heartbreaking, loving, and funny stories that belie the western stereotypes of Iranian diaspora and their experience. This compelling work of Shirazi and Afary goes beyond the academic, esoteric, sanitized investigation of culture, migration, and global conflicts to examine the lived experiences of the sojourners' struggles, triumphs and rebirths authentically by using the Persian cultural bedrock-medium of poetry and storytelling. Iranian Diaspora Identities brings intercultural communication, diaspora studies, immigration research and cultural studies theory alive, providing scholars, students, and instructors a wealth of material to consider, examine, discuss, and explore. - Nancy Grass, Santa Monica College." #commrocks

Students, faculty, staff, alumni, and members of the community are invited to a Drive-Thru Food Distribution at Cal State LA on Thursday, June 25. The free distribution will be in Parking Lot 5 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. while supplies last. Baby items will also be distributed, including diapers and wipes. Face coverings are required. If you enter campus from the south at the Welcome Center at 6121 Paseo Rancho Castilla (PRC), you will be directed along PRC directly to Lot 5. If ...you enter campus from the north you will be directed along an alternate route from PRC to Circle Drive, Campus Road, and back to PRC. Find more information and a campus map on the Drive-Thru Food Distribution website. This event is sponsored by Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda L. Solis, the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation, the Los Angeles County Library, Baby2Baby, Cal State LA and the Center for Engagement, Service, and the Public Good, and Associated Students, Inc. at Cal State LA.