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As we move into the holiday season and prepare for Halloween, please continue to avoid gatherings that are not in compliance with public health orders. SDSU is... hosting virtual Halloween events for students and encouraging everyone to continue wearing a facial covering and avoid gatherings. Read the full update https://bit.ly/3krvcpT See more

The Center for Islamic and Arabic Studies and College of Arts and Letters presents, God: A Human History Conversations with Reza Aslan. Don’t miss out on this virtual event taking place from 4-7 p.m. today! Zoom Link: sdsu.zoom.us/j/84396502219

October is national domestic violence awareness month. Read about new Dean Monica J. Casper's research and work on this subject. https://cal.sdsu.edu//st/casper-domestic-violence-research #sdsucal #sdsucalempoweringstudents... #sdsucalsocialsciencesatwork See more

Political Science, San Diego State University Ahmet T. Kuru presents this Thursday.

Join us today from 12-1 p.m. for this talk hosted by The Behner Stiefel Center for Brazilian Studies in collaboration with Nature & Culture International, as they bring the voices of women living and working in the Amazon region of Brazil to SDSU for a series of three panels. Check out the Zoom link below for this event! Zoom link: https://SDSU.zoom.us/j/93034862502 Sponsors: Center for Brazilian Studies/ Nature and Culture International

SDSU's International Business Case Competition hosted by the International Business Program @ SDSU was the only Case competition held in the nation this year. Nine teams participated, virtually, from across the nation and internationally. Congratulations to the 2020 winning teams!... 1st: University of Washington | Video presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8mspX3K3Ac&feature=youtu.be 2nd: Bryant University | Video presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9Tt59n9JR0&feature=youtu.be 3rd: Illinois State University | Video presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2NoUb3k-GQ&feature=youtu.be Bonus Award: University of Washington for Innovation in Sustainability. ABOUT THE COMPETITION: https://ib.sdsu.edu/competition.html #sdsucalempoweringstudentsC

Interested in working in sports? Five female SDSU alumni and emerging sports business leaders will share their career journey, answer questions about working in sports and share industry insights. Join us for:... Women in Sports Business Thursday, Oct. 29 | 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. RSVP: http://bit.ly/FCB-WomenInSports Featured panelist, Connor Novak, earned her degree in Asian Studies SDSU Center for Asian & Pacific Studies. #sdsucalhumanitiesatwork #sdsucalsocialsciencesatwork #sdsucal

Just released, a new book "Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men's Adventure Magazines" by Gregory Daddis, professor, center for war and society; director, and USS Midway chair in modern U.S. military history. In this compelling evaluation of Cold War popular culture, "Pulp Vietnam" explores how men's adventure magazines helped shape the attitudes of young, working-class Americans, the same men who fought and served in the long and bitter war in Vietnam. Read more an...d find it here: https://www.cambridge.org//4B1C7534BEF45AE8543B8685AB85511 SDSU Department of History #sdsucal #sdsucalhumanitiesatwork #sdsucalsocialsciencesatwork

Anthropology 583 is one of the methods courses offered by the SDSU Department of Anthropology. Lab classes are an integral part of training archaeology students for careers in cultural resource management, museum curation, and education, but in a semester of mostly virtual classrooms, adjustments were needed and professors have gone above and beyond the call to provide students with quality educational experiences. Read how students studying avian osteology used a grocery s...tore staple in a lab assignment. https://newscenter.sdsu.edu/sdsu_newscenter/news_story.aspx #sdsucalempoweringstudents #sdsucal #sdsucalsocialsciencesatwork

INVITATION: Join us for a virtual screening of "Singing Our Way To Freedom" a documentary about Ramon "Chunky" Sanchez. Wednesday, Oct. 28 | 6:30 p.m. ... The virtual screening is followed by a Q&A with a panel including the director. This documentary is about SDSU alumnus, activist, and musician, Ramon Chunky Sanchez. While a student at SDSU, Sanchez joined hundreds of barrio residents to protest plans to use a small plot of land under the San Diego - Coronado bridge for a highway patrol station. Instead, the movement convinced the city to turn the plot into Chicano Park. As a musician, Sanchez was often invited by Cesar Chavez to play at the United Farm Workers union rallies. In 2016, the NEA bestowed upon him a National Heritage Fellowship, the country’s highest honor in folk and traditional arts. Zoom Link: https://sdsu.zoom.us/j/2563902496#success SDSU Chicana and Chicano Studies

Tonight at 7 p.m.

Ancient History / Archaeology Lecture: Feeding the Mines, Feeding the Cities: Urbanizing Beekeeping and Pork Butchery in Hispania Tarraconiensis Friday, Oct. 23 at 7:15 p.m. Zoom ID: 814 4922 9189 (Passcode: dig2020)... Join us for this free and open to the public virtual lecture by Dr. David Wallace-Hare (SDSU) and Katie Tardio (UNC-Chapel Hill). Two case studies reveal hitherto little-known urban manifestations of two rural industries in Roman Spain, beekeeping and pork production, in two important cities in Hispania Tarraconensis: Segobriga and Tarraco. The paper first argues that the concentration of ceramic beehives in villas in Segobriga’s hinterland, a zone focused on the mining of lapis specularis, is a byproduct of Segobriga’s mining operations. Secondly, the paper discusses preliminary zooarchaeological investigations into Tarraco’s lower city that have revealed evidence of pork butchery, forcing a reconsideration of pork processing logistics in other Roman cities and their hinterlands. This free, open-to-the-public event is co-sponsored by the SDSU Department of History and the San Diego Society of the AIA.

What is left of American Democracy on the eve of the 2020 elections? As the Presidential elections approach, there are troubling signs that American democracy may be in its death throes: daily breaches of long-standing democratic norms, warnings that the elections will not be settled through the ballot box, appeals to the military to uphold electoral results, assassination plots by fascist militias, and all of this in the context of a deadly pandemic, a spiraling economic cri...sis, racial unrest, and the destruction of the environment. How did we get to this point? And what is the way out of this very dangerous crisis? Join us for a panel discussion featuring two eminent public intellectuals, whose critical perspectives challenge us to think beyond the paradigm of mainstream American politics. Adolph Reed is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Pennsylvania specializing in African-American political thought, and the politics of race and class. His recent publications include Socialism and the Argument Against Race Reductionism (2020) and Antiracism: A Neoliberal Alternative to the Left (2018). David North is chairman of the editorial board of the World Socialist website (wsws.org), and the author of numerous books, including "The Crisis of American Democracy" (2004), "The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century" (2014), and "A Quarter Century of War" (2016). PANEL DISCUSSION Wednesday, October 28, 4 p.m. Zoom registration: https://SDSU.zoom.us/web/register/WN_M3CUrmzEQCGoD1B5lCbyFg

SDSU Geography presents Jump In, the Water's Fine: Participatory Approaches to Freshwater and Coastal Resource Management A talk with Barbara Quimby, Research Scholar Kyl Center for Water Policy at Arizona State University. ... Friday, Oct. 23 3:30-4:30 p.m. Zoom Session ID: 919 0397 8638 Passcode: 92182

Consider adding the Human Rights Certificate to your history or humanities degree! There are now three history courses counting toward this certificate (see the posted flier for further information). For more information, contact Grace Cheng ([email protected])