The Korean Festival provided attendees the opportunity to experience the Korean culture through food, music, dance and traditions on April 19. Over 340 people attended the festival, which is a premiere event in CSUSB’s Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Heritage Month celebration.
Among Caitlin Kim’s learning experiences at CSUSB was the Nursing Street Medicine program. “It taught me a lot of things about life,” she said.
CSUSB’s monthlong celebration of Arab American History Month will culminate with a special event, "Uplifting Identities and Sharing Our History," on Thursday, May 2, from noon to 2 p.m. on the Santos Manuel Student Union patio.
Keynote speaker John Kim of the Los Angeles-based Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California urged listeners to take charge, be problem solvers and to speak up in the face of injustice.
Beth Lew-Williams, professor of history at Princeton University and an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer, will present “John Doe Chinaman: Race and Law in the American West,” a talk that is part of CSUSB’s Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month programming.
The university is getting a head start on the annual celebration of its Asian, Pacific Islander and South Asian communities, with events and programs revolving around the theme, “Uplifting Identities: Sharing Our History.”
Yale professor Daniel Mattingly will discuss the “Chinese State Media and Its Global Audience” at the next Modern China Lecture, which will be presented in person and virtually.
“Gender and Agency in Hong Kong Activism: The Case of the 1978 Golden Jubilee Secondary School Protest,” presented by Gina Tam of Trinity University, will take place in person and on Zoom at 10:30 a.m. Monday, April 17.
Gregory Gondwe (journalism studies), Mike Stull (entrepreneurship), Hareem Khan (ethnic studies, anthropology), Brian Levin (criminal justice) were included in recent news coverage and Pablo Gómez was part of a team that published recent research.