Events Archive

 An interdisciplinary conference:

Epidemics: The SHAPES of Global Disease
(Socio-Historical, Artistic and Political Expressions and Epidemiologies)
Description

 "Copernicus and the Astrologers", a lecture by Robert Westman, University of California, San Diego
4:00 PM Titan Theater, Titan Student Union

"A World Shaped by Miracles: Rafting Monkeys and the Nature of Evolutionary History "
a lecture by Alan de Queiroz , Biology Department, University of Nevada, Reno
4:00 PM  SGMH 1506

Kevin Lambert CSUF Department of Liberal Studies
A Scientific Object at the Paris Opéra: A Pygmalion Moment in French Enlightenment Public Science 5:30 PM  Humanities 226

Duana Fullwiley  Stanford University, Department of Anthropology
Difference, Disease, and the Writing of Genetic Science: The Experience of "Senegalese" Sickle Cell
5:30 PM  University Hall 252

Why Things Matter : an interdisciplinary conference on material culture Program

Patrick Sharp
California State University Los Angeles Liberal Studies Department
Evolution's Amazons: Women and Science Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century
5:30 PM  Humanities 125

  Dr. Volker Janssen , CSUF Department of History
"In Flesh and Blood: Questions about Health, Discipline, and Bio-Technology in postwar America "
5:30PM   Humanities 110

 Dr. James Moore  Open University, London
 "Making Livings: Why Wallace's and Darwin's Theories of Evolution were Worlds Apart "
5:30PM   Humanities 110

 "Creating a Transnational Social Science :  Studying
Culture, Personality, and Prejudice in the 1930s"
by Dr Leila Zenderland  CSUF American Studies Department
5:30 PM Humanities 110

 "Earthquakes: The History, the Hype, the Hazard "
by Dr Susan Hough  U.S. Geological Survey, Pasadena
5:30 PM Humanities 110

 "The Nine Lives of Albert Einstein "
by Dr. Craig McConnell, Liberal Studies Department, CSUF
5:30 PM  Langsdorf Hall 321

  "Chinese American Scientists : A Study in Transnational History of Science and Technology"
by Dr. Zuoyue Wang , History Dept., Cal Poly Pomona
5:30 PM  Langsdorf Hall 321

 Traditions and Transformations : An Interdiscipliinary Food Studies Conference

"Communicating Chemical Secrets & Expertise in the 17th c. Holy Roman Empire "
by Dr. Margaret Garber, CSUF Department of Liberal Studies
5:30PM   Langsdorf Hall 321

"The Revisionaries ", a film screening following by discussion with faculty and students.
4:00 PM Mackey Auditorium, Ruby Gerontology Center (RGC-13)

 6 December 2012

"Challenging Darwinism: Expanding, Extending, Replacing "
Dr. Bruce Weber , Professor Emeritus, Biochemistry at CSUF and Robert H. Woodworth Chair in Science and Natural Philosophy, Bennington College.
Humanities 226

1 November 2012  

"Fordism, Big Science, and the Manhattan Project " 
Dr. Charles Thorpe, UC San Diego
Mihaylo Hall 1307 5:30PM

 11 October 2012

Crocoduck Mania: How People Insist upon Misunderstanding Evolutionary Biology "
Professor Jim Hofmann, CSUF Liberal Studies Department
Humanities 110 5:30PM

 4 October 2012

Open Mic Night  7:00 - 10:00PM
Humanities 223

 26 September 2012

 "Who is Afraid of Liberal Studies?"
Jawad Ali, Lecturer, CSUF Liberal Studies Department
with special guests, LBST alumni Tyler Shumaker, Jason Jacobsen, and Anna Jacobsen
Location: Mihaylo Hall- SGMH 2406
Sponsored by the Liberal Studies Student Association

   18 September 2012

"Religious Cognition and The Lisbon Earthquake : The story of a natural disaster and its psychological effects."
Ryan Nichols , Associate Professor, CSUF Philosophy Department
Sponsored by the CSUF Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine

 April 13 2012

"What Did Food Taste Like 500 Years Ago?"  A lecture and cooking demonstration on Renaissance food by Food Historian Ken Albala from the University of the Pacific

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November

• Free Film Screening and Discussion: Glue Boys

October

• Free public lecture by Dr. Erika Milam
• Free film screening and discussion of "No Dinosaurs in Heaven": 7:00PM October 27th

March

• An Afternoon with ERWIN CHEMERINSKY, sponsored by the Liberal Studies Honor Society

September

• Francisco Ayala Lecture: The Foundations of Morality

April

• A Philosophical Forum on Happiness

October

• David Depew: "Darwin as Romantic"

March

• Showing of the film “Flock of Dodos" with Randy Olson
• Randy Olson Lecture
• Showing of the film “Sizzle” with Randy Olson
  

March 3, 2008

• Evil, Evil Woman: 
  What It Was Like to Be the Only Female Witness in the Dover Intelligent Design Trial
• Barbara Forest, Southeastern Louisiana University      Daily Titan Article

• The Denial of Global Warming , Naomi Oreskes , UC San Diego

April 11

• Showing of the film “Flock of Dodos" with Randy Olson