California Attorney General Xavier Becerra frequently used Mother Nature as a powerful metaphor for protecting the planet and securing the environmental protections critical to residents as the featured speaker during California State University, Dominguez Hills’ (CSUDH) Presidential Distinguished Lecture Series on Feb. 7. CSUDH President Thomas A. Parham created the once-a-semester Presidential Distinguished Lecture Series as a way to engage the campus and surrounding community in thought-provoking discussions on some of society’s most pressing issues. Themed “Fighting for a Sustainable Future and Healthy Communities,” the spring lecture was one of several events that marked Parham’s ... Read More
Archives for February 2019
Sarah Taylor’s Book ‘On Being Maya and Getting By’ Highlights Economic Ingenuity of Indigenous Villagers
After the ancient city of Ek’ Balam—with its remarkably well preserved Maya sculptures—was unearthed on the Yucatán Peninsula in the late 1980s, the Mexican government gave control of the site to local indigenous villagers to create an authentic Maya tourist destination, and in the process, improve their overall prosperity. Sarah R. Taylor, assistant professor of anthropology at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), has been researching the Ek’ Balam’s community-based economic development project since 2004 and the effects tourism and growth have had on the rural Maya village. She has chronicled her findings in her new book, On Being Maya and Getting By: Heritage ... Read More
This is what Angela Davis had to say at Cal State Dominguez Hills in Carson
An intellectual rock star took the stage at Cal State Dominguez Hills – and the audience roared as if at a concert. That rock star was Angela Davis. Davis, one of the most eminent political and cultural philosophers of the last half-century, gave an approximately 90-minute lecture in Dominguez Hill’s gymnasium Monday evening, Feb. 11, weaving a centuries-long narrative about the struggles of oppression – from Native American genocide to transphobia – and urging her audience to “imagine a different world.” At 75, Davis – still with her trademark Afro and powerful voice – captivated the audience with ease. The approximately 1,000 people in the gym sat rapt, hanging on Davis’ every ... Read More
Alumni Return to Campus to Help Celebrate the Investiture of President Parham
The inauguration of Thomas A. Parham as California State University, Dominguez Hills’ (CSUDH) 11th president provided the perfect opportunity to welcome alumni back to campus to celebrate a new era for the university. In a series of Inauguration Week activities that took place Feb. 5-9 and culminated in a formal ceremony installing Parham as president, the CSUDH Alumni Association invited five alumni to serve as featured speakers and share their experiences as students, impart the knowledge they have gained in their professions, and express their enthusiasm for CSUDH’s future. Raymund Diaz (’02, B.A., political science/English literature), deputy district attorney of Orange County, ... Read More
Author Angela Davis: Dymally Distinguished Speaker Series
(Carson, Calif.) Angela Y. Davis, an award-winning scholar and author on race, feminism, and prison industrialization, will be the featured speaker during the Dymally Distinguished Speaker Series on Monday, Feb. 11, from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Torodome Gymnasium at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH). What: Dymally Distinguished Speaker Series featuring Angela Davis When: Monday, Feb. 11, 4 to 6 p.m. Where: Torodome Gymnasium at California State University, Dominguez Hills. Information: The lecture is FREE. Davis’ books will be for sale during the lecture. For more information contact the Dymally Institute at (310) 243-2659. Titled “A New Generation Finding its Voice,” the ... Read More
