Hungary has given the world more than Zsa Zsa and Eva Gabor, the Rubik's Cube, Béla Bartók, and the Pulitzer Prize; it has made considerable contributions that helped to change the world. Ambassador Balázs Bokor, consul general of the Republic of Hungary in Los Angeles, will visit California State University, Dominguez Hills to discuss Hungary's relationship with the United States, and the world, on Wednesday, March 16, from 1 to 3 p.m. in the Loker Student Union, Ballroom C. The event is free and open to the public. Referencing Hungary's January 1, 2011, acquisition of the European Union (EU) presidency, Ambassador Bokor's discussion topic will be “Hungary and the U.S. from a ... Read More
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CSU Dominguez Hills’ “Macbeth” at Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival
The California State University, Dominguez Hills Department of Theatre and Dance was honored with an invitation to perform a scene from the fall 2010 production of "Macbeth" at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF), which took place Feb. 9 at the Los Angeles Theatre Center in downtown Los Angeles. The students performed their scene in front of registered festival attendees as part of performances from 10 different colleges and universities from the KCACTF region VIII (Arizona, Central and southern California, Hawaii, southern Nevada, and Utah), including CSU Fullerton and Concordia University. “The KCACTF regional VIII chair and judicator and a second ... Read More
Jerry Moore: Anthropologist Selected to Edit Andean Studies Journal
Dr. Jerry Moore, professor of anthropology, has been selected to serve as editor of Ñawpa Pacha: Journal of Andean Archaeology, beginning in March and will serve for a minimum of two years. The publication, whose name means “antiquity” in the Incan language, is the oldest and most prestigious peer-reviewed journal on Andean studies, and was established in 1963 by the late John H. Rowe, a leading specialist on Peruvian archaeology at the University of California, Berkeley. “Over the last 47 years, Ñawpa Pacha has been the journal of record for archaeological research in this broad region with a complex and profound prehistory,” says Moore. “I am proud to contribute to that historic ... Read More
Ana Pitchon: Working Toward a Sea Change in Fishing Industry, Conservationism
Ana Pitchon, assistant professor of anthropology, presented a poster on the practice of forming stakeholder groups when designating Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) during a session on the California State University's Council on Ocean Affairs, Science and Technology (COAST) at the CSU Office of the Chancellor in Long Beach. Presentations from 20 of the CSU's 23 campuses were shown during an annual meeting of CSU presidents on Jan. 25. Pitchon created “Competing ideologies, policy, and marine protected areas” with psychology major John Bunce. Their collaboration was the only student-mentor team that applied the social sciences to the study of the ocean at the event. Pitchon says that MPAs ... Read More
Gilah Yelin Hirsch: Artist Named Co-President Elect of Energy Medicine Society
Professor of Art Gilah Yelin Hirsch was selected as co-president elect of the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine (ISSSEEM) and will preside over the organization's annual conference in 2012. A transcription of Hirsch's presentation on “Biotheology, Imagery, and Healing” from ISSSEEM's annual conference last June, which included a most comprehensive survey of reproductions of paintings spanning her entire career, was published in the recent issue of the organization's journal, Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine. Hirsch, who shares the office of co-president elect with energy medicine expert Dr. Karl Maret, says that she hopes to further ... Read More