Our faculty members participate in conferences around the world, conduct groundbreaking research, and publish books and journal papers that contribute to their field and highlight their expertise. We feature those accomplishments and more in this section.
College of Arts and Humanities
Gilah Yelin Hirsch, professor of art, will show her piece “Choice” in the “Visions of Elysium” exhibition at the Inland Empire Museum of Art. The exhibit’s opening is Nov. 11, 2 to 5 p.m., and it runs from Nov. 11 to Dec. 23, 2018. Hirsch will participate in an artist panel on Nov. 17. The works exhibited in “Visions of Elysium” are “rooted in personal desires and beliefs and realized through a number of different mediums, present worlds of ethereal beauty, poignant images of longing and hope, fanciful abstractions and landscapes both inviting and foreboding, and, on occasion, an offering created through an audacious sense of humor.”
Mary Talusan Lacanlale, lecturer in the Asian-Pacific Studies program, gave the keynote address titled “From Memories to History: How My Grandmother’s Stories became a Book about Filipino Band Musicians in the U.S.” during the City of Carson’s 9th Annual Filipino American History Month Celebration on Oct. 6. The celebration began with a wreath-laying ceremony at the Carson International Sculpture Garden’s Dr. Jose P. Rizal Monument. The event included the 2018 Filipino American History Month Leadership Awards ceremony.
College of Education
Richard K. Gordon, emeritus professor, provided the keynote address at the Asian Pacific Sociology Association’s 14th Annual Meeting in Hakone, Japan on Oct. 5. The topic of his presentation was “Kyosei Practice: Harmonious Classroom Relations.” The theme for this year’s conference was “Interconnections, social transformation and global mobility: a way toward the future.”
