Some of the events below are sponsoring by the CSUDH History Department for the benefit of our students and the university community. Others we've determined may be of interest to our students.

February 2008

Feb 25: Augustin Aguayo to Speak
Conscientious objector and war resister Augustin Aguayo will speak at CSUDH (in the Loker Student Union) on Feb. 25. Aguayo went AWOL from the US Army, refusing to serve a second tour in Iraq. He served six months in military prison. Sponsored by the departments of Anthropology, Chicano/a Studies, History, Interdisciplinary Studies, Labor Studies, Political Science, Sociology, Women's Studies and The California Faculty Association, The Association of Political Science Students and The Multicultural Center.

Feb 27: U.S.PIRG Information Session on UCLA campus in Kerchoff 133, 5pm
From the U.S.PIRG announcement: "This year we are hiring 100 graduating college students to determine where this country is going: to solve our energy problems; to reform the campaign finance system; to safeguard individuals from identity theft; to fight hunger and homelessness; and make an impact on many other public interest issues. Please let me know if you wish to attend (danny@calpirgstudents.org) or apply online to set up an interview." Website: www.uspirg.org/jobs.

March 2008

Mar 14: Kilfoil scholarship applications due
See History Dept Scholarship page.

Mar 15 (Saturday): Dr. Stricker to Speak at L.A. Public Library
You are invited to hear the History Dept's Professor Frank Stricker speak about his recent book, Why America Lost the War on Poverty and How to Win It on Saturday, March 15. He will speak at the Palms-Rancho Park Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library, 2920 Overland Ave., Los Angeles. Their phone number is (310) 840-2142 and their website is www.lapl.org. In his new book Dr. Stricker analyzes theories of "the culture of poverty," Reaganomics, Clinton's 1996 Welfare reform, and Bush's economics. He demonstrates that since the 1970s the creation of jobs has continued to lag behind the need for them.

Mar 15: "Depression and Betrayal: The Repatriation of 'Mexicans' in the 1930s"
Lecture at the Rancho Los Cerritos Historic Site in Long Beach. For more information, or to RSVP, please call Rancho Los Cerritos Historic Site: 562-570-1755. www.rancholoscerritos.org.

Mar 31-Apr 5: Spring Recess. No classes.

 

April 2008

April 8: INDIGENES (Days of Glory): Film #1 in the Tournees Festival of French Films. Sponsored by the CSUDH Department of History. This film will be shown in the Loker Student Union. Doors open at 6:30pm, film begins at 7pm. Read a description of this film and info about the festival.

April 9: MONSIEUR IBRAHIM: Film #2 in the Tournees Festival of French Films. Sponsored by the CSUDH Department of History. This film will be shown in the Loker Student Union.Doors open at 6:30pm, film begins at 7pm. Read a description of this film and info about the festival.

April 15: S21: THE KHMER ROUGE KILLING MACHINE: Film #3 in the Tournees Festival of French Films. Sponsored by the CSUDH Department of History. This film will be shown in the Loker Student Union. Cultural displays, slide show of Cambodia and book signing, etc. begin at 5:30pm, film begins at 6:30pm. Read a description of this film and info about the festival.

April 17: LE PLAFOND DE VERRE (The Glass Ceiling): Film #4 in the Tournees Festival of French Films. Sponsored by the CSUDH Department of History. This film will be shown in the Loker Student Union.Doors open at 6:30pm, film begins at 7pm. Read a description of this film and info about the festival.

April 18: Honors Convocation

April 19: PARIS JE T'AIME: Film #5 in the Tournees Festival of French Films. Sponsored by the CSUDH Department of History. This film will be shown in La Corte Hall A103. Doors open at 2pm, film begins at 2:15pm. Read a description of this film and info about the festival.

April 19: "Internment: The WWII Experience of Japanese Californians"
Lecture at the Rancho Los Cerritos Historic Site in Long Beach. For more information, or to RSVP, please call Rancho Los Cerritos Historic Site: 562-570-1755. www.rancholoscerritos.org.

April 20: College of Education-Sponsored Single Subject Teaching Orientation
For all students interested in going into the Teaching Credential Program upon graduation: the College of Education is holding a Single Subject Program Orientation meeting in SCC 1000 from 4:30-6pm on April 20.

April 24: College of Education-Sponsored Single Subject Teaching Orientation
For all students interested in going into the Teaching Credential Program upon graduation: the College of Education is holding a Single Subject Program Orientation meeting in SCC 1000 from 4:30-6pm on April 24 (repeat of the April 20 meeting).

Apr 25: Course drop only for serious accident/illness after this date

 

May 2008

End of Year History Department Celebration (Date TBA)

May 17-23: Final Exam Week

May 23: Undergraduate Commencement

May 31: Professor Frank Stricker will deliver a paper, "Labor Gluts and the 1970s Turning Point: Thoughts on the Failure of American Anti-Poverty Ideas (1950-Present)" to the 2008 Policy History Conference in St. Louis, Missouri. He will argue that we needed direct job creation to solve some poverties and will describe some of the forces that pushed that possibility off the table. One force was high inflation, another was conservative success in defining the issues, a third was the failure of the economics profession.

 

June 2008

May 31-Jul 11: Summer School Session I

Jul 12-Aug 22: Summer School Session II