Student anchor Brittney Steele of Ocotillo, CA gives us an inside look at how some students are making meaningful media connections through the Excellence In Journalism national conference.
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Directed by conservation filmmaker Ben Masters, the film follows five friends on an immersive adventure through the unknown wilds of the Texas borderlands, traveling 1,200 miles from El Paso to the Gulf of Mexico on horses, mountain bikes, and canoes.
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Transcending time and place, Monzon creates sculptures depicting deities found in the Mayan story of creation “The Popol Vuh Codex.”
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The community is invited to the annual celebration of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s birthday at 6 p.m., Oct. 2 in the Peace Garden, north of the Henry Madden Library. The program includes a garlanding ceremony, music, interfaith tributes, classical dance, and a pledge against hate and violence.
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Separated from his mother, a young refugee called “Anon” journeys through the United States, encountering a wide variety of people — some kind, some dangerous and cruel — as he searches for his family.
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Feature guest artist, composer and former Fresno State faculty Dr. James Miley who will be performing several of his arrangements with the two ensembles.
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The Fresno State Music Department invites the community experience two nights of exquisite strings during the 2019 Fresno State Violin and Viola Festival concerts at 8 p.m., Oct. 4 and 5 at the Concert Hall, featuring renowned guest artists, violinist Martin Beaver, and violist, Che-Yen Chen.
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“The Stateless Diplomat” tells the story of Diana Apcar, who in 1920 was appointed by Prime Minister Hovhaness Kachaznuni of the Republic of Armenia as Honorary Consul to Japan. Apcar worked on behalf of Armenia and genocide survivors her entire life.
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The inauguration of an exhibition on the lives of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Daisaku Ikeda, and Cesar Chavez will mark the start of a series of events commemorating the 150th birthday of Gandhi at Fresno State. The community is invited to the ceremony at 9 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 2 in the Henry […]
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Recently, the Barking Bulldogs traveled to Tempe, Arizona to participate in the Sun Devil Invitational Debate Tournament hosted by Arizona State University. Here’s how they did…
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“I cannot imagine my life without the presence, friendship, and the unconditional support of teachers, administrators, colleagues, and friends from Fresno State.”
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Battling a rare childhood brain cancer at a young age, DiMino went through several years of chemotherapy and radiation treatments and was told that he would lose various cognitive, motor, and physical abilities. The long-lasting effects would prevent him from many activities. However, at age seven when he had beaten cancer, he learned to adapt.
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Fresno State English major Rodolfo Avelar never imagined himself sitting on a balcony overlooking downtown Minneapolis for his work, reading poetry manuscripts and thinking about graphic design.
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Doub teaches a graduate seminar on coming-of-age stories, the Spanish American bildungsroman. She brings in her presentations and uses them as examples, showing students what they can do for oral presentations or how their current research can be a seed for a later essay.
Read MoreA documentary about false information and racial politics, the film shows how the infamous Executive Order 9066 was signed and led to the mass incarceration of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.
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Stanek is a Flute Professor at Willamette and Corban Universities, Oregon known for performances with Oregon Symphony, Eugene Symphony, Eugene Opera, and Vancouver Symphony.
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The Fresno State College of Arts and Humanities congratulates retired Spanish teacher and Italian professor Antonio Petrosino for earning the Arthur Safstrom Service Award. He will be honored during the Fresno State Top Dog Alumni Awards on Sept. 20 at the Save Mart Center.
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Charles is a Fresno native with Italian roots who, in 1957, became the first in his family to graduate from college.
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Educated at the Royal Conservatory of Madrid and the École Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot in Paris, Melikyan has gained international attention while performing in such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall in New York, Jordan Hall in Boston, Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, and Salle Cortot in Paris.
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The Fresno State Wind Orchestra and the Clovis High Wind Ensemble will perform under the direction of Dr. Gary P. Gilroy, Esmeralda Rocha Lozano, and guest conductor Michael J. Corrigan at 8 p.m., Oct. 3 in the Fresno State Concert Hall.
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UPDATE: Paulo Teves was forced to cancel his trip to Fresno due to a family emergency. All of the events listed below have also been cancelled. The Portuguese Beyond Borders Institute hopes to reschedule both the ceremony and the lecture.
Read MoreAfter a heated misunderstanding leading to the death of one of their own, Mexican-American farmer Gregorio Cortez is forced to flee from Texas rangers and evades a massive manhunt on horseback.
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In 1990, by chance, when he heard that the Art Department was completing a statue of Mohandas Gandhi, he didn’t hesitate to help. Using his position, he brought in Dr. Arun Gandhi, socio-political activist, and the fifth grandson of Mohandas Gandhi to speak at the dedication ceremony.
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As the toxic cocktail perpetrated the mechanized genocide, it also combined, through an accidental chemical reaction, with the iron oxide in bricks and mortar — leaving the gas chamber walls in camps such as Majdanek and Stutthof in Poland with eerie deep blue stains that turned out to be chemically identical to the pigment Prussian blue.
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This year, Dr. Katherine Adams takes over the Philosophy department as Interim Chair.
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Dr. Lisa Weston has taught a variety of Medieval Literature courses at Fresno State. She was born in England and raised there and in Canada before immigrating to the United States. She received her Ph.D. in 1982 from UCLA, where she studied Old and Middle English, Medieval Latin, Norse and Celtic literatures.
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Lacy M. Johnson is author of “The Reckonings” (Scribner, 2018), which was named a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in criticism and one of the best books of 2018 by the Boston Globe, Electric Literature, Autostraddle, Book Riot, and Refinery29.
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We are excited to welcome Dr. Sergio F. Juárez to the Communication Studies program.
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A Duel Tale by Japanese director Sugita Shigemichi stars Nakadai Tatsuya, one of Japan’s greatest living actors, who gives the performance of a lifetime as Shoji Sanosuke, an elderly samurai forced to pick up his sword to protect those he loves in this adaptation of a popular novel by Fujisawa Shuhei.
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As the world celebrates the landmark birthday of Gandhi, the university will host a series of events to mark the occasion. All events are free and open to the public
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As part of the College of Arts and Humanities blog series on new faces in the college, we introduce you to an accomplished professor and author who is joining the Department of English and the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing for academic year 2019-20.
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This special luncheon event at Ruth’s Chris Steak House will feature performances by Fresno State College of Arts and Humanities students which is sure to surprise and delight you and your taste buds!
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A special day in American history, Sept. 17, 1787, marks the signing of the U.S. Constitution by the Founding Fathers about 231 years ago. While the date has been celebrated under several names, Constitution Day was formalized in 2004. Nationwide, cities celebrate this historic day with activities, events and parades.
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Film director Santiago Esteinou will participate in a post-screening discussion following CineCulture’s presentation of “The Years of Fierro” at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6.
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The conference was organized based on this discussion and from the 2010 report that UNESCO had placed Western Armenian on the list of the world’s endangered languages.
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The College of Arts and Humanities at Fresno State 