Institute for Media and Public Trust announces ‘Central Valley Journalists of Color’ pathway
The five-year program will provide participants a pathway to a journalism degree to find jobs in local newsrooms.
Read MoreAuthor: Arts & Humanities at Fresno State
The College of Arts and Humanities provides a diverse student population with the communication skills, humanistic values and cultural awareness that form the foundation of scholarship. The college offers intellectual and artistic programs that engage students and faculty and the community in collaboration, dialog and discovery. These programs help preserve, illuminate and nourish the arts and humanities for the campus and for the wider community.
Local artists featured in virtual ‘PANDEMICAL’ exhibition
The Center for Creativity and the Arts (CCA) exhibition “PANDEMICAL” will begin with a virtual reception and award ceremony at 6 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 1 on Zoom. The virtual exhibition will run Oct. 1, to Nov. 20 and will be hosted on the PANDEMICAL website.
Read MoreEl Nuevo Huevo Book Hatching: Juan Felipe Herrera and Anthony Cody
The book hatching will be a virtual gathering to launch the recent publication of poets Juan Felipe Herrera and Anthony Cody’s new poetry collections, “Every Day We Get More Illegal” and “Borderland Apocrypha.”
Read MoreConSortiUm, a collaborative project of CSU art museums and galleries, announces virtual event series for 2020–2021
The newly formed ConSortiUm’s inaugural program, PLATFORM, will launch in September 2020 and include six live virtual conversations with contemporary artists, collectives, and curators whose work is critical to current re-imaginings of the art world and the world at large.
Read MoreFresno State hosts 45th Annual Luso-American Education Conference
The Portuguese Beyond Borders Institute at Fresno State and the Luso-American Education Foundation present the 45th annual Luso-American Education Conference from Saturday, Sept. 26, through Saturday, Oct. 3, hosted virtually at Fresno State.
Read MoreReplay: scholars discuss “Gandhi, the Civil Rights Movement and the Continuing Struggle for Justice and Peace”
Fresno State will present three renowned civil rights scholars as panelists for “Gandhi, the Civil Rights Movement and the Continuing Struggle for Justice and Peace,” a webinar hosted by the Office of the President — the Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., Vinay Lal and Dianne Dillon-Ridgley.
Read MoreLecture examines the life of local Azorean author Alfred Lewis
Diniz Borges, founding director of the Portuguese Beyond Border Institute, will give a public lecture entitled “Alfred Lewis: A Valley Writer from the Azores” at 7 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 17 on Zoom.
Read MoreEthics Center kicks off fall lineup with televised Ethical Leadership event
The Fresno State Ethics Center will kick off its fall 2020 series with the annual Celebration of Ethics Leadership Awards ceremony hosted by CBS47 morning news anchor Megan Rupe. The program will air from 7 to 8 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 12, on CBS47 (KGPE-TV) and stream live on Facebook.
Read MoreNew Faces: Jenny Krichevsky
Meet Jenny Krichevsky, a specialist in rhetoric and writing studies, in conversation with English Department communication specialist Jefferson Beavers. Dr. Krichevsky is new to California, relocating from Amherst, Massachusetts.
Read MoreKanzan visiting professor to give talk on conscription of Armenians into the Ottoman Army
Dr. Ohannes Kılıçdağı, the 2020-21 Henry Khanzadian Kazan visiting professor, will give his first public talk at Fresno State “‘Living together requires dying together’: Conscription of Armenians into the Ottoman Army after the 1908 Revolution” at 7 p.m., Friday, Sept. 18 on Zoom. The event is free and open to the public.
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