CineCulture will present “Angelica” (2016) at 5:30 p.m. Friday, March 9, in the Peters Education Center Auditorium at the Student Recreation Center (5010 N. Woodrow Ave.). The post-screening discussion will be led by director Marisol Gómez-Mouakad.
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The Fresno State Women’s Studies Program is celebrating National Women’s History Month with a lecture series that includes two Arts and Humanities professors.
Dr. Nancy Van Leuven, Media, Communications and Journalism, on Tuesday, March 6, and Dr. María Dolores Morillo, Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, on Thursday, March 22. Each lecture will be located in the Henry Madden Library Room 3212 from 12:30 to 2 p.m.
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The German Club presents the first film in the German Film Series lineup for the spring semester. Based on the bestselling German satirical novel “Look Who’s Back” (“Er ist wieder da,” 2015), this film adaptation is a critical look at contemporary society.
Read MoreThe Fresno State CineCulture Series kicks off its spring 2018 lineup of film screenings with “Extra-Terrestrials (Extra Terrestias)” at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 26. The CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening discussions.
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Here’s a look back at our Top 10 Arts and Humanities stories for all of 2017: No. 10: New Faces: Dr. Gina Sandí-Díaz, Theatre Arts No. 9: New Faces: Art and Design welcomes two new professors No. 8: Three from College of Arts and Humanities named 2017 Fulbright recipients No. 7: New Faces: Four new […]
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~ Pictured above, from left: Flaviana Pulido, Professor Indira Sultanic and Jennifer Cushing helped volunteer with Spanish translations at a recent community health fair provided by California Health Sciences University. ~ By Lisa Maria Boyles, communications specialist for the College of Arts and Humanities Even though this is her first semester as an assistant professor […]
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A new German Club has been established on campus for students hoping to learn more about German history, language and culture.
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CineCulture presents “Footnotes (Sur quel pied danser…)” at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 17, in the Peters Education Center Auditorium.
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The Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures will present an evening with author Dr. Aaron Poochigian, celebrating the release of his book “Mr. Either/Or.” Poochigian teaches Classics and Humanities for the department.
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The Jewish Studies Lecture Series for the fall semester begins with a talk by Sven-Erik Rose, titled “In Adorno’s Blind Spot: Yiddish Poetry from the Warsaw Ghetto,” at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 18, at the Henry Madden Library (Room 2206).
Read MoreThe Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures and the German Club will screen Germany’s first comedy about Hitler, “My Führer: The Really Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler.” Directed by Dani Levy, “My Führer” pays homage to Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator” by satirizing the cult of personality around Hitler. The film, released in 2007, was Germany’s first comedic attempt at dealing with the National Socialist past and aids in understanding not only Germany’s history, but also its current political climate.
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Award-winning Cuban writer Aida Bahr will lead several discussions at Fresno State on Oct. 3 and 4. The events will be bilingual.
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It’s been an eventful second month of the semester, and we’ve been busy celebrating the successes of our students and welcoming our new faculty and staff to the college!
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The Rebozo Revival Festival, “El Renacimiento del Rebozo,” returns to Fresno for a week-long celebration with the opening ceremony and art exhibition 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Monday, Sept. 25, at Fres.co (1918 Fresno Street).
The festival, which is part of Fresno State’s Hispanic Heritage Month observance, is presented by the University and Lourdes Sevilla (founder and creator of the festival) in collaboration with several community partners for the Center for Creativity and the Arts 2017-18 lineup.
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Spanish and voice students took their learning outside of the traditional classroom and into Fresno State’s Concert Hall on Friday, for a cross-disciplinary lecture-recital that examined Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.”
This collaborative effort between the Department of Music and the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures combined operatic singing, lecture and a question-and-answer segment in a 50-minute class performance.
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The Center for Creativity and the Arts 2017-18 theme will be “Voice and Silence: Expressions of the Human Spirit and Community.”
“’Voice and Silence’ will look at the various ways in which we communicate our ideas, points of views and concerns regarding current events,” said Cindy Urrutia, coordinator of the center.
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Are you passionate about the College of Arts and Humanities? Share your enthusiasm with others Fresno State students! Sign up today to be an ambassador for our college. Student Ambassadors are instrumental in connecting the College to the broader Central Valley community, as well as making potential students and their parents aware of the important educational opportunities that can be obtained through our College and the University.
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Indira Sultanić and Amila Becirbegovic join the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures as assistant professors, both originally from Bosnia-Herzegovina.
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The College of Arts and Humanities is holding its second annual new student convocation at noon on Wednesday, Aug. 30, in Fresno State’s Satellite Student Union.
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The rebozo festival is returning to Fresno in September as the Rebozo Revival Festival. A rebozo is a long woven cloth garment from Mexico and Central America traditionally worn as a shawl, head covering, belt, baby sling or backpack. Rebozos are worn today for fashion and function throughout the Americas.
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~ By Lisa Maria Boyles, communications specialist for the College of Arts and Humanities Fresno State has three 2017 Fulbright recipients, all of whom are from the College of Arts and Humanities. Two faculty members and a student have won the prestigious awards, which will take them to other parts of the world. Alice Daniel, […]
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~ By Lisa Maria Boyles, communications specialist for the College of Arts and Humanities Club Austral, a student organization at Fresno State, will celebrate its 10th anniversary in the coming academic year. “It’s a good feeling knowing that you can continue where someone else left room to grow,” said Francisco J. De León Alonso, one […]
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~ Video Recap of Dean’s Medalist Nominees: Produced by Kameron Stiffler (lead), Edmer Archilla, Nikki McCabe, Cyrel Mallory, and Raul Reyes of the MCJ Multimedia Production Service At Arts in Motion on Saturday, April 29, the College of Arts and Humanities recognized its students of distinction from all areas of the college in a celebration of creativity and the […]
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Fresno State’s CineCulture film series presents “The Heart of Madame Sabali” at 5:30 p.m. Friday, March 24, in the Peters Education Center Auditorium. “The Heart of Madame Sabali” is a dramatic film with touches of absurdist comedy, and features surrealist dream sequences and a colorful art design. The story is based on the scientific concept of cellular memory, the […]
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Le Cercle Français, the French club of the Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures Department at Fresno State, presents Les Enfans Sans Abri at 6 p.m. March 4 in the Satellite Student Union. This traveling comedy troupe will perform two medieval plays in a performance that is free and open to the public. Since 1989, Les Enfans […]
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The Fresno State CineCulture Series kicks off its spring 2017 lineup of film screenings with “Road to La Paz” at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27. Most CineCulture screenings are at 5:30 p.m. on Fridays during the spring semester in the Peters Education Center Auditorium (5010 N. Woodrow Ave. in the Student Recreation Center). Some screenings are […]
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Fresno State’s CineCulture film series presents “The Destruction of Memory” at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2, in the Peters Education Center Auditorium. This film (81 minutes) traces the war against culture and the battle to save it. Over the past century, cultural destruction has wrought catastrophic results across the globe, including Armenia, Germany, Hungary, Bosnia, Mali and more. […]
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~ By Lisa Maria Boyles Why do we write letters? And what becomes of the letters we do write? From letters in antiquity to emails modern times, some of the same questions apply: No matter what audience a letter is written for, who might become an unintended or accidental reader of it? How are we […]
Read MoreStudents from 10 sections of Spanish Classes 2, 3, 5 and 125 will celebrate Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead) with altars on display from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2, in the Free Speech Area. The traditional Mexican holiday celebrates the spirits of those who have died. Alejandra López, a lecturer in […]
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Fresno State’s CineCulture (fresnostate.edu/artshum/mcj/upcoming-events/cineculture.html) film series presents two events related to the film “The Law (La Loi, le combat d’une femme pour toutes les femmes)” Sept. 22 and 23. Presentation – “The Jews of France from the French Revolution to the Present,” 3:30-4:45 p.m. Sept. 22, Fresno State’s Agricultural Science Building, Room 109. Speaker Aron Rodrigue is a professor […]
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Going back to school can always be a little overwhelming, especially if you’re just starting college (or moving to a new campus, in the case of transfer students). It’s a new, bigger pond (more like an ocean!) with a whole lot more fish! We have a way to make that process more personal and to […]
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