Event Schedule

11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Grad Slam 2024 Viewing Location: LIB 201

The Grad Slam Competition is hosted to showcase and celebrate graduate students and their research and creative activities. Graduate students across all disciplines are encouraged to participate. This viewing reception is a space to view the submissions of the winners of the Grad Slam 2024. 

1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Health & Human Services Research Location: Anatol Center

Faculty and student oral presentations on health disparities, social justice and aging.

4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Symposium - (Office of Undergraduate Research Services) Location: University Student Union (USU) Ballroom A, B, & C

4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Faculty Research Awards to Promote Racial Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (FRA-EDI) Location: Psychology Quad

A Gallery Walk honoring our 2021-22 & 2022-23 Faculty Research Awards in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (FRA-EDI) recipients. Join us as we explore our awardeeʼs innovative projects, research and findings.

9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Student Presentation titled, An IR and UV-Visible Spectroscopic Study of Aldol Products: The Effects of Conjugation on the Carbonyl Stretching Frequencies and l_max Values Location: University Student Union, Conference Room 303 Redondo Beach

Student Presenters: Karla vanHaaster, Miriam Ojeda, and Ethan Haber

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Student Presentation titled, The Role of Wordless Picture Books in Speech Language Pathology and Literacy Location: University Student Union, Conference Room 303 Redondo Beach

Student Presenter: Khoi-Viet Tran

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Summer Student Research Assistantship Presentations Location: University Student Union, Conference Room 205 Huntington Beach

Student Presenters:

Jennifer Lopez  - 2:00 pm

Manohar Patnala  - 2:20 pm

Michael Aquino - 2:45 pm

Academic Affairs, in collaboration with the Office of Research and Economic Development, is pleased to support the Student Research Assistantship Program every summer. This program is designed to encourage student participation in a broad range of scholarly and academic activities and is open to eligible undergraduates and graduates from all disciplines and academic areas of study. The assistantship provides financial support during the 2024 summer intersession months to undertake full-time research and scholarly activities in collaboration with a Faculty Research Mentor (Tenured/tenure track faculty, or Lecturer with a Tenured/tenure track faculty/Department Chair as Co-Mentor).

11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Latinx Resource Center Research Presentation  Location: University Student Union (USU) Ballrooms

Four Latinx Resource Center Research Fellows will be presenting their findings of our Latine student community at CSULB. Some of the research topics include financial gaps, transfer student support, sense of belonging for our Latina students, and the history of our center. Through these research presentations, we hope our different communities across campus will have a better understanding of our center, will help centralize our center for Latine student efforts, and will work together to bridge the gaps that exist moving forward. We will also be introducing the rebranding of our center, which is based on student feedback and designed by a student artist, and will provide food.

Please forward my email to anybody you believe would be interested in attending, including students! If you would like to attend this event, please complete this form to confirm your attendance: https://csulb.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9HLnps3XqIz0yWy

We will close the form when we reach seating capacity. We hope to see you there!

12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. The Psychology Student Association and International Honor Society in Psychology (PSA/Psi Chi) is hosting the 52nd Annual Psych Day. Location: Psych Quad in the Psychology Building.

This event is open to all students on campus and is advertised as such. Our organization invites local grad school representatives, various research labs, and other campus-affiliated organizations to table and give students information about their programs or opportunities. We also feature a research competition from 12:30 PM – 2:15 PM, where psychology students currently involved in research are able to submit abstracts and present posters to psychology master-level students and doctoral faculty. This will be followed by a research recruitment and tabling from 3 PM – 5 PM.

In addition, we will host two workshop presentations from 12:00 PM – 2:45 PM. Project OCEAN is hosting a QPR: Suicide Prevention training and UCLA Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital is conducting a panelist presentation on DEI in mental health care. Times and locations are listed in the attachments.

Finally, we saved our best for last:

We have invited keynote speaker, Dr. ChorSwang Ngin, a social cultural anthropologist, award-winning author, playwright, and a semi-retired professor at the Department of Anthropology at California State University, Los Angeles. In her book titled Identities on Trial in the United States, Dr. Ngin focuses on…

• Problems of identifying Asian asylum seekers without re-inscribing “race” and without essentializing culture.
• Exploring socially constructed concepts of “race” and lack of evidence in cases of violence against women
• Highlighting the resilience and determination of asylum seekers, emphasizing themes of love in adversity.

The keynote speaker presentation will be the same day from 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM in LH-150.

The 2024 Transnational Feminist Solidarities (TFS) Conference will take place at CSULB on Thursday, April 18 and Friday, April 19.  The conference is free and open to the public.  Transnational feminisms offer a critique of Western-Eurocentric and liberal feminisms and simultaneously inform and emerge from various radical feminist frameworks including, but not limited to, women of color, postcolonial, anti-capitalist, anti-racist, and abolitionist feminisms.

This conference is free and open to the public.

Day 1, April 18th

12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Anatol Center

Queer Solidarity With Palestine

• Panelists: Sarah O'Neal (Author, Poet) and Rob Chlala (CSULB)
• Moderator: May Lin (CSULB)

4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. University Theater

Opening Keynote

• Speaker: Ana Castillo

6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Anatol Center

Opening Reception

Transnational Feminist Solidarities (TFS) Conference website: https://www.csulb.edu/college-of-liberal-arts/transnational-feminist-solidarities-conference

4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Green Generation Showcase Location: Japanese Garden

The Green Generation Showcase provides a great opportunity for undergraduate and graduate CSULB students to display and gain recognition for all types of sustainability-related projects from a variety of disciplines. 

Green Generation Showcase website: https://www.csulb.edu/sustainability/article/2024-sustainability-project-showcase

Register for the Green Generation Showcase: https://www.csulb.edu/sustainability/event/green-generation-showcase-2024

The 2024 Transnational Feminist Solidarities (TFS) Conference will take place at CSULB on Thursday, April 18 and Friday, April 19.  The conference is free and open to the public.  Transnational feminisms offer a critique of Western-Eurocentric and liberal feminisms and simultaneously inform and emerge from various radical feminist frameworks including, but not limited to, women of color, postcolonial, anti-capitalist, anti-racist, and abolitionist feminisms.Coffee and Pastries (available starting 8am)

This conference is free and open to the public.

Day 2, April 19th

8:30 a.m. - 8:50 a.m. Conference Welcome & Genealogy Location: HC 100

Introductions

• Welcome Remarks (Dean Nicols)
• Conference Committee Remarks: Azza Basarudin, Araceli Esparza, Stacy Macias, Felicia Montes & Preeti Sharma

Session 1: 9:00 a.m. -10:15 a.m. Location: COB-140A

Reflections on Transnational Feminist Solidarities: Past, Present, Future

• Panelists: Margo Okazawa-Rey (Women for Genuine Security), Kimberly Robertson (CSULB) and Clarissa Rojas (UCD)
• Moderator: Stacy Macias

Session 2: 10:30 a.m. -11.45 a.m. Location: HC 100

Palestine is a Feminist Issue: Decolonial Narrative, Collective Resistance, and Future Imagining

• Panelists: Nour Joudah (UCLA), Brooke Lober (UC Berkeley) and Amira Jarmakani (SDSU)
• Moderator: Sabrina Alimahomed-Wilson

Lunch: 12:00 p.m. -1:00 p.m.

Session 3: 1:15 p.m.- 2:30 p.m.  Location: COB-140A

Feminist Art and Transnational Struggles for Liberation

• Panelists: Mary Hazboun and Yreina Cervantez
• Moderator: Araceli Esparza

Session 4: 2:45 p.m.- 4:00 p.m. Location: HC 100

Transnational Feminisms: Care, Labor, and Abolition

• Panelists: Stephanie Santos (Chulalongkorn University), Martha Escobar (CSUN), and Dario Valles (CSULB)
• Moderator: Preeti Sharma

Break: 4:00-4:30 Coffee and Snacks

4:45 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Closing Plenary Session Location: HC 100

Session 5: 4:45 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Location: HC 100

Solidarity Politics, Neoliberal University and Transnational Feminist Futures (In-Person - Virtual)

• Panelists: Chandra Talpade Mohanty (Syracuse University), Nada Elia (Western Washington University) and Karma Chavez (U Texas at Austin)
• Moderator: Azza Basarudin

6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Reception Location: In front of the Horn Center

9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Autism Research Group Location: Ngai Alumni Center

Working group on research and services for people of all ages on the autism spectrum.

12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Center for Latino Community Health Location: Anatol Center

Student poster presentations for work done through the Center for Community Health.

12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Research Program Mixer Location: Shakarian Student Success Center (SSSC) Courtyard located outside the Office of Undergraduate Research Services (OURS) Office

In collaboration with the Undergraduate Research Association (URA), the Office of Undergraduate Research services will be hosting their first annual Research Programs Mixer. This is an opportunity to connect and network with CSULB faculty and student researchers, learn about the efforts in development for strengthening our research community on campus, and a chance to participate in research-themed activities.

6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Student Dietetic Association Symposium Location: University Student Union Beach Ballroom 251 ABC

An evening of delicious food, activities, and guest speakers! Come Join us!

Registration link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/19FHsEDl1nkKf8cQNbZzP6W5zX3fToKPpE__nCb8mxv4/viewform?edit_requested=true