Upcoming Events
CHaSS Presents Grad School Workshop
Panel Discussion/Presentation
Join the Director of CHaSS Advising, as well as current and former graduate students, to learn about how to prepare for, search for, and apply for graduate school. Open to all students. Free lunch provided.
World Languages Film Festival Screening: Black Orpheus
Cultural
The World Languages Film Festival presents a screening of Black Orpheus (1959) in Portuguese with English subtitles.
Set in Rio de Janeiro during Carnival, this retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth blends Greek tragedy with Brazilian culture. Orfeu, a trolley driver, falls in love with Eurydice, but their romance is doomed by fate. The film is renowned for its vibrant music, dance, and tragic love story.
Rating: Unrated (due to the age of the film)
The film contains some sensuality, mild violence, and themes of fate and tragedy.
Aggie Translators
Workshop/Training
If you are fluent in a second or third language, we need you! Come join our wonderful team of Aggie Translators and help us provide translation and interpreting services in our community. Every other Wednesday, we meet to receive informal training to become community translators and interpreters and enhance our language skills. Don't miss out on this opportunity, be an "Aggie Translator."
CHaSS Career Coach Presents on Resumes, Cover Letters, & Interviews
Panel Discussion/Presentation
Join CHaSS Career Coach and Assistant Director of the Career Design Center, Joseph Banks, to learn how to turn your CHaSS skills into your career! Students will have the chance to listen and ask questions about resumes, cover letters, and interviews. Free and open to all. Lunch provided.
Foreign Service
Information/Orientation
Are you interested in pursuing a career in Diplomacy? Attend the U.S. Department of State Information Session and meet with Denver Herren, the U.S. Department of State Diplomat in Residence for the Rocky Mountains. You will learn about careers with the Department and how you can serve your country by working in any one of more than 270 U.S. embassies, consulates, and missions overseas, or in Washington, D.C. Opportunities include Foreign Service Officers, Foreign Service Specialists, Civil Service professionals, internships and fellowships. Not just for political science, international affairs, or languages majors – we are also actively recruiting from the fields of business and finance, computer science and information technology, human resources, facility engineering, and more -- all majors welcome!
World Languages Film Festival: Two Days, One Night
Cultural
The World Languages Film Festival presents Two Days, One Night in French, with English subtitles.
In this Belgian drama, Sandra, a factory worker, has just two days to convince her colleagues to forgo their bonuses so she can keep her job. The film explores themes of economic hardship, solidarity, and personal dignity, as Sandra battles her own insecurities and the harsh realities of modern capitalism.
Rating: PG-13
Thematic elements including depression, emotional stress, and mature discussions related to economic hardship.
AI Revolution: From Machines to Morals
Conference/Seminar
How do we act ethically in the age of Artificial Intelligence? With the revolution of machine learning comes the struggle to use it morally for the common good. To address these issues, the USU Communication Studies and Philosophy Department with the Center for Anticipatory Intelligence presents this year’s Tanner Series Lectures from the Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. This conference series brings top scholars from philosophy, the humanities, and the sciences for an interdisciplinary discussion that focuses on machine learning, emerging technology, policy, and ethical dimensions of AI programs.
AI Revolution: From Machines to Morals
Conference/Seminar
How do we act ethically in the age of Artificial Intelligence? With the revolution of machine learning comes the struggle to use it morally for the common good. To address these issues, the USU Communication Studies and Philosophy Department with the Center for Anticipatory Intelligence presents this year’s Tanner Series Lectures from the Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. This conference series brings top scholars from philosophy, the humanities, and the sciences for an interdisciplinary discussion that focuses on machine learning, emerging technology, policy, and ethical dimensions of AI programs.
CHaSS Book Talk: Dr. David Lancy
Lecture/Readings
Join us to celebrate the publication of Dr. David Lancy's newest book, Learning without Lessons, published with Oxford University Press. Professor Emeritus Lancy will provide a short talk about his work and there will be plenty of time for questions, conversation, and celebration. This is a great way to learn more about CHaSS research!
The World Languages Film Festival: Die Welle
Cultural
The World Languages Film Festival presents Die Welle in German with English subtitles.
Based on a true story, this German film follows a high school teacher who conducts a social experiment to demonstrate the allure of autocracy. What begins as a classroom exercise spirals into a chilling demonstration of how easily a community can embrace fascism, with devastating consequences.
Rating: Not rated by the MPAA in the U.S., but often considered appropriate for ages 15+ or R equivalent.
Intense thematic content about autocracy and fascism, with violence and disturbing psychological effects.
Research Lecture with Andrea Baldwin
Lecture/Readings
In her 2022 book, A Decolonial Black Feminist Theory of Reading and Shade: Feeling the University, Andrea Baldwin uses Black and decolonial feminist theorizing along with a queer of color critique to examine the university as an affective space. This space often causes marginalized and minoritized individuals to feel out of place and out of time. Baldwin developed the concept of “Shad(e)y theoretics” to encapsulate this idea.In this presentation, Baldwin builds on her theorizing to offer insights into the current moment in US politics. She explores the seemingly easy cooptation and, in some cases, cooperation of university administration in erasing marginalized and minoritized communities and their scholarship. While this erasure is not unexpected from a decolonial perspective, it remains deeply painful. Using indigenous feminist and Black feminist ecological thought, Baldwin provides thoughts on how to navigate the current epistemic and affective violence experienced by Black, brown, indigenous, and queer scholars in the US academy.
Aggie Translators
Workshop/Training
If you are fluent in a second or third language, we need you! Come join our wonderful team of Aggie Translators and help us provide translation and interpreting services in our community. Every other Wednesday, we meet to receive informal training to become community translators and interpreters and enhance our language skills. Don't miss out on this opportunity, be an "Aggie Translator."
Tanner Talks Series: From Books to Biscuits
Panel Discussion/Presentation | Tanner Talks
The College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Merrill-Cazier Library are continuing the Tanner Talks Series! Come and watch Ella Hawkins create biscuits which resemble rare books from our very own Special Collections. Hawkins is a Senior Lecturer at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, and the author of Shakespeare in Elizabethan Costume: 'Period Dress' in Twenty-First Century Performance.
From Books to Biscuits
Lecture/Readings
How does a rare, historic book become a piece of 21st-century edible art? Join Ella Hawkins as she creates a new biscuit (cookie) design based on an early printed book from USU’s special collections. As well as demonstrating this design process, Ella will look back at her past biscuit sets and discuss the unique qualities of printed texts from different periods.
Contemporary Legends in a Polarized World (Derek Agard Distinguished Lecture)
Lecture/Readings
In a country where trust is at an all-time low and polarization at an all-time high, is everything a legend? Using examples of contemporary or “urban” legends from across the US, Tom Mould, Professor of Anthropology and Folklore (Butler University), explores new approaches to legend research that help us navigate our current landscape of fake news, conspiracy theories, and echo chambers. In the process, Professor Mould upends some long held beliefs about what contemporary legends are, what they do, and what they can tell us about ourselves and the polarized world we live in.
Phi Alpha Theta Annual Road Trip
Student Activities
The history club is planning a tour of places of worship in Salt Lake City!
We will be visiting the Russian Orthodox church, Khadeeja Islamic Center, Kol Ami Jewish Congregation, and St. John's Lutheran Church.
The trip is completely free and will include lunch at Thai Spice in Midvale! There are only ten spots available. Make sure to RSVP with mustafa.banister@usu.edu to join.
CHaSS Alumni Speaker Series
Panel Discussion/Presentation
CHaSS Alumni Speaker Series presents Jontrell Rocquemore, Certified Master Mind-Body Bridging Trainer. Jontrell graduated in 2019 with his bachelor's in Political Science and Sociology, going on to earn a Master's in Business Administration in 2020. A former athlete with the Cleveland Browns and Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Jontrell now leverages his experience as a Senior Business Consultant for the I-System Institute and focuses on mental performance and wellness. Lunch provided - open to all majors! Sept 27, 12:30pm, LIB 101
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