Lecture Series
EFA Lecture Series
Current Faculty Research at CSUDH
There is no charge to current OLLI members for this series.
About the series
Each spring the Emeritus Faculty Association (EFA) of CSUDH funds new faculty investigations into varied research topics. OLLI is pleased to provide a forum for our community of learners to acquaint themselves with the scholarly work of these awardees and to discuss with them how the results of their study may affect our environment and daily lives. Members of the EFA Faculty Legacy Fund committees are invited to join us for these interesting and timely talks hosted by Mary Cruise, OLLI and EFA member. Please join us as well!
There are four lectures in the EFA summer lecture series.
4 Wednesdays, June 9, 23; August 11, 25 • 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Extended Education building, EE – 1221
NLLL 405 Section 01, Course No. 30637
These presentations are free and open to the public. OLLI members should register by calling the registration office at 310.243.3741. All others RSVP by calling 310.243.3208 or sending an email to olliassist@csudh.edu.
Safer Sex Talk: Sexual Health Communication between Young Gay Men and their Best Friends
Dr. Mutchler’s Faculty Legacy award funded CSUDH students to code interviews that were previously conducted with friendship pairs. The purpose of the interviews was to explore how young adults discuss sexual health topics that may be related to their safer sex behaviors. Differences were found in the topics discussed between young gay men compared to those discussed with female friends. Discussion of the study will include the involvement of student coders as well as implications of findings for working with young adults to promote sexual health behaviors.
Presenter: Matt Mutchler, PhD, Associate Professor, Sociology
Wednesday, June 9, 10:00-11:30 am
Extended Education Building, EE-1221
Signature Moves
Hear about the Ressl Dance! company and how this modern dance company was created in Minnesota and now has had its premiere in California. Doris Ressl will discuss the process involved in developing a dance company and who is needed to participate in order to make it successful. She will show excerpts from dance performances and discuss how her EFA award winning proposal, “Signature Moves” became a reality for her at Dominguez Hills.
Presenter: Doris Ressl, MFA, Assistant Professor, Theatre and Dance
Wednesday, June 23, 10:00 -11:30am
Extended Education Building, EE-1221
Drought, Dust, and Deluge: A Millennium of Climate Extremes
Emerging climate records, archaeological, and historic evidence from across our planet are revealing a complex pattern of extreme anomalies causing human societies to undergo severe stress and, in some instances, collapse in response to abrupt climactic change during the last millennium. Many of these abrupt climate events share attributes in common with one another suggesting recurrence of similar climatic variability. Also, climatic variability events suggest an emerging picture that Earth experiences repeated change rather than stability in hydrologic variability. This evolving view should help inform decisions about anticipation and adaptation to future hydrologic and climate variations.
Presenter: Ashish Sinha, PhD, Assistant Professor, Earth Sciences Department
Wednesday, August 11, 10:00 -11:30am
Extended Education Building, EE-1221
Globalization an Transcultural Activist Networks: The Case of the Zapatistas
Dr. Dellacioppa’s book, This Bridge Called Zapatismo, tells the story of urban civil organizations that occurred in Mexico City and Los Angeles in support of the Zapatista National Liberation Army in Southern Mexico after 1994. She will discuss a “grassroots globalization from below”, where political actors make connections across cultural and national boundaries in order to develop a new global democratic political culture. This talk provides a brief overview of globalization, a history of the Zapatista movement, the emergence of kindred movements in the United States and what the applications are for social change in the 21st century.
Presenter: Kara Dellacioppa, PhD, Associate Professor, Sociology Department
Wednesday, August 25, 10:00-11:30am
Extended Education Building, EE-1221