Cornel West, Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University, is one of America's most gifted, provocative, and important public intellectuals. Dr. West has won numerous awards, including the American Book Award, and has received more than 20 honorary degrees.
Robert George Seale (born 1936) was a militant activist who, with Huey P. Newton and Bobby Hutton, founded the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in 1966.
Dr. Molefi Asante discusses his dream for a United States of Africa, a movement that begun by Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first president. He will examine the prospect for an African Renaissance based on the idea of an African Federative Union and present the prospects and problems of a continental government in Africa. 7 p.m,, Thursday, March 8. Cooperage.
Jonathan Kozol author of "Shame of the Nation; The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America" visits SSU for the Andrea Neves and Barton Evans Social Justice Lecture Series.
Sonoma State University presents the Holocaust Lecture Series, "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" with Luong Ung and Dr. Myrna Goodman. Filmed March 1st, 2005.
Sonoma State University presents Ron Takaki and his discussion, America in a Different Mirror: Revisioning Our Nation's Past. Filmed on November 17, 2004
Harvard Law professor and civil rights scholar Dr. Lani Guinier speaks on Rethinking Race and Class: A New Vision of Social Justice. Part of the Andrea Neves and Bart Evans Social Justice Lecture Series.
Sonoma State University presents the Holocaust Lecture Series, "Genocide in California: The Native American Experience" Dr. Myrna Goodman. Filmed March 7th, 2006.
The Department of Physics and Astronomy bring you, the 75th series of "What Physicists Do", a series of lectures, demonstrations and films. This week, "The Role of Energy Efficiency in California's Efforts to Curb Global Warming" with Devra Wang of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Sonoma State University presents the Holocaust Lecture Series, "Bosnia to Darfur: International Responses in Comparative Perspective" with Jerry Fowler and Dr. Myrna Goodman. Filmed March 13th, 2007.
An original sculpture for the Memorial Grove has been designed by art Jann Nunn, SSU Associate Professor of Sculpture. The sculpture/installati on includes an internally illuminated glass column representing hope for the future with the goal that through educational efforts, such as those as offered by the Center, genocide will no longer be part of the landscape.
