Lectures and Films

“Palme d’Or winner Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s the Wild Pear Tree is an achingly beautiful portrait of an ambitious young writer returning home after college.

An Official Selection of the Berkeley Video & Film Festival (Grand Festival Award and Audience Award), the Sacramento Japanese Film Festival (Emerging Filmmaker Award), the Women’s Film Festiva

Yayoi Kusama is the top-selling female artist in the world, best known for her colorful polka dot and pumpkin-themed designs and her massively popular mirrored infinity rooms.

Yayoi Kusama is the top-selling female artist in the world, best known for her colorful polka dot and pumpkin-themed designs and her massively popular mirrored infinity rooms.

In Spiritrials, addiction, religion, and the law intersect in a court-ordered drug rehabilitation program.

Dahlak Brathwaite: Adapting History: the Hip-Hop Aesthetic of Sampling & its Ties to the Lineage of Black American Music.

Spike Lee’s landmark film about a day in the life of a Brooklyn neighborhood and its ensuing racial tensions celebrates its 30th anniversary this year.

Professor Sergio La Porta, Ph.D. of the CSU Fresno Armenian Studies Program will talk about The Armenian Genocide.

This presentation explores California developments in the months before, during, and after New York City’s Stonewall Riots of 1969, when LGBT people fought back against police harassment, challenge

Roeg's 1971 coming-of-age fable is set in the Australian Outback, where a 14-year-old city girl (Jenny Agutter) and her six-year-old brother (Roeg's son Luc) find themselves stranded when their fat