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  • International Women's Day
  • Water Theme
  • San Diego Student Sustainability Conference
  • Eli Clare Lecture
  • Silent Spring Book Cover
  • Animals - Book

March 8, 2013: International Women's Day

The Bread and Roses Center of the Department of Women’s Studies and Common Experience present International Women's Day. Welcoming musical performance by Coral MacFarland-Thuet and featured speaker, Kum-Kum Bhavnani.

WATER

Announcing the 2013-14 Common Experience Theme. Download the call for proposals (PDF).

CE Co-sponsors Richard Louv Keynote

Saturday, April 13, 2013 – Common Experience Co-sponsors Richard Louv Keynote at the San Diego Student Sustainability Conference

Meditations on Disabled Bodies, Natural Worlds, Politics of Cure

In his talk, Eli Clare combined storytelling and critical analysis, disability politics and environmental activism, scientific racism and natural history in order to examine the cultural drive to cure disability.

2012-2013 Common Experience Book Announced!

The Common Experience Book for the 2012-2013 academic year is: Silent Spring

Continuing Themes of Moral Courage, Science, and Sustainability

In keeping with SDSU’s common themes, Philosophy 102 students are reading Don LePan’s Animals, a novel set in the not-so-distant future. Don LePan will be giving a lecture on October 18th at 11am.

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    2012-2013 Theme

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    Science, Ethics, and Moral Courage

    Announcing the 2012-2013 Common Experience Book!

     

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    Silent Spring

    By: Rachel Carson