College of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Please join us on the beautiful estate of Joe and Mary Bettencourt for a presentation by Anthony Barcellos, on his recently published novel, Land of Milk and Money. Highly praised as a “full-blooded tale” by bestselling author John Lescroart, Land of Milk and Money tells the story of the Francisco family, immigrants from the Azores who settle on a dairy farm in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Their plans to eventually return to the Old Country fall by the wayside as their success grows and their American lives take root. A courtroom drama is at the center of the action as the heirs fight over the provisions of the matriarch’s will, jeopardizing a decades-long legacy of success. The story is familiar to many of us, to our sorrow. www.landofmilkandmoney.com

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The Council for Sustainable Futures is pleased to host the annual environmental conference, featuring speakers, and activities that promote environmental solutions, human rights, and social engagement. Come and see how people are making a difference, globally, nationally and locally.

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The League of Women Voters (LWV) will be facilitating an on-campus presentation and dis-cussion of the California statewide initiatives listed on the ballot for the upcoming November 6 election. This LWV event is sponsored by the Department of Political Science and Public Administration and is open to anyone desiring more information on these propositions.

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Please join the Department of Philosophy at CSU Stanislaus for a lecture by Emily Parker (Santa Clara University) on "The Ethics of Materialiy in Beauvoir and Irigaray"

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Third grade students from Turlock, Keyes and Denair elementary schools got a first-hand—and hands-on—look at where their food comes this week during AgEdventure Day at California State University (CSU), Stanislaus.

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Charles E. Scott, Ph.D.m Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University will be presenting, "The Force of Life and Faith: Kierkegaard and Nietzsche". Charles E. Scott is Professor Emeritus at Vanderbilt University and author of several books in continental philosophy, including: Living with Indiffer-ence (2007), The Lives of Things (2002), The Time of Memory (1999), On the Uses and Disadvantages of Ethics and Politics for Life (1996), and The Question of Ethics: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault (1990).

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Karen Ross, Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture will be speaking on "Challenges and Opportunities in California Agriculture".

Karen Ross was appointed Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) in January, 2011 by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. Secretary Ross has deep leadership experience in agricultural issues nationally, internationally, and here in California. Prior to joining CDFA, she was chief of staff for U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, a position she accepted in 2009. Before her time at the United States Department of Agriculture, she served as President of the California Association of Winegrape Growers, as Executive Director of Winegrape Growers of America, and as Executive Director of the California Wine Grape Growers Foundation. Secretary Ross grew up as a 4-H kid on a farm in western Nebraska, and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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Dr. Louis Warren from the University of California, Davis wil be presenting, " A Hole in the Dream: The Ghost Dance and the Making
of Modern America."

For many people, the Ghost Dance and its tragic climax at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1890 have come to symbolize the close of the frontier, the end of the Indian Wars, and the end of the nineteenth century. Yet, as environmental and western historian Louis Warren will explain in this fascinating talk, the Ghost Dance was not the death
knell of an outmoded way of life. Rather, it expressed a desire for environmental renewal which was widely shared among Indians and non-Indians, and among its results was the beginning of a modern, twentieth cen-tury sensibility that we now call cultural relativism.

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Please join the Department of Philosophy at CSU Stanislaus for a presentation by Robert Hurley. The presentation will explore in a seminar and discussion-oriented format work done by the Tiqqun collective in France since the late 1990’s. Tiqqun theorizes the problem of general domination using tools found in a lineage of political philosophy that runs through Spinoza, Marx, Debord, Foucault, Deleuze, and Agamben. Robert Hurley has translated works by Bataille, Foucault, Deleuze-Guattari, Deleuze, Clastres, and, recently, The Coming Insurrection and Theory of Bloom by Tiqqun.

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Dr. Frank F. Sousa (UMass Dartmouth) will be presenting, "The Portuguese-American Experience in the Novels of Alfred Lewis".

Alfred Lewis (1902-1977) is the author of two published novels;
Home is an Island and Sixty Acres and a Barn. The presentation,
based on the books, will describe life in the Old Country (Azores),
through the story of a young man who is about to immigrate to
America, and the life of a recent immigrant who pursues the American
Dream on a dairy farm in the Central Valley during the 1940’s.

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