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WELCOME TO THE HUMANITIES AND FINE ARTS
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More than ever, California, the nation, and the world need engaged and informed citizens who understand the languages, traditions, values, and histories of other cultures.
Globalization and cultural diversity at home call for the knowledge and comparative methods of the humanities. These methods are essential to sustaining multicultural and multilingual societies and a strong democratic culture.
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In an international conference organized by the Art and Psyche Working Group and Pacifica Institute, professionals from various fields of art and psychology will come together to discuss “The Illuminated Imagination,” a theme of C.G. Jung’s The Red Book. The conference will be a multi-disciplinary examination of the creative expression of psyche as it persists through troubled modern times.
On April 4th from 4-5:30pm in HSSB 6020, Silvia Bermúdez (Spanish and Portuguese) and Cristina Venegas (Film and Media Studies) will discuss Bermúdez’s new book, Rocking the Boat: Migration and Race in Contemporary Spanish Music. The book details the effects of popular urban music on discourse concerning immigration and racialization in the Spanish State after the Constitution of 1978.
