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12
Feb

National African American Read-In

Lecture/Readings | Inclusive Excellence

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is hosting an African American Read-In during the month of February. The African American Read-In is a national effort promoted by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Dr. Adena Rivera-Dundas and Cree Taylor are coordinating the Read-In here at USU. All students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to join in reading Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin. Dr. Rivera-Dundas is organizing both a reading schedule and a series of four Reading Group meetings throughout February to delve into discussions about the text.

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm |
12
Feb

13,000+ Years of Indigenous History in Eastern Utah

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Eastern Utah is well-known for the spectacular rock art found in places like Nine Mile Canyon and the Puebloan architecture of Bears Ears National Monument and other landscapes. But the stories of the indigenous people who have called this land home for millennia are also preserved in much less notable sites that reflect the ephemera of daily activities such as cooking a meal or making a tool. Join Dr. Tim Riley as he explores the material history of this landscape with a focus on how we can learn more about people from the objects they left behind and how we can visit these places today with minimal impact and maximal respect. 

Part of USU Eastern's "From the Book Cliffs to Blanding: A Panoramic View of Eastern Utah," come hear Eastern Prehistoric Museum Director Tim Riley talk about the first human inhabitants of Eastern Utah. 

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Utah State University Eastern Campus |
13
Feb

USU Brigham February 2025 Lecture Series

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Explore how folklore thrives in the digital age, from memes to viral trends! Don’t miss this fascinating discussion on the culture of the internet.

Speaker: Lynne McNeill, PhD, Folklore, Utah State University
Topic: Digital Folklore


7:00 pm - 8:00 pm |
19
Feb

National African American Read-In

Lecture/Readings | Inclusive Excellence

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is hosting an African American Read-In during the month of February. The African American Read-In is a national effort promoted by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Dr. Adena Rivera-Dundas and Cree Taylor are coordinating the Read-In here at USU. All students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to join in reading Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin. Dr. Rivera-Dundas is organizing both a reading schedule and a series of four Reading Group meetings throughout February to delve into discussions about the text.

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm |
20
Feb

CESN Talk: A Statewide Campus Community Engagement Case Study

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This presentation will explore the key elements of collaborative community partnerships and providing students with specific career skills. It will highlight how authentic partnerships with community agencies are initiated through co-created experiences tailored to specific agency needs, ensuring ongoing commitment and shared decision-making. Additionally, students will present their findings at the local agency at the end of each semester. A case study featuring the collaborative efforts between USU Eastern Wildlife Ecology & Management students and the local Bureau of Land Management Agency will be showcased. Sunshine Brosi, an Associate Professor of Wildland Resources at USU Eastern in Price, Utah, has developed and taught six unique community-engaged courses in both in-person and online formats. She is dedicated to fostering genuine, community-engaged undergraduate research experiences in the classroom.

11:00 am - 12:00 pm |
20
Feb

Tanner Talk: "Banking Bad: How Criminals Hack Global Finance"

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Michael Findley is the Erwin Centennial Professor of Government at UT Austin. Findley conducts interdisciplinary research on political violence, international development, illicit finance, ethics, and methodology. Findley publishes in leading outlets and his policy work includes collaborations with the World Bank, USAID, African Development Bank, UN FACTI, UNICEF, UN Peacebuilding Fund, UN Development Program, International Aid Transparency Initiative, and many aid recipient country governments. Prof. Findley will discuss his experimental work that uncovers how banks avoid regulations and what governments can do about that.

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm |
21
Feb

LAEP Speaker Series: Joy Kuebler and Cheryl Salazar, Case Studies in Playful Placemaking

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About the Lecture Join us for an insightful session exploring how the innovative approach of playful placemaking can revolutionize community engagement and design processes. Using the successful Westminster Legacy Foundation project as a case study, this webinar will highlight the tangible and intangible benefits of play in fostering deeper connections, creativity, and trust within communities. Attendees will hear inspiring stories and discover how implementing playful placemaking techniques can enhance their own projects, creating vibrant and inclusive community spaces. Speaker Bio Joy Kuebler, FASLA, is an award-winning professional with more than 20 years’ experience with her work being recognized locally and nationally. Across her career, she has focused her work on the human experience in the landscape, integrating the outdoors and architecture to create unique and inspiring environments. Cheryl Salazar, MPA, CPRP, has over 17 years in municipal leadership including with the cities of Fontana and San Marcos, and Riverside County, California. She has managed operations, programs, marketing, training, budgeting, commissions, nonprofits and events over the years.

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Fine Arts Visual |
26
Feb

National African American Read-In

Lecture/Readings | Inclusive Excellence

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is hosting an African American Read-In during the month of February. The African American Read-In is a national effort promoted by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Dr. Adena Rivera-Dundas and Cree Taylor are coordinating the Read-In here at USU. All students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to join in reading Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin. Dr. Rivera-Dundas is organizing both a reading schedule and a series of four Reading Group meetings throughout February to delve into discussions about the text.

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm |
28
Feb

LAEP Speaker Series: Siqi Zhu, Planning as Strategic Design

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About the Lecture What is planning's relationship to design? In this lecture, I will argue for the necessity and efficacy of urban planning as a form of "strategic design", moving past traditional design's focus on discrete solutions -- be it a building or a landscape -- but borrowing traditional design's principles and methods to tackle systemic challenges like inequality, unaffordable housing, and climate change. Speaker Bio Siqi is an urban planner, technologist, and strategic designer who seamlessly integrates cities and technologies as dual focal points in his practice. With a strategic design mindset, he applies a creative combination of place-, community-, and technology-based solutions to complex, systemic urban challenges, such as climate change, infrastructural renewal, equitable development, and technological disruptions.

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Fine Arts Visual |
05
Mar

CESN Talk: Facilitating Hybrid Community Events

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Join Drs. Lu Lawrence and Maureen Boyle as they share best practices and experiences designing and facilitating hybrid community events to connect in-person and virtual community partners. They will share best practices and recommendations for planning and running hybrid events, and share an example from the Bear River Region LGBTQ+ Coalition, including the coalition’s hybrid meetings and adapted meeting schedules for different workflows to include community partners across the region.

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm |
06
Mar

Communitas Lecture Series: Vance Byrd

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Vance Byrd is a scholar of late-eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature who investigates how literary and print culture intersect with the history of visual media. He will be speaking about his current book project, Listening to Panoramas, which looks beyond statues to discover how panoramic forms played a pivotal role in transatlantic visual and sonic cultures of commemoration. Panoramas gave audiences around the world the opportunity to immerse themselves in stories about natural and urban landscapes as well as bloody battle scenes depicted on larger-than-life circular paintings. This book proposes that the emotions produced by the sonic and visual effects at panorama shows determine how the past is remembered and politicized. Furthermore, it investigates how Black artists have turned to the panoramic form to resist narratives about defeat and victory in the American Civil War and to reinscribe the history of the Black freedom struggles onto the medium.

The Communitas Lecture Series is a set of visiting artists, scholars, and design series. This series is free and open to the public!

5:00 pm | Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall |
18
Mar

The Carbon Dream: A Brief History of Castle Country Immigrants

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Why did European and American immigrants come to Castle Country and what kind of lives did they create? How do these lives relate to the larger story of The American Dream? Come listen to stories of immigrants who built the community we have today.

Part of USU Eastern's "From the Book Cliffs to Blanding: A Panoramic View of Eastern Utah" series, come hear history professor Nichelle Frank talk about the 19th century settlement of the Castle Country region.

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Utah State University Eastern Campus |
10
Apr

Tanner Talk:  "Aid in Conflict: Can Aid Deliver During Humanitarian Crises?" 

Lecture/Readings

Michael Findley is the Erwin Centennial Professor of Government at UT Austin. Findley conducts interdisciplinary research on political violence, international development, illicit finance, ethics, and methodology. Findley publishes in leading outlets and his policy work includes collaborations with the World Bank, USAID, African Development Bank, UN FACTI, UNICEF, UN Peacebuilding Fund, UN Development Program, International Aid Transparency Initiative, and many aid recipient country governments. Prof. Findley will discuss his experimental work from conducting experiments in Afghanistan after the Taliban returned to power.

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm |
11
Apr

LAEP Speaker Series: Todd Mead, What is this Beautiful Place?

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Speaker Bio Originally from Wisconsin, Todd has lived and worked in Colorado and California for over forty years. Early life in a small town on the Wolf River introduced him to the experience of nature as a playground, as an escape, and as series of evolving places. Spurred by observations of human caused environmental degradation, Todd found landscape architecture as means of melding ecological reparation with art, while studying geology and native plant community restoration in the midwest. Drawn to wilder environments, Todd moved west immediately after undergraduate school, eventually joining Civitas and remaining there for more than twenty years. Emerging opportunities for change lead him to join Peter Walker Partners (PWP) in Berkeley, and later the Office of Cheryl Barton (O|CB) in San Francisco. Now with SCAPE in their San Francisco office, he applies decades of experience in a collaborative team-focused approach, blending critical design thinking with problem-solving and mentoring. His project experience varies in scale, complexity, and budget—including urban parks and gardens; educational, medical, and corporate campuses; waterfronts; and urban infill redevelopments.

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Fine Arts Visual |
18
Apr

LAEP Speaker Series: Heather Henry, The Right Place and the Right Home - The Right Solution

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About the Lecture When every turn of the channel, the page, or swipe of the screen shrieks about the breadth and depth of the housing crisis, it can be easy to insist that the solution simply lies in building more. Build it anywhere, at all cost. History tells us this cannot and does not work. As builders, developers, designers, and planners we have the power to make better decisions. And we all know with great power comes great responsibility (thanks, Spiderman). We’ll explore multiple case studies for how to make choices about the right places, right types of homes, and right creative programs to bring lasting housing solutions to bear in all types of communities.

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Fine Arts Visual |
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