“Genghis Khan and Kublai Khan: Barbarian Conquerors or Agents of Global Interactions,” will be presented by Morris Rossabi at noon on Feb. 16 at the John M. Pfau Library, PL-4005.
Ryan Keating (history) discusses role of the Irish American 9th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the U.S. Civil War. He has written two books about the regiment.
Alastair Edmonstone (music) is featured, Mildred Dalton Henry (professor emerita, College of Education) offers her perspective on Black History Month, and Brian Levin (criminal justice) shares the history of the KKK in Orange County.
Michael Kohout, a CSUSB professor of geography and environmental studies, has written and lectured on the border economy, social movements and immigration; he has visited, studied and worked along the border on and off for more than 20 years.
“Venice and the Mediterranean: Artistic Diplomacy and Portable Art and Architecture,” will be presented by Tatiana Sizonenko, art historian and curator, at 6 p.m. at the museum.
Zola, executive director of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives and the Edward Ackerman Family Distinguished Professor of the American Jewish Experience and Reform Jewish History, will speak at annual lecture on March 13.
Brian Levin (criminal justice), in an op-ed, looks at where we are 50 years after the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
“American Exceptionalism & American Identity Past, Present, and Future” will be presented as a brown-bag discussion with university faculty on April 19 at the John M. Pfau Library, room PL-4005, from 2-3:30 p.m.
“Building the Marital Bond in Qing Dynasty China (1644-1911)” will be presented by Weijing Lu, an associate professor from UC San Diego, at noon May 17, John M. Pfau Library, PL-4005.