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"Red the Color of War: Paintings from a Vietnam War Veteran" Focus of Exhibit by Daniel Lopez

The Center for Culture, Gender & Sexuality presents "Red the Color of War: Paintings from a Vietnam War Veteran," by Daniel T. Lopez through Nov. 21 in the gallery in the Student Union. In his latest series of paintings, Lopez,an Adjunct Professor in Chicano Studies, brings a vivid look at the horrible cost of war through the eyes of a Vietnam War veteran. A reception with the artist will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 10 in the CCGS Gallery from noon to 1:30 p.m. Lopez received his Masters in Art and Education from the University of Southern California (1971). His works have been displayed at numerous venues: Combat War Art, Smithsonian (1968); Murals at the Mexican Village, Santa Rosa Fair (1974); Public Television, Channel 9-San Francisco (1970), Channel 22 (1980); Art Display, CAL Expo, Sacramento, CA (1986); Numerous Art Exhibitions, Sonoma State University (1975 till present)For more information, visit http://www.sonoma.edu/ccgs, e-mail ccgs@sonoma.edu or phone 4-2710.

Holocaust Memoirs of Hidden Children
Explored at Arts and Humanities forum

Barbara Lesch McCaffry of the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies discusses "Gendered Identities: Holocaust
Memoirs of Hidden Children” at the Arts & Humanities Forum at noon Thursday, Oct. 11 in Schulz 1121. The event is free and open to the public.

Lesch McCaffry says that “for most, our knowledge of children hidden during the Holocaust has been filtered through reading The Diary of Anne Frank and ends there.” She notes that there is now an ever-deepening pool of memoirs being written by children who were hidden during the Holocaust -- for many, by passing as being non-Jewish. For her, these texts raise many questions related to identity that she has been exploring. One primary one that intrigues her is what it means to be safer pretending to be someone who you are not (Christian or Catholic) and how did those, after the war, return to their original ‘identity’ -- or could they?

Lesch McCaffry, a professor of 20th Century British and American Literature, is the President of the Alliance for the Study of the Holocaust at Sonoma State and taught in the university’s lecture series on the Holocaust and Genocide from 2001-2006. Since 2001, she has been lecturing on Holocaust literature and has presented papers at the National Women’s Studies Association conferences and The Legacy of the Holocaust: Women and the Holocaust Fifth International Conference in Krakow, Poland. For more information, contact Lesch McCaffry at 4-2273.

More events...

"UNDERSTANDING WAR" - Lecture by Shepherd Bliss, a former member of the U S military and now an adjunct faculty member in Humanities. War and Peace Lecture Series. 4-5:15 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 9. Warren Auditorium, Ives 101. 4-4115.

THE SEARCH FOR EARTH LIKE PLANETS - Dr. Holland Ford, principal investigator of the main camera on the Hubble Space Telescope, discusses prospects for detecting earthlike planets. He is professor of physics and astronomy at Johns Hopkins University and an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute. He and his colleagues are engaged in a search of some 250,000 stars, around which they expect to detect thousands of extrasolar planets. He has worked on several such searches and has proposed new technology to detect lower-mass planets. What Physicists Do series. 4-5:15 p.m. Monday, Oct. 15. Darwin 103.

WHOSE PAST, WHOSE PLACE? THE EVOLUTION OF A WORKING LANDSCAPE AT POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE - Laura Watt, Environmental Studies And Planning, lectures. Social Science Brown Bag Series. Noon - 1 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 16. Stevenson 2011. 4-2112.

FROM A HOLISTIC GYNECOLOGIST: WOMEN'S HEALTH DURING THREE MAJOR LIFE STAGES - Andrea Bialek, M.D. outlines important health issues of the three major life stages of adult women: menarche/late teens, the reproductive years, and the perimenopause/menopause transition. She will discuss basic female hormonal functioning and her holistic approach to women's preventive health. Noon. Tuesday, Oct. 16. Carson 68. 4-2840.

"VOICES OF CONSCIENCE" - A lecture by Ann Wright, a retired United States Army colonel, retired official of the U.S. State Department, and now full-time anti-war activist. Wright is most noted for being one of three U.S. State Department officials to publicly resign in direct protest of the invasion of Iraq in March, 2003. War and Peace Lecture Series. 4-5:15 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 16. Warren Auditorium, Ives 101. 4-4115.

 

RAGA: NORTH INDIAN SINGER LAXMI G. TEWARI IN CONCERT - Faculty Recital Series. Admission is $12, $10 for faculty, staff and alumni, $8 for seniors and students. SSU students admitted free. 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13. Ives 119. (707) 664-2235.

"LASERS: MAGIC, WAVELENGTHS AND PULSEWIDTHS" - Dr. William Mark Grossman, Director of Research and Development of the Commercial Lasers Business Unit at JDS Uniphase Corporation, leads the discussion in what makes a wavelength magic, how selected wavelengths and pulse widths came into use, and where the next magic wavelengths may be found. 4:30-5:15 p.m. ,Thursday, Oct. 18 Cerent Engineering Science Complex, Salazar 2009A. Engineering Science lecture series sponsored by the Agilent Technologies Foundation through the SSU-Agilent Partnership Program. 4-4438.