Lectures and Films

Speaker: Dr. Giovanni Rapacciuolo, California Academy of Sciences. Topic: "Detecting Biodiversity Change from Unstructured Citizen Science Data to Inform Coastal Management."

Topic: Applications of Group Theory in Theoretical Physics. Speaker: Alexandra Miller, SSU Physics and Astronomy.

Topic: Mathematics for Global Environmental Citizenship Speaker: Daniel Soto, SSU Geography, Environment, and Planning.

In the shadow of Hawaii’s Mauna Kea volcano, a young girl, Manu, and her mother lovingly breed a colony of bees.

“A Face in the Crowd is a film that has been unjustly overlooked over the years, for it is more pertinent now than ever.

An artful and uplifting documentary on the life and works of the legendary storyteller and Nobel Prize-winner.

One of the best pictures by formerly blacklisted director John Berry, Claudine stars the late, great, Diahann Carroll as a single mom in Harlem living on welfare with six kids.

In this deeply personal follow-up to his landmark debut Ixcanul, Jayro Bustamante shifts his focus from rural Guatemala to the denizens of Guatemala City but once again sets his sights on

Speaker: Dr. Nathan Rank, Sonoma State University. Presentation: "Is the Insect Apocalypse Real?"

In this lecture, Éloïse Blet, Fulbright French Language Teaching Assistant, from the University of Haute-Bretagne, France speaks on the younger generation striving to make their voices heard.