Past Exhibitions
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Past / Personal: Examining Oral History Narratives
Online
August 30, 2021 to July 15, 2022
Oral histories are intentionally-created sources that document personal experiences of the past. For several decades CSUN students, faculty, and others have conducted oral history interviews with individuals who lived through significant historical events, participated in social movements, or experienced cultural trends...
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Los Angeles: On Film and On Record
Online
August 22, 2020 to July 30, 2021
Los Angeles exists in our collective cultural imagination, heavily influenced by depictions of the city on film, though it is also a place of brick and mortar; adobe and asphalt. Los Angeles: On Film and On Record is an online journey through film and archives. It examines a number of popular films that feature the City of Angels within the storyline, setting, or both, and compares...
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Right of Way: Justice and Equity in the Growth of Los Angeles
University Library Exhibit Gallery
August 15, 2019 to July 31, 2020
The environmental justice movement sees people of color, people of low socioeconomic status, indigenous peoples, immigrant populations, LGBTQ communities, and other marginalized groups as being disproportionately burdened by the presence and effects of ecologically harmful infrastructures like landfills, factories....
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What She Said: 100 Years of Women's Civic and Community Engagement
University Library Exhibit Gallery
August 31, 2018 to July 31, 2019
Civic engagement, or advocacy on behalf of the public, has long been a critical component of American life. While American women have been involved in public life for centuries, their early engagement was typically via male relatives. It was not until the 19th century that women truly entered the public sphere, engaging in public discourse around specific issues as a bloc. While these early actions helped women learn the power of civic participation, the 19th and early 20th century's suffrage movement, in which women engaged in advocacy and activism...
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