Library - Scholarly Commons
This calendar includes events sponsored by the Scholarly Commons as well as those by
Sunday, February 2, 2025
Monday, February 3, 2025
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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
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We have many options for scheduling online meetings these days. We will use Outlook for a central place to keep track of several kinds of online meetings and to make sure we have reminders. We will look at recommendations for scheduling with Zoom and Teams. We will go over helpful tips for each platform, including scheduling as a delegate. Prereq: Outlook Calendar workshop
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The HRI Organize & Analyze: Social Movements Reading Group will discuss readings, films, plays, and poems on global working class social movements to inform our intellectual development, political education, and praxis.
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
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The HRI Organize & Analyze: Social Movements Reading Group will discuss readings, films, plays, and poems on global working class social movements to inform our intellectual development, political education, and praxis.
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Visit the Innovation Studio during open hours! Held weekly on Mondays & Tuesdays from 12pm - 4pm. Experience generative AI, 3D printing, virtual reality, laser cutting and more. Activities are free!
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Come to this workshop to learn how to design, implement, and interpret Informal Early Feedback (IEF) to improve the class experience for everyone.
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In this 2-hour instructor led InDesign workshop, participants will learn how to create and open InDesign documents, navigate the user interface, modify a document, import graphics, and manipulate basic text and text frames and create a postcard in the process. No prior knowledge of InDesign is required. Pre-registration is required.
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This presentation discusses what we can learn from Zapotec literary magazines published in Mexico and Oaxaca in the 20th century. Angelica will share about the personal connections to her research, her journey as a researcher, and her current book project, highlighting the relationship between Zapotec knowledge, language, and literature.
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
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The HRI Organize & Analyze: Social Movements Reading Group will discuss readings, films, plays, and poems on global working class social movements to inform our intellectual development, political education, and praxis.
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Dr. Samantha Ege, author of "South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago's Classical Music Scene", will be speaking at King’s College London about her new book.
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Jennifer Rycenga, professor emerita of comparative religious studies and humanities at San José State University, will speak about her new book "Schooling the Nation: The Success of the Canterbury Academy for Black Women."
Thursday, February 6, 2025
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Learn how to create and edit OneNote notebooks, search and export notes. We will explore the use and management of sections and pages including section groups and subpages. We will enter data into OneNote from a variety of sources, from existing documents to webpages. We will discuss merits of embedding spreadsheets or linking. Pre-registration required.
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Are you interested in expanding your global connections, working abroad, or learning about funding opportunities for international projects? Join us for an informative session on how the Global Relations unit can assist in facilitating your global relations and advancing your international work.
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In this two-hour Illustrator session, we will go over recommended resources and tutorials, then participants will be introduced to the user interface while creating a vector graphic logo.
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A reading and book launch by Creative Writing faculty members David Wright Faladé and Chris Kempf.
Friday, February 7, 2025
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Anastasiia Strakhova (Associate Director, Program of Jewish Culture & Society) explores the little-known reality that 75–90% of Jewish emigration from the late Russian Empire occurred illegally. This lecture examines the widespread practice of clandestine border crossings and why so many Jewish emigrants chose illegal routes despite legal options being available.
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Learn the accessibility requirements for making your Moodle courses accessible. This hands-on workshop covers creating accessible navigation, headings, tables, lists, and hyperlinks, how to write alt text for images, generate and edit video captions, as well as the advantages (and limitations) of using Moodle’s accessibility checker and screen reader helper.
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Recalling My Higher Education Journey and Pathway Into Stem: Insights from an Indigenous scientist. Friday, Feb.7, 2025. 2 PM
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On February 7, the Geography Graduate Student Association (GGSA) and the Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science (GGIS) will host Dr. Charmaine Chua (Global Studies, UC Santa Barbara) to deliver a talk titled The Logistics Counter-revolution: Fast Circulation, Slow Violence, and the Transpacific Empire of Circulation. This will be a hybrid event.