Emily Kuroda, Award Winning Television, Stage, and Film Actress

Date: March 4, 2010

Time: 2:00 p.m.
Place: Studio A in Speech Arts Building

College of Arts and Humanities 2009 – 2010 Lecture Series features Distinguished Alumna

Emily Kuroda
B.A. Theatre Arts 1977
Award Winning Television, Stage, and Film Actress

Emily Kuroda completed seven years as Mrs. Kim in Warner Brothers’ GILMORE GIRLS. She was also a series regular on UNDER ONE ROOF with Flavor Flav. Other television credits include GREY’S ANATOMY, SIX FEET UNDER, KING OF QUEENS, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, THE PRACTICE, GENERAL HOSPITAL, PORT CHARLES, ER, THE DIVISION, THE AGENCY, PRESIDIO MED and ARLISS. Feature films include HOTEL FOR DOGS, THE SENSI, SHOP GIRL, MINORITY REPORT, STRANGER INSIDE, TWO DAYS IN THE VALLEY, DAD, BROKEN WORDS, ABOUT LOVE (Emmy nominated), WORTH WINNING and the soon to be released PEEP WORLD and AUSSIE AND TED with Dean Caine.

Emily has performed in numerous plays including Luis Alfaro’s STRAIGHT AS A LINE at Playwrights Arena, directed by Jon Rivera, Chay Yew's RED at East West Players and WINTER PEOPLE at the Boston Court. Other theatres include Kirk Douglas Theatre, South Coast Rep, New York’s Public Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Rep, Singapore Repertory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Doolittle Theater, Huntington Theater (Boston), Los Angeles Theater Center, Zephyr Theater, LA Women’s Shakespeare Company, and the Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival.

She is the recipient of five Dramalogue Awards, a Garland Award for outstanding performance, an L.A. Ovation award nomination for Best Lead Actress in a Play, Playwrights Arena Award and the EWP Award for Outstanding Contribution to LA Theater.

For more information visit: http://www.csufresno.edu/artshum/lecture_series/EmilyKuroda.htm





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José A. Díaz, DMA
Associate Dean
College of Arts and Humanities
California State University Fresno

2009 – 2010 Lecture Series features Distinguished Alumna: Hon. Debra Kazanjian

College of Arts and Humanities 2009 – 2010 Lecture Series features Distinguished Alumna:

Hon. Debra Kazanjian, B.A. Speech Communication 1974, Probate Court Judge

Date: February 25, 2010
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Place: Kremen School of Education, Room 172

Judge Kazanjian worked as an attorney for 19 years before being elected Superior Court Judge in 2000. She is currently assigned to the Probate Court. Debra is a past president of the Fresno County Planning Commission, Fresno State Alumni Association, Channel 18 Business Advisory Committee, and Fresno County Young Lawyers Association. She was also chosen as one of the Top Ten Business and professional Women of the Year in 1993.

For more information visit: http://www.csufresno.edu/artshum/lecture_series/DebraKazanjian.htm

Intellectual and Artistic Exploration
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College of Arts and Humanities
California State University Fresno
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“The Jim Learner News Hour”

The Deans’ Series Presents “The Jim Learner News Hour”

Date: Thursday, February 11, 2010
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Place: 2rd Floor of the Henry Madden Library
Auditorium Room 2206, North Wing

Topic: Leadership and Professional Development

In this session of the Deans' Series, join "Jim Learner" (aka Dean McDonald) as he skillfully interviews and delves into the secrets, confessions, and insights of five panelists regarding their leadership techniques and professional development.

Come join us for this lively, fun and engaging exchange! Audience participation is welcomed.

Karen Carey
Karen Carey has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from San Diego State, a master’s degree in school psychology from UNLV and a Ph.D. in School Psychology from the University of Cincinnati. She currently serves as Dean of the Division of Graduate Studies.

Berta Gonzalez
For over 30 years, Dr. González taught in elementary and secondary grades, university level students, professionals and administrators in the United States and in numerous countries abroad. Her current position is Associate Vice President for the Division of Continuing and Global Education.

Ellen Junn
Ellen Junn earned her B.S. from the University of Michigan and Ph.D. from Princeton University in cognitive and developmental psychology and comes to Fresno after teaching at Indiana University, CSU San Bernardino and CSU Fullerton over the past 24 years. She currently serves as Associate Provost.

Peter McDonald
Peter McDonald, Dean of Library Services at Fresno State, began his library career at the New York Public Library in 1987. Since then he has worked at Cornell University, and more recently at Syracuse University. He arrived in Fresno to take up his current position on February 1, 2007.

Dennis Nef
Dr. Nef is an agricultural economist with an interest in food, agriculture, and resource policy and the use of technology in education and project based learning. He currently serves as Associate Vice President and Dean of Undergraduate Studies.

Dave Tyckoson
Dave is the Associate Dean of the Henry Madden Library, California State University - Fresno. Prior to moving to California, he held positions at SUNY-Albany, Iowa State University, and Miami (Ohio) University. He has an undergraduate degree in Physics and a Master’s degree in Library Science, both from the University of Illinois.

“Leadership as Art: Knowledge, Critique, Creativity, Intuition, and Magic Within the Matrix of Power”

THE DEANS’ SERIES PRESENTS:

College of Arts & Humanities
Dean Vida Samiian & Associate Dean José Díaz

Date: Thursday, September 17, 2009
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Place: HML, Auditorium 2206

“Leadership as Art: Knowledge, Critique, Creativity, Intuition, and Magic Within the Matrix of Power”

Reflections from the “Dark Side”: Conversations about Leadership in the Academy. Join us for dialogue and lively conversation on leadership and professional development!

Vida Samiian, Ph.D.
Vida Samiian is Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Linguistics. She joined Fresno State in 1983 after receiving her Ph.D. in Linguistics from UCLA, specializing in Syntax and Iranian Languages. Her research has focused on the structure of non-verbal phrasal categories in Persian, and more recently on impersonal verbs in Iranian languages.

Born and raised in Iran, Dr. Samiian, taught at Tehran's Free University in 1979-80, and has been an activist for women's rights and civil rights in Iran and the United States.

She is co-organizer of the International Iranian Linguistics Conference, which is held in Europe every two years. She has been the recipient of four grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a special initiative titled Fresno Conversations on Pluralism and Identity in 1995.

She currently serves as PI for a Title VI grant from the US Department of Education to launch a Middle East Studies program at Fresno State.

José A. Díaz, Ph.D.
Prior to joining the Music Faculty in 1982, José A. Díaz was actively engaged as a performing musician with orchestras and chamber ensembles in Mexico and across the state of Texas. Since coming to Fresno he continues to contribute to the professional musical and cultural life of the central San Joaquin Valley as performer, adjudicator, clinician, and guest speaker for various musical organizations. Since 1986 he has held the Honorable Edward and Anita Shanahan Principal Endowed Principal Oboe Chair with the Fresno Philharmonic Orchestra, one of California’s most prominent regional orchestras, and performs regularly with the Fresno-based Orpheus Chamber Ensemble and the California Wind Quintet.

Dr. Díaz unpublished dissertation “A Pedagogical Study for Oboe of Four Orchestral Works by Maurice Ravel” has made its way into oboe studios throughout the world. He holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Oboe Performance from the University of Texas at Austin.

Dr. Díaz currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Fresno Coalition for Art, Science, and History, the Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Education Subcommittee, the Youth Orchestras of Fresno, and is a Site-Evaluator for the Accreditation Commission of the National Association of Schools of Music. He was appointed Associate Dean for the College of Arts and Humanities in 2004. José’s many responsibilities as Associate Dean include development and cultivation of collaborative educational programs with artistic and cultural organizations in the Central San Joaquin Valley.

Light refreshments will be served.

Sponsored by the Office of the Provost

Academic Leadership: Magic, Witchcraft, or Sorcery?

DEANS’ SERIES

Reflections from the “Dark Side”: Conversations about Leadership in the Academy

Bill Covino, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m.
Place: Alice Peters Auditorium, UBC 191

Academic Leadership: Magic, Witchcraft, or Sorcery?

With reference to rhetorical touchpoints such as Kenneth Burke's dramatism, J.L. Austin's speech acts, and Mary Daly's Wickedary, I will consider the ways in which our administrative discourse works magic, and how my training in rhetoric has led me to prefer generative magic-discourse (the synergy of multiple perspectives) to arresting magic-discourse ("Stop in the name of the Law!").

William A. Covino became Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs on July 6, 2009. The Provost is the university’s chief academic officer, providing leadership for the University’s eight schools and colleges, grants and research, the library, continuing and global education, and other academic units of the university. The Provost coordinates and implements academic goals, educational policy, curricular planning and development, academic program review, academic personnel actions, faculty and staff development, resource development and allocation, assessment, professional and regional accreditation, and strategic and master academic planning. Provost Covino came to California State University, Fresno after serving as Provost at California State University, Stanislaus, and as Dean of the College of Arts and Letters at Florida Atlantic University. He has also held faculty positions at the University of Illinois at Chicago and San Diego State University. Covino’s administrative priorities and accomplishments have included developing and expanding distinctive academic programs, building greater support for applied scholarly research, improving student learning outcomes, increasing fundraising and partnership opportunities, and encouraging community engagement across the curriculum. His undergraduate and graduate teaching has included courses on rhetoric and literature, and his scholarly record features numerous chapters, articles, and reviews, as well as five books on rhetoric, literacy, imagination, and persuasion. Provost Covino received a PhD in English from the University of Southern California in 1981.

Join us for dialogue and lively conversation on leadership and professional development!

Light refreshments will be served.

Sponsored by the Office of the Provost

Reflections on Teaching and Learning

The Office of the Provost cordially invites everyone to attend the Deans’ Series:
Opening the Classroom Door: Reflections on Teaching and Learning

Reflections, Musings, Metaphors and Confessions to Foster a Campus Community of Candid, Constructive Dialogue & Lively Conversation on Teaching and Learning

College of Arts & Humanities
Dean Vida Samiian & Associate Dean José Díaz

Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Time: 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Place: MCL 281

“How and When Does Learning Best Occur: Characteristics of Engaged Learners in the Arts and Humanities”

Research has shown that students who are engaged in the learning process take charge of their own learning, are inspired and take pleasure in learning, are creative learners making connections at different levels, and are collaborative learners valuing the social dimension of learning. We will look at the diverse range of disciplines in the arts and humanities and discuss some of the best practices for developing an engaged learning community in and outside of the classroom.

Please join us for a collegial and engaging conversation on teaching and learning!

Refreshments will be served