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The Provost's Awards Lecture Series is intended to honor and showcase the recipients of the Provost's Awards and provide them an opportunity to present, share and discuss their work with the campus. Another goal of this series is to raise the level of academic and intellectual discourse among our colleagues and to further enrich connections with others across the campus.
Upcoming Seminars
Date: Thursday, Sept. 29
Time: 3 - 4 p.m.
Location: All seminars will be on Zoom
Meeting ID: 847 0238 3108
Passcode: 255812
Dr. Annette Levi, Department of Agricultural Business
“Effectiveness of High Impact Practices”
2021-2022 – Excellence in Teaching
High Impact Practices (HIP) have been a key pedagogy for nearly two decades in the United States. The objective of implementing HIP is to increase significant educational benefits for students who participate in them, this is especially true for underserved demographic groups. Dr. Annette Levi will review three HIP that she has employed, along with a summary of evidence that shows how HIP leads to student success.
Dr. Steve Blumenshine, CA Water Institute and Department of Biology
“Research Engagement and Opportunities with Students in a Changing California Water Landscape”
2021-2022 – Distinguished Achievement in Research, Scholarship or Creative Accomplishment
Dr. Steve Blumenshine's research discipline is very "place" focused. His research group and collaborators maintain activities on international fronts, but mainly focus on the complex water landscapes and fish of our region in California. This unique hydroscape has required a lot of learning, listening, and adaptation, which are great lessons for learners in any discipline and are fostered among the young developing scientists in the Blumenshine lab group.
Date: Tuesday, Oct. 25
Time: 3 - 4 p.m.
Location: All seminars will be on Zoom
Meeting ID: 876 0007 7381
Passcode: 862232
Dr. Amila Becirbegovic, Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures
"Entangled Memory: The Holocaust and Post-WWII Memory in Bosnia"
2021-2022 – Faculty Service
The question of memory is not just a question of the past; instead, memory is entangled with the responsibilities of future generations. Memory becomes contemporary, in the sense that it absorbs popular cultural artifacts, and organizes them in such a way as not to be forgotten in the present. What is remembered of a genocide depends on how it is represented. As the desire for the “presence” of the past intensifies, the use of images becomes an essential affective source, acting as a transferential space between the past and the present, making it possible to transmit memory even to those who lay no direct claim to the past. This presentation investigates how visual media, such as photography, is used as a tool to investigate and understand genocide through the case study of Bosnia.
Mai Der Vang, Department of English
“Toward a Poetics of Reckoning: A Reading and Discussion on YELLOW RAIN”
2021-2022 – Promising New Faculty
In "Yellow Rain," I re-investigate the issue of a chemical biological weapon that was used against Hmong refugees following the end to the U.S. wars in Vietnam and Laos. Over time, the Hmong stories were discredited and invalidated. Through the offering of poems in combination with archival research, my book attempts to challenge the dismissing of these allegations while pushing against the erasure of this history. To disassemble and reassemble yellow rain, I sought refuge in poetry’s transformative and alchemical ability to offer its own kind of truth. I researched declassified documents, wrote poems, assembled collages, excerpted from reports, wrote more poems, ripped pages up, assembled again, snipped images and so on. All in an effort to offer another account of yellow rain from my perspective as a daughter of Hmong refugees belonging to a community that was directly affected by it.
Date: Thursday, Dec. 1
Time: 3 - 4 p.m.
Location: All seminars will be on Zoom
Meeting ID: 881 0160 9304
Passcode: 020638
Dr. Mark Baldis, Department of Kinesiology
"The Lessons of Physical Activity for Health and Wellness”
2021-2022 – Outstanding Lecturer
Dr. Mark Baldis will provide the audience with the seven most important things that he has learned about physical activity while teaching 20 Years in the Kinesiology Department.
Dr. Janine Nkosi, Department of Sociology
“Scholars in Action: Teaching & Learning to Advance Land and Housing Justice”
2021-2022 – Outstanding Lecturer
Join Fresno State Educator-Activist Dr. Janine Nkosi, lecturer in the Department of Sociology and regional organizer and adviser with Faith in the Valley, as she uplifts the powerful work of university-community partners, including students, residents, and community organizations, as they help advance land and housing justice in the Central Valley and California. Learn how she’s striving to center lived experience, creativity, anti-racism and social action in her research and teaching.
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