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Past Events
March
Explore SDSU
The SDSU Arts and Letters Alumni Chapter would like to invite you to Explore SDSU
Saturday, March 17, 2012, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Explore SDSU Open House is a free all-campus event featuring an information fair, academic program workshops, tours and open houses. This is a great opportunity for future students to explore what it means to be an Aztec for life.
We also invite all SDSU alumni back to campus to reconnect with favorite programs and departments, enjoy live entertainment, visit the alumni center, and explore campus to see what’s changed.
Start your day by visiting the Parma Payne Goodall Alumni Center. Stop by the Arts and Letters Alumni Chapter table located in the front lobby. Meet chapter board members and learn how you can get involved with the Arts and Letters Alumni Chapter.
Before heading onto the main campus, be sure to visit the 41st Annual Pow Wow, sponsored by the American Indian Alumni Chapter, located on the alumni center’s Sunset Lawn. From there, you can leisurely stroll onto campus and start your journey to EXPLORE SDSU 2012!
Note: Campus parking is FREE for the day! Suggested parking locations: West side of campus: parking structure IV or V. Or, ride the trolley and then walk West to the Alumni Center located on 55th Street, across the street from Viejas Arena.
January 2012
WINE TASTING WITH ARTS AND LETTERS ALUMNI CHAPTER
DATE: Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Time: 5pm-7pm
Reservations Required: $25 members and $35 non-members
Place: Wine Pub
2907 Shelter Island Drive #108
San Diego, CA 92106
www.thewinepubsd.com
Parking: Parking is free in front of the wine pub or in the Union Bank parking lot.
Come network with Arts and Letters Alumni and meet Dean Paul Wong and his staff. There will be a Silent Auction with proceeds going to student scholarships.
October 2011
Phi Beta Kappa Lecture
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
3:45pm
Aztec Athletics Center Auditorium (View the Map)
ALAC is proud to help promote the Phi Beta Kappa lecture featuring Joanne M. Ferraro, Professor and Chair of History at SDSU.
For centuries Venice enjoyed the alluring reputation of being "The Most Serene Republic," a myth that inspired an elaborate ceremonial symbolism and iconography. Public space was decorated with icons of Justice and Liberty; votive churches stood as symbols of pious devotion for staged processions; and Venice was represented as the Queen of Virginity. The pageantry, however, did not mask the hardships of poverty, prostitution, and sexually transmitted disease. While authorities strove to bind passions and shield virtue, courtesans, heretics, and fake saints foiled their idealizations, filling the floating city with pleasure and vice. Through the period art and architecture, Ferraro explores both the civic energies that sustained Venice's ideal public and sacred symbolism and the pitfalls of arranged marriage, female religious confinement, and clerical celibacy that spurred illicit sex and illegitimacy.
Joanne M. Ferraro (PhD UCLA, 1983), Professor and Chair of History at SDSU, is an historian of Renaissance and early modern Venice. A specialist in the history of marriage and the family, she has published Family and Public Life in Brescia, 1580-1650: The Foundations of Power in the Venetian State (Cambridge, 1993); Marriage Wars in Late Renaissance Venice (Oxford, 2001), which was awarded best book from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian Historical Studies; and Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice: Illicit Sex in the Republic of Venice, 1557-1789 (Johns Hopkins, 2008). Ferraro has received research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Gladys Krieble Foundation. She is an "International Associate" of Venice's Ateneo Veneto and serves as a Vice President of the American Friends of the Marciana Library. Ferraro is currently writing a history of Venice for Cambridge University Press.
Stay for the reception following the lecture for a chance to meet Dr. Ferraro. The reception is graciously hosted by the College of Arts and Letters.
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