Encina Commons bustled with chatter as students, faculty and visitors gathered for the 2024 South Asian Literature and Art (SALA) Festival on Saturday and Sunday. The two-day Bay Area festival has celebrated…
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Inside the Junk Drawer: My journals
Kaylee Chan explores memory and nostalgia by riffling through the ‘junk’ drawer with items that defined her childhood. “In the future, I’ll probably look back [and] think that my current 13-year-old self…
Green Library Special Collections: The magic of medieval manuscripts
For most students, the closest opportunity to directly engage with medieval European psalms, classical Chinese poetry, early Islamic manuscripts or other historical artifacts is observing glass-enclosed displays at a museum or archive….
TTYL: What ‘The Giver’ gives
In her bi-weekly column, Text to your life (TTYL), Sonnet Xu examines classics from years past that are timely in their messages to this day. Maybe the classics still have something to…
‘Against all odds’: Sarris speaks on storytelling
“We’re complicated people who suffered a traumatic history, but we have humor and dignity and against all odds,” Greg Sarris M.A. ’81, Ph.D ’89 said to an audience of over 100 people…