Date: 10/20/2009

The University Police Department's Annual Safety Fair will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, October 20, on El Paseo de Cesar E. Chavez. Learn how to maximize personal and community safety from local, state and federal officials. Read more on the event.

Lane Hirabayashi, chair of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, will present Japanese American Resettlement through the Lens, at 6 p.m. Tuesday, October 20, in King Library. This book features photographs by Carl Hikaru Iwasaki, the last surviving full-time War Relocation Authority photographer. Iwasaki, a San José native, will attend the event.

Roberto J. Gonzalez, associate professor of anthropology, is next in the University Scholar Series. He will present, "American Counterinsurgency: Human Science and the Human Terrain," at noon Wednesday, October 21, in King 255/257. The military embeds anthropologists within combat units; Gonzalez will discuss using culture as a weapon. Sponsors include the Office of the Provost, King Library and Spartan Bookstore.

Daniel Livingstone, lecturer at the University of the West of Scotland School of Computing, is next in the School of Library and Information Science Colloquia. He will discuss educational uses of games, simulations and virtual worlds at noon Wednesday, October 21, in Clark 304. The talk will be streamed live on the SLIS Second Life island. Read more on the event.

Alfred Spector, Google vice president of research and special initiatives, is next in the Silicon Valley Leaders Symposium. He will discuss research and innovation at Google at noon Thursday, October 22, in Engineering 189. Read more on the symposium, sponsored by the Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering.