Oxford University Press has published “Silencing the Self Across Cultures: Depression and Gender in the Social World,” co-authored and edited by Western Washington University Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies Dana C. Jack.

Western Washington University will host its third annual "It's Your Arboretum Day" from 1 to 4 p.m., Saturday, June 5, at the Outdoor Learning Center, located on the Huntoon Trail in the western part of the Sehome Arboretum adjoining WWU's campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Dana Jack, a professor at Western Washington University's Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies, will present information from her newly published, co-edited book from 3 to 4 p.m. Friday, May 21, in Academic Instructional Center Room 304 on the WWU campus.

Jack's book, "Silencing the Self Across Cultures: Depression and Gender in the Social World," includes 21 contributors from thirteen countries: Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, Haiti, India, Israel, Nepal, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Scotland and the United States.

Western Washington University will open its doors and campus to alumni and their families, parents and the community for the inaugural Back 2 Bellingham Weekend, Thursday evening to Sunday, May 13-16.

Outdoor adventure, student performances, planetarium shows, a music festival, athletic events, food and talks by distinguished speakers are just some of the more than 100 activities planned.

Theodore Bestor, the chair of Harvard University’s Anthropology Department and a 1973 graduate of Western Washington University’s Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies, will present “Global Tuna,” the keynote address of WWU’s Japan Week, at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, May 12, in Parks Hall 146.

The talk is free and open to the public.

Midori Takagi, a WWU Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies associate professor and interim director of American Cultural Studies, will speak at 7 p.m. today, May 6, at the downtown YWCA. The title of her lecture is "Media Images of Communities of Color."

The talk is part of the YWCA's celebration of Stand Against Racism.

Midori Takagi is an associate professor at Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies at Western Washington University. She is a third-generation Japanese American born in New York City. She received her B.A. from Oberlin College, an M.A. in history from American University in Washington, D.C. and a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University in New York.

Victor Clark Alfaro, founder and director of the Binational Center for Human Rights in Tijuana and lecturer in the Latin American Studies program at San Diego State University, will present two lectures on the Western Washington University campus today. Both lectures will realte to issues of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Anne Mosness, a former Alaska fisherwoman, is president of the Women's Maritime Association, a Food and Society Policy Fellow and co-producer of the Bluefestival. She spoke at Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies' World Issues Forum on April 21.

Mosness explores the impacts of industrial production of fish, shrimp and shellfish on coastal ecologies, communities and economies. Similarities to factory farms on land should increase our concerns, yet too often politicians embrace corporations that are replacing small and sustainable family businesses.

In celebration of National Poetry Month, Western Washington University Libraries is hosting a poetry reading by WWU’s Mary Cornish from 4 to 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 13, in WWU’s Wilson Library Skybridge and a poetry “open mike” from 4 to 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 14, also in the Skybridge.

Joseph Trimble (Psychology, WCE) with Maria Scharron-del Rio (Brooklyn College) and Guillermo Bernal (University of Puerto Rico) recently published a book chapter titled "The itinerant researcher: Ethical and methodological issues in conducting cross-cultural mental health research." The chapter appears in the edited book by Dana Crowley Jack (Fairhaven College) and Alisha Ali (NYU) titled "Cultural perspectives on women's depression: Self-silencing, psychological distress and recovery." The book is published by Oxford University Press.<

Western Washington University’s Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies has announced the upcoming spring slate of presenters for its annual World Issues Forum, with subjects ranging from violence on the U.S./Mexico border to China and neoliberal globalization to preventing drug abuse.

The following forums are free and open to the public, and are from noon to 1:20 p.m. every Wednesday in the Fairhaven College Auditorium, unless noted otherwise:

Wednesday, April 7

This video was made for the City of Bellingham by 2009 Fairhaven alumnus Chris Koser, who works as a director of photography for Hand Crank Films in town. The video was created as an invitation to Google Fiber for Communities.

The video features lots of community members, and the main actress (the little girl) is Meixing Rain, daughter of another Fairhaven graduate, Jordan Rain (2009), also known as Yogoman.