Over the past decade or so, "True Crime" as an entertainment has become extremely popular. Streaming services have hundreds of series on the topic, and 50% of the top charting podcasts are True Crime Podcasts. What is this human fascination that has become such entertainment? Is this a form of trauma porn?

Join ASU's Center for Science and the Imagination in partnership with Majestic Neighborhood Cinema in Tempe to view Outland on the silver screen. This screening is part of a greater film series: The History of the Future, exploring gripping, cinematic visions of the future across the past four decades.

Join us Wednesday, Feb. 15 at 7 p.m. for a screening of Outland, an off-world crime thriller from 1981 that depicts drug trafficing gripping the workforce of a mining colony on Jupiter's moon, Io.

Join ASU's Center for Science and the Imagination in partnership with Majestic Neighborhood Cinema in Tempe to view Soylent Green on the silver screen. This screening is part of a greater film series: The History of the Future, exploring gripping, cinematic visions of the future across the past four decades.

Join us Wednesday, Jan. 18 at 7 p.m. for a screening of Soylent Green, an ecological thriller from 1973 that depicts food insecurity and overpopulation in the (then) far-off future year of 2022.

Join Devils4Devils, the Accessibility Coalition, IfYou’reReadingtThis.org and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention for the Out of the Darkness Campus Walk at Arizona State University on March 18. It's free to register or create a team! Funds raised benefit the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and their work to fund research, create educational programs, advocate for public policy and support survivors of suicide loss.

Join us for a preview screening of an exclusive hour-long excerpt of Love in the Time of Fentanyl, followed by a community discussion with local experts and activists working in this field.
This upcoming episode from the acclaimed PBS documentary series Independent Lens, Love in the Time of Fentanyl, takes us inside a safe injection site that gives hope to a marginalized community ravaged by fentanyl deaths.
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Date: Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Arizona State University welcomes sports journalist Jemele Hill as a guest in its TomorrowTalks series. Hill will discuss her memoir "Uphill" (2022) in an online event on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023 at 6 p.m. Arizona / MST (5 p.m. PST / 7 p.m. CST / 8 p.m. EST). The conversation will be facilitated by ASU’s Aviva Dove-Viebahn, an assistant professor of film and media studies in the Department of English and a contributing editor at Ms. Magazine.

Get into a festive spirit at the Sun Devil Generations’ Winter Fun with Sparky event! Sun Devil families of all ages are invited to take a family photo with Sparky outside Old Main. After your photo, come inside for hot cocoa and cookies, winter crafts and stories being read by ASU students!

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