Events

Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026
6:30–8 p.m.
Storm Hall West (011) SDSU

Free & Open to the Public
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Artist Talk + Q&A
Moderated by Neftalie Williams and DGK Skateboards athlete, Adrianne Sloboh

Join an engaging conversation with legendary African American, skateboarding, youth culture, and sports photographer Atiba Jefferson. Recognized as one of the most influential visual storytellers of his generation, Atiba has captured defining images of icons such as Kobe Bryant and LeBron James, as well as musical artists including Interpol, Turnstile, and Tyler, the Creator. As the director of the ESPN-produced, Emmy-nominated, Clio award-winning documentary “Monochrome,” he continues to expand his impact across mediums, exploring the intersections of culture, sport, music, and community.

With a client roster that includes cultural leaders like A$AP Rocky, Pharrell, and the late Virgil Abloh, Atiba effortlessly merges all aspects of youth culture into commercial and editorial work for brands such as Vans, Nike, Thrasher, Reebok, Oakley, Off White, and the Olympic Games. At this event, the Canon Ambassador will discuss a retrospective of his extensive career, while offering insight into the future of skateboarding, media industries, entrepreneurship and opportunities for meaningful social change.

Book Signing  
Professor Neftalie Williams will also sign his new book, “The Skateboard Life: Movers, Shakers, Makers & Rulebreakers: The Quintessential Story of Skateboard Culture.”

Sponsored by SDSU Center for Skateboarding, Action Sports, the Social Change and the Emma and Gus Thompson Black Resource Center, the Surf/Skate Collaborative, and the College of Arts and Letters

Sports in the Borderlands, the Borderlands of Sports - A Case From Skateboarding

A talk by Andrea Buchetti, Ph.D. (University of Padua)

Thursday, December 4, 2025
4-6 p.m.
in Storm Hall 205

Reception with Italian refreshments to follow

Borderlands are diffuse cultural matrices through which power, desire, and social creativity are negotiated daily. I articulate this perspective by building on my fieldwork on skateboarding at the U.S.-Mexico border in dialogue with the contemporary anthropology of sports and popular cultures.

Sponsored by the Departments of Chicana and Chicano Studies and Sociology, the Center for Latin American Studies, and Comparative International Studies (Italian Program), the Center for Skateboarding, Action Sports, and Social Change, the Surf and Skate Studies Collaborative, and the Master of Arts in Liberal Arts & Sciences (MALAS) Program.

The Stoke Sessions 2.0: A Conference on the Culture, History, Science and Politics of Surfing and Skateboarding

October 9-12, 2025

Join the San Diego State University Stoke Sessions 2.0 Conference, bringing together scholars from all backgrounds and disciplines – humanities, social and natural sciences, cultural studies, ethnic studies, Indigenous studies, sports studies, and more in a comprehensive examination of surfing and skateboarding.

Thursday, Oct. 9 | 6:30 P.M. | Keynotes
SDSU Conrad Prebys Aztec
Student Union Theatre

Steve Van Doren | Vans
V.P. Of Marketing and Events

Bryce Wettstein
American 2x Olympian Skateboarder

Oct. 10-11 | Papahe’enalu Shaping Demonstration

Tula Community Center
Tom Pōhaku Stone
Kanalu (38), Hawaiian Boarding Co.
Shaper, Cultural Icon and Historian

Free & Open to the Public

Womxn in Skateboarding: Tales of the Times 

Thursday, March 27, 2025
5- 7 p.m.
@Love Library 430-431

Skate Session
@Arts­Rec in Barrio Logan
8 p.m.

Panelists: Paige Belinte, Dl'orr Greenwood, Amelia Brodka, Natalie Porter, Rosie Archie, andAdrianne Sloboh

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Finding Strength Through Adversity

Thursday, March 6, 2025
12-2 p.m.
Scripps Cottage

Keynote Speaker Joe Buffalo presents as part of the Native & Indigenous Research & Arts Symposium.

As a pillar of strength and perseverance, Joe is an inspirational pro skater, actor, public speaker, and advocate on Indigenous health.

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