CSRC Newsletter - June 2016

Volume 14, Number 9

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• Robb Hernández, assistant professor of Latino literature in the Department of English at UC Riverside and a CSRC IAC visiting researcher for 2015-16, completed his book manuscript “Finding AIDS: Archival Body/Archival Space and the Chicano Avant-garde.” This work documents the impact of the AIDS crisis on artists’ archival practices, including collecting and preservation. Hernández notes that the manuscript “resets the evidentiary terms, actors, and aesthetics central to Chicano avant-gardism(s) through a queer retelling of its multicentric formations.” With CSRC support, Hernández presented his work-in-progress at Pratt Institute, Manhattan College, Cal State LA, Latino Art Now, and Queer Biennial II. He also published essays in Art AIDS America (University of Washington Press, 2015), Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories (SUNY Press, 2015), and Curatorial Dreams: Critics Imagine Exhibitions (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016). He is currently developing  a co-curated dossier for Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies and completing work on Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas, an exhibition that will open at UC Riverside’s ARTSblock in Fall 2017 as part of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative.

• Juanita Heredia, professor of Spanish at Northern Arizona University and CSRC visiting scholar, advanced her research on the past thirty years of South American Latina literature and culture by examining the Tatiana de la Tierra Papers at the CSRC. As part of this project she will publish an article, “Migrating to the City: Negotiating Gender and Race in Marie Arana’s Lima Nights,” in the journal Hispania in September 2016. The centenary issue of Hispania, to be released in 2017, will include her essay “Transnational U.S. Latino/a Literature: From the 1960s to the Twenty-First Century.” During her year at the CSRC, Heredia was invited to give a talk on transnationalism and U.S. Latino/a literature, which will be published in a book collection edited by the directors of the Latino studies program at Casa de las Américas in Havana, Cuba. She also took trips to Colombia and Peru to access materials relevant to her research on Marie Arana.

• A Post-Screening Discussion of No Más Bebés with Renee Tajima-Peña and Virginia Espino (April 13, 2016) (video) A post-screening Q&A with the filmmakers of the critically acclaimed documentary No Más Bebés, Renee Tajima-Peña (producer/director and professor of Asian American studies) and Virginia Espino (producer). The film tells the story of a small group of Mexican immigrant women who sued county doctors, the state, and the U.S. government after being sterilized at Los Angeles County–USC Medical Center during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The discussion was the first event in a three-part symposia series co-sponsored by the CSRC, the UCLA Blum Center on Poverty and Health in Latin America, and the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity and supported by the UCLA Office of Interdisciplinary and Cross Campus Affairs.

• Talk: Omar Valerio-Jiménez presents  “Owning History: Mexican American Activists and the U.S.-Mexican War” (May 5, 2016) (video) Valerio-Jiménez, associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas at San Antonio, discusses how the transmission of memories of the U.S.–Mexican War (1846–48) continues to shape Mexican American identity.

• Workshop: “Preserving Textiles in CSRC Collections” (April 29, 2016) (video) Costume and textile conservator Laleña Vellanoweth leads a hands-on workshop in preserving and packing costumes and garments from the CSRC’s Sal Castro Collection, the Resurrection Boulevard Papers, the Ricardo Muñoz Papers, and the Alex Donis Collection. Vellanoweth is the 2015-16 Andrew W. Mellon Conservation Education Fellow in the UCLA/Getty Graduate Program in Archaeological and Ethnographic Conservation.

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