Events
Exploring the periods prior to the contemporary use of the Latinx term, this panel will discuss the important avant-garde contributions of artists working in the 1970s and 1980s.
The 19th Annual Newport Beach Film Festival, presented by Pacific Sales, presents this year’s Mexican Spotlight film: La Gran Promesa, directed, produced, and co-written by Jorge Ramirez-Suarez.
Castillo-Garsow, post-doctoral fellow at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University, will perform a reading from her first volume of poetry, Coatlicue: Eats the Apple (VerseSeven, 2016).
This conference is brought to you by an alliance of the Latin American Centers at UCLA, Stanford University, and the University of Utah to promote the study of Nahuatl.
Situating “Latina/o” within the hemispheric and historical circumstances of multiple imperial formations and colonial entanglements, the Critical Latinx Indigeneities precoference focuses on the experience of indigenous migrants from Latin America to the United States.
New York Times visual reporter, Walter Thompson-Hernández, will give a talk on the role of public scholarship. Kelly Lytle Hernández, Professor of History and African American Studies at UCLA and Interim Director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, will moderate this discussion about reaching broad audiences and doing public scholarship
From May 17-19, 2018, the American Indian Studies Center at University of California, Los Angeles and its Southern California co-hosts will welcome NAISA, the largest scholarly organization devoted to Indigenous issue
This panel will examine policies, legacies, and discourses related to borders and immigration, considering them in historical as well as current US contexts.
The focus of the symposium is to examine how art and music are shaping social, cultural, and political identity in the US-Mexico border region.
For the last 50 years of Chican@ Studies across the US, departments of various origins are seeing a shift in purpose. The importance of Chican@ Studies historically and contemporarily is to dismantle hegemonic paradigms within the westernized university. It is to allow students to fully understand three questions: 1. Who are we? 2. What is our situation in the world? and 3. What do we do about it? In this way we are historicizing, contextualizing, and politicizing our research, studying, and praxis as students in the university.
This panel reunites emerging scholars and experts specializing in U.S.-Mexico transborder citizenships and experiences.
(Image: "Perpendicular Borders" by Kendy Rivera Cárdenas)
Join us for a symposium commemorating the 25th anniversary of the 1993 sit-in and hunger strike for Chicana/o Studies.