40th Anniversary Events
AISC = American Indian Studies Center
AASC = Asian American Studies Center
Bunche = Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies
CSRC = Chicano Studies Research Center
February 2010 Events
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| Monday, February 1, 2010 Hosted by AASC 7:30 pm |
Refugee Nation at UCLA | Ackerman Grand Ballroom | |
Description: Written and performed by Leilani Chan and Ova Saopeng, this performance is based on the stories of Laotian Refugees and their descendants. More than just a telling of Laotian American history, the two-person performance eloquently touches upon issues relating to the refugee experience, assimilation, generation gap, and mental health using drama, film, music, and audience interaction, and personalizes these issues through a genuine Laotian American perspective. This event is open and free to the public. |
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| Wednesday, February 3, 2010 Hosted by CSRC 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm |
Patricia Gandara on Forbidden Language: English Learners and Restrictive Language Policies | Faculty Center | |
Description: Patricia Gandara, UCLA Education Professor, will be discussing her book, Forbidden Language: English Learners and Restrictive Language Policies. The book examines the effects of restrictive language policies for students and teachers in California, Arizona, and Massachusetts. The discussion will be followed by a Q & A session and a book signing. |
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| Thursday, February 4, 2010 Hosted by AISC 5:00 pm |
Curating Beyond the Chief: | Royce Hall 306 | |
Description: A public lecture by Robert Warrior, Professor and Director of American Indian Studies and Professor of English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. |
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| Friday, February 5, 2010 Hosted by All Centers 8:30 am - 6:00 pm |
"Thinking Gender" Conference | UCLA Faculty Center | More Information |
Description: The four Ethnic Studies Centers and the Center for the Study of Women will host “Thinking Gender 2010,” a public conference highlighting graduate student research on the intersection of ethnicity and gender across all disciplines and historical periods. |
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| Saturday, February 6, 2010 Hosted by CSRC 8:30 am - 3:00 pm |
English Learners in California Symposium | UCLA Lab School (330 Charles E. Young Dr. North) | |
Description: The UCLA Lab School is presenting a symposium that will explore the advantages and challenges that educators encounter in working with English Learners. Javier Iribarren, CSRC assistant director, Carlos Haro, CSRC former assistant director, and Lindsay Perez-Huber, CSRC IAC awardee, will participate in the symposium in representation of the CSRC. Registration required. |
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| Monday, February 8, 2010 Hosted by AISC 12:15 pm - 1:45 pm |
UCLA School of Law - Critical Race Theory Speaker’s Series | UCLA Law School | |
Description: A lecture by Matthew Fletcher, Associate Professor, Michigan State University College of Law and Director of the Indigenous Law and Policy Center. |
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| Monday, February 8, 2010 Hosted by AASC 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm |
Breaking Ground Speaker Series: IAC Postdoc Fellow Thuy Vo Dang Talk | Charles E. Young Research Library, Presentation Room | |
Description: 2009-10 IAC Postdoctoral Fellow Thuy Vo Dang will present her research about Vietnamese American anticommunism and refugee cultural politics. The talk is co-sponsored by the Asian American Studies Graduate Students Association, the Asian American Studies Department, UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Vietnamese Student Union, Southeast Asian Campus Learning Education and Retention (SEA CLEAR), Higher Opportunity Program for Education (HOPE), PacTies, the UCLA Library, and the Institute of American Cultures (partial list). |
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| Wednesday, February 10, 2010 Hosted by Bunche Center for African American Studies 12:00 pm |
Race for Cures: Black Bodies & the Production of Uncertainty at Medicine’s Frontier | Haines Hall 135 | More Information |
Description: Professor Ruha Benjamin will be the featured speaker at the winter quarter Bunche Center Circle of Thought. The Bunche Center Circle of Thought Lecture Series is designed to provide a diverse campus audience an opportunity to hear groundbreaking and exciting research work of UCLA faculty, graduate students and visiting scholars on African American Studies in an informal setting. |
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| Thursday, February 11, 2010 Hosted by Bunche Center for African American Studies 5:30 pm Reception - 7:00 pm Lecture |
Transcending Race: The Cases of Ralph Bunche and Barack Obama | Covel Commons, Grand Horizon Room, 3rd Floor (UCLA) | More Information |
Description: The Fourth Bunche Chair Lecture will feature Charles Henry, Professor of African American Studies at UC Berkeley. The topic is "Transcending Race: The Cases of Ralph Bunche and Barack Obama." |
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| Thursday, February 11, 2010 Hosted by AASC 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm |
Breaking Ground Speaker Series: Professor Valerie Matsumoto | Campbell Hall 3232 | |
Description: Professor Matsumoto will be discussing Nisei girls and young women in Los Angeles and their involvement in Nisei literary networks and other cultural activities in pre-war Little Tokyo. Co-sponsored by the Asian American and Pacific Island Studies Undergraduate Association (APIUA), and the Asian American Studies Graduate Students Association, and the Asian American Studies Department. |
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| Friday, February 12, 2010 Hosted by CSRC 9:00 am - 6:00 pm |
"Sex y Corazon" | James West Alumni Center Conference room | More Information |
Description: The Cesar Chavez Department and the CSRC are presenting the Feminist and Queer Theory Symposium, which will look at the last fifteen years of Chicana/o Studies and examine how Chicana/o queer and feminist scholars have changed the field. The symposium will feature over twenty-five Chicana and Chicano scholars and practitioners whose work intersects race, class, gender and sexuality paradigms within both traditional and interdisciplinary fields. |
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| Wednesday, February 17, 2010 Hosted by AASC 11:30 am - 12:45 pm |
2010 Census Student Workshop | Student Activities Center Basement (UCLA) | |
Description: As an official designated U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census Information Center, AASC is holding a workshop for all students about the 2010 Census. Come and find out why the 2010 Census matters. How does it affect students? Learn how to fill out the Census form and how the government and researchers will utilize the information resulting from the 2010 Census. Cosponsored by UCLA CPO, Asian American and Pacific Island Studies Undergraduate Association (APIUA), Asian Pacific Coalition, PacTies, Thai Smakom, and Vietnamese Student Union. |
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| Thursday, February 18, 2010 Hosted by CSRC 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm |
Film Screening: Frontierland/Fronterilandia | CSRC Library in Haines Hall 144 (UCLA) | More Information |
Description: CSRC will host a screening of Frontierland a film by esse Lerner and Rubén Ortiz Torres. |
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| Monday, February 22, 2010 Hosted by AISC 12:15 pm - 1:45 pm |
UCLA School of Law - Critical Race Theory Speaker’s Series “Genomics, Biological Anthropology and the Construction of Whiteness as Property” Genomics, Biological Anthropology and the Construction of Whiteness as Property |
UCLA Law School | |
Description: A Lecture by Kim Tallbear, Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and Environmental Policy, UC Berkeley. |
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| Tuesday, February 23, 2010 Hosted by IAC & All Centers 7:00 pm |
Panel: "Art and Public Space in Los Angeles" | Hammer Museum | |
Description: "Art and Public Space in Los Angeles" is a discussion about public art, community identity, art and activism, and new models for socially-engaged art practice that is co-sponsored by all the ethnic studies centers. The event will be moderated by Chon Noriega, director of the Chicano Studies Research Center. Panelists include Edgar Arceneaux, founder and director of Watts House Project; artist Sandra de la Loza, founder of Arts and Action; and Christine Y. Kim, associate curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and co-founder of the public art organization Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND). For more information visit: http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs/detail/program_id/368. |
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| Wednesday, February 24, 2010 Hosted by CSRC 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm |
Power Politics by Karen Brodkin, Book Signing and Discussion | CSRC Library in Haines Hall 144 | |
Description: The CSRC in conjunction with UCLA’s Anthropology, the Center for the Study of Women, and Women Studies present a book discussion and signing by Karen Brodkin, Anthropology Professor. Dr. Brodkin will discuss her book Power Politics: environmental activism in South Los Angeles, a study of a strategic grassroots campaign in South Los Angeles. |
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| Sunday, February 28, 2010 Hosted by IAC & All Centers 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm |
Family Festival - Exhibition Opening Art, Activism, Access: 40 Years of Ethnic Studies at UCLA | Fowler Museum at UCLA | More Information |
Description: Come enjoy a day of poetry readings, musical performances, and family art workshops, in celebration of 40 years of ethnic studies at UCLA. Poets: Deborah and Georgiana Sanchez, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Beau Sia of Russell Simmons/HBO Def Poetry Jam, John Densmore, formerly of The Doors. Live music on the Fowler Terrace: Ozomatli's Raul Pacheco and the Immaculate Conception, The Kupa Bird Singers, Kenny Burrell and multi-talented tap dancer Chester Whitmore, The Grammy-nominated members of Hiroshima. |
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| February 2010 Hosted by AASC TBA |
Census 2010 Information Session | Community venue TBA | Contact Person: Melany Dela-Cruz Viesca |
Description: 2010 Census: Be Counted! Presentations with UCLA students, faculty, and staff. |
