2008

Documentary Screening
El Mexico mas Cercano a Japon/The Closest Mexico to Japan, a documentary film about the Japanese community of Tijuana, Mexico, will be shown on Thursday, May 8, 5:30–7:30 p.m., in the Presentation Room (room 11348) at the UCLA Charles Young Research Library. The film covers the history of this community before and after World War II, when Tijuana’s Japanese were forced to relocate to Mexico’s interior. The film includes images taken by José Genaro Kingo Nonaka, Tijuana’s first official photographer, between 1924 and 1942. The screening is co-sponsored by the CSRC; the Asian American Studies Center and Department; the George and Sakaye Aratani Endowed Chair on the Japanese American Internment, Redress, and Community; the Charles Young Research Library; the Asian American Graduate Student Association; and the Nikkei Student Union. The event is free and open to the public, and no RSVP is necessary. Parking is available for $8.00 in Lot 5. More information about the film is available on the San Diego Union-Tribune’s website.

Women and East L.A. Punk
Colin Gunckel, CSRC arts project coordinator, will co-curate a multimedia exhibition at the Claremont Museum of Art. The exhibition, Vexing: Female Voices from East L.A. Punk, opens on Sunday, May 18, and runs through the end of August. It surveys the burgeoning punk rock scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s in East Los Angeles. A historical investigation of the women who were at the forefront of this movement, Vexing explores their lasting legacies and contemporary practices. The title of the exhibition is taken from The Vex, a club housed at Self Help Graphics and Art that became a home for Eastside bands. The documentary-style exhibition includes photo, video and audio archives, as well as studio work encompassing painting, installation, writings, and performances. The museum will host an opening reception on Saturday, May 17, with live performances by several artists featured in the exhibition. For more information visit the museum’s website.

Presentation by Laura Aguilar
In conjunction with UCLA Professor Alicia Gaspar de Alba’s “Chicana Lesbian Literature” class, Chicana photographer Laura Aguilar will screen her video Untouched Landscape and discuss the use of body, memory, and landscape in her work. Her talk will be on Tuesday, May 20, 3:00–4:00 p.m., in the CSRC Library (144 Haines Hall). The screening is co-sponsored by the CSRC, the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies, the Department of Women’s Studies, and the Center for the Study of Women.

Latina/o Education Summit
The theme for the CSRC’s third education summit is “K-12 Education: What Can School Board Members and School Superintendents Do to Assure Student Success?” The summit brings together school board members and school superintendents from the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and the Montebello Unified School District (MUSD), which have the largest enrollments of Latino students in the country, and the Los Angeles County Office of Education, which provides services to the county’s eighty school districts. These policy makers will identify and explore factors at the primary and secondary levels that are critical if Latina/o students are to make successful transitions through the education pipeline. The summit will take place Friday, May 23, at the UCLA Faculty Center, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. To register please visit the education summit website. No registration fee is required.

Presentation of Generations of Exclusion
The CSRC is proud to host UCLA sociologists Edward E. Telles and Vilma Ortiz, who will present and sign their new book, Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation, and Race, at a reception on Thursday, May 29, 3:00–5:00 p.m., at the UCLA Faculty Center’s Hacienda Room. The much-anticipated Generations of Exclusion is the most comprehensive scholarly analysis yet on the economic, educational, linguistic, social, and political status of Mexican Americans. The groundbreaking study surveys four generations of Mexican Americans in Los Angeles and San Antonio. The authors’ extraordinary work was prompted by the discovery of boxes of original files at UCLA from a 1965 survey of Mexican Americans titled “The Mexican American Study Project.” Most of the respondents of the 1965 study were re-interviewed, as were their children, who are now adults. Generations of Exclusion is the first major survey to systematically examine changes in long-term intra- and inter-generational socioeconomic status and ethnic identity within any ethnic group. Parking is available for $8.00 in Lot 2, located just south of the Faculty Center. Visitors should enter the UCLA campus at Hilgard Ave. and Westholme Blvd. and proceed to the parking kiosk.

 

Phantom Sightings: Opening Symposium
Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement, an exhibition developed through an ongoing agreement between the CSRC and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is the largest exhibition of cutting-edge Chicano art ever presented at the museum. The opening symposium on Saturday, April 5, “Phantom Sites: Rethinking Identity and Place in Chicano Art,” will explore the connection between the politics of identity and contemporary Chicano art. The symposium was organized by exhibition co-curators Chon A. Noriega, Rita Gonzalez, and Howard Fox. “Phantom Sites,” which is free and open to the public, will be held in LACMA’s Bing Theater, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. The exhibition continues at LACMA through September 1, then travels to venues in New York, Texas, and Mexico. The exhibition catalog was published by the University of California Press. For more information visit the LACMA website.

Lecture and Book Signing
The CSRC and the UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library are pleased to host Laura E. Gómez, who will present "Manifest Destiny's Legacy: Race in America at the Turn of the 20th Century" on Tuesday, April 15, 4:00–6:00 p.m., in the Research Library Presentation Room. Dr. Gómez will also sign her new book, Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race. In Manifest Destinies Dr. Gómez traces the origins of Mexican Americans as a racial group in the United States by looking at the Mexican population in the portion of the Mexican territory that is now New Mexico. She explores the construction of racial status from the perspectives of law, history, and sociology. Dr. Gómez is a professor of law and American studies at the University of New Mexico. From 1994 through 2005 she held a joint faculty appointment at the UCLA School of Law and the UCLA Department of Sociology. A reception will follow the lecture.

Welcome Reception
Please join us in welcoming new additions to the CSRC staff on Wednesday, April 23, 4:00–5:00 p.m., in the CSRC Library (144 Haines). The CSRC is pleased to announce the appointments of Dr. Javier Iribarren, assistant director; Miguel Juárez, librarian; Jae Chung, IT coordinator; and Frances Negrón–Muntaner, visiting scholar.

Gronk Featured in Speaker Series
The New LATC will present “A Conversation with Gronk” as part of its speaker series, “Spring on Spring!” Gronk will discuss his art, which ranges from street murals and large-scale paintings to performance art and operatic set design, his work with Asco, and his collaborations with Cyclona, Mundo Meza, Jerry Dreva, and Tomata DuPlenty. The talk, which will be moderated by CSRC Director Chon A. Noriega, will be held on Sunday, April 27, 3:00 p.m., in Theater 2, The New LATC, 514 S. Spring Street, Los Angeles. Tickets are $10.00. To purchase tickets, visit the company’s website.

The CSRC published the first major book on Gronk in 2007 as part of the A Ver: Revisiting Art History series. The book, by Max Benavides, may be ordered at the CSRC’s online store. For more information about Gronk and forthcoming books in the A Ver series, visit the CSRC Press website.

The Third Annual Latina/o Education Summit

The UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC) and the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies (GSEIS) are pleased to announce the Third Annual UCLA Latina/o Education Summit on May 23, 2008 at the UCLA Faculty Center. By bringing together scholars, educators, community representatives, policy makers, and students, the education summit series spotlights the critical factors facing Latina/o students at each segment and explores viable policy recommendations and initiatives that move more Latina/o students through the educational pipeline.

The theme for the third education summit is “K-12 Education: What Can Schoolboard Members and Superintendents Do to Assure Student Success?” The summit will identify and explore factors that are critical in making successful transitions through the educational K-12 pipeline for Latina and Latino students by drawing on the knowledge and experience of school board members and school superintendents. The goal of the summit is to apply UCLA scholarly resources and educators representing school districts with the largest enrollment of Latino students in the country to analyze the experience of Latinos at the primary and secondary school levels, and to contribute to the improvement of education within each level. The 2008 conference will bring together school board members and school superintendents from Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), Montebello Unified School District (MUSD) and Los Angeles County Office of Education, to discuss efforts in their respective districts that promote the success of Latino students. Pre-Summit registration is required and will be available from March 31, 2008

Lecture by Angela Garcia

The UCLA Department of Anthropology will host a lecture by Angela Garcia, the University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow. In her talk, “Ties That Bind: Intergenerational Heroin Use and the New Ethics of Kinship,“ Dr. Garcia will discuss heroin use between Hispanic parents and their children in New Mexico’s Española Valley. These Hispanos have the highest rate of heroin use and overdose in the United States. Dr. Garcia, a graduate of UC Berkeley and Harvard University, places this practice in the context of the fragmentation of social, economic, and domestic life. The lecture will be held on Wednesday, March 5, 2:00–3:30 p.m., in the Anthropology Department Reading Room, 352 Haines Hall. Light refreshments will be served. For more information, visit the Department of Anthropology’s website.

¡Gaytino!

The César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies will present writer and performer Dan Guerrero in a special campus performance of ¡Gaytino! on Thursday, March 6, 7:00 p.m., in Schoenberg Hall. This one-night event is free and open to the public. Campus parking is available in Lots 2 and 3 for $8.00. The performance is co-sponsored by the CSRC, the UCLA Department of Theater, and the LGBT Studies Program. For more information visit the ¡Gaytino! website.

Chicano Art at LACMA

Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement will be the largest exhibition of cutting-edge Chicano art ever presented at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Developed through an ongoing agreement between the CSRC and LACMA, the exhibition will open on Sunday, April 6, and run through Monday, September 1, in LACMA’s Art of the Americas Building. The exhibition surveys 31 artists and approximately 125 works that include paintings and sculptures as well as installations, conceptual pieces, videos, performance art, and intermedia works that incorporate film, digital effects, and sound. The exhibition was organized by Rita Gonzalez, curator of American art, and Howard Fox, curator of contemporary art at LACMA, and Chon A. Noriega, adjunct curator of Latino and Chicano art at LACMA and director of the CSRC. The exhibition, which has been made possible in part by the Peter Norton Family Foundation and LACMA’s Art Museum Council, will travel to venues in New York, Texas, and Mexico. A substantial catalog has been published by the University of California Press. There will be an all-day symposium on Saturday, April 5, among other programs. For more information go to the LACMA website.

Symposium
Phantom Sites: Rethinking Identity and Place in Contemporary Art
Saturday, April 5, 10am – 5:30 p.m. | Bing Theater

This symposium, presented in conjunction with the exhibition Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement, considers whether or not identity politics has become a phantom presence in contemporary art. Or are artists addressing this topic within conceptual art practices and explorations of urban issues? Two roundtable discussions with leading art historians, artists, and curators in the field will address issues raised by this topic. A screening of an anthology of historical performances will end the day-long discussion.

Performance by Nao Bustamante
“Pathetic Instructions and the Longevity of Exchange,” a performance by Nao Bustamante, will be held on Thursday, February 28, in the CSRC Library, 144 Haines Hall, 5:30 p.m.–6:30 p.m. Ms. Bustamante is an internationally known performance and video artist. Her work encompasses performance art, sculpture, installation, and video. She has performed in galleries, museums, universities, and underground sites all around the world.

Celebrate AAP’s Anniversary
 On Thursday, February 28, UCLA’s Academic Advancement Program (AAP) will celebrate its thirty-fifth anniversary in a ceremony in Royce Hall at 7:00 p.m. AAP is the nation’s largest and most successful university diversity program. Among the AAP alumni to be honored are Devon Carbado and Saul Sarabia, both UCLA law faculty; Laura Romero, Marguerita Lightfoot, and Tara Yasso, educational professionals who received their PhD from UCLA’s Graduate School of Education; Daphne Calmes, Associate Dean at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, who received a master’s degree in public health; Jacquelyn Sims, a graduate of the Anderson Graduate School of Management; Judith Mitoma, a faculty member in the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures; and Carlos Vigon,  an engineering graduate who is now the CEO of Wilshire Holding. To RVSP, click here. 

Voting Rights Conference
On Saturday, January 26, 9:30am-5:30pm, the CSRC will join the UCLA Center for African American Studies, Center for Asian American Studies, and Center for American Indian Studies to present “Coloring the Vote: Race, Politics, and Disenfranchisement,” a major conference on voting rights at UCLA’s Covel Commons. Greg Palast, renowned BBC investigative journalist and author of the New York Times bestsellers Armed Madhouse (2006) and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy (2002), will be the keynote speaker. A native of the United States, Mr. Palast is known for his reporting on voting irregularities in the presidential elections of 2000 and 2004. Britain’s Tribune Magazine called him “the most important investigative reporter of our time.” Also confirmed is MacArthur "Genius Award" recipient and Seattle University law professor Joaquin Avila. Mr. Avila, one of the country’s leading experts on voting rights, has successfully argued cases at the federal district court, appellate circuit, and U.S. Supreme Court levels. . Other speakers include local and state elected officials, community leaders, and civil rights advocates. This important conference will take place a week before the California Presidential Primary. Speakers will explore the Federal Voting Right Act, examples of disenfranchisement of voters of color in California, and strategies for preventing such irregularities from happening again during the 2008 and future elections. Co-sponsors include: UCLA Graduate Division, UCLA Center for Community Partnerships, UCLA Institute for American Cultures, UCLA School of Law, UCLA School of Law Critical Race Studies Program, UCLA Office for Faculty Diversity, UCLA Social Sciences-College of Letters and Sciences, UCLA Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics, and UCLA Student Affairs. This event is free and open to the public but registration is required. To register, please go to: https://www.gdnet.ucla.edu/rsvp/?Event=IACVOTE2008

2006-2007

Open House

Commemorating the 38th Anniversary of the Chicano Studies Research Center
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
CSRC Library (144 Haines Hall)
4:00 pm - 7 pm
Guest Speakers Throughout the Evening

Haines North Patio – Eat & drink refreshments from Casablanca Restaurant
Room 144 – Art work by Ramses Noriega and Sergio Hernandez
Room 181 – CSR books, journals, DVDs, t-shirts and mugs on sale!

The event will include a discussion by Acting Dean Reynaldo Macias on Chicano History, a mural painted in 1970 for the CSRC's former home in Campbell Hall. The large mural measured 12' x 22' and was painted on nine panels. It was taken down when the CSRC was moved from Campbell Hall to Haines Hall and has been stored since 1991. It is an important example of Chicano muralism in the late 1960s and early 1970s, particularly since few Chicano murals were painted at universities. The muralists were Saul Solache, Ramses Noriega, Eduardo Carillo, and Sergio Hernandez. Two of the artists remain, Noriega and Hernandez, and their art will be on display during the open house.

Campus parking available for $8 in Lots 2 and 3.

The 2007 Latina/o Education Summit
Community College Students: Understanding the Latina/o Transfer Experience Through the Entire Postsecondary Education Pipeline
Friday, May 25, 2007, UCLA Tom Bradley International Hall 8:30 a.m.-7:00 p.m.
Hosted by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, and the Center for Community College Partnerships

The 2006 education summit, "Critical Transitions in the Latina/o Education Pipeline" focused on the educational experiences of Latina/o students from primary to graduate school. The conference identified and discussed factors that are critical in making successful transitions through the education pipeline for this student population. This year, the conference will focus specifically on the community college segment and the Latina/o transfer student perspective.

Click for further information and online registration.

Latina Art Exhibition

The CSRC was the co-sponsor of Aqui No Hay Virgenes, an art exhibition at the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center. The exhibition presented what curators Jennifer Doyle and Raquel Gutierrez characterize as “atypical images of radical Latinas.” Featured artists were Alice Bag, Nao Bustamante, Diane Gamboa, Alma Lopez, and Shizu Saldamando. The opening reception, free and open to the public, was Thursday, March 15, 7:00–10:00 p.m., at The Village, 1125 N. McCadden Place. The CSRC Library and Archive was at the event promoting its two new efforts, the Mujeres Initiative and the LGBTIQ Initiative, which are designed to increase archival holdings in each area. For more information, visit the CSRC website on the event or the LGLC website.

 

The Lupe Anguiano Archive Opening

Monday, March 12, 2007, 7:30-8:30 pm

Korn Hall, UCLA Anderson School of Management.

For more information, please click here.

Lecture on Jay Leno's Mexican Jokes

Otto Santa Ana, Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies, will present "Late-Night Racial Politics: Jay Leno Jokes About the Great May Day Marches of 2006” on this Thursday, December 7 , 2006, 4:00-5:30 pm in the UCLA Young Research Library, 11348 Presentation Room.

UCLA Professor Directs Latino Theater Company Production

Jose Luis Valenzuela , Professor in the UCLA Theater Department, will direct the Latino Theater Company in La Virgen de Guadalupe, Dios Inantzin (The Miracle of the Four Apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe). The show will be held Thursday, December 7, and Friday, December 8, 7:30 pm, at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, 555 West Temple St., Los Angeles, CA 90012. Free admission.

Workshop on the Chicana/o Educational Pipeline

This workshop is designed to promote a better understanding of the policy issues related to the education of Chicana/os from K-12 and community college through undergraduate and graduate school. The authors of Falling Through the Cracks: Critical Transitions in the Educational Pipeline (2006) will discuss the pipeline and the policies that work for Chicana/o students. CSRC Associate Director Daniel Solórzano will be the moderator, and the panel will include doctoral students Lindsay Perez Huber, Ofelia Huidor, Maria C. Malagon, and Gloria Sanchez. The readings for the workshop are Falling Through the Cracks and Leaks in the Chicana and Chicano Educational Pipeline , both of which are available online at our website. The workshop will be held on Wednesday, November 8, 6:00 pm, CSRC Library, 144 Haines Hall.

IAC Welcome Reception

Vice Chancellor Claudia Mitchell-Kernan and Associate Dean Shirley Hune announce a reception in honor of the IAC's visiting scholars, postdoctoral, predoctoral, and graduate fellows, and research grant awardees for 2006–07. The program will offer an overview of the activities planned during the year to support and advance oral history theory, methodology, and research on campus. Horacio Roque Ramirez , CSRC Visiting Scholar for 2006-07 and Assistant Professor of Chicano Studies at University of California, Berkeley, will discuss his project "Re-Membering Bodies: Oral Histories, Public Memory, and LGBT/Queer Latina and Latino Sexualities." The reception will be held Wednesday, November 8, 4:00–6:00 pm, at the UCLA Faculty Center, Downstairs Lounge. For more information and to RSVP, see the website .

CSRC Associated Faculty Lecture

The UCLA Department of Anthropology, in association with the Culture, Power, and Social Change Colloquium, presents Maylei Blackwell in a lecture based on her essay “Engendering the 'Right to Have Rights': The Practice of Autonomy in the Age of Neoliberalism.” Dr. Blackwell's research examines how indigenous women activists, through their participation in the indigenous rights movement since the 1994 Zapatista uprising, have refigured the right of indigenous autonomy as a lived practice that is embedded in multiple spaces of their lives. Dr. Blackwell, who is Assistant Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at UCLA, will speak on Thursday, November 9, 4:00–6:00 pm, 352 Haines Hall.

The Queer Archive

This one-day conference will explore critical issues in archival research into Chicana/o and Latina/o queer histories. Presentations will consider the search for queer meaning in the "straight archive" as well as the implications for queer(ing) archival holdings. Conference participants include James Schultz, Yolanda Retter Vargas, Richard T. Rodriguez, Deborah R. Vargas, David Roman, C. Ondine Chavoya, Ellie D. Hernandez, Horacio N. Roque Ramirez, and Maylei Blackwell. This event is co-sponsored by the UCLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program ; the UCLA Department of Information Studies ; and the UCLA Center for the Study of Women . The conference will be held Wednesday, November 15, in the CSRC Library, 144 Haines Hall, 1:00–5:30 pm.

Affiliated Faculty Lecture

Judith F. Baca , Professor of Chicana/o Studies & WAC, will present a talk titled “Sites of Public Memory: New Murals for the 21st Century” on Wednesday, November 15, 4:00–5:30 pm, in 11348 Young Research Library.

Professor Guillermo E. Hernández Memorial

Guillermo E. Hernández, UCLA Professor of Spanish and Director Emeritus of the CRSC, passed away on July 16 in Mexico City. Victim of a heart attack, Hernández spent his last days in his native Mexico, alongside his summer-session Spanish students. This event is co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the UCLA Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies . The memorial will be Thursday, November 16, 3:30–4:30 pm, in Haines Hall, Room A-18.

CSRC Welcome Reception & Open House

Keynote speaker Thomas Saenz, Counsel to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, will present a talk titled "Increased Mayoral and Community Involvement in L.A. Schools." Stop by to find out about upcoming programs and projects and to meet CSRC scholars and staff. This event honors Professor Guillermo E. Hernández and former Assembly Member Marco A. Firebaugh. Refreshments will be provided from Casablanca Restaurant; music will be by Los Hermanos Herrera. Join us on Thursday, November 16, 4:30–7:00 pm, in the CSRC Library, 144 Haines Hall. For more information, please contact the front office .

The Soundtrack of Modern Los Angeles

Thursday, October 12, 5:00 pm, 1230 Schoenberg Music Building (“Green Room”), with a tapas themed reception to follow .

Visiting UCLA Professor Elijah Wald will be talking about “Strange Bedfellows: Louis Armstrong Loves Guy Lombardo and the Mexican Corrido Meets Gangsta Rap. Critics and historians who celebrate African-American music tend to dismiss Lombardo's music as boring. How have such prejudices affected our views of the past? Now marketers have coined terms like “banda rap” and “urban regional” in an attempt to capture one of American music's most daring fusions: Central European polka, classic border balladry, and the toughest urban beats. Could this be the soundtrack of modern Los Angeles and a signpost to the future of American music?

New Directions for Bilingual Education in California

Saturday, October 14, 8:00 am–3:00 pm, Corinne A. Seeds University Elementary School, UCLA.

Seeds UES's Learning in Two Languages Program and the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, in association with the CSRC, will present a conference for educators, parents, community members, and advocates for English learners. CSRC Associate Director Daniel Solórzano will be the keynote speaker. Seating is limited, so register today. Registration is available online at the UES School , or email for more information.

Fiesta de Inspiracion 2006 Scholarship Dinner

Thursday, October 19, 6:00 pm, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles.

The UCLA Latino Alumni Association invites you to attend the 2006 celebration of Latino leadership. This year's honorees are Councilmember Ed Reyes, Senior Vice President Danielle Campos, and UCLA Professor Raymond Rocco. Email the association for tickets.

Institute of American Cultures Welcome Reception

Wednesday, November 8, 4:00–6:00 pm, UCLA Faculty Center, Downstairs.

Vice Chancellor Claudia Mitchell-Kernan and Associate Dean Shirley Hune announce a reception in honor of the 2006–07 visiting scholars, postdoctoral, predoctoral, and graduate fellows, and research grant awardees in the IAC program. The CSRC welcomes visiting scholar Horacio N. Roque Ramirez from UC Santa Barbara.

Workshop on the Chicana/o Educational Pipeline

Wednesday, November 8, 6:00 pm, CSRC Library, 144 Haines Hall.

This workshop on the Chicana/o educational pipeline is designed to promote a better understanding of the policy issues related to the education of Chicana/os throughout the pipeline, from K-12 and community college, to undergraduate and graduate school. The authors of the 2006 CSRC Research Report Falling Through the Cracks: Critical Transitions in the Educational Pipeline will discuss the pipeline and the policies that work for Chicana/o students. CSRC Associate Director Daniel Solórzano will be the moderator, and the panel will include doctoral students Lindsay Perez Huber, Ofelia Huidor, Maria C. Malagon, and Gloria Sanchez. The readings for the workshop include the CSRC Research Report no. 7 and the CSRC Latino Policy & Issues Brief no. 13, both of which are available online at our website .

Save the Dates

The Queer Latina/o Archive Panel Discussion

Wednesday, November 15, 1:00–5:00 pm, CSRC Library, 144 Haines Hall.

CSRC Annual Reception

Thursday, November 16, 4:00–7:00 pm, CSRC Offices, 144 and 179 Haines Hall.

2005-2006

Symposium on Sal Castro and the 1968 Walkouts

On May 26, 2006 at the Faculty Center from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm; then at the Fowler Museum for a reception and screening of the HBO film Walkout  from 5:30 to 9:00. For more information, please click here.

CSRC Will Co-Sponsor Course on Archival Administration

This spring the CSRC and the UCLA Information Studies Department will co-sponsor a course on managing archival resources in communities of color. The course, Archival Administration in Ethnic Communities (Information Studies 189), will be taught by Roberto G. Trujillo, head of the Department of Special Collections at the Stanford University Libraries. For more information, please contact Marilyn Salinge.

Book Reading and Signing

CSRC will host Magdalena Beltran-del Olmo and Frank Sotomayor, editors of Frank del Olmo: Commentaries on His Times, for a reading and book signing on Thursday, April 27, 2006, 4:00 - 7:00 p.m., in the CSRC Library, 144 Haines Hall. Otto Santa Ana will serve as moderator, and additional guests will make presentations. A reception will follow. Frank del Olmo, an associate editor and columnist for the Los Angeles Times, was a role model and an inspiration to many Chicana/os. His columns and editorials were often the loudest, clearest, and most articulate voice for the Chicana/o community. He died February 19, 2004. The book is a collection of his columns.

Mexican Migration Talk

A migration studies group at UCLA has organized a speaker series with the first talk by Agustín Escobar-Latapí, of CIESAS-Occidente, on “Poverty and the Management of Mexico - U.S. Migration: Challenges and Options.” It will be held on Thursday, April 27, 2006, 1:00 pm, in the UCLA Department of Sociology room 279 Haines Hall. The talk is sponsored by the UCLA Department of Sociology Migration Studies Working Group and is cosponsored by the UCLA Latin American Center and the CSRC. Please contact Rubén Hernández-León if you have questions.

Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

The CSRC Press is at the festival again this year so come down to see us and buy some of our discounted books, DVDs, and t-shirts! This is one of the largest book festivals in the world, held on the UCLA campus the weekend of April 29 and 30 . Our booth is on the east side of Haines Hall this year.

ACADEMIC FORUM ON PENDING IMMIGRATION LEGISLATION  

Tuesday, April 18, 2006  5:00pm - 7:00pm  Haines Hall 144

UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Library

Peter Schey, Executive Director of the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, will make some opening remarks. UCLA faculty will offer their responses and perspectives, followed by an open discussion. To read background paper or see more information, click here.

Peter Schey is also Executive Director of Casa Libre/Freedom Home, a licensed emergency and long-term shelter for unaccompanied immigrant and refugee minors, which has a community partnership grant with the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center for academic year 2005-06.

Sponsored by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center; the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics; the Department of Political Science; the Department of Asian American Studies; and the Bunche Center for African American Studies.

Falling through the Cracks: Critical Transitions in the Latino Educational Pipeline: The 2006 Latino Education Summit

The summit will be on Friday, March 24, 2006 in the UCLA Faculty Center

California Room, from 8:30 am to 7:00 pm. For more information, click here.

Presentation on AIDS in Mexico

Jorge Saavedra, director of Mexico's National Center for the Prevention and Control of HIV/AIDS, will visit UCLA to talk about efforts to control HIV in his country. Saavedra's current research focuses on health care for Mexican migrants who have the disease. The presentation, “An Update on HIV in Mexico,” will take place on Wednesday, February 8, 2006, at 12:00 noon in Ackerman Grand Ballroom. To learn more about Saavedra's work in Mexico, visit his center's website.

Workshop on Applying for Research Grants

The IAC provides research grants to UCLA graduate students, faculty, and research staff. The CSRC will host an information session on Thursday, February 2 , 2006, from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. in 179 Haines Hall. Refreshments will be served. Click here to RSVP for this event. The deadline for IAC grant applications is Friday, April 28 , 2006. For questions about the session, please email Sagrario Hernández. To obtain information about IAC research grants and applications, visit their website. For CSRC research grants, email Carlos Manuel Haro or call 310-267-5290.

Landmark Court Case the Topic for Guest Faculty Exchange

The CSRC will host Michael A. Olivas for a lecture titled "Colored Men and Hombres Aqui: Hernández v. Texas and the Emergence of Mexican American Lawyering." Olivas, the William B. Bates Distinguished Chair in Law and the director of the Institute for Higher Education Law and Governance at the University of Houston Law Center, is recognized for his writings on higher education law, immigration law and policy, and financial aid issues. The lecture will be Friday, January 13, 2006, at 12:00 noon in 179 Haines Hall. For questions or more information please email the front office.

Dia De Los Muertos Celebration

Self Help Graphics & Art welcomes the community to its Dia de los Muertos celebration on Wednesday, November 2, between 3:00 pm and 10:00 pm. As in past years, the procession will begin at Cinco Puntos -- the intersection of Cesar Chavez Avenue and Lorena Street -- at 4:00 pm and end at Self Help, 3802 Cesar E. Chavez Ave. in Los Angeles. The festival features traditional food, arts and crafts, an Aztec dance blessing and ceremony, and a community altar. All events are free to the public. Calavera attire encouraged! For information, call (323) 881-6444.

UCLA Library Celebrates Women Faculty

Explore “Visionaries in the Academy: Women of Color at UCLA,” an exhibition at Young Research Library that focuses on women of color in tenure-track positions. The exhibition runs through December. In conjunction with the exhibition, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, professor in Chicana/o studies, will discuss her book, Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders, at the library on Monday, November 7 at 12:00 noon. Please call Norma Corral, 310-825-4945, if you have questions.

CRSC Library Welcomes Diaz-Cotto

Juanita (Ramos) Diaz-Cotto, a longtime advocate of progressive causes and the editor of Compañeras: Latina Lesbians, will read from her ground-breaking book, accompanied by a slide presentation on Latina and Latin American lesbian activism. Diaz-Cotto, an associate professor at SUNY Binghamton, is also the author of a book on Chicanas in the legal system. The event will be held on Thursday, November 10, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm, in the Chicano Studies Library, Haines 144. Admission is free. Refreshments will be served. The presentation is co-sponsored by CSRC, MALCS, and Center for the Study of Women. For more information, call Yolanda Retter at 310-206-6052 or email her.

CSRC and Center X Sponsor Workshop

Are you interested in making a difference? Have you thought about becoming a teacher? Come to a joint workshop by CSRC and the UCLA Center X's Teacher Education Program, which focuses on urban education, social justice, and bilingual education. You'll have the opportunity to meet faculty, current students, and alumni, and to learn about the application process. The event will be held on Tuesday, November 15, from 4:00 to 6:00 pm, Haines Hall Room 179. Please RSVP by emailing the program.

Institute of American Cultures Hosts Reception

George Sanchez, visiting scholar and IAC postdoctoral fellow for 2005-06, will be welcomed to the UCLA community at a reception. Sanchez is an associate professor of history and American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California. The reception will be held on Tuesday, November 22 from 4:00 -to 6:00 pm at the UCLA Faculty Center. RSVPs must be received by Wednesday, November 16 at the IAC website. For further information, email Sagrario Hernandez.

Noon Faculty Exchange

Francisco Miranda Godínez and Steven Loza will participate in a faculty exchange on “Historical Issues Concerning Juan Diego and His Canonization.” The event will be held on Tuesday, November 22, at 12:00 noon in the CSRC Conference room, 179 Haines Hall.

Open House

All are invited to the CSRC Open House on Thursday, October 20, 2005 from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm. The event will be held in 144 and 179 Haines Hall. Books, t-shirts, and DVDs will be on sale. Casablanca Restaurant will provide food and refreshments on the CSRC balcony. For more information, email the front office or call (310) 825-2363.

2004-2005

New Destinations: Mexican Immigration in the United States

Thursday, June 9, 2005 at Haines Hall, room 144

Presentation and Book Signing by Ruben Hernandez-Leon, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles. For more information click here.

Self Help Graphics Community Meeting

Tuesday, June 28, 2005 at Ave. 50 Studio

The Self Help Graphics Board met with the Coalition of Concerned Citizens for Self Help Graphics. Moderated by Chon A. Noriega. For information and pictures, click here.

The Sleepy Lagoon Case, Constitutional Rights, and the Struggle for Democracy

Friday and Saturday, May 20 and 21, 2005 at UCLA Fowler Museum Auditorium. Zoot Suit shown on Friday at 5:30pm. Conference panel presentations Saturday. Over sixty years ago, the Second District Court of Appeals released twelve defendants from prison in the famous Sleepy Lagoon trial. The purpose of this two-day symposium, CSRC and the Charles E. Young Library, is to commemorate, interrogate, and evaluate the Sleepy Lagoon case and to reflect upon its similarities to contemporary events. The conference thus has several specific goals—one, to inform the public about how Mexican American youth were denied their constitutional rights before the law; two, to highlight how various people from different racial and ethnic backgrounds came together and struggled to make the United States truly “democratic;” three, to honor and hear from those individuals who worked to free the defendants; four, to generate dialogue about the Sleepy Lagoon case and its relevance for Chicana/o Studies; and five, to show how similar injustices, with regard to denial of constitutional rights, racial profiling, etc., are still occurring today. Conference organizers believe that we can learn much from the past for today’s struggle for a more fair and just world. Important resources on the Sleepy Lagoon case are the major collections that Carey McWilliams and Alice Greenfield McGrath donated to the UCLA archives. These have been used by numerous scholars and others researching the Sleepy Lagoon case and the Los Angeles Zoot Suit riots. Luis Valdez used the collections in preparation for writing his play Zoot Suit.  For more information, click here.

BANDA: Mexican Musical Life Across Borders

Thursday, May 5, 2005 at CSRC Library, Haines Hall, room 144

Lecture and Book Signing by Helena Simonett, Vanderbilt University, Blair School of Music. For more information click here.

The Mexican-American Search for Identity: Ruben Salazar's Unfinished Novel "A Stranger's House"

Wednesday, May 4, 2005 at CSRC Library, Haines Hall, room 144

Presentation by Mario T. Garcia, Professor of History and Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.  For more information click here.

Chicano Manual of Style Symposium

Please join us for a symposium exploring the role of style in Chicano culture, politics, and everyday life. Door prizes will be given to the most stylish attendees! The CSRC will host the symposium on Chicana and Chicano "styles" --the distinctive features of Chicana/o cultural expression, execution, and performance -- on Wednesday, April 13 from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. in the CSRC Library (144 Haines Hall) with a reception to follow from 5:00 to 6:00 pm. The symposium is part of the planning stages for a new anthology to be published by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press. Participants include Max Benavidez, CSRC Visiting Scholar; Karen Mary Davalos and Deena Gonzales of Loyola Marymount University; Ellie Hernandez and Marie Herrera-Sobek of University of California, Santa Barbara; Curtis Marez and David Roman of the University of Southern California; Rafael Perez-Torres, UCLA Department of English; Richard T. Rodriguez, California State University, Los Angeles; and Deborah Vargas, University of California, Irvine. A reception follows the symposium.

For more information and to RSVP, please contact the front office.

Afro-Mexican Talk

Bobby Vaughn will present on “Talking Diaspora: Doing Ethnographic Fieldwork on Afro-Mexico” on Friday, April 15, at 12 noon in the Bunche Center Library (135 Haines Hall). Discussion to follow until 2:00 p.m. Dr. Vaughn is an anthropologist whose research is concerned with ethnic identity and what it means to be Afro-Mexican. This event is cosponsored by the UCLA Oral History Program, Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, the UCLA Department of History, and the CSRC. For more information, call 310-825-4932.

Native-American Citizenship Talk

Lisa García Bedolla will present on “The Legal Construction of Native American Citizenship in 19th Century California” on Wednesday, April 20, at 12 noon in Campbell Hall 3232. She explores how Native American citizenship was defined in the Mexican and American periods, and how that definition limited their exercise of rights within the state of California during the first decades following annexation. She is a current CSRC fellow and assistant professor at University of California, Irvine.

Desert Blood Book Signing

The CSRC is co-sponsoring a reading, book signing, and lunch celebrating the release of Alicia Gaspar de Alba's new novel, Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders, on Thursday, April 21, in 1648 Hershey Hall at 0:00 pm. Desert Blood, a mystery novel about the ten-year crime-wave of murdered and mutilated poor brown women in Ciudad Juárez, sheds light on the murders and the effects of patriarchy, gender identity, border culture, transnationalism, and globalization on an international crisis. In Fall 2003, Gaspar de Alba, then CSRC Associate Director, organized an international conference on the issue at UCLA. For more information and to RSVP for lunch, please email the Center for the Study of Women

Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

The CSRC Press is at the festival again this year so come down to see us and buy some of our discounted books, DVDs, and t-shirts! This is one of the largest book festivals in the world, held on the UCLA campus the weekend of April 23 and 24. Our booth is number 182, near the bottom of Janss steps. Any Chicano studies authors interested in having us sell their books may contact us, but we will only host those authors willing to come down and sign books for a couple of hours. Contact the press if you are interested.

Performance Art at LACMA

Performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña will stage an interactive performance/installation titled "Panetnica: a Pavilion of X-treme Identities" at LACMA's Anderson Building from 6:00 to 10:00 PM on Friday, April 29. Gómez-Peña, a regular contributor to Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, will team up with Violeta Luna and Michelle Ceballos to create a series of "living dioramas" depicting California's current obsessions about race. The performance artists will occupy a gallery space throughout the piece, interacting with audience members. Admission is free for museum members and included in the general admission for non-members. No reservations required.

 

Talk on Civil Rights in a Changing California

The CSRC is cosponsoring a talk by John Trasviña, Western States Regional Director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on Thursday, April 7. He will discuss the state of civil rights and present some of the major evaluations and research projects to be undertaken over the next few years in his nine-state region, which includes most of the western United States and Hawaii. The talk will be held at 12:30 p.m. in Room 2343, UCLA Public Policy Building. Light refreshments will be served. Seating is limited. For further information and to RSVP, please e-mail the Lewis Center.

ZOCALO at Central Library

The Library Foundation of Los Angeles will present “Hollywood, Mexicans, and the History of LA” on Tuesday, April 12 at 7:00 p.m. at the downtown Central Library. This panel is about the role early movies – both silent and sound – played in creating the myth of LA's past. Chon A. Noriega will moderate the panel discussion, which will include theater director Theresa Chavez, Latin music producer Betto Arcos, and LA historian Bill Deverell. The discussion will be accompanied by spoken and musical excerpts from They Shoot Mexicans, Don't They?, an original theater work directed by Chavez, premiering at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex at California State University, Los Angeles on April 9. For more information, click here . see For panel reservations, visit here or call (213)403-0416.

Chicano Manual of Style Symposium

The CSRC will host a symposium on Chicana and Chicano "styles" – the distinctive features of Chicana/o cultural expression, execution, and performance on Saturday, April 13 from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. in CSRC Library (144 Haines Hall) with a reception to follow from 5:00 to 6:00 pm. The symposium is part of the planning stages for a new anthology to be published by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press. Participants include Max Benavidez, Karen Mary Davalos, Deena Gonzalez, Ellie Hernandez, Marie Herrera-Sobek, Curtis Marez, Rafael Perez-Torres, Richard T. Rodriguez, David Roman, and Deborah Vargas. A reception follows the symposium. For more information and to RSVP, please contact the front office .

Department of Information Studies Position Job Talk

The UCLA Department of Information Studies and the CSRC are jointly seeking a tenure-track faculty member with a focus on Chicano-Latino information studies. Information Studies and Chicana/o Studies faculty and students are invited to meet candidate Reynal Guillen. Guillen will give a job talk on Monday, March 7, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. A lunch meeting with graduate students will follow the talk. Location will be announced shortly.

Seminar and Book Signing by Dr. David Hayes-Bautista

David Hayes-Bautista will discuss and sign copies of his book La Nueva California: Latinos in the Golden State on Tuesday, March 1, from 4 to 6 p.m. in Haines Hall A18. The book, based on decades of data, paints a vivid portrait of Latino society in California by providing a wealth of details about health, work ethic, family strengths, and business establishments. Spanning one hundred years, this analysis suggests that the development of a distinctive regional identity will be based on Latino definitions of what it means to be an American.

Town Hall Meeting on the Faculty Diversity Initiative

The four ethnic studies research centers will hold a town hall meeting for UCLA students and faculty on the Faculty Diversity Initiative on Thursday, February 17, from 12 p.m. – 2 p.m. at the CSRC library. The meeting will provide an update on the status of the initiative, discuss related issues, and solicit campus input on the next steps. Pizza will be served outside the library before the meeting. To read about the initiative, click here.

Graduate Student Grants Information Sessions

Wednesday, February 16, from 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. in 3232 Campbell Hall