CSRC Upcoming Events

Visit our Events Archive for activities since 2003

Melnitz Screening
Melnitz Movies and the CSRC will present a screening of Please, Don’t Bury Me Alive! on Tuesday, November 3, 7:30 p.m., at UCLA’s James Bridges Theater (Melnitz 1409). Please, Don’t Bury Me Alive! is considered the first Chicano feature film. Produced and directed by Efraín Gutiérrez and written by Sabino Garza, the film inspired Chicano-oriented independent film production in Mexico and the United States. Admission is free. Follow the links for a map and directions to the theater and for a schedule of Melnitz screenings. Please, Don’t Bury Me Alive! is the sixth DVD in the CSRS Press’s CSRC’s Cinema and Media Arts Series; it can be ordered at the CSRC’s online store.

Activist to Speak
Renowned educator and activist Ericka Huggins, a former leader of the Black Panther Party, will give the keynote address at “Buildin’ Bridges and Stirrin’ Waters: Women of Color Activism and Feminism.” This event will be held Thursday, November 5, 5:30­–7:30 p.m., in the Powell Library Rotunda (second floor). Professor Huggins, who teaches in the Women's Studies program at California State University–East Bay, will talk about women in social movements and color feminism. Other speakers will include Mary Kao, publications coordinator for the UCLA AASC Press, Stephanie Santos, PhD student in women’s studies at UCLA, and Mo Nishida, veteran community organizer. The CSRC is a co-sponsor of the event.

40th Anniversary Distinguished Lecture
Join us for the first of three lectures in the CSRC’s 40th Anniversary distinguished lecture series. José Limón, Regents Professor of American and English literature at the University of Texas at Austin, will present “On Birmingham and Brownsville: Cultural Studies in the Light and Shadow of Américo Paredes,” on Thursday, November 19, 4:00–5:00 p.m., in the CSRC Library (144 Haines Hall). A reception will follow. To RSVP or for more details e-mail csrcinfo@chicano.ucla.edu.