Events
The Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT), the Department of Spanish and Portuguese (UCLA), and Martín Camps (University of the Pacific) invite you to a panel and conversation with four Mexican writers from the border: Cristina Rascón, Amaranta Caballero, Nadia López García, and Ana Fuente Montes de Oca.
Eduardo de la Cruz will present on traditional medicinal practices by indigenous communities across Mexico.
This panel brings together UCLA alums who organized and participated in oppositional acts at UCLA in the 1990s and early 2000s. These include walkouts and building occupations against tuition hikes and the elimination of affirmative action and protests against institutional racism and for the establishment of Chicanx studies. Speakers include York Chang, artist and chief counsel, Service Employees International Union Local 1000; Robert Karimi, interactive storyteller, writer/producer, and interdisciplinary conceptual artist; and Jolie Chea, UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow in Comparative Literature at UC Riverside.
Leticia Alvarado, assistant professor of ethnic studies and American studies at Brown University and former CSRC visiting scholar, will present her new book, which explores the work of artists Ana Mendieta, Nao Bustamante, and the Chicano art collective Asco.
It has been 50 months since the disappearance of the 43 Indigenous normalistas (Nahua, Mixteco, and Me'phaa) of la Escuela Normal Rural de Ayotzinapa. They were kidnapped in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico.
Join us as Guevara presents his newly published book, which is a memoir of his life and a counterhistory of the city of Los Angeles. Guevara is a Chicano singer-songwriter, a record producer of Chicano rock-and-roll and rock en español compilations, and a performance artist, poet, short story writer, and activist.