IAC Fall Forum and Reception

Please join us for a reception honoring the 2016–17 IAC visiting researchers and scholars, graduate and predoctoral fellows, and research grant awardees at UCLA’s four ethnic studies centers, including the CSRC:

“CONVERSATIONS WITH THE INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN CULTURES VISITING SCHOLARS”

Vanessa Diaz, Ph.D.
California State University, Fullerton, CA

IAC Visiting Scholar, Chicano Studies Research Center

Manufacturing Celebrity: Whitewashed Red Carpets, Latino Paparazzi, and the Political Economy of Hollywood Media Production

Interviewer: Abel Valenzuela, Professor and Director

Chicano Studies and Urban Planning,

UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

Tanachal Mark Padoongpatt, Ph.D.
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV

IAC Visiting Scholar, Asian American Studies Center

Flavors of Empire: Food and Race in the Making of Thai American Los Angeles

Interviewer: May Wang, Professor

Department of Community Health Sciences

Courtney Thomas, Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Associate Professor, Bunche Center for African American Studies
The Racial Self-Awareness Framework: Reducing Risk and Enhancing Resilience to Improve the Health of African Americans across the Life Course

Interviewer: Darnell M. Hunt, Professor and Director

Sociology, Bunche Center for African American Studies

Natale Zappia, Ph.D.
Whittier College, Whittier, CA

IAC Visiting Scholar, American Indian Studies Center
Food Frontiers: Indigenous Borderlands and Continental Landscapes 

Interviewer: Benjamin Madley, Associate Professor

Department of History

RECEPTION FEATURING THE UCLA FABULOUS FIVE JAZZ BAND

This event is FREE, RSVP required. Click here to RSVP

THE INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN CULTURES AT UCLA
American Indian Studies Center • Asian American Studies Center • Chicano Studies Research Center • Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies

A recording of this event can be found on the CSRC YouTube channel.