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January 2013

Library Exhibition: "Alex Donis: Floating World"
January 2, 2013
CSRC Library - 144 Haines Hall | 10:00am

The CSRC welcomes you to view the exhibition "Alex Donis: Floating World," installed in the library and vitrine through January 21, 2013.

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Joseph K. Lyou: "Experiences of an Environmental Justice Advocate"
January 10, 2013
UCLA Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics - Room 1200 |
4:00pm to 5:30pm
Dr. Joseph K. Lyou will provide tales of woe, intrigue, setbacks and victories as he recounts his 22 years as an environmental justice advocate in California.
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How to Prepare an NIH Grant Proposal
January 17, 2013
CSRC Library - 144 Haines Hall |
3:00pm to 5:00pm

This workshop for graduate students, post-doctoral students, and faculty will introduce the fundamentals of preparing a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant proposal, as well as introduce different grant mechanis

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Book Talk: "Pig Behind the Bear"
January 31, 2013
CSRC Library - 144 Haines Hall |
4:00pm to 5:30pm
Join us at the CSRC Library when author Maria Nieto reads from and signs her novel "Pig Behind the Bear" (Floricanto Press/Berkeley Press, 2012).
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Library Exhibition: "Ramiro Gomez: Luxury, Interrupted"
February 4, 2013
CSRC Library - 144 Haines Hall | 10:00am

The CSRC welcomes you to view the exhibition Ramiro Gomez: Luxury, Interrupted, installed in the library and vitrine through April 8, 2013.

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Reception: "Ramiro Gomez: Luxury, Interrupted"
February 20, 2013
CSRC Library - 144 Haines Hall |
4:00pm to 6:00pm

Join us for an artist's reception for the newest library exhibition, Ramiro Gomez: Luxury, Interrupted.

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Symposium on Spatial Analysis of Social Environmental Justice
February 22, 2013
2355 UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, 337 Charles E Young Drive East |
8:00am to 5:00pm
UCLA and national experts will examine the use of spatial analysis to study how space and place produce and reproduce social, economic and environmental inequality.
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UC-wide Immigration Conference 2013
February 22, 2013
1242 Law Building - 385 Charles E. Young Drive |
9:00am to 8:00pm
This conference draws together UC-wide faculty and students who study children, youth, and families in relation to migration issues, broadly defined.
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"Chaos and Grassroots Organization in Mexico"
February 27, 2013
CSRC Library - 144 Haines Hall |
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Tensions in Mexico have reached a breaking point. Out of that break, grassroots movements are gaining strength and voice to propose alternatives to the growing chaos.
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"Superdiversity California Style" Pre-Conference Roundtable
February 28, 2013
UCLA Faculty Center, California Room |
5:00pm to 7:00pm

Los Angeles has come to epitomize the global phenomenon of dramatically increased ethnic, racial, linguistic, and religious diversity.

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IAC Inaugural Conference: "Superdiversity California Style: New Approaches to Race, Civil Rights, Governance and Cultural Production"
March 1, 2013
UCLA Faculty Center, California Room |
9:00am to 6:00pm
Los Angeles has come to epitomize the global phenomenon of dramatically increased ethnic, racial, linguistic, and religious diversity.
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Library Exhibition: "Ramiro Gomez: Luxury, Interrupted"
March 1, 2013
CSRC Library - 144 Haines Hall | 10:00am

The CSRC welcomes you to view the exhibition Ramiro Gomez: Luxury, Interrupted, installed in the library and vitrine through April 8, 2013.

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MEChA de UCLA: "Violence Against Women: Femicides, Deaths, Injustice"
March 5, 2013
CSRC Library - 144 Haines Hall |
4:00pm to 6:00pm
This event is part of MEChA de UCLA Semana de la Mujer, a weeklong series of events during Women's Her/History Month.
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PDF icon frontflyer.pdf, PDF icon backflyer (1).pdf
Talk: "Public Health in Cuba: A Dialogue"
March 6, 2013
Center for Health Sciences - Room 43-105 |
12:00pm to 1:30pm
How does Cuba's community-based health care system function on the ground?
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PDF icon Cuba - Public Health flyer March 6 2013 Dialogue - final.pdf
CPRA Symposium: "Aging in a Majority-Minority Nation"
March 21, 2013
DeNeve Commons, 352 E. Charles E. Young Dr., UCLA |
10:00am to 9:00pm
The Center for Policy Research on Aging (CPRA) at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs announces the research symposium "Aging in a Majority-Minority Nation: Interracial and Intergenerational Tensions and Opportunities."
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PDF icon CPRA Symposium Release 3-6-13.pdf, PDF icon CPRA Media Advisory 3-18-13.pdf
Library Exhibition: "Ramiro Gomez: Luxury, Interrupted"
April 1, 2013
CSRC Library - 144 Haines Hall | 10:00am

The CSRC welcomes you to view the exhibition Ramiro Gomez: Luxury, Interrupted, installed in the library and vitrine through April 8, 2013.

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Book Talk: "A Boy, a Burrito, and a Cookie: From Janitor to Executive"
April 9, 2013
CSRC Library - 144 Haines Hall |
4:00pm to 5:30pm
Please join us in the CSRC Library when PepsiCo executive Richard Montañez discusses and signs his autobiography, "A Boy, a Burrito, and a Cookie: From Janitor to Executive" (Tate Publishing, 2013).
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Library Exhibition Reception: “Chican@s (re)Imagining Zapata”
April 18, 2013
CSRC Library - 144 Haines Hall |
3:00pm to 5:00pm

Please join us for a reception celebrating the latest CSRC Library exhibition, Chican@s (re)Imagining Zapata, curated by Julia Fernandez.

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Performance: "Catholic School Daze" by Karen Anzoategui
April 24, 2013
CSRC Library - 144 Haines Hall |
3:30pm to 5:00pm
This forty-minute autobiographical work tells the story of "Karen," who is forced to attend Catholic high school and finds herself asking: “Why am I here?”
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Julian Aguon: "The Poaching of Our Wildest Dreams: Indigenous Peoples, Predation, and the Law"
April 25, 2013
UCLA Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics - Room 1200 |
4:00pm to 6:00pm
Julian Aguon is an indigenous Chamoru activist, attorney, and author. His specialty area is international human rights.
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Book Talk: "We Became Mexican American: How Our Immigrant Family Survived to Pursue the American Dream"
April 30, 2013
CSRC Library - 144 Haines Hall |
3:00pm to 4:30pm
Please join us when emeritus professor Carlos B. Gil discusses his award-winning book "We Became Mexican American: How Our Family Survived to Pursue the American Dream" (Xlibris, 2012).
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Blum Center Inaugural Symposium: "Informing Responses to Reduce Poverty and Improve Health in Latin America"
May 1, 2013
DeNeve Auditorium, 352 E. Charles E. Young Dr., UCLA |
9:00am to 3:00pm
The UCLA Blum Center on Poverty and Health in Latin America will conduct its Spring Symposium to advance knowledge on efforts aimed at creating more equitable health in Latin America.
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PDF icon Blum Center Spring Symposium flyer_FIN.pdf
Library Exhibition: "Chican@s (re)Imagining Zapata"
May 1, 2013
CSRC Library - 144 Haines Hall |
10:00am to 5:00pm

The CSRC welcomes you to view the exhibition Chican@s (re)Imagining Zapata, curated by Julia Fernandez and installed in the library through May 10, 2013.

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Talk: "Obama Administration Policy in the Americas: Harvesting Opportunities for Prosperity"
May 1, 2013
2343 Public Affairs Building, UCLA |
3:00pm to 4:30pm
Please join us for a talk by John Feeley, a Senior Foreign Service officer who has focused much of his diplomatic career working on Western Hemisphere issues both in Washington and in the region.
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Symposium: "New Dimensions in the Study and Practice of Mexican and Chicano/Latino Social Movements"
May 2, 2013
306 Royce Hall, UCLA |
9:00am to 7:00pm
This bi-national symposium will bring together scholars and activists from Mexico and U.S. from a variety of disciplines to critically evaluate current trends in the scholarship and practices of Mexican and Chicano social movements.
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Carl Maida and Robin Cannon: "Environmental Justice: A Community Perspective"
May 16, 2013
UCLA Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics - Room 1200 |
4:00pm to 5:30pm

Improving communities in large cities is a complex process that often requires expert knowledge.

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Symposium: "Cultural Politics of Seeds"
May 17, 2013
UCLA Charles Young Research Library, Presentation Room |
8:30am to 5:30pm

The "Cultural Politics of Seeds" symposium will look at how gender, ethnicity, and race have shaped contemporary cultural and political movements related to seeds.

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Book Talk: "Dissonant Divas in Chicana Music: The Limits of La Onda"
May 22, 2013
CSRC Library - 144 Haines Hall |
11:00am to 1:00pm
Please join us when we welcome Deborah R. Vargas, associate professor in the department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside.
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Reception: Opening of the SACNAS Archive
May 23, 2013
CSRC Library - 144 Haines Hall |
4:00pm to 6:00pm
Please join us in celebrating the opening of the SACNAS archive, now in the collections of the CSRC.
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PDF icon SACNAS.Archive.invite2.pdf
Lat/emo: A Symposium on Music, Markets, and latinidad
May 31, 2013
Straus Clubhouse, Los Angeles Tennis Center, UCLA |
12:00pm to 4:00pm

In Spring 2008, YouTube documented violent, physical attacks against "emo" youth in Mexican and Latin American metropoles.

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20th Anniversary Celebration: Mujeres in the Movement for Chicana/o Studies at UCLA
June 3, 2013
CSRC Library - 144 Haines Hall |
3:30pm to 6:00pm

Please join us for a 20th anniversary celebration of the hunger strike at UCLA that led to the creation of the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies.

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2013 CSRC Latina/o Education Summit: Fisher v. Texas - Implications for Latina/o Educational Diversity
October 4, 2013
UCLA Faculty Center, California Room |
11:30am to 6:30pm

This year’s summit will address the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2013 ruling in Fisher v. Texas and its national implications for Chicanos and Latinos and higher education.

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PDF icon 2013EdSummitAnnouncement.pdf
Book Talk: "Reframing the Latino Immigration Debate: Towards a Humanistic Paradigm"
October 9, 2013
CSRC Library - 144 Haines Hall |
3:00pm to 5:00pm
In his new book of short, non-fiction essays, Alvaro Huerta, CSRC visiting scholar, asks readers to reassess critical political and cultural issues unfolding along the U.S./Mexico border.
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Book Talk: “Citizenship Excess: Latino/as, Media, and the Nation”
October 10, 2013
CSRC Library - 144 Haines Hall |
4:00pm to 5:30pm
In his new book, media studies professor Hector Amaya describes how the rise of anti-Latino nativism has affected minoritarian and majoritarian media systems.
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CSRC Annual Open House
October 15, 2013
CSRC Library - 144 Haines Hall |
4:00pm to 7:00pm

This year the CSRC Annual Open House will feature the opening of "Sal Castro: Legacy of a Teacher," an exhibition of items from the Sal Castro Collection at the CSRC.

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PDF icon OpenHouse_Oct15.pdf
A Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of John Rechy's 'City of Night': From the Street, to the Parade, to the Movements
October 23, 2013
306 Royce Hall, UCLA |
4:00pm to 7:00pm
When 'City of Night' was first published in 1963, it was hailed as a landmark novel in American literature and paved the way for what would become gay literature.
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IAC Fall Forum and Reception
November 5, 2013
UCLA Faculty Center, California Room |
4:30pm to 7:00pm
The Institute of American Cultures Fall Forum and Reception honors the 2013-2014 IAC visiting scholars, graduate and predoctoral fellows, and research grant awardees. Please RSVP by Nov. 1.
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NIYA and DreamActivist.org - West Coast Tour
November 6, 2013
CSRC Library - 144 Haines Hall |
2:00pm to 3:30pm
Join us in the CSRC Library when representatives of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance (NIYA) and DreamActivist.org speak about their humanitarian work and direct actions for and by undocumented immigrants.
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Talk: Malou Chavez, Northwest Immigrant Rights Project
November 12, 2013
CSRC Conference Room - 179 Haines Hall |
12:00pm to 12:45pm
Join Bruin and legal activist Malou Chavez for this informal gathering as she answers questions regarding her educational experiences and her legal practice.
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Artist's Talk: Shizu Saldamando
November 14, 2013
CSRC Library - 144 Haines Hall |
3:00pm to 5:00pm
Join us in the CSRC Library when we host an artist's talk by Shizu Saldamando, whose survey exhibition is currently on view at the Vincent Price Art Museum.
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William A. Nericcio: "From Tex[t]-Mex to Mextasy to Eyegiene: Televisually Supercharged Hallucinations of 'Mexicans' in our Digital Humanities-laced, Technosexually Voyeuristic Tomorrow(s)"
November 19, 2013
CSRC Library - 144 Haines Hall |
4:00pm to 6:00pm
William A. Nericcio is a professor of English and comparative literature at San Diego State University, where he also serves on the faculties of the Latin American studies and Chicana/o studies departments.
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Panel: "Media and Race in the Trayvon Martin Case"
November 22, 2013
CSRC Library - 144 Haines Hall |
2:00pm to 3:30pm
Join us in the CSRC Library for a discussion of the Trayvon Martin case and its implications for U.S. race relations and communities of color.
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Book Talk: "The Life of an Activist: In the Frontlines 24/7"
December 3, 2013
CSRC Library - 144 Haines Hall |
3:00pm to 5:00pm
In his new book, author Randy Jurado Ertll provides useful advice on how to successfully manage non-profits to accomplish positive social change that truly improves people’s lives.
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Panel: "Nuevas Voces Poeticas: A Dialogue with the Coalition of New Chican@ Artists (C.O.N.C.A.)"
December 5, 2013
CSRC Library - 144 Haines Hall |
3:00pm to 5:00pm
The roundtable will ask, What has triggered the interest in Chican@ poetics in recent times? What types of poetry, writing, and art are being created and what are the social factors that have led to this new Chican@ poetics?
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