Events
A documentary on the life of renowned Los Angeles-based trans-Latina activist and leader Bamby Salcedo, followed by a Q&A with Salcedo and director Dante Alencastre.
As the artist describes, "'You Found Me' is an ongoing photographic exploration of the effects of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)."
Placed within the context of the past decade's war on terror and emergent Latino migrant movement, "Reform Without Justice" addresses the issue of state violence against migrants in the United States.
The CSRC is pleased to welcome renowned El Paso–based media artist Willie Varela, a pioneer in American avant-garde film.
UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment presents its 2014 conference on Race, Labor and the Law.
The CSRC is pleased to present an advance screening of "Cesar Chavez," followed by a panel discussion with director Diego Luna, UFW president Arturo Rodríguez, and Héctor Calderón, professor of Spanish and Portuguese.
For the last 15 years, award-winning author Michael Nava has been researching a series of novels loosely inspired by the life and times of silent film star Ramon Novarro.
MOVOZ is a multimedia oral history project dedicated to collecting the narratives of farm workers in California.
Fire up your computers and mobile devices for a day of online gaming that will enhance global access to the CSRC’s digital library collections.
"Carmelita Can Be a Beast" is a performative lecture on race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, and the animal species in the work of Carmelita Tropicana.
Join us for a reception for the library exhibition "Embodied Aesthetics: 30 Years of Chicana and Women of Color Printmakers at the Self Help Graphics Atelier" curated by Cristal Gutierrez Alba.
Join us in the CSRC Library, 144 Haines Hall, when we welcome Anthony C. Ocampo, assistant professor of sociology at Cal Poly Pomona.
This event will feature Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer, a Vietnam veteran, Bronze Star recipient, and Mazer Archive donor, who, with her lawyer, UCLA Law School Alum Mary Newcombe, who will also be present, successfully challenged the ban on gays and lesbians serving in the military.
The late Los Angeles-based photographer and artist Ricardo Valverde (1946-1998) will be featured in a career retrospective at VPAM.
In celebration of a recent archival donation, the CSRC will host a panel discussion with former Brown Berets David Sanchez, Ralph Ramirez, and Carlos Montes, plus Dr. Rona Fields, who studied the organization during its early years.
A panel discussion with Con Safo artists, followed by a book signing, at Texas A&M University-San Antonio's Educational & Cultural Arts Center (the former Alameda) in San Antonio.
A site-specific performance in the UCLA Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden presented by the UCLA Center for Performance Studies and the CSRC.
CSRC director Chon Noriega in conversation with exhibition curator Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, author Ramón García, and artist Rubén Ortiz-Torres.
Join exhibition curator and UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center visiting scholar Cecilia Fajardo-Hill for a walk-through of the exhibition.
CSRC director Chon A. Noriega and CSRC associate director Marissa K. López will be panelists at the inaugural International Latina/o Studies Conference, an international meeting to be held July 17–19 in Chicago.
El Museo del Barrio and the Museum of the City of New York present their first-ever joint series featuring musical performances, gallery talks, art-making workshops, renowned DJs, festive summer drinks, local food vendors, and more.
Please join the Transfer Summer Program Chicana/o Studies 148 course when it welcomes multi-genre, queer Chicana artist Adelina Anthony.
The UCLA LGBT Studies Department hosted its first QGrad Conference in 1999. Since then, QGrad has brought together the best research from graduate students across the country.
The ninth annual Latina/o Education Summit will bring together legal scholars, social scientists, advocates, and administrators in order to assess the impact and implications of the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) and the 2011 DREAM Act on Latina/o students.
The CSRC is proudly participating in the 5th Annual Homeboy "Every Angeleno Counts" 5K Run/Walk! Join us!
Your heart beats at the speed of the spoken word pulsing with the rhythm of California Interstates 5, 15, 405 and Route 78. You’re on the road with Taco Shop Poets.
This year we'll celebrate the CSRC Press's new Oral Histories Series, plus a new library exhibition in collaboration with the UC Santa Barbara Library Department of Special Collections, "That's Entertainment: Dan Guerrero and the Making of a Hollywood Original." Plus a special in-person presentation by Guerrero.
Following the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the 60-100,000 Spanish-speaking citizens of New Mexico were subordinated to the rule of a foreign nation.
Celebrate Día De Los Muertos with the CSRC at this year's Los Angeles Latino Book and Family Festival, a presentation of Latino Literacy Now and East Los Angeles College.
The CSRC is pleased to present a poetry reading by B.V. (Ben) Olguín, "Towards a Critical Masculinity? Lyrical Meditations on Gender, Sexuality & Violence from Houston to Havana."
Award-winning author and UCLA alumnus Jeff Chang discusses his new book Who We Be: The Colorization of America (St. Martins, 2014).
The CSRC welcomes fiber artist Consuelo Jimenez Underwood. Underwood's work is currently on view in "Crossing Borders: Stories of Migration in Contemporary Art," an exhibition at CSU-Dominguez Hills featuring six California artists whose work explores the visual impact of immigration and migration.
An international conference hosted by the Stanford University Art & Art History Department. A free event, open to everyone.
The daughter of a Salvadoran family, Leticia Hernandez-Linares was born in Los Angeles and has been living, writing and working in San Francisco’s Mission District since 1995.
Adolfo Guzman-Lopez could not have imagined the true-life stories he'd report on when he took his first journalism job in 1996.
The CSRC welcomes the authors of the first book to examine the lives of DREAMers in the wake of Obama’s deferred action policy. The authors relay the real-life stories of more than 100 DREAMers from four states.
The CSRC is pleased to welcome nine artists whose work appears in "Lowriting: Shots, Rides & Stories from the Chicano Soul" edited by S.J. Rivera with photography by Art Meza, and "¡Ban This! The BSP Anthology of Xican@ Literature" edited by Santino J. Rivera.
Please join us in honoring the 2014-2015 IAC visiting researchers and scholars, graduate and predoctoral fellows, and research grant awardees in residence at each of the UCLA ethnic studies research centers.
Sonia Henríquez, from the Guna pueblo, is a leader of Olowagli, a women’s organization of the Guna Yala region. She represents indigenous women in the National Council of Women of Panama.