Events
Meet the artist and join us for a reception celebrating our new CSRC Library exhibition.
In this new collection of essays, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, professor of English, gender studies, and Chicana and Chicano studies at UCLA, focuses on the brown female bodies that have inspired her scholarly and creative writings.
Part One of a two-day conference organized by the UCLA Latin American Institute.
CSRC director Chon A. Noriega will speak at the USC Roski School of Art and Design as part of its Graduate Lecture Series.
Part Two of a two-day conference organized by the UCLA Latin American Institute.
Julie A. Dowling is Associate Professor in the Department of Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Marjorie Agosín is the Luela Lamer Slaner Professor of Latin American Studies at Wellesley College. She is also a poet, essayist, and novelist.
The CSRC welcomes you to a screening of the digital video documentary Boi Hair by Alma Lopez (2005).
The CSRC invites you to participate in a celebration of the birthday of late journalist Ruben Salazar, taking place at California State University–Los Angeles.
Shrouded in mystery and long the subject of debate, the amazing story of Loreta Velazquez, Confederate soldier turned Union spy, is one of the American Civil War’s most gripping forgotten narratives. With writer-director-producer María Agui Carter, in person.
In celebration of the forthcoming publication The Chicano Generation: Testimonios of the Movement (UC Press, 2015) by Mario T. García, this event brings together the author and Chicana/o studies scholars to converse about the intersections of memory and testimony in the writing of history.
Join us for a reception for the CSRC library exhibition Young Workers Rising: Demonstrating a Movement for Better Wages, curated by senior undergraduate student Alfredo Alvarez.
Compañeras is the untold story of women’s involvement in the Zapatista movement.
Join us for an information session about the IAC Research Grant Program in Ethnic Studies and Shirley Hune Inter-Ethnic & Inter-Racial Studies Award.
The UCLA Institute for Research and Employment (IRLE) presents the conference "Labor, Entertainment, & Sports: An Intersectional and Interdisciplinary Inquiry" April 17-18, 2015. The CSRC is a cosponsor of this event.
The UCLA Institute for Research and Employment (IRLE) presents the conference "Labor, Entertainment, & Sports: An Intersectional and Interdisciplinary Inquiry" April 17-18, 2015. The CSRC is a cosponsor of this event.
This forum is responding to recent racist and sexist incidents at UCLA and their underlying causes. These problems cut across community lines and campus spaces, requiring creative and contextual solutions.
Special offering: Workshop with ¡GAYTINO! Dan Guerrero, UCLA Regents Lecturer in LGBT studies and Chicana/o studies
A two-day intensive workshop based on Guerrero's "POWER OF ONE" performance class.
In the last twenty years, noir feminist narratives have had a steady ascent into the Latin American and U.S. Latina/o literary scene.
Special offering: Workshop with ¡GAYTINO! Dan Guerrero, UCLA Regents Lecturer in LGBT studies and Chicana/o studies
A two-day intensive workshop based on Guerrero's "POWER OF ONE" performance class.
Meet the filmmaker, Efraín Gutiérrez, and UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Director, Chon A. Noriega.
A two-day symposium organized by Scripps College, the Getty Foundation, the Getty Research Institute, and The San Diego Museum of Art in conjunction with the Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.
A two-day symposium organized by Scripps College, the Getty Foundation, the Getty Research Institute, and The San Diego Museum of Art in conjunction with the Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.
The Cha Cha Files: A Chapina Poética (Kórima Press, 2014) by Maya Chinchilla is a timely debut that makes visible the Central American-Guatemalan diaspora.
Panelists will discuss the successful organizing campaign of a small group of Latino gardeners against the City of L.A.’s draconian leaf blower ban. (ALAGLA graphic by Robert Russell, 2012)
Most labor and migration studies classify migrants with limited formal education or credentials as “unskilled.” Skills of the “Unskilled” reports the findings of a five-year study that draws on research including interviews with 320 Mexican migrants and return migrants in North Carolina and Guanajuato, Mexico.
A launch event for the first edition of the journal bozalta to further the formation of a bozalta community.
Vice Provost M. Belinda Tucker cordially invites you to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the IAC's ethnic studies research centers at UCLA.
Maricón Collective was formed in the spring of 2014 as a queer Chicano/Latino DJ and artist collective “with the hope to bring Queer POC people together through dance and celebration” (mission statement).
The first annual Regeneración Tlacuilolli: UCLA Raza Studies Journal symposium seeks to discuss issues relating to policing, police violence, and militarized state oppression.
Presented by the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History as part of its Annual Colloquium Series.
The UCLA Cinema and Media Studies (CMS) Department colloquium series, in collaboration with the CSRC, welcomes Ernesto Chávez for a presentation on Mexican-born Ramón Novarro, a Catholic gay actor.
Shifra M. Goldman was a groundbreaking art historian who pioneered the study of Chicano art.
This conference brings together scholars, attorneys, and activists who have been effective in seeking justice for twenty-first century Central American refugees. Watch it on UStream!
Homies Unidos presents the first Central American Youth Leadership Conference, designed to formally welcome our Central American Refugee (CAR) youth to the community and to connect them with resources.
Students, staff, faculty, and friends are invited to the CSRC annual open house! Come learn about the center's current projects, recent accomplishments, and new visiting scholars.
The 17th International Symposium, organized under the auspices of the International Che Guevara Foundation.
Award-winning singer-songwriter Ely Guerra has been named a UC Regents’ Lecturer for 2015-16.
Mexican singer-songwriter Ely Guerra, Latin GRAMMY winner for "Best Alternative Music Album,” will be performing in an event free to the UCLA campus community. RSVP required.
Please join us for a book talk and ofrenda with professors Martha Ramirez Oropeza and Alicia Valencia Reyes, co-authors of Mikamoxtzin, Little Book of The Day of the Dead Ritual.
The CSRC Latina/o Education Summit highlights significant issues in the Latina/o educational pipeline, from K-12 to graduate school. THIS EVENT WILL BE STREAMED LIVE.
Please join us for a reception honoring the 2015–16 IAC visiting researchers and scholars, graduate and predoctoral fellows, and research grant awardees at UCLA’s four ethnic studies centers, including the CSRC:
The 2015 Queer Studies Conference brings together the best graduate student research across the globe. “Curing the Queer: From Pathology to Resistance” will open up a critical discussion on the (re)emergence of homo/queer/trans phobic culture under the guise of religious or medical restorative therapies and other queerphobic practices.
The two-day symposium, "This is the City: Preserving Moving Images of Los Angeles," will convene leading curators, archivists and academics to illuminate the lost history and landscapes of Los Angeles via the moving image; to screen artifacts relevant to our understating of race, place and space in the City; and to consider digital-era action plans and priorities to insure the preservation of the moving image legacy of Los Angeles.
Grace Montañez Davis (b. 1926) became politically active in the early 1950s, working with the Community Service Organization, and later campaigned for co-founder Edward Roybal, who served as city councilman and then U.S Congressman.
A historic, influential hit in regional theaters, the film was long thought lost before its restoration at UCLA.