Events
This lecture investigates the emerging state of borderland technology that brings all people into an intimate place of surveillance where data resides and defines inclusion and exclusion to citizenship.
Noted writer, historian and activist Professor Barbara Ransby will explore the inter-institutional space of ideas and organizing, linking research and scholarship to communities and movement-based work.
The Institute of American Cultures (IAC) invites applications for support of research on African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans, and Chicanas/os, as well as proposals on interethnic relations that will increase collaboration between the Centers and/or other campus units. Join us at this workshop to learn tips and more about the application process.
Maria Gloria Robalino is an interdisciplinary scholar and architect working at the crossroads of environmental literature, indigenous studies, visual culture, and gender and sexuality studies.
Please join the UCLA HSI and CSRC at the annual Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) Visioning Forum. This event will take place at the Charles E. Young Grand Salon, Kerckhoff Hall. Lunch provided!
José Ramón Lizárraga’s research focuses on the iterative design of learning ecologies where youth and adults interrogate the front-facing and backend dimensions of technologies, including AI, in order to fabulate or strategically disrupt and repurpose tools toward ethical and equitable ends.
A cumbia beat fuels this beautifully choreographed feature by director Fernando Frías de la Parra, which ultimately is a melancholic take on emigration.
Poetry, claimed Benedict Anderson, has a special role to play in nation building because it fosters a "special kind of contemporaneous community." But how have poets approached communal belonging?
Drawing on oral histories with Chicana/o librarians and extensive archival research, Camargo Gonzalez examines key moments in the history of combating racial biases within Latina/o/x children’s literature and librarianship.