IAC FALL FORUM AND RECEPTION
Event Date: 
Thursday, December 1, 2016 - 
4:30pm to 7:00pm
Event Location: 
UCLA Faculty Center - California Room
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
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
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
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
Whittier College, Whittier, CA
	IAC Visiting Scholar, American Indian Studies Center
Food Frontiers: Indigenous Borderlands and Continental Landscapes
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.
