IAC Fall Forum and Reception

The Institute of American Cultures (IAC) will hold its Fall Forum and Reception on December 3, 2012. The event will honor the 2012-2013 IAC Visiting Scholars, Predoctoral /Graduate Fellows, and Research Grant Awardees. 

Featuring conversations with IAC Scholars:

Renya Ramirez, Ph.D.

Visiting Scholar, American Indian Studies Center

Associate Professor of Anthropology/American Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

The Cloud Family: The Lives and Work of Henry Roe Cloud, Elizabeth Bender Cloud, and Woesha Cloud North

Jordan Camp, Ph.D.

Visiting Researcher, Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies

Incarcerating the Crisis: Race, Security, Prisons, and the Second Reconstruction

Lily Anne Yumi Welty, Ph.D.

Visiting Researcher, Asian American Studies Center

Advantage through Crisis: Multiracial American Japanese in Post-World War II Japan, Okinawa and America 1945-1972

Juanita Heredia, Ph.D.

Visiting Scholar, Chicano Studies Research Center

Associate Professor of Spanish, Northern Arizona University

Transnational Latinas/os and the City: Negotiating Urban Experiences in Twenty-first Century Literature and Popular Culture

Reception to follow with music by The Reggie Waddell/Rich Cohen Jazz & Blues Duo

Please RSVP by November 26: http://iacfallforum2012.eventbrite.com/#

The IAC serves as the administrative hub for UCLA’s four ethnic studies centers: American Indian Studies Center, Asian American Studies Center, Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, and the Chicano Studies Research Center.