Events
This two-day conference will explore the history of California’s missions with the goal of promoting new research that incorporates the voices of Native, Mexican, and Mexican American people into the history of California and the United States.
This two-day conference will explore the history of California’s missions with the goal of promoting new research that incorporates the voices of Native, Mexican, and Mexican American people into the history of California and the United States.
Join us for a book presentation and conversation for the award-winning The Aztlán Mexican Studies Reader, 1974–2016. The presentation will include author and UCLA Medal recipient John Rechy, musicians Aldo Acuña and Rolando "Roco" Ortega, CSRC associate director Charlene Villaseñor Black, and contributors Audrey Harris, Juanita Heredia, Sandra Ruiz, and Ariel Tumbaga.
Marta Caminero-Santangelo, professor of English at the University of Kansas, is an academic scholar and activist who works with immigrant rights organizations and gives community presentations on U.S. Latino/a/x literature and culture and immigrant rights. She is the author of the book Documenting the Undocumented: Latino/a Narratives and Social Justice in the Era of Operation Gatekeeper (University of Florida Press, 2016) and numerous articles on literature and social justice for undocumented youth.
You are invited to the UCLA Institute of American Cultures (IAC) Annual Fall Forum, featuring the 2019–20 IAC visiting researchers and scholars, graduate and predoctoral fellows, and research grant awardees at UCLA’s four ethnic studies centers.
This 2-day symposium is a prequel to the opera Juana, which explores the multiple “afterlives” of Sor Juana and the many ways in which the famous/infamous nun has been represented — from 17th- and 18th century visual and literary portraits to 20th- and 21st-century historical novels, poetry, plays, films, musical performances, visual arts, and even a Netflix mini-series.
This 2-day symposium is a prequel to the opera Juana, which explores the multiple “afterlives” of Sor Juana and the many ways in which the famous/infamous nun has been represented — from 17th- and 18th century visual and literary portraits to 20th- and 21st-century historical novels, poetry, plays, films, musical performances, visual arts, and even a Netflix mini-series.