Events
January 9, 2012 to February 26, 2012
12:00pm to 5:00pm
The Undocumented Event series, which began last month at the Boyle Heights Farmers Market, will continue in January with pop-up events and activities. Time, date, and place will be announced at least twenty-four hours in advance through social media as well as via email. Each event will be different in nature and will involve community members and Chicano artists in varied capacities.
February 2, 2012
6:00pm to 9:00pm
On Thursday, February 2, 6:00–9:00 p.m., the CSRC will hold its second L.A. Xicano community-based “Undocumented Event,” this time at El Mercado de Los Angeles in East L.A. The event is co-produced by Mobile Mural Lab (MML), a mobile art space created by L.A.-based artists to foster dialogue and engage the community around matters of public art, and José Luis Gonzalez, co-founder of the historic Goez Art Studios and Gallery.
February 4, 2012
6:00pm to 9:00pm
La Santa Cecilia draws inspiration from a hybrid of Latin culture, rock, and world music. On Saturday, February 4, 6:00–9:00 p.m., at the Fowler Museum, Josh Kun, curator of the forthcoming GRAMMY Museum exhibition Trouble in Paradise: Music and Los Angeles, 1945–75, will interview the musical group. La Santa Cecilia will then take audience questions and perform a selection of songs.
February 8, 2012
Painter and muralist John Valadez will examine the development of the Chicano art movement outside East L.A., focusing on Highland Park and Downtown Los Angeles, when he gives a lunchtime Culture Fix talk at UCLA’s Fowler Museum on Wednesday, February 8, 12:00 p.m.
February 8, 2012
4:00pm to 6:00pm
Ramón A. Gutiérrez, Preston and Sterling Morton Distinguished Service Professor in United States History and the College at the University of Chicago, will present “Utopian and Dystopian Narratives of the Chicana/o Past, Present and Future” on Wednesday, February 8, 4:00–6:00 p.m., at the CSRC Library (144 Haines Hall).
February 9, 2012
3:00pm to 5:00pm
Author and La Bloga correspondent Daniel A. Olivas will read from and sign his sixth novel, The Book of Want: A Novel (University of Arizona Press, 2011), on Thursday, February 9, 3:00–5:00 p.m., at the CSRC Library (144 Haines Hall). The publisher describes it as “an enchanting blend of social and magical realism that tells a charming story about what it means to be fully human.”
February 10, 2012
1:00pm to 3:00pm
New York–based writer Sergio Troncoso will be at the Charles E. Young Research Library Presentation Room on Friday, February 10, 1:00–3:00 p.m., to read from the two books he published last year: a novel, From This Wicked Patch of Dust (University of Arizona Press, 2011), and a collection of personal essays, Crossing Borders: Personal Essays (Arte Público Press, 2011).
February 22, 2012
12:00pm to 2:30pm
Tamara Kay, associate professor of sociology at Harvard University and co-director of Harvard’s Transnational Studies Initiative, will discuss her new book NAFTA and the Politics of Labor Transnationalism (Cambridge University Press, 2011) on Wednesday, February 22, 12:00–2:30 p.m., at the CSRC Library (144 Haines Hall).
February 27, 2012
3:30pm to 6:00pm
On Monday, February 27, 3:30–6:00 p.m., the Institute of American Cultures (IAC) will hold a Winter Forum and Reception to honor the 2011-2012 IAC visiting scholars, predoctoral and graduate fellows, and research grant awardees. The event will also celebrate the launch of a re-envisioned IAC led by M. Belinda Tucker, vice provost.