Events
Please join us for a book talk and ofrenda with professors Martha Ramirez Oropeza and Alicia Valencia Reyes, co-authors of Mikamoxtzin, Little Book of The Day of the Dead Ritual.
The CSRC Latina/o Education Summit highlights significant issues in the Latina/o educational pipeline, from K-12 to graduate school. THIS EVENT WILL BE STREAMED LIVE.
Please join us for a reception honoring the 2015–16 IAC visiting researchers and scholars, graduate and predoctoral fellows, and research grant awardees at UCLA’s four ethnic studies centers, including the CSRC:
The 2015 Queer Studies Conference brings together the best graduate student research across the globe. “Curing the Queer: From Pathology to Resistance” will open up a critical discussion on the (re)emergence of homo/queer/trans phobic culture under the guise of religious or medical restorative therapies and other queerphobic practices.
The two-day symposium, "This is the City: Preserving Moving Images of Los Angeles," will convene leading curators, archivists and academics to illuminate the lost history and landscapes of Los Angeles via the moving image; to screen artifacts relevant to our understating of race, place and space in the City; and to consider digital-era action plans and priorities to insure the preservation of the moving image legacy of Los Angeles.
Grace Montañez Davis (b. 1926) became politically active in the early 1950s, working with the Community Service Organization, and later campaigned for co-founder Edward Roybal, who served as city councilman and then U.S Congressman.