The Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies at UCLA invites you to the symposium Archival Futures: The Ephemera of Art, Mobility and the Isthmus. This day-long event will feature scholars, community archivists, artists and intellectuals based in Los Angeles and abroad to deeply engage the archives as those produced and looked after by Central American peoples subjected to historical negation. We ask, in what ways do organic intellectuals, scholarly dissidents, and artists subvert “official archives?” How do they refuse the gaze of violence present in these ephemera and in the future archive? Join us as we create a space of critical and horizontal exchange rooted in many knowledges that exist and make the isthmus, an isthmus that is mobile, that defies ecological collapse, and builds creative worlds of survivance and continuity. 

Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Location: Room 158, Hershey Hall Salon (in-person only)

Time: 8:15am-6pm

Lunch & Dinner provided with RSVP at: https://bit.ly/archivalfuture

Art & Archival Exhibit in Hershey Courtyard