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Virtual Book Talk: Border Women & the Community of Maclovio Rojas
2022-02-04 11:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | https://ucla.zoom.us/j/93923639766?pwd=[REDACTED]
Join us for a virtual book talk with Dr. Michelle Téllez on Friday, February 4th from 11:00am – 12:30pm. This event is sponsored by the UCLA Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies and the Center for Mexican Studies.

Dr. Michelle Téllez is Associate Professor of Mexican American Studies and Gender Studies at the University of Arizona. Her scholarly and community-engaged work has been deeply shaped by the experience of growing up along the U.S./Mexico border. Her writings on transnational community formations(and disruptions), Chicana mothering, and gendered migration can be found innumerous anthologies and journals including Gender & Society, Feminist Formations, and Aztlán. Her latest book, Border Women and the Community of Maclovio Rojas: Autonomy in the Spaces of Neoliberal Neglect was published in September 2021 by the University of Arizona Press.

MEETING ID : 939 2363 9766 | PASSCODE: [REDACTED]

Please contact cs.gradrep@gmail.com or maylei@ucla.edu with any questions.

IAC Fall Forum
2021-11-09 15:00 - 16:00
IAC Fall Forum featuring guest speakers.
UCLA Institute of American Cultures
When: Tuesday, November 9, 2021, 3–4 PM (PST)IAC Fall Forum 2021_Depts flyer[47][88]
RSVP link: https://uclaea.zoom.us/webinar/register/5816343257350/WN_k2pSc104RciBB2KmU1jaJw

Día de los Muertos: Love and Loss During the COVID-19 Pandemic
2021-11-01 11:00 - 12:00
You are invited to an online event honoring our ancestors and acknowledging the devastating losses the Latinx and other racialized communities have endured during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
This reflective event will feature artwork, performances, and critical analyses by faculty, students, and community members.
Open to the public!
Register here:
https://bit.ly/2XqWpCP

Virtual Day of the Dead Ritual
2021-10-31 12:00 - 14:00 | https://ucla.zoom.us/j/94635242184
Join us for an invocation to the four directions and calling of the spirits collective ofrenda guided by Prof. Martha Ramirez- Oropeza.

My mother, the painter: Storytelling in Central American Studies
2021-10-21 13:00 - 14:30
Please join us for the first meeting of the Fall 2021 Race, Ethnicity and Immigration Colloquium, presented by IGS and co-sponsored by the Center for Race & Gender at UC Berkeley. Professor Leisy J. Abrego (UCLA) will give a talk titled “My mother, the painter: Storytelling in Central American Studies.”
For more information on the event: My mother, the painter: Storytelling in Central American Studies | Institute of Governmental Studies – UC Berkeley
This event is virtual and is open to all members of the community. Zoom webinar registration is required. (You must have a Zoom account in order to attend.)
Zoom registration: Webinar Registration – Zoom

Note: This event is not hosted by UCLA’s Chicano & Central American Studies Department ―One of our department faculty, Leisy J. Abrego, is being featured. If you have questions about this event, please contact the organizer, Christian Paiz for more information (christian.paiz@berkeley.edu).

2021 Virtual Commencement
2021-06-12 10:00
Join us for the CCAS 2021 Virtual Commencement! The commencement webpage will go live at 10:00 am PT on Saturday, June 12. This is a pre-recorded event.

José M. Alamillo presents Deportes: The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora
2021-05-12 15:00 - 16:00
Book Talk: José M. Alamillo presents Deportes: The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora
Please join us online when José M. Alamillo, professor and chair of the Chicana/o Studies Department at CSU Channel Islands, presents his new book, Deportes: The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora (Rutgers University Press, 2021). Spanning the first half of the twentieth century, Deportes uncovers the hidden experiences of Mexican male and female athletes, teams and leagues and their supporters who fought for a more level playing field on both sides of the border. Despite a widespread belief that Mexicans shunned physical exercise, teamwork or “good sportsmanship,” they proved that they could compete in a wide variety of sports at amateur, semiprofessional, Olympic and professional levels. Professor Alamillo will be introduced by Genevieve Carpio, Assistant Professor of Chicana/o and Central American Studies at UCLA; Rudy Mondragón, doctoral candidate in Chicana/o and Central American studies at UCLA, will moderate the Q&A.
Alamillo was the 2002-2003 Institute of American Cultures visiting scholar at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, where he first started researching sports history. He taught the first Chicanx sports history class at UCLA, “Race, Sport & Recreation in Chicana/o Los Angeles,” in Spring 2003.
This event is organized by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center and co-sponsored by the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies, the Department of History, and the Center for Mexican Studies. This event is free and open to the public.
RSVP via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jose-m-alamillo-deportes-the-making-of-a-sporting-mexican-diaspora-tickets-152154069919
A Zoom link will be sent to registrants the day before the event. This webinar will be recorded.

Archival Methodologies from an Ethnic Studies Perspective
2021-05-07 10:00 - 11:30
Lonches con CCAS
Dear CCAS cohorts and faculty,
Please join us for a roundtable exploring history, archiving practices, and training in these fields from some of UCLA’s leading scholars, librarians, & graduate students.
The panel will include Dr. Rosie Bermuduez (UC President’s Post-Doctoral Fellow), Dr. Marques Vestal (Assistant Professor, Urban Planning), Dr. Genevieve Carpio (Assistant Professor, CCAS), Xaviera Flores (Librarian & Archivist, CSRC), and Joana Chavez (Graduate Student, CCAS).
Join Zoom Meeting – https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99096405566

Francisco Galarte presents Brown Trans Figurations
2021-05-05 16:00 - 17:30
Queer of Color Genealogies – Spring Book Series
Presentation of Brown Trans Figurations: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies by Professor Francisco Galarte

Note: This event has passed. Please use the following link to watch the event’s Zoom recording.

Please join us when Professor Francisco J. Galarte, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of New Mexico, discusses their latest book Brown Trans Figurations: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies. The event will include a presentation by Professor Galarte and a discussion led by Professor Maylei Blackwell. This event is open to all.
Join the event via Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/98970982935?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 989 7098 2935
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Within queer, transgender, and Latinx and Chicanx cultural politics, brown transgender narratives are frequently silenced and erased. Brown trans subjects are treated as deceptive, unnatural, nonexistent, or impossible, their bodies, lives, and material circumstances represented through tropes and used as metaphors. Restoring personhood and agency to these subjects, Francisco J. Galarte advances “brown trans figuration” as a theoretical framework to describe how transness and brownness coexist within the larger queer, trans, and Latinx historical experiences.
Brown Trans Figurations presents a collection of representations that reveal the repression of brown trans narratives and make that repression visible and palpable. Galarte examines the violent deaths of two transgender Latinas and the corresponding narratives that emerged about their lives, analyzes the invisibility of brown transmasculinity in Chicana feminist works, and explores how issues such as transgender politics can be imagined as part of Chicanx and Latinx political movements. This book considers the contexts in which brown trans narratives appear, how they circulate, and how they are reproduced in politics, sexual cultures, and racialized economies.

Job Market 101 - Job Market Spring 2021 Series
2021-04-30 11:00 - 12:30
Job Market 101
Dr. Valenzuela, Dr. Johnson, and Dr. Abrego will host the first job market spring series
salon. This salon will cover the nuts and bolts of the job market with the goal of demystifying the search and application process, search committee protocols, and the selection process of the candidate. This series is open to all cohorts of Chicana/o and Central American Studies graduate students.
Zoom Meeting ID: 980 4128 8340

Job Market Spring 2021 Series
2021-04-30 08:00 - 2021-05-29 17:00
Lonches con CCAS presents Job Market Spring 2021 Series
Join Lonches con CCAS this quarter for three job market salons. This series is open to all cohorts of Chicana/o & Central American Studies graduate students.
Salon 1 – Job Market 101 – April 30
CCAS faculty hosts will cover the nuts and bolts of the job market. This salon will demystify the application process, search committee protocols, and the selection process of the candidate.
Salon 2 – Becoming a Successful Candidate – May 14
CCAS faculty hosts will provide an overview of a successful candidate. Hosts will discuss the
interview process, campus visits, job talks, teaching demos, and negotiating an offer.
Salon 3 – Alumni Roundtable – May 29
CCAS Alumni will share their job market experience at various institutions. Panelists
will share marketing a CCAS degree and navigating the job process based on their most salient identities.
Please submit questions about the salon topics or for the panelist to series organizers:
Salon 1 – Alana, alana.dehinojosa@ucla.edu
Salon 2 – Lucy, lucialeon@ucla.edu
Salon 3 – Audrey, audrey.silvestre@gmail.com

Queer of Color Genealogies - Spring Book Series
2021-04-21 11:30 - 2021-05-21 17:30
Join us for the Queer of Color Genealogies – Spring Book Series hosted by Professor Maylei Blackwell. This series of book talks will feature new titles in Chicanx/Latinx Sexualities.

Nepantla Squared: Transgender Mestiz@ Histories in Times of Global Shift – April 21st @ 11:30am PT

Presentation by Linda Heidenreich, Associate Professor with the Department of History at Washington State University

Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies – May 5th @ 4:00pm PT

Presentation by Francisco Galarte, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of New Mexico

Queer and Trans Migration: Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation – May 12th @ 12:00pm PT

Presentation by Karma Chavez, Associate Professor of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas and Eithne Luibhéid, Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona (co-editors)
Rafael Solorzano, Assistant Professor in the Department of Chicana(o) and Latina(o) Studies at Cal State LA, and Jack Caraves, Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at San José State University (contributors)

Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance – May 19th @ 4:00pm PT

Presentation by Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Professor of American Culture, Romance Languages and Literatures, and Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Michigan

Each book talk will be hosted at https://ucla.zoom.us/j/98970982935?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 989 7098 2935
Passcode: [REDACTED]

L. Heidenreich presents Nepantla Squared: Transgender Mestiz@ Histories in Times of Global Shift
2021-04-21 11:30 - 13:00
Queer of Color Genealogies – Spring Book Series
Presentation of Nepantla Squared: Transgender Mestiz@ Histories in Times of Global Shift by Professor Linda Heidenreich

Note: This event has passed. Please use the following link to watch the event’s Zoom recording.

Please join us when Professor Linda Heidenreich, Associate Professor with the Department of History at Washington State University, discusses her latest book Nepantla Squared: Transgender Mestiz@ Histories in Times of Global Shift. The event will include a presentation by Professor Heidenreich and a discussion led by Professor Maylei Blackwell. This event is open to all.
Join the event via Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/98970982935?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 989 7098 2935
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Nepantla Squared maps the lives of two transgender mestiz@s, one during the turn of the twentieth century and one during the turn of the twenty-first century, to chart the ways race, gender, sex, ethnicity, and capital function differently in different times. To address the erasure of transgender mestiz@ realities from history, Linda Heidenreich employs an intersectional analysis that critiques monopoly and global capitalism. Heidenreich builds on the work of Gloria Anzaldúa’s concept of nepantleras, those who could live between and embody more than one culture, to coin the term nepantla², marking times of capitalist transition where gender was also in motion. Transgender mestiz@s, too, embodied that movement. Heidenreich insists on a careful examination of the multiple in-between spaces that construct lives between cultures and genders during in-between times of shifting empire and capital. In so doing, they offer an important discussion of race, class, nation, and citizenship centered on transgender bodies of color that challenges readers to rethink the way they understand the gendered social and economic challenges of today.
Linda Heidenreich is an associate professor of history and of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Washington State University. They are the author of “This Land Was Mexican Once”: Histories of Resistance from Northern California and coeditor of Three Decades of Engendering History: Selected Works of Antonia I. Castañeda.

March Lonche con CCAS
2021-03-26 13:00 - 15:00
Join our March Lonches con CCAS with Professors Genevieve Carpio and Laura E. Gomez. Lonches con CCAS is a monthly Brown Bag workshop for CCAS graduate students. Faculty “hosts” guide two CCAS presenters and their attendees through discussions of works-in-progress.
This event will take place on Friday, March 26 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm. Please join using the following Zoom ID: 993 9046 9146.

Let's Demystify (Writing) the Letter of Recommendation
2021-03-19 11:00 - 13:00
Join us for a skill-building and professional salon hosted by Lonches con CCAS. This event will feature Professors Abel Valenzuela and Maylei Blackwell answering questions like: What content should a letter of recommendation include? When is it appropriate for a Teaching Assistant to co-write a letter of recommendation with the professor?
The event will take place on Friday, March 19 from 11:00am to 1:00pm. Please join using the following Zoom ID: 915 7240 9677.

Institute of American Cultures Fall Forum
2020-11-18 15:00 - 16:00
Join us on Wednesday, November 18th @ 3pm for the annual IAC Fall Forum featuring the 2020–21 IAC visiting researchers and scholars, graduate and predoctoral fellows, and research grant awardees at UCLA’s four ethnic studies centers. Register @ https://bit.ly/3leyOMz

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Cafecito with Ellie
2020-10-14 15:30 - 16:30
Grab your favorite pan dulce y café! Join us for a virtual hangout with our student advisor and fellow students this Fall quarter.
Cafecito with Ellie will take place three times this Fall quarter: Wednesday, October 14, November 4, and December 2. Each Cafecito will run from 3:30 to 4:30pm via Zoom.
Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/3803275880

Book Panel - We are Not Dreamers
2020-10-02 12:00 - 13:30
Please join us in a conversation online (over Zoom) with the book contributors of We are Not Dreamers: Undocumented Scholars Theorize Undocumented Life in the United States.
The widely recognized “Dreamer narrative” celebrates the educational and economic achievements of undocumented youth to justify a path to citizenship. While a well-intentioned, strategic tactic to garner political support of undocumented youth, it has promoted the idea that access to citizenship and rights should be granted only to a select group of “deserving” immigrants. The contributors to We Are Not Dreamers—themselves currently or formerly undocumented—poignantly counter the Dreamer narrative by grappling with the nuances of undocumented life in this country. Theorizing those excluded from the Dreamer category—academically struggling students, transgender activists, and queer undocumented parents—the contributors call for an expansive articulation of immigrant rights and justice that recognizes the full humanity of undocumented immigrants while granting full and unconditional rights. Illuminating how various institutions reproduce and benefit from exclusionary narratives, this volume articulates the dangers of the Dreamer narrative and envisions a different way forward.
Book Contributors:
Dr. Leisy Abrego, Professor and Chair Core Faculty, Chicana/o and Central American Studies, UCLA
Dr. Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales, Associate Professor, Leadership Studies, University of San Francisco
Joel Sati, PhD student in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy program at UC Berkeley and JD candidate at the Yale Law School
Dr. Carolina Valdivia, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Sociology, UCLA
Discussant:
Dr. Frances Contreras
Associate Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, UC San Diego and Professor, Education Studies, UC San Diego.

Virtual Funding Workshop
2020-10-02 11:00 - 13:00
Interested in learning more about the Graduate Summer Research Mentorship (GSRM), Graduate Research Mentorship (GRM), Dissertation Year Fellowship (DYF) and other extramural funding opportunities? Want to know what it takes to make a successful proposal? Come to our workshop via Zoom!
The workshop will take place Friday, October 2nd from 11:00am to 1:00pm.
RSVP here.
Zoom link.

Open House
2020-09-30 14:00 - 15:00
We invite you to attend our Open House via Zoom. This is a great opportunity to meet staff, professors, teaching assistants, and fellow students. Join us to learn more about the department, future classes, resources, and much more!
RSVP: https://forms.gle/CAf8gzUHJKHh2vEx9
Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/3803275808

Laura E. Gómez for CRS Book Series
2020-09-16 12:00 - 13:30
The Critical Race Studies program at the Law School is hosting a book event for our colleague, Laura Gómez.

Wednesday, Sept 16, 12-1:30PM – CRS Book Series: Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism by Laura E. Gómez, in conversation with Cheryl I. Harris

Written with exceptional clarity and drawing on deep research, Inventing Latinos presents not only a brilliant account of the changing position of Latinxs, but also a nuanced understanding of racism in the U.S. today.” —Howard Winant, co-author of Racial Formation in the United State

Please join us for the inaugural event in our CRS 2020-21 Book Series, where Professor Cheryl Harris will be in conversation with author Laura Gómez on her recently released book, Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism.

You may RSVP here.

3rd Annual Nahuatl Conference
2020-05-28 10:00 - 15:00
The 3rd Annual Nahuatl Conference will be held on Thursday, May 28th, 2020 from 10:00AM to 3:00 PM PDT.
The Nahuatl Conference 2020: A Trilingual Webinar, is organized by sponsored by the UCLA Latin American Institute. This webinar features new research on Mesoamerica by 3 teachers and 4 advanced students of the Nahuatl language. Nahuatl is the language spoken by the Mexica or Aztecs, and it is still spoken today by about a million people in Mexico.
Presentations will be in Nahuatl, Spanish and English or a combination of the 3 languages.
To register, please use this link.
For more information please contact: abarrera@international.ucla.edu

Cafecito with Ellie and the Profes!
2020-02-10 15:00 - 16:30 | 7386 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Take a break from midterms and enjoy some pan dulce, cafecito, and quesadillas salvadoreñas!

Cafecito with Ellie and the Profes
2020-01-10 15:00 - 16:30 | 7386 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Join us for some cafecito and pan dulce! This is a good opportunity to meet with the department student advisor and fellow students.

MA and Dissertation Timeline Workshop
2020-01-10 13:00 - 15:00 | 7386 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Join Professor Leisy Abrego for a MA and dissertation timeline workshop! This workshop is a good opportunity to ask questions regarding your MA thesis and dissertation!
RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/MA-DissertationWorkshop

Cafecito with Ellie and Michelle
2019-12-02 15:00 - 16:30 | 7386 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Stop by for some hot chocolate, pan dulce, quesadillas salvadorenas, and tamales on December 2! Tamales will be available for the first 20 students. This cafecito will be cohosted with Michelle Lucarelli-Beltran, LCSW.

"You Imagine Me and I Exist" The Afterlives of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
2019-11-22 09:00 - 15:30 | Royce Hall 314
A two-day symposium and dramatic prequel to the
world premiere of JUANA, the opera based on the novel
“Sor Juana’s Second Dream,” by UCLA Professor Alicia
Gaspar de Alba, and presented by Opera UCLA.
Dates: November 22 (9AM-3:30PM) and 23 (10AM-3PM), 2019
Free and open to the public!
For more information, visit: https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/resources/center-for-musical-humanities/

The Box Project
2019-11-09 17:00 - 20:00 | 685 Venice Boulevard, Venice, CA 90291
The Box Project originated in France with the Paris Women’s Salon, a group of creative women, who began getting together to talk about their work and support each other in their creative endeavors. This inspired the creation of its two sister groups, one in Mexico City and another in Los Angeles, which quickly grew with women wishing to participate. The women in Paris began sending small gifts in matchbox-sized boxes to their sister groups, and responding to this generosity, the women in Mexico City and L.A. sent gifts in return.
This exhibit will feature 76 women artists from Mexico City, Los Angeles, and Paris.
The opening reception will be on November 9th from 5:00 PM- 8:00 PM.
Exhibition on view through January 10th.
Gallery hours Tuesday-Saturday, 11 AM to 5 PM.

Cafecito with Ellie and the Profes
2019-11-04 15:00 - 16:30 | 7386 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Join our department Student Advisor, Ellie Hernández, and faculty for some cafecito, pan dulce, and quesadillas salvadoreñas. This is a good opportunity to meet fellow students and ask questions!

Día de los Muertos
2019-10-27 16:30 - 20:00 | 685 Venice Boulevard, Venice, CA 90291
The 17th annual Día de los Muertos celebration and ritual, a collaboration between UCLA and SPARC.
SPARC partners with Professor Martha Ramirez-Oropeza and over 100 UCLA students to honor the memories of those who have passed on. Students will build intricate altars that represent Día de los Muertos traditions of various regions of Mexico and Central America. Professor Ramirez-Oropeza will lead an invocation ritual in Nahuatl, Spanish and English that calls the spirits to join the celebration. Be a part of our ceremony by bringing a photograph of a loved one for our community altar.
There will be live performances and food available throughout the evening. Everyone is welcome!!
