BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UCLA Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies - ECPv6.15.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:UCLA Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ccas.ucla.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for UCLA Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20270314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20271107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260226T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260226T190000 DTSTAMP:20260419T152942 CREATED:20260127T210356Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260319T203518Z UID:11621-1772096400-1772132400@ccas.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Professor Gaspar de Alba Retirement Symposium DESCRIPTION:RSVP Link\nPlease join us for a celebration of Profe Gaspar De Alba’s incredible career and lasting legacy at UCLA. Let’s celebrate her research and impact!\nHosted by the UCLA Center for Musical Humanities in partnership with the Dean of Social Sciences and the Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies\, “Queering Sor Juana” will include two panels and a showcase performance of arias from the opera JUANA\, which is based on Gaspar de Alba’s historical novel\, Sor Juana’s Second Dream. The opera premiered with Opera UCLA in 2019\, with two sold-out performances and a glowing review in The Los Angeles Times. \nFree and open to the public\, but all attendees must register online. Lunch and reception will be provided for the participants and first 50 registered guests only. \n“Otro Corazón 3: Queering Sor Juana” builds on past symposia organized by Alicia Gaspar de Alba in her “Corazón” series\,1 and is offered as part of a year-long celebration of her 32-year academic career at UCLA\, focusing on her lifetime of research and creative engagement with Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz\, the 17th-century Mexican nun/poet/scholar who is hailed all over the world as the “first feminist of the Americas” and the Mexican “Tenth Muse.” \n \n  URL:https://ccas.ucla.edu/event/professor-gaspar-de-alba-retirement-symposium/ LOCATION:Northwest Campus Auditorium\, 350 De Neve Dr.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095-1559\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251119T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251119T110000 DTSTAMP:20260419T152942 CREATED:20251117T174917Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251117T175147Z UID:11597-1763550000-1763550000@ccas.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Book Talk: How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America DESCRIPTION:Date: November 19\, 2025\nTime: 11:oo AM in Pacific Time\nRSVP: http://tinyurl.com/bahai-moreno\n\n\nHow do schools make us think about race? And where does Latinx fit in? In “How Schools Make Race\,” Laura Chávez-Moreno\, a researcher and former public school teacher\, shows how schools play a pivotal role in shaping the concept of race and racialized groups. In this talk\, she tells the story of how the teachers and students in a racially diverse Spanish-English bilingual education program grappled with conflicting ideas about race and about the Latinx category. Chávez-Moreno challenges us to reconsider what makes race and invites us to see Latinx as a racialized group. Her research reveals why this shift matters-–because how we think about race affects whether our schools can provide youth with an education that challenges racist ideas.\n\nSPEAKER: \n\nDr. Laura Chávez-Moreno\nAssistant Professor\, Department of Chicana/o & Central American Studies\, and Department of Education at UCLA\n\nLaura Chávez-Moreno is an award-winning scholar\, qualitative social scientist\, and assistant professor in the Department of Chicana/o & Central American Studies and the Department of Education at UCLA. She is the author of How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America\, published by Harvard Education Press\, which won the Book of the Year Award by an early career scholar from the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education. Her book has been featured in several podcasts and popular media\, including the New Books Network and Ms. Magazine. Professor Chávez-Moreno’s research has been published in top-tier academic journals and recognized with prestigious awards from organizations such as the American Educational Research Association and the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation. In 2023\, she received the Alan C. Purves Award from the National Council of Teachers of English for her article\, “The continuum of racial literacies: Teacher practices countering whitestream bilingual education\,” published in Research in the Teaching of English. This annual award honors the article deemed most significant in advancing the field. Most recently\, Professor Chávez-Moreno was awarded the 2025 Emerging Scholars Award from the Critical Race Studies in Education Association. For more about her work\, please check out her website LauraChavezMoreno.com URL:https://ccas.ucla.edu/event/book-talk-how-schools-make-race-teaching-latinx-racialization-in-america/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251112T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251112T170000 DTSTAMP:20260419T152942 CREATED:20251022T201354Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251022T201354Z UID:11568-1762963200-1762966800@ccas.ucla.edu SUMMARY:2026 CCAS Ph.D. Admission Information Session DESCRIPTION:The Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies is presenting an Admission Information Session for the Ph.D. program. Please help us by sharing our flyer with anyone interested in applying to the Ph.D. Program.\n\nDuring the Ph.D. information session\, we will discuss the admission process and program requirements\, and we will answer any questions. Please RSVP using the links provided. URL:https://ccas.ucla.edu/event/2026-ccas-ph-d-admission-information-session/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250520T081500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250520T180000 DTSTAMP:20260419T152942 CREATED:20250501T044916Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250501T044916Z UID:11393-1747728900-1747764000@ccas.ucla.edu SUMMARY:[Symposium] Archival Futures: The Ephemera of Art\, Mobility and the Isthmus DESCRIPTION: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.  \nDate: Tuesday\, May 20\, 2025 \nLocation: Room 158\, Hershey Hall Salon (in-person only) \nTime: 8:15am-6pm \nLunch & Dinner provided with RSVP at: https://bit.ly/archivalfuture \nArt & Archival Exhibit in Hershey Courtyard URL:https://ccas.ucla.edu/event/symposium-archival-futures-the-ephemera-of-art-mobility-and-the-isthmus/ LOCATION:Hershey Hall\, 801 Hilgard Avenue\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ccas.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Post_IG_1080x1350_240425.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250226T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250226T130000 DTSTAMP:20260419T152942 CREATED:20250211T225348Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250211T230335Z UID:11268-1740567600-1740574800@ccas.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Book Talk: Dr. Christopher Loperena Presents "The End of Paradise" DESCRIPTION:Book Talk: Dr. Christopher Loperena Presents “The End of Paradise”\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDate: Wednesday\, February 26\, 2025\n\n\nTime: 11:00am to 1:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nPlace: CSRC Library – 144 Haines Hall\n\n\n\n\n\nChristopher Loperena is Associate Professor in the Ph.D. Program in Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His research examines Indigenous and Black territorial struggles\, land\, extractivism\, and the socio-spatial politics of economic development. He has also published on anthropological witnessing and cultural expertise. His book\, The Ends of Paradise: Race\, Extraction\, and the Struggle for Black Life in Honduras\, is with Stanford University Press. His work has appeared in journals such as American Anthropologist\, American Quarterly\, Cultural Anthropology\, Current Anthropology\, Geoforum\, and the Journal of Sustainable Tourism. \nDescription: \nThe future of Honduras begins and ends on the white sand beaches of Tela Bay on the country’s northeastern coast where Garifuna\, a Black Indigenous people\, have resided for over two hundred years. In The Ends of Paradise\, Christopher Loperena examines the Garifuna struggle for life and collective autonomy\, and demonstrates how this struggle challenges concerted efforts by the state and multilateral institutions to render both their lands and their culture into fungible tourism products. He reveals how purportedly inclusive tourism projects form part of a larger neoliberal\, extractivist development regime\, which remakes Black and Indigenous territories into frontiers of progress for the mestizo majority. \n \n  \n\n\n  URL:https://ccas.ucla.edu/event/book-talk-christopher-loperena-moreno-presents-the-end-of-paradise/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241119T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241119T130000 DTSTAMP:20260419T152942 CREATED:20241104T174559Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241104T174559Z UID:11115-1732014000-1732021200@ccas.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Book Talk: Laura Chávez-Moreno Presents "How Schools Make Race" DESCRIPTION:Book Talk: Laura Chávez-Moreno Presents “How Schools Make Race”\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Date:\n\nTuesday\, November 19\, 2024 – \n11:00am to 1:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Location:\n\nCSRC Library – 144 Haines Hall\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaura Chávez-Moreno\, assistant professor in the departments of Chicana/o and Central American Studies and Education\, will present her new book examining the pivotal role schools play in shaping concepts of race and Latinidad. How Schools Make Race: Teaching  Latinx Racialization in America (Harvard Education Press\, 2024) explores how curriculum\, pedagogy\, policy\, and language interact to define\, reinforce\, and blur these boundaries\, urging us to rethink our understanding of race and recognize Latinx as a racialized groupChavezMoreno-UCLA BookTalk Flyer updated (1) \nDiscussants:\nDr. Daniel Solórzano and Dr. Celia Lacayo \nModerator:\nDr. Inma García-Sánchez \n \n  \nPlease RSVP if you wish to attend a provided lunch. \n\n  URL:https://ccas.ucla.edu/event/book-talk-laura-chavez-moreno-presents-how-schools-make-race/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241103T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241103T203000 DTSTAMP:20260419T152942 CREATED:20241021T174624Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241021T174624Z UID:11088-1730653200-1730665800@ccas.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Dia de Los Muertos- November 3\, 2024 at 5pm DESCRIPTION:Join us on November 3rd\, from 5:00-8:30 pm\, for Dia De Los Muertos. Guided by Professor Martha Ramirez-Oropeza. \nLocation: 685 N Venice Blvd\, Venice\, CA\, 90291 URL:https://ccas.ucla.edu/event/dia-de-los-muertos-november-3-2024-at-5pm/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241030T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241104T150000 DTSTAMP:20260419T152942 CREATED:20241028T213656Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241028T213656Z UID:11106-1730280600-1730732400@ccas.ucla.edu SUMMARY:UCLA CCAS Ph.D. Admission Information Sessions - October 30 and November 4th DESCRIPTION:The Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies is presenting two remote Admission Information Sessions on the Ph.D. program. \nDuring the Ph.D. information session\, we will discuss the admission process and program requirements. Please RSVP using the links provided. \n2025 CCAS Ph.D. Admissions Information Sessions \nDate: Wednesday\, October 30\, 2024\nTime 9:30 am -11:00am\nZOOM RSVP: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwsduyqpzgjG9XCZajGm686f-wJRWjaRRRy \nDate : Monday\, November 4\, 2024\nTime : 3:00 pm-4:30 pm\nZOOM RSVP https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwkc-msrjguH9DTB2csoSGjrLepJI5hMvpt \nAdmissions Deadlines for Fall 2025: December 1\, 2024 \nAdmission Requirements Website: https://grad.ucla.edu/programs/social-sciences/chicana-o-and-central-american-studies-department/chicana-and-chicano-studies/#admission-requirements \nFor any questions\, please email Janeth Ruvalcaba\, the Graduate Advisor\, at janeth@chavez.ucla.edu \n  URL:https://ccas.ucla.edu/event/ucla-ccas-ph-d-admission-information-sessions-october-30-and-november-4th/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241025T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241025T193000 DTSTAMP:20260419T152942 CREATED:20241017T191953Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241017T191953Z UID:11074-1729877400-1729884600@ccas.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Gallery Talk: Patrick A. Polk and Charlene Villaseñor Black DESCRIPTION:IN PERSON- RSVP\, please click here \nThe Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies  is pleased to co-sponsor a gallery talk at the Fowler Museum featuring Professor of Art History and Chicana/o and Central American Studies and Associate Director of the Chicano Studies Research Center Charlene Villaseñor Black and Lilly Endowment Curator of Art and Religion Patrick A. Polk. Illuminating commentary on the exhibition Descanse en Paz: Memorial Paintings from 19th-Century Mexico will be paired with light refreshments in the courtyard. \nThis exhibition highlights two popular genres of 19th-century Mexican painting commemorating family members who no longer reside in the household— offering them a lasting presence in the home. The first intimately portrays deceased individuals in likenesses imbued with grief and tender remembrance. The subjects—often children—are shown full of life: some appear with toys in hand; others rest in peace (descanse en paz). The second genre is the uniquely Mexican monja coronada or “crowned nun” portrait. Images of flower-adorned “Brides of Christ” were commissioned by the families of women who took Catholic ecclesiastical vows and permanently embarked on cloistered lives. \nThe event will take place on Friday\, October 25 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm. All are welcome to attend. For more information and to RSVP\, please click here. To visit this event’s page\, please click here. \n  URL:https://ccas.ucla.edu/event/gallery-talk-patrick-a-polk-and-charlene-villasenor-black/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240422T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240422T153000 DTSTAMP:20260419T152942 CREATED:20231122T020228Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240418T153521Z UID:10723-1713794400-1713799800@ccas.ucla.edu SUMMARY:CCAS Talk by Dr. Francisco J. Galarte: "Dolorous Gender" DESCRIPTION:We cordially invite you to a CCAS Talk by Dr. Francisco J. Galarte: \nTitle: “Dolorous Gender” \nAbstract: This lecture builds upon the work in Brown Transfiguration: Rethinking Race\, Sex\, Gender and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies by proposing the affect of dolor as a conceptual framework for analyzing and theorizing the psycho-sexual affective registers of racialized femininities and masculinities. While demonstrating the connections between trans studies and Chicanx/Latinx studies\, the talk focuses on the lives of trans feminine sex workers on the Juárez/El Paso Border before NAFTA and the dolorous imprints these women have left upon how we understand the region’s response to the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1990s\, via border policing\, feminicide and urban renewal. The photographic work of Mexican artist Teresa Margolles provides a dolorous point of entry for excavating a history of trans-feminization on the border by both the US and Mexican nation states\, as well as the extractive colonial imaginings of feminist researchers. \nBiography: Francisco J. Galarte is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Women\, Gender and Sexuality Studies\, Director of the Feminist Research Institute at the University of New Mexico\, and currently serves as the executive editor of the journal TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly (Duke Univ Press). He is the author of Brown Trans Figurations: Rethinking Race\, Gender and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies (University of Texas Press\, 2021)\, which was awarded the Allan Bray Memorial Book Prize\, by the MLA GL/Q Caucus (2022)\, the John Leo and Dana Heller Award by the Popular Culture Association (2022)\, and the Book of the Year Award by the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (2022). Most recently\, he has begun working on a second book project tentatively entitled\, Dolorous Gender: The Problem of Chicanx/Latinx Femininities and Masculinities. \nDate: Monday\, April 22th\, 2024 \nTime: 2:00 – 3:30 pm \nLocation: Haines Hall\, 144 URL:https://ccas.ucla.edu/event/ccas-talk-francisco-galarte/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240304T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240304T170000 DTSTAMP:20260419T152942 CREATED:20240212T235502Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240212T235502Z UID:10761-1709568000-1709571600@ccas.ucla.edu SUMMARY:2024 Patricia McCarron McGinn Lecture by Charlene Villaseñor Black DESCRIPTION:You are cordially invited to the UCLA Art History Department’s annual Patricia McCarron McGinn Lecture  featuring Charlene Villaseñor Black\, Professor of Art History and Chair of the Chicana/o and Central American Studies Department at UCLA. \n\nProfessor Villaseñor Black will present her talk entitled “Art against Necropolitics” on Monday\, March 4 at 5 PM in the Optimist Room of the Luskin Conference Center.   \n  \nThis is an in-person event that you won’t want to miss! \n  \nKindly RSVP by Wednesday\, February 21 to attend.  CLICK HERE TO RSVP . URL:https://ccas.ucla.edu/event/2024-patricia-mccarron-mcginn-lecture-by-charlene-villasenor-black/ LOCATION:Optimist Room\, Luskin Conference Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccas.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/McGinn-Lecture-2024.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231205T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231205T170000 DTSTAMP:20260419T152942 CREATED:20240408T162922Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240408T162922Z UID:10854-1701790200-1701795600@ccas.ucla.edu SUMMARY:CCAS Talk by Cynthia Vázquez: "We Start at Dusk:" Peon Playing and the (Re)connect of Kumeyaay Transborder Sovereignties on the U.S./Mexico Border Copy DESCRIPTION:We cordially invite you to a CCAS Talk by Cynthia Vázquez: \nTitle: “We Start at Dusk:” Peon Playing and the (Re)connect of Kumeyaay Transborder Sovereignties on the U.S./Mexico Border \nAbstract: The U.S./Mexico border serves as a buffer zone where various state-level legalities are enforced\, and it is constantly under surveillance by the U.S. and Mexico governments. Today\, state-sponsored surveillance and border settler-colonialities operate in tandem to dispossess tribal nations whose traditional lands overlap multiple settler borders. For the Kumeyaay nation\, whose traditional homelands straddle the San Diego-Tijuana region\, and whose migratory cycles have been intertwined with generations of knowledge exchange\, the border has ruptured their sense of nationhood. Presently\, Kumeyaay in Mexico are seeking to reconnect with their counterparts in the U.S. through the reclamation and revitalization of the ancestral game of Peon. Playing Peon is connected to larger questions surrounding language reclamation efforts and Indigenous sovereignties in California and Baja California. How do border tribes assert their sovereignty amid increasing restrictive border policies? How do the Kumeyaay reclaim a game that has been dormant for more than 60 years? This talk will highlight grassroots efforts to reclaim Peon on both sides of the border\, transborder reconnections\, and the processes in reclaiming Peon. The larger scope of this talk will focus on how Indigenous sovereignties are implemented and practiced on the border historically and presently based off of my ten year community and tribally approved based research. \nBiography: Dr. Vazquez is a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the American Indian Studies Center at UCLA. She received her doctorate from UC San Diego in Ethnic Studies with a graduate specialization in Critical Gender Studies. Trained as an interdisciplinary scholar in humanities and social sciences\, her research is situated at the nexus of critical theories of Indigenous transborder migrations\, Indigeneity\, settler-colonialism\, binational schooling\, Indigenous & border epistemologies\, and Latinidad. Her pronouns are she/her/hers. Born in LA\, brought up in Las Vegas\, she’s called San Diego her home for ten years. Cynthia identifies as Xicana and is deeply involved in relationship making with artists and local tribal community based on land pedagogies\, liberatory practices\, and resistance. \nDate: Tuesday\, December 5th\, 2023 \nTime: 3:30 – 5:00 pm \nLocation: Kaplan Hall\, A48 URL:https://ccas.ucla.edu/event/ccas-talk-cynthia-vazquez-copy/ LOCATION:Kaplan Hall\, A48 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccas.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/CynthiaVazquez_SocialMedia.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231128T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231128T203000 DTSTAMP:20260419T152942 CREATED:20231111T002756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231111T004210Z UID:10688-1701199800-1701203400@ccas.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Artist Talk: Joey Terrill DESCRIPTION:We cordially invite you to Artist Talk: Joey Terrill! Artist and retired Director of Global Advocacy & Partnerships for the AIDS Healthcare Foundation\, Joey Terrill\, speaks about his life’s work as an artist and activists focusing on issues facing queer Chicano communities in Los Angeles and beyond.  \nDate: Tuesday\, November 28th\, 2023 \nTime: 7:30 pm \nLocation: Hammer Museum  \n10899 Wilshire Boulevard\,  \nLos Angeles\, CA 90024 \nFor more information\, click the following link: Artist Talk: Joey Terrill. URL:https://ccas.ucla.edu/event/artist-talk-joey-terrill/ LOCATION:Hammer Museum\, 10899 Wilshire Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccas.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/JoeyTerrill_post.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231115T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231115T133000 DTSTAMP:20260419T152942 CREATED:20231111T000233Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231111T001328Z UID:10681-1700049600-1700055000@ccas.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Oceanic Studies Book Forum DESCRIPTION:We cordially invite you to the Oceanic Studies Book Forum with invited guests: Alfred Flores (Harvey Mudd College) & Christen Sasaki (UC San Diego). Moderated by Genevieve Carpio\, Associate Professor of Chicana/o and Central American Studies.  \nDate: Wednesday\, November 15th\, 2023 \nTime: 12:00 am – 1:30 pm \nLocation: UCLA James West Alumni Center – Founders Room \n325 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095 \n  \nPlease click the link to RSVP. Don’t miss on your chance to attend this exciting book forum! URL:https://ccas.ucla.edu/event/oceanic-studies-book-forum/ LOCATION:UCLA James West Alumni Center\, 325 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccas.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/11-15-23_Oceanic-Book-Studies-Flyer.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231105T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231105T203000 DTSTAMP:20260419T152942 CREATED:20231023T150255Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231023T151702Z UID:10636-1699200000-1699216200@ccas.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Dia De Los Muertos DESCRIPTION:Hello CCAS community members\, \nWe cordially invite you to Dia De Los Muertos! Guided by Professor Martha Ramirez-Oropeza with over 230 students.  \nDate: Sunday\, November 5th\, 2023 \nTime: 4:00 pm – 8:30 pm \nLocation: 685 N. Venice Blvd.\, Venice\, CA 90291 URL:https://ccas.ucla.edu/event/dia-de-los-muertos-2/ LOCATION:685 N. Venice Blvd.\, Venice\, CA 90291 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ccas.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Day-of-the-Dead-Poster-2023.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231102T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231102T170000 DTSTAMP:20260419T152942 CREATED:20231027T234132Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231027T235502Z UID:10653-1698915600-1698944400@ccas.ucla.edu SUMMARY:The Inaugural Afro-Isthmus Symposium DESCRIPTION:We cordially invite you to the Inaugural Afro-Isthmus Symposium with invited guests: Marielba Herrera (ES) & Heriberto Erquicia (ES).  \nDate: Thursday\, November 2th\, 2023 \nTime: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm \nLocation: Collins Room Alumni Center (UCLA) \n325 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095 \n  \nLunch and light refreshments will be provided for symposium and mixer attendees. The closest parking for guests is UCLA Structure 8. \nPlease click the link to RSVP. Capacity is set at 60 attendees\, don’t miss on your chance to attend this great symposium! URL:https://ccas.ucla.edu/event/afro-isthmus-symposium/ LOCATION:Collins Room Alumni Center (UCLA) 325 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095\, 325 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccas.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/AfroIsthmus-Symposium-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230927T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230927T150000 DTSTAMP:20260419T152942 CREATED:20230909T002605Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230911T170527Z UID:10479-1695821400-1695826800@ccas.ucla.edu SUMMARY:2023 CCAS OPEN HOUSE DESCRIPTION:Hello new and continuing students and community members\, \nWe cordially invite you to the Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies Open House! We are having our Open House in person\, in front of UCLA Bunche Hall elevators\, on Wednesday\, September 27\, 2023\, from 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm.  \nPlease join us and bring your friends. You will meet our department faculty\, graduate students\, TAs\, and network with students in the major and minor! If interested in adding the major or minor(s)\, meet with Ellie\, our phenomenal undergraduate advisor.  \nPizza and refreshments will be provided! Join us for an evening of networking\, music\, and more!  \nIf you have any questions\, please contact our undergraduate student advisor “Ellie” Hernandez at studentadvisor@chavez.ucla.edu.  \nThe deadline to RSVP for yourself or to table as part of a Student Organization is Friday\, September 22.  \nRSVP CLICK HERE \nDate: Wednesday\, September 27\, 2023 \nTime: 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm \nLocation: Bunche Hall South Patio (by the elevators) URL:https://ccas.ucla.edu/event/2023-ccas-open-house/ LOCATION:Bunche Hall\, 11282 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095-1559\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230617T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230617T170000 DTSTAMP:20260419T152942 CREATED:20230821T193719Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230821T193719Z UID:10457-1686988800-1687021200@ccas.ucla.edu SUMMARY:2023 CCAS Commencement Pictures DESCRIPTION:  \nClick on this link to view the 2023 Commencement Pictures. URL:https://ccas.ucla.edu/event/2023-ccas-commencement-pictures/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230313T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230313T170000 DTSTAMP:20260419T152942 CREATED:20230225T001403Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230225T001403Z UID:10186-1678721400-1678726800@ccas.ucla.edu SUMMARY:PH.D GRADUATE ALUM JACK CARAVES presents for The Department of Gender Studies DESCRIPTION:PH.D GRADUATE JACK CARAVES presents for The Department of Gender Studies \n \nTrans*Formative Spirituality in Trans Latinx Lives: Cultivating Spirituality\, Resistance\, and Hope on the Path of Becoming \nMonday\, March 13th \n3:30-5pm \nYRL Presentation Room \nDescription: Drawing on life history interviews and survey data with trans Latinx adults in Los Angeles\, this talk examines how trans Latinx immigrants experience multiple forms of structural\, legal\, and interpersonal violence and antagonism throughout their lives. I focus on the importance of spirituality in trans Latinx lives and the connection\, healing\, self-determination\, and self-actualization it provides amidst a society that marks them undesirable and disposable. Focusing on spirituality\, I theorize the concept of “trans*formative spirituality” as a way of “doing” spirituality and “being” spiritual that occurs through the process of disidentification from family\, religious\, and cultural identity–and is informed by trans Latinx embodiment and consciousness. Moreover\, Trans*Formative spirituality captures the internal and external transformations trans Latinxs go through as they engage in the labor of becoming. \nBio: Jack Cáraves (he/him/they/them) is a UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies at UC Riverside. Previously\, he was a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Latina/o Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an Assistant Professor of WGSS and Sociology at San José State University. He holds a PhD in Chicana and Chicano Studies from UCLA. He received his B.A. in Latin American and Latino Studies and Politics at UC Santa Cruz. \nJack is an interdisciplinary trans feminist activist scholar and specializes in Latinx gender and sexuality studies. His research examines the role of gender variance\, trans embodiment\, and sexuality in shaping migration\, family dynamics\, identity formation\, spirituality\, and world-making for transgender Latinxs in Los Angeles. His work in the trans Latinx community began through a community-based participatory research project with the TransLatin@ Coalition that focused on the holistic health needs of trans Latinxs in southern California. Jack is currently working on his first book\, Trans Power: Illegality\, Identity Formation\, and Spirituality in Trans Latinx Lives\, which is under contract with Duke University Press. \nJack is also co-creater and co-host of the podcast\, Anzaldúing It\, along with Dr. Angélica Becerra—a podcast grounded in Chicana and Women of Color Feminisms and dedicated to navigating the borderlands of queer and trans Latinidad. With over half a million listens\, the podcast has been used as a teaching tool for underrepresented students and has been featured on Hiplatina\, Autostraddle\, PRIDE.com\, GOMAG\, and was featured in the 2019 Google Youth Tech Summit. \nJack’s works has been published in The International Journal of Qualitative Methods in Education\, Latino Studies\, The Journal of LGBT Youth\, the Association for Mexican American Educators Journal\, Transgender Studies Quarterly and in the anthology: Queer and Trans Migrations: Dynamics of Illegalization\, Detention and Deportation. URL:https://ccas.ucla.edu/event/ph-d-graduate-alum-jack-caraves-presents-for-the-department-of-gender-studies/ LOCATION:YRL Presentation Room END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230213T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230213T140000 DTSTAMP:20260419T152942 CREATED:20230210T172225Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230210T172522Z UID:10155-1676293200-1676296800@ccas.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Info Session for the Central American Studies Minor DESCRIPTION:Mark your calendar and let your friends know that we will be having an Info Session to inform students about the requirements for our Central American Studies minor on Monday\, February 13 from 1:00-2:00 pm either in person in Bunche 7386 and via zoom https://ucla.zoom.us/j/3803275880 If you or your friends are looking for a minor\, the CAS will be a great minor to add to your academic path–even if you already have an academic minor\, find out how you can add an extra minor or maybe a third one!! \nWe encourage you to attend and mingle with our faculty. We will be having delicious refreshments (first come\, first served) for the students who attend in person. \nAttend in person: Bunche 7386 or via zoom https://ucla.zoom.us/j/3803275880 \nClick here to download the Central American Studies Minor Checklist URL:https://ccas.ucla.edu/event/info-session-for-the-central-american-studies-minor/ LOCATION:7386 Bunche Hall\, Los Angeles\, CA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220204T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220204T123000 DTSTAMP:20260419T152942 CREATED:20220128T003100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220128T003340Z UID:9771-1643972400-1643977800@ccas.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Virtual Book Talk: Border Women & the Community of Maclovio Rojas DESCRIPTION: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. \n  \nDr. 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. \n  \nMEETING ID : 939 2363 9766 | PASSCODE: 628531 \n  \nPlease contact cs.gradrep@gmail.com or maylei@ucla.edu with any questions. URL:https://ccas.ucla.edu/event/virtual-book-talk-border-women-the-community-of-maclovio-rojas/ LOCATION:https://ucla.zoom.us/j/93923639766?pwd=R3k3UGpXMU1mQy8vQmhJZEI0eGJmQT09#success ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccas.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Border-Women-Talk-PST.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211109T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211109T160000 DTSTAMP:20260419T152942 CREATED:20211026T234017Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211026T234722Z UID:9548-1636470000-1636473600@ccas.ucla.edu SUMMARY:IAC Fall Forum DESCRIPTION:IAC Fall Forum featuring guest speakers. \nUCLA Institute of American Cultures \nWhen: Tuesday\, November 9\, 2021\, 3–4 PM (PST)IAC Fall Forum 2021_Depts flyer[47][88] \nRSVP link: https://uclaea.zoom.us/webinar/register/5816343257350/WN_k2pSc104RciBB2KmU1jaJw \n  URL:https://ccas.ucla.edu/event/iac-fall-forum/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ccas.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/IAC-Fall-Forum-2021-png.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211101T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211101T120000 DTSTAMP:20260419T152942 CREATED:20211026T221132Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211026T224741Z UID:9525-1635764400-1635768000@ccas.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Día de los Muertos: Love and Loss During the COVID-19 Pandemic DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis reflective event will feature artwork\, performances\, and critical analyses by faculty\, students\, and community members. \nOpen to the public! \nRegister here:\nhttps://bit.ly/2XqWpCP URL:https://ccas.ucla.edu/event/dia-de-los-muertos-love-and-loss-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccas.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/DOTDFLYERFINAL-110121.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211031T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211031T140000 DTSTAMP:20260419T152942 CREATED:20211028T184113Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211028T184113Z UID:9559-1635681600-1635688800@ccas.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Virtual Day of the Dead Ritual DESCRIPTION:Join us for an invocation to the four directions and calling of the spirits collective ofrenda guided by Prof. Martha Ramirez- Oropeza. URL:https://ccas.ucla.edu/event/virtual-day-of-the-dead-ritual/ LOCATION:https://ucla.zoom.us/j/94635242184 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccas.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/CORRECTED-day-of-the-dead-flyer-with-link-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211021T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211021T143000 DTSTAMP:20260419T152942 CREATED:20211019T221943Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211019T221943Z UID:9438-1634821200-1634826600@ccas.ucla.edu SUMMARY:My mother\, the painter: Storytelling in Central American Studies DESCRIPTION: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.” \nFor more information on the event: My mother\, the painter: Storytelling in Central American Studies | Institute of Governmental Studies – UC Berkeley \nThis 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.) \nZoom registration: Webinar Registration – Zoom \n  \nNote: 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). \n  URL:https://ccas.ucla.edu/event/my-mother-the-painter-storytelling-in-central-american-studies/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ccas.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Leisy-Abrejo-Storytelling-Event-Flyer.png ORGANIZER;CN="Professor Christian Paiz":MAILTO:christian.paiz@berkeley.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210612T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210612T100000 DTSTAMP:20260419T152942 CREATED:20210609T223830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210610T175840Z UID:9296-1623492000-1623492000@ccas.ucla.edu SUMMARY:2021 Virtual Commencement DESCRIPTION: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. URL:https://ccas.ucla.edu/event/2021-virtual-commencement/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccas.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Mortarboard_d56047cd-1d4e-46a1-93af-281a0d98f6b7-prv.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210512T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210512T160000 DTSTAMP:20260419T152942 CREATED:20210426T202104Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210426T202243Z UID:6725-1620831600-1620835200@ccas.ucla.edu SUMMARY:José M. Alamillo presents Deportes: The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora DESCRIPTION:Book Talk: José M. Alamillo presents Deportes: The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora\nPlease 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. \nAlamillo 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. \nThis 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. \nRSVP via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jose-m-alamillo-deportes-the-making-of-a-sporting-mexican-diaspora-tickets-152154069919 \nA Zoom link will be sent to registrants the day before the event. This webinar will be recorded. URL:https://ccas.ucla.edu/event/jose-m-alamillo-presents-deportes-the-making-of-a-sporting-mexican-diaspora/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccas.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Deportes.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210507T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210507T113000 DTSTAMP:20260419T152942 CREATED:20210422T204927Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210422T204927Z UID:6700-1620381600-1620387000@ccas.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Archival Methodologies from an Ethnic Studies Perspective DESCRIPTION:Lonches con CCAS \nDear CCAS cohorts and faculty\, \nPlease join us for a roundtable exploring history\, archiving practices\, and training in these fields from some of UCLA’s leading scholars\, librarians\, & graduate students. \nThe 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). \nJoin Zoom Meeting – https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99096405566 URL:https://ccas.ucla.edu/event/archival-methodologies-from-an-ethnic-studies-perspective/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccas.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Archive-Roundtable-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210505T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210505T173000 DTSTAMP:20260419T152942 CREATED:20210506T205753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210506T210612Z UID:7350-1620230400-1620235800@ccas.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Francisco Galarte presents Brown Trans Figurations DESCRIPTION:Queer of Color Genealogies – Spring Book Series \nPresentation of Brown Trans Figurations: Rethinking Race\, Gender\, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies by Professor Francisco Galarte \n  \nNote: This event has passed. Please use the following link to watch the event’s Zoom recording. \n\n  \nPlease 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. \nJoin the event via Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/98970982935?pwd=UUM2SFRVaTUzR3BnQTVkVGx3cUJYZz09 \nMeeting ID: 989 7098 2935\nPasscode: 810371 \n  \nWithin 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. \nBrown 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. URL:https://ccas.ucla.edu/event/francisco-galarte-presents-brown-trans-figurations/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccas.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/QOC-Book-Series-Galarte.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210430T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210430T123000 DTSTAMP:20260419T152942 CREATED:20210426T215158Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210426T215238Z UID:6737-1619780400-1619785800@ccas.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Job Market 101 - Job Market Spring 2021 Series DESCRIPTION:Job Market 101 \nDr. Valenzuela\, Dr. Johnson\, and Dr. Abrego will host the first job market spring series\nsalon. 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. \nZoom Meeting ID: 980 4128 8340 URL:https://ccas.ucla.edu/event/job-market-101-job-market-spring-2021-series/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ccas.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Job-Market-101-4.30.21_Salon1-.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR