Events

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

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   Twitter @IACatUCLA Facebook @uclaiac Instagram @UCLAIAC

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

Join us for an invocation to the four directions and calling of the spirits collective ofrenda guided by Prof. Martha Ramirez- Oropeza.

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

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 RSVP link: https://uclaea.zoom.us/webinar/register/5816343257350/WN_k2pSc104RciBB2KmU1jaJw  

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 […]

We cordially invite you to the Inaugural Afro-Isthmus Symposium with invited guests: Marielba Herrera (ES) & Heriberto Erquicia (ES).  Date: Thursday, November 2th, 2023 Time: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Location: Collins Room Alumni Center (UCLA) 325 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095   Lunch and light refreshments will be provided for symposium and mixer […]

Hello CCAS community members, We cordially invite you to Dia De Los Muertos! Guided by Professor Martha Ramirez-Oropeza with over 230 students.  Date: Sunday, November 5th, 2023 Time: 4:00 pm - 8:30 pm Location: 685 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291

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.  Date: Wednesday, November 15th, 2023 Time: 12:00 am - 1:30 pm Location: UCLA James West Alumni Center - Founders […]

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.  Date: Tuesday, November 28th, 2023 Time: 7:30 pm […]

We cordially invite you to a CCAS Talk by Cynthia Vázquez: Title: "We Start at Dusk:" Peon Playing and the (Re)connect of Kumeyaay Transborder Sovereignties on the U.S./Mexico Border Abstract: 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 […]

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. Professor 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.     This […]

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 […]