Past Events
2016
- Contemporary Indigenous and Native American Cultures in North and Central America
Thursday, May 12, 2016, 9 - 12 PM, 6275 Bunche Hall
A symposium on Contemporary Indigenous and Native American Cultures in North and Central America.
Co-sponsored by UCLA American Indian Studies Center, American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program, Center for Mexican Studies, Institut d'ethnologie Méditerranéenne Européenne et Comparative,
- The 31st Annual UCLA Pow Wow
Saturday-Sunday, May 7-8, 2016, UCLA North Athletic Field
The 31st annual pow wow, organized and presented by the UCLA American Indian Student Association, featuring traditional Native American singing and dancing, the Miss UCLA Pow Wow Pageant.
Co-sponsored by UCLA American Indian Studies Center
- El Penacho de Moctezuma
May 6, 2016, 2 - 4 PM, Royce Hall 314
Documentary screening of "El Penacho de Moctezuma" with a Q&A with Dr. María Olvido Moreno Guzmán to follow.
Co-sponsored by UCLA Getty, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, Center for Mexican Studies, UCLA American Indian Studies Center, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
- Contemporary Mexican Featherwork: An Ancient Tradition
May 4, 2016, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, 6275 Bunche Hall
Dr. María Olvido Moreno Guzmán, Coordinator of "Project Prehispanic Mural Painting in Mexico," Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, UNAM, Mexico, discusses the history and evolution of Mexican featherwork.
Co-sponsored by UCLA Getty, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, Center for Mexican Studies, UCLA American Indian Studies Center, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
- A Student Luncheon and Discussion with Dr. Tarajean Yazzie-Mintz
April 26, 12-1 PM, 3343 Public Affairs
A meet & greet with Dr. Tarajean Yazzie-Mintz, Senior Program Officer, American Indian College Fund
Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
- La Costumbre del Maíz con los Nahuas de Chicontepec, Veracruz
April 20, 3-5 PM, 144 Haines Hall
Presentation and lecture on the ceremonial planting of maize by Professor Eduardo De La Cruz. Eduardo De La Cruz is the Assistant Director of Instituto de Docencia e Investigación de Zacatecas (INDIEZ).
- Simposio sobre académicos Indígenas
April 19, 4-5:30 PM, Rolfe Hall 4302
Dos Académicos IndÃgenas conversando sobre sus experiencias y metas en la enseñanza de Idiomas IndÃgenas a la Academia y Comunidad.
Hosted by: UCLA Latin American Institute
Co-sponsored by: Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA American Indian Studies Center, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
- Urgent Issues Forum/Foro Urgente: The Assassination of Berta Cáceres and the Future of Indigenous and Afrodescendant Environmental and Land Rights in Honduras
Friday, April 8, 2016, 9 AM - 2 PM, Presentation Room, Charles E. Young Research Library
This urgent forum explores the issues of resource extraction and state violence and their impact on the future of indigenous and environmental rights activism in Honduras.
Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Institute of American Cultures, UCLA Asian American Studies Center, UCLA Chicano Research Studies Center, UCLA Center of Study for Women, UCLA Latin American Institute, and Grassroots International.
- Fantasizing and Reframing the (Un)Human: Lived Settler Logics and Literary Sites of Disruptive Relationality
Wednesday, April 6, 2016, 4-6 PM, 2125 Rolfe Hall.
Lecture by Dr. Rene Dietrich, seeked to investigate the lived settler logics of "humanness" and to ask how literary strategies of relationality in contemporary Native writing work to disrupt them.
- Trying Times: Disability, Activism and Education in Samoa
Wednesday, March 16, 2016, 3-5 PM, 2343 Public Affairs
Lecture by Dr. Juliann Anesi.
Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, REPAIR AND NetCE.
- Biopolitics, Aging and the Struggle for Indigenous Elsewhere
Thursday, February 18, 2016, 2-4 PM, Cypress Room, UCLA Faculty Center
Lecture by Professor Sandy Grande.
Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, REPAIR AND NetCE.
- The Next Frontier in Federal Indian Law: Building on the Foundational Work of Carole E. Goldberg, UCLA School of Law
Friday, February 5, 2016, UCLA Law School
This year's Symposium will focus on cutting edge issues in federal Indian law and, in so doing, celebrate the 40+ year career of Jonathon D. Varat Professor of Law Carole E. Goldberg. Federal Indian law, broadly defined, governs the relationship between the federal government and the more than 566 Indian nations within the United States, as well as implicating states’ rights and raising questions that bear on tribal law and issues of self-determination.
Hosted by the UCLA Law Review
Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center and UCLA Critical Race Studies
2015
- Dying from Improvement
Thursday, December 3, 2015, 4-6 PM, 1314 Law School
Presented by Sherene H. Razack, Social Justice Education, University of Toronto
Organized by Critical Race Studies, UCLA School of Law
Co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Gender Studies, the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, and the UCLA Center for the Study of Women's Research and Equity Committee initiative (supported by the Office of Interdiscplinary and Cross Campus Affairs)
- Beyond Indian Boarding Schools: Discourses about Historical Trauma and Natives as Victims
Tuesday, December 1, 2015, 12:30-2 PM, 3340 Moore Hall
A special lecture by K. Tsianina Lomawaima (Mvskoke/Creek), Professor of Justice and Social Inquiry and Distinguished Scholar of Indigenous Education, Arizona State University.
Hosted by the George F. Kneller Endowment in Education and Anthropology
Co-sponsored by UCLA American Indian Studies Center and the American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program.
- Pursuing the PhD?: Process of the PhD Path, Application Tips, and Choosing a Program
Monday, November 16, 2015, 12-2 PM, 3343 Public Affairs
Come and find out about doctoral programs from three UCLA professors. The panel will include Dr. Jessica Cattelino (Anthropology), Dr. Michele Erai (Gender Studies) and Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar (UC Postdoc, University of Hawaii).
Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center and the American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program.
- Institute of American Cultures Fall Forum & Reception
Monday, November 9, 2015, 4:30-7 PM, California Room, UCLA Faculty Center
In honor of the 2015-2016 IAC Visiting Scholars, Graduate & Predoctoral Fellows, and Research Grant Awardees
Hosted by the UCLA Institute of American Cultures; co-sponsored by UCLA American Indian Studies Center, Asian American Studies Center, Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, Chicano Studies Research Center
- "No Explanation, No Resolution, and No Answer:" Bordertown and Navajo Resistance to Settler Colonialism
Monday, November 9, 2015, 3-5 PM, Public Affairs 2355
A special lecture by Dr. Jennifer Denetdale, Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico.
Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
- From Trading Posts to Today: The Commodification of American Indian Arts
Sunday, November 8, 2015, 1-4 PM, UCLA Fowler Museum
This afternoon program pairs two speakers who discuss how diverse Native American artworks have circulated in commercialized systems.
Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, UCLA Fowler Museum, and the Ethnic Arts Council.
- Sundance Institute and UCLA American Indian Studies Center Present: Chasing the Light (2014) by Black Horse Lowe
Saturday, November 7, 2015, 5:30 PM, The Autry in Griffith Park: Wells Fargo Theater
A down-on-his-luck screenwriter, Riggs, struggles to finish a script.
Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, Autry National Center, and Sundance Institute
- Seri Tribal Representatives Visit UCLA from Sonora, Mexico
Thursday, November 5, 2015, 11:00 AM–2:30 PM, Student Activities Center
Join us for a sharing of Indigenous Cultures.
Co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Gender Studies, Community Programs Office, American Indian Studies Center
- Sports and Indigeneity Panel
Tuesday, October 27, 2015, 5:00–7:00 PM, Hedrick Hall Classroom 115
A visit from Indigenous players from the National Rugby League and Professor Roannie Ng Shiu of Australian National University (in a partnership with the Pasifika outreach program).
Co-sponsored by UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
- Live Streaming: Professor Teresa L. McCarty at AERA Brown Lecture
Thursday, October 22, 2015, 2:45–4:30 PM, Moore Hall, Reading Room 3340
A live streaming of Professor Teresa L. McCarty's lecture, "So That Any Child May Succeed -- Indigenous Pathways toward Justice and the Promise of Brown," at the Twelfth Annual Brown Lecture in Education Research!
Co-sponsored by The UCLA American Indian Studies Center, American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program, and Department of Education.
- Life Before Columbus Event
October 11, 2015, 10–3 PM, Kuruvungna Springs Cultural Center & Museum
A Native American Arts and Crafts Festival
- Gallery Talk with Jim Enote
Wednesday, October 7, 2015, 12:30-1:30 PM, Fowler Courtyard
A conversation and gallery walk through with Jim Enote, Executive Director of the A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center, about the Zuni Geography exhibit. We welcome you all!
- UCLA American Indian Welcome
Monday, September 28, 2015, James West Alumni Center
Come meet faculty, staff, students, and welcoming American Indian Studies students
Hosted and sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, American Indian Student Association, the UCLA American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program, and Diversity Programs, UCLA Alumni Affairs.
- American Indian Graduation 2015
Friday, June 12, 2015, 4:30-7 PM, DeNeve Plaza View Room
The annual celebration honors undergraduate and graduate students who complete their degrees with a Pendleton blanket and a sit-down dinner for family and friends.
Sponsors: UCLA American Indian Student Association, UCLA American Indian Graduate Student Association, UCLA American Indian Studies Center, UCLA American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program
- The 30th Annual Pow Wow
Saturday-Sunday, May 2-3, 2015, UCLA North Athletic Field
Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
- Thinking in Pictures: Inuit, Colonialism, and the Unbidden Image
Monday, April 20, 2015, 3-5PM, 352 Haines Hall
Presented by Lisa Stevenson (McGill University).
Co-sponsored by UCLA American Indian Studies Center, UCLA American Indian Studies Program, & UCLA Division of Social Sciences
- Indigenous Planning for Dummies: Why We Must Care About How Communities Are Developed
Thursday, February 19, 2015, 12:30-2 PM, Public Affairs 5391
Presented by Ted Jojola, Professor of Community & Regional Planning, University of New Mexico. Created in 2012, the Indigenous Design and Planning Institute (iD+Pi) is housed in the School of Architecture and Planning, University of New Mexico, and provides technical assistance to tribes. Indigenous Planning is an emerging paradigm that uses a culturally responsive and value based approach to community development. It uses a "Seven Generations Model" for a basis of action and community engagement. This presentation outlines and gives examples of approaches developed by iD+Pi while working with tribes in the Southwest.
Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
- Pursuing the PhD?: Process of the PhD Path, Application Tips, and Choosing a Program
Wednesday, February 4, 2015, 12-1:15 PM, Public Affairs 3343
Come and find out about doctoral programs from three UCLA professors. The panel will include Dr. Mishuana Goeman (Gender Studies and AIS) and Dr. Keith Camacho (Asian American Studies) and Dr. Randall Akee (Public Policy and AIS).
Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center and the UCLA American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program.
- UCLA Law Review Symposium
Thursday-Friday, January 29-30, 2015, UCLA Law School
The UCLA Law Review invites you to attend the UCLA Law Review Symposium, devoted to this crucial area in law, policy, and practice. Symposium discussions will span multiple topics, from the historical causes and legal dynamics of exploitation, to the state and federal responses to trafficking. The symposium will also provide concurrent workshops focusing on pressing community needs.
Hosted by the UCLA Law Review. Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
2014
- Institute of American Cultures Fall Forum & Reception
Tuesday, November 18, 2014, 4:30 PM – 7:00 PM, California Room, UCLA Faculty Center
In honor of the 2014-2015 IAC Visiting Scholars, Graduate & Predoctoral Fellows, and Research Grant Awardees
Hosted by the UCLA Institute of American Cultures; co-sponsored by UCLA American Indian Studies Center, Asian American Studies Center, Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, Chicano Studies Research Center
- Sundance Institute and UCLA American Indian Studies Center Present: This May Be the Last Time (2014)
Saturday, November 8, 2014, 5:30 PM, The Autry in Griffith Park: Wells Fargo Theater
More than fifty years after his grandfather mysteriously disappeared, filmmaker Sterlin Harjo (Seminole and Creek) explores how music helped his community to cope with the loss and examines the role song has played in Native American cultures. This May Be the Last Time (90 min.) premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.
Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, Sundance Institute, and Autry National Museum.
- Who We Be: The Colorization of America
Wednesday, November 5, 2014, 4:00 PM, Humanities A51
Book talk and signing by Jeff Chang. Presented by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center
Co-Sponsored by Institute of American Cultures, American Indian Studies Center, American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program, Asian American Studies Department, Bunche Center for African American Studies, Cesar E. Chavez Department of Chicana/o Studies, Chicano Studies Research Center, Department of African American Studies, Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies Undergraduate Association, Asian American Studies Graduate Student Association, and Asian Pacific Council.
- Professor Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Presents "An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States"
Wednesday, November 5, 2014, 12:00–1:30 PM, 6275 Bunche Hall
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a historian and professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at California State University, Hayward. She is the author of Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie(Verso), The Great Sioux Nation, and Roots of Resistance, among other books.
Co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of History, UCLA American Indian Studies Center, and Gary B. Nash Chair Fund.
- UCLA American Indian Welcome
Thursday, October 9, 2014, 5 – 7 PM, James West Alumni Center
Come meet faculty, staff, students, and welcoming American Indian Studies students
Hosted and sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, American Indian Student Association, and the UCLA American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program
- American Indian Graduation 2014
Friday, June 13, 2014, 5 PM, De Neve Plaza View Room
Honoring the Class of 2014
Co-sponsored by: UCLA American Indian Studies Center, American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program, American Indian Student Association, American Indian Graduate Student Association
- A Presentation by Dr. Michelle Jacob
Thursday, May 15, 2014, 1:00 PM, UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library, Room 11348
Michelle Jacob (Yakama), PhD, is an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of San Diego. Dr. Jacob teaches ethnic identity and American Indian Studies courses. Her research areas of interest include: health, education, and decolonization. Dr. Jacob discusses her book, Yakama Rising: Indigenous Cultural Revitalization, Activism, and Healing.
Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center and UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies
- Reflections on Water: The Sharing of Intercultural Encounters
Saturday, May 10, 2014, 12:00 – 6:00PM, Rolfe Hall Yard
This summit provides an opportunity for individuals to share first-hand encounters around the theme of water and resistance. This year has been California’s driest year on record, a drought that resonates with similar extreme environmental changes across the world. The responses to the drought in California have been extremely variable and parallel other global concerns on water and the environment. Artist, Rigo 23’s exhibition From the Heart of Santa Madera, provides an opportunity to create a gathering that will explore ongoing indigenous issues around water and its importance. Water feeds the mountains, feeds the land, and feeds the human and nonhuman. These connected spaces are needed for the passing of language and tradition and life itself. Community speakers will lead the conversations within these themes to hear how they are engaging towards preservation of the land and water. It will not be a stagnate conversation, but invite participation to discuss and be a part of inspiring new ideas. It will be open to the public to attend and hear more directly from California native communities. Speakers include: George Blake (Yurok), Brian Tripp (Karuk), Thomas Poor Bear (Vice Chairman of the Oglala Lakota Tribe), Cindi Alvitre (Tongva), Craig Torres (Tongva), Kathy Bancroft (Lone Pine Paiute), and Annelia Hillman (Yurok).
Co-sponsored by the Fowler Museum at UCLA, Tribal Learning Community & Educational Exchange (TLCEE), UCLA Department of Gender Studies, and UCLA American Indian Studies Center
- National Museum of the American Indian: 21st Century Native Cultural Governance at Work
Tuesday, May 6, 2014, 12:00 – 2:00 PM, Sequoia Room, UCLA Faculty Center
Part of the Good Native Governance: Speakers Series, a presentation by W. Richard West Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer of the Autry National Center of the American West.
Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
- The 29th Annual UCLA Pow Wow
Saturday-Sunday, May 3-4, 2014, UCLA North Athletic Field
The 29th annual pow wow, organized and presented by the UCLA American Indian Student Association, featuring traditional Native American singing and dancing, the Miss UCLA Pow Wow Pageant.
Sponsored by: UCLA American Indian Studies Center, AISA, AISES, AIGSA, SACNAS, TLCEE, Campus Program Committee and ASUCLA Board of Directors
- Culture Fix: Rigo 23 on Rigo 23
Friday, May 2, 2014, 12 PM, Fowler Museum at UCLA
Bay Area artist and activist Rigo 23 works in a variety of media and often collaborates closely with native and indigenous communities around the world. For his exhibition at the Fowler, Rigo 23 created eight large panels incorporating references as diverse as the Black Panther Emory Douglas, Indian Island, and Leonard Peltier, among others. Come for a preview and hear the artist discuss what links them in his latest project, on display in the Goldenberg Galleria
Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
- Reception for Rigo 23 and The Yaqui Masks of Carlos Castaneda
Thursday, May 1, 2014, 6-8 PM, Fowler Museum at UCLA
Meet San Francisco-based artist Rigo 23 and view his work in Rigo 23: From the Heart of Santa Madera, plus join guest curator David Shorter for a preview of Fowler in Focus: The Yaqui Masks of Carlos Castaneda.
Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
- UCLA IAC Research Grant Program in Ethnic Studies Information Session
Monday, April 14, 2014, 12:00 - 1:00 PM, 3232 Campbell Hall
An information session to learn more about the IAC Research Grant Program in Ethnic Studies. We will discuss the grants, the application process, and share tips!
Hosted by the American Indian Studies Center, Asian American Studies Center, Bunche Center for African American Studies, and Chicano Studies Research Center
- UCLA's Native Nations Law & Policy Center's 7th Annual Student/Alumni Reception: Honoring the Life of Chastity E. Bedonie
Thursday, April 10, 2014, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, Executive 5th Floor Hospitality Suite, Buffalo Thunder Resort & Casino
Honoring the Life of Chastity E. Bedonie, UCLA School of Law Class of 2008 and Native Nations Distinguished Alumna Award Recipient
Sponsored by the Native Nations Law & Policy Center, Tribal Learning Community & Education Exchange, Pueblo of Pojoaque, UCLA American Indian Studies Center, Tilden McCoy + Dilweg LLP, Sheppard Mullin, Holland & Knight, and Fletcher PLLC.
- Good Native Governance: Innovative Research in Law, Education, and Economic Development
Friday, March 7, 2014, 8:00 AM - 6:30 PM, UCLA School of Law
A conference sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center showcasing innovative research around the theme of Good Native Governance, with a focus on law, education, and economic development. Additionally, three concurrent breakout panels will focus on California issues: Gaming, Constitutions, and Cultural Resources.
Cosponsored by University of California, Office of the President, UCLA School of Law, UCLA Institute of American Culture, UCLA Law's Critical Race Studies (CRS), UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA Department of Public Policy, UCLA Center for the Study of Women, UCLA Department of English, and UCLA Department of Gender Studies.
- Poster Session Contest & Welcome Reception
Thursday, March 6, 2014, 6-8 PM, Hotel Angeleno
Students present their research ideas on a poster board and the welcome reception for the Good Native Governance: Innovative Research in Law, Education, and Economic Development conference.
- Race, Labor, & the Law Conference
Friday, February 28. 2014 | 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Saturday, March 1, 2014, 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM, Young Research Library - UCLA Campus
The UCLA Institute for Research and Employment presents its 2014 conference on Race, Labor, & the Law. In coordination with the Critical Race Studies Program at the UCLA School of Law, the conference will take place at UCLA on Friday and Saturday, February 28 and March 1, 2014.
- Tribal Sovereignty and Legal Pluralism: The American Indian as Homo Sacer
Monday, February 10, 2014, 4 – 6 PM, 6275 Bunche Hall
A lecture by Bruce Duthu (Dartmouth College)
Sponsored by the UCLA Department of History and the UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
- Written in Blood: Poetics and Nationhood
Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 4 – 6 PM, UCLA Royce Hall 314
A presentation by Writer/Poet Heid E. Erdrich.
- A Roadmap for Making Native America Safer
Friday, January 24, 2014, 8:30 – 6 PM, UCLA Faculty Center, California Room
Join the Indian Law & Order Commission (ILOC), special guest commentators, and the UCLA American Indian Studies Center's Partners for Justice: UCLA Institute on Criminal Law in Indian Country for a special one-day symposium showcasing the ILOC report on the state of justice in Indian Country.
2013
- Living into the Grace of Leadership: Ulu a'e ke welina a ke aloha!
Monday, November 18, 2013, 12 – 2 PM, UCLA Faculty Center, California Room
Presented by Dean Maenette Benham, Ed.D, a Kanaka Maoli scholar and teacher, is the inaugural Dean of Hawai'inuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge, University of Hawaii'i-Mānoa. Dr. Benham earned her doctoral degree from the University of Hawai'i-Mānoa in 1992, and in January of 1993 she joined the College of Education faculty at Michigan State University. Dr. Benham is currently working with the foundation as the lead Principal Investigator for the Youth and Education Community Foundations Leading for Children Cluster: Engaging Communities in Education (ECE).
Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
- Native American Heritage Week
Wednesday, November 14th, 2013
"You're [Not] Supposed to Be Here"
A film by Clementine Bordeaux (Oglala/Sicangu Lakota) M.C. University of Washington
Potluck
4 pm, Campbell 3232
Thursday, November 15th, 2013
"An Analysis of the Current Tribally Initiated Rincon Chaam'teela Program as a Way to Promote and Encourage Sustainability of the Luiseno Language"
A thesis research talk By Elizabeth Piper Fasthorse (Rincon Band of Lusieno Indians) M.A. Student American Indian Studies - Coffee/Water Provided
3:30 PM, Campbell 3232
Friday, November 16th, 2013
Native Fashion Show
An event showcasing Traditional and Pow Wow Regalia as well as cultural performances.
6:30 PM, Pauley Pavilion Clubhouse
- Sundance Institute Sneak Peek: Behind the Scenes of Sydney Freeland's Film Drunktown's Finest
Saturday, November 9, 2013, 5:30-8 PM, The Autry in Griffith Park: Wells Fargo Theater
The Autry National Center, Sundance Institute, and UCLA, American Indian Studies Center invite you to a special panel discussion. Join Bird Runningwater (Cheyenne/Mescalero Apache), director of Sundance Institute’s Native American and Indigenous Program, and Sundance Institute Lab alumni Sydney Freeland (Navajo), director of the short films Migration and Hover Board, as they show clips and discuss the creative journey of Freeland’s feature debut, Drunktown's Finest, recently filmed in the state of New Mexico.
Co-sponsored by The Autry National Center, Sundance Institute, and UCLA, American Indian Studies Center.
- Engaging Diversity: More Important Than Ever
Wednesday, November 6, 2013, 11-12:15 PM, UCLA Faculty Center, Sequoia Room
A presentation by Patricia Gurin, the Nancy Cantor Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Psychology and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan. She is a Faculty Associate of the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the Institute for Social Research and of the Center for African and Afro-American Studies. She directs the research program of the Program on Intergroup Relations, a curricular program co-sponsored by the College of LS&A and the Division of Student Affairs. A social psychologist, Dr. Gurin’s work has focused on social identity, the role of social identity in political attitudes and behavior, motivation and cognition in achievement settings, and the role of social structure in intergroup relations. She is the author of eight books and monographs and numerous articles on these topics. She is an expert witness in the University of Michigan’s defense of its undergraduate and law school admissions policies. In collaboration with Sylvia Hurtado, Eric Dey, and Gerald Gurin, all of the Center for Post-Secondary and Higher Education at the University of Michigan, she provided the expert report on the Educational Value of Diversity for these lawsuits.
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women, Institute for American Cultures, Office for Diversity and Faculty Development
- Institute of American Cultures Fall Forum & Reception
Tuesday, November 5, 2013, 4:30-7 PM, UCLA Faculty Center, California Room
In honor of the 2013-2014 IAC Visiting Scholars, Graduate & Predoctoral Fellows, and Research Grant Awardees
- Beyond Life/Not Life: A Feminist-Indigenous Reading of Cryopreservation Practices and Ethics
Tuesday, November 5, 2013, 4-6 PM, Charles E Young Research Library
A presentation by Kim TallBear, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin. Cryopreservation enables storage and preservation of bio-specimens—including those taken from indigenous peoples’ bodies, often within earlier ethical and racial regimes—into times and spaces beyond those inhabited by the (once) living bodies. New bioethical responses are afoot. But when they emerge from non-indigenous institutions and philosophical terrain they cannot fully address indigenous peoples’ interpretations and ethical needs. I propose that indigenous responses to cryopreservation technologies and practices can be more fully understood not simply by recourse to “bioethics,†but also by weaving together the approaches of indigenous thinkers historically with newer thinking in indigenous studies, feminist science studies, critical animal studies, and the new materialisms. This talk weaves into conversation diverse intellectual threads in order to help us understand how the lines between life and not life, materiality and the sacred are not so easily drawn for some indigenous peoples. This implicates how we approach from an indigenous standpoint the ethics of the preservation and new use of old biological samples. More fundamentally, this talk interrogates the underlying concept of “preservation†that emerges from non-indigenous institutions in the form of technological and policy practices. Such practices compartmentalize indigenous history, bodies, and landscapes into a historical before and after that undercuts the very idea of indigenous peoples and landscapes as fully alive today.
COSPONSORS: Charles E. Young Research Library, American Indian Studies Center, and Institute for Society and Genetics
- Reclaiming Home: Hapa Culture and Identity in Hawai'i
Wednesday, October 30, 1-2:30 PM and Thursday, October 31, 1-3 PM, Charles E. Young Research Library - Main Conference Room 11360
Special two-day event! Author Reading/Discussion for This is Paradise: Stories with Kristiana Kahakauwila, a native Hawaiian raised in Southern California, was recently selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers program. Film Screening & Director Talk for E Haku Inoa: To Weave a Name with Christen Marquez who holds a BFA in Film and Video Production from New York University's Tisch School of Arts.
- Lutu Chuktiwa (Cutting the Cord)
Thursday, October 17, 2013, 3-4:30 PM, Kaufman Hall, Room 200
Film Premier and Open Discussion with Yoeme Indian Collaborators and Film Makers, presented by Professor David Shorter, Department of World Arts and Cultures
Made possible by the generous support from the National Science Foundation, the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts, UCLA American Indian Studies Center, UCLA Institute of American Cultures, and the UCLA Departments of Anthroplogy, Gender Studies, and World Arts and Cultures/Dance.
- UCLA American Indian Welcome
Tuesday, October 1, 2013, 6-8 PM, Student Activities Basement
Hosted and sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, American Indian Student Association, and the UCLA American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program
- American Indian Graduation 2013
Friday, June 14, 2013, 5 PM, De Neve Plaza View Room
Honoring the Class of 2013
Co-sponsored by: UCLA American Indian Studies Center, American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program, American Indian Student Association, American Indian Graduate Student Association
- Mishuana Goeman Book Reading and Discussion
Thursday, May 23, 2013, 3 PM-5 PM, Rolfe Hall 1301
Professor Mishuana Goeman gives a discussion on her new book, Mark My Words: Native Women (Re)mapping Our Nations, followed by a conversation with Professor Jessica Cattelino.
Presented by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
Co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Gender Studies and the UCLA Center for Study of Women.
- Film Screening: TUSHKA
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 , 12 PM-2 PM, Student Activities Center, B-Level, Conference Room 4
The first feature created by an all-Native cast and crew, Ian Skorodin's (Choctaw) Tushka leaves an indelible mark on all who see it. Based on a true story and set in 1972, Tushka tells the story of a Native American activist, involved in the American Indian Movement, who led a rally to FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C. Two days later his house was firebombed, killing his parents, his wife, their girls and an infant. Skorodin re-creates the civil unrest of the era and the brutal treatment of indigenous people by American authorities.
Cosponsored by: UCLA American Indian Studies Center and UCLA Graduate Student Resource Center
- Environmental Justice: A Community Perspective
Thursday, May 16, 2013, 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, UCLA IPAM Lecture Hall 1200
Improving communities in large cities is a complex process that often requires expert knowledge. As such, professional groups remain the principal stakeholders and ordinary citizens have little say in matters relating to property, land use and construction of infrastructure systems within their city. Our two speakers will talk about their experience in engaging and benefiting local people in community improvement.
Organizing Sponsors: UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Bunche Center for African American Studies, Chicano Studies Research Center.
Environmental Justice Initiative Co-sponsors and Lecture Hosts: UCLA's American Indian Studies Center, Asian American Studies Center, Institute of American Cultures, Luskin School of Public Affairs and the UCLA Library.
- The 28th Annual UCLA Pow Wow
Saturday-Sunday, May 4-5, 2013, UCLA North Athletic Field
The 28th annual powwow, organized and presented by the UCLA American Indian Student Association, featuring traditional Native American singing and dancing, the Miss UCLA Pow Wow Pageant.
Sponsored by the UCLA Community Programs Office, UCLA American Indian Student Association, UCLA American Indian Studies Center, UCLA Undergraduate Students Association Council, UCLA SACNAS, UCLA ORL Social Justice Network. Funded by Program Activities Board, Campus Programs Committee
- The Making of Saint Kateri - The First American Indian Saint of the Catholic Church
Saturday, April 27, 2013, 11 AM - 1 PM, American Indian Families Partnership, 5809 N. Figueroa Street, Los Angeles 90042
Clementine Bordeaux and Rebecca H. Rosser led a discussion about the historic event of Catherine “Kateri†Tekakwitha becoming the first American Indian saint to a Catholic Church.
Hosted and sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, Southern California Indian Center, American Indian Families Partnership, and Kateri Circle
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Concealed Aspects of the Seminole Wars, 1816-1858
Friday, April 26, 2013, 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM, Broad 2100A
Renowned author and journalist TD Allman will present on concealed aspects of the Seminole Wars, a bloody but now largely forgotten episode of ethnic cleansing in the United States.
Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
- The Poaching of Our Wildest Dreams: Indigenous Peoples, Predation and the Law
Thursday, April 25, 2013, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM, UCLA IPAM Lecture Hall 1200
A presentation by Julian Aguon, a hybrid writer-activist-attorney. Presented by the American Indian Studies Center (AISC) and Asian American Studies Center (AASC) as part of the UCLA Environmental Justice (EJ) Initiative.
Co-sponsors: UCLA Institute of American Cultures, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, the UCLA Library, UCLA College of Letters and Science, Division of Social Sciences, the UCLA International Institute, UCLA American Indian Student Association
Online Streaming made possible by: UBC Vancouver Partners: UBC Asian Canadian Studies Program, Simon K.Y. Lee Global Lounge & Resource Centre; UBC First Nations House of Learning; UBC Sustainability Initiative; The Indigenous Legal Studies Program (Faculty of Law at Allard Hall); UBC Okanagan Partners: Aboriginal Centre; Equity Office; Indigenous Studies (Community, Culture and Global Studies)
- Guest Lecture by Professor Deborah Miranda author of "Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir"
Tuesday, April 16, 2013, 12:30 - 1:45 p.m., Bunche Hall 2209A
This beautiful and devastating book — part tribal history, part lyric and intimate memoir should be required reading for anyone seeking to learn about California Indian history, past and present. Deborah A. Miranda tells stories of her Ohlone Costanoan Esselen family as well as the experience of California Indians as a whole through oral histories, newspaper clippings, anthropological recordings, personal reflections, and poems. The result is a work of literary art that is wise, angry, and playful all at once, a compilation that will break your heart and teach you to see the world anew.
Hosted by the UCLA American Indian Studiese Center
- 14th Annual American Indian Youth Conference and Basketball Tournament
Friday-Sunday, March 22-24, 2013 -- Bruin Plaza East and West
Hosted by the American Indian Student Association
- UCLA Institute of American Cultures Research Grant Program in Ethnic Studies Workshop
Tuesday, March 5, 2013, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m., 3232 Campbell Hall
An information session that explains the IAC grants and application process.
Hosted by the American Indian Studies Center and Asian American Studies Center
- Superdiversity California Style: New Approaches to Race, Civil Rights, Governance and Cultural Production
Thursday, February 28, 2013, 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. and Friday, March 1, 2013, 9:00 a.m.-6:10 p.m., UCLA Faculty Center, California Room
Structured in the form of a one-day conference, with a preconference roundtable on the preceding evening, Superdiversity California Style seeked to initiate a conversation about the foregoing developments and identify the kind of research that is necessary to both understand and manage the changing face of our society.
Hosted and sponsored by the Institute of American Cultures at UCLA, UCLA American Indian Studies Center, UCLA Asian American Studies Center, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies
- Indian Land and Indian Gaming under the Obama Administration
Wednesday, February 13, 2013, 12:00 - 1:30 PM, Room 2357, UCLA School of Law
Bryan Newland is a Member of Fletcher, PLLC, a firm based in Lansing, Michigan that provides tribal clients with legal and strategic consulting services on matters ranging from gaming and economic development to land use. Mr. Newland will speak about the intersection of land and gaming policy under the Obama Administration and provide his unique perspective on how these policies might develop over the next few years.
Hosted and sponsored by the Native Nations Law & Policy and Tribal Learning Community & Educational Exchange. Co-sponsored by UCLA American Indian Studies Center and the Native American Law Student Association
- Reflections on the Supreme Court's Recent Indian Law Jurisprudence
Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 12-1:15 PM, Room 2357, UCLA School of Law
Glenn Feldman, a partner with Dickinson Wright / Mariscal Weeks in Phoenix, Arizona who has represented Indian tribes in federal courts across four decades, including before the U.S. Supreme Court, will offer some thoughts on the Court's recent federal Indian law jurisprudence.
- Experiences of an Environmental Justice Advocate
Thursday, January 10, 2013, 4-5:30 PM, UCLA IPAM
Part of the Environmental Justice Initiative Lecture Series.
Dr. Joseph K. Lyou will provide tales of woe, intrigue, setbacks and victories as he recounts his 22 years as an environmental justice advocate in California. He will review the history of key environmental justice policy debates, discuss the challenges confronting environmental justice advocates and provide insights into the perspectives and experiences of California's environmental justice leaders.
- Fred Hoxie on This Indian Country
Wednesday, January 9, 2013, 12-2 PM, Hacienda Room, Faculty Center
Professor Fred Hoxie discusses his recent book, This Indian Country with a conversation with Professor Peter Nabokov.
2012
- 2012 American Indian Heritage Month Celebration
Friday, November 9, 2012 - 10am-1pm, City Hall, Council Chambers - 3rd Floor
"Honoring the Valor, Traditions, and Dreams of Our Warriors". Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa, The Los Angeles City Council, City Attorney & City Controller cordially invite you to the Opening Ceremony. Followed by the program and reception on the Forecourt.
- Telling Our Stories: Connecting Native Communities through Digital Storytelling and Social Media
Thursday, November 8, 2012 - 10am-5pm, Young Research Library, UCLA
Native communities have utilized the concept of storytelling throughout their history and now with the presence of new media, a process of telling these stories has evolved. With the strong presence of digital and social media, the sharing of stories from rural/reservations to urban areas is easily accessible. The use of digital stories and social media have influenced programming and interventions that impact social issues affecting Native people such as bullying, acceptance, historical trauma, HIV/ AIDS, etc. This one day symposium will allow for discussion of the use of digital and social media by Native professionals and programs.
Sponsored by The Red Circle Project, AIDS Project Los Angeles, UCLA American Indian Student Association, UCLA American Indian Studies Center, UCLA Oral History Research Center, UCLA Department of Information Studies, and Young Research Library of UCLA.
- Autry & Sundance Institute Film Screening
Saturday, November 3, 2012 - 7pm, Autry National Center
The Autry National Center and Sundance Institute
announce the second Sundance Institute at the Autry Presents Native Films program, a
partnership that enables free public screenings of films created by emerging filmmakers from
around the world, organized in cooperation with the University of California, Los Angeles,
American Indian Studies Center.
- Inside Out: Social Justice, Activism and the 2012 Vote
Thursday, October 25, 2012 -- 5:30-7:00 pm, Haines 144, UCLA
A diverse panel will explore the meaning of the 2012 elections through a social justice frame. Issues such as race, class, voter suppression efforts and alternatives to electoral politics will be considered. Co-sponsors include the Academic Advancement Program and the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics. Panelists: Lalo Alcaraz, political cartoonist and satirist;
Dennis Loo, professor of sociology, Cal Poly Pomona;
Joely Proudfit, director of the California Indian Culture and Sovereignty Center, CSU - San Marcos;
David E. Ryu, director of Development and Government & Public Affairs, Kedren Mental Health
Moderator: Mark Q. Sawyer, professor and director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics at UCLA
Presented by the UCLA Institute of American Cultures, American Indian Studies Center, Asian American Indian Studies Center, Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, Chicano Studies Research Center
- InSight Photography Exhibit Opening at the Autry
Tuesday, October 16, 2012 -- 5:00-7:00 pm, Autry National Center, “Our West†Student Art Gallery
In fall 2011, seven American Indian youth living in the greater Los Angeles area were given digital cameras. After a week of brainstorming sessions and photography instruction, they generated five themes around which they would create a series of images. The InSight project was a collaboration between UCLA’s Gender Studies Department and the American Indian Studies Center with support and assistance from the American Indian Community Council, Los Angeles.
- Indian Law and Order Commission Presentation, Q&A, and Reception
Tuesday, October 9, 2012 -- 4:30 pm, UCLA School of Law, Law School’s Library Tower
Under the leadership of the Commission’s chair, former Colorado United States Attorney Troy Eid, the Commission has been holding field hearings throughout Indian country, and is now in the process of developing its report to Congress and President Obama. The Commission will be holding its next business meeting/working session at UCLA School of Law on Tuesday, October 9 and Wednesday, October 10, 2012. At 4:30 P.M. on Tuesday, October 9 the Commission will hold an open meeting with the UCLA community in the Law School’s Library Tower, presenting its work and responding to questions. At 6:00, following the Commission’s presentation, there will be a reception to honor the Commission and its relationship with UCLA.
- AIS Graduation Celebration
Friday, June 15, 2012 -- 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm, De Neve Plaza View Room, UCLA
Honoring the Graduating Class of 2012
Sponsored by: UCLA American Indian Studies Center, American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program, American Indian Student Association, American Indian Graduate Student Association
- Native American Student Advocacy Institute
Monday-Wednesday, May 21-23, 2012 -- Covel Commons
Strengthening Connections for Access and Equity in Education. The Native American Student Advocacy Institute celebrates individual triumphs over educational inequities, and provides opportunities for educators and community leaders to form partnerships to ensure postsecondary access and excellence for Native American students.
- UCLA Library Writer Series Presents Sing: Poetry of the Indigenous Americas
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 -- Presentation Room, Charles E. Young Research Library, 1 p.m.
Allison Hedge Coke came of age working in fields, water, and factories, and her work combines musicality and vivid imagery to reveal profound truths of culture, class, and the fragility of the human condition. Winner of the American Book Award for her first collection of poetry, Dog Road Woman (1997), she currently holds the Reynolds Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska Kearney and is on the visiting faculty of MFA programs at the University of California, Riverside and Naropa University.
Presented in collaboration with the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, Chicano Studies Research Center, and Latin American Institute
- Queer Settler Colonialism, Anti-Racism, and Two-Spirit Critique
Monday, April 23, 2012 -- Rolfe 2125, 4-6 pm
Two-Spirit activists have worked within Two-Spirit movements and within their nations to decolonize gender and sexuality among Native people. In the process, Two-Spirit activists have demanded antiracist and anticolonial activism in queer / trans movements. In white settler states, queer / trans movements form under conditions of white-supremacist settler colonialism; but only rarely do they target those conditions for critique. Anti-racism by people of color does challenge racism and many forms of colonialism in queer / trans politics. But what happens if racism on stolen land is understood to derive from the ongoing settler colonization of Native nations: a power that conditions all politics on that land, including antiracism?
PRESENTER: Scott Morgensen, Queens University
MODERATOR/ORGANIZER: Mishuana Goeman, Assistant Professor, Women's Studies, UCLA
RESPONDENT: Elton Naswood, Director, Red Circle Project
COSPONSORS: Center for the Study of Women, Department of Women's Studies, American Indian Studies Center, LGBT Studies Program, Postcolonial Literature and Theory Colloquium, American Indian Student Association, and American Indian Graduate Student Association
- 27th Annual UCLA Powwow
Saturday-Sunday, April 21-22, 2012 -- North Athletic Field
- 13th Annual American Indian Youth Conference and Basketball Tournament
Friday-Sunday, March 23-25, 2012 -- John Wooden Centerk, 1:00-5:00 p.m.
Hosted by the American Indian Student Association
- Wiyot Repatriation Discussion
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 -- Student Activities Center, Basement Rooms 1 & 2, 12:30 - 1:30 pm
Please join UCLA in reflecting on the culmination of a decade long effort to repatriate ancestral remains to the Wiyot Tribe. Representatives from the Wiyot Tribe and NAGPRA committee will join students, staff, and faculty to mark this special occasion. Former Wiyot Tribal Chairwoman, Cheryl Seidner, will discuss the significance of the event as well as its relationship to tribal and cultural sovereignty.
Sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center and Tribal Learning Community & Educational Exchange
- The UCLA Library Writer Series Presents Maya Lenca Storytelling: Into the Next Millennium
Thursday, March 1, 2012 --Presentation Room, Charles E. Young Research Library, 1-3pm
A performance of a Maya-Lenca creation myth by the young chief Leonel Chevez. Co-sponsored by the American Indian Studies Center; Latin American Institute, Cesar Chavez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, Mayavision
- IAC Research Grant Program in Ethnic Studies Workshop
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 -- 3232 Campbell Hall, 12:30-1:30 p.m. and 2:00-3:00 p.m
Come join us for an information session. Learn more about the grants and application process! Get tips and advice! Hosted by the American Indian Studies Center and Asian American Studies Center
- Institute of American Cultures Winter Forum & Reception
Monday, February 27, 2012 -- UCLA Faculty Center, Main Dining Room East, 3:30-6pm
To honor the 2011-2012 IAC Visiting Scholars, Predoctoral /Graduate Fellows, and Research Grant Awardees and to celebrate the launch of the re-envisioned Institute of American Cultures
- Teaching the Pacific: A New Initiative by PIEAM and the UCLA Asian American Studies Center
Saturday, February 25, 2012 -- Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum, 11am – 5pm
This collaborative event for students and educators in the community marks the launch of PIEAM’s educational programs and AASC’s latest special issue of Amerasia Journal, “Transoceanic Flows: Pacific Islander Interventions across the American Empire.†Supportive of the emerging field of Pacific Islander Studies, the AASC and PIEAM affirm the vital role that Pacific Islander Studies can play in curricula for learners and scholars of all ages and levels.
- Are Reservations Stand-Ins for Indians? Sovereignty, Identity, and Authenticity in David Treuer's Rez Life
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 -- Sierra Room, UCLA Faculty Center, 2-4pm
You're invited to attend a reading by Dr. David Treuer from his latest book, Rez Life, a powerful, gritty, and poignant memoir/history that details life in his Great Lakes Ojibwe homeland. Philip Deloria calls Treuer "one of the most provocative voices in American Indian literary writing and criticism" and recommends Rez Life for "those who really want to understand Indian casinos, fishing rights, poverty, alcohol, spirituality, family, crime, war, law, sovereignty, violence, love, dedication, endurance...." The reading will be followed by a thought-provoking Q&A with Peter Nabokov, UCLA Professor of World Arts and Culture.
- The Occupy Movement Considered: An UCLA Roundtable
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 -- Kaufman Hall 200, UCLA, 6-8:30pm
Come hear activists and organizers discuss what worked, what didn't, and what's next....
Sponsored by UCLA Department of Anthropology, Asian American Studies Center, American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program, American Indian Studies Center, Art and Global Hleath Center, Women's Studies, and World Arts and Cultures/Dance
2011
- We Still Live Here, a film by Anne Makepeace
Sunday, December 4, 2011 -- Wells Fargo Theater, Griffith Park, 4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA 90027, 12:30 pm
Conversation with filmmaker Anne Makepeace, and UCLA Professor Mishuana Goeman following the film. Offered as part of Autry American Indian Culture days.
- 5th Annual Los Angeles SKINS FEST
Thursday-Sunday, November 17-20, 2011 -- Autry National Center
Co-Sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
- "Indian Renaissance: Concrete Policy Changes that Can Revolutionize Indian Country" – A conversation with Heather Dawn Thompson and Angela Riley
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 -- Room 1314, UCLA School of Law, 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy Speaker Series presents a conversation with Heather Dawn Thompson, Assistant United States Attorney, Indian Country Federal Prosecutor for the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation South Dakota, and Angela Riley, Professor Law, UCLA School of Law, Director of UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
- UCLA American Indian Studies Open House
Thursday, November 10, 2011 -- 3220 Campbell Hall, 4-6pm
Come meet faculty, students, AISC staff, and community members. We are especially excited to welcome incoming American Indian Studies and Native American students.
Sponsored by American Indian Recruitment (AIR), American Indian Studies Center, American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program, Retention of American Indians Now! (RAIN!), Tribal Learning Community Educational Exchange (TLCEE), Undergraduate Admissions and Relations with Schools (UARS)
- "Unexpected Indians in Expected Places: The Queer Case of Nabor Felix" presented by Professor Michelle Raheja
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 -- 2125 Rolfe Hall, 2-4pm
Lecture by Professor Michelle Raheja, Associate Professor of English, University of California, Riverside.
Sponsored by The UCLA American Indian Studies Center and UCLA Center for the Study of Women
- The American Society for Ethnohistory 2011 Meeting
Thursday-Saturday, October 19-22, 2011 -- The Westin Hotel, 191 North Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena, California 91101
The American Society for Ethnohistory (ASE) was founded in 1954 to promote the interdisciplinary investigation of the histories of the Native Peoples of the Americas.
- Imaginary Communities: Indians and Campesinos in Mexican Social Thought
Thursday, October 6th, 2011 -- 6275 Bunche Hall (History Conference Room), 3-4:30pm
Lecture by Dr. Emilio Kourí, Professor of History & Director of the Katz Center for Mexican Studies at the University of Chicago
The lecture will be preceded by a light lunch at 12:30 pm in the History Department Reading Room (6265 Bunche Hall) for students and faculty to meet with Dr. Kourí informally.
Sponsored by The UCLA Latin American Institute, the Center for Mexican Studies, the American Indian Studies Center, and the UCLA Department of History
- I Ka Ōlelo Nō Ke Ola (In Speech There Is Life): Libel, Law and Justice before the Hawaiian Chiefly Council, 1825-1827
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 -- History Conference Room, Bunche 6275, 3-5pm
Join us for a special presentation by Noelani M. Arista, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Hawaii, Manoa.
- William Penn and Native Americans, Revisited
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 -- History Conference Room, Bunche 6275, 12-2pm
A Presentation by Professor Daniel Richter. Richter is a Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, the author of Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America and Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization.
- How We Learn Deer
Friday, May 6, 2011 -- Kaufman 208, 10am
A longtable conversation with the performers on the teachings of traditional arts across generations
- Dancing Deer in the City: Tribal Performances on Tour
Thursday, May 5, 2011 -- Kaufman 200, 3pm
A longtable discussion with the performers on heritage, tourism, staging ritual, and contemporary Indian identity.
- Yoeme Indian Deer Dancer and Singers Perform at UCLA
Thursday, May 5, 2011 -- Kaufman Hall Garden Amphitheater, 12-1pm
Lunchtime Performance and Reception
- Deer Dances and Other Yaqui Ways of Knowledge
Monday, May 2, 2011 -- Rolfe Hall 1301, 2-4pm
Presented by Professor David Delgado Shorter, UCLA World Arts and Culture. Sponsored by The UCLA American Indian Studies Center and The UCLA Latin American Institute
- Tribal History Panel and Discussion
Monday, April 25, 2011 -- UCLA School of Law, Room 1420, 4:30-6pm
Join us for an interdisciplinary conversation about the challenges and opportunities associated with writing tribal histories, using two recently published books as the points of departure:The People Are Dancing Again: A History of the Siletz Tribe of Western Oregon and Defying the Odds: The Tule River Tribe's Struggle for Sovereignty in Three Centuries.
- The 26th Annual UCLA Pow Wow
Saturday-Sunday, April 23-24, 2011 -- All day, UCLA North Athletic Field
- What makes women soldiers? Context, context, context: the case of Fiji
Monday, April 18, 2011 -- Royce Hall 314, 5-6:30pm
Presented by Professor Teresia K. Teaiwa, Distinguished Pacific Islander Scholar and Writer. The event is free and open to the public.
- 110th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture: "Who Owns Music and Why You Should Care"
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 -- Schoenberg Hall, UCLA Schoenberg Music Building, 3pm
Lecture given by Anthony Seeger, Distinguished Professor of Ethnomusicology and Director of The UCLA Ethnomusicology Archives. Reception immediately following.
- 5th Annual Symposium: Race & Sovereignty
Thursday-Saturday, March 31, 2011 to April 2, 2011
The 5th Annual CRS Symposium will explore the relationship between race and sovereignty. Sovereignty, like race, has been invoked, understood, and deployed in contradictory ways. Historically, sovereignty has been an important vehicle through which hegemonic power has been enforced, for example, by articulating citizenship as a racial project rooted in the power to exclude.
- Film Screening: Hearing Radmilla: A Film by Angela Webb
Thursday, March 31, 2011 -- Law Building, Room 1347, 7pm
UCLA Critical Race Studies, the American Indian Studies Center, and Center for the Study of Women present a special screening of this new documentary on the intersections of race, indigeneity, and domestic violence. In-person: Radmilla Cody & Angela Webb; Admission is free to the public. View the trailer at: www.hearingradmilla.net.
- Native American Historiography and Claiming Space for Tribal Historians
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 -- History Conference Room, Bunche 6275, 4-5:30pm
Presented by Dine'/Native historian Jennifer Nez Denetdale, Ph.D., Associate Professor of American Studies, University of New Mexico
- Blood Talk: People and Peoples in Borderland New Mexico
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 -- History Conference Room, Bunche 6275, 12-2pm
Talk by Associate Professor of History at UC Berkeley Brian DeLay, with an introduction by Professor Kevin Terraciano. Refreshments will be served.
- Ethnic Studies Now! at UCLA and Beyond
Monday, March 7, 2011 -- UCLA Ackerman Grand Ballroom, 2:30pm
Participants will discuss the challenges ethnic studies departments face, the movement for diversity in the general education curriculum at UCLA, and local and national actions to support ethnic studies. Panelists will include, from UCLA, Professor Grace Hong, women’s studies and Asian American studies; Professor Cheryl Harris, law and critical race studies; Naazneen Diwan, organizer for Todos Somos Arizona and a graduate student in women’s studies; Heather Torres, president of the American Indian Students Association; and students in the “Student-Initiated Retention and Outreach Issues†course. Joining them will be Professor Glenn Omatsu, a lecturer in Asian American and labor and workplace studies at California State University, Northridge; and Hector Fared, organizer for the Coalition for Saving Asian and Asian American Studies at California State University, Los Angeles. The symposium will conclude with a screening at 6:30 p.m. of Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis and Yuri Kochiyama—A Conversation on Life, Struggles, and Liberation, a documentary film by C.A. Griffith and H.L.T. Quan of QUAD Productions. The screening will be followed by a Q&A session.
- UCLA Library Writer Series with Professor Duane Champagne
Monday, March 7, 2011 -- Charles E. Young Research Library, Presentation Room, 12-1pm
Champagne's talk on his book, Notes from the Center of Turtle Island, will be followed by commentary from Peter Nabokov, professor in the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures, and David Treuer, a Native American writer and professor in the USC Department of English and Creative Writing; a Q&A session; and a book signing.
- New Majorities, Shifting Priorities
Friday, March 4, 2011 -- Royce 314, 9-5pm
A One-Day Conference on Difference and Demographics in the 21st Century Academy.
- Brown Bag Lunch with Professor David Kamper
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 -- Rolfe Hall 1301, 12-1pm
Presentation With Professor David Kamper, Department of American Indian Studies, San Diego State University; The Work of Sovereignty: Tribal Labor Relations and Self-Determination at the Navajo Nation.
- Fred Myers talk on “Showing Too Much or Too Little: Predicaments of Painting Indigenous Presence in Central Australia.â€
Thursday, January 27, 2011 -- Haines 352, 12:30-2
This event is generously co-sponsored by the American Indian Studies Center, World Arts and Cultures, and the Postcolonial Literature and Theory Colloquium. It is open to members of the UCLA community.
2010
- Institutes of American Cultures Fall Forum and Reception
Monday, December 6th, 2010 -- California Room, UCLA Faculty Center, 4:30-6:40pm
In honor of the 2010-2011 IAC Visiting Scholars, Postdoctoral, Predoctoral & Graduate Fellows, and Research Grant Awardees.
- Save Ethnics Studies!
Friday, December 3, 2010 -- Ackerman Grand Ballroom, 2-5pm
Arizona vs. Ethnic Studies Delegation Presentation at UCLA,
- Protect our People! Native Americans and HIV/AIDS, APLA Red Circle Project
Friday, November 19, 2010 --AIDS Project Los Angeles, 3550 Wilshire Blvd. Ste. # 300 (3rd Floor), Los Angeles, CA 90010, 7-9pm
The Red Circle Project (RCP) at AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA) is currently the only HIV prevention program in Los Angeles County that specifically targets Native American Gay Men (known by the culturally specific term as Two-Spirit individuals).
- UCLA Library Writer Series: We Will Dance our Truth by David Delgado Shorter
Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 4-6pm
David Delgado Shorter, associate professor in the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures, presents a lecture on his book, We Will Dance Our Truth.
- 2010 Open House
Monday, September 27, 2010
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- Exhibition Closing: Art, Activism, Access: 40 Years of Ethnic Studies at UCLA
Sunday, June 13, 2010 -- Fowler Museum at UCLA
- UCLA AIS IDP Graduation Celebration
Sunday, June 13, 2010 -- UCLA Bradley Center, 6:30 - 7:00 pm
- Curation and Conservation for Tribal Collections
Friday, May 28th, 2010 -- Getty Villa Museum, Malibu, 9am-4pm
This event is designed to benefit staff, interns and volunteers at centers caring for tribal collections in the greater Los Angeles area, and to introduce them to resources available locally, nationally, and especially at UCLA. This event is designed to expose tribal members already working in area tribal museums and archives to professional and educational opportunities, to expose younger tribal members to projects related to their culture, and to encourage them to pursue higher education in fields relevant to museum and archival work.
- Screening: The Exiles
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
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- “Native Americans and Museums: Collaborations, Truth Telling, and Addressing Historical Unresolved Griefâ€
Sunday, May 16th, 2010 -- Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2:00 pm
A lecture by Amy Lonetree, Assistant Professor of American Studies, UC Santa Cruz and IAC Visiting Scholar 2009-10 UCLA American Indian Studies Program.
- UCLA Alumni Day
Saturday, May 15, 2010 -- Kerkoff Patio, 10:00am - 12:00 pm
- How Injustice is Destroying Public Higher Education
Thursday, May 13, 2010 -- Korn Hall, 3:30-8:30pm
A symposium in conjunction with the 40th Anniversary.
- Justice or “Just Usâ€: Race, Ethnicity and Mass Incarceration
Thursday, May 13, 2010 -- Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium, 9:30-7:00 pm
Hosted by Institute of American Cultures, American Indian Studies Center, Asian American Studies Center, Bunche Center for African American Studies, Chicano Studies Research Center, and the Fowler Musuem at UCLA.
- Twenty Years after NAGPRA: Where We Are Today, and Where We Are Going in the Future -Part 2
Thursday, May 6, 2010
A two part mini symposia, the second will examine recent advances in repatriation efforts across national borders.
- 25th Annual UCLA Pow Wow
Saturday-Sunday, May 1-2, 2010 -- North Field, 10-7 pm
Hosted by the American Indian Student Association
- The Idea of the Savage in the Western Imperial Imagination
Monday, April 12, 2010 -- Law 1447, 12:15-1:45 pm
A lecture by Robert A. Williams, Jr., Professor of Law and American Indian Studies and Director of the Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program, University of Arizona.
- 11th Annual American Indian Youth Conference and Basketball Tournament Co-hosted by AISC
Friday, March 19, 2010 – Sunday, March 21, 2010 -- UCLA John Wooden Center & UCLA Student Activities Center
The American Indian Youth Conference and Basketball Tournament provides cultural, academic and health & wellness workshops for American Indian/Native American youth. The purpose of the conference and basketball tournament is to make available knowledge and resources to help them pursue higher education by bringing them to a top university that incorporates and facilitates the success of Native American peoples and other peoples of color. Check back for specific times.
- UCLA School of Law - Critical Race Theory Speaker’s Series: Julian Aguon
Monday, March 15, 2010 -- UCLA School of Law, 12:15-1:45 pm
Julian Aguon, Chamorro civil rights attorney, writer and Indigenous human rights activist.
- Twenty Years after NAGPRA: Where We Are Today and Where We Are Going in the Future Part 1
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Part 1 of a two part mini symposia -- the first will focus on current approaches to the repatriation of human remains that are considered culturally unidentifiable according to NAGPRA.
- Family Festival - Exhibition Opening Art, Activism, Access: 40 Years of Ethnic Studies at UCLA
Sunday, February 28, 2010 -- Fowler Museum at UCLA, 12-5pm
Come enjoy a day of poetry readings, musical performances, and family art workshops, in celebration of 40 years of ethnic studies at UCLA. Poets: Deborah and Georgiana Sanchez, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Beau Sia of Russell Simmons/HBO Def Poetry Jam, John Densmore, formerly of The Doors. Live music on the Fowler Terrace: Ozomatli's Raul Pacheco and the Immaculate Conception, The Kupa Bird Singers, Kenny Burrell and multi-talented tap dancer Chester Whitmore, The Grammy-nominated members of Hiroshima.
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UCLA School of Law - Critical Race Theory Speaker’s Series : Genomics, Biological Anthropology and the Construction of Whiteness as Property
Monday, February 22, 2010 -- UCLA School of Law, 12:15-1:45 pm br />
A Lecture by Kim Tallbear, Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and Environmental Policy, UC Berkeley.
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UCLA School of Law - Critical Race Theory Speaker’s Series : Consent and Resistance: American Indians and Consent Theory
Monday, February 8, 2010 -- UCLA School of Law, 12:15-1:45 pm
A lecture by Matthew Fletcher, Associate Professor, Michigan State University College of Law and Director of the Indigenous Law and Policy Center
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20th Annual “Thinking Gender' Graduate Student Research conference.
Friday, February 5, 2010 -- Faculty Center, 1-2:30pm
Hosted by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women
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Curating Beyond the Chief: Hating Arts and Words on Campus
Thursday, February 4, 2010 -- Royce Hall 306, 5pm.
A public lecture by Robert Warrior, Professor and Director of American Indian Studies and Professor of English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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Political Plus Racial: Linking Indian Racial Identity and Tribal political Rights
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 -- Law Building 1337, 12:15 pm - 1:45 pm
A lecture by Addie Rolnick, CRS Law Fellow, UCLA School of Law.
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Indigenous Group Rights—Issues in the International Human Rights Framework—A Comfortable Fit?
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
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2009
- 2009 Open House
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
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- "Navajo Repatriation" - Roundtable Discussion with Cultural Leaders Navajo
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
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- Gathering Native/American Scholars and Artists: A Celebration of Forty Years
Thursday-Friday, October 22-23rd, 2009
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- The American Indian Studies Center Library Open House / Alumni Celebration
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 -- Campbell Hall 3217, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
In celebration of the American Indian Culture and Research Journal. Reception to gather together alumni, faculty, students, supporters, and leadership to celebrate the premier, internationally renowned multidisciplinary American Indian Culture and Research Journal and its decades of contributions to Native American studies.
