Nativism, Environmental Privilege, and the Construction of Immigration as an Ecological Threat
Wednesday, April 20, 2016 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Scholars working in the field of environmental justice studies have presented evidence that poor, working class indigenous, and people of color communities face greater threats from pollution and industrial hazards than other groups. While these studies reveal the hardships and crimes associated with environmental inequality, fewer studies consider the flipside of that reality: environmental privilege. Read more
Dr. Deepak Lamba-Nieves - Perspectives and Proposals: Puerto Rico's Economic Crisis
Monday, April 11, 2016 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Puerto Rico is over $72 billion of debt and the island has no resources to make any of its payments or restructure the debt. Unemployment is over 12 percent, the poverty rate is 45 percent, and half of P.R. residents are on Medicaid. This presentation addresses Puerto Rico's debt crisis as it relates to a legacy of colonialism. Read more
The Central American Studies Lecture Series presents: Alma Ruiz
Tuesday, April 5, 2016 - 11:00am to 12:30pm
Organizing the 20 Bienal de Arte in Guatemala City: What It Takes and What It Means. Alma Ruiz was born in Guatemala City, and is a renowned contemporary art curator in the City of Los Angeles. She is former senior curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles where she worked for over 30 years, and where she curated numerous exhibitions on the postwar period in the United States, Italy, and Latin America, and exhibited artists such as Lygia Clark, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Magdalena Fernández, Carlos Garaicoa, Ernesto Neto, Ana Mendieta, Hélio Oiticica, and Gabriel Orozco, among others. Read more
Big Read by Luis J. Rodriguez
Wednesday, April 20, 2016 - 12:30pm to 1:45pm
Luis J. Rodriguez, LA's Poet Laureate, will read from his most acclaimed books. Read more
Robert Landau: Rock 'N' Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip
Friday, April 15, 2016 - 11:30am
Inspired by the hand-painted billboards in his Hollywood neighborhood, Landau grabbed his camera and began shooting. Decades later, Landau rediscovered his Kodachromes, the only extensive collection of photographs that document those iconic billboards. Read more
Are Latin American Immigrants of Asian Descent Asian Americans or US Latinos?: The Intersections of Nation/Race/Ethnicity in the Global Imaginary of Immigration
Monday, April 4, 2016 - 12:30pm to 1:45pm
Dr. Junyoung Verónica Kim is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Latin American Literatures & Cultures in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at The University of Iowa. Read more
Book Talk by Martha Escobar, Assistant Professor in Chicana/o Studies
Wednesday, March 30, 2016 - 12:30pm to 1:45pm
Chicana/o Studies Assistant Professor Martha Escobar will have a book talk on her new book: Captivity Beyond Prisons: Criminalization Experiences of Latina (Im)migrants Read more
Familias Unidas Por La Justicia
Wednesday, April 6, 2016 - 4:00pm
Familias Unidas Por La Justicia will discuss wage theft practices against immigrant farmworkers. Read more
Queer Migrations
Thursday, April 7, 2016 - 11:00am
The presenters will discuss their work as it relates to the criminalization experiences of LGBTQ immigrants... Read more
Growing Bromeliads
Saturday, April 23, 2016 - 9:00am to 11:00am
The CSUN-al Gardening series will host a talk by Bryan Chan on growing air plants, tank plants, and other bromeliads. Read more