Past Events
2013
- 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.
