Events
Hispanic Serving Instituion
BLACK BRAZILIAN CINEMA – Café com Canela ♥
McCormick Screening Room, 1070 Humanities Gateway UCI School of Humanities Irvine, CA 92697Brazil, the country with the largest Black population outside of Africa, is dramatically impacting the film industry. About this event Brazil, the country with the largest Black population outside of Africa, is dramatically impacting the film industry. A new generation of mostly young filmmakers is changing the historical absence of Afro-descendents in almost all sectors…
BLACK BRAZILIAN CINEMA – Temporada and República ♥
McCormick Screening Room, 1070 Humanities Gateway UCI School of Humanities Irvine, CA 92697Brazil, the country with the largest Black population outside of Africa, is dramatically impacting the film industry. About this event Brazil, the country with the largest Black population outside of Africa, is dramatically impacting the film industry. A new generation of mostly young filmmakers is changing the historical absence of Afro-descendents in almost all sectors…
The Frontera Project ♥
UCI Student Center & Event Services, Woods Cove ABC 311 West Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697The Frontera Project is an interactive, bilingual theater experience, created and performed by a company of Mexican and US artists. About this event The Frontera Project is an interactive, bilingual theater experience, created and performed by a company of Mexican and US artists. We use theater, music, movement and play to actively engage the audience…
BLACK BRAZILIAN CINEMA – Shorts and New Directions ♥
McCormick Screening Room, 1070 Humanities Gateway UCI School of Humanities Irvine, CA 92697Brazil, the country with the largest Black population outside of Africa, is dramatically impacting the film industry. About this event Brazil, the country with the largest Black population outside of Africa, is dramatically impacting the film industry. A new generation of mostly young filmmakers is changing the historical absence of Afro-descendents in almost all sectors…
Sandra Cisneros, Award-winning author of “House on Mango Street” ♥ ★
TBDPlease join us for an inspiring evening with author Sandra Cisneros, author of the beloved novel “House on Mango Street,” about a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, this novel depicts a new American landscape through its multiple characters. The author will be introduced by Professor…
Amplify Conference 2022 ♥★
UCI Student CenterEmpowered Women, Empower Women The Academic & Professional Women of UCI has a decades-long history at UC Irvine with a longstanding tradition of supporting staff, faculty, and students with a special emphasis on the women of UCI.
Tainted Grapes, Tainted Lungs: Extreme Wildfire Impacts to Undocumented Latina/o and Indigenous Migrants ♥
ZoomTainted Grapes, Tainted Lungs: Extreme Wildfire Impacts to Undocumented Latina/o and Indigenous Migrants Mike Méndez Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy and Planning, UC Irvine Visiting Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) REGISTER Thursday, May 19, 2022 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Zoom Webinar As climate change advances, communities across the United States are adanpting…
Conversation Kitchen featuring A People’s Guide to Orange County ♥
Conversation Kitchen featuring A People’s Guide to Orange County Details A People’s Guide to Orange County, published by the University of California Press, is an alternative tour guide that documents sites of oppression, resistance, struggle, and transformation in Orange County, California. Mainstream guidebooks focus on Orange County’s amusement parks and wealthy coastal communities, with side…
Racism and Segregation in Orange County: Virtual Book Talk ♥★
ZoomJoin UCI Libraries to learn how one Japanese American family’s unlawful incarceration during World War II led to California’s landmark school desegregation lawsuit in the 1940s. This uniquely American story celebrates how the Munemitsu and Mendez families persevered in the face of widespread, state-sanctioned racism in the 1940s. The intertwining stories of these two immigrant…
Ramón Gutiérrez, “New Mexico’s Moses: Reies López Tijerina and the Religious Origins of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement” ♥
ZoomA presentation of the Reimagining the Latinx Experience in America book talk series In New Mexico’s Moses, Ramón A. Gutiérrez dives deeply into Reies López Tijerina’s religious formation during the 1940s and 1950s, illustrating how his Pentecostal foundation remained an integral part of his psyche even as he migrated toward social-movement politics. An Assemblies of God…
Latino Excellence and Achievement Awards Dinner ♥ ★
Pacific Ballroom, UCI Student Center 311 W Peltason Dr, Irvine, CA, United StatesSave the date for the 6th annual Latino Excellence and Achievement Dinner (LEAD) on April 6, 2023, at the Pacific Ballroom, UCI Student Center. Reception will begin at 6 p.m. LEAD honors key leaders, graduate students, staff and faculty who support and champion student success and research excellence in the Hispanic/Latinx community at UCI and…