Cathy Park Hong in conversation with Professor Jerry Lee and Dr. SueJeanne Koh About this Event Cathy Park Hong in conversation with Professor Jerry Lee and Dr. SueJeanne Koh In Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths [...]
Reimagining the Latinx Experience in America: Edward Telles, Durable Ethnicity Thursday, April 15 at 12:00pm to 1:00pm Virtual Event RSVP Mexican Americans are unique in the panoply of American ethno-racial groups in that they are the descendants of the largest and longest lasting immigration stream in US history. Today, there are approximately 24 million Americans of Mexican [...]
April 14, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (student Q & A) and April 15, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. (book conversation) Cathy Park Hong, author of the best-selling Minor Feelings, fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. Cathy Park Hong in conversation with Professor Jerry Lee [...]
Status Pending Film Screening and Panel Discussion With Immigration Law under attack, Status Pending follows five Mexican-American Immigration lawyers who form a support group as they strive to help their clients obtain safety and status in the United States. We hope you will join us for the film and panel discussion and Q&A with [...]
Meeting Registration This meeting is for internal users only. Topic: Stop the Hate Social Sciences Listening Sessions | Staff Experiences Description: During these sessions, we invite the Social Sciences community to engage in a facilitated discussion on the impact of the recent uptick of attacks on Asians and Asian-Americans across the nation in [...]
Meeting Registration This meeting is for internal users only. Topic: Stop the Hate Social Sciences Listening Sessions | Student Experiences Description: During this session, we will engage in a facilitated discussion on the impact of the recent uptick of attacks on Asians and Asian-Americans across the nation in recent months. We hope to [...]
Making Waves: Entrepreneur Conversations with Frederick Royall Join us on March 17 at 12 p.m. PT for a conversation between Frederick Royall, an entrepreneur and a corporate executive in commercial banking at Chase, who focuses on diverse businesses, and Richard Sudek, executive director at Beall Applied Innovation and chief innovation officer at UCI. They'll discuss [...]
To Boldly Go: A Conversation with Dr. Michael Brown on Being Black in Higher Education Join UCR's Black Faculty And Staff Association for a conversation with Dr. Michael Brown, University of California Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs. Provost Brown will speak on the experience of being Black in the Higher Education environment. Registrants may submit [...]
Rocío Rosales Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles A presentation of the Reimagining the Latinx Experience in America book talk series Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles examines the social worlds of young Latino street vendors as they navigate the complexities of local and federal laws prohibiting both their presence [...]
What is the significance of a national flag? Does its symbolic meaning change during a war? During a time of crisis, is a national flag to be reverenced or despised, protected or destroyed? In A Play About Flags, two Iranian women work in a flag factory in Tehran amidst escalating tensions between Iran and the US [...]