Please join us for the next 2020-21 “What Matters to Me and Why” Alumni event! Who: Laura E. Gómez ’94 When: Thursday, April 15, 2021, at 6 p.m. Where: Zoom Reservations: Required at WMMW Registration Form Dear Anteater Community, Join us for our final “What Matters to Me and Why” Alumni Series of the school year featuring guest [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Reimagining the Latinx Experience in America: Ian Haney López, Merge Left Thursday, April 8 at 12:00pm to 1:00pm Virtual Event Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America RSVP In 2014, Ian Haney López in Dog Whistle Politics named and explained the coded racial appeals exploited by right-wing politicians over the last half century—and thereby anticipated [...]
Latinx Excellence and Achievement Awards recognizes Hispanic and Latinx graduate students UCI News | April 2, 2021 The 2021 Latinx Excellence and Achievement Awards took place April 1 as a virtual gala. In its fourth year, UCI’s LEAD remains the only celebration and awards event in the University of California system focused on Hispanic and Latinx graduate [...]
UCI 4th Annual Latino Excellence and Achievement Awards Virtual Celebración April 1, 2021 at 5:30 P.M. PST Please join us at the Latino Excellence and Achievement Awards Celebración to honor outstanding graduate students, faculty, and alumni supporters of UCI’s Latinx community. The evening is especially meaningful given UCI’s status as a Hispanic Serving Institution. This [...]
Gilbert Q Conchas The Chicana/o/x Dream: Hope, Resistance, and Educational Success A presentation of the Reimagining the Latinx Experience in America book talk series Based on interview data, life testimonios, and Chicana feminist theories, The Chicana/o/xDream profiles first-generation, Mexican-descent college students who have overcome adversity by utilizing various forms of cultural capital to power their academic success. While [...]
Celebrating AfroLatinidad Black History Month Join us as we dive in to the 2021 theme " The Black Family Representation. Identity and Diversity," which explores the African diaspora and the spread of Black families across the United States Latin Music, Afro Roots Natalie Aguilar and Professor Emeritus Fernandez will look at the Afro roots embedded [...]
Honoring the Legacy of José Flores Velázquez Donate to the Graduate Division Fellowship Fund UCI is honoring José Flores Velázquez, a former UCI Physics & Astronomy PhD student who tragically passed away on August 14, 2019 due to a drive-by shooting near his family home in Los Angeles, California. José was an academic super star [...]
Celebrating AfroLatinidad Black History Month Join us as we dive in to the 2021 theme " The Black Family Representation. Identity and Diversity," which explores the African diaspora and the spread of Black families across the United States African Diaspora: The Slave Trade and African Origins in Latin America Guest Speaker: Professor Alex Borucki Time: [...]