IAC Fall Forum 2025
Tue 10/14 • 3PM - 4PM PDT
You are invited to the UCLA Institute of American Cultures (IAC) annual Fall Forum, featuring 2025–26 Postdoctoral Scholars and center representatives from UCLA’s four ethnic studies research centers.
- Jessica Cattelino, Director of the CSW|Streisand Center, “Honova and Panatu: Water Stories, Water Justice.”
- Sophia Armen, Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the Asian American Studies Center, “Refugee/Citizen/Migrant: Making Middle Eastern-American Race Amidst Mass Displacement, Violence, and Resistance.” G.S. Pomaika'i Hanakahi Gushiken, Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the Asian American Studies Center, “Queer Indigenous Sovereignties: Mahu Pedagogies and Hawaiian Decolonial Futures.”
- Joey Jennings, Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellows at the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, “Rewriting the Verse: Black Futures, Black Women, and the Politics of Hip-Hop.”
- Chantiri Abarca, Senior Officer of Community-Engaged Research at UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, and Steven Carmona Mora, CSRC Program Manager of Community-Engaged Research, “California Freedom
Summer Participatory Action Research Project.”