Institute of American Cultures

This symposium brings together visual artists, writers, scholars, and knowledge keepers from Canada and the U.S. to contemplate the ways that gender-expansive Indigenous arts, scholarship, and methodologies enact kinship relations and practice decolonial worldmaking across time and space.

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This talk uses a combination of poetry, research, and prose to consider some of the discursive and material facets of Palestinian liberation theories and practices, with special attention to forms of affective and embodied resistance.

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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.”

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Join us for an afternoon filled with community, connection, and celebration as we give all new and continuing undergraduate and graduate students and the larger UCLA community a warm bienvenida (welcome) to the campus. This event is free and open to the public; all are welcome. Presented by the UCLA Latinx Success Center.

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The UCLA American Indian Studies Center and Department invite you to a welcome event for American Indian and Pacific Islander students, as well as anyone interested in learning more about American Indian Studies at UCLA. Come meet faculty, staff, and students, build connections, and enjoy light refreshments.

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Join us for a community launch party celebrating two groundbreaking research reports from the UCLA Williams Institute and the TransLatin@ Coalition and supported by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center and the Latina Futures 2050 Lab.

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Join us for a full-day celebration as we bring together alumni, students, faculty, and community members across the many generations of Asian American & Pacific Islander Studies at UCLA!

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The Annual Convocation is designed to welcome UCLA students (both new and recurring) to the start of the Fall Quarter.

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