Institute of American Cultures
Upcoming Events
Talk: Jennifer Carcamo Presents "Historias Prohibidas del Istmo"
Thu 11/6 • 2PM - 3:30PM PST RSVP
10383 Bunche Hall
Building on filmmaker and scholar Jennifer Cárcamo’s current book project, this talk explores the historical and ideological origins of Central America’s communist parties, specifically in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Costa Rica, from 1920-1940.
Bruce Lee and Cultures of Solidarity: Lessons for Today
Thu 11/6 • 3:30PM - 6PM PST RSVP
Fowler Museum
Book Talk by author Jeff Chang for Water Mirror Echo Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America, followed by a panel with H. Samy Alim, Martha González, and Gaye Theresa Johnson.
60th Annual UCLA Art History Graduate Symposium : Revolution
Fri 11/14 RSVP
Hammer Museum
The symposium theme considers revolution as a mode of imagining new ways of seeing, knowing, and acting in the field of art history. The 3:30 PM (PST) keynote lecture is by Dr. Sohl Lee, whose work explores the nexus of art, activism, and institutional critique in contemporary Korea and East Asia more broadly.
Convening: "Beyond Sanctuary"
Fri 11/14 • 10AM - 4:30PM PST
2355 UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
This convening marks the publication of Beyond Sanctuary: The Humanism of a World in Motion (Duke University Press, 2025), an anthology of scholarship that thinks across the United States and Europe to critically interrogate policies and philosophies of sanctuary and asylum.