Institute of American Cultures
Upcoming Events
State of Black California Conference
Fri 4/10 • 8AM - 6PM PDT RSVP
UCLA Luskin Conference Center
The conference brings together an audience of 200 advocates, policy experts, elected officials, academic scholars, and community-based leaders to discuss how we build a thriving Black California.
Toward a More Perfect Rebellion: Celebrating the Legacy of Robert A. Nakamura Film Screening
Sat 4/11 • 7:30PM - 9PM PDT RSVP
UCLA Hamer Museum, Billy Wilder Theater, 10899 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90024
This program is a continuation of Toward a More Perfect Rebellion: Multiracial Student Activism at UCLA, which celebrates the radical filmmaking legacy of UCLA’s affirmative action initiative, the Ethno-Communications Program (1969–1973). This iteration honors Ethno-Communications alumnus Robert A. Nakamura (1936–2025), who taught film at UCLA for over 30 years and was widely known as the “godfather of Asian American media.”
50th Anniversary Screening - Please, Don't Bury Me Alive!
Sun 4/12 • 7PM - 10PM PDT RSVP
Billy Wilder Theater, UCLA Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90024
Featuring Q&A with filmmaker Efraín Gutiérrez and Distinguished Professor Chon Noriega, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Organized by the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
Thinking Gender 2026 Graduate Student Research Conference
Fri 4/17 RSVP
UCLA James West Alumni Center
Thinking Gender 2026 explores the theme “Feminist and Queer Ecologies." Join us for graduate student presentations highlighting innovative research at the intersections of gender, sexuality, environment, and justice.
Conference: Quebrando Barreras - Breaking Barriers in STEM
Fri 4/17 - Sat 4/18 RSVP
Hosted at UCLA, this free two-day conference aims to convene students with professors from all areas of chemistry and biochemistry to establish, strengthen, and promote research collaborations among scientists who are committed to broadening participation in STEM disciplines. Space is limited. Organized by the UCLA College Division of Physical Sciences, the Latina Futures 2050 Lab, and the CSRC.
Authors Present "P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance
Tue 4/21 • 12:30PM - 1:45PM PDT RSVP
Please join us in welcoming Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau to discuss their new book, P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance (Duke UP, 2025). Part of the Albert M. Camarillo Lecture Series at the CSRC. Cosponsored by the Bunche Center for African American Studies. Space is limited.
A Fractured Liberation: Korea Under U.S. Occupation Book Talk
Thu 4/30 • 4PM - 5:30PM PDT RSVP
UCLA Bunche Hall, Room 10383
Drawing from his recently published book, A Fractured Liberation: Korea under U.S. Occupation (Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2025), historian Kornel Chang will discuss how liberation was experienced from the ground up by ordinary Koreans while also showing how U.S. occupation forces reshaped - and often foreclosed - the possibilities that liberation had seem to open.