UCLA Latin American Institute

Mes de la Herencia Oaxaqueña en Los Ángeles

Frente Indigena de Organizaciones Binacionales
Mesa Redonda - Política y Cultura en Oaxacalifornia

Sábado 3 de agosto
12:00 PM -3:00 PM (Pacific Time)

Maqueos Music Academy
2833 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90006

Presentación: "Discriminación Oaxaqueña en la ciudad de Los Angeles y sus escuelas"

Ponente: Rafael Vásquez
Vicepresidente de la junta directiva del Proyecto Mixteco Indígena (MICOP)

Moderador: Dr. Gaspar Rivera-Salgado
Director del Centro de Estudios Mexicanos en la Universidad de California Los Angeles (UCLA)

There will be a screening of the film Frida, with director Carla Gutiérrez, tonight at the Hammer Museum at 7:00 PM. Admission is free.

"An intimately raw and magical journey through the life, mind, and heart of iconic artist Frida Kahlo. Told through her own words for the very first time — drawn from her diary, revealing letters, essays, and print interviews — and brought vividly to life by lyrical animation inspired by her unforgettable artwork."

Frida | Hammer Museum An intimately raw and magical journey through the life, mind, and heart of iconic artist Frida Kahlo.

NPR piece on the Great Wall of Los Angeles, a public art work developed by LAI affiliate Judith Baca between 1974 and 1984.

A half-mile long mural in Los Angeles celebrates the history of California One of the world’s largest murals is painted on the side of a concrete-lined river — running through the city of Los Angeles. The Great Wall of Los Angeles was completed between 1974 and 1984.

Exciting news! UCLA has hired a new Latin American Studies librarian, and he's an alumnus of our M.A. program!

Socrates Silva Reyes will be joining us on August 1 as the new Unit Head for International and Area Studies and Latin American and Spanish/Portuguese Studies Librarian.

Sócrates is currently the Columbia/Cornell University Libraries (2CUL) Latin American and Iberian Studies Librarian, where he is responsible for developing LAIS collections and research support services in an integrated and collaborative manner across both institutions. He graduated with a dual M.A. in Latin American Studies and Information Studies from UCLA. He was president of the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM) in 2020–2021. He co-curated the exhibit The Hispanic Institute Between the Wars: The Making of Cultural Networks and was a co-lead for The Brazilian Presidential Transition (2018) Web Archive. During his previous stint in the UC, he was associate editor at the Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) here at UCLA and Latin American and Iberian Studies Librarian at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

📣📣📣 FREE WORKSHOP!!

This webinar will explore the themes embedded in the California History-Social Science Framework. The theme of "Environmental Transformations" will be presented through case studies in El Salvador and China. For more details, review our workshop webpage: https://www.international.ucla.edu/cseas/event/16642.

Register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdJLPS44HwbabfLKznf1GUjVj-T4OnDmX7J_moDKE4lZ_aAUA/viewform

July 1, 2024 from 9AM to 12PM Pacific Time

July 2, 2024 from 9AM to 12:15PM Pacific Time

"Creando Cuentos: Latin American Children's Literature Workshop" - 3 day workshop

⏳⏳⏳Our deadline to register has been extended to Thursday, June 20!

For more information and to register, visit: https://web.international.ucla.edu/LAI/events/16760

UCLA International Institute
LAUSD Teachers

⏳⏳⏳ Don't forget to sign up by June 18, 2024!

Apply here: https://forms.international.ucla.edu/ApplicationForm.aspx?KgERhl6kurDPbnAln-YxOsYV2WMIVKjfZUv78ZWU5bA=

📣📣📣 We are happy to announce our next K-12 teacher summer workshop:

"Creando Cuentos: Latin American Children's Literature Workshop"

Days of Instruction:
June 24, 25, 26 2024
9:00 am - 2:30 pm
UCLA

Eligibility:

Open to current K-12 educators in all disciplines. Please note that this workshop will be bilingual: Spanish and English.

Registration:

Registration for the workshop is completed in two steps:

1. Submission of short online application
2. $125.00 Online Payment (Debit/Credit Card).The registration fee will cover all three days of our workshop, materials, food, and parking.

Deadline to apply: June 18, 2024

Seating is limited.

For more information and to apply, visit here: https://www.international.ucla.edu/LAI/events/16760

📣📣📣 We are happy to announce our next K-12 teacher summer workshop:

"Creando Cuentos: Latin American Children's Literature Workshop"

Days of Instruction:
June 24, 25, 26 2024
9:00 am - 2:30 pm
UCLA

Eligibility:

Open to current K-12 educators in all disciplines. Please note that this workshop will be bilingual: Spanish and English.

Registration:

Registration for the workshop is completed in two steps:

1. Submission of short online application
2. $125.00 Online Payment (Debit/Credit Card).The registration fee will cover all three days of our workshop, materials, food, and parking.

Deadline to apply: June 18, 2024

Seating is limited.

For more information and to apply, visit here: https://www.international.ucla.edu/LAI/events/16760

📣📣📣 The Center for Mexican Studies and the Labor Center at UCLA invite you this Sunday, June 2nd, at 6 PM for a MEXICAN ELECTION WATCH PARTY

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM PT
SEIU USWW
828 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015

Dinner provided. Taquiza from Santa Cecilia Restaurant

"Varios de los maestros de Los Ángeles que participaron en el programa de verano de 2023 en Oaxaca, México, aseguran que lo aprendido durante el programa que promovió y organizó el Instituto Latinoamericano de UCLA, ayuda a mejorar las relaciones humanas entre el estudiantado de las escuelas."

Lea más para descubrir cómo nuestros maestros están implementando lo que aprendieron en sus aulas.

Artículo escrito por Nora Estrada, Impulso Newspaper.

https://impulsonewspaper.com/maestros-comparten-como-aplican-lo-aprendido-en-el-programa-de-verano-en-oaxaca/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1xRHEfsx-Pjew7woxMsw9JWSNXHP1E1B-QofDESZ-AwYGHYJ16m2KQG1U_aem_AT9wcClC82R1RBcd-qhJfoGAFJ7xvJQvojpb8ohwRNMaZjTaFPjSiLF6z24ssGUT-tF6518E_9CgbVPAKo93ODAR&sfnsn=wa

Maestros aseguran que cultura oaxaqueña ayuda a combatir odio en las escuelas angelinas - Impulso News A menos de un año de que varios educadores que participaron en el Programa de Verano 2023 de UCLA aseguran que ya se nota un impacto positivo

We invite you to join us to our last Children's literature series event of the academic year happening Thursday, May 9, at 5:00 PM PT.

"Honoring Our Stories: Bringing Our Voices into Children's Literature"

Zoom RSVP: https://bit.ly/3we8Iny

Peruvian author, Mariana Llanos, will explain how she uses her cultural identity to write stories for children, bringing a unique perspective to young readers. This presentation will discuss how Latino storytellers represent diverse backgrounds, while sharing deep common roots, how their stories are valuable and needed, and how we can use our own cultural and individual experiences when writing and reading stories.

Speaker:

Mariana Llanos is a Peruvian born writer, poet, and translator.

During the summer of 2023, the UCLA Latin American Institute offered a month-long program in Oaxaca, Mexico, to a group of Los Angeles-based teachers. As an outcome, teachers have had the opportunity to innovate their classroom curriculum by generating lesson plans on indigenous cultures.

Join us for this two-day conference where educators will share ongoing projects resulting from participating in the Oaxacan summer program and the impact in the classroom.

Zoom RSVP: https://bit.ly/4d7GZFG

PLURAL GEOGRAPHIES: GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE

Join the Cotsen Institute of Archeology for their 10th biannual GSAA Graduate Archaeology Research Conference.

This year's theme: 'Plural Geographies: exploring Alternative Ecologies and navigating through the Field' will highlight interdisciplinary global research focused on themes of geography, space, and place.

With keynote speakers Dr. Anna Agbe-Davies (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill) and Dr. Menna Agha (Carleton University)

Please register for virtual or in-person attendance here: https://tinyurl.com/UCLApluralgeo

UNICA DE UCLA is currently accepting submissions of art pieces such as paintings, illustrations, videos, photographs, installations, art objects, performances, and live poetry in any language.

This year's theme will be Celebrando Nuestra Alegría.

Anyone interested in submitting their work, can click on the link and follow the instructions: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf1BZ6c2QXNySLS-fzZ15z_XHA4mugvvF6AjT7b4FycIEFalw/viewform

Submissions will be open until May 7th at midnight!

If you have any questions or concerns, please let us know or contact [email protected].

We want to thank the teachers that joined us last Saturday for our workshop, "Mexico & Colombia: Interconnected Musical Histories, Genres and Traditions." We had an amazing class with two master musicians Cesar Castro and Eduardo Martinez.

The Andean Working Group Presents:

"Making a House: The Mutual Upbringing (Crianza) of Architecture and People in Andean Highland Pastoralism (Susques, Jujuy, Argentina)"

Monday, April 29th at 12pm PT/ lunes 29 de abril a las 12pm PT

A virtual lecture by Dr. Jorge Tomasi (CONICET - Laboratorio de Arquitecturas Andinas y Construcción con Tierra, National University of Jujuy). Dr. Tomasi is a multidisciplinary scholar who has worked extensively on Andean earthen architecture and houses, bringing together his background as an architect, social anthropologist, and geographer in his innovative approach to the Andean built environment.
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El Dr. Tomasi es un académico multidisciplinario que ha trabajado extensamente en la arquitectura y las casas de tierra en los Andes. Reuniendo su experiencia como arquitecto, antropólogo social y geógrafo, el Dr. Tomasi aporta un enfoque innovador al estudio del entorno construido andino. ⁠
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To attend the lecture, make sure to register at / Para asistir a la charla, regístrese en: tinyurl.com/AWGTomasi

⏳⏳⏳ "The Afterlives of Faulty Science: The Global Promise of 'Food for All' and the Impact on Mexico's Environment and People" with Gabriela Soto-Laveaga!

Monday, April 22, 2024
4:00pm PT
Bunche Hall, Rm 6275 & Online
Zoom RSVP: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApfuusrzktGNRJnvmJkgFuoiyiqBJZXeSK #/registration
What can the aftermath of scientific innovation reveal about a country like Mexico? In this talk we return to the Yaqui Valley in northern Mexico, the place from which the Green Revolution was launched in the mid-twentieth century. Celebrated as the agro-tech innovation that would end global hunger, the Green Revolution — a package composed of hybrid seed technology, fertilizer use, irrigation, and mechanization— transformed farming and in some areas quadrupled grain yields. These innovations also ushered in a series of unanticipated ecological disasters in farming communities. Today drought, land-tenure problems, polluted water, ongoing violence, and funding cuts are impacting communities in both novel and expected ways. Most surprising, perhaps, is how this has impacted on-going experiments in the research station in the Yaqui Valley.

On March 28, the LAI, the UCLA Center for Brazilian Studies and the UCLA International Institute were honored to host Her Excellency Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti, ambassador of Brazil to the United States, for a visit to UCLA. After this meeting with Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Darnell Hunt, the ambassador came to Bunche Hall to speak with faculty and students on the current state of US-Brazil relations and to field questions.

Vivir Imaginando: Carla Guelfenbein

12:00 PM PT
Lydeen Library, Rolfe Hall Rm 4302

A partir de una cita de Clarice Lispector, Carla Guelfenbein reflexiona sobre el acto de escribir. El vínculo entre experiencia, memoria y ficción, el misterioso origen de una idea, el mundo invisible al cual el narrador debe aspirar, la conexión entre forma y concepto son algunos de los temas que la escritora tocará en esta charla.

Carla Guelfenbein, de origen ruso-judío nació en Santiago, Chile. Se exilió con sus
padres en Inglaterra en 1978 como consecuencia del golpe militar de 1973. Estudió biología con especialización en genética de población en la Universidad de Essex y diseño en el St. Martin's School of Art en Londres. Es autora de nueve novelas. "Contigo a la distancia" obtuvo el Premio Alfaguara 2015. Su obra ha sido traducida a dieciséis lenguas. Este año se estrenará la serie "Llévame al cielo" en Disney Plus basada en su novela del mismo nombre. Ha sido ganadora de las residencias Bogliasco Foundation, Civetella Foundation y Rockefeller Foundation. El premio Nobel J.M. Coetzee ha definido su obra como: “Sutil, lúcida y compasiva”.

📍📅 April 19 de 12:00 p.m. a 2:00 p.m.
Biblioteca Lydeen de la UCLA (Rolfe Hall 4302)

Carla Guelfenbein UCLA UCLA Latin American Institute Instituto Cervantes Los Ángeles

Esperamos que puedan unirse el miércoles 10 de abril a las 12 PM (PT)

Zoom RSVP: https://shorturl.at/fiAGI

Los miembros del sindicato mexicano de LA UNTA informarán sobre su participación en la Conferencia de la Alianza Internacional de Trabajadores del Transporte por Aplicación (IAATW) realizada en Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Participantes:

Sergio Jesús Guerrero Ornelas - Secretario general- Unión Nacional de Trabajadores por Aplicación (LA UNTA)

Rodrigo Montes Ramírez- Secretario de comunicación- LA UNTA

Alan Ramos Solis - Subsecretario de trabajo y seguridad social- LA UNTA

Moderadora:
Kruskaya Hidalgo- Especialista en Organización en Campo- Solidarity Center, Mexico

⏳⏳We hope to see you on Monday, April 8 for a conversation with Dr. Maria Elena Ramos.

Time: 1:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Location: UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library, Rm 23167

"The Digital Migrant Health Record: A tool for international, institutional, and interdisciplinary cooperation"

April newsletter is out now 📢📢📢

Check it out for upcoming events, announcements, and more:
https://www.international.ucla.edu/LAI/newsletter

📣📣The next event in our Children's Literature Series for Educators is happening Tuesday, April 9 at 5:00 PM.

🔗🔗Zoom Registration: bit.ly/3VAIEgC

Join us for a presentation with Gloria Amescua. She will discuss her picture book biography "Child of The Flower-Song People: Luz Jiménez, Daughter of The Nahua." The book tells the story of an Indigenous girl in Mexico who became a model for internationally celebrated 20th-century artists such as Diego Rivera and helped preserve the Nahuatl language and stories.

Dr. Katrina Dillon will provide a brief presentation of the Américas Award.

“A big takeaway from this tri-national meeting is that as the debate over immigration and drug trade heats up because of the upcoming presidential election, both in Mexico and the United States, we need to step back and remind ourselves that the fates of these two countries is more linked than never before,” Dr. Gaspar Rivera-Salgado

UCLA Labor Center hosts tri-national summit promoting worker solidarity in response to USMCA Labor leaders and workers from the U.S., Mexico and Canada shared strategies for organizing auto, domestic and platform workers