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UCLA AMERICAN
INDIAN STUDIES CENTER
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Dear
Friends of the American Indian Studies Center,
We are delighted that one of our featured events for 2011, the Race and Sovereignty Symposium, has finally arrived! We hope you will join us for the program, which kicks off tonight with a screening of Hearing Radmilla followed by a discussion with Radmilla Cody and filmmaker Angela Webb at the School of Law. (If you have not yet registered, there's still time! Details below.) This Symposium, which runs until Saturday night, brings together over a dozen leaders in indigenous rights. They come from Australia, New Zealand, Guam and Canada, as well as the United States. And their work reflects scholarship in law, Native Studies, history and anthropology. As an interdisciplinary Center, we are especially excited to facilitate this symposium, which brings a new level of interdisciplinary engagement to the topic of race and sovereignty. We hope you can join us. As you will see from the information below, April is filled with exciting scholarly and cultural events. Please mark your calendars for the 110th Faculty Research Lecture given by Professor Anthony Seeger, a book discussion on writing tribal histories with Professor Goldberg, and AISA's 26th Annual UCLA Pow Wow, among others. You can also find more information about these and other events on our website.
We hope to see you at these exciting events and wish you the best this spring!
Megwetch (Thank
you),
Angela
Riley
Director
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HEARING RADMILLA: A FILM BY ANGELA WEBB
UCLA
Critical Race Studies, the American Indian Studies Center, and Center for the
Study of Women present a special screening of this new documentary on the
intersections of race, indigeneity, and domestic violence. In-person:
Radmilla Cody & Angela Webb; Admission is free to the public.
View
the trailer at: www.hearingradmilla.net
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5TH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM: RACE
& SOVEREIGNTY — MARCH 31 – APRIL 2, 2011
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TODAY AT CULTURE, POWER, SOCIAL CHANGE: PROFESSOR AUDRA SIMPSON (ANTHROPOLOGY, COLUMBIA UNIVERSIRTY) Thursday, March 31st, 2011 at 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. in Haines 352 Professor Simpson will be giving a talk on "Sovereignty, Sympathy and Indigeneity". This paper is concerned with the problem of commensurating (Indigenous) sovereignty with (liberal) sympathy. How are Indigenous claims for rights and redress made understandable and/or commensurated to the understandings and claims of those who would have the power to hear them? These questions find their impetus in the fulcrum of Indigenous-state politics in Canada in the 1990s. For more information about CPSC, including the schedule of speakers, please visit the course website!
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110TH UCLA FACULTY RESEARCH LECTURE: "WHO OWNS
MUSIC AND WHY YOU SHOULD CARE"
Lecture
given by Anthony Seeger, Distinguished Professor of Ethnomusicology and
Director of The UCLA Ethnomusicology Archives
Reception immediately
following.
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TRIBAL HISTORY PANEL AND DISCUSSION
Save the Date: Monday, April 25, 2011 Join us for an interdisciplinary conversation about the challenges and opportunities associated with writing tribal histories, using two recently published books as the points of departure: The People Are Dancing Again: A History of the Siletz Tribe of Western Oregon and Defying the Odds: The Tule River Tribe's Struggle for Sovereignty in Three Centuries. Speakers include:
Sponsored by the American Indian Studies Center
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LOS ANGELES CITY COUNCIL HONORS ETHNIC STUDIES CENTERS
 UCLA's four ethnic studies centers were honored by the Los Angeles City Council Feb. 25 to mark the centers' 40th anniversary, celebrated last year. Councilwoman Jan Perry presented proclamations to representatives of (from left) the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, the Chicano Studies Research Center, the American Indian Studies Center and the Asian American Studies Center.
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DON'T MISS THESE AISA EVENTS
Vendor Application (PDF) |
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UCLA AMERICAN INDIAN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION SPRING SCHOLARSHIP SPECTACULAR
****100% OF ALL TICKET SALES WILL GO TO THE SCHOLARSHIP FUND.**** |
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36TH FEDERAL BAR ASSOCIATION ANNUAL INDIAN LAW CONFERENCE
Hilton
Buffalo Thunder
30
Buffalo Thunder Trl
Santa
Fe, NM
The
Indian Law Section of the FBA is pleased to present the 36th Annual Federal
Bar Association Indian Law Conference, held in Indian Country for the third
year at the Pueblo of Pojoaque's Buffalo Thunder Resort. Featuring a broad
array of topics and speakers, this year's Conference will address "Best
Practices and Continuing Challenges in Federal Indian Law."
Download 2011 Agenda and Brochure (PDF)
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RACE, NATION, IDENTITY: THE 1ST ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE UC CENTER FOR NEW RACIAL STUDIES  Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 4:00 – 9:00 pm and Friday, April 22, 2011 at 8:30 am to 5:15 pm at the UCLA Faculty Center
Registration deadline: April 11, 2011All conference sessions are free, but pre-registration is required. Please help us plan! Attendees who are not speaking or presenting at the conference register here. |
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SAVE THE DATES: MAY 2, 2011 AND MAY 5, 2011
"Deer Dances and Other Yaqui Ways of Knowledge" presented by Professor David Delgado Shorter, UCLA World Arts and Culture Sponsored by The UCLA American Indian Studies Center and the UCLA Latin American Institute.
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Finally, we are delighted to welcome to the Center staff our new Administrative Manager, Cathy Yu, who joins us from the School of Law. Cathy is a Southern California native and a graduate of UCLA. She earned a B.A. in Political Science, with a focus on Comparative Politics, in 2006. Prior to coming to AISC, Cathy served as the Center Coordinator at the UCLA Law Center for the Study of Mergers & Acquisitions and was part of the Faculty Support Group at the UCLA School of Law, for the past 5 years. Cathy will be our new, friendly face at the front desk, so please do stop in and say hello. Finally, we are also delighted to extend our to welcome Tracy Patton, the new interim Academic Coordinator for the Inter-departmental Program in American Indian Studies. She can be reached at 
Miss UCLA Pageant
Saturday, April 23 at 10:00pm - April 24 at 2:00am at the House of Blues- Hollywood
Monday, May 2nd, 2011 at 2:00 to 4:00 pm in Rolfe Hall 1301
May 5th, 2011