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MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR

Dear Friends of the American Indian Studies Center,

Spring is almost upon us, and we hope you are feeling the impending rejuvenation of the season.  Here at the Center, we have been busy planning an event-filled March.  As detailed below, we have several incredible opportunities to engage on issues surrounding American Indian Studies scheduled throughout the month, including Professor Duane Champagne's discussion of his latest book, Notes from the Center of Turtle Island, on Monday, March 7 and an all-star lineup for the Race and Sovereignty Symposium taking place at the School of Law March 29 - April 2, with several others in between.  We do hope you will come out and join us!

Though we, like others, continue to face uncertainties surrounding the budget, the Center is working diligently to do the most with what we have and to secure extramural funding to maintain UCLA's status as a premier institution for American Indian Studies.  We thank you for your support, and look forward to seeing you soon.

Megwetch (Thank you),
Angela R. Riley
Director

(www.aisc.ucla.edu)

 

NEW MAJORITIES, SHIFTING PRIORITIES

 

newmajoritiesshiftingpriorities.jpg Friday, March 4th, 2011 at 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, at Royce 314.

 

A One-Day Conference on Difference and Demographics in the 21st Century Academy.  The Center's Director Angela Riley will be speaking in Roundtable #2 at 2:30 to 4 pm.

For more information, visit UCLA Center for the Study of Women

 

 

 

 

 

 

UCLA LIBRARY WRITER SERIES: PROFESSOR DUANE CHAMPAGNE

 

http://www.aisc.ucla.edu/events/images/champagneflyersm.jpg Monday, March 7, 2011 at 12 Noon in the YRL, Presentation Room

 

Champagne's talk on his book, Notes from the Center of Turtle Island, will be followed by commentary from Peter Nabokov, professor in the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures, and David Treuer, a Native American writer and professor in the USC Department of English and Creative Writing; a Q&A session; and a book signing. This event is free and open to the public.

 

 

 

 

"ETHNIC STUDIES NOW! AT UCLA AND BEYOND"

 

Monday, March 7, 2011 at 2:30 pm in UCLA Ackerman Grand Ballroom

 

A symposium on the state of Ethnic Studies Now! at UCLA and Beyond will be held on Monday, March 7, 2011. This event seeks to make links between national and local actions that have targeted Ethnic Studies including: HB 2281/Anti-Ethnic Studies legislation in Arizona, the impending termination of Asian American Studies Department at Cal State LA, and the suspension of American Studies and the dismantling of Community Studies Department at UCSC.

 

For more information, visit our Calendar of Events.

 

 

 

 

"BLOOD TALK: PEOPLE AND PEOPLES IN BORDERLAND NEW MEXICO"

 

bloodtalk_small.jpg Tuesday, March 8th, 2011 at 12 to 2 pm, in the History Conference Room, Bunche 6275

 

Talk by Associate Professor of History at UC Berkeley Brian DeLay, with an introduction by Professor Kevin Terraciano. Refreshments will be served.

 

HEARING RADMILLA: A FILM BY ANGELA WEBB

 

hearingradmillaflyer_small.jpg Thursday, March 31st, 2011 at 7:00 pm at Law Building, Room 1347.

 

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

SAVE THE DATES

YOUTH CONFERENCE: Mar 18 – 20, 2011

POWWOW: April 23 – 24, 2011

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5TH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM: RACE & SOVEREIGNTY – MARCH 31 – APRIL 2, 2011

 

picture.jpg The 5th Annual CRS Symposium will explore the relationship between race and sovereignty. Sovereignty, like race, has been invoked, understood, and deployed in contradictory ways. Historically, sovereignty has been an important vehicle through which hegemonic power has been enforced, for example, by articulating citizenship as a racial project rooted in the power to exclude.

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS

Student Volunteer Committees: Food Committee, Funding Committee, Plenary Speakers Liaison Committee, Logistics Committee, and Substantive Development Committee.

For more information about each committee and who to contact:

         Download Call for Volunteers (PDF)

   

36TH FEDERAL BAR ASSOCIATION ANNUAL INDIAN LAW CONFERENCE

 

fba.jpg Thursday – Friday, April 7-8, 2011

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)

         Click Here to Register Now

 


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