Ethnic Studies Colloquium

March 12, 2025, 3:00PM-4:30PM, Public Engagement Building (PEB), Room 721

Join us for an engaging panel discussion with health care practitioners exploring how an ethnic studies education fosters more inclusive healthcare, addresses systemic disparities and improves patient and community health outcomes. Don't miss this opportunity to connect with experts in the field and to learn about medical school admissions!

Panelists:

Nitya Yerabandi, Undergraduate Student in Human Biology
Dr. Tala Al-Rousan, Assistant Professor and founding faculty, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity
Dr. Maria Rosario (Happy) Araneta, Associate Dean of Diversity and Community Partnerships and Professor of Epidemiology, School of Medicine
Dr. Parag Sanghvi, Assistant Dean of Admissions and Professor of Radiation Oncology, School of Medicine

When: March 12th, 3PM-4:30PM

Where: Public Engagement Building (PEB) 721

Food will be served.

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March 5, 2025, 3:00PM-4:30PM, Public Engagement Building (PEB), Room 721

Refusing the Land/Soul Binary: Catholic Appropriation of Kateri Tekakwitha

Speaker: Dr. Elisha Chi, President's and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow from University of California, Santa Barbara.

What is up with Catholic storytelling practices around the Haudenosaunee woman, Kateri Tekakwitha? Does she exemplify successful Jesuit missionary evangelization for Indigenous souls, offering America its first "homegrown" saint? Or are there wider settler colonial politics at play? This talk focuses on the political context of Tekakwitha's stories, illuminating how her conversion narrative not only marks Catholic thirst for Indigenous lands, but scaffolds Catholic attempts for political legitimacy in the North American "new world."

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February 5, 2025, 3:00PM-4:30PM, Roosevelt College Room, Price Center

Research Talk

Featuring:

Mary Klann, Ethnic Studies Lecturer

Book Talk: Wardship and the Welfare State: Native Americans and the Formation of First-Class Citizenship in Mid-Twentieth-Century America (University of Nebraska Press, 2024)

Tricia Gallagher-Geurtsen, Ethnic Studies Lecturer

Article Talk: “How Do White Educators Need to Show Up in Ethnic Studies Spaces?: A Survey Ethnic Studies Pedagogies,” Ethnic Studies Pedagogies (forthcoming).

Discussant: Ross Frank, Ethnic Studies Faculty

January 22, 2025, 3:00PM-4:30PM, PEB 721

Community College Teaching

California community college students seeking an associate degree now need to complete a course in Ethnic Studies under a new regulation adopted by the Community Colleges Board of Governors.

Join us for a talk with UCSD Ethnic Studies alums who now teach Ethnic Studies at local community colleges to discuss approaches for teaching in the most diverse system of higher education in the country.

Panel Speakers:
América Martínez, Chicano Studies, San Diego City College
Olivia Quintanilla, Chair of Ethnic Studies, MiraCosta College
Katherine Steelman, Ethnic Studies, MiraCosta College

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November 20, 2024, 3:00PM-4:30PM, PEB 721

Please join us for “A Celebration of New Books in Ethnic Studies” featuring:

Archiving Medical Violence Consent and the Carceral State (University of Minnesota Press, 2023), by Chris Perreira, and

The Lamentations- A Requiem for Queer Suicide (Fordham University Press, 2024), by Patrick Anderson.

Chris Perreira, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, and Patrick Anderson, Professor or Ethnic Studies and Communication, will discuss their respective books in a talk moderated by Curtis Marez, Professor of Ethnic Studies.

October 23, 2024, 3:00PM-5:00PM, Climate Action Lab, Arts and Humanities Building, Room 0116

Protest Poetics: Solidarities in the Filipino and Palestinian Diaspora

Featuring: Jason Magabo Perez and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha. Moderated by Dr. Amanda Solomon Amorao

Join us for readings and conversation on solidarities with Jason Magabo Perez (San Diego Poet Laureate) and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha (National Book Award Finalist), who will read from their recent collections: I ask what falls away (Kaya Press, 2024) and Something about Living (University of Akron, 2024).

May 1, 2024, 3-4:30PM, Cross Cultural Center

A discussion with Dr. Julian Saporiti of No No Boy

April 23, 2024, 3:30PM, Social Sciences Building 269

Speaker: Eli Clare

The Invention of Defectiveness: Disposability and Education

Join white queer disabled writer and activist Eli Clare in an interactive exploration--part story, part history, and part call to action--of the harm created by the notion of defectiveness, particularly in connection to disability and race, the realities of disposability, and how we can resist that harm.

Live In-Person and Online

Zoom Meeting ID: 940 6505 4477

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