Events
Chicano Latino Research Center
Applying for Grants and Fellowships: A Roundtable for Faculty and Graduate Students in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Charles E. Merrill LoungeLearn from the experts! Faculty and graduate students who have recently won grants and fellowships discuss the application process and share their tips for a successful application. This roundtable discussion takes place Wednesday, October 22, 2014, 4:00-6:00pm, in the Charles E. Merrill Lounge. Reservations are recommended, but not necessary. Featured Speakers: Sylvanna Falcón, Assistant Professor, […]
Carmen Boullosa: “Texas: The Great Theft”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCarmen Boullosa is one of Mexico’s leading novelists, poets, and playwrights, whose works interweave speculative, historical, and psychological themes with a powerful feminist point of view and a sharp satirical wit. She has published fifteen novels, among them El complot de los románticos (winner of the Premio de Novela Café Gijón in 2008), Las paredes […]
Gloria E. Chacón
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSponsored by the Chicano Latino Research Center’s Latino Literary Cultures Research Cluster Event 1: Workshop: 10 am-11:30 am in Humanities 1, Room 210 “Political Movements from the South and Chicano Texts” A conversation on indigenismo, Chicana/o theories of mestizaje, and their relationship to Central American and Zapatista political movements. All are welcome. Participants are encouraged […]
María en tierra de nadie: Screening & Q&A with Marcela Zamora
Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us for a free, public film screening to kickoff Borders and Belonging: A Series of Events on Human Migration To foster a conversation about migration, LALS and the CLRC are jointly hosting a special screening of Marcela Zamora's María en tierra de nadie (María in No Man’s Land), 2010. This is the story of […]
The Jungle and the Beast: A Conversation with Lewis Watts and Óscar Martínez
Cultural Center at Merrill Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Jungle and the Beast: A Conversation with Lewis Watts and Óscar Martínez is the second event in the Borders and Belonging Series hosted by the CLRC. In The Beast (Los migrantes que no importan, in the original Spanish), intrepid Salvadoran journalist Óscar Martínez accompanies migrants on "the Beast," the train that travels from Central […]