Past and Upcoming Initiative-Funded Events
Monday, March 11, 11am-1pm, Anatol Center
With Dr. Julia Ojeda Caba, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Sponsored by CLA’s Thematic Initiative on Transnational Feminist Solidarities, the Department of Linguistics and the Department of Romance, German, Russian Languages and Literatures
March 14, 11am-12:30pm, USU 205
In this Conversation and hands-on beading workshop, Tongva artist Mercedes Dorame will discuss her artistic practice while Dr. Kimberly Robertson facilitates and beading activity that centers Dorame’s call to consider “how we interact as a communal collection of souls within new sites of meaning and re-imagining new futures rooted in the landscape of Tovaangar.”
Dorame and Robertson will consider the Native feminist practice of radical relationality to both lands and First peoples as a way of reclaiming kinship structures and relationships that were targeted for destruction under settler colonialism and cisheteropatriarchy.
Sponsored by American Indian Studies, American Indian Student Council, and the Transnational Feminist Solidarities Collective.
Tuesday, March 26, 2:45pm-4:15pm, Zoom
A virtual talk with Dr. Jina B. Kim, Smith College
Sponsored by the CLA Thematic Initiative on Transnational Feminist Solidarities and Comparative World Literature Program. Contact: crystal.lie@csulb.edu
Wednesday, 4/24: 2-3:30pm, Book Talk “The Opportunity Trap”
Dr. Pallavi Banerjee will present on her award-winning book, “The Opportunity Trap: High-Skilled Workers, Indian Families, and the Failure of the Dependent Visa Program”. This event will take place in Library 507 (LIB 507; UHP) and will also be streamed via Zoom (follow this link to register). Please share this flyer with your department and students and encourage them to attend. Her talk is co-sponsored by SIG and CLA Thematic Initiative on Transnational Feminist Solidarities, and by HDEV, IST, SOC, WGSS, and South Asian Studies Program.
Thursday, April 11, 11am-12:30pm, Anatol Center
Myriam Gurba is a writer and artist. She is author of the true crime memoir Mean, a New York Times Editors’ Choice. O, The Opra Magazine, ranked Mean as one of the best LGBTQ books of all time. Publishers Weekly describes Gurba as having a voice like no other. Her essays and criticism have appeared in The Paris Review, Time, and 4Columns. She has shown art in galleries, museums, and community centers. She lives in Pasadena, California.
Organized by the Helena Maria Viramontes Lecture Committee; Co-sponsored by the Transnational Feminist Solidarities Collective and the CLA Thematic Initiative, the CLA Scholarly Intersections, the Department of Chicano and Latino Studies, the Department of English, and the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Tuesday, April 23, 4pm-7pm, Anatol Center
With Assistant Professor Felicia Montes (Dept. Of Chicano Latino Studies)
Platica | Poetry | Performance with Mujeres De Maiz Writers Artists and Academics
Join us in celebrating our 27th Anniversary and the release of our anthology documenting the deep decades-long herstory of Mujeres de Maiz.
Sponsored by Chicano Latino Studies, CLA, and Transnational Feminist Solidarities Initiaitive
Thursday, May 9, 5pm, Anatol Center
Join us for a Conversation with Dr. Elena Shih and an activist with Red Canary Song through the book, Manufacturing Freedom, and the film Flying in Power.
Location: Anatol Center 119.
Co-sponsored by American Studies, Asian and Asian American Studies, Chicano/Latino Studies, Sociology, and the CLA Transnational Feminist Solidarities Initiative
