UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library
Victory is in the Struggle: The Scholar-Activism of Carlos Munoz Jr. Save the Date: Sept. 24th, 6pm-8pm, UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library Carlos Munoz Jr. ended his book on the Chicano Movement, Youth, Identity, and Power, with a reminder, “The most important lesson I have learned in the forty years that I have been marching for freedom and peace...
820 Social Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA
Juana María Rodríguez
Join us on Sept. 16 for an Authors Meet Critics panel on the book “Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex,” by Juana María Rodríguez, Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. Professor Rodriguez will be joined in conversation by Clarissa Rojas, Assistant Professor of Chicana/o Studies at UC Davis, and Milena Britto, Associate...
Barbara Christian Conference Room (554 Social Sciences Building)
Mimi Thi Nguyen
“The Promise of Beauty” A Public Lecture by Mimi Thi Nguyen In this talk, I argue that beauty is a fruitful concept through which we engage narratives of crisis. Such narratives name an ongoing condition or an irruptive event through which the discrepancy between the world and what ought to be so often unfolds through citing beauty –whether found in children, coral...