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On Solidarity: Reflect and Restore

Royce Hall room 314 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Join us for a screening of Palestinian filmmaker Mohanad Yaqubi’s film, “R21 AKA Restoring Solidarity,” followed by a panel discussion featuring UCLA Professors Saree Makdisi, Robin Kelley, and Shannon Speed. The film centers on the growing struggle for Palestinian self-determination between 1960 and 1980, which was supported by left-wing movements worldwide, including Japan. This is illustrated by a collection of 16mm films by militant filmmakers from various countries, dubbed and screened in Japan. Our discussion engages with the promise, challenges, and limits to solidarity commitments with Palestine, while touching on the seminal role solidarity has played in the shaping of...

Postponed: Inaugural Dean of Humanities’ Lecture in Critical Humanistic Inquiry: “Visualizing Mestizaje through Zapotec Remappings of the Americas”

Hershey Hall Salon and Zoom

This event has been postponed. A new date will be announced soon. Read more here. Tens of thousands of Indigenous peoples have migrated to the United States since 1994, the vast majority from Mexico and Mesoamerica. As a consequence, the U.S. Native American population increased by 86% between 2010 and 2020. Zapotec is now second only to Navajo as the most-spoken Indigenous language in the U.S., while bilingual immersion in Mixtec and English is part of NYC public school curriculum. This is challenging how we define Indigeneity in the United States, but it is also challenging how Latinx Studies will...