Past Years
SPRING 2023
The American Communities Program at California State University, Los Angeles promotes humanities-based inquiry into the formation of individual and communal identities in American society.
All events are in-person unless otherwise noted. Covid protocols will be followed to ensure safety.
TIME AND TEMPORALITY
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2 & THURSDAY, MARCH 2
ACP READING GROUP: RINALDO WALCOTT’S THE LONG EMANCIPATION
12 PM ● Engineering and Technology Building, A631
Join us as we continue to discuss Rinaldo Walcott’s The Long Emancipation: Moving Toward Black Freedom (Duke University Press, 2021). We will have a limited number of copies of the book available free to reading group participants, on a first-come, first served basis. Contact Dr. Ezekiel Joubert for a copy of the book at [email protected].
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21
The Garden of Forking Paths: Los Angeles Landscapes Through Time
3 PM ● Rosser Hall, ASCB 132
Join us as Dr. Barry Hibbs, Dr. Mandy Hillstrom, Dr. Alexandra Wright, and Dr. Choi Chatterjee discuss the development and uses of the urban food garden at California State University, Los Angeles from the perspectives of water resources, nutrition, polyculture, and climate change.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21
Time, Memory, and the Holocaust
6 PM ● Engineering and Technology Building, A631
Join us for a book discussion about Susan Neiman’s Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil. A limited number of free books are available. Please contact Dr. Sarah Minslow at [email protected] to request a copy.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22
Historical Timelines in Cuba and the US: José Martí’s Visions of America
5 PM ● Music Hall – Theater Arts Building 116
This event is in Spanish. Writer Néstor Díaz de Villegas will discuss his new book, José Martí: Estados Unidos en la Prosa de un Inmigrante, an examination of writings about America written in America by the Cuban iconic poet and revolutionary José Martí.
TUESDAY, MARCH 7
JEAN BURDEN POETRY READING: AN EVENING WITH CAROLYN FORCHÉ
6 PM ● Music Hall - Theater Arts Building 116
Join us as award-winning poet, professor, translator, and human rights activist Carolyn Forché reads from her work. Forché has been selected for a Guggenheim Fellow, a Los Angeles Times Book Award, and an Academy of American Poets award, among many other honors.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22
CONTESTABLE TIMES: A CONVERSATION WITH A PHYSICIST, A PHILOSOPHER AND A BUDDHIST TEACHER
2PM ● This event is virtual.
Registration link: https://calstatela.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_z8LjWXrXTyulO-JPhzh0cQ
Join us for a conversation on the nature of time from a variety of perspectives. Scheduled to appear: Dr. Julian Barbour, physicist specializing in quantum gravity and the history of science; Dr. John McCumber, Distinguished Professor and Chair of the UCLA Department of Germanic Languages; and the Venerable Thubten Chodron, Buddhist teacher, founder of Sravasti Abbey, and coauthor with His Holiness the Dalai Lama on The Library of Wisdom and Compassion book series.
SATURDAY, MARCH 25
MÁS ATRÁS DEL BIEN Y DEL MAL
1 PM ● Los Angeles Public Library, Meeting Room A, 630 W. 5th Street, Los Angeles
This event will be in Spanish. Latin-American writers Pablo Baler (Argentina) and Néstor Díaz de Villegas (Cuba) meet to present their most recent works. El lejano desoriente (Rialta) by Baler and Poemas inmorales (Pretextos) by Díaz de Villegas.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12
PERU, CHILE, AND THE PACIFIC: TOWARD COLLABORATIVE AND PARALLEL HISTORIES
1:40 PM ● Library Community Room, Library North B131
Dr. Joshua Savala (History, Rollins College) will discuss his recent book, Beyond Patriotic Phobias. Connections, Cooperation, and Solidarity in the Peruvian-Chilean Pacific World (UC Press, 2022), which narrates the stories of the many encounters, exchanges, and solidarities that defined the lives of Chileans and Peruvians working and moving across transnational waters and spaces during the War of the Pacific. Savala’s work invites us to rethink traditional historical periodization and theorize dis/continuity in humanities-based research.
TUESDAY, APRIL 18
ACP FACULTY FELLOWS: NEW RESEARCH ON TIME AND TEMPORALITY
1:40 PM ● Library Community Room, Library North B131
Join us as the 2022-23 ACP fellows discuss their current research on time and temporality. Presenters: Dr. Katie Dingeman (Sociology), Dr. Sarah Minslow (English), Dr. Oona Fontanella-Nothom (Charter College of Education).
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES PROGRAM
Fall 2022
TIME AND TEMPORALITY
The American Communities Program at California State University, Los Angeles promotes humanities-based inquiry into the formation of individual and communal identities in American society.
Faculty are invited to bring their classes. All events are Pacific Standard Time. Covid protocols will be followed to ensure safety.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7
TIME AND TEMPORALITY - FACULTY FELLOWS SYMPOSIUM
3:15 PM ● Community Room (Library North, B131)
Join us as our 2022-23 Fellows theorize Time and Temporality from multiple perspectives and outline lines of inquiry for the year. Dr. Katie Dingeman (Sociology), Dr. Oona Fontanella-Nothom (Curriculum and Instruction), Dr. Sarah Minslow (English).
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16
GET OUT THE VOTE STUDENT VIDEO CONTEST
Submission deadline: 6pm, September 16
Calling all Cal State LA Students! Create a short Get Out the Vote video to encourage voting and submit it to our contest—cash prizes awarded for top videos. Full submission information here: https://www.calstatela.edu/al/american-communities-program/get-vote-out-video-contest-0
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22
ACP READING GROUP
12 PM ● Engineering and Technology Building, A631
Join us for a discussion of Rinaldo Walcott’s The Long Emancipation: Moving Toward Black Freedom (Duke University Press, 2021). We will have a limited number of copies of the book available free to reading group participants, on a first-come, first served basis. Contact Dr. Ezekiel Joubert for a copy of the book at [email protected].
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6
DEDICATION OF PUBLIC MURAL: MIGRANTS AND MIGRANT RIGHTS
6 PM ● Community Room (Library North, B131)
Join us for the dedication of our new public mural, which focuses on migration/human rights/migrant diaspora and was created and donated by Peruvian artist Claudio Talavera Ballon. This event is presented in conjunction with the Latin American Studies Artist-in-Residence program.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 17
2022 MIDTERM ELECTIONS: WHAT DO WE NEED TO KNOW?
1:45 PM ● Community Room (Library North, B131)
Join us as LA Times reporter Julia Wick and Attorney/Political Scientist Dr. Donna Schuele analyze the Los Angeles mayoral race and the implications of the 2022 midterm elections for LA and beyond. Moderated by Professor Taylor Dark. Discussion to follow.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19
TIME AND NARRATIVE
3 pm ● Community Room (Library North, B131)
Prominent LA writers discuss the relationships between time and narrative and how our understanding and experience of time shape the stories we tell and our sense of the world. Scheduled to appear: Alex Espinoza and Diana Wagman.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 24
KURT VONNEGUT UNSTUCK IN TIME / A DAY WITH WADE
Los Angeles Room – University Student Union –
10:30 Screening of Robert Weide’s documentary
1:00pm Talk/Q&A with director Robert Weide
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9
ACP READING GROUP
12 PM ● Engineering and Technology Building, A631
Join us for the second ACP Reading Group of the semester. Text to be chosen by the group at the end of the first meeting in September.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16
TIME AND TEMPORALITY IN HOLOCAUST STUDIES
6 PM ● Community Room (Library North, B131)
Jordanna Gessler (Vice President of Education and Exhibits at the Holocaust Museum LA) and Dr. Todd Presner (Chair of UCLA’s Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies and former USC Shoah Foundation Fellow) will discuss their work on time, memory, and temporality as well as the ways we reconstruct the past and bring it into the present.
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Spring 2022
All events are Pacific Standard Time. Covid protocols will be followed to ensure safety.
RESISTANCE
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9
SUMMERTIME (Q&A WITH FILMMAKERS TO FOLLOW)
6 PM ● Music 149 (Choral Room)
Join us for the screening of this acclaimed film followed by a conversation with the filmmakers. Over the course of a hot summer day in Los Angeles, the lives of 25 young Angelenos intersect. A skating guitarist, a tagger, two wannabe rappers, an exasperated fast-food worker, a limo driver—they all weave in and out of each other’s stories. Through poetry they express life, love, heartache, family, home, and fear. Directed by Carlos Lopez Estrada, 2021, 90 minutes. This film was a hit at Sundance!
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16
RESISTANCE AND BIO-ART: THEORY AND PRACTICE
3PM Pacific Standard Time ● Virtual Event
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://calstatela.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEuceqpqD0qGNEK7_ivdiDjrcpZC2_levhA
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Join us for a conversation with five world-renowned Bio-artists as they discuss their work at the intersection of Art and Science. Scheduled to appear: Jennifer Willet, Ionat Zurr, Polona Tratnik, Dolores Steinman, and Nina Sellars. Moderated by Dr. Pablo Baler.
THURSDAY, APRIL 7
WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT AND REENTRY
TIME TBA ● ROOM TBA
Join us for a conversation on empowerment and social justice with formerly incarcerated women who are participating in a leadership program with the Los Angeles Regional Reentry Program.
THURSDAY, APRIL 14
HUMOR, SATIRE, AND SUBVERSION IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE:
A TALK BY DR. BRUCE GRANT
6 PM ● LIBRARY CONFERENCE ROOM, B 131
Dr. Bruce Grant, an anthropologist at New York University, explores satire and democracy in 20th-century magazines produced throughout the Russian Empire.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES PROGRAM
FACULTY FELLOWS SYMPOSIUM
6 PM ● LIBRARY CONFERENCE ROOM, B 131
Join us as John Kennedy (Music), Birte Pfleger (History), and Sara Pugach (History) share their recent research on the theme of Resistance.
THURSDAY, MAY 5
IN THE ARCHIVE: WORKING WITH THE PAPERS OF MERVYN M. DYMALLY
6pm ● Librry Innovation Hub
Join us for a conversation with students and archivists as we explore the ethics and logistics of archival work and their specific experiences working with the papers of influential California politician Mervyn M. Dymally, one of the first African Americans elected to statewide office since Reconstruction. Reception to follow.
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Presented by the American Communities Program and co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Letters; English; History; JFK Library; Statement Magazine; TV and Film; Dr. Joseph A. Bailey, II, M.D.
For more information, or to request accommodations for a disability, please contact Dr. Maria Karafilis, American Communities Program, at [email protected], or find us online at www.calstatela.edu/academic/al/acp/.
Nominal parking fee for off-campus guests.
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Co-sponsors include the College of Arts and Letters; Pat Brown Institute; Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities; the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and the Cal State LA John F. Kennedy Library.
Presented by the American Communities Program, and co-sponsored by Cross Cultural Centers; College of Arts & Letters; Dr. Joseph A. Bailey, II, M.D.; University-Student Union; and student fees.
For more information, or to request accommodations for a disability, please contact Maria Karafilis, Director, American Communities Program, at [email protected].
Fall 2021 Calendar
all events are virtual & open to the public
Faculty are invited to bring their classes to and all events.
Please let Maria Karafilis, ACP Director, know if you plan to do so to ensure space on the zoom links ([email protected])
Monday, September 13/12:15pm
American Communities Program Fellows Symposium
Zoom Meeting ID: 858 6921 0715
Please join us as the 2021-22 ACP fellows discuss humanities-based modes of inquiry and ways of theorizing our theme, RESISTANCE. The fellows are John Kennedy (Music), Birte Pfleger (History), and Sara Pugach (History).
Monday, September 27/2pm (we will focus on the Introduction and Ch. 2)
Wednesday, October 6/6pm (we will focus on Chapters 3 and 5)
ACP Reading Group—Dr. Sianne Ngai’s The Theory of the Gimmick
(free copies of the book available—see below)
Reading Group Zoom Meeting ID: 851 9717 4896
All are welcome to the ACP reading group. We will meet twice during Fall semester to discuss Sianne Ngai’s latest book, The Theory of the Gimmick. Dr. Ngai will be giving a virtual talk on campus on October 4th at 6pm, so let’s read her work together. Contact Dr. Juan Lamata ([email protected]) as there is a limited number of free copies of her book that we can distribute to attendees on a first ask, first served basis. Note that Zoom ID above is for reading group only and the October 4th talk requires webinar registration at link listed below.
Monday, October 4/4:30pm
Resistance, Immunity, and the Uses of the Humanities:
A Virtual Conversation with Essayist and Critic Eula Biss
Webinar Link: https://calstatela.zoom.us/j/83956288072
Zoom Meeting ID: 839 5628 8072
Please join us for an interactive discussion with essayist and critic Eula Biss, whose book On Immunity: An Inoculation (Graywolf 2014) is a wide-ranging investigation of the myths and metaphors surrounding vaccination that explores questions raised by parenting, privilege, feminism, environmentalism, science fiction, and political power. On Immunity was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism. Her most recent book, Having and Being Had (Penguin 2020), explores the value system behind property ownership and the terms we use to understand, or misunderstand, our relationship to money and class.
Monday, October 4/6pm
The Gimmick as Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form: A Virtual Talk
by Sianne Ngai
Webinar Registration Link: https://bit.ly/kubal2021
Dr. Ngai’s (University of Chicago) recent work analyzes the “gimmick” as a form that, both repulsive and yet strangely attractive, can be found virtually everywhere in capitalism. Above all, she argues, gimmicks provoke questions about value bound to labor and time—misgivings that indicate broader anxieties about the measurement of wealth in capitalism. The theory of the gimmick represents a crucial contribution to aesthetic theory from a thinker lauded by The Chronicle of Higher Education as the “most influential literary theorist of her generation.” Dr. Ngai’s talk is the 2021 David L. Kubal Memorial Lecture sponsored by the Cal State LA Department of English.
Wednesday, October 13/12:15pm
Afghanistan and Theatres of War
Webinar Link: https://calstatela.zoom.us/j/81684011585
Zoom Meeting ID: 816 8401 1585
Historically, theatre has played a crucial part in processing the trauma of war, which applies with immediate relevance to Afghanistan today. Five esteemed contributors to a landmark new book titled Theatres of War (Bloomsbury, 2021) provide contemporary perspectives on how theatre can help us understand the past and present situation in Afghanistan. These interdisciplinary experts will address topics including cultural diplomacy, the role of Islam, self-rule, women’s rights, soldiers and families, and how and why literature can play critically important social and political roles.
Tuesday, November 16/6pm
New Research on the History of Cal State LA:
A Virtual Exhibit Launch
LINK FORTHCOMING
What do you know about the history of your own university? Discover the controversies, visions, and transformations that have shaped today's Cal State LA. Join us for an interactive launch of an online exhibit featuring research by History Department students, in cooperation with the University Library's Archive and Special Collections.
Spring 2021 Calendar
all events are virtual & open to the public
Please contact Maria Karafilis, Director of the American Communities Program, at [email protected] for meeting details and zoom links.
Monday, March 8/1:40pm
2020 Election: What Now?
Join us for an interactive roundtable with journalists and scholars as we discuss the election, the run-offs, and the first few months of the Biden administration. Scheduled to appear: Seema Mehta (Political Writer, Los Angeles Times), Dr. Raphe Sonenshein (Director, Pat Brown Institute), and Dr. Aldo Yanez-Ruiz (Department of Political Science, Cal State LA).
Tuesday, March 9/12:15pm
Rememory: A Celebration of Toni Morrison
Join us for an interactive program as we watch and discuss clips of the documentary Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am. We also invite participants to bring and share their favorite Morrison passages at the event.
The film in its entirety is available for the Cal State LA campus community at Cal State LA Movies on Demand (BROWSE HERE). For the site to upload, your Cal State LA VPN must be turned on.
The film may also be viewed on Amazon and Hulu.
Wednesday, March 17/12:15pm
The Racialization of Contagion
Join us for a dialogue with scholars Dr. Adia Benton (Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University) and Dr. Nayan Shah (Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California) as we discuss current and historical patterns of racializing disease and infection.
Monday, April 12/1:40pm
2020-21 ACP Faculty Symposium
ACP Faculty Fellows Dr. Louis Esparza (Sociology), Dr. Ezekiel Joubert III (Charter College of Education), and Professor Sylke Rene Meyer (TV, Film, and Media) will discuss their current research on our theme of “Resistance.”
Thursday, April 22/3:15pm
ACP Reading Group
All are welcome to the ACP reading group. At our spring meeting we will discuss Tiffany Lethabo King’s The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies.
Tuesday, May 4/5pm
Pandemic Diaries Launch
Join us as we talk with contributors to and curators of the Pandemic Diaries, an online archive of multimedia, first-hand stories about how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected people in our communities.
“Like” the American Communities Program on Facebook for the latest information on our programming, pop-up events, and LA happenings relevant to our mission.
Co-sponsors include the College of Arts and Letters; Pat Brown Institute; Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities; the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and the Cal State LA John F. Kennedy Library.
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FALL 2020 CALENDAR OF EVENTS
THEME: RESISTANCE
All events to be held remotely. As online gathering platforms are being set-up please contact
Maria Karafilis, Director, American Communities Program, at [email protected] if you
have any inquiries about event details.
NOW THROUGH - September 10, 2020 | 6 pm
CALLING ALL CAL STATE LA STUDENTS—CREATE A VIDEO TO GET THE VOTE OUT
PRIZES*: FIRST PLACE--$250
SECOND PLACE--$150
THIRD PLACE--$100
VIDEOS MUST BE SUBMITTED BY 6 PM THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
CLICK HERE TO READ THE SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND DIRECTIONS.
Wednesday, September 9, 2020 | 6 pm
ACP 2019-20 Fellows Symposium
Join us as the 2019-2020 ACP Fellows (Pablo Baler/Modern Languages and Literatures, Gabriela Fried-Amilivia/Sociology, and Angela Vergara/History) discuss their current research on the theme of in/visibilities.
Thursday, September 17, 2020 | 6 pm
ACP 2020-21 Fellows Symposium
Join us as the current ACP Fellows discuss our theme, Resistance, and examine critical methodologies for examining and enacting resistance.
Tuesday, October 6, 2020 | 1:40 pm
The 2020 Election: What We Need to Know
Join us for an interactive roundtable as renowned scholars Rachel Bitecofer (Niskanen Institute), Efren Perez (UCLA) and Chris Endy (Cal State LA) discuss the latest developments and predictions for the 2020 Election.
Wednesday, October 7 | 12:15 pm
Film Screening: Suppressed
Join us for a watch party of Suppressed, an award-winning documentary about voter suppression in Georgia during the 2018 election.
Discussion to follow.
In/Visibilities
February 13
12:15pm/U-SU Theater, First floor U-SU
The California Primary: What’s at Stake?
Join us as scholars and journalists discuss the California primary and its significance for the 2020 election.
February 18
6:30pm (reception begins at 5:30)/Golden Eagle Ballroom
The Annual Jean Burden Poetry Reading: An Evening with Marilyn Chin
Join us for a reading and discussion with award-winning translator, educator, and writer Marilyn Chin, whose work is known for being formally and thematically daring as it explores issues of identity, immigration, and place. Co-sponsored with the Center for Contemporary Poetry and Poetics.
March 2
4:30pm/Los Angeles Room, U-SU Third Floor
Vaporized: The Dematerialization of the World
Join us for a talk by Robert Tercek, renowned futurist and digital media/interactive content expert, as he explores our theme of in/visibilities through the workings and implications of a mobile economy and the narratives and ethics surrounding it.
March 6-April 17
JFK Library, Cal State LA, First Floor
Words UnCaged Exhibit
Check out our interactive exhibit featuring work from formerly incarcerated Cal State LA students to learn more about mass incarceration and the human beings affected by it.
April 22
6-7:30pm/Golden Eagle Ballrooms
An Evening with Angela Davis
Join us for a talk by activist, scholar, and educator Angela Davis. Presented by the Vice President for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion; the Ann Garry & Sharon L. Bishop Feminist Philosophy Endowed Lecture Series; and the Program in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Co-sponsored by the American Communities Program, et.al.
March 10
National Humanities Advocacy Day
Join us for a constellation of activities throughout the day celebrating and advancing the humanities in our communities.
Reading of Karen McDermott’s prize-winning screenplay, “Lullabies of La Jaula”
12:15pm/Cal State LA State Playhouse
Screening of documentary “Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am”
6pm/U-SU Theater
April 15
12:15pm/Alhambra Room, U-SU
ACP Fellows Symposium
The ACP 2019-20 fellows (Pablo Baler, Gabriela Fried-Amilivia, and Angela Vergara) will discuss their current research.
April 15
6pm/Los Angeles Room, U-SU
Alternative Histories of Peace and Pluralism: A Talk by Dr. Bruce Grant, New York University
Since 9/11, and fueled by incidents of intolerance in certain Muslim majority countries, there has been a growing perception in the United States that Islam is a religion antithetical to reason, satire, and humor. Professor Bruce Grant offers us another vision of a pluralistic, tolerant, and vibrant public sphere in his study of Muslim satirical magazines and discussion of the implications of satire as an effective weapon of social change and public policy.
We also will have additional pop-up events during the semester, so like us on Facebook to get all of the latest updates!
Co-sponsors include the Cross-Cultural Centers, College of Arts and Letters, Department of History, Pat Brown Institute, Department of Theater Arts and Dance, Department of Political Science, Department of Philosophy, Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities, and Center for Contemporary Poetry and Poetics.
Fall 2019 Calendar of Events
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES PROGRAM: FELLOWS SYMPOSIUM
Please join us as the 2019-20 ACP fellows discuss humanities-based modes of inquiry and ways of theorizing our theme, in/visibilities. The fellows are Pablo Baler (Department of Modern Languages and Literatures), Gabriela Fried-Amilivia (Department of Sociology), and Angela Vergara (Department of History).
12:15 pm ● Alhambra Room
3rd Floor ● University-Student Union
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
QUEER DISAPPEARANCE: A MULTIMEDIA DIALOGUE
Presented in collaboration with the Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities.
6 PM ● U-SU Theatre
1st Floor ● University-Student Union
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19
A BODY IN THE O by Tim Miller: A PERFORMANCE
Join us as we welcome internationally-acclaimed queer performer Tim Miller as Miller performs excerpts from A Body In The O, demonstrating how performance can change our lives and challenge the world to create a better future.
6 PM ● State Playhouse
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16
RACE, GENDER, POWER ALONG THE U.S. - MEXICO BORDER
Join us as we discuss the politics of race, gender, and power along the U.S. - Mexico border.
6 PM ● U-SU Theatre
1st Floor ● University-Student Union
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5
CSGS/ACP: KEN GONZALES-DAY: BONE GRASS BOY
Renowned LA-based Chicano artist Ken Gonzales-Day will present on his multimedia artwork, titled Bone Grass Boy. Part creative fiction, part creative biography, and part photography, Gonzales-Day will speak to what it's like to look for your queer, chicano, and indigenous family history in the archive and to not find it - so you have nothing left to do but invent it on your own.
4:30 PM ● U-SU Theatre
1st floor ● University-Student Union
Presented by the American Communities Program, and co-sponsored by Cross Cultural Centers; Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities; College of Arts and Letters; Dr. Joseph A. Bailey, II, M.D.; University-Student Union; and student fees.
For more information, or to request accommodations for a disability, please contact Dr. Maria Karafilis, American Communities Program, at [email protected].
Nominal parking fee for off-campus guests.
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES PROGRAM
Spring 2019
The American Communities Program at California State University, Los Angeles promotes humanities-based inquiry into the formation of individual and communal identities in American society.
THE HUMANITIES AND AMERICAN CULTURES
ACP & WORDS UNCAGED
Be on the lookout for pop-up events on and around campus addressing the issue of mass incarceration. Follow the American Communities Program Facebook page or @wordsuncaged on Instagram and Twitter to find out when and where these events will be happening!
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11
EAST LA INTERCHANGE (Q&A with filmmaker Betsy Kalin)
6 PM ● U-SU Theatre
1st Floor ● University-Student Union
East LA Interchange explores the story of working-class Boyle Heights, the oldest neighborhood in East Los Angeles, and depicts the impact of freeways, gentrification and "gentefication," and environmental hazards on long-time residents. Directed by Betsy Kalin, 2016, 57 minutes.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12
JEAN BURDEN POETRY READING: KWAME DAWES, CHANCELLOR OF THE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS AND ROYAL SOCIETY FELLOW
6 PM – 8 PM ● Golden Eagle Ballroom
3rd Floor ● Golden Eagle Building
Join us for this annual poetry event presented by the Center for Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, College of Arts and Letters, Cross Cultural Centers, ACP, and the Department of English.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27
PHOTOGRAPHY IN ARGENTINA: A NATIONAL PASSION
A TALK BY DR. DAVID WILLIAM FOSTER
3 PM ● LIBRARY CONFERENCE ROOM, B 131
In contemporary Argentina, photography profoundly intervenes in and informs politics and sociocultural phenomena. Foster’s presentation focuses on the photography of redemocratization (1983 – 2000) and the nexus of photography/politics in the 21st century.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27
COLD WAR MEAT: THE POLITICS OF PROTEIN BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN
A TALK BY DR. MARY NEUBURGER
6 PM ● LOS ANGELES ROOM BC
3rd Floor ● University-Student Union
Dr. Mary Neuburger, a historian at the University of Texas at Austin, explores the ways in which a newfound cult of meat, based on US forms of production, became central to postwar Eastern Europe’s alternative food system.
MONDAY, MARCH 4
2018 ELECTIONS: NOW WHAT?
4:30 PM ● Los Angeles Room C
3rd Floor ● University-Student Union
Join us for our third and final interactive roundtable on the 2018 election as we debrief and examine the implications of the election results.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES PROGRAM
FACULTY FELLOWS SYMPOSIUM
1:40 PM ● LOS ANGELES ROOM A
3rd Floor ● University-Student Union
Join us as Drs. Shweta Adur, Libby Lewis, and Kimberly Robertson share their current research projects.
Presented by the American Communities Program, and co-sponsored by Cross Cultural Centers; College of Arts and Letters; Center for Contemporary Poetry and Poetics; English; History; Latin American Studies; TV and Film; Dr. Joseph A. Bailey, II, M.D.; University-Student Union; and student fees.
For more information, or to request accommodations for a disability, please contact Dr. Maria Karafilis, American Communities Program, at [email protected], or find us online at www.calstatela.edu/academic/al/acp/.
Nominal parking fee for off-campus guests.
AMERICAN COMMUNITIES PROGRAM
Fall 2018