You are invited to the UCLA Institute of American Cultures (IAC) annual Fall Forum, featuring the 2022–23 IAC visiting researchers and scholars, graduate and predoctoral fellows, and research grant awardees at UCLA’s four ethnic studies centers. Featured speakers will be interviewed by faculty experts, followed by a live Q&A.
- “Unsettling Domesticity: Native Women and the SF Bay Area Outing Program” by Caitlin Keliiaa, Assistant Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz. Interviewer: Juliann Anesi, Assistant Professor of Gender Studies.
- “Getting Away with and Getting Rid of Yellowface: Contemporary Musical Theatre and Asian Americans” by Donatella Galella, Associate Professor of Theatre, Film, and Digital Production at UC Riverside. Interviewer: Sean Metzger, Professor and Head of PhD program in Theater and Performance Studies.
- “Peeling Apart Impressions: Investigating the Factors that Influence HBCU and PWI Perceptions” by Kiana Foxx, PhD Candidate, Higher Education and Organizational Change. Interviewer: Walter R. Allen, Allan Murray Cartter Chair in Higher Education, Distinguished Professor of Education, Sociology and African American Studies.
- “Indigenous Blackness in the Américas: The Queer Politics of Self-Making Garifuna New York” by Paul Joseph López Oro, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, Smith College. Interviewer: Maylei Blackwell, Professor of Chicana/o and Central American Studies.
IAC Fall Forum 2022 registration link: https://bit.ly/3SpRiu1
