UCLA Asian American Studies Department

Indigenous Self-Determination in Defense of the Earth
2019-03-20 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | UCLA Law School Room 1357, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Indigenous Self-Determination in Defense of the Earth/Autodeterminación Indígena en Defensa de la Tierra
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
12:10 – 1:30 pm
UCLA Law School, Room 1357
RSVP here: https://goo.gl/forms/coKw0JX6BtOxD0Kj2
Join us for an illuminating conversation on Indigenous environmental activism in Central America and Los Angeles. Our panelists include Rigoberto Quemé Chay, a Maya-Kiché leader from Guatemala, Angela Mooney D’Arcy from the Sacred Places Institute, and UCLA Law Professor Joseph Berra. Panelists will discuss Indigenous worldview regarding the environment, the threat of extractive industries such as mining to Indigenous communities, and the significance of Indigenous resistance in terms of self-governance. We hope you can join us for this exciting and informative event!
This event is co-sponsored by The UCLA American Indian Studies Center.

Asian American Studies Graduate Student Symposium
2019-03-18 14:00 - 17:00 | 2125 Rolfe Hall, Los Angeles, CA, United States
The Asian American Studies Graduate Student Association (AASGSA) invites you to the Asian American Studies Graduate Student Symposium on Monday, March 18

Please join us for an afternoon workshop of graduate student research (specifically papers to be presented at the 2019 Association of Asian American Studies Conference). The AAS Graduate Student Symposium is an opportunity for students not only to share our research but to practice presenting and receiving feedback on our work among professional colleagues, faculty, staff, and community members. As emerging scholars, we value and welcome your attendance, participation, and insight!

Light refreshments will be provided for this event. Please RSVP via the EventBrite by Tuesday, March 15th.

Kappa Psi Epsilon Presents : Pinay Symposium - Pinay State of Mind
2019-03-08 18:00 - 20:00 | Dodd Hall 78, Los Angeles, CA, United States
The sisters of Kappa Psi Epsilon Sorority Inc. at UCLA Delta Chapter would like to welcome you to our annual Pinay Symposium, “Pinay State of Mind”!
This year’s Pinay Symposium focuses on the intersectionality of mental health on the experiences of Pinays and in the context of our community and personal identity as Asian Americans. By discussing, understanding, and identifying how cultural beliefs and longheld stigmas on mental health play a part in our own mental health struggles, we can begin to find ways to further heal ourselves and our community. “Pinay State of Mind” aims to open honest discussions about mental health within the Asian American community through an inspiring and empowering panel of womxn guest speakers and by providing a safe space to share our struggles.
Join us to engage in activities and dialogue regarding mental health issues in the context of the Asian American community and hear from a panel of strong womxn. Everyone is welcome – you don’t have to be Pinay to support!
We look forward to seeing you there!
WHEN: Week 9 Friday, March 8 @ 6-8 pm
WHERE: Dodd Hall 78
Snacks will be provided! (if you have any allergies/dietary restrictions, please contact Arielle)
For questions, comments, or more information, feel free to contact:
Arielle Shaye Mendoza
(805) 509-7547
amendoza.kpsiedelta@gmail.com

Raising Awareness Through the Arts: Sulong Theatre Collective and Migrant Filipina Workers in Canada
2019-03-07 16:30 - 18:00 | Kinsey Pavillion 1240B, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Raising Awareness Through the Arts: Sulong Theatre Collective and Migrant Filipina Workers in Canada
Speaker: Professor Eleanor Ty, Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Chair at UC Santa Barbara, Professor of English & Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario

Thursday, March 7, 2019
4:45-5:50pm
Kinsey Pavillion 1240B

RSVP required: jjchun@asianam.ucla.edu

Abstract
Launched by playwright and novelist Catherine Hernandez, Sulong Theatre Collective produced a play called Future Folk for the Carlos Bulosan Theatre in Toronto for its 2009/10 season. The performance uses indigenous Filipino music, dance, interviews with live-in caregivers, humor, poetry, and melodrama to depict the difficulties experienced by migrant domestic workers from the Philippines in Canada. Its aim was to entertain, but also, more importantly, to make people aware of the economic, social, familial and emotional costs to the Filipinas who participate in what Rhacel Parreñas calls the “global exportation of care” (Force of Domesticity 50). This lecture looks at the affective power of art to engage with and raise awareness of the complexity of transnational mothering performed by Filipina domestic workers in Canada through the Live-in Caregivers Program.

Speaker bio
Eleanor Ty is Professor of English & Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario. She is the Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Chair 2018-2019 at the University of California Santa Barbara where she is teaching a course on Asian American Graphic Novels. She has published books on cultural memory, Asian North American, and on 18th Century literature. Her most recent book, Asianfail: Narratives of Disenchantment and the Model Minority (U of Illinois P, 2017) won the APALA (Asian Pacific American Librarians Association) Adult Non-Fiction award for 2017.

Organized for AASD M119, Asian American and Pacific Islander Labor Issues
Sponsors: Asian American Studies Department, Asian American Studies Center

Asian American Studies Center: Wikithon Event
2019-03-04 11:00 - 13:30 | Campbell Hall 3232, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Come celebrate and document Asian American and Pacific Islander history together! The Asian American Studies Center will be hosting a Wiki-edit-thon event for students to edit or create a Wikipedia page that is related to AAPI history. It is an open event, so everyone is welcome to attend. All you need to do is bring in your own laptops and we will provide you with free refreshments (Hawaiian food!). We hope to see you all there.

Date: Monday, March 4
Time: 11:00am to 1:30pm
Location: Campbell Hall 3232

Skidrow Food Drive Initiative
2019-03-01 00:00 - 2019-03-02 00:00 | CA
Wheat a second! Yes, I said wheat for all the sandwiches that FDI makes but wheat a second for real the FDI’s 2nd Skidrow event is next week!
Yes we are back! Join the FDI (pun intended) on March 1st & 2nd! Ya that’s right, it is a two day event and you have so many options on how you can contribute:

A) Attend March 1st – help with sandwich preparations
B) Attend March 2nd – help with food distributions in Skidrow
C) Attend both days
D) Venmo a donation to @FoodDriveInitiative
E) All of the above

Deadline to sign up is Wednesday, February 27th at midnight
Please fill out the google form: https://goo.gl/forms/bRnLfeEzXYgm44Tv2
For more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2583084111917946/?__mref=mb

Etiquette Dinner for Grad Students & Postdocs
2019-02-28 18:00 - 20:00 | UCLA Faculty Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Asian American Studies Alumni Career Panel
2019-02-25 18:30 - 21:00 | James West Alumni Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Dean Saranillio Book Talk
2019-02-22 12:00 - 14:00 | Bunche Hall 10383, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Bio: Dean Itsuji Saranillio is an assistant professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. His teaching and research interests are in settler colonialism, alternative futures from the settler state, Asian American and Pacific Island histories, and Native Pacific cultural studies. He has published in numerous journals and anthologies and his first book, Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai‘i Statehood (Duke University Press, 2008), thinks through the possibilities that might emerge when non-Native peoples work in place-based affinity with Native movements.

Talk description: Dean Saranillio shows that Hawai’i’s admission as a U.S. state was neither the expansion of U.S. democracy nor a strong nation swallowing a weak and feeble island nation, but the result of a U.S. nation whose economy was unsustainable without enacting a more aggressive policy of imperialism. This talk provides a more complicated understanding of Hawai‘i’s admission as the fiftieth state and why Native Hawaiian place-based alternatives to U.S. empire are urgently needed.

We will also be hosting a graduate student talk at the Asian American Studies Center conference room from 3-5 pm.

Global Borderlands
2019-02-13 16:00 - 17:30 | 10383 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Global Borderlands
Speaker: Victoria Reyes, Assistant Professor of Sociology at UC Riverside.
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
https://international.ucla.edu/cseas/event/13621
Description: The U.S. military continues to be an overt presence in the Philippines, and a reminder of the country’s colonial past. Using Subic Bay (a former U.S. military base, now a Freeport Zone) as a case study, Victoria Reyes argues that its defining feature is its ability to elicit multiple meanings. For some, it is a symbol of imperialism and inequality, while for others, it projects utopian visions of wealth and status.
Drawing on archival and ethnographic data, Reyes describes the everyday experiences of people living and working in Subic Bay, and makes a case for critically examining similar spaces across the world. These foreign-controlled, semi-autonomous zones of international exchange are what she calls global borderlands. While they can take many forms, ranging from overseas military bases to tourist resorts, they all have key features in common. This new unit of globalization provides a window into broader economic and political relations, the consequences of legal ambiguity, and the continuously reimagined identities of the people living there. Rejecting colonialism as merely a historical backdrop, Reyes demonstrates how it is omnipresent in our modern world.

Tanzila Ahmed Talk
2019-02-13 15:30 - 16:30 | Public Affairs 6257, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Lunar New Year Mixer: Explore the World of Sake and Japanese Cuisine
2019-02-12 18:30 - 21:00 | Sake Dojo, 333 E. 1st St., Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Lunar New Year Mixer

Join the Asian Pacific Alumni of UCLA and Bruin Professionals for an exciting evening of sake and Japanese cuisine. As you feast on a menu designed just for you, a sommelier will take you through a journey, providing insider details on the sake making process.
Space is limited. The tasting will start promptly at 7 p.m.
Parking is $3 after 5 p.m. in the parking structure located at 101 Judge John Aiso St., Los Angeles, CA 90012.
Event Date
Tuesday, Feb. 12
6:30 p.m. Reception
7 p.m. Sake tasting begins
Event Location
Sake Dojo
333 E. 1st St., Los Angeles, CA 90012

Ethnics & Indigenous Studies Graduate Student Panel
2019-02-12 17:30 - 19:00 | Campbell Hall 1224, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
AAP GMR P P R E S ENT S
Interested in graduate school?
Come meet with graduate students in all 4
of the ethnic studies programs at UCLA
Tuesday February 12th
5:30-7:00 PM
1224 Campbell hall

Upcoming Intergroup Relations (IGR) Dialogues
2019-02-12 12:00 - 13:30 | Student Activity Center Room #5, CA, United States
Intergroup Relations is part of the Bruin Resource Center on campus and our purpose is to bring together UCLA students, faculty, and staff from all across campus to talk about important topics in a way that differs from a classroom setting.

We are hosting two upcoming events. One of which is a dialogue surrounding “What does patriotism mean to you now?” This is a one-time event happening on Friday, February 8th, 12 to 1:30pm.

Here is the RSVP form: tinyurl.com/igrpatriotism

We also have a Mental Health Dialogue Series coming up, which will take place from weeks 6 to 9, every Tuesday from 12 to 1:30pm.
Weeks 6 to 8 will be held in the Student Activities Center (SAC) Room #5, but week 9 will be held in the Student Activities Center (SAC) Room #1.

Here is the RSVP form: tinyurl.com/igrmentalhealth

Please note that lunch will be provided at every single event.

Professors in the Pub With Dr. Ananya Roy
2019-02-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Maple Block Meat Co., 3973 Sepulveda Blvd., Culver City, CA, United States
Ananya Roy, M.C.P., Ph.D., is professor of urban planning, social welfare and geography and director of the Institute of Inequality and Democracy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. Dr. Roy participates in the broad-based endeavor to remake the canon of urban studies and planning. Her interventions in critical urban theory foreground urbanisms of the global South and draw on the legacies of postcolonial, feminist and critical race theory. In addition, Dr. Roy is one of several scholars seeking to build what can be called critical poverty studies.

Upcoming Intergroup Relations (IGR) Dialogues
2019-02-08 12:00 - 13:30 | De Neve Sycamore Room, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Woman Entrepreneur Event
2019-02-05 18:00 - 20:00 | CA
Startup UCLA invites you to a Fireside Chat with Alice Kao, Founder of Sender One Climbing

Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Schedule:

6:00 – 6:30 Check In

6:30 – 7:30 Fireside Chat

7:30 – 8:00 Networking

Carnesale Commons | Malibu Room

In 2012, Alice Kao co-founded Sender One Climbing–the largest indoor rock climbing gym company in the Los Angeles and Orange County metro areas–with her business partners, Wes Chu and Wes Shih (who is also her husband). Sender One has a straightforward mission—to create wondrous spaces where people can discover themselves and connect with others…through climbing.

Prior to joining the climbing industry, Alice had a successful career as an international sales and marketing executive for four separate toy companies and, prior to that, as an investment banker. She discovered climbing in 2008 while living and selling toys in London. Climbing guided her through tough personal times and sparked her closest friendships.

Alice graduated from UCLA in 2001 with a degree in International Economics.
Alice has been a member of Entrepreneurs’ Organization since 2014, serving on its board for three years. She resides in Torrance, CA with Wes and their two daughters, Sydney and Adelaide.

The event will be moderated by Todd Presner. He is Associate Dean of Digital Innovation in the Division of Humanities, Advisor to the Vice Chancellor of Research, Chair of UCLA’s Digital Humanities Program and Professor in the Humanities. He has been an avid rock climber for the past 20 years.

Film Festival: Celebrating 50 Years of Ethnic Stories by UCLA Alumni
2019-02-01 11:30 - 22:00 | James West Alumni Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Free registration: https://ucla-institute-of-american-cultures.eventbrite.com

Features, Documentaries, Shorts, Comedy, Writer/Director/Producer Q&A, Entertainment, Food
*All films written, directed, produced, and/or acted in by UCLA Alumni.
PROGRAM
11:30 a.m. Welcome
12 p.m. Chicano Studies Research Center
“Requiem-29” (1971) Riveting footage of the August 29, 1970, National Chicano Moratorium civil rights and anti-war protest in Los Angeles which attracted 50,000 Chicanos and led to a riot, inhumane treatment by police, and the death of Los Angeles Times journalist Ruben Salazar.
Speaker: Producer Moctesuma Esparza ’71 and MFA ‘73
“Chicana” (1979) Considered the first major feminist Chicana documentary, depicting the contributions of women as workers, mothers, activists, educators, leaders, and other roles, despite their generally oppressed status in Latino culture.
Speaker: Director/Writer/Producer Sylvia Morales ’72, MFA ’79
1:45 p.m. Asian American Studies Center
“Cruisin’ J-Town” (1974) This documentary by Duane Kubo follows the formation of the popular jazz fusion band, Hiroshima, in the late 70s. Includes a lively cross-cultural jam session between the band and the Chicano performing arts group, El Teatro Campesino.
Speaker: Director Duane Kubo ’75
“My Name is Asiroh” (2013) A young girl named Asiroh is bullied in school about her unusual name and wants to change it.
Speaker: Writer/Director Asiroh Cham ’04, MFA ’12
3 p.m. Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies
“Bless Their Little Hearts”(1983) Part of the vibrant New Wave of independent African-American filmmakers to emerge in the 1970s and 1980s including director Billy Woodberry, Charles Burnett (“Killer of Sheep”), Haile Gerima (“Sankofa”) and Julie Dash (“Daughters of the Dust”), this is the dramatic story of a family in Watts. The film, selected for the National Film Registry, was directed by Billy Woodberry ’82.
Speakers: Dominic Taylor and Ellen C. Scott, faculty in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
4:45 p.m. American Indian Studies Center
“On and Off the Rez with Charlie Hill” (1999) This inspiring and thought-provoking documentary by Sandra Osawa uses humor to challenge racism about Native people in America while profiling renowned American Indian comedian Charlie Hill’s life and rise in comedy. Stars Charlie Hill, Will Rogers, Steve Allen, Dick Gregory, Floyd Westerman and others.
Speaker: Director Sandra Osawa (Makah Tribe) MFA program 1970s
6 p.m. Reception
7 p.m. Feature Presentation
“Selena”(1997), the true story of Selena Quintanilla-Perez, a Texas-born Tejano singer who rose from cult status to create top albums on the Latin music charts. Directed by Gregory Nava ’71, MFA ’76, the film stars singer/actress Jennifer Lopez in her breakout role for which she earned a Golden Globe nomination, as well as Edward James Olmos and Jon Seda.
Speaker: Producer Moctesuma Esparza ’71 and MFA ‘73

Tales of Clamor
2019-02-01 08:00 - 2019-03-03 17:00 | CA
TALES OF CLAMOR is a 7-person play centering around two artists debating cultural versus institutionalized silence. Utilizing ensemble storytelling, circus arts and archival footage from the 1981 Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians hearings— when the Japanese American community broke their silence for the first time in nearly 40 years after WWII mass incarceration of Japanese Americans— this piece explores what it means to show up for each other, speak out, and generate the collective clamor necessary for social change.

The Community Service Commission to promote our Nonprofit Networking Night
2019-01-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Carnesale Commons, Los Angeles, CA, United States
NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY

Community Service Commission (CSC) is so excited to co-host Nonprofit Networking Night with the Volunteer Center, Alumni Affairs, Career Center, and Reslife.
Meet with Non-Profits such as Peace Corps, Teach for America and many more…
40 nonprofits

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN at uclacsc.org!

Job Talk: Community, Synergy, and Vision
2019-01-28 15:00 - 17:00 | 153 Haines Hall (Black Forum), Los Angeles, CA, United States
The Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies and Institute of American Cultures invites you to a Bunche Center vision talk for the position of Director by Kelly Lytle Hernandez
University of California, Los Angeles
History and African American Studies Departments“Community, Synergy, and Vision”
Monday, January 28, 2019
3:00 p.m.
153 Haines Hall

Dawn Mabalon LA Tribute
2019-01-26 16:00 - 20:00 | Ackerman Union Grand Ballroom, Los Angeles, CA, United States
RSVP: bit.ly/dawnLAtribute

Join us as we celebrate and pay tribute to the life of Dr. Dawn Bohulano Mabalon
2019-01-26 | Ackerman Union Grand Ballroom, Los Angeles, CA, United States
The UCLA community invites you to celebrate the life of Dr. Dawn Mabalon, a UCLA alumni who passed away on August 10, 2018. Dawn was a UCLA Asian American Studies MA 1997 and History BA 1994 alumna. She was a Professor at San Francisco State University in the History Department. All graduate and undergraduate students and organizations, alumni, faculty and staff impacted by Dawn are invited to join. We also invite the public at large, especially family, friends, and colleagues who would like to pay their respects to her life and work.
A tribute will take place on January 26 in Ackerman Ballroom where food and drinks will be served. Beginning on January 20 and culminating on the day of the event, there will also be an art exhibit titled “Growing Up Dawn” in the Kerckhoff Art Gallery, showcasing Dawn’s contributions to Filipino American life, as well as provide a retrospective of her time at UCLA and beyond.
If you are interested in volunteering for this event, please contact dawnlatribute@gmail.com.

https://losangeles.carpe-diem.events/calendar/9333647-dawn-mabalon-la-tribute-at-ucla-ackerman-grand-ballroom/

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/los-angeles-tribute-for-dawn-bohulano-mabalon-tickets-52766406743?ref=eios&aff=eios

UCLA Latinx Film Festival
2019-01-25 17:00 - 21:00 | CA
Tickets are FREE!!! Event will start at 5pm and end at 9pm on the evenings of Friday, January 25th and Saturday, January 26th. Refreshments will also be served! Latinx panelists with an influence in the film community will also be present!

WE ARE LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS!!! If you are interested or know someone who would love to get involved and part take in this historical event please sign up at: LFFvolunteers

RSVP for the Latinx Film Festival Here!- LatinxFilmFestivalTickets

PANELISTS:
FRIDAY, JAN. 25TH:
RAFAEL AGUSTIN: Staff Writer for Jane the Virgin
LIGIAH VILLALOBOS: Writer and Producer for Under the Same Moon
JUSTIN TORRES: Author of We the Animals

SATURDAY, JAN. 26TH:
ARMANDO IBAÑEZ: Director and Writer for Undocutales
KASE PEÑA: Director and Writer for “Trabajo”
RENÉ VILLAR-RIOS: Director for SockoContent
ABOUT LFTA- The Latinx Film and Theater Association is an organization that provides a platform for students to utilize the visual and performing arts, and other artistic outlets to tell their narrative and address social, political, and cultural topics relevant to Latinx communities through several events a year including The Latinx Film Festival and Night of Cultura.

Join us on Wednesday, Jan 16 to welcome this year's Activists-in-Residence!
2019-01-16 16:00 - 18:00 | UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs 3rd Floor Commons, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Dear Friends of the Asian American Studies Center:
With a shared commitment to advance democracy through research and alliances with social movements and racial justice activism, the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, in the third year of the UCLA Activist-in-Residence Program, are excited to welcome Tanzila “Taz” Ahmed, Micah White, and Yusef Omowale as the 2019 UCLA Activists-in-Residence. The UCLA activists will be in residence during the Winter Quarter 2019 at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.
UCLA Asian American Studies Center Activist:
Tanzila “Taz” Ahmed, Campaign Strategist at 18MillionRising, will work on an Asian American history and advocacy podcast called, “The Subaltern Speaks” which will have a tight focus on the issues, stories, and movement moments that affect Asian Americans.
Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin Activists:
Micah White, author, public speaker and lifelong activist who co-created Occupy Wall Street; Micah is co-teaching “Housing Justice Activism & Protest: Past, Present, Future,” a core course for Activist Graduate School, at the Luskin School of Public Affairs in Winter 2019.
Yusef Omowale, Executive Director at the Southern California Library, will work to articulate a critical archival practice that calls for inclusion and diversity and will document the everyday lived realities of our communities, specifically those suffering policing and gentrification.

Please join us in warmly welcoming our activists to the UCLA community!
Welcome Reception for 2019 UCLA Activists-in-Residence
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
3rd Floor Commons

ULAM x LA Theatrical Premiere
2018-12-13 19:30 - 23:30 | Laemmle Glendale, 207 N Maryland Ave, Glendale, CA, 91206, United States
ULAM x LA Theatrical Premiere
Thursday, December 13 at 7:30 PM
At the Laemmle Glendale
207 N Maryland Ave, Glendale, CA 91206

I will be there for a post-screening Q&A as well! Also, we are promoting the event to friends, family and on social media — please feel free to invite any and all!

Ticket Link: https://www.laemmle.com/films/45232
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/293659771266292/

NaFFAA Southern California Civic Leadership Forum
2018-12-01 13:00 - 19:00 | Carson Community Center, 801 E. Carson St., Carson, CA, 90745, United States
Now that the midterm elections are over, you may be wondering: what’s next for the community?

Please join NaFFAA for our Southern California Civic Leadership Forum on Saturday, December 1 from 1:00-7:00pm in Carson, and RSVP by clicking here!

The National Federation of Filipino American Associations (NaFFAA) is organizing a forum focused on civic leadership and empowerment within the Filipino American community. Sponsored by Civic Leadership USA, the forum will feature prominent leaders and elected officials who will discuss efforts to increase the community’s representation in government. Whether you’re looking to network, get more involved in the community, or even run for office, please join us on December 1!

Please share widely with your networks, and visit naffaa.org/events for agenda and speaker update

Luskin Diversity Fair 2018
2018-12-01 09:30 - 16:00 | Ackerman Union Grand Ballroom, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Luskin Diversity Fair is only a few short weeks away on Saturday, December 1, 2018. This program is designed to generate interest in the social justice missions of the three Luskin departments and to ensure that we maintain equitable recruitment practices by providing underrepresented applicants with the tools necessary to successfully apply to graduate school.

TIFFANY LYTLE / JOY ALPUERTO RITTER – FOR HER
2018-11-30 20:30 - 22:00 | Highways Performance Space, 1651 18th St., Santa Monica, CA, 90404, United States
An evening of two performances that explore women’s lives: Tiffany Lytle Qnoum Kaun Khmer/I am a Cambodia Child and Joy Alpuerto Ritter’s Babae. Drawing movement and musical influences from contemporary dance, hip hop fusion, pop music, jazz, and Southeast Asian folk and traditional dance performance and stories, Lytle and Ritter both dynamically present Southeast Asian women in the diaspora in their solo pieces.
As the child of a Cambodian refugee raised in multiple worlds that make up Cambodiatown of Long Beach/San Pedro, Tiffany Lytle sonically explores refugee experiences and Cambodian diasporic lives in Qnoum Kaun Khmer/I am a Cambodian Child. With a team of Los Angeles’ best pop/jazz musicians, Lytle’s musical performance reimagines pop music as an expression of displacement that is the defining state of living for so many around the world at this time.
Joy Alpuerto-Ritter was born in Los Angeles, and raised in Berlin, Germany. In her solo piece Babae (the word for woman in Filipino), she reinterprets expressionist modern dance pioneer Mary Wigman’s Hexentanz (English translation from German—Witch Dance) through folk and traditional dances of the Philippines that she grew up learning and performing in the diaspora. Babae reorients a classic that breaks open the power of women.
IN ADVANCE: $25 general admission / $20 student & senior
AT THE DOOR: $30 general admission / $20 student & senior

Beyond Zip Codes: Unpacking the Place-Health Nexus (Paul Ong, PhD)
2018-11-29 12:30 - 13:30 | UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Room 2355, 337 Charles E Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
DESCRIPTION
A joint endeavor hosted by the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate’s Housing as Health Care Initiative, the UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge, the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and the UCLA Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
“Beyond Zip Codes: Unpacking the Place-Health Nexus”presented by: Paul Ong, PhD (Research Professor and Director of the UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge)
Place matters, as captured by the statement that asserts that a person’s zip code is a better predictor of health status than the person’s DNA. Social determinants of health are intertwined with the urban spatial structure, residential patterns and the geography of opportunities. This talk explores underlying causal paths that link place characteristics, location accessibility and transportation resources to health outcomes and systematic disparities.
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**Lunch will be provided. Please bring your own beverage.**
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Directions to UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs:
http://luskin.ucla.edu/content/visit-us
PARKING ($12.00/car) UCLA Lot 2 or 3 (depending on availability):
The UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs building is located in the northeast section of the UCLA campus, adjacent to the Murphy Sculpture Garden. Visitors to the Public Affairs Building should plan on entering campus at the Westholme entrance off Hilgard Avenue, then drive up to the Lot 2 kiosk and pay the attendant for parking in UCLA Lot 3 or Lot 2 (depending on availability).
View the Luskin School of Public Affairs location on the UCLA interactive campus map.
For questions, please contact Christina Green (christina.green@anderson.ucla.edu).
