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  • Cozy Book Swap + Books to Jails Drive

    1500 Public Affairs

    Join us for the CSW|Streisand Center Cozy Book Swap! Bring a wrapped book, add a hint note, and swap with others! Additionally, donate a popular book to LA County Jails in partnership with LA County Library as a part of our Books to Jails Drive. What kinds of books to donate to the Books to […]

  • CULTURE, POWER, SOCIAL CHANGE PRESENTS... The Fire-Break: Latinx Fire Mitigation Workers and Settler Land Control in Southern California Thursday 6.4.26 | Haines Hall 352 | 12:15 PM | Pizza served at noon This presentation discusses the settler practice of managing fire risk to valorize property in Orange County's wildland urban interface. The presentation draws on four years of ethnographic research with Latinx fire mitigation workers in the chaparral canyon ecologies of Orange County. It also incorporates over three decades of archival materials from the Orange County Fire Authority and Dr. Zarate's family's involvement with the County of Orange fire mitigation program. The presentation contends that workers employ Migrant Ecological Knowledge, a practice grounded in the geographies of dispossession and displacement, to create forms of care and life in places where personal risks related to health, legal, and social precarity accumulate. These affective and social practices amongst workers denaturalize fire management across Southern California as a structure of risk-production that expands settler claims to land through regimes of racialized labor that seek to have Latinx migrants do the work of protecting property from fire and cultural obsolescence. Salvador Zarate is an assistant professor in the department of anthropology at UC Irvine. His work dovetails ethnographic research with historical methods and centers on questions of racialized gender, labor, and the ecology. His recent work explores Latinx residential gardening, drought as a science of land domination, and wildfire as a cultural practice of racial domination and settler conquest. He has published in Anthropology of Work Review, Journal of Political Ecology, Feminist Formations, Catalyst, Practicing Anthropology, Latino Studies, Aztlan, and others. His co-written book on the politics of doing transformative community research, Transforming Science, will be published in May of this year.

    The Fire-Break: Latinx Fire Mitigation Workers and Settler Land Control in Southern California

    352 Haines Hall

    CULTURE, POWER, SOCIAL CHANGE PRESENTS: The Fire-Break: Latinx Fire Mitigation Workers and Settler Land Control in Southern California Thursday 6.4.26 | Haines Hall 352 | 12:15 PM | Pizza served at noon This presentation discusses the settler practice of managing fire risk to valorize property in Orange County's wildland urban interface. The presentation draws on […]

  • A day of powerful stories, honest conversations, and community. Join us for the Second Chance Film Festival presented by PEP x BUS, featuring screenings and discussions centered on incarceration, reentry, and what a second chance can look like. UCLA James Bridges Theater Sunday, June 28th 10:30 AM – 5:30 PM Come watch films like The Alabama Solution, The Strike, and The Inside Scholars followed by meaningful conversation and reflection. RSVP today through the link in our bio or scan the QR code on the flyer. We hope to see you there.

    Second Chance Film Festival presented by PEP x BUS

    Billy Wilder Theater, James Bridges Theater

    A day of powerful stories, honest conversations, and community. Join Prison Education Program & Bruin Underground Scholars for the Second Chance Film Festival, featuring screenings and discussions centered on incarceration, reentry, and what a second chance can look like. UCLA James Bridges Theater Sunday, June 28th 10:30 AM – 5:30 PM Come watch films like […]

  • “Legacy”: Free Screening by UCLA Film & Television Archive

    Billy Wilder Theater 10899 Wilshire Blvd.,, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    When: Sunday, June 28th at 7:00pm Where: Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum Join UCLA Film & Television Archive for a free screening of "Legacy"! Directed by Karen Arthur, a first-time filmmaker, and independently produced, “Legacy” confounds 1970s Hollywood’s expectations with the introduction of a new kind of cinematic woman. Bissie (played by Joan […]