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Cup of Culture
In Football We Trust
MCC Theater
Telling a contemporary American story, this film transports viewers deep inside Salt Lake City, Utah’s tightly-knit and complex Polynesian community – one of the chief sources for the modern influx of Pacific Islander NFL players. Shot over a four-year time period with unprecedented access, the film intimately portrays four young Polynesian men who strive to overcome gang violence and near poverty to realize the promise of NFL football. (90 min, English, 2016)
Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnxzYQRBlyE
Race & Religion
Indigenous Religious Traditions and Law in the Current Political Moment
Panel Discussion
MCC Theater and Lounge
The MultiCultural Center and Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life present
How are Indigenous communities in the U.S. facing challenges to their ways of life in the current political moment? Focusing on questions concerning repatriation, land access, education, and diverse forms of sovereignty, panelists will explore the intersection of Indigenous religious traditions and law.
Panelists include tribal authorities, legal experts, and scholars. The discussion will begin with campus-level and regional considerations, with specific reference to Chumash contexts. Then it will expand outward to borderland settings, Oklahoma, the Great Lakes, and the Pacific.
Panelists:
Vicente Diaz, Professor of American Indian and Indigenous Studies, UCLA
Walter Echo-Hawk, Former President of the Pawnee Nation
Cristina Gonzales, Registrar, Santa Rosa Rancheria
Eric Hemenway, Anishnaabe Historian, Michigan Historical Commission
Amrah Salomón, Assistant Professor of English, UCSB
Moderated by Greg Johnson, Director of the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life
Reception in MCC Lounge following panel discussion.
Presented with support from the Henry Luce Foundation
Image caption: Wit-sa-nap, a lake sacred to the Paiute people of the Eastern Sierra Nevada. Image credit: Greg Johnson
Book Reading
Indigenous Women in the Food Sovereignty Movement: Lessons from the South Central Farm
Online
The goal is to create a space to read and unpack articles, PDFs, e-books, etc written by and for communities at the margins. There will be a specific focus on race/racism; colonialism and capitalism, (eco) feminisms from below, environmental justice, and coalition building/solidarity networks.
Participants will be asked to read the texts beforehand, and will be given a couple guiding questions; however, you can still join even if you have not read the material or answered the questions! Please email Abire Sabbagh, asabbagh@ucsb.edu, if you need access to the readings.
Conscious Conversations Series
International Student Experiences During Covid-19
Office of International Students and Scholars
Online
The Office of International Students and Scholars is thrilled to partner with the MultiCultural Center for a candid conversation as we reflect back to December 2019 when Covid-19 began to spread around the world. Together we will look at the global and local response to the pandemic and the impacts felt by UCSB’s international community. Where were you as the pandemic crossed cultures and geopolitical borders? Come share your story and listen to others. This event is open to domestic and international students, staff and scholars with a special welcome to those who are far from home during the pandemic.
