All Events
Cup of Culture
Mulan
Director: Niki Caro
Film Screening/Online
When the Emperor mobilizes his troops to fight the onslaught of invaders from the North, a young Chinese maiden disguises herself as a male warrior in order to take the place of her ailing father under the name Hua Jun, setting her on an adventure that will transform her into a legendary warrior. 2020. 115 min.
Student led post film discussion to follow.
* NOTE: this event is open to UCSB students for educational purposes only.
Race Matters Series
Ongoing Nakba: Lessons from Palestine
Dr. Sherene Seikaly
In-person: MCC Theater
This talk traces the experience of catastrophe in Palestine as an ongoing condition of dispossession and the denial of political rights. It explores the lessons Palestinians teach us about resistance, survival, and holding ground.
ONLINE - An Evening of Poetry with a Disability Activist
Therese Estacion
Online Performance
Therese Estacion is part of the Visayan diaspora community. She is an elementary school teacher and is studying to be a psychotherapist. Therese is also a bilateral below knee and partial hands amputee, and identifies as a disabled person/person with a disability. Therese lives in Tkaronto. Her poems have been published in CV2 and PANK Magazine, and were shortlisted for the 2021 Marina Nemat Award. Her first collection of poems, Phantompains, was published by Book*Hug in Spring 2021.
Diversity Lecture
ONLINE - Community Cultural Wealth: Reclaiming Our Past, Reimagining Our Future
Prof. Tara J. Yosso
Online - REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Prof. Yosso’s virtual lecture will overview her community cultural wealth model, which has been received nationally and internationally as a paradigm shift for the ways we have traditionally thought about schooling structures, practices, and discourse. Her talk will ask us to consider how we might foster a critical historical perspective of the communities we aim to serve, and draw on the ingenuity and courage of those who have come before us in the struggle for justice.
Tara J. Yosso examines access to educational opportunities for Students of Color at critical transition points in their schooling trajectories (e.g. high school to community college, baccalaureate to doctorate). Her research seeks to recover counternarratives of race, schooling, inequality, and the law. Her extensively cited publications examine the ways People of Color utilize community cultural wealth to survive and resist racism and other forms of subordination. She is a first generation college student, a Professor in the School of Education at the University of California Riverside, and this year has been appointed as the Inaugural Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Institute for Emancipatory Education at the Connie L. Lurie College of Education at San José State University.
Co-sponsors: Office of Equal Opportunity & Discrimination Prevention, Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
REGISTRATION AT UCSB SHORELINE IS REQUIRED: https://cglink.me/2dD/r1418639
