On May 20, 2010 the Cross-Cultural Center will celebrate 15 years of building community. Please plan on joining us as we honor and remember the times we have shared together

 

Thursday, January 14, 2010
4:30pm-6:00pm, CCC Comunidad
Join us for an informative discussion with Dr. Jorge Mariscal as he presents the roots of privatization in higher education and the implications for access, research, and funding in the years to come. Given the national crisis in education and limited funding priorities, now more than ever, knowledge is power.

2:00 to 5:00 PM, CCC Comunidad

Reception prior to this event, 2:00pm
  
"The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the 'state of emergency in which we live is not the exception but the rule.
We must attain to a conception of history that accords with this insight. Then we will clearly see that it is our task to bring about a real state of emergency."
- Walter Benjamin, 1940
 
Leading our thinking are the University of California's students, the
majority of them students of color, who are meeting this situation by protesting for continued access to and the preservation of public higher education. This is a critical moment. As the Nation-State, in its various guises, retires from the social, Indigenous Studies reminds us that its very institution in conquered territories is the inaugural violent act, which places colonial subjugation at its core. 

 

Guest Presenters:
Audra Simpson, Ph.D., Department of Anthropology, Columbia University
Glen Coulthard, Ph.D., First Nations Studies Program, U. of British Columbia
Andrea Smith, Ph.D., Department of Media and Cultural Studies, UC Riverside