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UC San Diego Cross-Cultural Center - Week 1, October 2014

Phone: 858.534.9689
Website: ccc.ucsd.edu
Located on the 2nd Floor of Price Center East
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Columbus Day - How Is That Still A Thing (HBO)
Last Week Tonight with John OliverHow Is That Still A Thing? - Columbus Day (HBO, 10/05/14)
How Is This Still A Thing?-
Columbus Day

from Last Week Tonight With John Oliver

Talk Show Host John Oliver examines why Columbus day is still occurring in parts of the United States.
EDI Student Leadership Summit

October 18, 2014 | 9:00AM-4:00PM
Price Center Forum 4th Floor

Interested in leading or creating a student organization? At this leadership summit you will! Learn the following:

Attend workshops with intersectional dialogue

Hone leadership skills

Cultivate community consciousness

learn about inclusive practices

and more!

 

click on the image to register! 

Gender, War, and Accountability:

Palestinian Resistance and Feminist Solidarity
 
Thursday, October 16, 2014 
11:30 AM - 01:00 PM
Reception to Follow
Cross-Cultural Center, Comunidad  

This discussion will cover a range of topics including distorted media coverage between Palestine and Israel, racist and gendered images used to justify violence, and the impact on Palestinian and Israeli women.

 

Presented by the Department of Ethnic Studies; part of the Cross-Cultural Center's Author in Residence Program  

UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS
 

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States book launch 

Wednesday, October 29, 2014
| 3:30PM-5:00PM
Cross-Cultural Center, Comunidad 

Join Dr. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz for the launch of her new book.

Light refreshments will be provided.

Presented by the Department of Ethnic Studies; part of the Cross-Cultural Center's Author in Residence Program
    

 

 
Wednesday November 5, 2014 | 12:00 PM
Cross-Cultural Center, Comunidad

Professor Yến Lê Espiritu examines how the Vietnamese War has continued to serve as a stage for the shoring up of American imperialist adventure and for the (re) production of American and Vietnamese American identities.

Light refreshments will be provided.

part of the Cross-Cultural Center's Faculty in Residence Program

 




How to Get Recruited at the Internship and Job Fair

Fri | Oct 17 | 2:00PM-3:00PM
Career Services Center - Horizon Room

Guest Speakers:
Mitchell Internaitonal
Dexcom
Meet Ups: Career Conversation 
Wednesdays | 1-2pm
Cross-Cultural Center, Tranquility Room | Oct 22 & 29 Nov 12 &19 Dec 3
with Roxanne Farkas

Also available at:
Black Resource Center | Oct 6 & 13 & 20 Nov 3 & 10 & 17
Dec 1 from 1-2pm
Student Veterans Resource Center | Oct 6 & 13 & 20
Nov 3 & 10 & 17 Dec 1 from 2:30-3:30pm


Text Anxiety Reduction Workshop
Wed | Oct 29 | 3:309PM-4:50PM
Warren Lecture Hall Room 2207

This workshop will address the cognitive and behavioral causes of test anxiety, and provides skills/strategies to reduce anxiety in testing situations and improve performance.

Students of Color Conference
November 7-9 | UC Merced

The A.S. Office of External Affairs and SPACES (Student Promoted Access Center for Education and Service) are now accepting applications for UCSD students to attend the UC Student Association's 26th Annual Students of Color Conference (SOCC). Applications to be a part of the UCSD delegation to SOCC are due October 17th by 11:59pm.

Apply Now

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
      
      
Women's Center Events
 
Love Your Body Day 

Wednesday l October 22 l
2-5pm
Women's Center (Above Hi-Thai and near the Main Gym)

 

For more information contact 858.822.0074 or email
women@ucsd.edu | Visit Website for More Events

 

VOICES: First Year Women's Leadership Retreat 
Saturday l October 25 l
8am-4:30pm   
Women's Center (Above Hi-Thai and near the Main Gym)

 

The VOICES Leadership Retreat is a day-long retreat open to first-year women students at UCSD. Through community building, reflection, and interactive workshops, participants will develop their voice and uncover their leadership potential. Apply here by Thursday, October 16th

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Please contact Cecily Nelson-Alford at cnelsona@ucsd.edu for more information.

 

 

 

LGBT Center Events
 
We Cannot Live Without Our Lives: A conversation on Anti-blackness, Trans Resistance and Prison Abolition

 

Tuesday November 4th | 7pm-9pm | UC San Diego  
Student Services Center Multipurpose Room 
Reception immediately before at 6pm
 

 

For more information, contact the LGBT RC at

rainbow@ucsd.edu | Visit Website for More Events  

 

 

Breaking the Binary: Rethinking Gender

Wed | Oct 29 | 5:00PM-7:00PM

LGBT Resource Center

 

This is a crash course in gender for those who
are interested in exploring how gender is organized
and functions in our society. Topics will include a brief history and explanation of  gender and biological sex binaries, transgender identities, gender v. presentation v. performance, and a Q&A. This is primarily for cisgender allies and trans-questioning folks,
as much of the program is "101" material, but all are welcome!

 

 For more info click here! 

 

 

      
      
Black Resource Center Events

 

Student Success Series

October 16 | 3:00PM | BRC

click the success sign to RSVP!

The first of 3 workshops for Fall quarter will kick off on Thursday October 16th @ 3pm in the BRC. Every student who attends will receive a BRC T-shirt! (You MUST stay for the entire session to receive the T-shirt). Come out and bring a friend!

For more info contact 858.534.0471
Raza Resource Centro Events

Fiesta Fridays: Ice Cream Party
Friday | October 17,2014 | 11:00PM-1:00PM 
Raza Resource Centro

 Join the RRC for ice cream. 

 

For more information, contact the RRC at

raza@ucsd.edu | Visit the Facebook Page

View a full calendar of RRC events here! 

STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS & DEPARTMENTS
Weekly General Body Meetings at the CCC *(Meeting times subject to last minute changes)
For any questions regarding student organization meeting times, please directly contact the organizations' board members
  
Mondays: MEChA 5-6:30PM & Black Student Union 6:30-8PM
Tuesdays: Asian Pacific Student Alliance 6-7:30PM (odd weeks) & IV La Fe and BCM 7-9pm
Wednesdays: Kaibigang Pilipin@ 6:30-8:30PM (even weeks)
Thursdays: African Student Association 6-8pm & Muslim Student Association 6-8pm (beginning week 3)
ETHNIC STUDIES GLOBAL SEMINAR IN VIETNAM, SUMMER 2015

Professor Yến Lê  Espiritu (Ethnic Studies) will be teaching a Global Seminar in Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City in Summer 2015.

 

The dates will coincide with Summer Session 1 dates. Global Seminars are five-week long summer study abroad experiences led by a UCSD professor. Students enroll in a package of two courses for a total of eight UCSD quarter units.

 

The Seminar will focus on the Vietnam War from both American and Vietnamese perspectives, and will pay particular attention to the importance of race, gender, sexuality, and colonialism in warmaking. For further information on the course, please visit http://pao.ucsd.edu/programs/global-seminars/hochiminhcity/index.html 

  

Professor Espiritu will be conducting 2 Information Sessions on the courses and studying in Vietnam for interested students:

Tuesday, Oct. 28, 5:00 - 6:30 pm, International Center Oceanids Pavilion  

Wednesday, Dec. 3, 5:00 - 6:30 pm, International Center Oceanids Pavilion

 

Please email Professor Espiritu at yespiritu@ucsd with your questions.

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HIEA 153- Social & Cultural History of Twentieth-Century Korea: Domination & Defiance through Text & Film 
Tuesdays and Thursdays | 9:30-10:50 AM | Cognitive Science Building (CSB) 4
Fall 2014  | Instructor: Todd A. Henry, PhD

This course explores the cultural and social structures that dominated twentieth-century Korea: imperialism, ethnonationalism, heteropatriarchy, capitalism, socialism, and militarism. It also uses individual and collective engagements with these hegemonic structures to demonstrate contentious interactions between individuals and society.  


 
CLAH Internship Opportunity Info Session 
 
Wednesday | Oct 22 | 12:00PM-1:00PM 
Huerta- Vera Cruz Room
(below the LGBT Resource Center)
Light Refreshments will be provided 
 
CLAH Has Partnered With the Cesar E. Chavez Service Clubs,Which Promote Youth Leadership Through Service. UCSD Students Interested Can Receive Credit Through AIP.
 
Center for Ethics & Spirituality Open House
 
Wednesday, October 22, 2014 
04:00 PM - 05:30 PM

 

University Center 201

COMMUNITY CLASSIFIEDS
 UC Berkeley 
UC Los Angeles  
UC San Diego  

34th Public Policy & International Affairs (PPIA) Junior Summer Institute

The application deadline is *November 1, 2014*.   For the application materials and to apply,visit: 

 

 

 

UCLA Law Fellows Program

The application deadline is October 20, 2014. the application is at the bottom of the web page linked below.
UCLA LAW FELLOWS Application

  

McNair Program Call for Applications 

 The application deadline is October 24. For more information visit the link below.

 

McNair Scholarship  

Job Opportunity 
UC San Diego ERC Room 115 
UC San Diego  
UC San Diego
Office of Admissions

  

The Office of Admissions is hiring College Ambassadors to represent UC San Diego to our 40,000+ on-campus visitors and our online visitors!

 

 

For more information Click here

 

 Applications Due 10/31 at 4pm

 

Asylum in the United States: A tour of Latin America and the Continent's Claims

Yvette Lopez, Esq.
October 16, 2014 | 4:00PM-5:30PM
Eleanor Roosevelt College
Room 115

Lecture presented by the Institute for International, Comaprative and Area Studies (IICAS) UC San Diego
Caregives and Eldercare Support Group meeting  

 Thursday October 23,2014 | 12:00PM-1:00PM

Women's Center


Caregiving and eldercare responsibilities often come up unexpectedly and can lead to difficulty balancing family and work.  Decisions of caretaking are numerous and never easy to make.


 For caregiving and eldercare resources to help you manage, please visit:     
http://blink.ucsd.edu/HR/services/support/caregiver/index.html
  

UC San Diego Career Services 
 Price Center Theater    
 UC San Diego Literature Dept. 
Teach for America Info Session

October 16, 2014 | 5:30PM
Career Services Center Round Room

Come learn about the program and new initiatives.

 

 

Hellenic Movie Night

Sat | Oct 25 | 5:00PM
Price Center Theater

Watch some award winning documentaries presented by the Greek heritage Society of Southern California.

For more info click here
Post Doc Lecture Series
Ronak Kapadia: Warm Data:
US Military Imprisonment and the Sensorial

Fri | Oct 24 | 3:00PM
Literature Building Room 155 (de Certeau)

To view the flyer click here
Job Opportunity  
    
 

 

StudentPIRG is looking to hire 25 graduating college students into our full-time Campus Organizer position.  Organizers with the Student PIRGs will build a team of student activists and then work with them to do research, advocacy and grassroots organizing. You will receive extensive training and work on one of 40 college campuses.  

 

The deadline to apply is October 19th. jobs.studentPIRGs.org

 

 

 


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