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UC San Diego Cross-Cultural Center - Week 6, November 2014

Phone: 858.534.9689
Website: ccc.ucsd.edu
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Rebel Music: Native America | Official Trailer
Rebel Music: Native America | Official Trailer

MTV Facebook Page Premier Thursday November 13 at 4:00PM
Upcoming Highlights


Legacy of Exiled NDNZ Short Film with Pamela Peters
Wed | Nov 12 | 12:00PM-1:30PM
Cross-Cultural Center, Comunidad

Legacy of Exiled NDNZ examines American Indians living in Los Angeles, California. This project focuses on young adults from various tribes who have migrated from their reservations in the course of their own lives or are the offspring of families that relocated from various tribal reservations through the Burea of Indian Affairs' Relocation prodram, during the late 12950s through the 1960s.

A Cross-Cultural Center Social Justice LENS Program
"Life After College": What You Won't Learn From Craigslist or LinkedIn
Thurs | Nov 13 | 3:00PM-5:00PM
Cross-Cultural Center

Job? Grad School? Travel? Another internship? What do I do after I graduate?! I'm confused!" Sound familiar? Craigslist or LinkeIn can't give you all the answers, so get the right ones "for you" by gaining practical advice and insight from a panel of experienced professionals sharing grad school, alumni, and employer perspectives!

Presented as a part of The Real World Career Series: Building Skills for a Diverse Interconnected Community.

Free UCSD Promotional Items will be provided. The Real World Careers Series is a collaborative effort by: Black Resource Center, Career Services Center, Cross-Cultural Center, Ethnic Studies Department, Raza Resource Centro, and Women's Center.


1st First Year Mixer
Wed | Nov 19 | 12:00PM-1:30PM
Cross-Cultural Center, Comunidad Room

Want to hang out and relax with other first year students? Curious about the latest events happening in and around the CCC? Come to the CCC's 1st first Year Mixer. Boardgames, good company, pizza, and sundaes will be provided.

For more information contact Sandra Amon at samon@ucsd.edu

Let's Get Down to Business: Deconstructing Disney's Mulan
Sat | Dec 6 | 5:00pm-7:00PM
Cross Cultural Center

Come join us at the CCC for an evening of social justice fun! We'll be screening Mulan and providing light refreshments for you to enjoy in your jammies. Afterwards we'll be discussing this childhood classic through a critical lens.



Fall Quarter Drop In With Undocumented Student Services Coordinator Jessica Munoz
Tues | Nov 25 | 11:00AM-1:00PM

Undocumented Student Services is located in the Student Services Center, Fifth Floor, Room 529.

Private consultations with Jessica can be arranged by phone at (858) 822-6916 or email at jessicamunoz@ucsd.edu. appointments are not required but encouraged.

For more information, visit undoc.ucsd.edu

Ethnic Studies Global Seminar in Vietnam, Summer 2015 Information Session
Wed | Dec 3 | 5:00PM-6:30PM
International Center Oceanids Pavilion

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 (June 27-August 1). 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

  

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

 

Equity Diversity and Incusion - Campus Community Centers
Women's Resource Center                                     LGBT Resource Center


$tart $mart Salary Negotiation Workshop
Wed | Nov 19 | 5:00PM
Women's Center

$tart $mart is an interactive workshop designed to give college women the confidence and skills they need to earn fair compensation.

For more informaiton contact women@ucsd.edu RSVP to wcprograms@ucsd.edu.
Aces + Aros: An Orientation to Orientations
Thurs | Nov 13 | 1:30PM
LGBT Resource Center Conference Room

Come learn about Spectrums of romantic and sexual attraction! This program will specifically focus on terminology regarding sexual and romantic orientation as wellas  wayts to challenge acephobia and arophobia!

For more info contact: lgbtpolitics@ucsd.edu

  


F-Word Dining and Dialogue -- Selling Paradise:
Tourism, gender, and Authenticity in Contemporary Cuba
Thurs | Nov 20 | 5:00PM-6:30PM
Women's Center

Join the Women's Center for a dialogue with Dr. Gabriela Santizo, a guest lecturer in the Critical Gender Studies Department. She is currently teaching CGS 102: Gender, Sexuality & Tourism. 

This event is cosponsored by the Critical Gender Studies Department.

Michael Nava Book Talk
Fri | Nov 14 | 2:00PM
Raza Resource Centro

Michael nava is one of the most important figures in LGBT Latin@ literature. He is hailed as one of the creators of the Chicano mystery genre due to his wildly popular Henry Rios series featuring a gay Chicano protagonist.

The event will be held at the Raza Resource Centro.

For more info contact rainbow@ucsd.edu
  
Black Resource Center                                            Raza Resource Centro



Fall Student Success Series
Thurs | Nov 13 | 5:00PM-6:30PM
Black Resource Center

Participate in the BRC Student Success Series!
The Student Success Series provides an opportunity for students to learn stratregies for success for the university experience. Register to attend. Food will be provided!

Please Register at http://bt.ly/brcsuccess
Fiesta Friday: Board game Day
Fri | Nov 14 | 11:00PM-1:00PM
Raza Resource Centro

Are you stressed out from all the midterms? Then take a break and join the Raza Resource Centro for fun board games! Hope to see you there.




Black Identity Series: Religion & Faith
Tues | Nov 18 | 5:30PM
Black Resource Center

Come by the Black Resource Center on November 18th at 5:30pm for the Black Identity Series. Engage in an intellectual conversation on religion and spirituality facilitated by Professor Gabriel Mendez. Food will be served!

Project for Success
Mondays 2:30PM-4:00PM
Thursdays 10:00AM-2:00PM
Raza Resource Centro

Project for success is a peer tutoring program that is geared towards genetics, biology, chemistry, and other sciences. Come check it out!

Student Organization and 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 5:00PM-6:30PM & Black Student Union 6:30PM-8:00PM
Tuesdays: Asian & Pacific-Islander Student Alliance 6:30PM-8:00PM (odd weeks) & IV La Fe and BCM 7:00PM-9:00PM
Wednesdays: Kaibigang Pilipin@ 6:30PM-8:30PM (even weeks)
Thursdays: African Student Association 6:00PM-8:00PM & Muslim Student Association 6:00PM-8:00PM


Become an OASIS Summer Bridge ATC or SSSP Mentor!!
Wed | Nov 12 | 2:00PM
Red Shoe Room (PC Sun God Lounge)

We are taking applications fo rthe EDS 116 Mentor Practicum, for positions as Academic Transition Counselors (ATC) or Peer Mentors. Please attend our INFO SESSION at 2 or 3 pm to hear from current mentors and learn more info!

Applications are available at the OASIS Front Desk (3rd floor of Center Hall). If you have any questions, please contact: Antoinette Nagai at anagai@ucsd.edu, SB Coordinator/Counselor, Freddy Delgado-Wong at fdelgadow@ucsd.edu, TRiO SSSP Assistant Director
 
Entering Entertainment: Panel & Networking Event
Tues | Nov 18 | 5:00PM-7:00PM
Price Center West - Ballroom B

Join UCSD Alumni, Triton TV, the Department of Communication, and the Undergraduate Communication Society to learn how to forge a career in entertainment. Hear a panel of experts discuss entertainment career paths, experiences that will help build your resume, and  ways to navigate this competitive field, then get a chance to network in small groups with professionals and recruiters to get answers to your specific questions. Career participants will represent various areas of entertainment, from film and television production and agency work to digital media, public relations, and sports.

Register

BSU High School Conference
Sat | Nov 22 | 9:00AM
Price Center and Student Services Center

Hi everyone! It's that time of year! BSU's High School Conference! This year's theme is Destination: Education. If you want ot volunteer to do a workshop then fill out this application.

For more information contact Crystal Hammond and Essence Miller at ucsd.bsu.access@gmail.com.
APSA 21st High School Conference
Sun | Nov 23 | 9:00AM
Price Center Ballroom East

Please help spread the word to high school students in San Diego county. All of the information regarding this event can be found here: tinyurl.com/ucsdapsahsc2014

Thank you for your support!
For more information, please contact: ucsd.hsc14@gmail.com



Please Support our Students in the upcoming Productions!

The Burial At Thebes
Featuring Zakiya Markland and N'Jameh Camara
Performances from Wednesday Nov. 12 until Saturday Nov. 22.
For more info click here

A Midsummer Night's Dream
Featuring Kourtni Gouche
Performances from Wednesday Nov. 19 until Sunday Nov. 23.
For additional information click here
lack Student Union Canned Food Drive
Collecting until Fri | Nov 21 | 3:00PM
Black Resource Center

The Black Student Union is having a canned food drive for the Thanksgiving Holiday! Please bring cans and other non-perishable food items to the Black Resource Center. The last day for collection is Friday November 21 @ 3pm!
Community Classifieds
Distinguished Alumni Lecture
TMC Artist in Residence
Call for Programs
Neda Atanasoski lecutre on
Humanitarian Violence: Postsocialism and the Question of Transitional Justice

Thurs | Nov 13 | 4:00PM
Literature Building room 155
(de Certeau)

This talk addresses the time and space of humanitarian catastrophe as a way to think through the production of racialized (precarious) populations as constitutive of postsocialist notions of transition and justice.

Jennifer Bobiwash Performance

Tues | Nov 18 | 6:30PM
UCSD Wagner Theatre.

The TMC Artis in Residence for 2014-2015 is LA based native American artist, Jennifer Bobiwash. She will be presenting "There is No "I"
 in NDN" on Tuesday, November 18th at 6:30pm at the UCSd, Wagner Theatre. As part of the program, she will also be taking the show to Gompers Prep Academy in South East San Diego for about 200 6-12 grade students.

Free Event!
UC San Diego Celebration of Black History Month Call for Programs
Submission Deadline January 7 2015.

2015 Black History Month Theme: UC San Diego Celelbrates A Century of Black Life, History and Culture

We come together as a community, each year, to honor and celebrate our rich and collective history/ With this year's theme, our spectrum is broad and will be represented with a diverse collection of activities, programs and events!

Program submission form can be found here
San Diego Library Events
Paid Internship
UCSD Guest Lecture
So Many Swing Shifts: Filipina Nursing Migration  & My Mother's Story
Wed | Nov 12 |6:30PM-8:00PM

A public multimedia talk by Jason Magabo Perez

Talking/Writing Story
Sat | Nov 15 | 2:30PM-4:30PM

A panel on Filipin@ writing with Lysley Tenorio, Marivi Soliven, Jennifer Derilo, and Hari Malagayo Alluri

The Fall of the I-Hotel
Tues |Nov 18 | 6:30PM-8:00PM

Screening of Curtis Choy's 1983 Film + discussion led by Kuya Ate Mentorship Program (KAMP) *pilot program for Social Justice Media Literacy Initiative
HACU National Internship Program (HNIP)

The HNIP is seeking applicants for the spring and summer 2015 internship sessions. HNIP provides students the opportunity to receive valuable work experience through paid internships with federal agencies and private corporations.

Spring Internship deadline is November 14.

Summer Internship deadline is February 27. Pamphlet here.

Click here to apply online
If you have questions the office in Washington, D.C. can be reached at 202 467 0893 or hnip@hacu.net
Masha Gessen Public Lecture
Putin's Challenge to the West: From Pussy Riot to Crimea

Mon | Nov 24 | 11:00AM
UCSD Geisel Library, Seuss Room

The talk explores this concept of a civilization of traditional values and the implications it has for Russian culture and Russia's relationship to the US in the coming months and years.

Please RSVP: Megan Murphy, mem001@ucsd.edu

Volunteer Opportunity
New Resource
Call For Papers
EDUCATE!
Support UC Schools!
Volunteer Tutors Needed for
Math Academy

University City High School
Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays 2:30pm-3:30pm.
Please contact: Shillan Maronesy
smaronesy@sandi.net

Standley Middle School
Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:55pm-3:55pm.
Please contact: Robin Read
robin.read.rr@gmail.com

EDUCATE! is a nonprofit foundation improving the quality of our children's education by providing supplemental resources to University City public schools. www.uc-educate.org

The National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD) is an independent professional development, training, and mentoring community of over 65,000 graduate students, post-docs, and faculty members. NCFDD is 100% dedicated to supporting academics in making successful transitions throughout their careers.  UC San Diego has an institutional membership with NCFDD, and all faculty, postdoctoral scholars and graduate students may sign up to use the resources free of charge. 

 

For more information or to enroll, contact Maddy Agamata,
magamata@ucsd.edu.

The national Center for Faculty Development and Diversity website is www.facultydiversity.org/ 
The Journal of Eurasia Film Studies (JEFS) is a peer-reviews and interdisciplinary academic journal focused on the history, theory, and criticism of cinema, the visual arts and other moving image media in Eurasia as analyzed by film, economists, political scientists and others drawn from throughout the continent and the world.

Submission deadline
January 30th, 2015

First round decisions announced:
March 20, 2015

Revisions submitted by:
May 28, 2015

Final Manuscript submissions to publisher:
July 2015

HELP SUPPORT THE CCC