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UC San Diego Cross-Cultural Center - Week 7, November 2014

Phone: 858.534.9689
Website: ccc.ucsd.edu
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Upcoming Highlights
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



Saving Face: Western Ideals of Beauty
Thurs | Dec 4 | 5:00PM-7:00PM
Cross-Cultural Center, Comunidad Room

What is beauty? Who gets to decide what beauty is? There are billboards posted all over the world depicting the same body type, features, and attributes. Join us as we discuss the oppression of people of color by examining whitening cream, 'skin' colored underwear, eating disorders, and more. Light refreshments will be served!

For more information contact Elzbeth Islas at eaislas@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.
Trans Realness: The Social and Cultural Politics of Passing
Thurs | Dec 4 | 5:00PM-6:00PM
LGBT Resource Center Conference Room

This program will bring into conversation the ways by which trans folks negotiate their existence in a societal system bound within a gender binary. By centering trans voices in this conversation, the hope is to challenge the preconceived notions surrounding trans bodies and ultimately allow trans folks the opportunity to redefine their truth.

"... I grew confident in my choice to be true to myself, despite what anyone thought, despite the fear of what was to come. I knew that if Ichose to make myself happy, to live in the pursuit of me and my dreams, that I would be free." - Janet Mock, "Redefining Realness" (73)

*This program is a closed space to folks who identify within the trans spectrum *

 
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.

Queer Black Social
Wed | Nov 19 | 12:00PM-1:30PM
Black Resource Center 

Join us and build community with other Black identified people. Queer Black Socials are closed spaces for Black identified students, staff, faculty, and community members to talk about queer issues.

For more info and to RSVP, please contact rainbow @ucsd.edu INFO HERE

Black Resource Center                                            Raza Resource Centro
 
 

It's ALL Greek to Me!
Thurs | Nov 20 | 4:30PM
Black Resource Center

Do you have questions about NPHC Organizations (also known as the Divine Nine)? If so, join the BRC Staff for "It's ALL Greek to Me!". You will have the opportunity to ask questions, gain insight and learn basic history. You don't want to miss this event...
Fiesta Friday:  Cookie Time
Fri | Nov 21  | 11:00PM-1:00PM
Raza Resource Centro

Come join the RRC for cookies and a dialogue on Thanks-taking.


 

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!

Consent, Relationships, and Community Safety: Getting to Know SARC
Thurs | Nov 20 | 6:00PM
Raza Resource Centro

Join UCSD's Sexual Assault & Violence Prevention Resource Center (SARC) for an interactive workshop and conversation about keeping our community safe. Find out about prevention strategies, campus resources, and how to support friends who may be impacted by sexual assault, relation violence, or stalking.
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

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
Test Anxiety Workshop
Tues | Dec 2 |3:30PM-4:50PM
Warren Lecture Hall, RM 2207

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

This is a drop in workshop, but please direct questions to: Ryan Stevenson, PhD (CAPS) (858) 534-0255 or via email rfstevenson@ucsd.edu
Students Against Mass Incarceration GBM
Thurs | Nov 20 | 3:30PM-5:00PM
Red Shoe Room

SAMI will be having their General Body Meeting #3. They will be discussing prison abolition from Dylan Rodriguez's article Please read and come prepared to ask questions

Event Link



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
Black 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!
Topsy-Turvy Tarp By Angela Jennings Art Reception
Wed | Dec 3 | 3:00PM-4:30PM
Solis Hall

The new public arts installation Topsy-Turvy Tarp provokes constructions of class and identity while engaging the public with its uncanning relationship to the past and present. Located next to the busy pedestrian pathway on UCSD's Solis Hall measuring over 15 feet in length has had the effect of stopping people in their tracks.

The reception is a FREE EVENT please RSVP by email to tmcprovost@ucsd.edu
Kumeyaay Language and Culture
Mon | Nov 24 | 7:00PM
Great Hall, International House

Kumeyaay territory spanned the modern-day U.S.-Mexico border. Attend a talk by Stan Rodriguez, a fluent Kumeyaay speaker, to learn about the language and culture that has been present in this land for thousands of years.

For more info contact iag.ucsd@gmail.com
Community Classifieds
Schwarzman Scholars
MC Artist in Residence
Call for Programs
Schwarzman Scholars is an ambitious new initiative, inspired by the Rhodes Schoalrs program, to introduce the next generation of young global leaders to each other and to China.

Students will be recruited from around the world for a one-year program at Tsinghua University in Beijin, one of China's most prestigious universities. Scholars chosen for this highly selective program will live in Beijing for a year of study and cultural immersion, attending lectures, traveling and developing a better understanding of China. Admission will open the fall of 2015.

Info Session for students Friday November 21 at noon.
Website here.
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
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.

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

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