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Events

Empowering Our Immigrant Communities at Âé¶¹AV & Beyond: with Edwin Soto Saucedo

Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 1:00pm to 2:15pm

Empowering Our Immigrant Communities

Join us for this workshop with Edwin Soto Saucedo, immigrant & worker rights activist. This workshop will encompass what students, staff, and faculty (both undocumented and documented) can do when confronted with ICE agents or law enforcement on or off campus. We will review and discuss tools and resources that help protect the immigrant community and ways to continue advocating for the immigrant community.  Read more

Spatial and Discursive Violence in the U.S. Southwest

Wednesday, March 12, 2025 - 5:00pm to 6:15pm

Spatial and Discursive Violence in the U.S. Southwest

In this webinar, Drs. Sanchez and Pita will discuss their book titled Spatial and Discursive Violence in the U.S. Southwest (Duke University Press, 2021). The book critically examines the participation of Chicana/os in the dispossession of Indigenous populations before being dispossessed themselves with the U.S. invasion of the Southwest. Their work takes on an important political task, both in terms of Chicana/os’ relationship to the past but also to their positioning in the present. Read more

Arab American Studies as Educational Justice

Monday, February 24, 2025 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm

 Arab American Studies as Educational Justice

Join us for a conversation on Arab American Studies as educational justice with Dr. Rama Ali Kased and Dr. Omar Zahzah, scholars of Race and Resistance Studies at San Francisco State University. They will discuss contemporary efforts to develop culturally-relevant and community-responsive curriculum that centers Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian (AMEMSA) communities and experiences. Read more

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