Institute of American Cultures Fall Forum & Reception 11/18/14
INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN CULTURES
Fall Forum and Reception
In honor of the 2014-2015 IAC
Visiting Researchers and Scholars, Graduate & Predoctoral Fellows, and Research Grant Awardees
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
4:30 pm – 7:00 pm
UCLA Faculty Center, California Room
CONVERSATIONS WITH THE INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN CULTURES
VISITING RESEARCHERS AND SCHOLARS
- Christopher Aplin, Ph.D.
IAC Visiting Scholar, American Indian Studies Center
“That’s the Only Time It Was Good”: Geronimo, Warm Springs, and Apache Prisoner of
War Liberation on the Roads to Fort Sill.”
Ernesto Chávez, Ph.D.
University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX
IAC Visiting Researcher, Chicano Studies Research Center
“Contra La Corriente (Against the Current): The Life of Silent Screen Actor Ramón Novarro.”
Matthew Hooley, Ph.D.
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
IAC Visiting Researcher, American Indian Studies Center
An Ordinary Empire: Native Modernism and the Settler State
Margaret Ji Rhee, Ph.D.
IAC Visiting Scholar, Asian American Studies Center
“How We Became Human: Race, Robots, and the Asian American Body.”
Nicolas Rosenthal, Ph.D.
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
IAC Visiting Researcher, American Indian Studies Center
Making America Modern: Native America, 1890-1940
Vanessa Tyson, Ph.D.
Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
IAC Visiting Researcher, Bunche Center for African American Studies
Twists of Fate: Multiracial Coalitions and Minority Representation in the US House of Representatives
Reception
THE INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN CULTURES AT UCLA
American Indian Studies Center • Asian American Studies Center • Chicano Studies Research Center • Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies
UCLA Institute of American Cultures: http://www.iac.ucla.edu
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