2007-08 Event Calendar
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Spring Semester 2008
| Friday,
January 11, 12:00pm-1:30pm: "Guilty Until Proven Innocent: Civil Rights
Abuses Against Muslim Americans and Middle Easterners" To watch video of this event, please click here. To hear audio of this event, please click here. | A panel presentation exploring recent developments in key cases that implicate constitutional rights with renowned scholar and advocate, David Cole of the Georgetown Law Center, Islamic scholar Dr. Maher Hathout and non-profit chairperson, Dr. Layla Al-Marayati. This panel will explore the end to government’s failed twenty year attempt to deport Palestinian activists for exercising political speech in the LA 8 case and the federal government’s failure in anti-terrorism cases against Muslim charities. Panelists will also discuss the impact of the public release of the government’s list of uncharged Muslim charities as “unindicted co-conspirators” to terrorism. This panel discussion is part of the CRS program's continuing effort to explore the relationship between law and social processes that construct Muslims, Arabs, Middle Easterners and South Asians as "racial others." |
| Saturday, January 26, 9:30am-5:30pm: “Coloring the Vote: Race, Politics, and Disenfranchisement” | One
week before California's Presidential Primary, CRS is co-sponsoring a
major day-long conference on race and voting rights. Organiized by UCLA
Chicano Studies Research Center, the Bunche Center for African American
Studies, the Asian American Studies Center, and Center for American
Indian Studies, this event will provide a great opportunity to explore
the enduring role of race in American politics. Greg Palast, renowned
BBC investigative journalist and author of the New York Times
bestsellers Armed Madhouse (2006) and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
(2002), will be the keynote speaker. A native of the United States, Mr.
Palast is known for his reporting on voting irregularities in the
presidential elections of 2000 and 2004. Britain’s Tribune Magazine
called him “the most important investigative reporter of our time.”
Also confirmed is MacArthur "Genius Award" recipient and Seattle
University law professor Joaquin Avila. Mr. Avila, one of the country’s
leading experts on voting rights, has successfully argued cases at the
federal district court, appellate circuit, and U.S. Supreme Court
levels. Other speakers include local and state elected officials,
community leaders, and civil rights advocates. Speakers will explore
the Federal Voting Right Act, examples of disenfranchisement of voters
of color in California, and strategies for preventing such
irregularities from happening again during the 2008 and future
elections. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Graduate Division, UCLA Center for
Community Partnerships, UCLA Institute for American Cultures, UCLA
Office for Faculty Diversity, UCLA Social Sciences-College of Letters
and Sciences, UCLA Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and
Politics, and UCLA Student Affairs. The event will be held on the UCLA
campus at UCLA’s Covel Commons event is free and open to the public but
registration is required. To register, please click here. |
| Tuesday, January 29, 6:30pm, Film Screening: “Made in L.A.” | Made
in L.A., an award-winning feature documentary that follows the
remarkable story of three Latina immigrant sweatshop workers as they
embark on a three-year odyssey to win basic labor protections from
trendy clothing retailer Forever 21. Presented by the UCLA Labor
Center, Made in L.A. reveals how this struggle gradually transformed
these women. Filmmakers Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar and the
cast will be present for a discussion after the film. The film is in
English with Spanish subtitles. This special free screening begins at
6:30 p.m. and takes place in 1246 Public Affairs on the UCLA campus.
Refreshments will be provided. For further information email espinoza@irle.ucla.edu or call (310) 206-0812. To view the trailer, visit the film’s website. Co-sponsored by CRS, the Chicano Studies Research Center, the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy. |
| Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 5pm-7pm: “Trials and Tribulations: Enemy Combatants and the Saga of Guantanamo Bay” | Georgetown
law professor and defense attorney for Guantanamo detainees, Muneer
Ahmad, returns to UCLA to provide an update of his critical race
ethnography of Guantanamo Bay. Professor Ahmad delivered the keynote
address at the inaugural symposium of the CRS Symposium in 2007 and
continues his advocacy and scholarly work to connect the relationship
between the detention policies in the US War on Terror and US racial
hierarchies. Room 1357. |
| Friday, March 7, 2008 : “Race, Gender and Sexuality: Abercrombie, Imus and Beyond – the 2nd Annual CRS Symposium and Reunion” | Launched
in April 2007, the CRS Symposium is an annual event which brings
together academics, practitioners, students and community members to
examine leading research on racial justice in an interdisciplinary and
intellectually rigorous forum. This year’s symposium will feature
interdisciplinary academic panels exploring the role of law, culture,
media and community in shaping representations of race, gender and
sexual orientation. Moderated by faculty members of CRS at UCLA, the
sessions this year will consider: • Do employment laws permit, reproduce or challenge these exclusionary practices? • Do media framings of controversies such as Don Imus’ attack on the Rutgers’ women’s basketball team obscure the intersectional nature of discrimination against women of color? • Do stereotypical representations of people of color and their sexuality in media and entertainment influence interracial interactions and opportunities in workplaces, universities and public spaces? The Symposium is free to the public and convenes over 300 people from law schools, ethnic studies and race-related research centers, graduate and undergraduate programs, law firms, legal services organizations and community-based social change agencies from across the country. The CRS Alumni Reunion follows the Symposium. If you are an alumnus interested in attending the Reunion, please contact sarabia@law.ucla.edu.
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Fall Semester 2007
August 27, 2007: "Whither the Court: A Review of the 2006 Supreme Court Term and Its Implications"
CRS Professor Cheryl Harris will comment on the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision restricting the use of race in voluntary desegregation programsin the recent Supreme Court case, Parents
Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, 05-908,
and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education, 05-915.
Several UCLA Law Professors will also provide case commentary and
doctrinal analysis on imporant cases from this Supreme Court's last
term. 6:30pm - 8:30pm in Law 1347. MCLE Credit is available.
Co-sponsored with the Evan Frankel Environmental Law and Policy
Program, Entertainment and Media Law and Policy Program, Program on
Public Interest Law and Policy and the Williams Institute on Sexual
Orientation Law and Public Policy.
September 21, 2007: "A Dialogue with Founding CRT Scholar, Professor Derrick Bell"
Considered
the intellectual forefather and central philosopher of the Critical
Race Theory movement in academia, Professor Derrick Bell is an eminent
figure in American law, civil rights advocacy, and critical race
scholarship. He will participate in a question and answer program as
part of the CRS student colloquium on Friday at 12:30pm in Room 1457.
Co-sponsored with PILPP.
October 4-5, 2007: "Comfort Women Conference"
This
conference the first global gathering of academics, non-governmental
organizations, human rights activists, attorneys, artists, and
importantly, survivors, to raise awareness and strategize about
achieving justice for aging victims of Japan's World War II military
sexual slavery ("JMSS"), euphemistically known as "comfort
women." JMSS was the largest mass sexual trafficking of women known to
modern history. Co-sponsored with Asian Pacific American Law Journal
and Asian Pacific Islander Law Students Association. For more
information about the conference, click here.
October 26, 2007: "Economic Opportunity in California: The Labor and Employment Impact of Prop. 209"
The
symposium will examine and the 10-year impact of Proposition 209 on
public employment, contracting and the public sphere. Organized by the
California Coalition to Analyze the Impact of Proposition 209 and
co-sponsored with several UCLA institutions. The event will be held at
the UCLA Faculty Center.
For more information, visit http://impact209.org/
November 29, 2007: "American Inquisition: The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in World War II"
When
the U.S. government forced 70,000 American citizens of Japanese
ancestry into internment camps in 1942, it created administrative
tribunals to determine who was loyal. Professor Eric Muller's book
"American Inquisition" examines how military and civilian bureaucrats
judged these tens of thousands of American citizens. At a time when
our nation again finds itself beset by worries about an "enemy within"
considered identifiable by race or religion, Muller's research offers
crucial lessons from a recent and disastrous history. CRS Faculty
Director Jerry Kang will provide an introduction and moderate the
discussion. 5:30pm to 7pm, UCLA Young Research Library, Conference
Room, Main Lobby. Co-sponsored with the UCLA Charles E. Young Research
Library and the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and Department.
The CRS Program will also be organizing a Film and Forum Series, on periodic Tuesdays throughout the school year.
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