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

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CONVERSATIONS WITH THE INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN CULTURES

VISITING RESEARCHERS AND SCHOLARS

1. 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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