Institute for the Study of Los Angeles - Occidental College

Join us next Tuesday 5/5, for a lecture on Cinco de Mayo with ISLA Scholar in Residence Gustavo Arellano! Gustavo will lecture from 12 - 1 PST, and resume his community office hours after.

You can email [email protected] to book a one-on-one video call during his office hours, every Tuesday from 12 - 3!

Register today for the LA Housing Crisis Colloquium at the Huntington on March 14th!

Go to our website for an update on the program regarding the history of housing in Los Angeles

Join us tonight as we welcome back Craig Torres (Tongva) and Abe Sanchez (Purepecha) of the Chia Café Collective for an interactive workshop that explores the healing properties of our plant relatives and their cultural contexts.

November 21, 7pm

This series is presented in conjunction with exhibition “Breaking Bread in L.A.", on view through November 24th. @ Occidental College

Join the Institute for the Study of Los Angeles (ISLA) as we continue our speaker series "Breaking Bread in LA: Connecting Communities and Cultures through Food", This series is compliment to the series of events this semester by Oxy Arts. Tonight, we welcome Los Angeles Times Writer Gustavo Arellano. He will be giving a talk that expands on his recent article on the history of the Times' coverage of Mexican Food! We hope to see you there!

Tonight at Choi Auditorium 7:00pm on the Occidental College campus.

Hope to see you there!

https://www.oxy.edu/events/gustavo-arellano-mexican-food-los-angeles-times

Please join us as we collaborate with Lummis Day for the 'Viva Poetry' series of free workshops curated by Suzanne Lummis. No experience needed just show up and get ready to be creative with friends!

Saturday | May 11th
3-5pm
Arroyo Seco Regional Library - Los Angeles Public Library
"A Machine Made of Words" with Rick Bursky

Saturday | May 25th
3-5pm
Eagle Rock Branch - Los Angeles Public Library
"Meeting the Mysterious Self" with Alicia Vogl Saenz

Sunday | June 2nd
12:30-1:30pm
Lummis Home
"Ode" with William Archilla

Tomorrow Tuesday | April 9th at 6pm JSC Morrison Lounge- Occidental College is the culminating talk by the incredible Dr. Vicki Ruiz "An Elegant Radical: Luisa Moreno & Her Search for Social Justice" An immigrant from Guatemala, Luisa Moreno was one of the most prominent women labor leaders in the US from about 1930-47.

Her contributions over the entire academic year here at Occidental have been tremendous. Please join us for this event that is free and open to the public to give her a strong send off.

She was recently awarded the Roy Rosenzweig Distinguished Service Award by the Organization of American Historians.

Felicidades Vicki we so appreciate all that you shared with us!

Facebook invite: https://www.facebook.com/events/2247425545324416/

Save the date as ISLA and the Occidental College- Center for Community Based Learning bring Kathy Kobayashi to campus. This is part of the series of events curated by Visiting Scholar, Vicki Ruiz.

"Shades of LA: Collecting Images from LA’s Diverse Family Albums"

Wednesday | March 27th
Choi Auditorium- Occidental College

5:30pm- reception
6pm- talk

Free & open to the public

The Shades of LA at the Los Angeles Public Library is a well-used and well-loved collection of almost 10,000 photos, copied from the diversity of LA’s family albums. They not only represent a wide range of people previously missing from public collections, but they are also important because they show people from inside their communities, inside their families, and not simply the way outsiders might view them.

Kathy Kobayashi is a third-generation Japanese American from Texas, who has lived in Southern California for more than 40 years. As a historical consultant, she worked on Shades of LA and other projects with Carolyn Kozo Cole at the Photo Collection - Los Angeles Public Library, and they co-authored the book, Shades of LA: Pictures from Ethnic Family Albums. She also worked on the statewide Shades of California project, and she has been on the board of Photo Friends for 20 years.

Earlier, she was an undergraduate at Rice University, a Thomas J. Watson Fellow in Europe and East Africa, and a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, studying American social history for a master’s degree. She also taught at UC Riverside and worked for the California Council for the Humanities.

Funded by the Andrew Mellon Arts & the Urban Experience Grant, Howard & Roberta Ahmanson, with additional support from the Occidental College History Department, /o & Latin American Studies Department.

Today we are honored to welcome Mary Ann Villareal to campus for her talk: "A Face to a Name:
From Audio Recording to Visual Storytelling"

Wed.| Feb. 13th

Occidental College- Johnson Student Center (JSC)
Salsbury-Young Room

5:30pm reception with light snacks
6pm talk

In 1995, Mary Ann Villarreal conducted her first oral history interview. With a list of questions, a cassette recorder, and microphone in hand she met Marisela Norte at the Astro Burger on Beverly Blvd. In between the street noise, she collected a set of moving stories about the places that inspired Norte’s writings. A few years later, Villarreal used both a cassette recorder and digital video camera to capture the oral histories of the women who took center stage in her book Listening to Rosita. Recording them in their 80s, Villarreal captured their voices and for some, performances as they recalled their days in front of audiences. In this talk, Villarreal shares her experiences with using new technologies for her oral histories and translating their significance on the South Texas landscape.

Mary Ann Villarreal is an award-winning author for her book Listening to Rosita: The Business of Tejana Music and Culture, 1930–1955. Currently she serves on the AAC&U Board of Directors and American Historical Association Committee in Gender and Equity. She holds a Ph.D. in History from Arizona State University and an A.B. from Mount Holyoke College. Before coming to California State University, Fullerton as Assistant VP of Strategic Initiatives, Villarreal held faculty positions in Colorado and Utah.

Map of how to arrive to JSC Salsbury-Young: https://map.oxy.edu/?id=1103 #!m/267740