March 14 and 15, 2016, California State University Northridge

Central American Studies Annual Symposium

Tuesday, March 15 from 11:00am-12:15pm
Keynote Address
“Counterculture and Revolution: El Salvador 1960-1980”
Ricardo Roque Baldovinos, Universidad Centroamericana “José Simeón Cañas”, El Salvador

Click here to view the symposium’s complete program

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Tuesday, March 15, 2016, CalArts F200, 7:30pm

Paul Brach Visiting Artist Lecture Series, School of Art, CalArts

Regina José Galindo

Regina Jose Galindo (b. 1974) was born in Guatemala City where she is currently still working. She is a visual artist specializing in performance art. Her work explores the universal ethical implications of social injustices related to racial, gender and other abuses involved in the unequal power relations operating in contemporary society. Galindo is also a poet. In 1998, she received the Premio Unico de Poesia from the Mirna Mack Foundation. Her texts are part of several anthologies and magazines and in 1996, the Coloquia Foundation published her book, Personal e Intransmisible, in Guatemala.

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Wednesday, March 16, 2016, Council Chambers, 8pm

West Hollywood Aesthetics and Politics Lecture Series (WHAP)

Curated by James Wiltgen

Claire Colebrook: ‘The Photographic Eye, the Cinematic Eye and Moral Aesthetics’

West Hollywood Library (625 N. San Vicente Boulevard, West Hollywood, CA 90069)

Claire Colebrook is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Penn State University. She has written books and articles on queer theory, feminist theory, contemporary European philosophy, poetics, literary history and literary theory. Her most recent books are Sex After Life and Death of the Posthuman (both with Open Humanities Press, 2014). She is currently completing Fragility: Species, Archive, Planet (forthcoming from Duke).

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Monday, March 14, 2016, 3pm

California State University, Northridge

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Monday, March 14, 2016, 4pm

California State University, Northridge

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Tuesday, March 15, 2016, 7-9pm

At The Reef in downtown Los Angeles