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Professor Gerardo Aldana's impressive outreach program!

“The metaphor we always use is ‘lifting the hood,’” said Aldana, a professor of anthropology and of Chicano/a studies, who has a bachelor’s degree in engineering and was a MESA tutor throughout his undergraduate years. “It’s that idea of taking what they know, what’s familiar, and opening it up, lifting the hood, to see what’s underneath. You say we’re going to do something with a cell phone and you have their attention, then it’s a matter of how do you keep it. We have great context, great materials and great activities. And these wonderful [graduate] mentors.”

Professor Gerardo Aldana's impressive outreach program!

“The metaphor we always use is ‘lifting the hood,’” said Aldana, a professor of anthropology and of Chicano/a studies, who has a bachelor’s degree in engineering and was a MESA tutor throughout his undergraduate years. “It’s that idea of taking what they know, what’s familiar, and opening it up, lifting the hood, to see what’s underneath. You say we’re going to do something with a cell phone and you have their attention, then it’s a matter of how do you keep it. We have great context, great materials and great activities. And these wonderful [graduate] mentors.”

Professor Gerardo Aldana's impressive outreach program!

“The metaphor we always use is ‘lifting the hood,’” said Aldana, a professor of anthropology and of Chicano/a studies, who has a bachelor’s degree in engineering and was a MESA tutor throughout his undergraduate years. “It’s that idea of taking what they know, what’s familiar, and opening it up, lifting the hood, to see what’s underneath. You say we’re going to do something with a cell phone and you have their attention, then it’s a matter of how do you keep it. We have great context, great materials and great activities. And these wonderful [graduate] mentors.”

Chican@/ Latin@ Graduation (CLG): Last Meeting is Wednesday, February 24!

Event Start: February 24, 2016 07:30 PM

Event End: February 24, 2016 07:30 PM

Event Location: Buchanan 1920

Event Details:

Chican@/ Latin@ Graduation (CLG)

Last meeting of the quarter

Feb. 24

Buchanan 1920

6:30pm

Pedagogy Notebook: From Panza to Las Hociconas: Performance Pedagogy in the Chicana/o Studies Classroom

How to engage Chicana/Latina theatre at the university level? READ THIS: "From Panza to Las Hociconas: Performance Pedagogy in the Chicana/o Studies Classroom" - a smart, productive essay by our own Chicana and Chicano Studies graduate student, Magda Garcia!

Film Screening and Discussion: “Muriendo Por Cruzar (Dying to Cross)”

Event Start: March 30, 2016 07:00 PM

Event End: March 30, 2016 07:00 PM

Event Location: Pollock Theater

Event Price:

Free

Event Details:

Thursday, March 3, 2016

7PM 

Pollock Theater, UC Santa Barbara

Free Admission

Baile Thru the Ages

Event Start: February 20, 2016 10:00 PM

Event End: February 21, 2016 02:00 AM

Event Location: Del Pueblo Cafe 5134 Hollister Ave.

Event Price:

$5 at the door

Event Details:

February 20, 2016

9pm-1am

$5 at the door

All ages welcome

Del Pueblo Cafe

5134 Hollister Ave., Santa Barbara, CA

Sal Castro Memorial Conference on the Emerging Historiography of the Chicano Movement

Event Start: February 26, 2016 09:30 AM

Event End: February 27, 2016 04:00 PM

Event Price:

Free and open to the public

Event Details:

Feb. 26-27

8:30am-6pm

McCune Room of the IHC

Free and open to the public