Spend the first 10 weeks of the semester on a political campaign in a swing state. Return to campus for the last 5 weeks for the academic component. Students remain enrolled at Oxy and earn 16 units toward graduation. Financial aid applies. Read about the courses,
Alfredo González is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Students at California State University, Dominguez Hills. Dr. González received his B.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2011 and M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago in 2019. His book manuscript, Deporting Veterans: Race, Citizenship, and U.S. Immigrant Military Service since WWI, explores the development of exchanging legal citizenship to immigrants for their labor in the U.S.
2:00 Welcome
2:05 Leah Harman, Manly Medicine: Masculinity in the 19th Century Debate on Puerperal Fever
2:20 Claire Pollard, How to Kill a Queen: Misogyny’s Deadly Effects on Elizabeth I and Mary of Scots
2:35 Maria Barkhurst, A Mechanism for Fundamental Cultural Change’: The Chicana Movement’s Use of the Law as a Tool of Resistance
This talk will be facilitated by Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC and a leading advocate for Open Access.
Ammar Campa-Najjar is a Congressional Candidate for CA-50, Democratic Party. He worked on the Obama campaign and served in the administration. He is the former Communications Director for the US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Professor Behl is the author of Gendered Citizenship (2019). Her work focuses on understanding the causes and consequences of gender and race based inequality in liberal democracies. Also, making sense of racial, gendered and epistemic violence in academis.
Marie Angel Hernandez is an undocumented transgender woman of queer expression. She is an advocate for trans people of color using educational media as a mechanism to bring visibility to their narratives.
Lili Bernard is a Cuban born, LA based visual artist and actor. Her work examines issues of trauma born of sexism and racism, past and present.
Salam al-Marayati is the Executive Director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council. He will be discussing The Promise of American Islam
Join the Institute for the Study of Los Angeles (ISLA) as the authors of the book "From Cows to Concrete The Rise and Fall of Farming in Los Angeles" will enlighten us on the history of agriculture in Los Angeles. We will have copies of the book for sale and plenty of refreshments.
On ""From Cows to Concrete The Rise and Fall of Farming in Los Angeles":