Call for Presentations: 1st Annual MCC Symposium
Call for Presentations
First Annual Research Symposium
UC Berkeley’s Multicultural Community Center
May 2, 2012
*** Deadline for Submission: April 18, 2012 ***
The Multicultural Community Center (MCC) is hosting its first annual research symposium showcasing original research conducted by undergraduate and graduate students, as well as post-doctoral scholars. As a student driven space, the MCC is excited honor the work we do as scholars and activists within our communities and believe that in order to further our academic, professional and creative development we must continually engage in critical dialogue with one another.
The symposium is scheduled for Wednesday May 2, 2012 at UC Berkeley’s Multicultural Community Center from 10am to 6pm.
The program will include presentations by students, poster presentations and keynote addresses. We invite all students and post-docs to submit paper and/or poster proposals for inclusion in the symposium. There are no restrictions as to the field or topic of study. We encourage presentations that engage with the values and principles of the MCC (http://mcc.berkeley.edu/about).
Deadline for abstract submission is extended to April 18th! Paper and poster submissions can be submitted online and should include a 250 word research abstract.
Please follow the following link to submit your
paper/poster for consideration:
Submission form:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dC1TYjJHWDhxbUwtbXo1cHFPRXlkeFE6MQ
Symposium registration includes a light lunch and coffee breaks. Please help us ensure the success of the symposium by registering as soon as possible! This is a great opportunity to present some of that work you’ve been doing! Or even just see what research is all about!
Please register to attend the symposium today!!
Registration form:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDRobVRYRHNlZGhEOEJ0c3ZjaXJ3Rmc6MQ
On behalf of the UC Berkeley Multicultural Community Center, we look forward to your participation at our first annual research symposium! For any questions regarding the symposium, please email us at:
Check Facebook & MCC Tumbler for updates!!
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Sincerely,
Gabriela Monico & Barira Rashid
MCC Interns & Symposium Co-Coordinators
Apply to become an MCC intern! :)
Priority deadline for applications is APRIL 13, 2012.
Dear Campus & Community Partners,
The Multicultural Community Center (MCC) is currently
seeking Student Interns to staff and implement programming
in the MCC for the 2012-2013 academic school year. The
MCC Internship is intended to facilitate students’ greater
involvement in the MCC as well as their broader engagement
in multicultural-related education, collaboration and community-
building.
Rooted in the 1999 Ethnic Studies Strike and Agreement, the
MCC has had a profound history of struggle, student-visioning
and vibrant programming in the decade since its inception.
Building on increased—and student-won—funding, Interns are
an integral part of the MCC’s future as a student-driven and
community-centered space. The MCC Internship is a unique
opportunity to create and engage in innovative, reflexive and
grass roots programming and project design, collective decision-
making structures, equitable and accessible space management,
evaluation processes, etc. As an ever growing and evolving
space on campus, we are looking for interns who are highly
motivated and ready to invest in both themselves and the year-
long MCC internship program.
The majority of MCC Intern positions will be allocated to workstudy
eligible students. Non-workstudy eligible students (including AB540
and undocumented students) will also be considered for MCC
Intern positions based on their specific potential to contribute
particular skills and expertise needed for the MCC to fulfill its
programmatic and logistical vision.
If you are interested in applying for an MCC Intern position, please
complete the attached application. Completed applications can
be turned in to the MCC Front Desk during regular open hours.
Hard copies of applications can be picked up at the MCC Front
Desk during open hours. Electronic applications can also be accessed at:
New Applicants:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0bhiklfpt9QeHotTk8zM09RaVdKTG0taXN1MTE0QQ/edit
GenEq-MCC Liaison Position:
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B0bhiklfpt9QVmNrb2dyZHVRTVN1bDQwSFlkNXFmUQ
Priority deadline for receipt of all application
materials is: APRIL 13, 2012.
MCC Internship Information Sessions will occur between
April 1st-12th, 2012. Keep an eye on our calendar for more
details (http://mcc.berkeley.edu/calendar)!!!
Questions? Please email Elisa Huerta at elisahuerta@berkeley.edu
or come by the MCC and talk to an intern or two!!
The Malaya Project
In collaboration with Barangay LA, a Filipino LGBTQ community organization, photographer Deney Tuazon and filmmaker Gregory Pacificar, come together to create The Malaya (Free) Project. A year long photography project highlighting the lives of various proud gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer Filipino/as in
Los Angeles.
Week of Culture Resistance
Please join us for an event packed week from March 2nd - 9th for WoCR
WoCR is a week of events and workshops celebrating activism and liberation on multiple levels. This week culminates NoCR (Night of Cultural Resistance) which feature live music, art and other exciting activities, such as beading, t-shirt making, live graffiti, t-shirt making and haircuts.
This years theme is:
“BE”. We invite you to BE resistance, BE love, BE creativity, BE community, BE freedom, and to BE… What do you want to BE?
Much MCC Love! See you there!
FRIDAY, March 2nd
4-6pm|Pauley Ballroom
ON REVOLUTION:
A conversation with Grace Lee Boggs & Angela Davis
w/ screening of ‘American Revolutionary’
SATURDAY, March 3rd
9:30am - 5:30pm|MLK Jr. Student Union
27th Annual Empowering Women of Color Conference
A Holistic Approach: Justice, Access & Healing
Registration Required. Please visit ewocc.wordpress.com for more details
5:30pm - 7:00pm|MCC
EWOCC Reception
MONDAY, March 5th
6-8pm|MCC
Decolonizing Knowledge Panel & Dialogue
Moderated by: Lisa D. Walker
TUESDAY, March 6th
4-6pm|MCC
The Ethnography of Black/Queer/Diaspora: Tracing Circuits of Desire
w/ Professor Jafari Allen, Yale University
6:30-9pm|MCC
Food Justice Workshop & Dialogue: An Introduction to
Local & Global Movements
WEDNESDAY, March 7th
3-5pm|MCC
¡Chicana Power! Contested Histories of Feminism in the
Chicano Movement w/ Professor Maylei Blackwell, UCLA
6-8pm|MCC
Trabajos artesanales en el tiempo de neoliberalismo // Traditional Craftwork in the era of Neoliberalism
Flor Crisostomo, Colectivo Raahuna
THURSDAY, March 8th
12:00-2:00pm|MCC
MCC Mural Unveiling Reception w/Cece Carpio|Muralist
w/ screening of ‘Rootedness, Survival, Resiliency, Creativity: The Making of Our Mural’
6:30-8:30pm|MCC
Mujeres, Musica & Mariachis: Celebrating & Honoring Women’s Herstory Month
w/ Mariachi Femenil Orgullo Mexicano
FRIDAY, March 9th
6:00-9:00pm|MCC
13th Annual Night of Cultural Resistance
Performances, Art Exhibition & Live Art
Featuring: Plinio Hernandez, Teresa DeBerry, Cece Carpio, Sweet Lodge Sistaz, One Love
Oceania,Young Gifted & Black &La Santa Cecilia and more!!!!
ADA ACCESSIBLE. Please see: http://access.berkeley.edu
Come join us Thursday, Feb. 16th, for the screening of The Edge of Each Other’s Battles: The Vision of Audre Lorde, followed by group dialogue, celebrating the work and art of the great Black lesbian feminist poet and author.
Directed by Sam Pollard, produced by Catherine Allan and Douglas Blackmon, written by Sheila Curran Bernard, the tpt National Productions project is based on the 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Blackmon. Slavery by Another Name challenges one of our country’s most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery ended with Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. The documentary recounts how in the years following the Civil War, insidious new forms of forced labor emerged in the American South, keeping hundreds of thousands of African Americans in bondage, trapping them in a brutal system that would persist until the onset of World War II. via PBS Film
Click Here To Watch The Full Film
- CARTER Magazine
A MUST watch!
(via costumepartypolitics)
Source: video.pbs.org
The MCC’s Mural will be unveiled March 8th-12th!!
Don’t miss out of “New Fire”!
Last week I went to see Cherrie Moraga’s most recent play, New Fire at the Brava Theater in San Francisco. Before the play started I saw the beautiful work of Celia Rodriguez in the set and costume designs, then the lights when off, and the show began. There were so many powerful and deep themes to learn from, but what caught my attention the most were the conversations around healing that took place throughout the play.
I highly recommend you all to watch this beautiful play (there are 3 left shows left!) and learn about the protagonist, a chicana named Vero, who is turning 52 years old and is performing a medicine ceremony to attempt to get well and clear herself from the poisonous violence done against her.
Love,
MCC Intern
“We must open the wound to make it heal, purify ourselves with the prick of Maguey thorns …”- Cherrie Moraga, 1992
It was said that during times of chaos, this female force came down to earth to put things right again.— Roadwoman, New Fire
MCC LIBRARY!
If you didn’t know already, we are in the works of creating the MCC LIBRARY!!!! This semester, we’re only in the compiling phase, and are taking donations from our community members. We are hoping to make our books and resources in the MCC Library available to you starting Spring semester.
We really want to have YOUR participation throughout the process of creating our Library, because it will be for YOUR use and resource! (:
There are two ways you can participate:
1. If you have any books or readers or textbooks or publications or readers laying around, please donate! If you donate 2 or more items, we will give you an MCC sticker!
2. Please help us compile a list of (text)books/readers/publications for our library! We really want to hear what you would like to read, and make that available to you!! Click this text to access the survey.
Thanks so much! Be on the lookout for further updates on the MCC Library!
-MCC Librarian
