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From Dreams to Action: Cultivando La Salud Desde Sus Raíces
During this event we are honored to be hosting three community leaders who have improved access to healthcare in LatinX communities. Cástulo de la Rocha (CEO of AltaMed) helped grow one of the largest community health networks in the country serving Latino families. Jane Garcia(CEO of La Clinica de La Raza) Has spent decades building community-based healthcare that focuses in prevention. Luisa Buada (CEO of Ravenswood) continues to fight for accessible care in communities that are often overlooked. We’ll be in conversation about what it takes to lead a change purpose and cultivate health from our roots.
Unpayable Debt: A book talk with Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva
UPDATE: The upcoming event featuring Dr. Ferreira da Silva has been postponed. Due to unforeseen circumstances, we are unable to proceed with the event as scheduled.
Rest assured, we are actively working on rescheduling the event, and the new date will be announced as soon as it is finalized. Please sign up for our newsletter for more updates.
Join us for a powerful presentation by Professor Denis Ferreira da Silva (New York University) where she will discuss her most recent book, Unpayable Debt, which exposes how coloniality and raciality operate in the juridical, ethical, and symbolic systems that facilitate the takeover of labor and extraction of land. We will explore how deadly diseases, such as COVID-19 and dengue, are exacerbated within these systems obstructing health as the maximum expression of well-being.
Accessibility:
This event is free, open to the public, and wheelchair accessible. Please contact criticalstudyhlc@gmail.com or (619)884-8709 for other accommodations or information.
This event will be in person and recorded. A recording will be uploaded to our YouTube page after the event. To be notified when the recording is available, please sign up for our newsletter on our website.
Film Screening: Soot Breath/Corpus Infinitum with Professor Denise Ferreira da Silva
UPDATE: The upcoming event featuring Dr. Ferreira da Silva has been postponed. Due to unforeseen circumstances, we are unable to proceed with the event as scheduled.
Rest assured, we are actively working on rescheduling the event, and the new date will be announced as soon as it is finalized. Please sign up for our newsletter for more updates.
Join us for a film screening of Professor. Denise Ferreira da Silva’s film Soot Breath/Corpus Infinitum, a collaboration with filmmaker Arjuna Neuman. Soot Breath/Corpus Infinitum is a film dedicated to tenderness. It explores the nexus of environmental challenges, racial disparities, and health impacts, emphasizing the disproportionate effects of resource extraction on marginalized communities. Turning away from European and colonial constructions of the human the film turns to the skin, heat, and tenderness, as a way to speculate how to live otherwise with other humans.
Accessibility Information:
We believe in making our events accessible to everyone. If you require accommodation for effective communication or need details about campus mobility access features to participate in this event fully, please let us know below. (Venue is wheelchair accessible.)
This event is free, open to the public, and wheelchair accessible. For other accommodations or information, please contact criticalstudyhlc@gmail.com or (619)884-8709.
The Relational Approach to Study of Processes of Health/disease/healthcare featuring Dr. Eduardo L. Menéndez
In this lecture, Dr. Menéndez will describe and analyze some of the main features of a relational approach to processes of health/disease/healthcare.
Walking Through History: Activism in Labor and Health
The Center for the Critical Study of the Health of Latinx Communities is pleased invite you to ‘Walking Through History: Activism in Labor and Health’, featuring Dolores Huerta, Lupe Martinez, Ruth Martinez, Yolanda Chacon-Serna, and Roberto Bustos. Since the 1960s these activist and community organizers have championed for improved social conditions in labor and health in the Central Valley.
In this event, we hope to bring the community together to honor and celebrate the strides made by leaders within the farm-working community, acknowledge persisting challenges, and chart a path inspiring new generations of activists, professionals, and leaders to study the social determinants affecting the health of Latinx communities.
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From Dreams to Action: A Conversatorio with Mayor Rey León
The Center for the Critical Study of the Health of Latinx Communities invites Rey León, Mayor of Huron and Berkeley graduate for a conversation about the work the City of Huron, in the San Joaquin Valley, are doing to address systemic inequalities.