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The Mellon Advancing Intercultural Studies Capstone Conference will examine the benefits of and issues surrounding identities and practices formed in the multiethnic, multicultural, and transnational spaces of UCR and Southern California. Funded by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this conference is the culmination of a two-year series of four seminars composed […]

Mellon Advancing Intercultural Studies Lecture with Tom Edsall, Columbia University, on the conflict between conservatives and liberals, Democrats and Republicans.

Following the expulsion or forced conversion of Jews and Moslems from the Iberian peninsula, Northern Italy became a place of refuge for the exiled communities. Jewish culture flourished in the early-modern cities of Ferrara, Mantua and Venice, where intercultural encounters and exchanges enabled the creation of sometimes surprising cultural expressions. In the summer of 1720, […]

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Following the expulsion or forced conversion of Jews and Moslems from the Iberian peninsula, Northern Italy became a place of refuge for the exiled communities. Jewish culture flourished in the early-modern cities of Ferrara, Mantua and Venice, where intercultural encounters and exchanges enabled the creation […]

A Mellon Advancing Intercultural Studies lecture by:

Jonathan Walton, Harvard University
Plummer Professor of Christian Morals
Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church
Professor of Religion and Society

What does it mean to privilege the otherwise despised? What do we gain by searching for the invisible, and siding with the disinherited?
Each week Christians […]

Deborah A. Santiago is the co-founder, Chief Operating Officer and Vice President for Policy at Excelencia in Education. For more than 20 years, she has led research and policy efforts from the community to national and federal levels to improve educational opportunities and success for all students. She co-founded Excelencia in Education to inform policy and practice, compel action, and collaborate with those committed and ready to act to increase student success.

#BlackLivesMatter
Featuring Co-Founders Alicia Garza & Patrisse Cullors

Outraged by the 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, Alicia Garza and Patrisse Cullors (together with Opal Tometi) took to social media to express their anguish and love for the black community. It was then that they turned the powerful words “Black Lives […]

“The Public Practice of Immigrant and Minority Religions in Southern California”

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Deadline for Submissions: January 31, 2015

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Funded by the Mellon Advancing Intercultural Studies grant through the Center for Ideas and Society, this research
seminar will include 4 faculty members, 4 graduate students and 4 undergraduate students to meet weekly […]

Free admission! Sponsored by the Center for Ideas & Society. This riveting Emmy Award nominated film is not only about women’s rights in the mosque but about the struggles of a Muslim community faces as it strives to be a part of American life.

Free admission! Sponsored by the Center for Ideas & Society. Deepened by the perspectives of Imam Khalid Latif of The Islamic Center at NYU, the film challenges stereotypes and cultural beliefs held by both Muslims and the non-Muslim public.

Free admission! Sponsored by the Center for Ideas & Society. Filmmaker Safari follows this women’s rights activist and scholar around the world as she quietly but with utter conviction explains her analysis of Islam in the classroom, at conferences, in her home, and in the hair dresser’s shop.

Free admission! Sponsored by the Center for Ideas & Society. One of Us explores the opaque world of Hasidic Judaism through a cadre of fascinating characters. Through unique and intimate access over the span of three years, acclaimed observational filmmakers Ewing and Grady delve into the lives of three brave individuals who have recently made the decision to leave the insular ultra-orthodox community at the expense of all else, including relationships with their family members and - in one case - their personal safety.

Free admission! Sponsored by the Center for Ideas & Society. Emmy award-winning director Andrew Cohn’s absorbing documentary observes their individual pursuits, fraught with the challenges of daily life and the broader systemic roadblocks faced by many low income Americans.

Free admission! Sponsored by the Center for Ideas & Society. Race to Nowhere is a film that calls us to challenge current thinking about how we prepare our children for success. Named by TakePart.com as one of “10 Education Documentaries You Don’t Want to Miss”, Race to Nowhere brings communities together to spark dialogue and galvanize change in America’s schools.

Free admission! Sponsored by the Center for Ideas & Society. Directed by award-winning documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson, Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities examines the impact Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have had on American history, culture, and national identity.

Free admission! Sponsored by the Center for Ideas & Society. From acclaimed director Steve James (The Interrupters), this Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Feature, Abacus: Small Enough to Jail tells the saga of the Chinese immigrant Sung family, owners of Abacus Federal Savings of Chinatown, New York.

Free admission! Sponsored by the Center for Ideas & Society. Strong Island chronicles the arc of a family across history, geography and tragedy - from the racial segregation of the Jim Crow South to the promise of New York City; from the presumed safety of middle class suburbs, to the maelstrom of an unexpected, violent death. It is the story of the Ford family: Barbara Dunmore, William Ford and their three children and how their lives were shaped by the enduring shadow of race in America.

Free admission! Sponsored by the Center for Ideas & Society. I Am Not Your Negro is an examination of racism in America through the lens of James Baldwin’s unfinished book, Remember This House. Combining Baldwin’s manuscript with footage of depictions of African-Americans throughout American history, I Am Not Your Negro uses Baldwins words to illuminate the pervasiveness of American racism and the efforts to curtail it, from the civil rights movement to #BlackLivesMatter. Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, I Am Not Your Negro explores the continued peril America faces from institutionalized racism.

Free admission! Sponsored by the Center for Ideas & Society. En El Séptimo Día (On The Seventh Day) is a fiction feature from director Jim McKay which follows a group of undocumented immigrants living in Sunset Park, Brooklyn over the course of seven days. 

Free admission! Sponsored by the Center for Ideas & Society. The Economics of Happiness features a chorus of voices from six continents calling for systemic economic change. The documentary describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions.

Growing up as a member of the Children of God, a 20th century new religious movement with antecedents in evangelist Christianity, Flor Edwards was reared to believe the world would end in 1993. Her recent memoir, Apocalypse Child, details her early childhood experiences in the international movement. She will share part of that work with […]

Meshing personal reflections, intimate interviews with strangers and relatives, and music both from Cuban and Sephardic traditions, Adio Kerida offers a bittersweet, lyrical, and often humorous Jewish-Cuban vision of what it means to come from the island of Cuba.

Free film screening: American Promise spans 13 years as Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson, middle-class African-American parents in Brooklyn, N.Y., turn their cameras on their son, Idris, and his best friend, Seun, who make their way through Dalton, one of the most prestigious private schools in the country.

This talk will be about two different ways of understanding economic inequality in the U.S. and will argue not only that it’s conceptually important to distinguish between them but also that it’s politically important to choose between them.

A documentary that follows former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich as he looks to raise awareness of the country's widening economic gap. At the heart of the film is a simple proposition: what is a good society, and what role does the widening income gap play in the deterioration of our nation's economic health?

The title of Ava DuVernay's extraordinary and galvanizing documentary refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which reads "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States."

Twenty-five years after the verdict in the Rodney King trial sparked several days of protests, violence and looting in Los Angeles, LA 92 immerses viewers in that tumultuous period through stunning and rarely seen archival footage.

A Netflix original short documentary, set in Aleppo, Syria and Turkey in early 2016. As the violence intensifies, The White Helmets follows three volunteer rescue workers as they put everything on the line to save civilians affected by the war, all the while wracked with worry about the safety of their own loved ones.

He Named Me Malala is an intimate portrait of Malala Yousafzai, who was wounded when Taliban gunmen opened fire on her and her friends' school bus in Pakistan's Swat Valley. The then 15-year-old teenager, who had been targeted for speaking out on behalf of girls' education in her region of Swat Valley in Pakistan, was shot in the head, sparking international media outrage.

Directed by Peabody award-winner Maria Finitzo and produced by Kartemquin Films (Hoop Dreams), In the Game is a moving, timely documentary that follows the story of the girls’ soccer team at Kelly High School on Chicago’s south side.

Every morning, in big cities, suburbs and small towns across America, parents send their children off to school with the highest of hopes. But a shocking number of students in the United States attend schools where they have virtually no chance of learning--failure factories likelier to produce drop-outs than college graduates.

President Barack Obama began his presidency with pledges of “hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.” Despite many successes, however, the unity he promised has eluded him. As Obama’s presidency draws to an end, with the election of Donald Trump, America is painfully divided.

Requiem for the American Dream is the definitive discourse with Noam Chomsky—widely regarded as the most important intellectual alive—on the defining characteristic of our time: the deliberate concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a select few.

Directed by: Julie Dash
1991 | USA | 112 minutes

Join us after the Friday evening screening for a panel discussion about the film with Dr. Jayna Brown, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies; Paulette Brown-Hinds, Editor-in-Chief of IE Voice. Moderated by Dr. Derek Burrill, Associate […]