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Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas

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Founded in 1992, the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas (Huerta Center) at UC Santa Cruz is the first research center in the UC system to put in conversation the historically disconnected fields of Chicanx/Latinx and Latin American studies. Named in honor of Dolores Huerta in 2022, the Huerta Center is a multidisciplinary research unit where we bring together U.S. and international scholars to advance cross-border research, and professionally mentor students to prepare them for future career success.

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  • November 2026

  • Wed 4
    Miguel Fernandez seated in brown leather arm chair with a skateboard leaning against the chair.

    Skate for Change: Norma Ibarra’s Photography and Indigenous Skateboarding as Decolonial Praxis: A Brown Bag with Miguel Fernandez

    November 4 @ 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
    Huerta Center Conference Room (Casa Latina) 641 Merrill Rd, Santa Cruz,, CA

    Norma Ibarra, born in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, photographs underrepresented and marginalized skateboarders such as female-identifying skaters across Mexico for her photobook Para Ti (2021), and self-fashioned Indigenous skaters for the Museum of Vancouver 2021-22 exhibition, Skate for Change. This presentation focuses on the latter, articulating how Ibarra’s collaboration with her participants circulate the decolonial potential […]

  • Mon 9
    Jessica Stites Mor headshot

    Imagining Revolution in the Non-Aligned World with Dr. Jessica Stites Mor

    November 9 @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm Sovereignty and Solidarity Fall Speaker Series
    Charles E. Merrill Lounge Rutherford House, Santa Cruz, CA

    As a part of the Sovereignty & Solidarity Fall Speaker Series, the Huerta Center is thrilled to host Dr. Jessica Stites Mor from The University of British Columbia. This talk will explore how Cuban photojournalism of the 1960s-1970s functioned as an infrastructure of tricontinental solidarity shaping anti-imperial vocabularies and forging new global networks of struggle. […]

  • Tue 17
    Jennifer Gottlieb in white button down shirt leaning on a metal bar with greenery behind them.

    Displacements of Cubanidad: Drag, Pageantry, and Diasporic Representation -A Huerta Center Brown Bag presentation with Jennifer Gottlieb

    November 17 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
    Huerta Center Conference Room (Casa Latina) 641 Merrill Rd, Santa Cruz,, CA

    In this talk, Jennifer interrogates how Cuban identity is performed, disciplined, and made legible within globalized media systems that simultaneously celebrate diversity and constrain it through drag and beauty pageantry. Rather than treating Cubanidad as a stable or unified identity, Cubanidad is discussed as a mobile and contested formation shaped by histories of economic crisis, […]

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