Santa Barbara’s Mariachi Las Olas, founded and directed by Juan Zaragoza, will showcase a variety of Mexican music genres, including rancheras, boleros, corridos, sones, and gustos.

A CMES Graduate Fellow Panel will feature Camilla Falanesca, Bridge McWaid from the Department of History, and Giovanni Vimercati from Film and Media Studies. The panel will explore topics related to markets, memory, and dispossession.

Chris A. Eng, Assistant Professor of English at Washington University, will discuss his book Extravagant Camp: The Queer Abjection of Asian America, which explores how the dual meanings of camp and encampment have shaped representations of the Asian American figure.

Maurice Backschat, a Research Associate and PhD candidate at the University of Münster and the University of Groningen, will discuss how Nazi ideology and Protestant theological thought often intersected in Nazi Germany, using a case study.

In this talk—part of a book project on Revelation and Whiteness—Professor Lynn R. Huber, Elon University, will explore how modern interpretations overlook the vibrant imagery of Revelation’s throne room and reinforce racialized thinking. She proposes new readings that draw on ancient color theory to challenge dominant narratives and resist anti-Black racism.

The Academy Award-nominated Sugarcane is an empowering tribute to the resilience of Native peoples and a portrait of a community during an international reckoning. A post-screening conversation will follow with Caitlin Keliiaa, author of Refusing Settler Domesticity: Native Women’s Labor and Resistance in the Bay Area Outing Program, and Alex Lilburn, UCSB Film and Media Studies.