Event Detail Information
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Luis Valdez: The Challenges of Citizenship |
| Event Status: | Updated |
| Modified Date: | 10/30/2008 |
| Start Date: | 11/20/2008 |
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| Event Time: | 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM |
| Title: | Luis Valdez: The Challenges of Citizenship |
| Location: | Price Center |
| Room Name: | Ballrooms A & B |
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| Event Category: | Lectures/Seminars -Social Awareness |
| Sponsor: | Human Rights and Global Citizenship Symposium |
| Open to Public: | YES |
| Admission Cost: | Free |
| Contact Name: | Morris Julie |
| Contact Phone: | (858) 534-4004 Ext. |
| Contact Email: | jmorris@ucsd.edu |
| Description: | Luis Valdez, the renowned filmmaker, playwright and activist will discuss the problems of citizenship in the United States. A powerful speaker, Luis Valdez is regarded as one of the most important and influential American playwrights living today. His internationally renowned, and Obie award winning theater company, El Teatro Campesino (The Farm Workers' Theater) was founded by Luis in 1965 - in the heat of the United Farm Workers (UFW) struggle and the Great Delano Grape Strike in California's Central Valley.
A panel of experts will follow the lecture at 8:30 pm, and hold discussion of the themes of citizenship, border & diversity matters following the lecture. Mr. Valdez will be introduced by Professor Jorge Huerta, Associate Chancellor and Chief Diversity Officer Emeritus. Visit our website at HTTP://PROVOST.UCSD.EDU/HUMANRIGHTS |
