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Professor Gaspar de Alba Retirement Symposium
2026-02-26 09:00 - 19:00 UTC | Northwest Campus Auditorium
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Please join us for a celebration of Profe Gaspar De Alba’s incredible career and lasting legacy at UCLA. Let’s celebrate her research and impact!
Hosted by the UCLA Center for Musical Humanities in partnership with the Dean of Social Sciences and the Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies, “Queering Sor Juana” will include two panels and a showcase performance of arias from the opera JUANA, which is based on Gaspar de Alba’s historical novel, Sor Juana’s Second Dream. The opera premiered with Opera UCLA in 2019, with two sold-out performances and a glowing review in The Los Angeles Times.
Free and open to the public, but all attendees must register online. Lunch and reception will be provided for the participants and first 50 registered guests only.
“Otro Corazón 3: Queering Sor Juana” builds on past symposia organized by Alicia Gaspar de Alba in her “Corazón” series,1 and is offered as part of a year-long celebration of her 32-year academic career at UCLA, focusing on her lifetime of research and creative engagement with Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the 17th-century Mexican nun/poet/scholar who is hailed all over the world as the “first feminist of the Americas” and the Mexican “Tenth Muse.”

CCAS 2026 Commencement
2026-06-13 10:00 - 12:00 | UCLA Sunset Village, Covel Commons
The faculty and staff of the Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies look forward to celebrating our Class of 2026 Commencement, Doctoral Hooding Ceremony, and M.A. Commencement.
The Department Ceremony will be held on Saturday, June 13, 2026. Doors will open at 9:00 a.m., and the ceremony will take place from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
More information coming soon!
