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Support Undergraduates’ Research & Creative Work!

Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Showcase (URCAS)

Date: April 18, 2025
Time: 2:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: Building 5, 1st floor

All are invited to EML’s third annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Showcase (URCAS), supported by the Office of Interdisciplinary Ethnic Studies!

EML Undergraduates

by 11:59pm on Sunday, March 30, to present your talk, poster, or creative work at URCAS!

Why Present at URCAS?

  • Boost your professional confidence
  • Enhance public speaking skills
  • Strengthen your resume
  • Sharpen your ability to give/receive feedback
  • Showcase and celebrate creative work
  • Share and disseminate your research findings

Schedule

2:00pm – Keynote address

 talk about decolonial approaches to Chicanx identity, memory, and belonging.

Dr. Ramirez is an Assistant Professor of Latinx Rhetoric & Composition in the Chicano & Latino Studies Department at CSU Long Beach and the author of The Wound and the Stitch: A Genealogy of the Female Body from Medieval Iberia to SoCal Chicanx Art. Dr. Ramirez’s research includes historical rhetorics, cultural rhetorics, multimodal rhetoric, art history, literature, writing, decolonial theory, archival methodologies, & critical composition pedagogy.

3:00pm – Undergraduate presentations

Students’ creative work, material objects, pedagogical materials, and research papers!

Questions? Contact Dr. Valerie Sky.

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