CSW|Streisand Center: 2023 Year in Review
Thank You for a Memorable Year!
As we approach the end of the 2022–2023 academic year, we want to take a moment to reflect on some of the highlights. It has been a year of accomplishments, celebrations, and our first in-person events since the beginning of the pandemic. We are truly grateful for your support of the CSW|Streisand Center!
Fall 2022 Reception
CSW|Streisand Center celebrated the start of the new academic year with faculty, staff, and friends from Gender Studies and the campus community.
Criminalizing Reproduction Before and After Dobbs
On November 7, 2022, we hosted a panel discussion on the criminalization of reproductive freedom before and after the Dobbs decision that ended Roe v. Wade, and on strategies for advocacy. The panel featured distinguished speakers Yasmin Cader, Rafa Kidvai, Samantha Lee, and Priscilla Ocen, and was moderated by CSW|Streisand Center Director Grace Hong.
We’re Alive Film Screening and Discussion In 1974, three UCLA student filmmakers made a bold documentary about incarcerated women. Then the film disappeared. Fifty years later, We’re Alive was rediscovered and CSW|Streisand Center and the UCLA Film & Television Archive collaborated to present a public screening of the film followed by a panel discussion. The panel included Susan Bustamante and Romarilyn Ralston, who both experienced incarceration at the California Institution for Women; filmmakers Christine Lesiak, Kathy Levitt, and Michie Gleason; Colby Lenz, deputy director of policy and community research of the CSW|Streisand Center; and May Hong HaDuong, director of the UCLA Film & Television Archive, a division of the UCLA Library.
Thinking Gender 2023In February 2023, CSW|Streisand Center hosted the 33rd annual Thinking Gender Conference, this year on the theme “Transforming Research: Feminist Methods for Times of Crisis and Possibility.” The conference highlighted student research on the theme as it pertained to women, sexuality, and gender across all disciplines and historical periods. We were honored to have engaging public presentations by T.L. Cowan, Jas Rault, and Celine Parreñas Shimizu. Cowan and Rault also facilitated a graduate student workshop, and Shimizu held a Q&A after the screening of her filmThe Celine Archive.
Survivors + Allies Teach-In
On May 9, 2023, CSW|Streisand Center co-hosted a teach-in with Survivors + Allies, a student-run campus group, to share the results of their UC-wide study of student experiences with campus-based and off-campus resources for survivors of sexual violence.
Read Survivors + Allies: Teach-In Recap
2023 Awards Luncheon
On May 19, 2023, we hosted CSW|Streisand Center’s annual awards luncheon at the UCLA Botanical Garden to celebrate the recipients of our faculty, graduate, and undergraduate awards. Congratulations to our 40 award recipients!
Faculty Research Grants 2023–2024
Congratulations to our 2023–-2024 Faculty Research Grant awardees: professors Jennifer Wagman, Purnima Mankekar, Lieba Faier, Tamara Levitz, Ugo Edu, Alesia Montgomery, Floridalma Boj Lopez, Tiffany Barber, Luwei Ying, Courtney Thomas Tobin, Giuseppina Silvestri, and Veronica Paredes.
Read more about the 2023–2024 Faculty Research Grant Awardees
BLOG HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE YEAR
CSWAC Corner Interview:
Michelle Liu Carriger
Professor Michelle Liu Carriger researches clothing and performance of self in everyday 19th-century life in Britain and Japan, as well as how clothing and fashion can serve as historiographical methods for maintaining bodily links to the past.
CSWAC Corner Interview:
Nina Eidsheim
Nina Eidsheim is a professor of musicology at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and founder and director of the UCLA Practice-based Experimental Epistemology (PEER) Lab, an experimental research lab dedicated to decolonializing data, methodology, and analysis in multisensory creative practices.
CSWAC Corner Interview:
Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi
Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, assistant professor of Asian American studies, conducts interdisciplinary research engaging critical refugee studies, comparative ethnic studies, and transpacific studies.
Interview with Streisand Scholar Marie-Pierre (MP) Delisle
In this interview, Marie-Pierre (MP) Delisle discusses their research and experience in coastal engineering, their work at the Coastal Flood Lab, and why people need to care about the safety of our coastal communities.
Interview with Streisand Scholar Maria Winters
Maria Winters shares her research and experience in shoreline restoration and her work to protect vital coast communities.
