When: Friday, March 1, 2024 (In Person)
Where: James West Alumni Center, The Collins Conference Room, 325 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095

Join us for the 34th Annual Thinking Gender Graduate Student Research Conference “Dystopian Realities, Feminist Utopias.” Thinking Gender 2024’s conference theme considers what it means to live in the cataclysmic wake of racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and neoliberalism. At the same time, the theme celebrates how feminist, queer, and BIPOC scholarship, activism, and art enact utopias by imagining alternatives to hegemonic structures.

The theme seeks to explore how dystopianism serves as an apt metaphor to explore and critique social and political issues related to gender, race, class, and sexuality and how utopianism is an ethical mandate to imagine a better present and future.

Our in-person program on Friday, March 1, 2024, will be open to the public. Guests who have not pre-registered may be admitted if space permits.

Cosponsors

African American Studies

Anthropology

Asian American Studies Center

Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health

Chicana/o and Central American Studies

Comparative Literature

Disability Studies

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

Gender Studies

Graduate Division

Humanities Division

Institute for Research on Labor & Employment

Institute of American Cultures

International Institute

Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, David Geffen School of Medicine

LGBTQ Campus Resource Center

Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies

Theater, Film, & Television

UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy

Social Welfare