Organized by the African Studies Center and presented by UC Multi-campus Research Group on New Approaches to Black Atlantic Religions and University of California Office of the President Multi-campus Research Programs & Initiative Funding (MRPI) Date: Saturday, October 27, 2018 Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Location: 10383 Bunche Hall Program: http://www.international.ucla.edu/asc/event/13430 Free and open to the public! This multidisciplinary group composed of faculty from multiple UC campuses will critically assess the current state of scholarship on Black Atlantic belief…

#masshysteria. Hysteria, Politics, and Performance Strategies A conference organized by the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies and the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies Date: November 1, 2018 Time: 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM Location: 306 Royce Hall RSVP: https://french.ucla.edu/event/masshysteria-hysteria-politics-and-performance-strategies-conference/ In Europe, especially in Vienna and Paris, around 1900, the hysterical girl was a well-studied object in arts and sciences; she re-appeared, a hundred years later, in countless manifestations in US mainstream horror films. In addition, key…

Screening and Conversation with Director Paul Cronin   Organized by Susan Slyomovics, UCLA Department of Anthropology Date: November 4, 2018 Time: 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM Location: James Bridges Theater A screening of the seven-hour-long documentary film, with discussion with director Paul Cronin.     Co-Sponsored by: Center for the Study of Women Department of French and Francophone Studies Division of Social Sciences Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance Department of English School…

Guest Lecture by Jack Halberstam Professor of English, Comparative Literature and Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Columbia University. This guest lecture is part of the UCLA event series #masshysteria. Hysteria, Politics, and Performance Strategies organized by the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies. Date: Monday, November 5, 2018 Time: 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm Location: 10383 Bunche Hall FREE ADMISSION While transgender has mostly been discussed in the last decade in terms of making bodies and selves, Jack Halberstam will discuss…

A one-day symposium on black women's care, wellness, and healing presented by the UC Consortium for Black Studies in California. This event explores the relationship between individual practices of care and care as an investment in communities (particularly those haunted by precarity and disposability), and reimagines care (and harm and depletion) as emerging not just from late capitalist phenomena like stress and work burn-out, but also from racist institutions, historical violence, structural neglect, and familial wounds. Closing Reception will be held from…