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September 2018
“Hope” — Part of Transformation: Lectures, Conversations and Storytelling about Healing and Social Action”
Part of the series Transformation: Lectures, Conversations, and Stories About Healing and Social Action, sponsored by Repair. Stories by Kandee Rochelle Lewis, Anam Ella Durrani, Shawna Charles Welcome and Introductions by Rachel Lee, Director, UCLA Center for the Study of Women Opening lecture by Beth Ribet Hope is the second event in the Transformation storytelling series. The series features community organizers, advocates, healers, survivors, theorists, and artists, in the role of “storyteller”. Storytellers will draw from their life experiences and personal and communal…
Find out more »November 2018
A Time to Stir: The 1968 Columbia Student Uprising
Organized by Susan Slyomovics, UCLA Department of Anthropology Date: November 4, 2018 Time: 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM Location: TBD A screening of the seven-hour-long documentary film, with discussion with director Paul Cronin.
Find out more »February 2019
Thinking Gender 2019: Feminists Confronting the Carceral State
Thinking Gender 2019 will focus on gendered regimes of incarceration, and feminist, queer, abolitionist, and intersectional interventions. The US justice system is a site of widespread gendered and race-based violence. The U.S. currently incarcerates nearly a third of all female prisoners in the world, and between 1977 and 2004, the number of women in U.S. prisons increased by an unprecedented 757%. As a 2015 CSW co-sponsored report revealed, women suffering from mental illness in LA County jails are routinely denied…
Find out more »May 2019
Awards and Benefit Reception 2019
Join the UCLA Center for the Study of Women for a special end of the year event to honor the Center’s accomplishments, student award recipients, and this year’s Distinguished Leader in Feminism Award honoree! FEATURING A KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY Ai-Jen Poo Founder & Executive Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) Co-Director, Caring Across Generations This year, CSW has selected Ai-Jen Poo as the recipient of the Center for the Study of Women’s 2019 Distinguished Leader in Feminism Award. Event Details May / June 2019…
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