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SUMMARY:Lecture: Intersectional Environmental Justice with Amelia Moore\, Cornell University
DESCRIPTION:Where: 353 Haines Hall \nWhen: Thursday\, February 26th\, 2026 from 12:15pm-1:45pm \nIn this talk\, Professor Moore will share her ideas about how engaged scholars can utilize intersectional environmental justice theory and praxis to combat our era of political polarization\, ecological precarity\, generational social inequity\, and planetary uncertainty. Drawing examples from two decades of inter and anti-disciplinary island-based research\, she describes both problematic and promising forms of socioecological knowledge production\, the frameworks that can inform our methodologies\, and the implications of this work for the future.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/lecture-intersectional-environmental-justice-with-amelia-moore-cornell-university/
LOCATION:352 Haines Hall
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:Otro Corazón 3: Queering Sor Juana: A Symposium
DESCRIPTION:“Sor Juana the Younger and the Elder\,” digital photograph by Alma Lopez @2019(models: Alicia Gaspar de Alba as the Elder\, and Alicia Billalobos\, UCLA Chicana/o Studies alumna\, as the Younger) \nWhen: February 26\, 2026 \nWhere: Northwest Campus Auditorium\, UCLA \n\n  \nOrganized by the UCLA Center for Musical Humanities in partnership with the Dean of Social Sciences and the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies \nCo-sponsored by The Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies\, the Chicano Studies Research Center\, and the Center for the Study of Women/Barbara Streisand Center \nFree and open to the public\, but all attendees\, including participants and audience members\, must register online. Lunch and reception will be provided for registered guests only. \n“Otro Corazón 3: Queering Sor Juana” builds on past symposia organized by Alicia Gaspar de Alba in her “Corazón” series\,1 and is offered as part of a year-long celebration of her 32-year academic career at UCLA\, focusing on her lifetime of research and creative engagement with Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz\, the 17th-century Mexican nun/poet/scholar who is hailed all over the world as the “first feminist of the Americas” and the Mexican “Tenth Muse.” \nOTRO CORAZON 3: QUEERING SOR JUANA\nSYMPOSIUM PROGRAM\n9 am: Registration \n9:30 am: Welcome and Introductory Remarks by Professor Raymond Knapp and Dean Abel Valenzuela \n10:30-12 noon: Panel 1. La Décima Musa: Classic Sor Juana \nSpeaker: Cesar Favila\, UCLA \nSpeaker: Charlene Villaseñor Black\, Oxford University \nSpeaker: Emilie Bergman\, UC Berkeley \nModerator: Gabriela Rodriguez Gomez (UCLA Chicana/o Studies PhD) \n12-1 pm: Boxed Lunch \n1:30-3 pm: Panel 2. “La Peor de Todas”: Sapphic Sor Juana \nSpeaker: Emma Perez\, University of Arizona \nSpeaker: Alma López\, UCLA \nSpeaker: Carla Lucero\, Independent Opera Composer \nModerator: Ariel Hernandez (UCLA Chicana/o Studies grad student) \nCoffee Break \n4-5:30 pm: Performances \n4 Arias from “JUANA”– A Spanish-language chamber opera based on the historical novel\, Sor Juana’s Second Dream3 by Alicia Gaspar de Alba. Music by Carla Lucero. \nLibretto by Carla Lucero and Alicia Gaspar de Alba \nShowcase Program \n“Fili”\, performed by Meagan Martin (Mezzo-Soprano) as Sor Juana\n“Hombres necios” performed by Meagan Martin and Maria Valdes-Gomez (Soprano) as la Condesa\n“Sin vos” (abbreviated version) performed by Maria Valdes-Gomez\n“Amor eterno” performed by Meagan Martin and Maria Valdes-Gomez\nAccompanied by pianist\, Peter Walsh\nScreening of “Sin Vos” video (opera on film\, recorded at the Ebell of Los Angeles\, sung by Michelle Allie Drever as la Condesa. María Dominique Lopez portrays Sor Juana. Film created by Carson Gilmore of Vox Visceralis. Music recorded in Prague with BNO Chamber Orchestra through PARMA Recordings and is available on Navona Records) \nQ&A: Carla Lucero and Alicia Gaspar de Alba \n6 pm: Reception
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/otro-corazon-3-queering-sor-juana-a-symposium/
LOCATION:Northwest Campus Auditorium
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:Graduate Lecture & Mixer: War\, Migration\, and Asymmetrical Gender Transformations in Ukrainian Households
DESCRIPTION:Where:  Bunche Hall\, Rm 10383 \nWhen: Wednesday\, February 25\, 2026 from 4:15 PM – 5:45 PM \nRSVP Here \n\n\n\n\n\nJoin the Center for European and Russian Studies for their quarterly Graduate Student Lecture by Natasha Bluth (PhD candidate in Sociology Department) and Mixer\, open to all UCLA students\, staff and faculty. The lecture by Natasha Bluth (Department of Sociology) is entitled “War\, Migration\, and Asymmetrical Gender Transformations in Ukrainian Households” and will include a presentation\, time for Q&A\, culminating in an informal mixer for students of all disciplines with an interest in Europe and/or Russia. This event is cosponsored by the UCLA Department of Sociology and UCLA Center for the Study of Women | Streisand Center and will be held in Bunche Hall Room 10383 on Wednesday\, February 25\, 2026 at 4:15 pm. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRussia’s ongoing war in Ukraine has generated profound demographic shifts in Ukrainian society and the largest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II. These dynamics are also deeply gendered: international protection policies and Ukrainian mobilization laws have facilitated the mass displacement of Ukrainian women and children while restricting the mobility of men. Drawing on fieldwork with Ukrainian families in Krakow\, Poland\, and Ukraine\, between 2022 and 2025\, this talk explores how these gendered processes are shaping three dimensions of household life: wartime migratory decision-making\, marital relations\, and coming-of-age experiences for young adults. I show that while war and displacement tighten traditional gender norms\, they also create new opportunities for women to transcend these norms—at the same time that horizons narrow for men. These results carry important implications for Ukrainian families and for the future of Ukraine\, where gender politics have become a key terrain of differentiation from Russia. In response\, The Center for European and Russian Studies hosts a quarterly graduate student lecture and mixer.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/graduate-lecture-mixer-war-migration-and-asymmetrical-gender-transformations-in-ukrainian-households/
LOCATION:10383 Bunche Hall\, UCLA\, Los Angeles\, CA
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: The Homosexual and the Oligarch: Perverse Figurations and Social Reproduction
DESCRIPTION:When: Friday\, February 13\, 11 am-12:30 pm \nWhere: Hybrid | UCLA Center for the Study of Women| Barbra Streisand Center\, 1500 Public Affairs Building \nBased on Dr. Tamar Shirinian’s recent book\, Survival of a Perverse Nation: Morality and Queer Possibility in Armenia (Duke University Press\, 2024)\, this talk will introduce the audience to two perverse figures: the homosexual and the oligarch. \nBoth figured prominently in national anxieties in the 2010s in Armenia as dangerous to the nation and its survival\, and formed particular rhetorics of the nation’s perversion toward annihilation. Focusing on these two figures\, the talk reflects upon neoliberalization’s threats against social reproduction by examining the moralization of political-economic processes and asks what a queer theory of political economy offers to the critique of late capitalism.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/book-talk-the-homosexual-and-the-oligarch-perverse-figurations-and-social-reproduction/
LOCATION:Hybrid
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:Bibliotactics: Libraries and the Colonial Public in Vietnam Book talk with Cindy Anh Nguyen (UCLA)
DESCRIPTION:When: Thursday\, February 12\, 2026 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM (Pacific Time) \nWhere: DataX Impact Forum Murphy Hall\, Rm 3312 \nBibliotactics examines the Hanoi and Saigon state libraries in colonial and postcolonial Vietnam\, uncovering the emergence of a colonial public who reimagined the political meaning and social space of the library through public critique and day-to-day practice. \nRSVP here.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/bibliotactics-libraries-and-the-colonial-public-in-vietnam-book-talk-with-cindy-anh-nguyen-ucla/
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:Calling In: Navigating Challenging Conversations with Dr. Loretta Ross
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Hammer Museum.  \nCopresented with the Center for the Study of Women|Streisand Center at UCLA and the UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute \n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin renowned activist\, professor\, and 2022 MacArthur Fellow Loretta J. Ross to explore the powerful practice of “Calling In.” With five decades in the human rights movement\, Ross offers a transformative approach to move from conflict to constructive dialogue. In her new book\, Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You’d Rather Cancel\, Ross addresses the challenge of building coalitions and community in a polarized world\, and offers a compassionate alternative through accountability\, empathy\, and connection. \nATTENDING THIS PROGRAM?\nTicketing: Admission is free. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come\, first served basis\, limit one per visitor. Box office opens one hour before the event.\nMember Benefit: Subject to availability\, Hammer Members can choose their preferred seats and pick up tickets for one additional guest. Members receive priority ticketing until 15 minutes before the program. Learn more about membership.\nParking: Self-parking is available under the museum. Rates are $8 for the first three hours with museum validation\, and $3 for each additional 20 minutes\, with a $22 daily maximum. There is an $8 flat rate after 6 p.m. on weekdays\, and all day on weekends.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/calling-in-navigating-challenging-conversations-with-dr-loretta-ross/
LOCATION:UCLA Hammer Museum – Galleries\, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:Cinema's First Nasty Women: Breaking Plates and Smashing the Patriarchy
DESCRIPTION:When: January 23\, 2026 7:30 pm\nWhere: Billy Wilder Theater\nAdmission: Free; no registration required. \nCinema’s First Nasty Women returns to the Billy Wilder Theater! Its name a riff on the feminist cri de cœur that arose during the 2016 presidential election\, Cinema’s First Nasty Women is an ongoing\, curated project to rediscover and revel in the anarchic spirit of women comedians who brought a rebellious energy to the early silent screen. Organized by an international team of film archivists and scholars\, Maggie Hennefeld\, Laura Horak and Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi\, this new travelling program of restored titles from the project comes with a special twist. Archival collections can inspire new research which in turn helps grow new audiences\, but they can also inspire new films. Based in Australia\, with The Physical TV Company\, filmmaker and author Karen Pearlman has built a feminist film practice that puts cinema’s past and present in dialogue in brilliantly constructed\, canon-busting short film essays. For “Cinema’s First Nasty Women: Breaking Plates and Smashing the Patriarchy\,” Pearlman drew on the project’s images and energy for her latest short\, Breaking Plates. The Archive is thrilled to have Pearlman as our guest at the Billy Wilder Theater with a selection of her work along with the Los Angeles premiere of Breaking Plates and the silent slapstick female performers that inspired it. \nProgrammed by Paul Malcolm with Maggie Hennefeld\, Laura Horak\, Karen Pearlman and Richard James Allen. Notes written by Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm. \nPresented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. \nTotal runtime: 103 min.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/cinemas-first-nasty-women-breaking-plates-and-smashing-the-patriarchy/
LOCATION:Billy Wilder Theater\, 10899 Wilshire Blvd.\,\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:Surrealism & Antifascism: A Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Where: 3910 Los Feliz Boulevard \nWhen: Dec 6th\, 2pm-6pm PST \nThis unique gathering brings together artists\, scholars\, UCLA students and the public to explore the power of surrealist methods—past and present—as tools for resisting systems of domination and imagining new possibilities for being. From spiritual resistance to cultural subversion\, surrealism has long offered a way to sidestep the normative\, the colonial\, and the fascistic in pursuit of radical freedom. Together\, we will examine the contradictions and complexities within the Surrealist tradition and its entanglements with institutional power\, gender\, and race. This symposium is a call to those who believe that art\, performance\, spirituality\, and speculation can resist the flattening forces of fascism and imagine other worlds. \nGet tickets here! Tickets are free to UCLA students & PRS members with code UCLAstudent11 / $10 general admission
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/surrealism-antifascism-a-symposium/
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251205T100000
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SUMMARY:Faculty Writing Retreat - December 2025
DESCRIPTION:Join CSW|Streisand Center for a day-long retreat where you can concentrate on your own work alongside like-minded colleagues!\n\n\n\nFriday\, December 5th \n10 am – 4 pm Hershey Hall Salon (Room 158) \nDo you want to block out a day for writing and contemplation? The Faculty Writing Retreat is your solution. Join us for a day-long retreat where you can concentrate on your own work alongside like-minded colleagues—we will hold the world at bay for you. Breakfast and lunch will be provided in the beautiful setting of Hershey Hall Salon. \nThe writing retreat provides a peaceful place to write as well as meals; please bring your computer and any other materials you may need to work. If you have an extension cord\, please bring it\, as power outlets are limited. Also bring some extra clothes for layers\, as the space sometimes tends to be cool. \nWe also offer a parallel virtual retreat with brief introductions and check-ins. \nDuring lunch\, there will be an optional conversation about the writing process. \nIf you register to attend in person and your plans change\, please let us know immediately so that we may offer your spot to the long waitlist. No-shows will not be granted an in-person spot at future writing retreats. \nIf you are no longer able to attend in person\, please e-mail csw@csw.ucla.edu to let us know. \nCosponsored by: CSW|Streisand Center\, the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music\, the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture\, the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research & Creative Activities (ORCA)\, UCLA Humanities\, UCLA Social Sciences\, UCLA School of Theater\, Film\, and Television \nSave the date for future Faculty Writing Retreats:\nRegistration will be available the week following the most recent retreat. \nFriday February 20 \nFriday March 6 \nFriday May 15
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/faculty-writing-retreat-december-2025/
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship,Streisand Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251118T160000
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SUMMARY:Fiebre de carnaval: una conversación con Yuliana Ortiz Ruano
DESCRIPTION:The Spanish & Portuguese Department would like to invite you to a conversation with Ecuadorian novelist and poet Yuliana Ortiz Ruano. In this conversation\, Ortiz Ruano will discuss her recently translated novel Carnival Fever (Fiebre de Carnaval)\, her practice as a writer\, and the intersections of decolonial thought and Black and Caribbean intellectual traditions in Latin America. \nWhen: November 18\, 2025\, 4:00 PM \nWhere: Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302 \nThis event will be in Spanish. Light refreshments will be served. \nYuliana Ortiz Ruano is an Afro-Ecuadorian writer\, poet\, and teacher\, as well as a DJ of Afro-Caribbean music. She has published several books of poetry and prose\, including the multi award-winning Fiebre de carnaval (Carnaval Fever)\, which was chosen as one of the 50 best books of 2022 by El País. She is also the author of the poetry books Sovoz\, Canciones del fin del mundo\, y Cuaderno del imposible retorno a Pangea\, and the book of short stories Litorales. She was selected by the International Writers in Residence program in Granada\, Spain in 2023\, and was chosen for the Translator Choice II award at the LATINALE Latin America Literature Festival in Berlin. Her first novel\, Carnaval Fever\, won the Joaquín Gallegos Lara Award (Ecuador)\, the Primo Romanzo Latinoamericano Award (Italy)\, and the PEN Translation Award (UK).
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/fiebre-de-carnaval-una-conversacion-con-yuliana-ortiz-ruano/
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251117T180000
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SUMMARY:Women's Daily Life in Exile Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Where: UCLA Bunche Hall\, Rm 10383 \nWhen: Monday\, November 17\, 2025 / 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Pacific Time) \nAfter being deported from their homes\, Armenian women experienced vastly different fates depending on where they were sent within the Arab-speaking provinces of the Ottoman Empire. Those on the eastern deportation route faced famine and disease but largely avoided mass killings\, while those sent north were confined in desert tent camps and many were massacred in 1916. This lecture\, led by Dr. Anna Aleksanyan and Dr. Taner Akçam of UCLA’s Promise Armenian Institute\, will explore the varied experiences of these women and the gendered dimensions of the Armenian Genocide. This event is organized by The Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA. \nJoin the Zoom Webinar here.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/womens-daily-life-in-exile-lecture/
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251113T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251113T183000
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SUMMARY:Noura Erakat on Revisiting Zionism as a Form of Racism and Racial Discrimination
DESCRIPTION:When: Thursday\, November 13 at 5:30 pm\nWhere: On the UCLA campus\nRSVP for the address.\nOn November 10\, 1975\, the UN General Assembly passed Resolution 3379 declaring Zionism as a Form of Racism and Racial Discrimination. A coalition of states introduced the resolution at the start of the 30th session of the General Assembly as an amendment to the Decade Against Racism in the context of Third World Revolt against imperialism; Palestinian liberation was central to this agenda. This lecture will explore the historical context that led to the introduction of this resolution\, its drafting history\, including racial theories of Zionism that were introduced during the deliberations as well as the intense procedural maneuvers that aimed to subvert it all together. Though a hard won victory\, the PLO rescinded the resolution in 1991 as a precondition for entering the Oslo Accords. This discussion will both mark the 50th year anniversary of the resolution as well as its contemporary relevance. \nProfessor Erakat’s talk will be followed by a panel discussion with Professor Nour Joudah (Asian American Studies) and Professor Robin D.G. Kelley (History). \nBio:\nNoura Erakat is Professor of Africana Studies and Criminal Justice at Rutgers University\, New Brunswick. She is the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press\, 2019)\, which received the Palestine Book Award and the Bronze Medal for the Independent Publishers Book Award in Current Events/Foreign Affairs. In 2023\, Noura co-chaired an Independent Task Force on the Application of National Security Memorandum-20 to Israel\, a report documenting how U.S. arms to Israel have been used in violation of U.S. and international law and which was submitted to the White House. She is co-founding editor of Jadaliyya and an editorial board member of the Journal of Palestine Studies as well as Human Geography. She is a co-founding board member of the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival. She has served as Legal Counsel for a Congressional Subcommittee in the US House of Representatives\, as Legal Advocate for the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Refugee and Residency Rights\, and as National Organizer and Legal Advocate of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. Noura has also produced video documentaries\, including “Gaza In Context” and “Black Palestinian Solidarity.” Noura completed a non-resident fellowship of the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School as well as a Mahmoud Darwish Visiting Professorship at Brown University. In 2022\, she was selected as a Freedom Fellow by the Marguerite Casey Foundation. In 2025\, the University of Ghent awarded the Amnesty International Chair in recognition of her contribution to human rights and scholarship.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/noura-erakat-on-revisiting-zionism-as-a-form-of-racism-and-racial-discrimination/
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:Embryonic and Fetal Rights? What it Would Mean for Pregnant People and Reproductive Rights\, Health\, and Research
DESCRIPTION:When: November 13\, 10- 11 am PST \nWhere: Virtual. RSVP to attend. \nJoin a discussion featuring: \nProfessor Mary Ziegler\nPanelist\nUC Davis School of Law\nAuthor\, Personhood: The New Civil War Over Reproduction \nHeather Shumaker\nPanelist\nSenior Director State Abortion Policy\, National Women’s Law Center \nDr. Amander Clark\nPanelist\nFounding Director UCLA Center for Reproductive Science\, Health\, and Education \nDiana Kasdan\nModerator\nLegal and Policy Director\, UCLA Law Center on Reproductive Health\, Law\, and Policy \nRSVP here\nCosponsors: CSW|Streisand Center\, UCLA Network for Reproductive Health & Gender Equity\, the Center for Reproductive Science\, Health and Education (CRSHE)\, the Bixby Center\, and the Center on Reproductive Health\, Law\, and Policy at UCLA Law.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/embryonic-and-fetal-rights-what-it-would-mean-for-pregnant-people-and-reproductive-rights-health-and-research/
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251102T190000
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SUMMARY:"Wanda": Free Screening by UCLA Film & Television Archive
DESCRIPTION:Date: Sunday\, November 2nd \nTime: 7pm \nLocation: Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum \nUCLA Film & Television Archive is hosting a free screening of Wanda along with a Q&A and book signing with Elena Gorfinkel\, author of “BFI Classics: Wanda\,” moderated by Archive Research and Study Center Officer Maya Montañez Smukler. \nIn 1970\, Wanda screened at the Venice Film Festival as the sole U.S. entry winning the International Critics Prize. Actor-turned-filmmaker\, Barbara Loden\, directed\, produced and co-starred in the production of Wanda\, also being her directorial debut. The film follows Loden in a quiet and captivating portrayal of an apathetic young woman on a journey through a bleak and rural Pennsylvanian landscape. On her filmmaking approach\, Loden said\, “I’ve got more movies in me\, but they will have to be done my way. I’m not interested in entertaining people. I only want to do things that mean something to me\, that I can say about a human being on film and then communicate that feeling to others.” \nIn her new book\, Elena Gorfinkel draws on archival sources to trace the film’s feminist legacies\, and its lasting influence on contemporary filmmakers\, artists and writers.—Archive Research and Study Center Officer Maya Montañez Smukler \nCosponsored by: Center for the Study of Women
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/wanda-free-screening-by-ucla-film-television-archive/
LOCATION:Billy Wilder Theater\, James Bridges Theater
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:A Place of Rage: Women and Anger on Screen
DESCRIPTION:Post-#MeToo\, films and television — many by women — have redefined female anger not as pathology or threat but as\, in Lorde’s words\, “loaded with information and energy.” This series\, inspired by the work of scholar and UCLA School of Theater\, Film and Television Professor Kathleen McHugh\, explores how women’s rage\, long silenced\, can be reclaimed through feminist filmmaking\, challenging familiar tropes and reframing women’s anger as purposeful. \nThe series \, A Place of Rage\, examines anger as a site of clarity\, resistance and transformation and considers how genres once hostile to female subjectivity have become platforms for feminist disruption. This collection serves as a visual conjuring of the uses of anger: when wielded with precision\, on women’s own terms\, our rage can move beyond catharsis to radical change. \nSeries programmed and notes written by UCLA Professor Kathleen McHugh and Public Programmer Beandrea July \nCommunity partners: UCLA Center for the Study of Women | Barbra Streisand Center\, Women in Media \n 
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/a-place-of-rage-women-and-anger-on-screen/
LOCATION:Billy Wilder Theater\, 10899 Wilshire Blvd.\,\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251020T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251020T170000
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SUMMARY:Center for Reproductive Science\, Health and Education (CRSHE) Distinguished Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:Attend the UCLA Center for Reproductive Science\, Health and Education (CRSHE) Distinguished Speaker Series featuring Diana E. Ramos. \nWhen: Monday\, October 20\, 2025 4:00 p.m. PT \nWhere: California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI). UCLA Campus \nRegister here. \nRegistration is required.Seating is first come\, first served and is not guaranteed. \nAbout the speaker : Dr. Diana E. Ramos\, was appointed Surgeon General of California in 2022. She is avisionary public health leader dedicated to advancing the wellbeing of all communities. Dr. Ramoschampions efforts to address reproductive and maternal health outcomes\, adverse childhood experiences\,and mental health\, shaping policies that leave a lasting impact across the state. As an alumna of UCLA’sFielding School of Public Health with more than three decades as an Obstetrician Gynecologist\, Dr.Ramos has also held leadership roles at the local\, state\, and national levels. A recipient of the Latino SpiritAward and the Public Health Leadership Award\, she is a powerful voice for health equity.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/center-for-reproductive-science-health-and-education-crshe-distinguished-speaker-series/
LOCATION:California Nanosystems Institute\, UCLA
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250908T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250908T123000
DTSTAMP:20250812T211029Z
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SUMMARY:Auto-Correct: Fantasies & Failures of AI Ethics in the Driverless Car
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a book talk and workshop.\n \nBook Talk\nWhen: Monday\, September 8 · 11 am – 12:30 pm PDT \nWhere: DataX\, Murphy Hall 3312\, 410 Charles E Young Drive East Los Angeles\, CA 90095 \nRSVP for the book talk here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is a book talk by Dr Maya Indira Ganesh (Leverhulme Center for Futures of Intelligence\, Cambridge) based on her first monograph. The “trolley problem” remains a useful exercise in drawing out the differences between utilitarian and deontological approaches to ethics in analytic philosophy. However\, the thought experiment also determined imagining what AI-infused artefacts should be capable of\, suggesting that ethical decision-making becomes a data-driven enterprise rather than a human\, social\, or individualised practice. Maya Indira Ganesh tracks the language\, materiality\, and culture of epistemic tools that establish safety and automobility as problems to be solved by the driverless car\, examining outputs of AI systems versus what constitutes our social and technological presents and futures. \nWorkshop\nWhen: Tuesday\, September 9 · 10 am – 1 pm PDT \nWhere: Center for the Study of Women|Barbra Streisand Center\, 1500 public affairs building\, UCLA (Entry from Jimmy’s Coffeeshop side) Los Angeles\, CA 90095 \nRSVP for the workshop. \nJoin us for a free workshop on AI\, Time & Futurity at UCLA with Dr Maya Indira Ganesh (Leverhulme CFI\, UK). Time haunts AI. An origin story in the summer of 1955 that has acquired the status of myth and fact; geopolitical races; the contradictions and entanglements of longtermist and accelerationist ideologies; law and regulation that fail to keep up; promised breakthroughs from the driverless car to superintelligence that fail to arrive\, or seem eternally just around the corner. Computational time is also infrastructural: the lag in software updates pushed to the cloud and then to fleets of driverless cars and mobile phones (Mattern\, 2017). Temporality works unevenly affording ‘just in time’ deliveries for the busy\, but at the cost of bio-social control of delivery workers and on-demand mobility service providers (Sharma\, 2014). \nPresented by:\nUCLA Department of Information Studies \nCosponsored by: \nUCLA Center for the Study of Women|Barbra Streisand Center
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/auto-correct-fantasies-failures-of-ai-ethics-in-the-driverless-car/
LOCATION:Murphy Hall 3312
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250613
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250615
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SUMMARY:Live Performance: Miguel Gutierrez's "Super Nothing"
DESCRIPTION:Super Nothing Dance Performance \nCAP/UCLA presents\nSuper Nothing\nFriday June 13 and Saturday June 14\nFreud Playhouse\n245 Charles E Young Dr E\, Los Angeles\, CA 90024\nInformation/Tickets \nWhat can a dance do to confront the constant grief that we experience in our lives? Super Nothing presents four dancers whose actions and choreographic relationships are analogues for how people support each other to survive. Interdependence takes multiple forms\, as the performers move through representations of the past to create a blueprint for a new future. This piece extends Gutierrez’s interest over the past few years in creating “choreography for the end of the world.” \nChoreography/Direction Miguel Gutierrez\nPerformer/Collaborators: Jay Carlon\, Evelyn Lilian Sanchez Narvaez\, Justin Faircloth\, Wendell Gray II\nLighting Designer: Carolina Ortiz (UCLA Alum!)\nComposer: Rosana Cabán\, with contributions from Miguel Gutierrez\nCostume Designer: Jeremy Wood\nDramaturgical Assistance: Stephanie Acosta\nProduction Stage Manager: Cat Urquhart\nManagement: Michelle Fletcher
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/super-nothing-dance-performance/
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250529T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250529T190000
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SUMMARY:Cristina Pérez Díaz to present “From the Founding of the Country” on May 29
DESCRIPTION:The UCLA Departments of Classics\, English\, Spanish & Portuguese\, Chicano/a & Central American Studies\, as well as the Center for the Study of Women proudly present a reading of “From the Founding of the Country” by classicist\, writer\, and translator Cristina Pérez Díaz (University of Puerto Rico) followed by a conversation with UCLA Professor Patrícia Lino (Department of Spanish & Portuguese) on May 29 in Dodd 248 at 5pm.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/cristina-perez-diaz-to-present-from-the-founding-of-the-country-on-may-29/
LOCATION:Dodd Room 248
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250527T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250527T213000
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SUMMARY:Fighting Two Battles: Inside California’s Inmate Firefighting Program
DESCRIPTION:When: Tuesday May 27\, 2025\, 7:30 PM \nWhere: Hammer Museum \nLearn more.  \nAdmission is free. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come\, first served basis. Box office opens one hour before the event. \nAmong those fighting the L.A. fires earlier this year were incarcerated individuals participating in California’s controversial inmate firefighting program. This forum examines the program from the perspectives of formerly incarcerated firefighters\, including issues around compensation and potential program reforms. \nModerator Romarilyn Ralston\, a black feminist abolitionist who served 23 years in prison and now leads the Justice Education Center for the Claremont Colleges\, will guide a discussion with panelists Cody Ridley\, Lead Captain of the Golden Eagles Hotshots at Sycuan Indian Reservation and a former inmate firefighter; Brooks Tims\, combat veteran\, EMT\, and Lead Wildland Firefighter with the inmate firefighters program; and Amika Mota\, Executive Director of Sister Warriors Freedom Coalition and former incarcerated firefighter who authored a moving op-ed in Teen Vogue on her experiences. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhoto caption: A line of inmates dressed in orange firefighting gear\, digging a trench Inmate firefighters dig a containment line as they battle the Palisades Fire on January 11\, 2025 in Los Angeles\, California.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/fighting-two-battles-inside-californias-inmate-firefighting-program/
LOCATION:UCLA Hammer Museum – Galleries\, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250523T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250523T170000
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SUMMARY:Symposium – Women and Goddesses in Jainism
DESCRIPTION:Photo credit: Samyak Modi \nWhen: Friday\, May 23\nWhere: Hershey Hall Salon \nThroughout the history of Jainism\, one of the world’s oldest living religions\, Jain women have played a crucial role. Jain renouncers\, whose self-denying lifestyle is revered as the highest ideal\, are predominantly female\, while Jain laywomen tend to be significantly more religiously active than their male counterparts. In this symposium\, speakers will provide a range of perspectives on human and divine womanhood in Jain life and thought. Talks will cover the definition of gender in Jain philosophical texts\, Jain goddess-worship and changing gender roles in the contemporary Jain diaspora. \nRSVP here for this in-person event. \nRegister here for a Zoom link. \n  \nSYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE: \n2:00 – 2:05: Welcome and introduction\, Anahita Hoose (UCLA)\, symposium organizer & moderator \n2:05 – 2:45: Ana Bajželj (UC Riverside): Defining Gender in Śvetāmbara Texts \n2:45 – 3:30: Venu Mehta (Claremont School of Theology): Reconceptualizing “Goddess” in Jainism: Devotional Practices for the Jain Goddess Padmāvatī among the Śvetāmbar Mūrtipūjak Jains in Gujarat \n3:30 – 3:45: Break \n3:45 – 4:30: Shivani Bothra (Cal State Long Beach): Spiritual Equality or Social Boundaries: Redefining Gender Roles in Diasporic Jainism \n4:30 – 5:00: Concluding Discussion \n  \nSYMPOSIUM PRESENTERS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF THEIR PAPERS: \nAna Bajželj is Associate Professor and Shrimad Rajchandra Endowed Chair in Jain Studies in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of California\, Riverside. She was previously a research fellow at the University of Rajasthan and the Polonsky Academy (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute)\, and she taught at the University of Ljubljana and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses on Jain philosophy\, particularly metaphysics\, ethics\, and philosophy of mind. She is the author of The Nature of Change in Jaina Philosophy (Ljubljana University Press\, 2016\, in Slovenian) and the co-author of Insistent Life: Principles for Bioethics in the Jain Tradition (UC Press\, 2021). She is currently working on a monograph study of the Tattvārthasūtra and its commentaries. \n“Defining Gender in Śvetāmbara Texts” \nThis presentation analyzes Jain canonical definitions of the term “man” (puruṣa) from a set of standpoints listed in the Sthānāṅga (Ṭhāṇaṃga). These include (1) name (nāman)\, representation (sthāpanā)\, and potentiality (dravya); (2) knowledge (jñāna)\, view (darśana)\, and conduct (caritra); (3) sexual orientation (veda)\, mark (cihna)\, and (verbal) expression (abhilāpa); and (4) superiority (uttamapuruṣa)\, mediocrity (madhyamapuruṣa)\, and inferiority (jaghanyapuruṣa)\, each with three further subcategories. The presentation explores the semantic range of the term indicated by these standpoints by examining similar passages in other Śvetāmbara texts and considers its significance within the broader context of the Jain discussions on gender. \nDr. Venu Mehta is an Assistant Professor of Jainism and Comparative Spiritualities at the Claremont School of Theology. Her research primarily focuses on Jainism\, with a specialization in Jain regional-vernacular devotional literature\, narratives\, and practices. Her doctoral dissertation examines the devotion to the Jain goddess Padmāvatī among Śvetāmbar Mūrtipūjak Jains in Gujarat\, highlighting the interplay between regional devotional expressions and broader Jain theological frameworks. \nBeyond her work on Jain goddess traditions\, Dr. Mehta’s scholarship extends to the Jain concept of forgiveness and the intersections of aparigraha (non-possessiveness) with human dignity\, sustainability\, and Gandhian economic thought. Her recent research and publications also engage in Jain-Hindu comparative theologies and spiritualities\, particularly in relation to goddess traditions. \nIn addition to her expertise in Jain studies\, Dr. Mehta teaches courses on South Asian religious traditions\, comparative spiritualities\, and gender and women in spiritual practices. Her methodological approach integrates ethnographic research with textual analysis\, emphasizing the lived experiences\, devotional expressions\, and ritual practices of Jain communities. \n“Reconceptualizing “Goddess” in Jainism: Devotional Practices for the Jain Goddess Padmāvatī among the Śvetāmbar Mūrtipūjak Jains in Gujarat” \nThis presentation explores how Śvetāmbar Mūrtipūjak Jains in Gujarat reconceptualize the goddess Padmāvatī through their devotional practices\, positioning her as a central female form of divinity within Jain religious tradition. Though Jainism primarily emphasizes the worship of the Tīrthaṅkars\, Padmāvatī\, a śāsanadevatā (guardian deity) and yakṣī of Pārśvanāth\, has been accorded exceptional devotion. By examining vernacular literature\, narratives\, and regional practices from the late sixteenth century to contemporary times\, I argue that Jains in Gujarat have actively shaped a distinct space for goddess worship\, elevating Padmāvatī from an attendant deity to Śakti\, the Great Goddess\, and the Mother Goddess. This process of reimagining Padmāvatī involves a synthesis of universal Jain values with regional devotional expressions\, contributing to the dynamics of democratization\, universalization\, and regionalization in Jain religious life. Lay Jains play a crucial role in this transformation\, engaging with Padmāvatī’s legacy through non-esoteric devotional practices and literature\, thus reaffirming her place within their religious framework. Ultimately\, this presentation highlights how Padmāvatī’s evolving identity reflects broader patterns of Jain devotionalism\, redefining the boundaries of feminine divinity within the Jain tradition in Gujarat. \nShivani Bothra is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at California State University\, Long Beach. Before this\, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Rice University in Houston\, USA\, and taught as a lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. She earned her doctorate from the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Her focus is South Asian traditions\, Jainism\, and Nonviolence. Shivani’s primary research areas are religious education and transnational Jainism\, emphasizing Contemporary Jains. \n“Spiritual Equality or Social Boundaries: Redefining Gender Roles in Diasporic Jainism” \nThis paper critically examines how gender roles in Jain diasporic communities are being redefined or reframed in ways distinct from traditional Indian contexts. How do education\, modern professions\, business ethics\, and transnational networks influence the agency and status of Jain laywomen? In what ways do diasporic Jain women navigate their identities\, negotiating between Indian religious traditions and evolving feminist discourses in their new sociocultural environments? Drawing on structured interviews with early Jain diaspora women\, this research aims to shed light on the evolving spiritual and social roles of Jain women in a transnational context\, assessing the extent to which diasporic Jainism fosters new models of gender participation and leadership. \nThis event is presented by the UCLA Center for the Study of Religion. It is co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women | Barbra Streisand Center.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/symposium-women-and-goddesses-in-jainism/
LOCATION:Hershey Salon
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:"Evelyn Nakano Glenn and the Feminist Work of Studying Women's Labor"
DESCRIPTION:UCLA Transnational Gender and Labor Working Group Presents: \n“Evelyn Nakano Glenn and the Feminist Work of Studying Women’s Labor” By Laura Hyun-Yi Kang\, Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at UC Irvine \nJoin us for a public lecture on scholar Evelyn Nakano Glenn’s abiding commitment to illuminating the historical and contemporary experiences of working women as part of her prolific writing on racialized and gendered labor\, citizenship\, family and care work. \nWhen: April 25th @ 12-1:30 pm \nWhere: CSW|Streisand Center conference space (1500 Public Affairs) \nLunch provided with RSVP. \nRSVP: forms.gle/j4г77v8rCiBRDmia9
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/evelyn-nakano-glenn-and-the-feminist-work-of-studying-womens-labor/
LOCATION:Center for the Study of Women\, 1500 Public Affairs
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250422T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250422T170000
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SUMMARY:Among Women Across Worlds: North Korea in Global Cold War
DESCRIPTION:Professor\, Suzy Kim\, Rutgers University\nTuesday\, April 22\, 2025\n4:00 PM (Pacific Time) \nBunche Hall\, Rm 10383 \nWhile social movements may appear to have receded in the 1950s with the rise of Cold War domesticity and McCarthyism (much like the upsurge of authoritarianisms today)\, the Korean War galvanized women to promote women’s rights in the context of the first global peace campaign during the Cold War. Recuperating the erasure of North Korean women from this movement\, this talk excavates buried histories of Cold War sutures to show how leftist women tried to bridge the Cold War divide through maternalist strategies. Socialist feminism in the context of a global peace movement facilitated a productive\nunderstanding of “difference” toward a transversal politics of solidarity. The talk weaves together the women’s press with photographs and archival film footage to contemplate their use in transnational movements of resistance and solidarity\, both then and now. \nSuzy Kim is a historian and teaches at Rutgers University in New Brunswick\, New Jersey. She is author of Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution\, 1945-1950 published by Cornell University Press in 2013 and Among Women across Worlds: North Korea in the Global Cold War also published by Cornell in 2023. She is senior editor of positions: asia critique\, and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Korean Studies and Yŏsŏng kwa yŏksa [Women and History]\, the Journal of the Korean Association of Women’s History. As a public scholar\, she has been an advocate for social justice and peace in Korea as a founding member of Women Cross DMZ. \nLearn more
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/among-women-across-worlds-north-korea-in-global-cold-war/
LOCATION:10383 Bunche Hall\, UCLA\, Los Angeles\, CA
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250411T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250411T160000
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SUMMARY:Criminal Justice Law Review 2025: On Carceral Feminism
DESCRIPTION:When: April 11 9:30-4pm \nWhere: Room 1420 \nRSVP: tinyurl.com/cjlrsymposium \nRestorative Justice Panel & Individual Scholar Presentations \n\nOn the Relationship between American Feminism and the Criminal System at 9:45-10:20 Aya Gruber (USC Gould School of Law)\nOn Responses to Gender-Based Violence at 10:25-11:10\nLeigh Goodmark (University of Maryland Carey School of Law)\nOn Immigration x Abolition Feminism at 11:15-12:00 Lee Ann Wang (UCLA)\nOn Participatory Defense Campaigns at 1:00-1:45 Colby Lenz (UCLA Center for the Study of Women)\, Alisa Bierria (UCLA)\nOn the Changing Landscape/Organizing Efforts to Resist at 1:45-2:20 Erica Miners (Northeastern Illinois University) Restorative Justice Panel at 2:25 – 3:50 Mimi Kim (California State University\, Long Beach)\, Grace Carson (National Center on Restorative Justice\, UCLA Law Alumni)\, Donna Coker (UMiami School
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/criminal-justice-law-review-2025-on-carceral-feminism/
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250407T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250407T180000
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SUMMARY:UCLA Center for Reproductive Science\, Health and Education Distinguished Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for this timely event in which Elizabeth Dias\, the New York Times national religion correspondent\, will be discussing her bestselling book\, “The Fall of Roe: The Riseof a New America\,” co-authored with Lisa Lerer. Opening remarks will be provided by Dr.Tracy Johnson\, dean of UCLA Division of Life Sciences. \nMonday\, April 7\, 2025 5:00 p.m. PT \nBook signing to follow \nLocation: California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)UCLA Campus \nRegistration is required. Seating is first come\, first served and is not guaranteed. \nRSVP here. \nAbout the event: Elizabeth Dias is the national religion correspondent for The New York Times andhas reported on religion and politics for 15 years. She covers the shifting expressions of belief andpower in American society\, and the values\, emotions and people that shape public life. She hasreported from more than 30 states and written about religion in four presidential elections. She joinedThe Times in 2018\, and reported as part of the national and political reporting teams. Previously shecovered religion\, politics and national news at Time magazine\, where she traveled with Pope Francis\,interviewed the Dalai Lama and explored conservative Christianity’s rise to power with the Trumpmovement. She is a graduate of Wheaton College and has a master of divinity degree from PrincetonTheological Seminary. She is from Arizona by way of Ohio\, Germany and Canada\, and now lives inWashington. She is the co-author of the national bestselling book “The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a NewAmerica\,” with her New York Times colleague Lisa Lerer.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/ucla-center-for-reproductive-science-health-and-education-distinguished-speaker-series/
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:Beyond Barbie
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive \nWhen: April 6 – June 8\nWhere: Billy Wilder Theater\, Hammer Museum \nFree | No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come\, first served basis. The box office opens one hour before the event. \nWriter Isabel Cristo describes the essence of girlhood as a “before time\,” untouched by the weighty choices of adulthood — marriage\, careers\, caretaking. Though often disrupted by reality\, girlhood remains a space of unfiltered potential\, free from feminism’s historical burdens. Cinema has long confined it to familiar narratives\, typically shaped by a girl’s longing for male validation. This series seeks to redefine coming-of-age narratives about girlhood by showcasing films made mostly by women filmmakers from across the globe whose work challenges conventions and is united in their shared focus on a girl’s desire to know and express herself. By foregrounding a protagonist’s self-discovery and agency\, these narratives insist that a girl’s psyche — no matter how wounded or raw — is worth exploring. Infused with rare\, aching empathy\, they illuminate feminine characters whose multi-dimensional stories have too often been absent from cinema. Through them\, girlhood emerges as complex\, vibrant and inherently cinematic. \nLearn more.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/beyond-barbie/
LOCATION:Billy Wilder Theater\, 10899 Wilshire Blvd.\,\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:Jewish Critiques of Zionism and the Weaponization of Antisemitism
DESCRIPTION:When: Wednesday\, April 2\, 6:30 pm \nRegister for location: \nhttps://tinyurl.com/critiquesofzionism \n\n\nJoin us for a panel discussion between progressive and left-wing Jews about their relationships to Palestine and Israel\, critical perspectives on the recent arrest of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil\, and interpretations and responses to charges of antisemitism deployed in opposition to racial justice work by the Trump administration\, the UCLA administration\, and the political right.\n\n\nFeaturing: Izzy Cortes\, Michal David\, Benjamin Kersten\, Beth Ribet\, and Noah Zatz \nChaired by Hannah Appel
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/jewish-critiques-of-zionism-and-the-weaponization-of-antisemitism/
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:LADINO In & Beyond the Home
DESCRIPTION:In its thirteenth consecutive year\, the ucLADINO conference supports and celebrates the growing preservation of Ladino language and culture in the Judeo-Spanish diaspora. The theme for this year’s ucLADINO conference centers around Ladino in and beyond the home\, exploring language and culture in domestic spaces and in migration. How has Ladino taken shape within domestic worlds and how has Ladino adapted in transit\, carried from one home to the next? \n  \nRSVP Here
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/ladino-in-beyond-the-home/
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:Resistance and Reimagining: Perspectives on Reproductive and Gender Justice
DESCRIPTION:Attend the Resistance and Reimagining: Perspectives on Reproductive and Gender Justice from the Academy\, Advocacy\, and Public Service! \nWhere: UCLA Law Room 1314\, virtually \nWhen: March 6th\, 2025 from 4:00-5:00 pm PT. \nThe Center on Reproductive Health\, Law\, and Policy (CRHLP)\, in partnership with Yale Law School’s Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice and Temple University Beasley School of Law\, invites you to Resistance and Reimagining: Perspectives on Reproductive and Gender Justice from the Academy\, Advocacy\, and Public Service. \nThis event will feature a panel moderated by CRHLP’s Legal and Policy Director\, Diana Kasdan. The panel will include Professor Khiara M. Bridges from UC Berkeley School of Law\, Leila Abolfazli\, Senior Director of National Abortion Strategy at National Women’s Law Center\, Mary Bonauto\, Senior Director of Civil Rights and Legal Strategies at GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders\, and Karli Eisenberg\, Supervising Deputy Attorney General\, CA AG’s Office for Healthcare Rights and Access. This event is in person and will be streamed over Zoom\, refreshments will be served. \nRegister here.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/resistance-and-reimagining-perspectives-on-reproductive-and-gender-justice/
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship,Streisand Center
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SUMMARY:Listening to the Dead: Methods of Studying Genocide
DESCRIPTION:Although Genocide Studies is an academic discipline that researches genocide\, Genocide Studies—in its institutionalization—is not necessarily a study of the dead. The crime was codified in 1948 by the United Nations Genocide Convention\, however\, Zoé Samudzi writes both that genocide’s designation as crime is “probably the least important thing about it” and that “genocide the process is not necessarily the same as genocide the crime.” \n\n\n\nAgainst empirical and taxonomical capture of mass death by international law and its tools of assessment are the ethnopolitical philosophies that register humanity\, personhood\, life and death in stark contrast and contradiction. \nSamudzi’s lecture engages her transnational grammar of wandering (after Sarah Jane Cervenak’s description of “the enactment of black female philosophical desire”) through which the image\, language\, ecology\, and ancestral responsibility provide a state-illegible but community-oriented conception of intergenerational loss. \n\n\n\nZoé Samudzi\nis the Charles E. Scheidt Visiting Assistant Professor in Genocide Studies and Genocide Prevention at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. She is also a Global Blackness Research Fellow at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Johannesburg and a fellow with African Museums and Heritage Restitution. She is also a writer and an associate editor with Parapraxis Magazine.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/listening-to-the-dead-methods-of-studying-genocide/
LOCATION:Kaufman Hall\, Room 200\, Janss Steps\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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