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SUMMARY:Faculty Writing Retreat: October
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, October 10 \n10 am – 4 pm Hershey Hall Salon (Room 158) \nRegister here.\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: Registration will be available the week following the most recent retreat.  \nFriday November 14 \nFriday December 5  \nFriday February 20  \nFriday March 6  \nFriday May 15
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/faculty-writing-retreat-october/
LOCATION:Hershey Salon
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SUMMARY:SAHQ\, DIRT\, SHAHEED: Queer Poetics and Palestinian Resistance
DESCRIPTION:Date: Tuesday\, October 14\, 2025 \nTime: 12:30 – 2 pm \nLocation: Center for the Study of Women (map) 1500 Public Affairs \nRSVP to recieve event updates.\nSeating is first come. Lunch will be provided. \nThis talk uses a combination of poetry\, research\, and prose to consider some of the discursive and material facets of Palestinian liberation theories and practices\, with special attention to forms of affective and embodied resistance. \nMejdulene Bernard Shomali is a queer Palestinian poet and associate professor in Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Williams College. She received an MA in Women’s Studies from the Ohio State University and a PhD in American Culture from the University of Michigan. Her research and creative writing occur at the intersection of transnational feminist thought\, queer of color critique\, and Arab and diasporic Arab cultural production. \nMeidulene was a fellow in the Institute for Citizens and Scholars and the Cornell Society for the Humanities. She is the author of Between Banat: Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives (Duke University Press 2023) which won the 2024 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies book award honorable mention. She is also the author of the poetry chapbook agriculture of grief: prayers for my father’s dementia (Finishing Line Press 2024). Her current research concerns affect and embodiment in Palestinian resistance. \nCosponsored by: Center for the Study of Women\, UCLA English\, UCLA LGBTQ Studies\, UCLA Asian American Studies Center\, UCLA Gender Studies\, UCLA American Indian Studies Center\, UCLA Asian American Studies Department
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/sahq-dirt-shaheed-queer-poetics-and-palestinian-resistance/
LOCATION:Center for the Study of Women\, 1500 Public Affairs
CATEGORIES:CSW originated
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