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SUMMARY:Cozy Book Swap + Books to Jails Drive
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the CSW|Streisand Center Cozy Book Swap! Bring a wrapped book\, add a hint note\, and swap with others! \nAdditionally\, donate a popular book to LA County Jails in partnership with LA County Library as a part of our Books to Jails Drive. \n\n\nWhat kinds of books to donate to the Books to Jails Drive (per LA County Library Guidelines)\n\nFantasy novels\nAdventure novels\nMystery novels\nSci-Fi and Fantasy novels\nSpiritual books\nPoetry\nSelf-help books\nBooks in Spanish\n\n\n\n\n\nDonation guidelines\n\nNO hardcovers – ONLY paperback books\nNO textbooks or academic books\nNO depictions or descriptions on how to commit crimes\nMUST be in good condition / shape\n\n\n\nLearn more about our mini library and the books to jails partnership. \nWhen: Monday\, December 8th – Thursday\, December 11th\, 10 am- 2 pm\nWhere: CSW|Streisand Center Office\, 1500 Public Affairs (Located across from Jimmy’s Coffee House)
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/cozy-book-swap-books-to-jails-drive/
CATEGORIES:CSW|Streisand Center
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SUMMARY:From Pitch to Publish in the Public Humanities
DESCRIPTION:Join award-winning writers and journalists Lauren Markham and Chris Feliciano Arnold for two days of panels and workshops.\n\n\n\nFrom Pitch to Publish in the Public Humanities\nWhen: February 2–3\, 2026\nLocation: Royce 314\nFree and open to the public. \n\nToday\, it is vital that scholars’ work is made widely available and accessible to the public. Is your research part of the public discourse? Do you have stories the public at large would benefit from knowing? Do you want to reach a broader audience\, an audience beyond the peer-reviewed academic outlets? Do you want to learn how to pitch your specific story and research to non-academic publications? We have invited two writers and journalists\, Lauren Markham and Chris Feliciano Arnold\, to offer insights on the public humanities writing\, pitching\, and publication process in a series of panels\, workshops\, and individual feedback sessions. \nPublic Events\nMonday\, February 2\, 10:30AM–12:00 PM (Royce 314)\nWorkshop: “Enliven Your Prose with Research Details: Public Workshop with Chris Feliciano Arnold and Lauren Markham.” \nDiscover how vivid storytelling and well-chosen details can transform scholarly work into engaging\, resonant prose. This hands-on workshop explores how to integrate research into narrative writing—making complex ideas accessible without sacrificing depth or rigor. Through interactive exercises\, close reading\, and discussion\, participants will learn strategies for bringing their data\, fieldwork\, and analysis to life on the page. \nMonday\, February 2\, 4:00–5:00 PM (Royce 314)\nConversation: “Pitching and Working with Opinion Editors with Chris Feliciano Arnold and New York Times Opinion Staff Editor Isvett Verde.” \nExplore strategies and best practices for effectively pitching and collaborating with newspaper editors on op-eds and opinion pieces. Gain insight into the editorial process\, from crafting compelling and concise pitches that capture an editor’s attention to understanding the nuances of tone\, timing\, and topic relevance. This session will cover how to balance academic rigor with public accessibility\, navigate editorial feedback\, and establish long-term relationships with editors to amplify scholarly perspectives in the media. \nTuesday February 3\, 4:00–6:00 PM (Royce 314)\nPanel: “Writing for the Public in Times of Peril\, a panel with Chris Feliciano Arnold\, Lauren Markham\, The Atlantic Senior Editor Honor Jones and VQR Editor Paul Reyes.” \nThis panel of authors and editors will address the crucial role of academics in bridging the gap between scholarly research and public discourse during times of crisis\, uncertainty\, and societal upheaval\, including the ethical\, intellectual\, and practical challenges that scholars face when translating complex ideas into accessible language for broader audiences. Refreshments will be provided. \nPanelist & Writer Bios\n \nChris Feliciano Arnold is the author of The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First-Century Amazon (Picador 2018). He directs the MFA in Creative Writing program at Saint Mary’s College of California. \n \nLauren Markham is an award-winning writer and journalist based in California whose work regularly appears in outlets such as Harper’s\, The New York Review of Books\, The New York Times Magazine and VQR\, where she is a contributing editor. She is the author of the award-winning The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life\, the California Book Award shortlisted A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging (2024) and the recently-released Immemorial. \n \nIsvett Verde is a staff editor in the Opinion section of The New York Times\, where she helps shape conversations on immigration\, culture and identity. She is also an adjunct professor of Latinx Media studies at The City College of New York. She earned a B.A. in French from Florida International University\, and an M.A. in Spanish-language Journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. Her writing has been featured in the anthology titled\, “Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness.” \n \nHonor Jones is a senior editor at The Atlantic\, and previously at The New York Times Opinion section\, where she edited cover stories and special issues for the Sunday Review. She is also the author of a novel\, Sleep. \n \nPaul Reyes is the editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review\, where he develops a variety of content\, including investigative reporting\, essays\, photography portfolios\, poetry\, criticism\, and fiction. Before joining VQR\, he was a senior editor with The Oxford American. His work as an editor has led to two National Magazine Awards (as well as several nominations)\, the Overseas Press Club Award\, inclusion in the Pushcart Prize anthology along with regular appearances in the Best American anthologies. His book\, Exiles in Eden\, an investigative narrative of the 2008 housing crisis\, was praised as “a wrenching chronicle of our new hard times” (Publishers Weekly) and “an engrossing memoir of American dreaming and financial devastation” (Mother Jones). His essays and reporting have appeared in VQR\, The Oxford American\, Harper’s\, The New York Times\, Literary Hub\, Mother Jones\, and elsewhere. His writing has earned him a Literature Fellowship in Nonfiction from the National Endowment for the Arts\, a nomination for the Harry Chapin Media Award\, and a nomination for the National Magazine Award in Feature Writing. \n  \nCosponsored by: \nCenter for the Study of Women|Streisand Center\, Division of Social Sciences\, Division of Humanities\, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Creative Activities\, School of Music\, School of Arts and Architecture\, and School of Theater\, Film\, and Television.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/from-pitch-to-publish-in-the-public-humanities/
LOCATION:Royce 314
CATEGORIES:CSW|Streisand Center
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SUMMARY:Fire Tender Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, February 10\, 2026\n12:15–1:15 PM\nCenter for the Study of Women|Streisand Center (Google Maps)  \nJoin us for a screening of Fire Tender\, directed by Roni Jo Draper (Yurok) and Marissa Lila\, followed by a discussion. \nFire Tender tells the story of Yurok tribal members returning to traditional fire practices as an essential form of land stewardship. The film centers on Margo Robbins—grandmother\, cultural educator\, healer\, and Indigenous fire practitioner—who is leading efforts to restore Yurok fire sovereignty: the right to use fire for tribal land care\, a practice outlawed under settler colonial policies. Through her work\, Robbins challenges more than a century of environmentally destructive anti-fire policies that have endangered Yurok lands and restricted access to the natural resources necessary for clean water\, food\, and traditional lifeways. \nSeating is first come\, first served. No registration required.\nAttendees are welcome to bring their lunch for the 30-minute screening and discussion to follow. \nThis event is part of programming for Thinking Gender 2026: “Feminist & Queer Ecologies.” Register for the conference. \nAbout the Filmmakers\nDirector: Roni Jo Draper\, PhD (Yurok\, she/they)\, is an emerita professor in the Department of Teacher Education at the David O. McKay School of Education\, Brigham Young University\, where she taught courses in multicultural education\, women’s studies\, and literacy. Dr. Draper began her work as a scholar investigating disciplinary literacies and seeking to uncover the texts and literacies needed to participate and learn in disciplinary settings such as mathematics\, science\, and the arts. Her work has appeared in various journals for researchers and teachers including the Harvard Educational Review\, the American Educational Research Journal\, the Journal of Teacher Education\, the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy\, and the Mathematics Teacher. Currently\, her research interest has focused on the challenge to prepare teachers to create classrooms that allow our most minoritized children to thrive. She is a former high school mathematics teacher and is proud of her work serving students at risk of not completing high school. In her recent work\, she has turned to Indigenous storytelling to share stories that center the lives of Indigenous peoples. She has produced the film Scenes from the Glittering World\, about the lives of three Navajo young people attending a remote high school on the Navajo Nation. Draper is also the writer\, producer\, and director of the documentary Fire Tender\, which centers on the lives of Yurok fire practitioners.  \nCo-director: Marissa Lila (she/they) is a Thai-American documentarian who grew up in Hong Kong and Thailand and is now based in Salt Lake City. As a multicultural filmmaker\, she directs and produces projects with characters who cross boundaries set by dominant cultures or identities. Lila’s projects have been selected to play at international film festivals (DOC NYC\, Camden\, IFF\, Big Sky Documentary FF\, and MountainFilm). Two projects she produced\, Transmormon and Oxygen to Fly\, went viral with over 160 million total views. These projects were featured in The Huffington Post\, New York Times\, The Atlantic\, People Magazine\, and Dazed. Lila is co-founder of OHO Media\, a creative content agency for which Lila creates documentaries and documentary-based branded content. Lila directed\, produced\, and wrote for the docu-reality television series The Generations Project\, for which one of the episodes she produced won a Regional Emmy. Lila also spent six years creating educational content to increase equitable outcomes for students inclusive of race\, ethnicity\, language\, cultural\, sexual orientation\, or ability. \nProducer: Jenn Lee is an immigrant from Taiwan who grew up in Utah and has worked over 20 years in social impact. Besides Fire Tender\, she has produced and supported award-winning narrative and documentary films such as “The Dating Game” (2025)\, “Home Court” (2024)\, “Mija” (2022)\, “The Dilemma of Desire” (2020)\, “Jane and Emma” (2018)\, and LGBTQ+ films “Pray Away” (2021) and “Faithful” (2017). Prior to film work\, she was a UCLA graduate student studying gender (sex-ratio) imbalance in China and attending Thinking Gender conferences.\nLearn more about the film.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/fire-tender-film-screening/
LOCATION:Center for the Study of Women\, 1500 Public Affairs
CATEGORIES:CSW|Streisand Center
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Kinship as Method: Rethinking Ethics\, Collaboration\, and Knowledge Production in Anthropology
DESCRIPTION:Where: 353 Haines Hall \nWhen: Thursday\, March 12th\, 2026 from 1 pm-2:30 pm \nLunch provided.  \nThis lecture examines how long-term Indigenous collaboration in Papua New Guinea unsettles conventional anthropological approaches to ethics\, method\, and authorship. Grounded in kinship\, reciprocity\, and relational accountability\, the work challenges extractive research models\, short-term field engagements\, and institutionalized ethics frameworks that separate knowledge production from moral obligation and social life. By treating kinship not as metaphor but as a methodological and ethical infrastructure\, the lecture proposes alternative forms of collaboration\, co-authorship\, consent\, and responsibility. These practices extend anthropology’s commitments to decolonial scholarship by reconfiguring what counts as evidence\, expertise\, and accountability in engaged environmental research.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/lecture-kinship-as-method-rethinking-ethics-collaboration-and-knowledge-production-in-anthropology/
LOCATION:Haines 352
CATEGORIES:CSW|Streisand Center
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260317
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260319
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SUMMARY:Spring Book Swap + Books to Jails Drive
DESCRIPTION:When: Tuesday March 17 – Wednesday\, March 18\, 10 am- 2 pm\nWhere: CSW|Streisand Center Office\, 1500 Public Affairs (Located across from Jimmy’s Coffee House) \nJoin us for the CSW|Streisand Center Spring Book Swap! Bring a wrapped book\, add a hint note\, and swap with others! \n\nAdditionally\, donate a popular book to LA County Jails in partnership with LA County Library as a part of our Books to Jails Drive. \n\n\nWhat kinds of books to donate to the Books to Jails Drive (per LA County Library Guidelines)\n\nFantasy novels\nAdventure novels\nMystery novels\nSci-Fi and Fantasy novels\nSpiritual books\nPoetry\nSelf-help books\nBooks in Spanish\n\n\n\n\n\nDonation guidelines\n\nNO hardcovers – ONLY paperback books\nNO textbooks or academic books\nNO depictions or descriptions on how to commit crimes\nMUST be in good condition / shape\n\n\n\nLearn more about our mini library and the books to jails partnership. \n\n 
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/spring-book-swap-books-to-jails-drive/
CATEGORIES:CSW|Streisand Center
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SUMMARY:"Nakba as Wounding Ecology" with Dr. Sherena Razek
DESCRIPTION:Culture\, Power\, Social Change presents “Nakba as Wounding Ecology” with Dr. Sherena Razek\, President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow\, UCLA\, Gender Studies. \nWhen: Thursday\, April 2 \nLunch: 12 pm. Talk: 12:15 – 1:45 pm \nWhere: Haines Hall 352 \nNo registration required. First come\, first served for lunch. \nJoin a talk by Dr. Sherena Razek\, Nakba as Wounding Ecology\, with lunch provided. \nIn this talk\, Sherena reflects on how the Palestinian condition can reshape the way we understand the climate crisis\, approaching the Nakba as a form of “wounding ecology.” Moving across land and body\, symbol and materiality\, she brings together questions of settler colonialism\, indigenous resistance\, and environmental catastrophe in ways that highlight their deep interconnectedness and urgency. \nDr. Sherena Razek is a diasporic Palestinian feminist educator\, scholar\, activist\, and labor organizer. She is currently a President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender Studies at UCLA and earned her PhD in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University. Her research engages Palestinian visual culture\, anti-imperialist struggle\, and decolonial feminist ecologies\, and her writing has appeared in The Journal of Palestine Studies\, Women & Performance\, InVisible Culture\, and Social Text.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/nakba-as-wounding-ecology-with-dr-sherena-razek/
LOCATION:Haines 352
CATEGORIES:CSW|Streisand Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260410T100000
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SUMMARY:Dreaming Together: California Student Survivors Reimagining Campus Responses to Sexual Violence
DESCRIPTION:Event Video \n \n\n\n  \n \n  \nEvent Details \nWhere: Royce 314 + Zoom \nWhen: Friday\, April 10th from 10:00 AM-12:00 PM PT \nSurvivors + Allies is a UCLA-student organization within the CSW|Barbra Streisand Center dedicated to advocating with and for survivors of sexual violence and sexual harassment (SVSH). Over the past year\, we conducted a mixed-methods research study across California college campuses\, including the University of California (UC)\, California State University (CSU)\, and community college systems\, to better understand the conditions that enable or prevent student-survivor healing. \n\n 
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/dreaming-together-california-student-survivors-reimagining-campus-responses-to-sexual-violence/
LOCATION:Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:CSW|Streisand Center
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260417
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260418
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SUMMARY:Thinking Gender 2026: Feminist and Queer Ecologies
DESCRIPTION:Thinking Gender 2026\n36th Annual Graduate Student Research Conference\n“Feminist and Queer Ecologies”\nFriday\, April 17\, 2026\nJames West Alumni Center\, UCLA Campus\nView Conference Program and Schedule\nWatch Videos from Thinking Gender 2026\n \n\nJoin us for a day of graduate student presentations highlighting innovative research at the intersections of gender\, sexuality\, environment\, and justice. The conference will feature keynote speaker Cutcha Risling Baldy (Cal Poly Humboldt; NAS Rou Dalagurr Food Sovereignty Lab & Traditional Ecological Knowledges Institute)\, whose work centers Indigenous feminisms\, land relations\, and food sovereignty. \n“Feminist and Queer Ecologies\,” explores how environments and ecologies are shaped\, understood\, and contested through relations of sex\, gender\, and sexuality. The theme also considers how feminist and queer theorists\, artists\, and organizers have drawn on ecological processes and environmental knowledge to build new insights\, movements\, and practices. \nGendered and colonial ideas of wilderness\, domesticity\, and reproduction have historically shaped landscapes and environmental policy. At the same time\, feminist and queer methodologies—from place-based storytelling to multimodal practice—offer critical tools for climate resilience\, environmental justice\, and community well-being. Around the world\, social movements resisting environmental injustice—from Standing Rock to Flint\, from the Everglades to rural India—have been led by women and gender-expansive people. Climate change and climate justice continue to affect communities differentially along lines of gender\, sexuality\, race\, and class\, revealing how struggles for ecological flourishing are inseparable from feminist and queer justice. \nFeminist and queer ecologies demand multidisciplinary collaboration. This year’s theme invites environmental scientists\, humanists\, social scientists\, artists\, organizers\, and practitioners to come together across methods\, disciplines\, temporalities\, species\, and geographies. It encourages experimentation with scientific inquiry\, ethnography\, storytelling\, political theory\, environmental history\, modeling\, and other forms of knowledge-making and truth-telling. \n\nConference Keynote:\n“Indigenous Women Know How to Save the World: Framing a California Indigenous Ecofeminist Ethic.”\n \nThis talk builds a California Indigenous ecofeminist ethic grounded in place\, fugitivity\, resistance\, and humor. It asks what it means to rethink how we talk about climate change and to recognize how land\, water\, and more than human relatives model resilience\, refusal\, and justice. By examining examples from California such as the damming\, diversion\, and even paving over of rivers\, this talk argues that environmental devastation is not a future fear but an ongoing history that Indigenous peoples have survived and theorized for generations. Green colonialism\, conservation land grabs\, and the expectation that Indigenous communities must solve climate change while contributing the least to it exposes the absurdity and gaslighting in contemporary environmental discourse and policy. At the same time\, Indigenous women who have long been leaders in ecological knowledge and restoration are kept busy navigating patriarchal structures rather than being supported as the scientific and cultural leaders they already are. Ultimately\, this talk explores how the world around us is already feminist\, already resistant\, and already offering models for collective thriving beyond capitalism\, patriarchy\, and extraction. Indigenous peoples carry structures and methodologies that are sustainable\, relational\, and deeply grounded in place. We have lived them. And we are still building these futures now. \nCutcha Risling Baldy\, Associate Professor of Native American Studies at Cal Poly Humboldt researches Indigenous feminisms\, California Indians\, Environmental Justice\, Traditional Ecological Knowledge and decolonization. She is also the Co-Director of the NAS Rou Dalagurr Food Sovereignty Lab & Traditional Ecological Knowledges Institute. \nIn 2025 Dr. Risling Baldy along with Co-Director Dr. Kaitlin Reed were awarded the James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award for their work with the lab. Her book: We Are Dancing For You: Native feminisms and the revitalization of women’s coming-of-age ceremonies received “Best First Book in Native American and Indigenous Studies” at the 2019 Native American Indigenous Studies Association Conference. She received her Ph.D. in Native American Studies at UC Davis; her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from San Diego State University; and her B.A. in Psychology with a Specialization in Health and Development from Stanford University. She is also the volunteer Executive Director for the Native Women’s Collective\, a nonprofit organization that focuses on the continued revitalization of Native American arts and culture. She is Hupa\, Karuk\, and Yurok and enrolled in the Hoopa Valley Tribe. \nThinking Gender Blog Posts\n\n\nFire Tender Film Screening\nTuesday\, February 10\, 2026\n12:15–1:15 PM | CSW|Streisand Center\nJoin us for a screening of Fire Tender\, directed by Roni Jo Draper (Yurok)\, followed by a discussion. \nFire Tender tells the story of Yurok tribal members returning to traditional fire practices as an essential form of land stewardship. The film centers on Margo Robbins—grandmother\, cultural educator\, healer\, and Indigenous fire practitioner—who is leading efforts to restore Yurok fire sovereignty: the right to use fire for tribal land care\, a practice outlawed under settler colonial policies. \n\nCosponsors\nAfrican American Studies Department\nAmerican Indian Studies Center\nAmerican Indian Studies Department\nAnthropology Department\nAsian American Studies Center\nAsian American Studies Department\nBixby Center to Advance Sexual and Reproductive Health Equity\nCenter for Community Engagement\nCenter for the Study of Racism\, Social Justice & Health\nChicana/o and Central American Studies Department\nChicano Studies Research Center\nCritical Race Studies Program (Law)\nDepartment of Geography\nDisability Studies\nEnglish Department\nGender Studies Department\nGraduate Division\nHumanities Division\nInformation Studies Department\nInstitute of American Cultures\nInstitute of Society and Genetics\nInstitute of the Environment and Sustainability\nInstitute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin\nInternational Institute\nIris Cantor Women’s Health Center\nLabor Center\nLaboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies\nLGBTQ Campus Resource Center\nLGBTQ Studies Program\nLuskin Center for Innovation\nRalph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies\nSchool of Engineering\nSchool of the Arts and Architecture\nSchool of Theater\, Film and Television\nSocial Welfare Department\nSociology Department\nWater Resources Group \nFriendly Reminder: Seating is first-come\, first-served. Due to frequent no-shows\, we overbook our events; a reservation does not guarantee a seat. Please arrive early. We appreciate your understanding.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/tg26
LOCATION:James West Alumni Center\, 325 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CSW|Streisand Center
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SUMMARY:"Dolores": Free Spring Film Screening by CSW|Streisand Center
DESCRIPTION:When: Thursday\, April 23rd from 2-3:30pm \nWhere: Center for the Study of Women | Streisand Center\, 1500 Public Affairs \nJoin us at CSW|Streisand Center for our Spring Film Screening of Dolores. \nDolores (2017) is a documentary directed by Peter Bratt that chronicles the life of Dolores Huerta\, the undervalued co-founder of the United Farm Workers union. The film highlights her crucial role in fighting for labor rights\, racial justice\, and feminism\, while exploring her life as a mother of 11 and her battle against sexism. \nThis event is FREE of cost! Additionally\, popcorn and tea will be provided at the screening. We would love to see you there!
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/dolores-free-spring-film-screening-by-cswstreisand-center/
LOCATION:1500 Public Affairs
CATEGORIES:CSW|Streisand Center,Streisand Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260520T153000
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SUMMARY:Beyond Representation: Practicing Feminist Engineering featuring Regan Patterson
DESCRIPTION:Date: Wednesday\, May 20th\nTime: 3:30-5 PM\nLocation: Center for the Study of Women|Streisand Center\n1500 Public Affairs \nAll are welcome! Open to students\, faculty\, staff\, community members. Dr. Regan F. Patterson is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California\, Los Angeles\, Principal Investigator of the Engineering Environmental Justice Lab\, and a UCLA CSW|Barbra Streisand Environmental Justice Fellow. She was previously the Transportation Equity Research Fellow for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research. Dr. Patterson earned her Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from UC Berkeley. \nHer research focuses on air quality\, sustainable transportation\, community engagement\, and environmental justice. More specifically\, she examines and models the impacts of transportation and infrastructure policies\, alongside place-based\, community-driven interventions\, on air pollution exposure disparities and environmental justice outcomes. \nNo registration required. Seating is first come\, first served.\nLight refreshments to be provided.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/beyond-representation-practicing-feminist-engineering-featuring-regan-patterson/
LOCATION:Center for the Study of Women\, 1500 Public Affairs
CATEGORIES:CSW|Streisand Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260604T121500
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SUMMARY:The Fire-Break: Latinx Fire Mitigation Workers and Settler Land Control in Southern California
DESCRIPTION:CULTURE\, POWER\, SOCIAL CHANGE PRESENTS: \nThe Fire-Break: Latinx Fire Mitigation Workers and Settler Land Control in Southern California \nThursday 6.4.26 | Haines Hall 352 | 12:15 PM | Pizza served at noon \nThis presentation discusses the settler practice of managing fire risk to valorize property in Orange County’s wildland urban interface. \nThe presentation draws on four years of ethnographic research with Latinx fire mitigation workers in the chaparral canyon ecologies of Orange County. It also incorporates over three decades of archival materials from the Orange County Fire Authority and Dr. Zarate’s family’s involvement with the County of Orange fire mitigation program. The presentation contends that workers employ Migrant Ecological Knowledge\, a practice grounded in the geographies of dispossession and displacement\, to create forms of care and life in places where personal risks related to health\, legal\, and social precarity accumulate. These affective and social practices amongst workers denaturalize fire management across Southern California as a structure of risk-production that expands settler claims to land through regimes of racialized labor that seek to have Latinx migrants do the work of protecting property from fire and cultural obsolescence. \nSalvador Zarate is an assistant professor in the department of anthropology at UC Irvine. His work dovetails ethnographic research with historical methods and centers on questions of racialized gender\, labor\, and the ecology. His recent work explores Latinx residential gardening\, drought as a science of land domination\, and wildfire as a cultural practice of racial domination and settler conquest. He has published in Anthropology of Work Review\, Journal of Political Ecology\, Feminist Formations\, Catalyst\, Practicing Anthropology\, Latino Studies\, Aztlan\, and others. His co-written book on the politics of doing transformative community research\, Transforming Science\, will be published in May of this year.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/the-fire-break-latinx-fire-mitigation-workers-and-settler-land-control-in-southern-california/
LOCATION:352 Haines Hall
CATEGORIES:CSW|Streisand Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261013T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261013T170000
DTSTAMP:20260930T000610Z
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SUMMARY:Free Film Screening: Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl (1968)
DESCRIPTION:Join the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) | Barbra Streisand Center for a free screening of the classic musical drama Funny Girl. Barbra Streisand stars as a vibrant bit player on the New York City vaudeville stage who works her way up to stardom on Broadway. \nWhen: Tuesday\, October 13th\, 3:00 PM\nWhere: CSW | Streisand Center\, 1500 Public Affairs Building\, UCLA \nThis event is free and open to all. Snacks and popcorn will be provided! \nQuestions or accommodation requests? Email student@women.ucla.edu.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/free-film-screening-barbra-streisand-in-funny-girl-1968/
LOCATION:Center for the Study of Women\, 1500 Public Affairs
CATEGORIES:CSW|Streisand Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261023T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261023T160000
DTSTAMP:20260916T232323Z
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SUMMARY:Faculty Writing Retreat October 2026
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\n\nFriday\, October 23 \n10 am – 4 pm Register to access the exact location. \n\nA free opportunity exclusively for UCLA faculty\, lecturers\, and postdocs. \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. \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. \nOrganized by: CSW|Streisand Center \nThank you to our co-sponsors: \nOffice of the Vice Chancellor for Research\, Innovation & Creative Activities\nUCLA Anderson School of Management\nUCLA Herb Alpert School of Music\nUCLA Division of Humanities\nUCLA Division of Life Sciences\nUCLA Division of Social Sciences\nUCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs\nUCLA Samueli School of Engineering\nUCLA School of Law\nUCLA 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\, November 13\, 2026 \nFriday\, December 4\, 2026 \nFriday\, January 29\, 2027 \nFriday\, February 19\, 2027 \nFriday\, March 5\, 2027 \nFri\,day\, April 16\, 2027 \nFriday\, May 14\, 2027
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/faculty-writing-retreat-october-2026/
CATEGORIES:CSW|Streisand Center
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261102
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261106
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SUMMARY:IGNITE Women's Clothing Drive
DESCRIPTION:  \nWomen’s Clothing Drive\nHosted by IGNITE and the UCLA Center for the Study of Women | Barbra Streisand Center \nWhen: November 2nd–5th\, 9 AM to 4 PM daily \nWhere: Center for the Study of Women | Barbra Streisand Center \nAbout the event:\nClean out your closet and give your clothes a second life! IGNITE and the UCLA Center for the Study of Women are teaming up to collect women’s clothing for those in need. All donated items will go to the Downtown Women’s Center\, which supports women experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles. \nWhat to donate:\nGently used or unworn women’s clothing. \nHow to participate:\nDrop off your donations at the Center for the Study of Women | Barbra Streisand Center any time between 9 AM and 4 PM from November 2nd through 5th. No registration is needed\, just bring your items by. \nEvery donation helps. Thank you for supporting women in our community!
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/ignite-womens-clothing-drive/
LOCATION:Center for the Study of Women\, 1500 Public Affairs
CATEGORIES:CSW|Streisand Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261102T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261102T133000
DTSTAMP:20261008T200511Z
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SUMMARY:Climate Change Hates Mothers
DESCRIPTION:How birth workers\, community organizers\, and local elected officials are mobilizing to address maternal marginalization and seek policy. \n\n\nMonday\, November 2 \n12-1:30 PM \nRolfe Hall\, Room 2125 \n\nAbout the Talk\nToxic exposures. Emergency evacuations. Endocrine disruption. Miscarriage. Threats to healthy pregnancies and safe births. Guilt\, anxiety\, depression\, and grief. Climate change poses unique challenges to the health\, well-being\, and everyday lives of pregnant people\, mothers\, and those who would like to have children. This talk addresses those challenges – and highlights how birth workers\, community organizers\, and local elected officials are mobilizing to address maternal marginalization and seek policy. \nFeaturing\nJade S. Sasser\, PhD is Professor of Environmental Studies in the Department of Society\, Environment\, and Health Equity at the University of California\, Riverside. She received her PhD in Environmental Science\, Policy\, and Management from the University of California\, Berkeley. Her work explores climate change\, maternal health\, and reproductive justice through an intersectional lens. \nHer first book\, On Infertile Ground: Population Control and Women’s Rights in the Era of Climate Change\, was published in 2018 by NYU Press and won the Emory Elliott Book Award. Her second book\, Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question: Deciding Whether to Have Children in an Uncertain Future (UC Press\, 2024)\, analyzes the relationship between climate emotions\, social inequality\, and reproductive anxiety in the U.S. — Dr. Sasser also hosts a podcast of the same name. Her third book\, in progress\, explores the health impacts of climate change on pregnant people and mothers.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/climate-change-hates-mothers/
CATEGORIES:CSW|Streisand Center,ReGEN,Streisand Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261203T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261203T120000
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Workshop: Asking Different Questions
DESCRIPTION:Feminist Approaches to Research\, Knowledge & Academic Culture With Dr. Sarah McCullough\, UC Davis Feminist Research Institute (FRI) \n\n\nJoin the UC Davis Feminist Research Institute for a workshop exploring how feminist science studies can help us recognize and redress systemic biases in research and academic culture. \nFree • Lunch Provided \nDec 3\, 2026 10:30 am – 12:00 pm \nCenter for the Study of Women|Barbra Streisand Center \n1500 Public Affairs\, UCLA \n\nUniversities are often described as impartial sites of knowledge creation. But what counts as a valid research question\, methodology\, or form of evidence is shaped by cultural forces and disciplinary histories. \nThis workshop invites graduate students from all fields to examine the ongoing impacts of eugenics\, colonialism\, and patriarchy in academia—and consider how we can challenge them. \nParticipants will gain: \n\nIntellectual frameworks from feminist science studies\nTools for recognizing systemic bias in research\nStrategies for aligning academic practice with personal values\nApproaches for taking action toward greater equity\nNew ways to strengthen the accuracy\, relevance\, and impact of research\n\nRelated Event \nFaculty & Researcher Workshop: Asking Different Questions on December 3
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/graduate-student-workshop-asking-different-questions/
LOCATION:Center for the Study of Women\, 1500 Public Affairs
CATEGORIES:CSW|Streisand Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261203T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261203T143000
DTSTAMP:20260923T181900Z
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SUMMARY:Faculty & Researcher Workshop: Asking Different Questions
DESCRIPTION:Feminist Approaches to Research\, Knowledge & Academic Culture With Dr. Sarah McCullough\, UC Davis Feminist Research Institute (FRI) \n\n\n\n\nFree • Lunch Provided \nDec 3\, 2026 1 pm – 2:30 pm \nCenter for the Study of Women|Barbra Streisand Center \n1500 Public Affairs\, UCLA \n\nHow do histories of eugenics\, colonialism\, and patriarchy continue to shape research? \nJoin the UC Davis Feminist Research Institute for a workshop exploring how feminist science studies can help us recognize and redress systemic biases in research and academic culture. \nFeminist Approaches to Improve Lab Culture\, Research Accuracy\, & Public Impact \nHow do histories of eugenics\, colonialism\, and patriarchy continue to shape research today? \nThis workshop offers faculty and researchers in all fields practical tools for recognizing how exclusionary histories influence research questions\, methodologies\, interpretation\, and academic environments. \nParticipants will explore how addressing systemic bias can: \n\nImprove the accuracy and impact of scientific research\nGenerate more innovative approaches to pressing contemporary issues\nCreate more equitable and welcoming research environments\nSupport junior scholars and strengthen lab culture\nTurn feminist insights into actionable research practices\n\nFacilitated discussion • Practical tools • Resources for action \nAbout the Facilitator\nSarah Rebolloso McCullough\, PhD\, runs the Feminist Research Institute at UC Davis\, whose mission is to transform research culture to be more accurate\, impactful\, and humanizing. She created the Asking Different Questions research training program\, which teaches feminist science & technology studies to justice-driven STEM researchers. She also conducts research in knowledge justice\, environmental justice\, mobility\, justice\, and university-community relations. She earned her PhD in Cultural Studies with a designated emphasis in Feminist Theory & Research at UC Davis. \nRelated Event \nGraduate Student Workshop: Asking Different Questions on December 3
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/faculty-researcher-workshop-asking-different-questions/
LOCATION:Center for the Study of Women\, 1500 Public Affairs
CATEGORIES:CSW|Streisand Center
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