Anne LeBaron: Portrait Concert of a Trailblazing Composer
2024-02-07 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Where: Lani Hall – Schoenberg Music Building 445 Charles E. Young Drive East Los Angeles, 90095
When: Wednesday, February 7, 7-8:30 pm PST
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Internationally acclaimed composer and harpist Anne LeBaron marks her illustrious tenure at CalArts with a retrospective concert at UCLA’s Lani Hall, on Wednesday, February 7, at 7 PM. The program, encapsulating four decades of pioneering music, will be followed by an enlightening talkback and reception.
The evening unfolds around LeBaron’s lifelong passions, weaving a tapestry of music with drama, environmental advocacy, sounds and stories from around the world, the recognition of women’s achievements, and the spirit of artistic collaboration. This much-anticipated event will feature world premieres alongside rarely performed works.
“The Heroine with a Thousand Faces,” a prodigious new multi-year endeavor aiming to create one thousand musical portraits, launches with five original solos honoring women whose momentous contributions have reshaped our history. The prestigious Davise Fund facilitates these tributes by commissioning musical homages to figures such as Australian Saint Mary Helen Mackillop, Nobel Laureate Leymah Gbowee, and the indomitable Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Extraordinary saxophonist Jan Berry Baker will present world premieres of five such portraits, composed expressly for her.
Showcasing an array of LeBaron’s vocal compositions from her operatic oeuvre, the program includes chamber pieces that echo her deep commitment to environmental causes. Additionally, her improvisational prowess on the harp will be on display as she guides an ensemble through a graphic score, drawing inspiration from Marcel Duchamp’s concept of ‘the infrathin.’
This event is co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Musicology, the Department of Music, the Center for Musical Humanities, the Center for the Study of Women/Streisand Center, and the UCLA Music Library Davise Fund.

Survivors + Allies Report Launch: Webinar
2024-02-09 12:00 - 13:00
Where: Virtual (Zoom)
When: Friday, February 9, 2024. 12 pm – 1 pm PST
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Survivors and Allies (S+A) is a community and student-led collective organization that advocates for and with survivors of Sexual Violence in the UC System. S+A would like to welcome you to join us February 9th, 2024 at 12 pm PST to view our webinar discussing the release of our report “From Surviving to Healing: Results and Demands from a Study with Survivors of Sexual Violence on University of California Campuses.”
After you register, we will follow up with links to the zoom webinar, youtube live (overflow), and the release of our report.
Co-sponsors
This event is co-sponsored by the Diversity, Disparities, and Difference (D3) Initiative at UCLA Luskin.

Book Talk: Feng-Mei Heberer
2024-02-14 14:00 - 16:00
Where: Darren Star Theater (Melnitz 1422A)
When: Wednesday, February 14, 2 pm-3:50 pm
Join CSW|Streisand Center and the School of Theater, Film and Television for a book talk with author Feng-Mei Heberer, discussing, “Undoing Documentation as Racialized State Surveillance: the Moving Image Undocument.”
This talk examines visual documentation and the documentary form in their intimate connection with racialized state surveillance and border control in the United States. It discusses the ways that visual documents such as the photograph have been wielded on behalf of U.S. immigration policy to contain border crossings since the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882), and highlights the underexamined linkage between official documentation and historical processes of Asian racialization.
Against this backdrop, Herberer turns to the work of Miko Revereza, a Philippine-born artist and self-ascribed “undocumented-documentary filmmaker”, exploring how Revereza advances an aesthetic of the fugitive and ephemeral undocument that both attunes us to documentation’s violent history and mobilizes moving image practices beyond the demand to capture and report.

Racializing Reproduction: Maternal Mortality, Asian American Women and COVID-19
2024-02-26 13:00 - 15:00 | Rolfe 2125
Where: UCLA Rolfe Hall room 2125
When: February 26, 2024, Monday, 1:00 – 3:00 pm
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Join us for a Visiting Scholar public lecture by Lalaie Ameeriar (Associate Professor, Anthropology, York University) in collaboration with UCLA Institute of American Cultures – Asian American Studies Center. This talk is part of a larger ethnographic study of medical racism that centers the experiences of pregnant Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 has only further exacerbated pre-existing health disparities, which has led to increasing maternal and infant death. Lalaie Ameeriar is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at York University. During the 2023–24 academic year, she was a fellow in the Asian American Studies Center with the Institute of American Cultures at UCLA.

Pitch Workshop with LARB Founding Editor Tom Lutz
2024-02-28 12:00 - 13:30
When: Wednesday Feb 28th, 2024, 12-1:30pm, lunch will be served. Office Hours 1:30-2:30pm to follow with chance for individual consultation.
Deadline to apply: February 22nd, 2024
In conjunction with The Editor-in-Residence (Public Scholarship) panel, we have a unique opportunity that gives members of the UCLA community to take part in a Pitch Workshop and get direct project feedback on projects from an editor.
Application Eligibility: The program is available for ladder faculty, adjuncts and lecturers, postdocs, and advanced graduate students (ATC). 2023-24 applicants must be a member of the Center for the Study of Women | Streisand Center, Divisions of Humanities & Social Sciences, Herb Alpert School of Music, or the Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health, the co-sponsoring units.
To apply and further information: https://humanities.ucla.edu/events/editor-in-residence/apply
Any questions, email Barbara Van Nostrand: bvannost@humnet.ucla.edu

Panel: How to Translate Your Work for a General Audience
2024-02-28 15:00 - 16:00
When: Wednesday, February 28, 3 pm
Where: Lani Hall (Schoenberg Music Building, UCLA)
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Please join us for a panel on public scholarship, specifically on how to write for non-academic audiences. The 2023-24 UCLA Editor in Residence, Public Scholarship Fellow, Tom Lutz (Los Angeles Review of Books, Founding Editor) will be joined by Josh Kun (USC Vice Provost for the Arts), Leigh-Michil George and Summer Kim Lee (UCLA) to talk about their experiences as editors and authors.
Cosponsors
This event is co-sponsored by Center for the Study of Women|Streisand Center, the divisions of Humanities and Social Sciences, The Herb Alpert School of Music, The Center for Musical Humanities, and The UCLA Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health.
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UCLA Center for Reproductive Science, Health and Education (CRSHE) Distinguished Speaker Series
2024-02-29 15:00 - 17:00
Where: California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), UCLA Campus
When: Thursday, February 29, 2024 3:00 p.m. Reception to follow.
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UCLA Center for Reproductive Science, Health and Education (CRSHE) Distinguished Speaker Series featuring L.A. County Supervisor Holly Mitchell.
Join us for a conversation with L.A. County Supervisor Holly Mitchell and CRSHE Director Amander Clark about Black maternal health and care in Los Angeles. We are delighted to announce that Elaine Batchlor, M.D., M.P.H., will be providing the opening remarks. Dr. Batchlor serves as the CEO of MLK Community Healthcare and has devoted her career to reducing health disparities and expanding health care quality and access for the most vulnerable.
Registration is required. Seating is first come first served and is not guaranteed.
About the event: The UCLA Center for Reproductive Science, Health and Education (CRSHE) is delighted to host L.A. County Supervisor Holly Mitchell as the inaugural distinguished speaker to discuss her work supporting healthy families and communities. As a county supervisor for the 2nd District of Los Angeles, Supervisor Mitchell champions care and support for women, girls and expecting mothers, working to ensure that their reproductive health needs are met through expanding doula care, protecting Black lives during childbirth, supporting measures for paid family leave and expanding access to abortion rights and reproductive care. Supervisor Mitchell’s work is centered in reproductive equity and justice, key topics that the Center is keen to highlight given our vision for a future in which reproductive policies are based on rigorous science, and access to this care is more equitable. Please join us to learn from Supervisor Mitchell about her work in supporting the lives of children and families in Los Angeles County and the state of California, and what she envisages for the future of reproductive health and care in our communities.

Thinking Gender 2024: “Dystopian Realities, Feminist Utopias”
2024-03-01 08:30 - 18:00
When: Friday, March 1, 2024 (In Person)
Where: James West Alumni Center, The Collins Conference Room, 325 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Join us for the 34th Annual Thinking Gender Graduate Student Research Conference “Dystopian Realities, Feminist Utopias.” Thinking Gender 2024’s conference theme considers what it means to live in the cataclysmic wake of racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and neoliberalism. At the same time, the theme celebrates how feminist, queer, and BIPOC scholarship, activism, and art enact utopias by imagining alternatives to hegemonic structures.
The theme seeks to explore how dystopianism serves as an apt metaphor to explore and critique social and political issues related to gender, race, class, and sexuality and how utopianism is an ethical mandate to imagine a better present and future.
Our in-person program on Friday, March 1, 2024, will be open to the public. Guests who have not pre-registered may be admitted if space permits.

Cosponsors
African American Studies
Anthropology
Asian American Studies Center
Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health
Chicana/o and Central American Studies
Comparative Literature
Disability Studies
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Gender Studies
Graduate Division
Humanities Division
Institute for Research on Labor & Employment
Institute of American Cultures
International Institute
Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, David Geffen School of Medicine
LGBTQ Campus Resource Center
Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies
Theater, Film, & Television
UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy
Social Welfare

Department of English Presents: One Million Experiments Film Screening & Discussion
2024-03-07 16:00 - 17:00
When: Thursday, March 7 at 4:00 pm
Where:
Royce Hall 314
10745 Dickson Ct.
Los Angeles, CA 90095
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Join us for a screening of the short documentary One Million Experiments, followed by a conversation with Damon A. Williams, Daniel Kisslinger, and Los Angeles-based organizers. One Million Experiments is a multimodal project that explores how we define and create safety in the world without the use of prisons or police. The point of One Million Experiments is not to find permanent solutions to ever-changing problems, but to gather more ideas, tools, and skills so that we don’t have to start from scratch every time. Learn more about the event here.
This event is co-sponsored by UCLA’s Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, the UCLA Law School’s Criminal Justice Program, and the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy.

The Manicurist's Daughter: Memoir Reading with Susan Lieu
2024-04-04 17:00 - 19:00
Where: Math Sciences, Rm 5200
When: April 4, 2024, 5:00 PM – 6:15 PM (Pacific Time)
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Please join us in welcoming writer and performance artist Susan Lieu, who will read from her new book, The Manicurist’s Daughter, an emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who searches for answers after her mother dies during plastic surgery. The Manicurist’s Daughter is much more than a memoir about grief, trauma, and body image. It is a story of fierce determination, strength in shared culture, and finding your place in the world.
Susan Lieu is a Vietnamese-American author, playwright, and performer who tells stories that refuse to be forgotten. A daughter of nail salon workers, she took her autobiographical solo theatre show 140 LBS: How Beauty Killed My Mother on a 10-city national tour with sold out premieres and accolades from L.A. Times, NPR, and American Theatre. Eight months pregnant, she premiered her sequel OVER 140 LBS as the headliner for ACT Theatre’s SoloFest. The Manicurist’s Daughter is her first book.

Faculty Writing Retreat
2024-04-05 10:00 - 16:00 | Hershey Hall Grand Salon Rm. 158, 612 Charles E Young Dr East, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
When: Friday, April 5, 2024
10 am – 4 pm
Where: Hershey Hall Salon (Room 158)
Post Retreat Social: All virtual and in-person attendees are invited to a social time after the retreat, an informal and pay for yourself happy hour. All attendees are welcome to join us from 4:30-6 pm at Plateia.

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Do you want to block out a day for writing and contemplation? The quarterly 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
The 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 tend to be cool.
We will have a conversation about the writing process over lunch. This conversation is entirely optional.
On-site space is limited. Virtual option available.
If you register to attend in person and your plans change, please let us know right away so that we may offer your spot to the waitlist. Due to the popularity of the retreat, no-shows cannot be granted an in-person spot at the following writing retreat.
If you are no longer able to attend, please e-mail csw@csw.ucla.edu to let us know.

The Methuen Drama Handbook of Gender and Theatre Book Launch
2024-04-11 16:00 - 17:30 | Center for the Study of Women, 1500 Public Affairs
When: April 11, 2024 4-5:30 pm
Where: Center for the Study of Women|Barbra Streisand Center
Located at 1500 Public Affairs, across from Jimmy’s Coffee House.
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Celebrate the publication of The Methuen Drama Handbook of Gender and Theatre with co-editors Sean Metzger and Roberta Mock and several contributors to this 550-page volume of new scholarship. The confluence of gender and theatre has long created intense debate about representation, identification, desire, embodiment, and lived experience. As this handbook demonstrates—with case studies from Roman antiquity to early modern English, Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish theatres to recent North American, African, Asian, Caribbean and European productions—the matter of gender has consistently taken centre stage.
Cosponsored by:
The UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television and the Center for the Study of Women|Barbra Streisand Center.

Workshop: How to Pitch and Write for Non-Academic Outlets
2024-04-19 08:00 - 17:00
Editor-in-Residence: Public Scholarship
When: Monday, May 6, 2024
Workshop 10 am-12 pm
Where: Royce Hall, Room 314
Open to all campus members.
Submit a pitch for review or for an individual consultation. Deadline: April 29.
RSVP Here for Attendance at the Workshop.
In this workshop-taught by The Los Angeles Review of Books Editor-in-Chief, Medaya Ocher-you can receive individualized feedback on your writing pitch, or, learn to write your first pitch.
The UCLA Humanities Editor-in-Residence series, the brainchild of Professor Nina Eidsheim working closely with Barbara Van Nostrand, is designed to offer an opportunity for graduate students and faculty to gain familiarity and practical insights into the publishing process, writ large. The program has expanded to include Public Scholarship in addition to the Academic Press. The invited distinguished fellow will give a presentation/ panel open to the UCLA community before individual consultations with faculty and students from the divisions of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Center for the Study of Women | Streisand Center, the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, the UCLA Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health.
The UCLA Humanities Editor-in-Residence series is created to facilitate long-term relationships between UCLA and editors in the academic press arena and the general public, thus setting graduate students and faculty up for early publication successes. The UCLA Humanities-in-Residence recognizes that, to quote OUP editor Norman Hirschy, “authors and presses alike share a common goal and purpose: publish new scholarship well and with as broad of distribution as possible.”

UCLA Law Menstrual Equity in the Carceral System
2024-04-19 17:00 - 18:00 | UCLA Law School, 385 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA 90095
When: Friday, April 19th, 5:00-6:00 PM; Reception to follow 6:00-6:30 PM
Where: UCLA School of Law, Room 1347, 385 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA 90095 Room 1347
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Register for the April 19th UCLA Law Menstrual Equity in the Carceral System, with Asm. Isaac G. Bryan, Professor Jody Heymann, and Ilka Rosales. Join the in-person conversation about menstrual equity in the carceral system with Assembly member Bryan, Professor Jody Heymann, and Ilka Rosales. We will be discussing the history of reproductive health access in California prisons and jails, recent legislative advocacy seeking to expand menstrual product access, and the public health implications of menstrual health access.
Co-sponsors
This event will be moderated by UCLA Criminal Justice Program’s Alicia Virani, and cosponsored by the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health, UCLA Criminal Justice Program, UCLA Center for the Study of Women Streisand Center, Preserve Abortion Access California Taskforce, What We Deserve, and UCLA Fielding Reproductive Health Interest Group.
Contact Winnie Xu, winnieexu@ucla.edu for questions with registration.

Spring 2024 Black Health Seminar Series: Building Bridges, Connecting Community
2024-04-24 12:00 - 13:30
Date: Wednesday, April 24
Panel Discussion: 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Networking: 1:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Location: UCLA Health Equity Hub CHS 71-242B
Lunch will be served.
The Collaborative Research on African American Wellness & Longevity (C.R.A.A.W.L.) Lab, in collaboration with the FSPH Office of Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion, is thrilled to invite you to the second event of our Spring 2024 Black Health Seminar Series:

“Building Bridges, Connecting Communities: Creative Approaches to Public Health Communication in Black Communities.”
This dynamic event promises to explore innovative approaches in public health, health risk communications, research translation, and authentic engagement with Black communities. Our interdisciplinary panel discussion will tackle practical and ethical challenges while highlighting the benefits of thinking outside the box to improve health outcomes and foster community empowerment.

Panelists:
Monica Ponder, PhD, MS, MSPH, Assistant Professor, Howard University Communication, Culture & Media Studies
Jaih Craddock, PhD, ACSW, Founder & Lead Researcher, Callea LLC, Research Marketing & Design + Black Girls Mental Health Collective
Kia Skrine Jeffers, PhD, RN, PHN, Assistant Professor, UCLA School of Nursing
Sonya Brooks, MS, UCLA Urban Schooling PhD Student + Community Health Sciences MPH Student

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Please RSVP for lunch and a great conversation by visiting https://tinyurl.com/BHSSSpring2024

We look forward to welcoming you to this enriching dialogue on public health communication in Black communities.

Walking Away from the Headscarf: Analyzing the Online Platform, "You Will Not Walk Alone"
2024-04-29 16:00 - 17:00
When: Monday, April 29, 2024, 4:00 pm
Where: Webinar
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Semiha Topal will discuss the changing dynamics between the Islamist and secularist regimes of power in Turkey within the last decade. Since 2018, an online platform with the name “You Will Not Walk Alone,” has been publishing anonymous letters from Turkish Muslims, the majority of whom are young women socialized into wearing the headscarf during the AKP era. By questioning what these young women are walking away from and what they are walking towards with their desire to remove their hijab, this virtual lecture offers a rethinking of the current role of the headscarf as a maker and/or marker of Islamic piety and political subjectivity.
The event is part of the MESA Global Academy Initiative.
Semiha Topal, recieved her Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Arizona State University in 2012, with her dissertation on “Building a Pious Self in Secular Settings: Muslim Women in Modern Turkey.” She holds an M.A. in Gender Studies and Religion from SOAS, University of London in the UK. Before her current role as the Program Manager of the Tuohy Center for Interreligious Understanding at John Carroll University in Cleveland, OH, Dr. Topal worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Colgate University in Hamilton, NY, and at William & Mary in Williamsburg, VA, teaching courses on gender, secularism, and Islam, in Turkey and the Middle East.
Organized by:
Center for Near Eastern Studies
Cosponsored by:
Department of Gender Studies, UCLA Center for the Study of Women|Barbra Streisand Center

STARRY FIELD: A Memoir of Lost History
2024-05-02 17:00 - 18:30
This is event has been cancelled and will be rescheduled.
When: Thursday, May 2, 2024 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Where: Rolfe 2125
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Join us in a conversation with journalist Margaret Juhae Lee as she discusses her poignant memoir,Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History. In Starry Field, Lee sets out on a search for her family’s history lost to the darkness of Korea’s colonial decades, and contends with the shockwaves of violence that followed them over four generations and across continents.
Combining investigative journalism, oral history, and archival research, Margaret reveals the truth about the grandfather she never knew. What she found is that Lee Chul Ha, her grandfather who left her grandmother and two young sons in 1936, was not a source of shame; he was a student revolutionary imprisoned in 1929for protesting the Japanese government’s colonization of Korea. He was a hero—and eventually honored as aPatriot of South Korea almost 60 years after his death. But reclaiming her grandfather’s legacy, in the end, isn’twhat Margaret finds the most valuable. It is through the series of three long-form interviews with her grandmother that Margaret finally finds a sense of recognition she’s been missing her entire life. A story of healing old wounds and the reputation of an extraordinary young man, Starry Field bridges the tales of two women, generations and oceans apart, who share the desire to build family in someplace called home.

Postponed: Workshop: How to Pitch and Write for Non-academic Outlets
2024-05-06
This event will be postponed to fall 2024.

Members of the UCLA community are invited to take part in a Pitch Workshop. In the Pitch Workshop The Los Angeles Review of Books Editor-in-Chief, Medaya Ocher, will offer general guidance as well as direct feedback on pitches. You can participate in two different ways: (1) Apply with a pitch for the possibility to be selected to receive feedback as part of the workshop and with the possibility to sign up for short follow up “office hours,” or, (2) RSVP to sit in on the workshop without a pitch.
When: Monday, May 6
Workshop: 10-12 noon
Lunch: 1-2pm
Office hours: 2-4pm
Application Eligibility: The program is available for UCLA ladder faculty, adjuncts and lecturers, postdocs, and graduate students.
To apply and further information: https://humanities.ucla.edu/events/editor-in-residence/apply
Deadline to apply: Wednesday May 1, 2024
Any questions, email Barbara Van Nostrand: bvannost@humnet.ucla.edu
Co-sponsors:
We thank the co-sponsors: the Center for the Study of Women | Streisand Center, Divisions of Humanities & Social Sciences, Herb Alpert School of Music, or the Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health.

Virtual Symposium on Questing Excellence in Academia
2024-05-09 09:00 - 20:30
When: Thursday, May 9, 2024
9:00-11:30 AM (PST)
12:00-2:30 PM (EST)
6:00-8:30 PM (CET)
We invite you to attend the first event of the Questing Excellence in Academia Virtual Symposium.
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Opening Remarks
Safiya U. Noble, Professor of Gender Studies, African American Studies, and Information Studies, Interim Director of UCLA DataX Initiative, Director of Center on Race and Digital Justice, Co-Director of Minderoo Initiative on Tech & Power at Center for Critical Internet and Inquiry, University of California, Los Angeles
A Conversation with Co-Authors of Questing Excellence in Academia: A Tale of Two Universities
Moderator: Kim Fortun, Professor of Anthropology, Director of EcoGovLab & PECE Labs, University of California, Irvine
Knut H. Sørensen, Professor Emeritus of Science and Technology Studies,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
Sharon Traweek, Assoc. Prof., Gender Studies, History, & Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Scholars Engaging with Questing Excellence in Academia
Mike Fortun, Professor of Anthropology, Director of PECE Labs, University of California, Irvine
Maria do Mar Pereira, Associate Professor of Sociology,
Co-Director of the Study of Women and Gender, University of Warwick, UK
Martin Oliver, Professor of Education & Technology, University College London
Questing Excellence in Academia Virtual Symposium Organizing Committee
Nashra Mahmood, UCLA, Kyriaki Papageorgiou, Knut H. Sørensen, NTNU, Nadine Tanio, UC Irvine/UCLA, and Sharon Traweek, UCLA
Co-sponsored by
UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry
UCLA Data X
UCLA Disability Studies Inclusion Labs
UCLA Gender Studies Department
UCLA History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
UCLA Barbra Streisand Center for the Study of Women
UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies

Postponed: C2i2 2024 Spring Symposium
2024-05-10 08:00 - 17:30 | UCLA Faculty Club, 480 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
This event is postponed.
Date: Friday, May 10, 2024
Time: 8:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. PT
Venue: UCLA Faculty Club, Morrison Room, UCLA Campus
Program and schedule.
RSVP here.
The C2i2 2024 Spring Symposium will delve into the critical issues surrounding the internet’s evolution over the past two decades, its implications on society, and the challenges we face in ensuring equity, autonomy, and social justice in the digital age.
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Kate Starbird, Associate Professor in Human Centered Design & Engineering, Director of the Emerging Capacities of Mass Participation (emCOMP) Laboratory, Co-Founder of the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public.
About the Organizer:
The Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2) is a critical internet studies community committed to reimagining technology, championing social justice, and strengthening human rights through research, culture, and public policy. C2i2 initiatives include the Minderoo Initiative on Technology and Power, the Critical Internet Studies Program, Digital Civil Rights, and the Data, Power, and Racial Justice Initiative.

Postponed: Drop LWOP Legislative Action
2024-05-10 10:00 - 12:30 | Center for the Study of Women, 1500 Public Affairs
This event is postponed.

When: Friday, May 10th 2024 from 10 am-12:30 pm
Where: UClA Center for the Study of Women
1500 Public Affairs – across from Jimmy’s Coffeehouse
Join the Drop LWOP Coalition for a day of legislative action! Drop LWOP’s mission is to end Life Without Parole sentencing in California with the goal of affording relief to those currently serving this sentence, no matter the conviction, through legislative change, commutations, pardons, resentencing, and public awareness about the injustice of the LWOP sentence. On Friday, May 10 support the coalition by:
CA Bills and Districts

Learn an overview of legislative process in California and of State Assembly Districts.

Senate Bill 94

Learn the SB 94 breakdown and trajectory; what is it, who does it affect and what does it need?

Write Letters to Legislators

Connect with our legislators and politically advocate for criminal justice reform!

Engage Community!

Reach out to our friends, families, communities and networks to encourage advocacy.

RSVP here: https://forms.gle/18UQc7k4vatttiBR7

Postponed: Bad Dance: A Lecture by Dr. Kemi Adeyemi
2024-05-13 17:30 - 18:30 | 200 Kaufman Hall, UCLA
This event has been postponed.
Where: Kaufman Hall Room 200
When: May 13, 5:30 – 6:30 PM
To hear them tell it, studs are bad dancers. They’re awkward, self- conscious, and stand on the wall. They don’t know the right steps, can’t distribute their weight, never know what to do with their hands.
They knock knees, can’t hold twerkers up, aren’t smooth enough. This talk takes black queer people seriously as self described “bad” dancers in order to rethink how dance is presumed to consolidate queer community.
Kemi Adeyemi is Associate Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. Her practice
uses performance as a site and methodology for theorizing the contours of contemporary black queer life.
This talk will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Associate Professor of Choreography, Will Rawls.
Co-sponsored by:
Black Feminist Initiative at the CSW Barbara Streisand
Center, and by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Studies.

Postponed: Anti-Asian Violence Graduate Writing Workshop at UCLA
2024-05-17 10:00 - 15:00
Postponed until Fall 2024.
CFP and Submission Guidelines.

View event flier.
A workshop for UC graduate students working on articles, essays, or dissertation chapters related to themes on anti-Asian violence. Invited participants will submit their writing in advance and receive feedback from UC faculty and participating graduate students in a shared dialogue and setting. We encourage scholarship from a wide range of disciplines.
Selected abstract authors will be invited to submit final papers by April 15th 2024.
The Spring workshop will take place at UCLA on May 17, 2024 from 10 am to 3 pm. Partial travel funding provided.
This workshop is funded by a UC Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives project “Anti-Asian Violence: Origins and Trajectories” Leti Volpp (UCB), Susette Min (UCDavis), Laura Kang (UCI), and Lee Ann Wang (UCLA) and co-sponsored by the Asian American Studies Center (UCLA), Institute of American Cultures (UCLA), and Center for the Study of Women | Streisand (UCLA).
For Questions please email: aavotgrad@gmail.com

Foragers Screening & Panel Discussion
2024-05-22 17:00 - 19:00 | botanical
When: Wednesday, May 22, 2024, 5-7 pm
Where: UCLA Mathias Botanical Garden La Kretz Garden Pavillion
Produced and directed by filmmaker Jumana Manna, Foragers (2022) depicts the dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel with wry humor and a meditative pace. Shot in the Golan Heights, the Galilee, and Jerusalem, it employs fiction, documentary, and archival footage to portray the impact of Israeli nature protection laws on these customs. Following a screening of the film, please stay for a moderated discussion featuring UCLA faculty that will engage topics at the intersection of Indigeneity, settler colonialism, and nature-culture relations in Palestine/Israel and beyond. Light refreshments will be provided.
This event is co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, Center for the Study of Women, Gender Studies Department, American Indian Studies Department, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, and Center for Near Eastern Studies.

Registration is open to UCLA students, faculty, and staff only. Please RSVP here: bit.ly/ForagersRSVP

The Black Women and Femmes Research Summit
2024-05-25 10:00 - 16:30 | Geffen Hall, 885 Tiverton Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
When: May 25, 2024 from 10 am to 4:30 pm
Where: UCLA”s Geffen Hall
The Black Women and Femmes Research Summit (BWFRS) is intended to amplify the contributions of Black Women and Femmes to research. We aim to provide a platform for Black women and femmes conducting research on UCLA’s campus to highlight their research and provide networking opportunities for those interested in greater exposure to academic research.
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Cosponsors:
CSW|Barbra Streisand Center, UCLA Luskin Center, UCLA LGBTQ Campus Resource Center, UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, ULCA D3 Initiative.

May Faculty Writing Retreat
2024-05-31 10:00 - 16:00 | Charles E Young Research Library Conference Room
When: Friday, May 31, 2024
10 AM – 4 PM
Where: Charles E. Young Research Library, Main Conference Room 11360
Parking: The closest parking lots are lot 3, where you are more likely to find parking, and lot 5, which is the closest to the venue.
RSVP Here.
Do you want to block out a day for writing and contemplation? The UCLA Faculty Writing Retreat is your solution. During the retreat, you’ll have the chance to concentrate on your own work in a supportive virtual environment. Whether you’re working on research papers, grant proposals, book chapters, or any other writing project, this retreat is designed to provide uninterrupted time for productivity.
The writing retreat provides a peaceful place for UCLA faculty 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 tend to be cool.
Who may attend: This retreat is for UCLA faculty, post-docs, academic administrators, and lecturers.
If you are attending virtually, we hope you get situated with a beverage and snacks for the day. Those of us attending in person will have a conversation about the writing process over lunch. This conversation is entirely optional.
If you register to attend in person and your plans change, please let us know right away so that we may offer your spot to the waitlist. No-shows will not be granted an in-person spot at future writing retreats.
If you are no longer able to attend in person, please e-mail csw@csw.ucla.edu to let us know.

What the World’s Silence Says: A Reading With Gazan Poet Yahya Ashour
2024-06-03 17:00 - 18:30 | Royce 314
When: Monday, June 3 at 5:00 pm
Where: Royce Hall, room 314
10745 Dickson Ct,
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Join UCLA English for a poetry reading and conversation with Gazan poet Yahya Ashour. Yahya Ashour, born in Gaza City on April 22nd, 1998, is a touring poet and awarded author. He’s a 2022 honorary fellow in writing at the University of Iowa. His recent poetry e-book, titled “A Gaza of Siege & Genocide,” was published by Mizna in March 2024. Ashour has also authored a poetry collection and a children’s book in Arabic, along with contributing to numerous printed anthologies and online journals worldwide. His works have been translated into several languages, including English, French, Spanish, Italian, Finnish, Japanese, and Bengali. Since October 2023, he has presented his poetry and talked about Gaza at several organizations and 30 universities across the United States, including Princeton, Stanford, and Cornell.
Learn more about the event here.
RSVP.
Questions about the event?
Email: englishevents@ucla.edu

Book Launch and Discussion: Space Feminisms
2024-09-18 11:00 - 12:00 | Online/Zoom
When:
18 September 2024
11:00 AM (US-PST)
Where: Online
Register Here.
Join us for an engaging online book launch and discussion presented by the UCLA Center for Performance Studies and the UCLA Center for the Study of Women | Barbra Streisand Center.
We will explore the groundbreaking work Space Feminisms: People, Planets, Power, and joined by book editors Marie-Pier Boucher, Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Toronto, and Nahum Romero, Director of the KOSMICA Institute. The event will be moderated by Felipe Cervera, Assistant Professor of Theater and Performance Studies at UCLA.
This compelling volume employs a global approach to feminist theory, examining how scientific, popular, scholarly, and artistic imaginations of space have, since the 1950s, reflected and embedded Earthly hopes, anxieties, and visions for the future. Space Feminisms moves beyond traditional futurist narratives to cultivate radical and alternative modes of inquiry, viewing space as a material reality that mirrors humanity’s self-perceptions both on Earth and beyond.

UCLA's True Bruin Welcome: Academic Open House
2024-09-25 09:00 - 16:00 | Center for the Study of Women, 1500 Public Affairs
When: Wednesday, September 25, 9 am – 4 pm
Where: 1500 Public Affairs Building

The main entrance is located on the south side of the Public Affairs Building, facing the north side of LuValle Commons (Jimmy’s Coffeeshop).

Join the Center for the Study of Women | Streisand Center for a day of exploration, learning, and connection at UCLA’s True Bruin Welcome! As part of the campus-wide Academic Open Houses, we invite you to stop by, meet our passionate staff, enjoy some snacks, and take a guided tour of our center. Discover opportunities to engage with groundbreaking research, explore academic funding options, and learn how we contribute to advancing gender equity and social justice.
Whether you’re a new student or returning, this is a great opportunity to connect with faculty, learn about our current projects, and find ways to get involved.

Out of Place Marathon Reading
2024-10-01 - 2024-10-02 | Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden, Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden 245 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
When: 9 am October 1 through 9 am October 2
Where: Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden
Please join UCLA faculty from across campus for a 24-hour read-a-thon of “Out of Place” by Edward Said starting Tuesday, October 1st at the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden.
We are coming together on campus, five months following the attacks on and then clearing of the Palestine Solidarity Encampment at UCLA on May 1st and 2nd, to read his work aloud and reflect on the late Palestinian scholar’s memoir, carving space for critical inquiry into questions at the intersection of colonialism, exile, memory, belonging, and of course, Palestine.
You are not required to attend for the full 24 hours, and can drop in at anytime.
Co-sponsored by:
AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES CENTER
ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES CENTER
ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES DEPARTMENT
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF WOMEN
STREISAND CENTER
CÉSAR E. CHAVEZ DEPARTMENT OF CHICANA/O AND CENTRAL AMERICAN STUDIES
CRITICAL RACE STUDIES PROGRAM
DEPARTMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY
DEPARTMEnt OF ENGLISH
DEPARTMENT OF EUROPEAN LANGUAGES AND
TRANSCULTURAL STUDIES
DEPARTMENT OF FILM. TELEVISION AND
IGITAL MEDIA
DEPARTMENT OF GENDER STUDIES
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
DEPARTMENT OF NEAR EASTERN LANGUAGES
AND CULTURES
DEPARTMENT OF WORLD ARTS and CULTURES /DANCE
DISABILITY STUDIES
LABOR STUDIES CENTER
LATINO POLITICS AND POLICY INSTITUTE RALPH J. BUNCHE CENTER FOR AFRICAN
AMERICAN STUDIES
UCLA VOTING RIGHTS PROJECT
WORKING GROUP IN MEMORY STUDIES
