Center for the Study of Women

"Porosity and Reciprocity," European Languages and Transcultural Studies Graduate Conference
2019-10-25 09:00 - 2019-10-26 17:15 (America/Los_Angeles) | Royce 306
Porosity and Reciprocity
1st Annual European Languages and Transcultural Studies Graduate Student Conference
Organized by the UCLA Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies
Date: October25, 2019
Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: 306 Royce Hall
This conference explores issues of cultural borders and exchange and will feature a roundtable discussion featuring scholars who specialize in gender and women’s studies.
An ever-growing body of scholarship across disciplines and concentrations has underscored the long history of cultural exchange that challenges conventional notions of national and cultural sovereignty. Recent events, however, have challenged scholars to problematize, redefine, and expand upon prior attempts to register the ways in which national and cultural identity, and especially the perennial question of borders, are increasingly shaped by a protean political and social landscape. Bringing together graduate students and scholars from French, German, Italian, and Scandinavian studies, this conference aims to explore the notions of reciprocity and porosity as they are found within and/or between these cultures throughout history and in the present. Questions of interest include: How are the literary and artistic traditions of these cultures shaped by internal diversity? How have the encounter and exchange with other cultures contributed to the formation of these traditions? How do these cultures conceive of and represent their borders? How do they conceive of and represent the other? Mindful not only of the diversity that exists between these cultures, but also of the diversity that exists within them, how do each of these cultures belong to and shape historical and contemporary ideas of Europe?

CSW and Gender Studies Fall Reception
2019-10-10 16:00 - 18:00 | Rolfe Courtyard
Join CSW and the UCLA Department of Gender Studies as we celebrate the start of a new academic year!
Join us for an opportunity to meet and network with faculty, students, and staff, and to learn about CSW’s and Gender Studies’ upcoming projects, research, and events. Refreshments will be served.
RSVP online by October 1, 2019
Date: Thursday, October 10, 2019
Time: 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Location: Rolfe Hall Courtyard, UCLA
RSVP ONLINE

Symposium: “On the Matter of Blackness in Europe: Transnational Perspectives”
2019-10-10 - 2019-10-11 | Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon, UCLA, Los Angeles
Organized by the UCLA Department of African American Studies
A Symposium featuring Keynote Speaker Gloria Wekker, Professor Emerita at Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Key Symposium questions will include: How do marginalized experiences of Blackness within Europe, especially the interventions of Black Muslims, LGBTQI*, and/or those rendered non-citizen (e.g., refugees or asylum seekers), challenge one-dimensional conceptualizations of Blackness? How have contemporary contributions to the transnational continuations of the Black Radical and Black feminist traditions been brought to bear in various European contexts? How do various Black struggles unfold in the face of genocidal border regimes, urban policing and surveillance, neoliberal austerity policies and the current rise of right-wing extremism, gender violence, and Islamophobia?
Keynote speaker Gloria Wekker is a renowned scholar of Black feminism, Dutch anticolonialism, and diaspora.
Date: October 10 and 11, 2019
Time: 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM (Day 1), 9:00 AM – 6:30 PM (Day 2)
Location: UCLA Charles E. Young Grand Salon (Kerckhoff Hall)
Event Website

True Bruin Welcome Week - CSW Open House
2019-09-25 11:00 - 15:00 | Center for the Study of Women, 1500 Public Affairs
Welcome back, UCLA Bruins!
Want to learn opportunities for students interested in gender and sexuality studies? Drop by the CSW open house, meet the staff, and find out about our funding and research opportunities for students!
Diddy Reise cookies will be available on a first-come, first-served basis!

Date: September 25, 2019
Time: 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Location: Center for the Study of Women Offices, 1500 Public Affairs Building

Sharing Knowledge, Taking Action at UCLA
2019-06-07 08:30 - 11:30 | Covel Commons, UCLA
Organized by the Health Equity Network of the Americas
This event will explore pathways to improve policies related to Violence Against Women, Immigrant Health, and Primary Care.
Date: June 7, 2019
Time: 8:30 AM – 11:30 AM, registration begins at 8:00 AM
Location: Covel Commons, UCLA
RSVP online
For more information, contact Tanya Honey.
Speakers:
Eve Sheedy, Executive Director, Domestic Violence Council, LA County Department of Public Health
Steven Wallace, Professor, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
James Macinko, Professor, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
Facilitator: Michael Rodriguez, Professor and Vice Chair, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine

Co-sponsors:

UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
David Geffen School of Medicine
UCLA Residential Life Global Health Community

Daughters of Whitman
2019-06-02 17:00 - 20:00 | Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd, Venice, CA, 90201, United States
Organized by UCLA Writing Programs
Part of Whitmania! Songs of Ourselves: Celebrating the Radical Optimism of Walt Whitman and UCLA
Womxn literary and performing artists explore the legacy of the father of American Poetry. This free performance will include poetry, puppetry, music and more, followed by a reception with cake in honor of Walt’s 200th birthday.
Participants will include: bridgette bianca, Audrey Densmore, Dominiqua Dickey, Susannah Rodríguez Drissi, Cecelia Fairchild,Heather Nagami,Vickie Vertiz, Amber West

Date: June 2, 2019
Time: 5:00 – 8:00 PM
Location: Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291

Co-Sponsors:

UCLA Writing Programs
Center for the Art of Performance
Dean of Humanities
UCLA Arts Initiative
Department of English
Latin American Studies Institute
TEDxUCLA
UCLA Alumni Affairs
Beyond Baroque
The Getty Museum

Awards and Benefit Reception 2019
2019-05-30 18:00 - 20:00 | Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, Centennial Ballroom A/B, 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
This event is now past. Photo highlights of the 2019 Awards and Benefit Reception can be viewed HERE.
Join the UCLA Center for the Study of Women for a special end of the year event to honor the Center’s accomplishments, student award recipients, and this year’s Distinguished Leader in Feminism Award honoree!
FEATURING THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Organizing in a Time of Hate: Leading with Love
By Ai-Jen Poo

Founder & Executive Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA)
Co-Director, Caring Across Generations
This year, CSW has selected Ai-jen Poo as the recipient of the Center for the Study of Women’s 2019 Distinguished Leader in Feminism Award. She is an award-winning organizer, author, and social innovator, and will discuss our current political climate and the importance of multi-racial, multi-generational movements that center the most vulnerable among us. Ai-jen will explore the enormous potential for change in this moment and how women are leading the way.
Read our blog post to learn more about Ai-jen Poo here.

Event Details and Registration
Thursday, May 30, 2019
6:00 – 8:00 PM
(Doors open at 5:45 PM)
UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, Centennial Ballroom A/B
Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres will be served.
Tickets are $25 and non-refundable.

REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED
To make this event accessible and to accommodate all attendees, we ask for your help in making this event fragrance-free. We would appreciate that all guests avoid wearing products that contain fragrances, which can include perfumes, hair products, deodorants, detergents, etc. These products can make some members of our community very ill. For more information, visit our Event Accessibfevent aility page.
For questions, please contact CSW Management Services Officer Kristina Magpayo Nyden.
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Location and Parking
The 2019 CSW Awards and Benefit Reception will take place at the UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center (425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095) located in Westwood Plaza on the corner of Strathmore and Westwood Boulevard (left map).
Within the Luskin Conference Center, the Reception will take place in the Centennial Ballroom A/B, located on the 1st floor (right map). Enter through the last two doors on the right at the end of the Centennial Ballroom Prefunction Area (do not enter through the first two doors leading to Ballroom C/D, as a different event will be taking place in those rooms).

For a full UCLA map, please visit http://maps.ucla.edu/downloads.
DIRECTIONS TO UCLA MEYER AND RENEE LUSKIN CONFERENCE CENTER
From I-405 North:

Take Exit 55B-C towards Wilshire Blvd. Follow signs for Westwood Blvd E/Westwood.
Use the left two lanes to turn onto Westwood Blvd.
Continue onto Westwood Plaza.
Parking is available in Parking Structure 8 to the left (see top left map).

From I-405 South:

Take Exit 57 toward Sunset Blvd.
Turn left onto N Church Ln.
Turn left onto Montana Ave and continue on to Gayley Ave.
Turn left onto Strathmore Pl. The conference center will be to the left, and Parking Structure 8 will be to the right.
Turn right onto Westwood Plaza to access the Structure 8 driveway.

PARKING
The closest parking area to the Luskin Conference Center is Parking Structure #8 (see map above-left). There are two ways to purchase parking in Structure #8:

Purchase Pay-by-License Plate parking on the 4th level (top floor) in the designated Visitor Parking area. Go to a self-service Daily Visitor Pay Station and follow posted instructions to purchase parking (remember license plate number). The self-service station will dispense a parking pass based on your license plate number. Please read posted instructions at each pay station carefully. Parking rates vary from $1 for 20 minutes to $12 for All-Day parking. Pay stations accept exact cash and credit cards. For more information, please visit the Transportation website.
Purchase All-Day parking for $12/day at the Parking Information Kiosk located in Westwood Plaza (designated by the “i” on the map above). Only cash is accepted at this kiosk (no bills higher than $20 accepted). Transportation Services representatives are also present at this kiosk to answer your questions.

A bridge is located on the 3rd floor of Structure #8 that leads directly to the Luskin Conference Center.

About the Keynote Speaker
Ai-jen Poo is the Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and the Co-Director of Caring Across Generations. She is an award-winning organizer, author, and social innovator, and a leading voice in work and family care solutions. Ai-jen is a 2014 MacArthur “genius” Fellow, TIME 100 alumna, and recently featured speaker at TEDWomen. She has been an influential voice in the #MeToo movement and joined Times Up at the 2018 Golden Globes. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, TIME, and CNN. She is the author of The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America. Follow her at @aijenpoo.
Read more about Ai-jen Poo’s transformative feminism in our blog post here.

The OpEd Project presents "Write to Change the World"
2019-05-19 10:00 - 17:00 | Rolfe 2125
CSW is thrilled to announce that we are partnering with The OpEd Project to bring a special day-long seminar to UCLA!

Learn how to write, pitch, and publish op-eds; assert your expertise; and increase the range of voices and ideas that we hear from in our media.

“Write to Change the World” will bring emerging voices together for an interactive day of live experiments around expertise, credibility, ideas and impact. The seminar is designed to test assumptions about our individual knowledge, and what it takes to be influential on a large scale. We explore the source of credibility; the patterns and elements of persuasion; the difference between being “right” and being effective; how to preach beyond the choir; and how to think bigger about what you know—to have more impact in the world. Participants emerge with concrete results, including the outline for an op-ed. The seminar is open to everyone–scholars, students, entrepreneurs, activists, nonprofit leaders, executives, writers and righteous thinkers across the political spectrum. Participants leave with access to a network of high-level journalist-mentors for follow-up support. Curriculum parallels a portion of The OpEd Project’s year-long faculty fellowship program at leading institutions nationwide, including Yale, Northwestern, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, The Ford Foundation and others.

Date: May 19, 2019
Time: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: 2125 Rolfe Hall
Pre-registration required. Register online.

Scholarship spots may be available! Contact chelsea@theopedproject.org for more details.

Gender and Water: Research Masterclass with Andrea Ballestero
2019-05-17 10:00 - 11:30
Part of Gender and Water
At this Research Masterclass, students from the Gender and Water Research team will discuss research findings and forthcoming papers with visiting facilitator Andrea Ballestero, who will provide commentary and feedback. Observers are welcome.

Andrea Ballestero is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Rice University. Ballestero’s work looks at the unexpected ethical and technical entanglements through which experts understand water in Latin America.
Ballestero’s first book, A Future History of Water (Duke University Press, 2019) asks how the difference between a human right and a commodity is produced in regulatory and governance spaces that purport to be open to different forms of knowledge and promote flexibility and experimentation. Ballestero has worked with regulators, policy-makers, and NGOs in Costa Rica and Brazil to trace how technolegal devices embody moral distinctions, pose questions about the foundations of liberal capitalist societies, and help people inhabit non-linear and generative futures.
Date: Friday, May 17, 2019
Time: 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Location: Will be provided to confirmed attendees.
RSVP Required: Please fill out the online form. Space is limited and submitting the form does not guarantee a spot at this event. You will receive a response by May 13, 2019 confirming your registration.
Don’t miss a talk by Andrea Ballestero on her new book, A Future History of Water, on May 16!

Gender and Water: Andrea Ballestero, "A Future History of Water"
2019-05-16 12:45 - 14:15 | 352 Haines Hall
Hosted by UCLA Department of Anthropology Culture, Power, and Social Change Interest Group.
Part of Gender and Water
In this book talk, Andrea Ballestero will discuss how to think anthropologically about the techno-legal devices used to deal with the politics of water in the present and in the yet to come. Ballestero will focus on the work of regulators in Costa Rica and how they use pricing formulas and the consumer price index to imagine their responsibility for society and the household as a space of water politics. Ballestero will invite the audience to think about what an anthropology of techno-legal devices looks like if we are open to wonder as an epistemic disposition. This is particularly powerful at a moment in which notions of crisis overwhelm our sense of the limits of the possible.
Ballestero’s first book, A Future History of Water (forthcoming from Duke University Press) asks how the difference between a human right and a commodity is produced in regulatory and governance spaces that purport to be open to different forms of knowledge and promote flexibility and experimentation. Ballestero has worked with regulators, policy-makers, and NGOs in Costa Rica and Brazil to trace how technolegal devices embody moral distinctions, pose questions about the foundations of liberal capitalist societies, and help people inhabit non-linear and generative futures.
Andrea Ballestero is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Rice University. Ballestero’s work looks at the unexpected ethical and technical entanglements through which experts understand water in Latin America.
Date: Thursday, May 16, 2019
Time: 12:45-2:15 PM
Location: 352 Haines Hall

Don’t miss a second event with Andrea Ballestero on May 17: Gender and Water Research Masterclass.

Aurora Levins Morales, "Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals"
2019-05-14 17:00 - 19:00 | Hacienda Room, Faculty Center
Organized by the Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair
Aurora Levins Morales is an internationally known Puerto Rican Jewish feminist writer and lifelong arts-based organizer. She is the author of six books, including Kindling: Writings on the Body, Getting Home Alive, Remedios: Stories of Earth and Iron from the History of Puertorriquenas, and Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios. She has been active in many social justice movements and she is a historian who turns history into stories with the intention of changing people and changing the world. She is active in Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, Jewish Voice for Peace, Sins Invalid, and other organizations.
At this event, Morales will read from and discuss her book Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals.
Date: Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Time: 5:00 – 7:00 PM
Location: Hacienda Room, UCLA Faculty Center

Co-sponsors:

Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair
UCLA Center for the Study of Women
UCLA LGBTQ Resource Center
UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy

Marathon Reading of The Handmaid’s Tale and Earthseed
2019-05-09 12:00 - 2019-05-10 12:00 | Powell Courtyard
The UCLA Marathon Reading is a cultural initiative that promotes literacy and community building by presenting a novel or novels aloud in their entirety. The event is free and open to the public beyond campus. Audience members come and go throughout the two-day event, and there are booths with tie-in activities. This year, we have chosen a women in sci-fi theme: Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale and Octavia Butler’s Earthseed series, Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents. This theme promotes not only woman authors, but books that will spark conversation around women’s issues, including sexism, sexual violence, and reproductive rights.

CSW Research Affiliate Brown Bag: "On Sarah Dorsey: A Nineteenth-century Southern Woman’s Rediscovered Lecture on the Philosophy of the University of France"
2019-05-03 12:00 - 13:30 | Rolfe 2125
Philosopher Sarah Dorsey
On Sarah Dorsey: A Nineteenth-century Southern Woman’s Rediscovered Lecture on the Philosophy of the University of France
A talk by Carol Bensick, PhD
Sarah Dorsey (1829-1879) is the earliest woman from the U.S. South to devote herself to philosophy. Besides the later Anna Julia Cooper, she is only the second Southern woman philosopher to be discovered by feminist historians–the first from the “Deep” South. She is the first American to make a study of contemporary French philosophy, and also the first American to make a study of Hindu philosophy. Dorsey was the first woman to made a study of the biological debate over the original of species. Hidden till now in periodicals and pamphlets, her work stands to change the shape of the canon of American women philosophers –possibly even that of American philosophy itself.
Carol Bensick completed her Ph.D. at Cornell University in American Literary and Intellectual History, specializing in Puritanism and Transcendentalism. She was an assistant professor at the University of Denver, the University of Oregon, and UC Riverside and gained tenure at University of Oregon. She taught summer school at Cornell and UCLA and Extension at UCR. Her revised dissertation was published as La Nouvelle Beatrice: Renaissance and Romance in ‘Rappaccini’s Daughter.” She edited and wrote the headnote for Jonathan Edwards for the first Heath Anthology of American Literature. In her earlier career she presented papers at local, regional, and national meetings and published essays and reviews for reference works, collections, and journals focusing on philosophical writers and literary writers on philosophical themes. As research affiliate of the CSW she roams the nineteenth-century archives turning up women philosophers wherever she goes.
Attendees are invited to bring their lunch to this brown bag talk.

I Am Not My Trauma: Word On Wednesday Spoken Word and Poetry Night
2019-04-24 19:00 - 21:00 | Kerckhoff Hall Art Gallery, UCLA
Part of the UCLA CARE Program‘s Sexual Assault Awareness Month
A special edition of the UCLA Cultural Affairs Comission’s Word on Wednesday poetry and spoken word series, recognizing Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Time: 7:00 – 9:00 PM
Location: Kerckhoff Art Gallery
Don’t miss the other Sexual Assault Awareness Month events! Download a PDF of the calendar here.

Faculty Writing Retreat
2019-04-19 10:00 - 17:00 | Royce 306
Date: April 19, 2019
Time: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: Royce 306
RSVP: http://humanities.ucla.edu/events/writing-retreats/
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, lunch and coffee/tea will be provided in the beautiful setting of Royce Hall.
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.
For those who wishes, we will have a conversation about the writing process over lunch. This conversation is entirely optional and there will also be a non-work space to enjoy lunch.
Space is limited – RSVP is required. If at any point you need to cancel part or all of your RSVP, please email Barbara Van Nostrand: bvannost@humnet.ucla.edu
Co-sponsored by:

The Division of Humanities
The Herb Alpert School of Music
The Fielding School of Public Health
The Center for the Study of Women

Women as Writers of Heroic Poetry in Renaissance Italy: An Epic Micro-tradition?
2019-04-05 09:00 - 17:00 | 306 and 314 Royce Hall, UCLA
Organized by the UCLA Department of Italian
“Women as Writers of Heroic Poetry in Renaissance Italy: An Epic Micro-tradition?” explores all facets of heroic poetry as written by Italian Renaissance women. Moreover, this conference aims to spotlight their heroic poems and place them in an tradition that has for the most part ignored their work. We are also interested in the ways these women authors handle specific conventions of the genre such as the difference between the romance and epic modes, the engagement with literary predecessors, and the representation of traditional female characters like the woman-warrior or the enchantress.
Date: Friday, April 5, 2019
Time: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Location: Royce Hall 314 and 306
Speakers include: Julia Hairston (UCEAP Rome), Julia Kisacky (Baylor University), Laura Lazzari (Catholic University of America), Serena Pezzini (Scuola normale superiore di Pisa), Meredith Ray (University of Delaware) , Maria Galli Stampino (University of Miami), Christine Ristaino (Emory University), and Gerry Milligan (CUNY- Stanton Island).
Co-sponsored by:

Center for the Study of Women
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Aretha's Amazing Grace: From Watts to Detroit
2019-03-25 10:00 - 17:00 | California Nanosystems Institute, UCLA
Organized by the UCLA Department of African American Studies
This symposium will celebrate the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin’s ground breaking and historic Album, Amazing Grace.
Topics will include:
How Sweet the Sound: Blues Ministry and Black Power
Soul Print: Music, Place and Albums
The People’s Queen: Queering Aretha’s sound
Speakers will include:
Marcus Anthony Hunter, UCLA
Lynee Denise, Music Scholar, DJ, CSULA
Bishop Kenneth Ulmer, Faithful Central Bible Church
Scot Brown, UCLA
Zandria Robinson, Rhodes College
Salamishah Tillet, Rutgers University
Kyle Mays, UCLA
Joi Gilliam, Musician and Singer
Mark Anthony Neal, Duke University
Fredara Hadley, Oberlin College and Conservatory
Co-sponsored by:

UCLA Department of History
UCLA Ralph Bunche Center for African American Studies
Robin D.G. Kelley, Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Chair in American History
Pedro Noguera, Distinguished Professor of Education, UCLA
NCBW (National Congress of Black Women) San Gabriel Chapter

LA Women: Female Voices in Audio
2019-03-14 19:00 - 21:30 | Moore Hall Reading Room, UCLA
Organized by the Student Chapter of ARSC at UCLA.
The Student Chapter of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) at UCLA welcomes current graduate students, faculty, and staff to benefit from the perspectives of four professionals from the field of music librarianship, audio archiving, and sound preservation for a panel discussion about being female in a traditionally male-dominated profession. Each woman will share the path to her current position, the challenges they have faced, and details from situations they have experienced during preservation projects, providing services to library users, or digitizing culturally relevant musical recordings. The Student Chapter of ARSC is hosting this panel discussion for students, faculty, and staff of every gender identity hear each woman’s story, to learn how to develop strategies for challenges they may face as they enter their respective
professional fields, and to network with this array of practicing librarian-archivists and preservation engineers.
Panelists:

Elizabeth Kirkscey (Head, Paramount Music Library)
Julie Bill (Head, Musician’s Institute Library)
Lenise Bent (audio engineer for Blondie, the Knack, Suzi Quatro)
Siri Luk (Archive Engineer, United Recording Studios, UCLA MLIS 2018)

Date: March 14, 2019
Time: 7:00 – 9:30 PM
Location: Moore Hall Reading Room, UCLA

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Saidiya Hartman in Conversation
2019-03-13 16:00 - 18:00 | Perloff Hall DeCafe
Hosted by the UCLA Department of Gender Studies
Saidiya Hartman will discuss her book, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, which explores the ways young black women created forms of intimacy and kinship indifferent to the dictates of respectability, and outside the bounds of law. They refused to labor like slaves or to accept degrading conditions of work. Hartman narrates the story of this radical transformation of black intimate and social life, crediting young black women with shaping a cultural movement that transformed the urban landscape. Combining historical analysis and literary imagination, Hartman recovers radical aspirations and resurgent desires. She will read from the book and will also be in conversation with UCLA faculty, to be followed by an open discussion.
About the Speaker
Saidiya Hartman – Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University. Saidiya Hartman is a professor at Columbia University specializing in African-American literature and history. She grew up in Brooklyn and received her B.A. from Wesleyan University and Ph.D. from Yale University.
Date: Wednesday, March 13, 2019
Time: 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Location: Perloff Hall DeCafe
RSVP Required: https://waywardlivesucla.eventbrite.com/
Co-sponsored by:

UCLA Bunche Center
UCLA Department of African American Studies
UCLA Department of English
UCLA Social Sciences Division

Lesbian and Bisexual Women’s Health in Los Angeles County: Advocacy, Communication, Policy, and Healthcare Delivery
2019-03-12 07:30 - 14:00 | The California Endowment, 1000 North Alameda Sreet, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Organized by the Iris Cantor-UCLA Women’s Health Education & Research Center and the Los Angeles County Lesbian and Bisexual Women’s Health Collaborative
The Lesbian and Bisexual Women’s Health Collaborative, or LBWHC, was created by individuals concerned about health disparities for lesbian and bisexual women in Los Angeles County and is made up of individuals and organizations with experience advocating for the health and well-being of lesbians and bisexual women. Members represent health care facilities, government agencies, community organizations, and academic institutions.
This conference will feature a plenary session followed by three workshops. The workshops will focus on “Addressing Legal, Regulatory, Compliance and Policy Issues in Caring for Lesbian & Bisexual Women,” “Social Service Support & Community Based Agencies,” and “Trans Health: The Intersection with Traditional Women’s Health Services.” The conference will conclude with a luncheon panel discussing “Caring for Lesbian & Bisexual Women.”
Date: Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Time: 7:30 am – 2:00 pm
Location: California Endowment, 1000 N Alameda St., Los Angeles, CA
Registration: Register for the event on EventBrite
Speakers:

Janet Pregler, MD- Director, Iris Cantor-UCLA Women’s Health Center
Kiera Pollock, MSW- Director of Senior Services, LA LGBT Center
Dannie Cesena, MPH- Program Coordinator, CA LGBTQ Health and Human Services Network
Angie Magana, NP- Program Manager, LA LGBT Center

Co-sponsored by:

UCLA Center for the Study of Women
City of West Hollywood
LA County Department of Public Health
Human Rights Campaign Foundation
LA LGBT Center

Workshop: Navigating Gender in Academia
2019-03-08 12:00 - 14:00 | Royce 314
Organized by the UCLA Career Center
Panel discussion and scenario practice to help graduate students learn how to navigate gender-based issues in academia, including unwanted, inappropriate behavior from faculty, staff, and peers; exclusionary behavior and practices; and gender-specific concerns like breast-feeding.
Date: Friday, March 8, 2019
Time: 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Location: Royce 314
Register online
Panelists:

Ifeoma Amah, Associate Director, Academic and Research Programs, Academic Advancement Program
Jessica Holmes, Postdoctoral Scholar of Musicology
Andrea Kasko, Associate Professor, Bioengineering
Marissa Lopez, Associate Professor of English
Muriel McClendon, Associate Professor of History
Portia Mira, Postdoctoral Scholar, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Co-sponsored by:

UCLA Career Center
UCLA Graduate Division
UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
UCLA Division of Social Sciences
UCLA Division of the Humanities

Pallabi Chakravorty, "This Is How We Dance Now"
2019-02-25 16:00 - 17:30 | 108 Kaufman Hall
A talk by Pallabi Chakravorty, Professor at Swarthmore College
Organized by the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Date: Monday, February 25, 2019
Time: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Location: Kaufman Hall 108
Registration
Pallabi Chakravorty is a leading scholar of South Asian performance and has recently published her second monograph, This Is How We Dance Now, an ethnography about the media industry, competition shows, and reality TV dance in India. It’s the first contemporary ethnography of screendance in India and an important contribution to the fields of visual and performance studies. She will present a lecture related to this book and her ongoing research in the area, which includes addressing gender and class representations and stratifications.
Co-sponsored by:

Center for the Study of Women
Center for India and South Asia

Thinking Gender 2019: Feminists Confronting the Carceral State
2019-02-22
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2019
UCLA LUSKIN CONFERENCE CENTER

REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT IS NOW CLOSED.
CONFERENCE OVERVIEW
DETAILED SCHEDULE
Thinking Gender 2019 will focus on gendered regimes of incarceration, and feminist, queer, abolitionist, and intersectional interventions.
The US justice system is a site of widespread gendered and race-based violence. The U.S. currently incarcerates nearly a third of all female prisoners in the world, and between 1977 and 2004, the number of women in U.S. prisons increased by an unprecedented 757%. As a 2015 CSW co-sponsored report revealed, women suffering from mental illness in LA County jails are routinely denied treatment, medication, and reproductive hygiene products, and are disproportionately punished with solitary confinement. LGBTQ women are also disproportionately impacted: nearly 40% of incarcerated girls identify as LGBTQ, while nearly one in six transgender Americans, and one in two black transgender people, have been to prison.
Emerging student scholars and activists will reckon with these issues through feminist and queer perspectives.

KEYNOTE PANEL

ABOLITIONIST FEMINIST FUTURES
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2019, 3:45 PM
UCLA Luskin Conference Center, Centennial Ballroom A & B
Thinking Gender: Feminists Confronting the Carceral State will feature a keynote panel of distinguished scholar-activists.
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BETH RICHIE, Department Head, Criminology, Law and Justice and Professor of African American Studies & Criminology, University of Illinois at Chicago; Author of Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence and America’s Prison Nation

ALISA BIERRIA, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies, UC Riverside; Co-founder of Survived & Punished

COLBY LENZ, PhD Candidate, American Studies and Ethnicity, USC; Co-founder of Survived & Punished

ROMARILYN RALSTON, Program Coordinator, Project Rebound, CSU-Fullerton; Organizer, California Coalition for Women Prisoners

MODERATOR: GRACE HONG, Chair, CSW Advisory Committee; Professor, Gender Studies and Asian American Studies

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
The conference schedule is available online.
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PRE-CONFERENCE SEMINAR WITH BETH RICHIE
CSW is pleased to offer an opportunity to participate in a 1-time, 2-hour seminar with Keynote Panelist Beth Richie, author of Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation and Professor of African American Studies and Criminology, University of Illinois at Chicago. The seminar will take place on Thursday, February 21, 2019. UCLA Graduate Students from all disciplines and UCLA Undergraduate Students in their senior year who are completing a Senior Thesis, Capstone, or Honors Project are eligible to apply.
Application Deadline EXTENDED! NEW DEADLINE: January 11, 2019
Application Details: https://csw.ucla.edu/tg19-seminar

ACCESSIBILITY
THIS IS A FRAGRANCE-FREE EVENT. For the health and safety of all attendees, please refrain from wearing products that contain fragrances when attending CSW events. Such products include: perfumes, hair products, deodorants, detergents, etc. For more information on fragrance and accessibility, visit https://sharetheair.ucla.edu.
If you require accommodations in order for this event to be accessible to you (e.g., sign language interpretation, large print materials, etc.), please contact CSW at csw@csw.ucla.edu at least two weeks prior to the event. For more information, visit our Events Accessibility Page.
Sign language interpretation will be provided at the Keynote Panel.

ACCOMMODATIONS AND PARKING
Thinking Gender 2019: Feminists Confronting the Carceral State will take place at the UCLA Luskin Conference Center, which is centrally-located on the UCLA Campus.
Parking and Accommodation information.

THINKING GENDER RECEIVES GRANT FROM THE LUSKIN ENDOWMENT FOR THOUGHT LEADERSHIP!
The Center for the Study of Women is proud to announce that we have been awarded a grant from the UCLA Luskin Endowment for Thought Leadership in support of Thinking Gender 2019!

CO-SPONSORED BY:

Backed by Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
UCLA Luskin Endowment for Thought Leadership
UCLA Interdisciplinary & Cross Campus Affairs (ICCA)
UCLA Graduate Division
UCLA Division of Humanities
Political Theology Network
UCLA Department of African American Studies
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
UCLA American Indian Studies Center
UCLA Black Male Institute
Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin
UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
UCLA Department of Philosophy
UCLA Department of Social Welfare
UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies
UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies
UCLA Department of Asian American Studies
UCLA Department of Sociology
UCLA Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics
UCLA Department of History
UCLA Department of Public Policy
The Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law
UCLA Department of Anthropology
UCLA LGBT Campus Resource Center
UCLA Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health
Criminal Justice Program at UCLA School of Law
UCLA Division of Social Sciences

Alternative Narratives in Israeli Art: Gender, Identity and Belonging
2019-02-19 14:30 | Royce 314
Image: New Victims by Zoya Cherkassky
Organized by the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies
The tremendous diversity of Israeli society, comprised of Jews from around the world, Palestinian Arabs and Druze (among others) with differing national ties, religious beliefs and cultural mores, leads to a complex nexus of overlapping and often conflicting affiliations and identities.
In this symposium, art scholars and artists will examine various works of contemporary Israeli art to understand the multiple identities and varieties of experience – Jewish, Palestinian, immigrant, female, male, LGBTQ – which are unique to Israel and also, in many ways, universal. The artists will discuss how their artwork reflects personal narratives regarding national, ethnic and gender identity, and dynamics of inclusion-exclusion.
About the Speakers
Raida Adon – Born in Akko in northern Israel to a Jewish father and a Muslim mother, Adon’s artworks emerge from her complex biography, addressing conflicted nations and the relationship between two interrelated societies. The image of the woman is a recurring motif in her work, as a metaphor for the post-1948 geographic space of Israel/Palestine and reflecting the artist’s own quest for rootedness, while alluding to many refugee crises. Adon is a graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. She has shown work and performances at museums as well as theatre festivals around the world.
Gannit Ankori – Prof. Ankori of Brandeis University is an internationally-recognized art historian who has published widely on contemporary art from a global perspective, with emphasis on issues pertaining to gender, national identity, religion, trauma, exile, hybridity and their manifestations in the creative arts. She is the author of Palestinian Art (Reaktion Books, London, 2006) and has curated numerous exhibitions on Israeli and Palestinian art. She is also internationally renowned for her books, articles, and exhibitions on the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.
Zoya Cherkassky – Acclaimed Israeli artist Zoya Cherkassky was born in Kiev in 1976 and immigrated with her family to Israel in 1991. Her paintings address her personal experiences and the collective experience the million-strong Russian immigrant influx to Israel – often marked by unflattering stereotypes – and her conflicted Jewish identity. Cherkassky’s work has been shown at major museums and institutions worldwide, including the Israel Museum; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin; and MARS Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow.
Roey Victoria Heifetz – Heifetz is an artist from Jerusalem currently living in Berlin. Her most recent work includes videos and drawings of transgender women (primarily) in communities in Berlin, Israel and Los Angeles, including self-portraits. The pieces examine the transgender body and the body in general, and raise issues such as gender change, anxieties, old age, regret, femininity, motherhood, pain, and fear of yourself and of society. Her work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions around the world. Heifetz studied at the Bezalel Academy for Arts and Design in Jerusalem (BFA, MFA) and the School of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston. She is the recipient of the 2018 Ann and Ari Rosenblatt Prize in Visual Art.
Sagi Refael – Refael is an Israeli art historian and curator whose writing and curating focuses on gender issues and particularly representations of masculinity in art and visual culture. He has curated and/or published on contemporary art exhibitions at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Museum of Israeli Art (Ramat Gan) and galleries in Israel, Berlin, and Los Angeles.
Date: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Time: 2:30 pm
Location: Royce Hall 314
Co-sponsored by:

UCLA Department of Art
UCLA Department of Art History
UCLA Department of Gender Studies
Center for Jewish Studies
UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Center for Near Eastern Studies
LGBTQ Studies Program
Center for the Study of Women
UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

17th Annual Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies
2019-02-15 10:00 - 18:00 | Royce 314
The Annual Colloquia in Armenian Studies are a forum for graduate and undergraduate students from various disciplines whose research bears on Armenian Studies to present scholarly papers in the humanities and social sciences, within disciplines as wide-ranging as Anthropology, Archaeology, Art history, Comparative Literature, Gender Studies, History, and Political Science.

Lara K. Schubert, "Workshopping Postsecular Feminist Subjectivity: An Alternative Inspired by Cambodian Women"
2019-01-18 12:00 - 13:30 | Rolfe 2125
CSW Research Affiliate Brown Bag
DATE: Friday, January 18
TIME: 12-1:30 PM
LOCATION: Rolfe 2125
Participants are welcome to bring a snack or lunch.
Cambodian women religious provide insights into rethinking subjectivity. These women experience empowerment while they subscribe to the restrictive rules of their communities, including gender-specific stipulations. In Schubert’s research in Cambodia, her interlocutors demonstrate subjectivity that is not based on freedom and liberation, which are prioritized in many women’s organizations. Her larger project, “Retheorizing Women’s Empowerment with Insights from Cambodian Women,” aims to enhance the concepts of empowerment employed by many women’s organizations and in the realm of development in general. In this talk, Schubert will present one alternative to this historically feminist liberationist subjectivity—postsecular feminist subjectivity. This will include a presentation of various ways of defining postsecular feminism, considering resources from thinkers who seek inspiration from different traditions—both Judith Butler and Rosi Braidotti. This is a workshopping session to think with all participants and together to explore possibilities.
Lara K. Schubert received her PhD in Religion in 2016 from Claremont Graduate University and is currently a Research Affiliate at UCLA’s Center for the Study of Women. She is also a Lecturer in Liberal Studies and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at California State University, Los Angeles. She taught courses in Religious Studies at Pomona College and the Ethnic and Women’s Studies department at Cal Poly Pomona. She was awarded a Fulbright Grant for her field work in Cambodia.

Faculty Writing Retreat
2019-01-18 | Royce 306
Date: January 18, 2019
Time: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: Royce 306
RSVP: http://humanities.ucla.edu/events/writing-retreats/
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, lunch and coffee/tea will be provided in the beautiful setting of Royce Hall.
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.
For those who wishes, we will have a conversation about the writing process over lunch. This conversation is entirely optional and there will also be a non-work space to enjoy lunch.
Space is limited – RSVP is required. If at any point you need to cancel part or all of your RSVP, please email Barbara Van Nostrand: bvannost@humnet.ucla.edu
Co-sponsored by:

The Division of Humanities
The Herb Alpert School of Music
The Fielding School of Public Health
The Center for the Study of Women

Raquel Medina, "Gendering Alzheimer's Disease: Mothers, Daughters, and Sisters"
2019-01-16 15:00 - 17:00 | Rolfe 2125
A talk by Raquel Medina, Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Director of CinemAGEnder International Research Network, Aston University
Organized by the UCLA Department of Gender Studies
Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Time: 3:00 – 5:00 PM
Location: 2125 Rolfe Hall
This presentation will provide a comparative and cross-cultural analysis of cinematic representations of Alzheimer’s disease in several non-mainstream films that employ it as a trope to explore age and gender. Contrary to mainstream productions, films such as Pandora’s Box (Turkey 2008), the Good Herbs (Mexico 2010), Old Cats (Chile 2010), Poetry (Korea 2010), and A Separation (Iran (2011) offer important counter-narratives to the feminization of Alzheimer’s disease as decay. This talk aims to shed light on how these counter-narratives offer feminist/intersectional perspectives on Alzheimer’s disease. Concepts of womanhood, sisterhood, mothering, and matrophobia in these films will be linked in this discussion to crucial issues such as solidarity, empathy, assisted suicide, suicide, and violence against women.
Co-Sponsored by:

Center for the Study of Women

Until and Unless, Film Screening and Discussion with Dr. Soma Roy, Sintu Bagui and Nitai Giri
2018-11-30 14:00 - 15:30 | 208 Kaufman Hall
This event will entail the screening of Until and Unless, a short documentary film addressing the queer and trans rights movement in India.
Set in West Bengal a year before the historic decision to repeal India’s anti-sodomy law Penal Code 377, “Until and Unless”, follows the story of four individuals and the impact of systemic oppression via India’s legislative system on their lives. The film features Sintu, a transwoman community leader raised in the Sheoraphuli red-light district; Nitu, a transwoman sex worker who lives a dual identity as a man named Nitai; Lovely, a Koti person who lives a closeted life while working in an office environment, and Pratap, a trans teen still navigating her identity. Through juxtaposing their stories with interviews from lawyers and activists working to oppose these laws, the film shows the lived consequences of state and social violence on community self-representations.
The documentary was shot a year ago before the recent landmark Supreme Court decision to repeal of the colonial law, IPC 377, thereby decriminalizing homosexuality. The event will also feature a Q&A session with the Bengali sex-worker and trans activist co-creators of the film.
Speakers:
Dr. Soma Roy, Sintu Bagui and Nitai Giri from Anandam, the organization for transgender sex workers in West Bengal, India
Co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for India and South Asia

Faculty Writing Retreat
2018-11-30 10:00 - 17:00 | Young Research Library, Conference Room, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
DATE: Friday, November 30, 2018
TIME: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
LOCATION: Charles E. Young Research Library Main Conference Room
RSVP: http://humanities.ucla.edu/events/writing-retreats/
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, lunch and coffee/tea will be provided.
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.
For those who wishes, we will have a conversation about the writing process over lunch. This conversation is entirely optional and there will also be a non-work space to enjoy lunch.
Space is limited – RSVP is required. If at any point you need to cancel part or all of your RSVP, please email Barbara Van Nostrand: bvannost@humnet.ucla.edu
Co-sponsored by:

The Division of Humanities
The Herb Alpert School of Music
The Fielding School of Public Health
The Center for the Study of Women
