Center for the Study of Women

Death and Dying in Diaspora
2022-11-08 16:00 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | 10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Organized by the Department of Asian American Studies
Date: Tuesday, November 8, 2022
Time: 4:00-6:30 PM
Location: 10383 Bunche Hall
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In his new book Filipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor, Allan Isaac examines how contracted service labor performed by Filipinos in the Philippines, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States generates vital affects, multiple networks, and other life-worlds as much as it disrupts and dislocates human relations. Affective labor and time are re-articulated in a capacious archive of storytelling about the Filipino labor diaspora in fiction, musical performance, ethnography, and documentary film. Exploring these cultural practices, Filipino Time traces other ways of sensing, making sense of, and feeling time with others, by weaving narratives of place and belonging out of the hostile but habitable textures of labor-time.
Signaling his current research project in this talk, Isaac explores live-streamed funeral vigils, a technological practice made necessary by Filipino diasporic life, to highlight two Tagalog concept-words that map other ways to generate ecologies of communality: pakiramdam (literally, to make oneself felt, or to feel a presence), affective engagement without immediate proximity; andkapiling, to be in someone’s proximity or vicinity without interaction between two parties. Migrant subjects harness time and the imagination in their creative, life-making capacities to make communal worlds out of one steeped in the temporalities and logics of capital.
Allan Punzalan Isaac is Professor of American Studies and English and Associate Humanities Dean at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, NJ. He specializes in Asian American and comparative race studies and examines issues around migration, postcoloniality, gender and sexuality, and the Philippines and its diaspora. His first book American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America was the recipient of the Association for Asian American Studies Cultural Studies Book Award. His second book is entitled, Filipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor. He taught at DeLaSalle University-Taft in Manila, Philippines as a Senior Fulbright Scholar. His current research focuses on death and dying in the Filipino diaspora.

Elemental Cartographies in an Era of Climate Change
2022-11-08 15:30 - 18:00 | Charles E. Young Research Library, Presentation Room
Organized by the Department of English and the Department of Gender Studies
Date: Tuesday, November 8, 2022
Time: 3:30-6:00 PM
Location: Charles E. Young Research Library Presentation Room 11348
As we bear witness to the wastelanding of the earth by late liberal capital, Kānaka Maoli are recovering ancestral knowledges encoded in oli (chants) and moʻolelo (storied history) to activate the elements and transform the effects of global climate change into possibilities for renewed abundance.
In this talk, Candace Fujikane begins with arguments from her recent book, Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawaiʻi, contending that global climate change events are not apocalyptic but rather are bringing about the demise of capitalist economies of scarcity, making way for Indigenous economies of abundance. She will present a preview of her new book, Elemental Cartographies for a Changing Earth. Kanaka Maoli identify 400,000 akua or elemental forms and energies, including the 300 winds of the island of Kanaloa Kahoʻolawe. From 1941 to 1990, the US Navy used the island as a bombing target, with the devastating effect of cracking the water table. In the exhausted cartographies of militarized capital, only 9% of subsurface lands has been cleared of unexploded ordnance. The PKO practitioners, however, have long stood to protect the island, transforming the symbol of the target into a much more generative image of the piko, the umbilicus that enables the people to be pili (connected) to the akua, the kūpuna (ancestors), and to the pulapula (the seedling descendants to come). Ancestral archives of elemental cartographies map the winds of Kanaloa Kahoʻolawe, enabling the greening of the island to attract and birth clouds and to manifest decolonial and abolitionist futures.
Elemental Cartographies in an Era of Climate Change looks at the relationships between the elements (lands, seas, skies, clouds, ocean currents, wind currents) and between humans and elements as they take place in land struggles and restoration projects on Maui (making kapa for ancestral remains they are finding at a development project), Kahoʻolawe (greening of the island to create microclimates in the 30 years since bombing of the island by the military was halted), Kahuku on Oʻahu (fight against wind turbines sited too closely to Pacific Islander homes). Fujikana uses a feminist, indigenous studies, and critical settler-colonial lens to connect the survival of Pacific Islanders and their concepts of land and water to the realms of reproduction and social reproduction–hallmark concerns of feminist research.
Candace Fujikane is professor of English at the University of Hawai’i. She co-edited with Jonathan Okamura Asian Settler Colonialism: From Local Governance to the Habits of Everyday Life in Hawai’i (2008). She has recently published Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawaiʻi (2021). She is a Japanese settler ally who stands for lands and waters in Hawaiʻi and for Hawaiian political independence.

Criminalizing Reproduction Before and After Dobbs
2022-11-07 16:00 - 18:00 | Royce 314
The UCLA Center for the Study of Women|Barbra Streisand Center Presents
Date: Monday, November 7, 2022
Time: 4:00-6:00 PM (Panel and Reception)
Location: Royce 314 (Panel) and Royce 3rd Floor North Patio (Reception)
This event is at capacity. Registration has therefore closed early.
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Join us for a panel discussion to learn about the criminalization of reproductive freedoms before and after Dobbs and strategies for advocacy in the current climate. We strongly encourage masking at all CSW|Streisand Center events

Cosponsored by:

Criminal Justice Program at UCLA School of Law
Center for Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy at UCLA School of Law

CSW|Streisand Center Research Affiliates Brown Bag with Kathleen Sheldon, PhD
2022-11-04 12:00 - 13:00 | Online/Zoom
“‘We are born equal’: Graça Machel and her International
Contributions”

A Talk by Kathleen Sheldon, PhD
DATE: Friday, November 4, 2022
TIME: 12:00 -1:00 PM (PDT)
LOCATION: Zoom (RSVP to receive link)
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Graça Machel is known as having been first lady of two countries, Mozambique and South Africa. In this talk, the focus will be on her work with the United Nations and with a variety of nongovernmental organizations, much of which she accomplished between her two marriages, or after she was widowed for a second time. In the 1990s she wrote an influential report on the impact of conflict on children. Later she served in leadership positions in numerous organizations focused on women’s rights, education, democracy, and related issues. Most recently she has been active in working to end domestic violence. Her international political activity has been most evident in the years when she was not serving as a first lady. Kathleen Sheldon is a Research Affiliate at the Center for the Study of Women|Barbra Streisand Center. Her research and publications focus on African women’s history, and particularly on Mozambique. She currently serves on the editorial board of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. Her books include Pounders of Grain: A History of Women, Work, and Politics in Mozambique, and African Women: Early History to the 21st Century.

Public Health Consequences of the Criminalization of Abortion
2022-11-02 08:30 - 09:30 | Online/Zoom
Organized by the David Geffen School of Medicine and the Iris Cantor – UCLA Women’s Health Center
Date: Wednesday, November 2, 2022
Time: 8:30-9:30 AM
Location: Online/Zoom
This event will discuss the public health consequences and implications of criminalizing abortion.

Writing Health Through Black Feminist Theory
2022-10-24 15:00 - 17:00 | Hershey Hall Grand Salon Rm. 158, 612 Charles E Young Dr East, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Organized by the Department of African American Studies and the Collaboratory for Black Feminist Health and Healing
Date: Monday, October 24, 2022
Time: 3:00-5:00 PM
Location: Hershey Hall Grand Salon Rm. 158 and Online/Zoom

Natali Valdez, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Purdue University, will be speaking about her recent book: Weighing the Future: Race, Science, and Pregnancy Trials in the Postgenomic Era, (University of California Press, 2022). Valdez is a medical anthropologist and science and technology scholar who studies how race, gender, and power are enveloped into scientific knowledge production. She draws from Black feminism and postcolonial feminist science studies to critically examine epigenetic and postgenomic conceptions of ‘the environment’ in biosocial reproduction. This book is the first ethnography of ongoing pregnancy trials in the United States and United Kingdom.

Caring is Connecting: The Extractive Logics of AI Voice Assistants in the Home
2022-10-06 15:00 - 17:00 | 111 GSEIS Building, 290 Charles E. Young Drive N, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Organized by the Center for Critical Internet Inquiry and the UCLA School of Education & Information Studies
Date: Thursday, October 6, 2022
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: GSE&IS Room 111
Reception and refreshments to follow in the IS Salon.

“More peace of mind as your loved ones need more care.” This tag line appears in large, bolded letters on Amazon’s website advertising their service, Alexa Together. Described as a “new way to provide support for your loved ones, keeping you together even when you’re apart,” this “caregiving service” requires a subscription and an Amazon Echo device to facilitate the remote support of elderly family members, including control of household devices and increased surveillance opportunities. Using Alexa Together as one example, I consider how the frame of caregiving may be leveraged to “smooth” people’s concerns about privacy and data gathering in voice assistants, and justify intensified surveillance for elder adults and disabled family members as a function of market segmentation. This talk will explore
“caring” as a discursive frame for AI voice assistants that creates targeted opportunities for data extraction in the home, further entangling intimate activities within the home with the big data assemblages that AI urbanism relies on for algorithmic decision making in urban living and governance.
Questions? Email: swood@c2i2.ucla.edu

2022 Fall Reception
2022-10-05 16:00 - 18:00 | Rolfe Courtyard
Celebrate the start of a new academic year with community members from UCLA Gender Studies and UCLA Center for the Study of Women | Barbra Streisand Center! Join us to learn about upcoming projects, research, and events. Refreshments will be served.
RSVP by September 28, 2022 | Download the Flyer

Date: Wednesday, October 5, 2022
Time: 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Location: Rolfe Hall Courtyard, UCLA
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Lavender Graduation
2022-06-11 13:00 - 15:00
Organized by the LGBTQ Campus Resource Center
DATE: Saturday, June 11, 2022
TIME: 1:00−3:00 PM
LOCATION: Korn Convocation Hall, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Lavender Graduation is an annual ceremony conducted on numerous campuses to honor lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer students and to acknowledge their achievements and contributions to their universities.
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Center for Justice at UCLA Launch: "Lyrics from Lockdown"
2022-06-02 19:00 - 22:00
Organized by the Center for Justice at UCLA and the Skirball Cultural Center
Date: Thursday, June 2, 2022
Time: 7:00 PM-10:00 PM (PST) (Doors open at 6)
Location: Skirball Cultural Center
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The Skirball Cultural Center and Los Angeles Philharmonic present Lyrics from Lockdown, a groundbreaking multimedia production created by theater innovator Bryonn Bain. Exposing the unresolved contradictions between America’s prison system and its democratic ideals, this true story begins with Bain’s wrongful imprisonment while studying law at Harvard. From there, Bain weaves together the voices of more than forty characters into a one-man tour de force.
See this award-winning theatrical production during a one-night-only event to celebrate the launch of the Center for Justice at UCLA and the release of Bain’s new book, Rebel Speak: A Justice Movement Mixtape. Fusing hip-hop, spoken word, R&B, calypso, and classical music, Lyrics from Lockdown tells a provocative story of racial profiling and wrongful incarceration in a nation imprisoning more people than any other in the world.
Following the performance, Bain will join in conversation with Dolores Huerta, president and founder of the Dolores Huerta Foundation.
The For Freedoms exhibition Another Justice: By Any Media Necessary, showcasing the art of women incarcerated at a California federal prison, will also be on view.

WACD Speaker Series: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
2022-05-24 16:00 - 18:00 | Online/Zoom
Organized by UCLA World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Date: Tuesday, May 24, 2022
Time: 4:00 PM (PDT)
Location: Online/Zoom and Kaufman 240 (RSVP required for in-person participation)
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WACD BEYOND PUNISHMENT SPEAKER SERIES PRESENTS
Copper Wires: Solidarity and Intimacy (for Audre Lorde) by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Based on Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s research for her forthcoming biography The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, this interactive lecture will share details from Audre Lorde’s early morning practices of planetary solidarity followed by an interactive oracle based on one of Audre Lorde’s most provocative poems.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Queer Black Troublemaker and Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all sentient beings. Her work in this lifetime is to facilitate infinite, unstoppable ancestral love in practice. Alexis’s most recent book Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals won the 2022 Whiting Award in Nonfiction.

Permanence and Decay
2022-05-23 09:00 - 2022-05-24 18:00 | Royce Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Organized by The Graduate Students Association in the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies
Date: May 23 and May 24, 2022
Time: 9:00 AM-3:30 PM (PST)
Location: Royce Hall 306 and 314
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Tensions between permanence and decay are constitutive features of European culture. Periods during which cultural and political conventions appeared as though they would endure have alternated with periods of crisis and widespread instability. There can be many interpretations of permanence and decay: they can refer to the physical nature of artifacts or materials and their durability, but also to the cyclical nature of thought (as the ideological crises in present-day Europe have brought to the fore), as well as to the unstable nature of social, interpersonal, and political frameworks (as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic shows us). The conference asks how changing (or unshakeable) beliefs on sexuality, gender, birth, death, memory, and truth have influenced each other and shaped European culture, literature, and politics.

CSW Research Affiliate Brown Bag with Lara K. Schubert, PhD
2022-05-20 12:00 - 13:00
“Glimpsing Structural Engineering Culture: Structural Engineering Equity Efforts from Within”

A Talk by Lara K. Schubert, PhD
DATE: Friday, May 20, 2022
TIME: 12:00 -1:00 PM (PDT)
LOCATION: Zoom (RSVP to receive link)
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Structural engineers typically consider the profession to be a meritocracy, in which engineers are successful if they have technical skill required for engineering. While this is important, the culture of the profession also affects who is promoted and who stays to reach levels of leadership within their firms. The problem of retention has been identified within the profession, and in 2015 the professional organization created a committee to study and to address the issue. This presentation will give an account of the project, SE3: Structural Engineering, Equity and Engagement, following the trajectory of the efforts from within the profession and reflecting on the strategies used, how they have evolved, and how they are informed by the culture of engineering.
Lara K. Schubert is a Research Affiliate at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, a PhD in Religion, who has both practiced structural engineering and undertaken ethnographic research with women in religious communities in Cambodia. Her current research merges these areas of expertise. She teaches in feminist science studies and intends to complete a qualitative study of structural engineering to help make clear the culture to ultimately strengthen structural engineering.

2022 Awards Celebration
2022-05-18 12:00 - 14:00
This event has passed. Watch Bamby Salcedo’s keynote address and Q&A on CSW’s YouTube channel!
Join the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) for a special virtual event on Wednesday, May 18th to honor the center’s accomplishments, student award recipients, and this year’s Distinguished Leader in Feminism Award honoree.

FEATURING THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Trans Latina Resilience: Past, Present, and Future
by
Bamby Salcedo
President and CEO of the TransLatin@ Coalition
This year, CSW has selected Bamby Salcedo as the recipient of the Center for the Study of Women’s 2022 Distinguished Leader in Feminism Award. Bamby is the President and CEO of the TransLatin@ Coalition, a national organization that focuses on addressing the issues of transgender Latin@s in the US. Bamby developed the Center for Violence Prevention & Transgender Wellness, a multipurpose, multiservice space for transgender people in Los Angeles.
Her talk will highlight historical and intergenerational institutional violence against Trans, Gender Nonconforming and Intersex (TGI) people. She will also address the current state of TGI people and how she envisions a better world for the TGI community.
EVENT FLYER (PDF)

EVENT DETAILS & REGISTRATION
Date: Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Time: 12:00 PM-1:30 PM (PDT)
Location: Zoom Webinar
Registrants will receive a Zoom link a few days prior to the event.
For questions, please contact CSW at csw@csw.ucla.edu.

ABOUT THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Bamby Salcedo is a national and international transgender Latina Woman who received her master’s degree in Latin@ Studies from California State California Los Angeles. Bamby is the President and CEO of the TransLatin@ Coalition, a national organization that focuses on addressing the issues of transgender Latin@s in the US. Bamby developed the Center for Violence Prevention & Transgender Wellness, a multipurpose, multiservice space for transgender people in Los Angeles.
Bamby’s remarkable and wide-ranging activist work has brought voice and visibility to not only the trans community, but also to the multiple overlapping communities and issues that her life has touched including migration, HIV, youth, LGBT, incarceration and Latin@ communities. Through her instinctive leadership, she has birthed several organizations that created community where there was none, and advocate for the rights, dignity, and humanity for those who have been without a voice. Bamby’s work as a collaborator and a connector through a variety of organizations reflects her skills in crossing various borders and boundaries and working in the intersection of multiple communities as well as the intersections of multiple issues. Bamby has served and participated in many local, national and international organizations and planning groups. This work mediates intersections of race, gender, sexuality, age, social class, HIV+ status, immigration status and more.
Her activist public speaking has ranged from testifying to governmental bodies, human rights and social justice organizations, universities and colleges, demonstrations and rallies, and national and international conferences as featured speaker. Bamby speaks to diverse audiences on many topics and intersecting issues. Bamby has spoken about transgender-related issues, social justice, healthcare, social services, incarceration, immigration and detention as well as professional and economic development for transgender people. Bamby has been invited to participate in several panels at the White House including in 2016 The United State of Woman where she share stage with Vice President Biden at the opening plenary session and in 2015, Transgender Women of Color and Violence and LGBTQ People of Color Summit. Bamby has also participated as the Opening Plenary Speaker at several conferences, including The 2015 National HIV Prevention Conference, The United States Conference on AIDS in 2009 and 2012. She has participated as facilitator with The PanAmerican Health Organization while developing the Blue Print on how to provide competent health care services for transgender people as well as health care for LGBT people and Human Rights in Latin America and The Caribbean.
Her powerful, sobering and inspiring speeches and her warm, down-to-earth presence have provided emotional grounding and perspective for diverse gatherings. She speaks from the heart, as one who has been able to transcend many of her own issues, to truly drop ways of being and coping that no longer served her, issues that have derailed and paralyzed countless lives. Her words and experience evoke both tears and laughter, sobriety and inspiration through the documentary made about her life called TransVisible: Bamby Salcedo’s Story. Bamby has been featured and recognized in multiple media outlets such as People en Español, Latina Magazine, Cosmopolitan, the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Magazine, OUT 100 and featured in the HBO documentary The Trans List, among many others. Bamby has also being recognized for her outstanding work by multiple national and local organizations.

Representing Disability After CODA
2022-05-13 11:00 - 12:30
Organized by the Department of Theater
DATE: Friday, May 13, 2022
TIME: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM (PDT)
LOCATION: Darren Star Screening Room (Melnitz 1422)
As part of an increased recognition of the importance of thinking intersectionally and with respect to the feminist and gendered aspects of current disability and representation theories, the UCLA Theater Department is pleased to host Dr. Victoria Lewis, a long time television and theater actor with a physical disability, UCLA PhD graduate, and professor emerita of Redlands University, as one member of a panel on Representation of Disability. Dr. Lewis was founder of the Center Theatre Group “Other Voices” project which worked not only with actors and writers with disabilities, but other marginalized groups like Latina and African American teen mothers and blue-collar workers.

9th Annual UCLA Children’s Discovery and Innovation Institute (CDI) Symposium: The Science of Gender
2022-05-13 08:00 - 18:00
Organized by the David Geffen School of Medicine
DATE: Friday, May 13, 2022
TIME: 8:00 AM-9:00 AM | Pediatric Grand Rounds
12:00 PM-4:00 PM | Keynote Speakers
4:00 PM-5:00 PM | Fellows & Residents Presentations and Poster Session
LOCATION: Tamkin Auditorium, Ronald Reagan Medical Center and Zoom (online)
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The 9th Annual UCLA Children’s Discovery and Innovation Institute (CDI) Symposium will be held on May 13, 2022 to generate cross-campus collaborations to advance translational child health research. The UCLA CDI Institute is the research home of the Pediatrics Department and was established in 2013. The CDI Institute encourages multidisciplinary child health research and training at UCLA across the spectrum of basic, translational, clinical and health services research. The topic “The Science of Gender” will be highlighted by speakers from across campus and across the globe. The Symposium will bring thoughtful presentations and discussion about gender to clinicians and scientists involved in child health. In collaboration with CSW and DGSOM Health Equity Research Theme, a diverse planning committee that selected a slate of excellent speakers has been put together.
OPENING REMARKS BY
Steven Dubinett, MD, (he/him) Interim Dean, David Geffen School of Medicine, and Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, UCLA
Sherin Devaskar, MD, (she/her) Executive Chair, Department of Pediatrics, and Executive Director, CDI

Naming, Understanding, and Playing with Metaphors in Music
2022-04-29 09:00 - 2022-04-30 17:00
Organized by the UCLA Practice-Based Experimental Epistemology Research (PEER) Lab
DATE: Friday, April 29-Saturday, April 30
TIME: Begins 9:00 AM (Friday, April 29)
LOCATION: Zoom (registration required)
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If music and sound are “thick events” that exceed our ability to grasp them fully (see Eidsheim 2015), what resources do we have to make (at least) partial sense of them? In a two-day symposium, we aim to spark a conversation exploring how metaphorical language works as one of these resources, examining how it shapes the ways in which we perceive and understand not only music, but one another and the world.
This symposium seeks to promote a conversation that maps the networks of metaphors that structure musical discourse while tracing their repercussions – musicological, social, and political. There are eight confirmed keynote speakers and over twenty presenters on themes having to do with metaphor and race, ethnicity, nation, gender, sexuality, body, and disability. The ultimate aim of this symposium is to shift the power balance in terms of who gets to name, whose experiences and practices are recognized, which relationships we have the capacity to note, and what kinds of worlds we can create.
Keynote Speakers:
Jessica Bissett Perea, Dena’ina (Native American Studies, UC Davis)Philip Ewell (Music Theory, Hunter College, CUNY)J. Martin Daughtry (Music, NYU)Nicholas Harkness (Anthropology, Harvard University)Dorinne Kondo (American Studies and Ethnicity and Anthropology, USC)Dylan Robinson, xwélméxw/Stó:lō/Skwah (Cultural Studies Graduate Program, Queen’s University)Holly Watkins (Musicology, Eastman School of Music)Shana Redmond (English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University)

California Digital Humanities Research Institute: The Black Press
2022-04-27 10:00 - 2022-04-29 16:00 | UC Irvine/Virtual
Organized by the UCLA Library
Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2022-Friday, April 29,2022
Time: 10:00 AM (all days)
Location: Online/Zoom
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CaliDHRI is a free, annual digital ethnic studies institute inspired and co-sponsored by CUNY DHRI as well as UC Irvine Libraries and UCLA Library. The inaugural CaliDHRI will center Black digital humanities thematically while focusing on California-centric research questions and datasets.
The 2022 theme, “The Black Press”, will be explored by three keynote speakers (who will highlight their own Black digital humanities research and projects) as well as multiple small teams of participants who have applied with a research question, collection, or project in mind.
All CaliDHRI keynotes are free and open to the public. Those who register will receive a recording after the event.
Speakers:
April 27th Keynote
“Finding Elizabeth Mitchell: Tracing the History of Early Black Atlantic Filmmaking”
Ellen Scott, Associate Professor and Associate Dean at the School of Theater, Film, and Television, UCLA
April 28th Keynote
“Digitizing Memory: The Black Panther Oakland Community School Yearbook Project”
Angela LeBlanc-Ernest, Independent Scholar
April 29th Keynote
“Pleasure and Politics: The Evolving Role and Meaning of the Black Press in the Technological Age,”
Kim Gallon, Associate Professor of History, Purdue University

2nd Annual UCLA Graduate Conference in Political Theory
2022-04-23 11:00 - 2022-04-25 15:30
Organized by the Political Science Department
DATE: Saturday, April 23, 2022-Monday, April 25, 2022
TIME: Varies
LOCATION: Online/Zoom
The conference features progressive scholarship designed to investigate the social justice potential of various critical concepts. There are a number of panels on feminist theory and its relation to questions of decolonial theory, environmental theory, racism in contemporary America, and emancipatory politics. By drawing connections between these topics, the conference hopes to contribute to ongoing conversations about the relationship between the politics of gender and other social movements.
Speakers:
Ana Isabel (Anaís) Martinez Jimenez, Princeton UniversityFrancesca Passaseo, The University of Texas at Austin
Elias Forneris, University of CambridgeJames Hua, University of OxfordTaariq Elmahadi, UCLA
Ibrahim Khan, University of ChicagoEden Luymes, The University of British ColumbiaEraldo Souza dos Santos, Panthéon-Sorbonne University
Wojciech Engelking, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Law and AdministrationRuoyu Li, Johns Hopkins UniversityShirley Le Penne, Cornell University
Naomi Abayasekara, University of CambridgeCaolaín Cleary, The University of CambridgeKimiyo Bremer, Cornell University
Alex Drusda, University of TorontoJessica Croteau, Johns HopkinsMatt Harvey, University of Colorado at Boulder
Reese Haller, University of OregonLacey Slizeski, University of MichiganMatt Schneider, UCLA
Marie Lecuyer, Concordia UniversityStephanie Zgouridi, Princeton UniversityTroy Fielder, University of Cambridge
Elizabeth Camacho, The University of ChicagoJoyce Lu, Rutgers UniversityKaiqing Su, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Archive Preview Screening: Framing Agnes
2022-04-18 19:30 - 2022-04-19 22:00
Organized by the Film & Television Archive
Archive Preview Screening:
DATE: Monday, April 18, 2022
TIME: 7:30 PM (PDT)
LOCATION: Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum
In person: filmmaker Chase Joynt, actor Zackary Drucker, historian Jules Gill-Peterson, sociologist Kristen Schilt
A Conversation on Representation, Ethics and Research:
DATE: Tuesday, April 19, 2022
TIME: 7:00 PM (PDT)
LOCATION: Charles Young Research Library Conference Room
In person: filmmaker Chase Joynt, historian Jules Gill-Peterson, sociologist Kristen Schilt, Vanessa Warri, UCLA Ph.D. student in Social Welfare.
Free admission, no registration required. Light refreshments will be served at 6 p.m.
Visitor parking is available at Parking Structure 3 for $3/hour (view on a map).
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Join Framing Agnes filmmaker director, writer and producer Chase Joynt, participants Jules Gill-Peterson and Kristen Schilt, and Vanessa Warri, UCLA PhD student in social welfare, for a conversation on transgender, two-spirit, gender-expansive, and intersex (TGI) representation, the history of TGI-related research at UCLA, and current organizing efforts for ethical, informed, community-driven, and justice-centered research about TGI people.
The film screens the night before at the Archive Preview screening–fresh off its award-winning turn at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, where it garnered the NEXT Audience Award and the NEXT Innovator Award.

Thinking Gender 2022: "Transgender Studies at the Intersections"
2022-04-06 08:00 - 2022-04-08 17:00 | Online/Zoom
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Thinking Gender 2022
32nd Annual Graduate Student Research Conference
“Transgender Studies at the Intersections”
April 6-8, 2022
Free, Public Keynote Address on Wednesday, April 6, 2022
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Thinking Gender 2022 will focus on work in transgender studies that engages substantively with race, Indigeneity, Blackness, settler colonialism, and/or empire.
Abstract submissions are now closed.
For Thinking Gender 2022, graduate student presentations will be held in private workshops on April 6-8. Only the April 6 keynote panel will be open to the public.

KEYNOTE PANEL
Join the UCLA Center for the Study of Women on Wednesday, April 6, 2022 for a special Thinking Gender 2022 webinar featuring a keynote address by Jules Gill-Peterson and a conversation with Mel Y. Chen.
This webinar will be livestreamed, and a recording will be posted on our YouTube channel. Closed captioning is available.
DATE: Wednesday, April 6, 2022
TIME: 12:00 PM-1:30 PM (PST)
LOCATION: Zoom Webinar (registration required)
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EVENT POSTER (PDF)
Keynote Speaker
JULES GILL-PETERSON
“Street Queens and the Promise of Intersectional Trans Studies”
Trans studies recruits exemplary subjects to guarantee the promises of its political desires. This talk turns to the street queen, a fixture of mid twentieth century American queer and trans cities, to ask critical questions of the propensity to idealize subjects marginalized by race and gender. Who is the Black and brown street queen, what kind of life did she lead, and what does she know outside of the projection of contemporary desires for resilience and resistance onto her?
Jules Gill-Peterson is an associate professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Histories of the Transgender Child (Minnesota, 2018), winner of a Lambda Literary Award and the Children’s Literature Association book prize. Jules also serves as General Co-Editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly.
Discussant
MEL Y. CHEN
Mel Y. Chen is an associate professor of gender & women’s studies and Director for the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture at UC Berkeley. Since Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect (2012), their second book concerns intoxication’s involvement in archival histories of the interanimation of time, race, and disability. Chen coedits a Duke book series entitled “Anima” and is part of a queer/trans of color arts collective in the San Francisco Bay Area.

WORKSHOP
Tooth and Nail: A Trans Critique of the University
A workshop with Dr. Jules Gill-Peterson in conversation with members of Just Research? Trans Futures in Health and Scientific Knowledge. This virtual event is part of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women’s annual graduate student research conference Thinking Gender 2022: “Transgender Studies at the Intersections.”
DATE: Friday, April 8, 2022
TIME: 12:00 PM-1:30 PM (PST)
LOCATION: Zoom (registration required)
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Trans inclusion has been framed as the latest chapter of ongoing struggle to make the university a more representative and equitable institution. But the university is also where many of the most degrading and devastating negations and limitations on trans people’s lives have been invented, credentialed, and funded. How can trans studies—and trans people in academia—confront that painful reality and history in their effects on us? What does it look like to be trans and do trans work from a critical perspective on the university as an institution?
How can thinking through UCLA’s history, in particular, inform how we imagine a more ethical and justice-centered vision for the public university’s relationship to transgender people? Join this conversation with Thinking Gender 2022 keynote speaker, Dr. Jules Gill-Peterson, author of Histories of the Transgender Child (University of Minnesota Press, 2018), the first book to shatter the widespread myth that transgender children are a brand-new generation in the twenty-first century. The conversation will include a roundtable discussion with members of a statewide community-university initiative, Just Research? Trans Futures in Health and Scientific Knowledge, including Dr. Christoph Hanssmann (San Francisco State University), and UCLA PhD students Sid Jordan and Vanessa Warri.
Recommended advance reading:
Adair, C., C. Awkward-Rich, and A. Marvin. “Before Trans Studies.” Transgender Studies Quarterly, 7, no.3 (2020), 306–320.
https://read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/article/7/3/306/166952/Before-Trans-Studies

Cosponsored By

African American Studies Department
American Indian Studies Center
American Indian Studies Program
Anthropology Department
Asian American Studies Department
Asian American Studies Center
Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health
Center for Health Policy Research
Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice, & Health
Center X
Chicana/o and Central American Studies Department
Chicano Studies Research Center
Community Health Sciences Department
Comparative Literature Department
Disability Studies
English Department
Penney Kanner Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies
Graduate Division
History Department
Humanities Division
Information Studies Department
Institute for Research on Labor & Employment
Institute of American Cultures
Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin
International Institute
LGBTQ Campus Resource Center
Promise Institute
Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, David Geffen School of Medicine
Social Welfare Department
Sociology Department
Williams Institute at UCLA Law

Asian & Gender Education Symposium (AGES)
2022-03-29 09:30 - 15:00
Organized by Asian Pacific Coalition
DATE: Tuesday, March 29, 2022
TIME: 9:30 AM-3:00 PM (PDT)
LOCATION: Bruin Viewpoint Room in Ackerman Union
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AGES is a research symposium meant to engage its audience in research and academia and create discussion over how we can use research to mobilize and educate communities. Research is an important facet of creating change. The symposium aims to focus on research under an intersection of Asian and gendered lens and how we can rethink research as a facilitator for change rather than a subject gatekept to academia.
The Asian Pacific Coalition, or APC, is an umbrella organization that represents 20 Asian Pacific Islander and Desi American-related (APIDA) organizations on campus. As the Asian Pacific Coalition at UCLA, we are dedicated to dismantling systems of racial oppression and striving for collective liberation through coalition-building with other communities of color.
RESEARCHERS:
Nadeeka Karunaratne, UCLA PhD Candidate, Higher Education & Organizational ChangeElaine Tamargo, UCLA PhD Student, Higher Education & Organizational ChangeMegan Trinh, UCLA Masters Student

CSW Research Affiliate Brown Bag: South Carolina Philosopher: Louisa Susannah McCord
2022-03-18 12:00 - 13:00
A Talk by Carol Bensick, PhD
DATE: Friday, March 18, 2022
TIME: 12:00 -1:00 PM (PST)
LOCATION: Zoom (RSVP to receive link)
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The South has been decidedly underrepresented in the growing canon of antebellum nineteenth century American women philosophers. Louisa McCord stands out as a promising candidate to correct this imbalance. In a period where the essay format was almost exclusively the province of men, McCord wrote and published numerous essays in respected Southern journals. These were identified, collected, and edited in the mid 1990s. Even so, the recovery of forgotten women philosophers was only getting underway at that time and many still went unnoticed. This talk will make a first step toward becoming acquainted with McCord and discovering the similarities and differences between her work and that of her already established contemporaries from the North.
Carol Bensick earned her PhD in American Literary and Intellectual History from 1620 to 1914 at Cornell University. As a Research Affiliate at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, she has given conference papers and published blog posts on unknown and barely known women philosophers such as Nancy Kingsbury Wollstonecraft of New Hampshire and Julia Ward Howe of Massachusetts, as well as on John Dewey’s and William James’s interactions with women philosophical students and friends. Her chapters on philosophers Sarah Dorsey of Mississippi and Amalie Hathaway of Michigan are forthcoming in Springer and Oxford collections respectively. Her latest nineteenth-century philosophical interest is political essayist Louisa McCord of South Carolina.

The Stateless Diplomat: Diana Apcar's Heroic Life
2022-03-08 19:00 - 20:30 | Online/Zoom
Organized by the Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA
DATE: Tuesday, March 8, 2022
TIME: 7:00–8:30 PM (PST)
LOCATION: Virtual/Zoom (registration required)
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In celebration of International Women’s Day, “The Stateless Diploment: Diana Apcar’s Heroic Life” is a celebration of the life and work of Diana Apcar, the first Armenian woman diplomat, who was appointed Honorary Consul to Japan of First Republic of Armenia (1918-1920).
The event consists of a special screening of “The Stateless Diplomat” followed by a conversation with director Mimi Malayan and historian Meline Mesropyan.
Author, businesswoman, activist, humanitarian and diplomat, Diana Apcar single-handedly rescued countless genocide survivors, enabling them to start new lives thousands of miles from their homeland.
The film, “The Stateless Diplomat,” tries to convey the pivotal moments in Diana’s life: her awakening to the Armenian cause, her spiritual vision prompting her into activism, her mental collapse and frustration as she foresaw the Genocide, and her endless humanitarian work, personally aiding thousands of Genocide survivors.
SPEAKERS:

Mimi Malayan, documentary filmmaker, director of “The Stateless Diplomat”
Meline Mesropyan, research fellow at Tohoku University’s Graduate School of International Culture in Sendai and lecturer at Hyogo University in Kobe, Japan

We Were There: The Third World Women's Alliance and the Second Wave
2022-03-08 15:00 - 16:00
Organized by the UCLA Department of Gender Studies
Book Talk With Dr. Patricia Romney in conversation with Dr. Maylei Blackwell
DATE: Tuesday, March 8, 2022
TIME: 3:00 PM (PST)
LOCATION: Virtual/Zoom (Registration Required)
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Dr. Romney’s new book documents how the Alliance shaped and defined second wave feminism. From 1970 to 1980, the Alliance lived the dream of third world feminism. The small bicoastal organization was one of the earliest groups advocating for what came to be known as intersectional activism, arguing that women of color faced a “triple jeopardy” of race, gender, and class oppression. Widely recognized as the era’s primary voice for women of color, this alliance across ethnic and racial identities was unique then and now.

Defending Self-Defense: A Call to Action by Survived & Punished
2022-03-03 15:00 - 16:30
This event has passed. Watch a recording on our YouTube channel.
Date: Thursday, March 3, 2022
Time: 3:00-4:30PM PST
Location: Online/Zoom (registration required)
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READ THE REPORT
Survivors of domestic and sexual violence who defend themselves are systemically targeted for punishment by the legal system. Join us for the launch of Defending Self-Defense, a community-based, survivor-centered research report that identifies key patterns in the criminalization of self-defense and recommendations to transform the conditions of criminalized survival.
In honor of Tewkunzi Green.
This report is produced by Survived & Punished, Project Nia, and the UCLA Center for the Study of Women.
Survived and Punished (S&P) is a national organization that advocates for the decriminalization of survivors of domestic and sexual violence through community organizing, policy advocacy, and engaged research. S&P provides publications and organizing tools that help highlight the intersections of prisons and gender violence, as well as mobilize grassroots support for criminalized survivors. S&P also includes the following three local/regional affiliates: Love & Protect in Chicago, S&P New York, and S&P California. CSW’s Thinking Gender 2020 conference featured an art exhibit showcasing S&P’s work and accomplishments, as well as a keynote address by Mariame Kaba, a co-founder of Survived & Punished. Kaba is also the founder and director of Project Nia, a grassroots organization that fights to end youth incarceration.
UCLA School of Law is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider. Up to 1 hour of general MCLE credit will be available (see Further Readings below). If you attended the event, please fill out this form to receive credit.

Event participants:
Survived & Punished

Mariame Kaba (respondent)

Defending Self-Defense Research Team

Alisa Bierria
Colby Lenz
Sydney Moon

Defending Self-Defense Survivor Advisory Council

Liyah Birru
Robbie Hall
Wendy Howard
Roshawn Knight
Ky Peterson
Anastazia Schmid

Further Readings:

Franks, Mary Anne. 2014. “Real Men Advance, Real Women Retreat: Stand Your Ground, Battered Women’s Syndrome, and Violence as Male Privilege.” University of Miami Law Review 68 (4): 1099–1128. https://repository.law.miami.edu/umlr/vol68/iss4/7/
Aiken, Jane H., Sarah M. Buel, Sonal Bhatia, Mark Cooke, Wilhemina Hardy, Tiffany Haigler, Tina Ikpa, and Selena Nelson. 2007. “Resolution 102A: Domestic Violence Victims and Incarceration, Report.” Criminal Justice Committee, American Bar Association. https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/directories/policy/2007_my_102a.authcheckdam.pdf

Cosponsored by:

Criminal Justice Program at UCLA School of Law
Critical Race Studies Program at UCLA School of Law
Williams Institute
Department of Gender Studies

Describing LGBT and Gay Rights: A Longitudinal Analysis of Pro- And Anti-Gay Rights Groups’ Online Messages in Taiwan
2022-03-02 17:00 - 18:00 | Online
Organized by the UCLA Asia Pacific Center
Date: Thursday, March 3, 2022
Time: 5:00 PM (PST)
Location: Online/Zoom
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Taiwan has become the first Asian country to legalize same-sex spousal rights with the passage of a special law in May 2019. The legalization of same-sex relationships in Taiwan is a highly-contested process, with pro-and anti-gay rights groups competing with one another to win legitimacy over how even the idea of gay rights should be interpreted. To better understand the different discursive tools deployed by pro- and anti-gay rights activists between November 2013 and March 2020, I adopt a thematic content analysis approach to generate a codebook and apply it to a corpus that includes Facebook public posts of the pro-gay rights group and anti-gay rights group with the largest number of followers, respectively. The findings suggest that the pro-gay rights group is more likely to mention frames of anti-discrimination, equality, liberty, and identity-building while their anti-gay rights counterpart relies heavily on frames of morality, public interests, democracy, and anti-elitism. Furthermore, the pro-and anti-gay rights activists have adopted specific localized framing elements to construct their policy messages, including “Taiwan-China comparison,” “indigenous people,” and “ancestor veneration.” By treating framing as a dynamic process that changes over time, it becomes possible to observe that activists’ framing patterns have changed in response to policy outcomes, elite behavior, and interaction with rival activists.
Shih-chan Dai studies the development of LGBTQ rights in East Asian countries as well as examines how digital technology has reshaped the way politics and activism work nowadays. His research is situated at the intersection of political communication, social movements, and LGBTQ politics. He received his PhD in political science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. During his postdoc at UCLA, Shih-chan Dai is revising his dissertation into different journal articles and working on research topics related to gay rights in East Asia.
This event is part of the Asia Pacific Center’s UCLA Taiwan in the World lecture series. The Taiwan in the World lecture series aims to promote and disseminate knowledge about Taiwan’s society, political system, social structure, and institutions in a global context, and shed light on Taiwan’s political economy, international relations, and US-Taiwan-China relations. This series is organized by Taiwan in the World postdoctoral fellow Shih-chan Dai and supported with funding by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles. This lecture is cosponsored by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, LGBTQ Campus Resource Center, and Office of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion.

Auntie Sewing Squad
2022-02-28 12:30 - 13:45
Organized by the Asian American Studies Department
This event was originally scheduled for Fall quarter, as part of “Sewing Social Justice.”
DATE: Monday, February 28, 2022
TIME: 12:30–1:45 PM (PST)
LOCATION: Virtual/Zoom
ZOOM ROOM
Join us for this event celebrating the Auntie Sewing Squad, a massive mutual-aid network of volunteers who have been providing free masks in the wake of US government failures during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Featuring:
Asian American Studies MA and Gender Studies PhD alum Preeti Sharma and co-editors Mai-Linh Hong and Chrissy Lau, discussing their recently released book The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask-Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice (UC Press).
Screening of “Auntie Kristina,” a short film about the Auntie Sewing Squad and a discussion with the filmmaker, Asian American Studies MA alum Hannah Joo.

'We are not part of your family': Domestic Workers and the International Struggle for Labor Rights and Recognition
2022-02-17 14:00 - 15:15
Organized by the International Development Studies (International Institute)
Date: Thursday, February 17, 2022
Time: 2:00 – 3:15 PM (PST)
Location: Online/Zoom (registration required)
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This lecture will focus on how Latin American Domestic Workers, through their membership in the International Domestic Workers Federation, have led the global movement to advance domestic workers’ rights. In particular, it will share insights about how domestic workers have used grassroots organizing, strategic alliance building, and transnational solidarity to secure and enforce one of the most historic victories for domestic workers: C189, the Domestic Workers Convention of the International Labor Organisation.
Adriana Paz Ramirez is a labor rights organizer and popular educator based in Mexico and Canada. Originally from Bolivia, she is the regional coordinator for the Americas for the International Domestic Workers Federation. Prior to that, she was the senior organizer for the Workers’ Action Centre in Toronto and the gender, equity, and women’s empowerment officer at the Solidarity Center in Mexico. She was also the manager of the International Development certificate program for the University of British Columbia, and co-founder of Justicia for Migrant Workers in British Columbia, a national grassroots organization advocating for the labor and immigration rights of migrant farm workers. Currently, Adriana holds an Open Society Fellowship in which she will identify how the strengths of grassroots organizing can be leveraged to tackle the challenges of policy enforcement and implementation, based on the successes of the Latin American domestic workers movement.

Taiwan for Her: Gender (In)Equality in Taiwan
2022-01-19 17:00 - 18:00 | Online
Organized by the UCLA Asia Pacific Center
Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2022
Time: 5:00 PM (PST)
Location: Online/Zoom (Registration Required)
What are the countries that come to mind when you think of gender equality? Most people would be very likely to mention Nordic countries. To many people’s surprise, Taiwan has progressed tremendously in narrowing the gender gap, especially when compared to other Asian countries. Current President Tsai Ing-wen was elected as the first female leader in Taiwan in 2016 and won reelection in 2020. The share of seats in parliament held by women is about 40% in Taiwan, which is roughly equal to Denmark and higher than the U.S. (27%). However, despite these advances in women’s political participation, it is unclear to what extent the increase in female representation has translated into improvements in women’s social and economic status in Taiwan. Therefore, we invite Director and Associate Professor Weiting Wu in Graduate Institute for Gender Studies at Shih Hsin University to discuss the following topics: what Taiwan has achieved in gender equality and marriage equality; what factors explain Taiwan’s progress; furthermore, what challenges and difficulties women in Taiwan still face from an intersectional perspective.
Weiting Wu is an associate professor and the director of the Graduate Institute for Gender Studies at Shih Hsin University. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at City University of New York. Her research areas are social movement, gender politics, and state-society relations.
This event is part of the Asia Pacific Center’s Taiwan in the World lecture series.
The UCLA Taiwan in the World lecture series aims to promote and disseminate knowledge about Taiwan’s society, political system, social structure, and institutions in a global context, and shed light on Taiwan’s political economy, international relations, and US-Taiwan-China relations. This series is organized by Taiwan in the World postdoctoral fellow Shih-chan Dai and supported with funding by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles. This lecture is cosponsored by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, LGBTQ Campus Resource Center, and Office of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion.
