Center for the Study of Women

Area Impossible: Sexuality and Geopolitics Symposium
2018-05-25 09:30 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Royce 314
Organized by the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature
DATE: May 25, 2018
TIME: 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM
LOCATION: 314 Royce Hall
RSVP: http://complit.ucla.edu/event/area-impossible-sexuality-geopolitics/
Within queer studies, the geopolitical has posed a much-needed challenge to the spatial and temporal logics of the field (logics that often mire the field in the US), especially in the aftermath of the turn to transnationalism. Comparative literature has historically fashioned its domains outside US borders, but despite its range has remained somewhat tied to nationalist coagulations/formations. This symposium brings together speakers who engage comparative analytical forms towards a more disruptive and capacious queer geopolitics.
Program
9:30-10:00am
Introductory remarks
Anjali Arondekar, Visiting Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, UCLA and Associate Professor, Feminist Studies, UCSC
Welcome address
David Schaberg, Dean of Humanities, UCLA
10:00-10:45am
Queer Coolitude/ An Indo-Caribbean Reading
Rajiv Mohabir, Assistant Professor of English, Auburn University.
11:00am-12:30pm
Freud in Translation/ Three Essays, a Survey, and a Group
Omnia El Shakry, Professor of History, UCD
Respondent: Gil Hochberg, Ransford Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, and Middle East Studies, Columbia University
12:30-1:30pm
Lunch for participants
1:30-3:15pm
Trespassing Queer Kindship/ Temporality and the Geopolitics of Attachment
Sima Shakhsari, Assistant Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota
Respondent: Ananya Roy, Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare and Geography, UCLA
3:15-3.30pm
Coffee break
3:30 -5:00 p.m.
None Like Us/ Black Exception Black Exemption
Stephen M. Best, Associate Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley
Respondent: Shana Redmond, Associate Professor, Musicology and African-American Studies, UCLA
5:00-6:30pm
Reception

Representing the Sex Industries
2018-05-15 16:00 - 18:00 | UCLA School of Law, Room 3467, UCLA
Representing the Sex Industries
With Dr. Beth Ribet, Co-Director of Repair
Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Time: 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Location: UCLA School of Law, Room 3467
In this lecture and dialogue, Dr. Beth Ribet, who will be introduced by Professor Claudia Peña, will address the framing and representation of people in systems of prostitution in popular media, academic theory, political discourse, and in the criminal justice system. Within this discussion, Dr. Ribet will explore the contemporary politics of sex trafficking rhetoric, and will specifically introduce analysis of the recent framing, in right-wing media, of Donald Trump as an anti-trafficking hero supposedly responsible for the rescue of trafficked children and women. She will also delve into the history and ramifications of the dichotomy between the terms “sex work” and “sex trafficking”, and will identify the need for feminist, race-conscious analysis and interventions to address the relationship between whiteness, white women, and pimping in the United States. Dr. Ribet’s lecture will conclude with discussion of the hyper-vulnerability of sexually exploited youth and adults, and the prospects for advancing survivor-driven approaches to comprehending and naming the sex industries. Discussion and commentary will follow by Jyoti Nanda, Binder Clinical Teaching Fellow at UCLA School of Law.
Organized by Repair. Co-sponsored by CSW, UCLA Department of Gender Studies, and the UCLA Law Youth and Justice Clinic.

Kristine Gunnell, "Grantmaking for Systemic Change: Daughters of Charity, Seton Institute, and Alleviating Poverty in the Global South, 1985-2010"
2018-05-10 12:00 - 13:30 | Rolfe 2125
CSW Research Affiliate Brown Bag Talk
A talk by Kristine Gunnell, Research Affiliate, UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Committed to easing suffering wherever they find it, Daughters of Charity in the western United States founded Seton Institute for International Development in 1985. Through its fundraising and in-kind distribution programs, the institute offered targeted support for Catholic sisters engaged in primary health care activities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. A case study of faith-based non-profits, the institute’s history illustrates Catholic efforts to strengthen transnational ties among sisters, while also promoting practices to spur systemic change to reduce poverty in local communities throughout the Global South.
Kristine Gunnell is a research affiliate at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. Gunnell’s book, Daughters of Charity: Women, Religious Mission, and Hospital Care in Los Angeles, 1856-1927 (DePaul University Vincentian Studies Institute, 2013) illustrates the innovative ways that these Catholic sisters adapted to the changing demands of the emerging hospital industry while maintaining their religious mission to care for the sick and poor. While her previous work focused on the Daughters’ early history in Los Angeles, Gunnell has recently turned her attention to the sisters’ activities in the late twentieth century. Her current book project focuses on the efforts of the Daughters of Charity Foundation to promote systemic change as it seeks to combat poverty in California and elsewhere in the world.
DATE: Thursday, May 10
TIME: 12-1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Rolfe 2125
Bring your lunch!
RSVP online: https://uclacsw.submittable.com/submit/107912/free-registration-grantmaking-for-systemic-change-by-kristine-gunnell

The Crescent Moon Symposium
2018-05-04 09:00 - 17:00 | Faculty Center, California Room
Organized by the UCLA Department of English
Date: May 4, 2018
Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: California Room, UCLA Faculty Center
The one-day Crescent Moon Symposium (May 4, 2018) explores the lives of philosopher Hu Shih 胡适 (1891-1962), poet Xu Zhimo 徐志摩 (1897-1931), scholar/Shakespearean Liang Shiqiu 梁实秋, writer/painter Ling Shuhua 凌淑华 (1900-1990), and their literary communities. The quartet of bilingual intellectuals epitomized the vibrant East-West exchanges in the wake of the May Fourth movement. All four were members of the Crescent Moon Society 新月社, established by Xu Zhimo and Hu Shi and designed as a counterpart of the Bloomsbury Group of England. Three also happened to be prolific epistolary writers. A cosmopolitan friendly with Katherine Mansfield, Roger Fry, and Rabindranath Tagore, Xu was most famous for his Chinese poetry and love letters. Hu Shi corresponded with Bertrand Russell, Arthur Waley, and a number of American literary luminaries. Ling Shuhua corresponded with Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, and Julian Bell.
Two of the four keynote speakers are descendants of Xu Zhimo and Ling Shuhua, respectively: Tony S. Hsu 徐善曾, Xu Zhimo’s only grandson and author of Chasing the Modern《志在摩登》(2017); Sasha Su-Ling Welland 魏淑凌 (U of Washington), grandniece of Ling Shuhua and author of A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters (2007). The other two keynoters are Susan Chan Egan 陈毓贤, co-author of A Pragmatist and His Free Spirit: The Half-Century Romance of Hu Shi and Edith Clifford Williams (2009), and Michelle Yeh (UC Davis), author of Modern Chinese Poetry: Theory and Practice since 1917 (1991). The symposium will also feature a round table discussion of the Crescent Moon Society (a literary society named after a volume of prose poems by Rabindranath Tagore) and its Bloomsbury connection, and a literary salon with bilingual readings, songs, slides, and documentaries about Xu, Hu, and Ling. Round table participants include the four keynoters, visiting scholar Liu Cong 刘聪 (Liang Shiqiu 梁实秋 scholar), and three UCLA faculty members (Michael Berry 白睿文, King-Kok Cheung 张敬珏, Louise Hornby). Admission is free and open to the community.
Speakers:
Susan Chan Egan 陈毓贤, retired securities analyst, author of A Latterday Confucian and A Pragmatist and His Free Spirit: The Half-Century Romance of Hu Shi and Edith Clifford Williams
Louise Hornby, Assistant Professor of English at UCLA; author of Still Modernism: Photography, Literature, Film
Liu Cong 刘聪, Visiting scholar at UCLA and Liang Shiqiu specialist
Tony S. Hsu徐善曾, physicist, entrepreneur turned writer; author of Chasing the Modern: The Twentieth-Century Life of Poet Xu Zhimo
Sasha Su-Ling Welland 魏淑凌, Associate Professor of Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies, U of Washington; author of A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters and Experimental Beijing: Gender and Globalization in Chinese Contemporary Art
Michelle Yeh, Distinguished Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Davis and Director of the Confucius Institute at UC Davis; author of Modern Chinese Poetry: Theory and Practice since 1917
Co-sponsors:
Center for the Study of Women
Department of Asian American Studies
Asian American Studies Center
Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
Confucius Institute
Institute of International Exchange

Ula Taylor, "The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam"
2018-04-30 16:00 - 18:00 | Bunche 6275, UCLA Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Organized by the UC Consortium for Black Studies in California
Ula Y. Taylor discusses her recently published book, The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam (UNC Press, 2017). The patriarchal structure of the Nation of Islam (NOI) promised black women the prospect of finding a provider and a protector among the organization’s men, who were fiercely committed to these masculine roles. Black women’s experience in the NOI, however, has largely remained on the periphery of scholarship. Here, Ula Taylor documents their struggle to escape the devaluation of black womanhood while also clinging to the empowering promises of patriarchy. Taylor shows how, despite being relegated to a lifestyle that did not encourage working outside of the home, NOI women found freedom in being able to bypass the degrading experiences connected to labor performed largely by working-class black women and in raising and educating their children in racially affirming environments. Telling the stories of women like Clara Poole (wife of Elijah Muhammad) and Burnsteen Sharrieff (secretary to W. D. Fard, founder of the Allah Temple of Islam), Taylor offers a compelling narrative that explains how their decision to join a homegrown, male-controlled Islamic movement was a complicated act of selfpreservation and self-love in Jim Crow America.
Ula Taylor is a leading feminist historian. She is Professor and H. Michael and Jeanne Williams Department Chair in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
DATE: April 30, 2018
TIME: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
LOCATION: Room 6275, Bunche Hall

Dreaming in Filipino: Languages and Literatures Beyond English:
2018-04-30 12:00 - 14:00 | 10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Part of The Philippines and its Elsewheres
A series organized by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Featuring:
Maria Josephine Barrios-LeBlanc, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley
Nenita Domingo, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA
Kie Zuraw, Department of Linguistics. UCLA
This interdisciplinary panel of speakers discusses what it means to speak, write, and
dream in languages other than English at this time of increasingly shrinking borders and
yet widening gap of inequality.
“The Philippines and its Elsewhere” explores the politics of knowledge production, university education, and global citizenship with Filipino Studies as its launching point. It is concerned with what interconnectivity across borders enables and demands, as forms and politics of the global continually shifts.
Date: Monday, April 30
Time: 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Location: Room 10383, Bunche Hall

Don Mee Choi's Hardly War
2018-04-26 16:00 - 17:30 | Dodd Room 175, UCLA
Please join the UCLA Center for Korean Studies as Don Mee Choi reads from her latest collection of poetry entitled Hardly War (2016). Using visual artifacts from her father’s archive, a photographer during the Korean and Viet Nam wars, Choi combines imagery with poetry, opera, and memoir to examine the devastating impact of the unfinished Korean War.
Don Mee Choi is a poet and translator. Choi’s other poetry collections include The Morning News is Exciting (Action Books, 2010), a chapbook, Petite Manifesto (Vagabond, 2014), and a pamphlet, Freely Frayed. She has received a Whiting Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, and the 2012 Lucien Stryk Translation Prize.
Organized by the UCLA Center for Korean Studies.
DATE: Thursday, April 26, 2018
TIME: 4:00-5:30 PM
LOCATION: Dodd Room 175
RSVP: Contact Jenny Yoo, yoo@international.ucla.edu

A Dialogue on the Challenges of Minoritized Academic Fields at this Time
2018-04-13 12:00 - 14:00 | 10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Part of The Philippines and its Elsewheres
A series organized by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Featuring:
Neferti Tadiar, Professor and Chair of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Barnard College
Allan Punzalan Isaac, Chair of American Studies and Associate Professor of American Studies and English, Rutgers University
Respondent: Steven Nelson, Director, UCLA Center for African Studies
The theme of the conversation orbits around the challenges minoritized fields–including Gender/Women/Feminist Studies as a field–must take up at this time. “At this time” is broadly and vaguely, yet pointedly invoked. “At this time” could be: Trumpudo time, Duterte, Modi, thinly veiled dictatorship, resurgence of populism/neopopulism, #metoo…. Or, with fires, floodings, drought, landslides, and bomb cyclones in our immediate surroundings, “At this time” could also be the end of times, Z apocalypse, a time toward Extinction Level Event.
“The Philippines and its Elsewhere” explores the politics of knowledge production, university education, and global citizenship with Filipino Studies as its launching point. It is concerned with what interconnectivity across borders enables and demands, as forms and politics of the global continually shifts.
DATE: April 13, 2018
TIME: 12:00 PM
LOCATION: 10383 Bunche Hall
RSVP: http://www.international.ucla.edu/cseas/event/13134

Maria Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, "Indian Given: Racial Geographies Across Mexico and the United States"
2018-04-12 15:00 | Charles E Young Research Library Conference Room
Indian Given: Racial Geographies Across Mexico and the United States
A Book Talk by Maria Josefina Saldaña-Portillo
María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU and Visiting Professor of English at UC Berkeley. She is the author of The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development (Duke University Press, 2003) and Indian Given: Racial Geographies Across Mexico and the United States (Duke University Press, 2016). Indian Given was awarded the Best Book Award from the National Association for Chicano and Chicana Studies (NACCS) in 2017
In Indian Given María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo addresses current racialized violence and resistance in Mexico and the United States with a genealogy that reaches back to the sixteenth century. Saldaña-Portillo formulates the central place of indigenous peoples in the construction of national spaces and racialized notions of citizenship, showing, for instance, how Chicanos/as in the U.S./Mexico borderlands might affirm or reject their indigenous background based on their location. In this and other ways, she demonstrates how the legacies of colonial Spain’s and Britain’s differing approaches to encountering indigenous peoples continue to shape perceptions of the natural, racial, and cultural landscapes of the United States and Mexico. Drawing on a mix of archival, historical, literary, and legal texts, Saldaña-Portillo shows how los indios/Indians provided the condition of possibility for the emergence of Mexico and the United States.

Professor Saldaña’s presentation addresses the imbrication of NAFTA, narcos, and the legacy of the indio bárbaro.

Date: Thursday April 12th 2018
Time: 3:00pm
Location: Charles E. Young Research Library, Main Conference Room 11360
Organized by the Department of Gender Studies
Co-Sponsored by The Center for the Study of Women, American Indian Studies Center, American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program, Department of English and The Latin American Institute

Nicole George, "Women, Peace, and Security through a Vernacular Frame: Global/local frictions in Solomon Islands and Bougainville"
2018-04-09 15:00 - 17:00 | Rolfe 2125
Organized by the UCLA Department of Asian American Studies
Since the early 2000s, United Nations Security Council Resolutions on Women Peace and Security, and particularly UNSCR 1325, have become a key focus of policy making and gender advocacy for those aiming to promote women’s roles in conflict resolution and conflict transition in the western Pacific Islands region. But in these contexts, arguments about the rights of women to be recognized as those who bear specific sorts of burdens in times of instability, or those who bring particular types of skills or insights to the processes of post-conflict governance also come into friction with vernacular notions of security and localized sentiments about the foundations for the safe ordering of community. In this presentation Nicole George reflects on recent academic development of the concept of vernacular security and the insights this work might offer into the challenges surrounding promotion of women peace and security principles in this region. George then draws upon lessons learned from research with everyday communities of women impacted by the long process of conflict transition. George examines where and how frictions occur between conceptualizations of gendered security that uphold women’s rights to safety and participation, and those which equate gendered security with respect for, and adherence to, gendered codes of responsibility to family and community.
Nicole George is a leading feminist in Oceania and the author of Situating Women: Gender Politics and Circumstance in Fiji (Australian National University Press, 2012).
DATE: April 9, 2018
TIME: 3:00 PM
LOCATION: Rolfe 2125

Sexual Violence and Hookup Culture
2018-04-03 18:00 - 20:30 | Fowler Museum, UCLA
This consciousness raising event includes a film screening of the Netflix documentary Liberated and a panel discussion with subject matter experts and filmmakers. The film examines disturbing trends related to sexuality and gender during Florida’s annual spring break celebration. The panel discussion will discuss the film’s relevancy to rape culture on college campuses, drawing connections specific to Los Angeles.
The objective is to activate college communities to create safe spaces focused on discussing and dismantling sexual violence and gender-based violence in an effort to move closer to gender equity.
Panelists:
Kim Biddle, Founder and Executive Director of Saving Innocence
Morgan Perry, Producer of Liberated
Shay, documentary film participant
Sarah Godoy, UCLA Department of Social Welfare

DATE: April 3, 2018
TIME: 6:00 PM
LOCATION: Fowler Museum, UCLA

Aimee Meredith Cox, Now You See Me, Now You Don’t: Black Girls, Dubious Protection, and the Public
2018-03-15 12:15 - 13:45 | 352 Haines Hall
In this structured conversation, Cox will draw from her first ethnography, Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship, as well as on work with young Black women in the urban and suburban U.S., to consider how their experiences in and through various publics offers a reframing of the concepts of protection, social accountability, care, legibility, and value.
Aimee Meredith Cox is jointly appointed as an Associate Professor in the departments of African American Studies and Anthropology at Yale University. Cox earned her M.A. and PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and B.A. with honors in Anthropology from Vassar College. Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of Anthropology, Black Studies, and Performance Studies. Cox’s first monograph, Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship (Duke 2015), won a 2016 Victor Turner Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing, and Honorable Mention from the 2016 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize, given by the National Women’s Studies Association. She is the editor of the forthcoming volume, Gender: Space (MacMillan) and co-editor of a special issue of Public: A Journal of Imagining America on art and knowledge production in the academy. Cox is also a former professional dancer. She danced on scholarship with the Dance Theatre of Harlem and toured extensively with Ailey II. Her next ethnographic project, Living Past Slow Death, explores the creative protest strategies individuals and communities enact to reclaim Black life in the urban United States.
Organized by the Department of Anthropology Culture Power and Social Change Colloquium.
DATE: March 15, 2018
TIME: 12:15 PM
LOCATION: 352 Haines Hall

Thinking Gender 2018: Pre-existing Conditions
2018-03-01 - 2018-03-02 | UCLA Faculty Center, Los Angeles, CA
Thinking Gender, Pre-existing Conditions
28th Annual Thinking Gender Graduate Student Research Conference
March 1-2, 2018, UCLA
Conference Schedule: https://csw.ucla.edu/TG18-schedule
Pre-Registration for Thinking Gender is now closed. On-site registration will be available on the days of the conference.

Thinking Gender is an annual public conference highlighting graduate student research on women, sexuality, and gender across all disciplines and historical periods. This year’s conference theme, Pre-existing Conditions, will focus on the connections between health and gender as in the context of on-going discussions about gender-focused health and healthcare.

The conference will feature paper, poster, speed pitching research roundtable, and visual arts presentations.
Conference Schedule
Call for Proposals and Submission Guidelines
Accommodation and Parking Information
Registration

CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS

Keynote Address:
Anticipated Pleasures and Sexual Double Standards:
Explaining gender differences in reaction to real and hypothetical sexual offers
Terri Conley, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan
Date: Thursday, March 1
Time: 3:15 PM
Location: California Room, UCLA Faculty Center

Workshop:
Trauma-Informed Yoga
Zabie Yamasaki
UCLA Campus Assault Resources and Education (CARE) Program
Date: Friday, March 2
Time: 9:00 AM
Location: California Room, UCLA Faculty Center

Art Exhibition:
February 26 – March 2, 2018
Kerckhoff Hall Art Gallery
Join us for a Reception, Film Screening and Networking Event celebrating the Thinking Gender Conference and Art Exhibition!
Date: Thursday, March 1
Time: 5:30 PM
Location: Kerckhoff Grand Salon & Art Gallery

Sign language interpretation will be provided at selected panels on March 2:

10:15 AM: Gendered Violence
1:00 PM: Sex and Sexuality
4:00 PM: Affective Labor and Mental Health

Co-sponsored by:

Backed by UCLA Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
UCLA Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health
UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity
Southern California HIV/AIDS Policy Research Center
UCLA Department of Psychology
UCLA Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
UCLA Department of Community Health Sciences
UCLA Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media
UCLA World Arts & Cultures/Dance
UCLA Art and Global Health Center
UCLA Cultural Affairs Commission
UCLA Art|Sci Center
UCLA Public Health Student Association
Division of Social Sciences

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, visit our Events Accessibility Page: https://csw.ucla.edu/event-accessibility.
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.

Ari Heinrich, "Chinese Bodies as Biological Surplus: Plastinated Cadavers and Geopolitical Hierarchies of the Human""
2018-02-27 17:00 - 20:30 | Humanities 348, UCLA
Part of Area Impossible: Sexuality and Geopolitics

The first event in the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature 2017-2018 Sexuality & Geopolitics Seminar Series will feature Ari Heinrich, Associate Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at UCSD. Their lecture, “Chinese Bodies as Biological Surplus: Plastinated Cadavers and Geopolitical Hierarchies of the Human” will question what a comparative examination of Chinese-language discourse on the plastinated human cadaver exhibits might reveal about the political economics of race and capital distribution that inform them.A firestorm of human rights critiques often greets the opening of an exhibit of plastinated cadavers in Europe and North America, obscuring any attempts to critique the notion of the human (and indeed of “rights”) in the smoke from its blaze. This talk asks what a comparative examination of Chinese-language discourse on the plastinated human cadaver exhibits might reveal about the political economies of race and capital distribution that inform them.
Date: February 27, 2018
Time: 5:30 – 8:00 PM
Location: Humanities 348

Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, "Moments and Epiphanies in the Life of a Māhū"
2018-02-22 | CA
The Asian American Studies Department presents a talk by Hinaleimoana Kwai Kong Wong-Kalu, also known as Kumu Hina (hula teacher), an educator and native Hawaiian transgender activist. She is the subject of the documentary, “Kumu Hina: The True Meaning of Aloha” (2014, directed by Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson) which won the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary among many other film awards. In 2015, PBS Hawai’i released a shorter educational version of film intended for younger audiences and classrooms titled, “A Place in the Middle”. Kumu Hina is a native Hawaiian mahu, a person who embodies a third gender, and has both the male and the female spirit.
Wong-Kalu will be featured at two events:
Public Lecture
Introduction by Professor Randall Akee
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM
Location: Haines Hall A18
Community Talk
“Moments and Epiphanies in the Life of a Māhū”
Time: 2:00 – 3:30 PM
Powell Library East Rotunda
Light Reception to Follow

Co-sponsored by:

Office of Instructional Development
American Indian Studies Center
Center for the Study of Women
Institutes for American Cultures
Asian American Studies Center

Sara Ahmed, "Complaint as Diversity Work"
2018-02-13 15:00 - 17:00 | Ackerman Grand Ballroom, UCLA, Los Angeles
CSW is delighted to welcome Sara Ahmed as a featured speaker in our Feminism + the Senses series. We are presenting two events featuring Sara Ahmed on February 13, 2018:

Public Talk: Complaint as Diversity Work
DATE: Tuesday, February 13, 2018
TIME: 3:00 – 5:00 PM
LOCATION: Ackerman Grand Ballroom
Free and Open to the Public
REGISTER ONLINE: https://uclacsw.submittable.com/submit/abe1c4bb-ee7a-4da5-8eb4-16d04bc6f58f/free-registration-sara-ahmed-feminism-and-the-senses

Graduate Seminar
All UCLA Graduate Students are eligible to apply to participate in this one-time graduate seminar (not for course credit). Only those selected will be able to attend.
DATE: Tuesday, February 13, 2018
TIME: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
APPLY ONLINE: https://uclacsw.submittable.com/submit/ad6ab305-dbfd-43af-8f63-c84c3484c871/application-graduate-seminar-with-sara-ahmed
APPLICATION DEADLINE: January 15, 2018

About the Speaker
Sara Ahmed is an independent feminist scholar and writer. She has held academic appointments at Lancaster University and Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work is concerned with how power is experienced and challenged in everyday life and institutional cultures. She has recently completed a book What’s the Use? On the Uses of Use and has begun a new research project on complaint. Her previous publications include Living a Feminist Life (2017), Willful Subjects (2014), On Being Included (2012), The Promise of Happiness (2010), Queer Phenomenology (2006), The Cultural Politics of Emotion (2014, 2004), Strange Encounters (2000) and Differences that Matter (1998). She also blogs at www.feministkilljoys.com.
In 2016, Ahmed resigned in protest from her post as Professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldmiths in response to the institution’s failure to deal with students’ sexual harassment and assault complaints against staff and faculty members. She continues to work to make the problem of sexual harassment at universities more visible through her involvement with organizations like The 1752 Group.

About the Talk
Register online to attend: https://uclacsw.submittable.com/submit/abe1c4bb-ee7a-4da5-8eb4-16d04bc6f58f/free-registration-sara-ahmed-feminism-and-the-senses
Ahmed will speak about her new research project on “Complaint.”
The lecture explores how complaint can be understood as a form of diversity work: the work you do to transform an institution, or the work you do when you do not quite inhabit the norm of an institution. If doing diversity work is heard as complaint, making a complaint often requires becoming a diversity worker. This is not to say that those who make complaints always think of themselves as diversity workers in the sense of trying to transform the institution in which the complaint is lodged. But in order to proceed with a complaint you often have to become a diversity worker because making a complaint within an institution brings you up against it. The lecture explores how we learn about the institutional (as usual) from those who are trying to transform institutions. The lecture will discuss how complaint is a sensational intervention into institutional life.
LOCATION:

Location: Ackerman Studen Union, 2nd floor Grand Ballroom
Nearest Parking: Parking Structure 4 (enter via Westwood Plaza from Sunset Blvd.)

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, visit our Events Accessibility Page: https://csw.ucla.edu/event-accessibility.
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.

About the Seminar
Registered UCLA Graduate Students from all departments are invited to apply to participate in a 1-time, 2-hour graduate seminar (not for course credit) with Sara Ahmed.
SEMINAR DATE: Tuesday, February 13, 2018
SEMINAR TIME: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location will be provided to accepted applicants
Participants will be required to read Chapters 4, 5, and 6 of Sara Ahmed’s Living and Feminist Life. Copies will be made available to participants in advance of the seminar. Participants are also expected to attend Dr. Ahmed’s public talk, “Complaint as Diversity Work,” at 3:00 PM on Tuesday, February 13, in the Ackerman Grand Ballroom.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE:
Please complete the online form available at: https://uclacsw.submittable.com/submit/ad6ab305-dbfd-43af-8f63-c84c3484c871/application-graduate-seminar-with-sara-ahmed

You will be required to upload the following documents:

Current CV
A brief statement (250 words MAXIMUM) describing your research and/or activist interests and how you see this seminar contributing to them.

DEADLINE: JANUARY 15, 2018
We will only consider COMPLETE applications submitted by the deadline. Late applications will not be accepted.

Co-sponsored by:

Backed by Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Division of Humanities
Department of Comparative Literature
Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health
International Institute
Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
Department of English
Department of Philosophy
Department of Anthropology
Department of Gender Studies
LGBTQ Studies Program
Division of Social Sciences

Curating Resistance: Punk as Archival Method
2018-02-09 - 2018-02-10 | 306 and 314 Royce Hall, UCLA
At a time when performative resistances to exploitative mainstream cultural practices are increasingly under attack, punk persists as an important space for cultivating and curating expressive means. Punk’s resistant literacies and performances are often in defiance of institutional rigors that carve exclusionary boundaries. Yet, as punk celebrates its long fortieth birthday, punk’s contested annals are increasingly not only part of but also help shape institutional efforts to exceed canonic representations. Bringing together scholars, musicians, fans, writers, and community members, including bands, public intellectuals, and workshops to augment the conventional structure of the academic panel, Curating Resistance: Punk as Archival Method is teaming up with the UCLA Library Special Collections “Punk Archive” for hands-on, thoughtful community building within, across, and beyond the university. This two-day event, hosted by the UCLA Center for Musical Humanities, focuses on the interstices of punk and archive, using both as method, so as to push the boundaries of these three terms and practices. The conference focuses on documenting punk musicality, how sound repertoires and archival practices can give shape to the lived contours of diversity across scale, from the local to transnational, and what this means in terms of empowerment for research and endeavors that destabilize this colonial history of the academy. Punk as archival method curates resistance by contributing to these larger conversations via the possibilities of musical subcultures’ collaborative systemic interruptions.
Curating Resistance: Punk as Archival Method will include speaker panels, punk performances, and renowned figures drawn from the gendered and politicized worlds of both musical and visual punk artistry.

16th Annual Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies
2018-02-02 10:00 - 18:00 | Royce 314
Join the UCLA Armenian Graduate Students Association for their 16th annual Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies.
Featured speakers will include:
Carla Kekejian (University of Utah): “Harsneren: Language of the Bride”
Rosie Aroush (UCLA): “A Life of Otherness: The Significance of Familial Support and Community Inclusivity for LGBQ Armenians”
Co-sponsors: UCLA Promise Institute for Human Rights, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and UCLA Department of History

Panel: "Edible Feminisms: On Discard, Waste, and Metabolism"
2018-02-01 16:00 - 18:00 | Luskin Conference Center
Activists and scholars will offer live reflections on how the past lurks in our shared food future, and what to do about it.
FEATURED PANELISTS
Food justice and food waste activists:
Tanya Fields (Founder and Executive Director, The BLK ProjeK)
Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia (Co-Editor, Poor Magazine; author of Criminal of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless in America)
Rick Nahmias (Founder and Executive Director, Food Forward LA)
Award-winning scholars:
Heather Paxson (Professor of Anthropology, MIT; author of The Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value in America)
Kyla Wazana Tompkins (Associate Professor of English and Gender and Women’s Studies, Pomona College; author of Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the 19th Century)

DATE: Thursday, February 1, 2018
TIME: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM. Reception to follow.
LOCATION: Luskin Conference Center, UCLA
Free and open to the public.
Register: https://uclacsw.submittable.com/submit/102504/free-registration-edible-feminisms-panel

This panel is part of Edible Feminisms: On Discard, Waste and Metabolism, a project organized by CSW Adjunct Assistant Professors Sarah Tracy and Rachel Vaughn.
Edible Feminisms will culminate in a special issue of the journal Food, Culture, and Society. Contributors to the special issue will gather for a private writing workshop following the public panel.
This project was inspired by Dr. Kyla Wazana Tompkins‘ framing of “critical eating studies” in her award-winning Racial Indigestion (New York University Press, 2012) and reflects on the ways in which American Studies, Food Studies, Sensory Studies, Science & Technology Studies, and Postcolonial Studies are speaking to one another. Through the promptings of food science popularization, culinary tourism, food waste, sustainability, and access debates, questions of race, identity, and pleasure are currently as germane as the science of obesity/diabetes, allergy, and chemical exposure. Rather than separate such strands, we wish to forward the proposition of “critical eating studies” through explorations of the theme of Re(Value). How do individuals, companies, and policy-makers deploy science (e.g., evolutionary, genetic, molecular) to do the work of differentiation—where differentiation is an expression of value, whether ethnic, cultural, distinction, or brand? How do such actors center science in their route to positive futures? In other words, how is latent capacity transformed into new sources of value and to what benefit, and through which kinds of violence? How does making explicit the materiality, politics, and symbolism of eating (a mutual, subjective, and intractable affair), as feminist and queer critical practice, help illuminate such questions and to what ends?

Panel Details

NEAREST AVAILABLE PARKING: Parking Structure 8 (enter via Westwood Plaza)
REGISTER: https://uclacsw.submittable.com/submit/102504/free-registration-edible-feminisms-panel

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Co-sponsored by:
Luskin Endowment for Thought Leadership
Division of Humanities
Luskin School of Public Affairs
Food Studies Graduate Certificate Program
Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
Institute of American Cultures
Iris Cantor – UCLA Women’s Health Center
Asian American Studies Center
Department of African American Studies
Department of History
Department of Asian American Studies
Department of Gender Studies
Institute for Society and Genetics
Backed by Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Division of Social Sciences

Weaving Generations Together: Guided Exhibition Tour
2017-12-01 16:00 - 17:30 | Powell Library Main and East Rotundas, UCLA
JNearoin curator Patricia Greenfield for a guided tour of Weaving Generations Together, an exhibition of Maya textiles on view in the UCLA Powell Library!
The exhibition will be open from October 2 – December 15 and is free and open to the public. The opening reception for this exhibition will be held on October 5.
A limited number of spots are available in this guided exhibition tour, which will take place at 4:00 PM on Friday, December 1.
Reserve your spot online!
This exhibition explores cultural transmission and learning through children’s play weaving and apprenticeship in the Maya Highland community of Zincantán, Chiapas, Mexico. The exhibition shows over one hundred textiles from Zincantán drawn from a research collection spanning from 1943 to the present, including hand-woven and embroidered ponchos, shawls, and huipils in vibrant colors and metallic threads as well as looms and weavings made by children. Maya people wear traditional clothing today and the exhibition demonstrates both continuity and change through the expression of weaving and embroidery.
This exhibition is based on a book by Patricia Marks Greenfield.
More information on the exhibition’s run can also be found HERE.
This tour is part of Feminism + the Senses: Sensitivity and Sense Data in an Age of Precarity
LOCATION:

Location: Powell Library
Nearest Parking: Parking Structure 4 (Enter via Westwood Plaza from Sunset Blvd)
Exhibit Co-sponsored by:

Center for the Study of Women
UCLA Library
Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
American Indian Studies Center
Chicano Studies Research Center
Latin American Institute
Center for Mexican Studies
Fiat Lux
Office of Instructional Development

Trojan Barbie
2017-12-01 00:00 - 2017-12-09 00:00 | Little Theater, MacGowan Hall, UCLA
UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television, Department of Theater presents
Trojan Barbie
By Christine Evans
Directed by Beth Lopes
Past and present violently collide when Lotte, an English tourist who repairs dolls, is captured while on a tour of current-day Troy and flung back into the ancient camp of Euripides’ “The Trojan Women.” “Trojan Barbie” recasts the legendary fall of the city of Troy against the vivid reality of modern warfare. It is an epic war story with a most unlikely heroine, who always looks on the bright side even as past and present collide about her.
Immediately following the opening performance on December 1, playwright Christine Evans, will discuss the parallels in the roles of women in ancient society and their modern contemporaries. Discussion moderated by Assistant Professor Michelle Carriger.
Performances
Dec. 1-2; 5-8, 2017 at 8:00 p.m.
Dec. 9, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.
Little Theater

Josh Lambert, "New Media Jews: Transparent, Podcasting, and the Place of Jews in 21st-Century American Culture"
2017-11-30 16:00 | UCLA Faculty Center, Los Angeles, CA
A talk by Josh Lambert (Yiddish Book Center/University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Naftulin Family Lecture on Studies in Jewish Identity
How can we explain the prominence of Jews and Jewishness in 21st-century American media? At a moment when companies like Amazon and Netflix were making billion-dollar gambits to reach massive audiences with their own original content, it turned out to be Jill Soloway’s Transparent, that proved that a website could beat out the cable and broadcast television networks at the Golden Globes and Emmys. This lecture proposes that we consider the current wave of Jewish culture as resulting from two key developments: the increasing institutionalization of Jewish culture in America since the late 20th-century, and the affinity between streaming media technology and demographic minorities.
Moderator: Lia Brozgal (UCLA)

While this event is free and open to Leve Center members, pre-registration is required.
E-mail cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu or call 310-267-5327 to register.

Film Screening: Dolores
2017-11-13 18:00 - 21:00 | Melnitz 1409: James Bridges Theater
A special screening of Dolores, the new documentary film about activist Dolores Huerta.
History tells us Cesar Chavez transformed the U.S. labor movement by leading the first farm workers’ union. But missing from this narrative is his equally influential co-founder, Dolores Huerta, who fought tirelessly alongside Chavez for racial and labor justice and became one of the most defiant feminists of the twentieth century.
Like so many powerful women advocates, Dolores and her sweeping reforms were – and still are – sidelined and diminished. Even as she empowered a generation of immigrants to stand up for their rights, her relentless work ethic was constantly under attack. False accusations from foes and friends alike, of child neglect and immoral behavior—she married three times and raised 11 children – pushed Dolores out of the very union she helped create.
Peter Bratt’s provocative and energizing documentary challenges an incomplete history. Through beautifully woven archival footage and interviews from contemporaries and from Dolores herself, now an octogenarian, the film sets the record straight on one of the most effective and undervalued civil and labor rights leaders in modern U.S. history.
View the trailer:

Organized by the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs

Nonny de la Peña, "Immersive Journalism, Breaking the Frame, and the Gender Struggle in Virtual Reality"
2017-11-13 16:00 | Sequoia Room, Faculty Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, 90024
CSW is thrilled to feature Nonny de la Peña as part of Feminism and the Senses.
RSVP for the Talk (Nov. 13, 4pm, Faculty Center): https://csw.ucla.edu/VR
REQUEST an Individual Virtual Reality Appointment (Nov. 13, 10am-3:30pm): https://csw.ucla.edu/VR-Request
Nonny de la Peña, named “The Godmother of Virtual Reality” by The Guardian and Engadget and one of the 20 most influential Latina/os in tech by CNET, is a pioneer of virtual reality and immersive journalism. As the founder and CEO of Emblematic Group she has collaborated with PBS Frontline, Wall Street Journal, Planned Parenthood, the True Colors Fund, the New York Times, and other organizations to create impactful virtual reality experiences depicting real-life events. Her VR projects include “Across the Line,” which helps viewers understand what some women go through to access abortion services, “After Solitary,” which takes viewers inside the Maine State Prison to experience a harrowing story of solitary confinement, and “Out of Exile,” which uses VR to draw attention to the plight of homeless LGBTQ youth. Other projects have explored Guantanamo Bay Prison, then experiences of refugees, and, most recently, the impact of climate change on the landscape of Greenland.
De la Peña’s talk will explore how immersive journalism can function as a vehicle for change by “breaking the frame” and by engaging the senses of viewers. She will discuss how this approach is informed by feminism, and how gender inequity in the tech sector—and in VR in particular—shapes her work.

Experience Immersive Journalism First-Hand: Sign up for a Virtual Reality Appointment prior to the talk
CSW is thrilled to be partnering with Emblematic Group and the UCLA Transient Media Lab in order to offer members of our community a chance to experience Nonny de la Peña’s immersive journalism through the use of Virtual Reality technology and equipment. We will offer the opportunity to view one of the following virtual reality experiences:
Across the Line

Produced in partnership with the Planned Parenthood Foundation of America, Across the Line helps viewers understand what some women go through to access abortion services. The experience places viewers in the shoes of a patient entering a health center. Using real audio gathered at protests, scripted scenes, and documentary footage, the film is a powerful multimedia depiction of the toxic environment that many health care providers, health center staff, and patients must endure to provide or access care on a daily basis.
Out of Exile: Daniel’s Story

Out of Exile is a powerful reminder of the kind of hostility faced by so many in the LGBTQ community. The piece shines a light on a terrible statistic: forty per cent of homeless youth in America identify as LGBTQ, with the majority coming from communities of color. When Daniel Ashley Pierce is confronted about his sexual orientation by his family in a “religious intervention,” the scene turns dramatic and violent. This piece, created in partnership with the True Colors Foundation, recreates the event using video captured by Daniel at the time.
Greenland Melting

On the heels of the United State’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate agreement, Emblematic’s Greenland Melting – created in collaboration with FRONTLINE and NOVA – provides a rare, up-close view of icy Arctic scenery that’s disappearing faster than predicted.

Please be aware that these experiences address sensitive topics and depict situations which viewers may find triggering, upsetting, or difficult to watch.
Appointments to view these pieces will take place on November 13th between 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM.
While Nonny de la Peña’s talk is open to all, limited spots will be available for individual experiences of her virtual reality work.
To learn more and request an appointment, visit https://csw.ucla.edu/VR-request

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, visit our Events Accessibility Page: https://csw.ucla.edu/event-accessibility.
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.

Co-sponsored by:

Supported by the Estrin Family Lecture Series Fund
Chicano Studies Research Center
Department of Communication Studies
Department of Information Studies
Program in Digital Humanities
Dr. Steve Anderson, Director of the UCLA Transient Media Lab, School of Theater, Film, and Television
Division of Social Sciences

Ranjani Mazumdar, "Technological Networks and Obsolescence in Contemporary Bombay Cinema"
2017-11-06 12:00 - 13:30 | Charles E. Young Research Library, Presentation Room
A talk by Ranjani Mazumdar
Professor, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Dehli, India
Organized by the UCLA Center for India and South Asia
This paper looks at the role of media and communication technologies in the sensorial imagination of urban spaces in contemporary Bombay cinema. If surveillance practices and their resultant structuring becomes one part of this imagination (No Smoking 2007, LSD 2010, Ugly, 2013), we also see the role of the Internet and social media in the framing of spatial encounters in small town India (Masaan 2015). A fascination for ‘obsolete’ technology frames another order of space linked to the recent past (Gangs of Wasseypur 2012, Miss Lovely 2012, Dum Lagake Haisha, 2015), while documentary films like John and Jayne (2005) invoke the call centre imagination within a fractured urban subjectivity. Through a framing of the spatial terrain triggered by new media technologies, the films offer a new geography of the experiential changes unravelling in contemporary India.
Ranjani Mazumdar is Professor of Cinema Studies at the School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her publications focus on urban cultures, popular cinema, gender and the cinematic city. She is the author of Bombay Cinema: An Archive of the City (2007) and co-author with Nitin Govil of the forthcoming The Indian Film Industry. She has also worked as a documentary filmmaker and her productions include Delhi Diary 2001 and The Power of the Image (Co-Directed). Her current research focuses on globalization and film culture, the visual culture of film posters and the intersection of technology, travel, design and colour in 1960s Bombay Cinema.

Tiphanie Yanique, "Belonging: Immigrating into Our Own Country"
2017-11-02 16:00 - 18:00 | Humanities 193, UCLA
A reading by Caribbean feminist and author Tiphanie Yanique.
Yanique will read from her novel Land of Love and Drowning which deals with U.S. imperialism through the lives of three generations of women on St. Thomas. Land of Love and Drowning won the 2014 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Award from the Center for Fiction, the Phillis Wheatley Award for Pan-African Literature, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Family Foundation Award, and was listed by NPR as one of the Best Book of 2014. Yanique is also the author of the poetry collection Wife, which won the 2016 Bocas Prize in Caribbean poetry and the United Kingdom’s 2016 Forward/Felix Dennis Prize for a First Collection. She is also the author of a collection of stories, How to Escape from a Leper Colony, which won her a listing as one of the National Book Foundation’s 5Under35. Her writing has also won the Bocas Award for Caribbean Fiction, the Boston Review Prize in Fiction, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Fulbright Scholarship and an Academy of American Poet’s Prize. She has been listed by the Boston Globe as one of the sixteen cultural figures to watch out for and her writing has been published in the New York Times, Best African American Fiction, The Wall Street Journal, American Short Fiction and other places. Tiphanie is from the Virgin Islands and is an associate professor in the English Department at Wesleyan University where she is also the Director of the Creative Writing Program. She lives in New Rochelle, New York with her family.

Film Screening and Discussion: Silent Song of the Genjer Flowers
2017-10-27 14:30 - 17:00 | 10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
This filmed stage play highlights the perspectives of women activists of Gerwani (Indonesian Women’s Movement) who were political prisoners from 1965, suffered sexual violence, and were stigmatized for decades as immoral women in Indonesia. During that time hundreds of thousands of members of the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) or those considered close to the PKI were murdered and tens of thousands also also imprisoned. Out of this upheaval came the military backed New Order regime, under General Suharto.
Scholars have argued that the New Order regime legitimized itself through the demonization of female sexuality used to evoke fear of communism in society. The myth of Gerwani as a monster was not only a justification for the mass slaughter and dictatorship but also the removal of women from the political realm. During the New Order era, women’s role in public areas was allowed as long as it was within the structures defined by the state, which positioned women as obedient to and dependent on men. Gerwani had been an organization that fought for women’s rights in all areas. The regime’s black slander has erased Gerwani’s real role from our memory. The play offers a counter-discourse by depicting the experience of the five former political prisoners.
Faiza Mardzoeki is an Indonesian playwright, director, producer, and activist. Since 2002, she has initiated and produced fourteen theatre productions, some of which she wrote herself. Of these dramas, three were published as books in 2017. These are her adaptations of Ib-sen’s A Dolls House, (Nora) and An Enemy of the People (Subversif!) published by Djaman Baroe and her original play Nyanyi Sunyi Kembang-Kembang Genjer (Silent Song of the Genjer Flowers) published by Ultimus. In addition to theatre, Faiza is also active in women movements. Between 1997 and 2002 she worked for Solidaritas Perempuan- Women’s Solidarity for Human Rights. She has participated and presented in many international forums of art and women.

QGrad 2017, Radical Imaginaries: Scholar-Activism Dismantling the Politics of Hate
2017-10-27 | Bruin Reception Room, Ackerman Union, UCLA
UCLA’s QGrad is the oldest, interdisciplinary queer research conference in the United States. In celebration of the 20th anniversary of LGBTQ Studies at UCLA, the 2017 QGrad Conference will focus on how LGBTQ Studies and trans and queer art and activism have transformed the world in the last 20 years. How have undocumented, Black and Brown, Indigenous, Afro-Latinx, Muslim, Fat, Disabled, incarcerated, Transgender and Gender Non-conforming communities/scholar- activists impacted LGBTQ studies? How are all of us systematically attacked and disempowered under the 45th presidential administration?
How have our radical imaginaries fueled everyday resistance and survival? What kinds of problems and paradoxes arise when LGBTQ individuals and communities attempt to bring these imaginaries into being? What is the relationship between, what theorist Jose Esteban Munoz called in Cruising Utopia, the “here and now” and the “then and there”– the restrictive present and the expansive future? What utopias can we imagine for our daily dystopia? What tools have Queer scholar activists developed to dismantle the politics of hate?
Featuring Keynote Duet: CeCe McDonald and Dr. C. Riley Snorton in conversation!
More details and online registration: www.qgradconference.com.

Kathryn Dudley, "Trusting Mustangs: Feral Ontologies, Trans-Species Affects"
2017-10-26 12:15 - 13:45 | 352 Haines Hall
Kathryn Dudley’s research focuses on embodied knowledge and social trauma under regimes of labor that are marginalized by transformations in global capitalism. Her books The End of the Line: Lost Jobs, New Lives in Postindustrial America and Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in America’s Heartland are community studies, respectively, of deindustrialization and the demise of family farm agriculture. Her documentary film Black Land Loss examines African American farmers’ class action lawsuit against the USDA. Guitar Makers: The Endurance of Artisanal Values in North America chronicles the rise of a countercultural lutherie movement in the United States and Canada. Her current work tracks the affects, materialities, and temporalities that subtend the postindustrial imaginary. Among other honors, Dudley received the Margaret Mead Award of the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology for writing that reaches broadly concerned publics.

Breaking the Silence on Hooking Up: A Facilitated Discussion
2017-10-24 16:00 | Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon, UCLA, Los Angeles
What are the risks and rewards of hooking up? Who hooks up, and when and why? How does hookup culture shape attitudes towards sex and desire? How ubiquitous is hookup culture on campus–and how does it shape the lives of UCLA students?
CSW invites students, faculty, and staff to explore these kinds of questions through a facilitated discussion on Hookup Culture.
Join the Conversation
Join students from across campus and all walks of life for an open conversation on how sex and power shape your lives. This will be a setting to explore and discuss your concerns and perspectives, and to find allies and resources to develop strategies for dealing with the complexity of sexual relationships in college.
Add your voice to the discussion! Join us as we work together to make sex on campus safer for all.
Hookups and Diversity
Much of the conversation around hookup culture on college campuses has focused on students who are heterosexual, white, and relatively affluent. We seek to broaden and expand the discussion to represent and include the diverse and realistic composition of college campuses. Together, we will explore how hookup culture resonates in UCLA’s LGBTQ community and among students of color. In doing so, we hope to reveal the way intersectional oppressions shape how students experience hookup culture and sex on campus, and also how some aspects of hookup culture perpetuate heteronormativity and racist beauty standards.
How Can You Contribute?
We encourage attendees to participate in an open and safe forum to discuss experiences, research, and thoughts about hookup culture. Below are initial questions for discussion. We welcome attendees to think about them and share/discuss with friends in advance:

Is hookup culture a feature of the communities within which you associate?
How would you characterize some of the reasons hooking up works for your community?
How would you characterize some of the challenges of hooking up?
Is hookup culture good for relationships?
How does hookup culture relate to the information that you have learned about consensual sex and the law?

Facilitators
We are thrilled to have two distinguished faculty faciliators to guide the conversation:
Lisa Wade is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Occidental College. She is the author of American Hookup, which explores the emergence and character of the culture of sex that dominates college campuses today. Read an excerpt at TIME.
Victoria Marks is a Professor of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for the School of Arts and Architecture, and Chair of the Disability Studies minor at UCLA. In 2015, she taught “Desire on Campus,” a class that invited undergraduate sorority and fraternity members to use Action Conversation methods to explore the social codes of hooking up. As part of the class, she co-created the short film Unhooked, a UCLA documentary on hookup culture. We will screen parts of the film as part of the event! View the trailer below:

RSVP Online to attend:
http://www.csw.ucla.edu/hookup-rsvp
Registration is free and refreshments will be provided!
Accessibility Information
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, visit our Events Accessibility Page: https://csw.ucla.edu/event-accessibility.
CSW EVENTS ARE ACCESSIBLE! 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.
Co-sponsored by:

Backed by Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Department of Sociology
UCLA Campus Assault Resources and Education (CARE) Program
LGBTQ Studies Program
Healthy Campus Initiative
Division of Social Sciences
