Dawayer with Huda Asfour

Lani Hall, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Schoenberg Music Building 445 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA, United States

When: Friday, Oct 11, 2024, 6:30 - 8:30 pm Where: Lani Hall, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Schoenberg Music Building Get tickets here. Attend a musical performance and conversation with musician Huda Asfour. “Dawayer” is Huda's latest solo project for oud, looper, and vocals. In this improvisation-based journey, Huda presents new and old songs […]

Carceral Entanglements with Wendi Yamashita

Rolfe 2125

Where: 2125 Rolfe Hall When: Tuesday, October 15, 12-1:30 pm Light lunch will be served. Seating is first come first served. Carceral Entanglements: Gendered Public Memories of Japanese American World War II Incarceration argues that Japanese American WWII incarceration narratives substantiate discourses of gender, sexual, racial, and carceral/colonial power yet contain possibilities for disruption. Understanding […]

Alexis Pauline Gumbs Book Talk

Kerckhoff Grand Salon

When: Tuesday, October 15, 4:00 - 5:30 PM Where: Kerckhoff Grand Salon Seating is on a first-come basis.  Join us for Alexis Pauline Gumbs in conversation with Robin D. G. Kelley on her recent book, Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. The author will sign books purchased on site, courtesy of […]

UCLA Latinx Welcome

Wilson Plaza

Where: Wilson Plaza When: October 15th from 4-6 pm Free and open to the public. Meet the CSW|Streisand Center staff, pick up swag, and learn about funding opportunities at the 2024 UCLA Latinx welcome event. Every fall quarter, the UCLA Latinx Welcome Planning Committee hosts a Latinx Welcome event for new and continuing Latinx undergraduate […]

Perpetrator as Victim: Putin’s War in Ukraine and Criticism of Title IX

10383 Bunche Hall UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Joy Neumeyer on her new book, A Survivor's Education: Women, Violence, and the Stories We Don't Tell, in conversation with Jared McBride, UCLA History. Register      Microsoft      Google The Center for European and Russian Studies, in cosponsorship with the Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures, UCLA Luskin Center for […]

Creating Inclusive Sociotechnical Systems: Classification, Inequality, and Expertise in Epilepsy Care

Center for the Study of Women 1500 Public Affairs

Come join us for an enlightening talk by Dr. Megh Marathe on Inclusive Sociotechnical Systems: Classification, Inequality, and Expertise in Epilepsy Care event. Register Here. DESCRIPTION This talk examines how classification amplifies or alleviates the exclusion of marginalized people in healthcare. Through the case of epilepsy, the talk shows how reductionist classifications lead to narrow […]

Webinar: The French Army and Mobile Field Brothels: Algeria, France, Indochina (1939-1962)

Online/Zoom

Register Here   The question of Mobile Field Brothels (Bordels Militaires de Campagne or BMC) is not new, nor of course is it specific to contemporary colonial contexts, as we see in the global history of prostitution dating back times of antiquity. Moreover, it goes without saying that militaries (in times of both peace and war) […]

Book Talk: Jennifer Lynn Kelly, Invited to Witness: Solidarity Tourism Across Occupied Palestine

Online/Zoom

Register Here. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jennifer Lynn Kelly is an Associate Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at University of California, Santa Cruz. She received her Ph.D. in American Studies with a Portfolio in Women’s and Gender Studies from University of Texas at Austin, her master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Humanities from […]

Where We Stand: A Conversation on Black Feminisms with Djamila Ribeiro

When: Friday, November 15 | 2:00 PM PT Where: Bunche Hall, Rm 10383 & Online Zoom RSVP: https://bit.ly/48u49nS In a society shaped by the legacies of enslavement, white supremacy, and sexism, who has the right to a voice? In her recently-translated book, Djamila Ribeiro offers a compelling intervention into contemporary discussions of power and identity: […]

Home/Girl Healin’ Booktalk

352 Haines Hall

When: Monday, Nov 18th 3-4:30 PM Where: Haines Hall 352 Please join us and MMAC in welcoming Dr. Reelaviolette Botts-Ward on Monday, November 18th, to discuss her book manuscript which is under review, Home/Girl Healin’: The Sacred Geographies of Everyday Black Feminist Healing Arts in Oakland. We will be reading the introduction of the manuscript.  […]

Labor of Care and Solidarity Panel

Rolfe Hall 2125

The UCLA Transnational Gender and Labor Working Group presents: The Labor of Care and Solidarity: A panel discussion with Professors Rob Chlala and Kaily Heitz Nov 19, 12-2pm | Rolfe Hall 2125 RSVP here. Join us for a panel discussion with Professors Rob Chlala,  Assistant Professor of Sociology, Cal State Long Beach, Visiting Researcher, IRLE […]

Book Talk: Women’s Political Imagination in the Kurdish Movement

When: Thursday, November 21 Where: Online Register here. Join an online book talk with Nazan Üstündağ to celebration her latest book, The Mother, the Politician, and the Guerrilla. Nazan Üstündağ’s new book The Mother, the Politician, and the Guerrilla: Women’s political imagination in the Kurdish movement delves into the powerful role Kurdish women play in shaping […]