• Noura Erakat on Revisiting Zionism as a Form of Racism and Racial Discrimination

    When: Thursday, November 13 at 5:30 pm Where: On the UCLA campus RSVP for the address. On November 10, 1975, the UN General Assembly passed Resolution 3379 declaring Zionism as a Form of Racism and Racial Discrimination. A coalition of states introduced the resolution at the start of the 30th session of the General Assembly as […]

  • Women’s Daily Life in Exile Lecture

    Where: UCLA Bunche Hall, Rm 10383 When: Monday, November 17, 2025 / 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (Pacific Time) After being deported from their homes, Armenian women experienced vastly different fates depending on where they were sent within the Arab-speaking provinces of the Ottoman Empire. Those on the eastern deportation route faced famine and disease […]

  • Fiebre de carnaval: una conversación con Yuliana Ortiz Ruano

    The Spanish & Portuguese Department would like to invite you to a conversation with Ecuadorian novelist and poet Yuliana Ortiz Ruano. In this conversation, Ortiz Ruano will discuss her recently translated novel Carnival Fever (Fiebre de Carnaval), her practice as a writer, and the intersections of decolonial thought and Black and Caribbean intellectual traditions in […]

  • Faculty Writing Retreat – December 2025

    Join CSW|Streisand Center for a day-long retreat where you can concentrate on your own work alongside like-minded colleagues! Friday, December 5th 10 am – 4 pm Hershey Hall Salon (Room 158) Do you want to block out a day for writing and contemplation? The Faculty Writing Retreat is your solution. Join us for a day-long retreat […]

  • Surrealism & Antifascism: A Symposium

    Where: 3910 Los Feliz Boulevard When: Dec 6th, 2pm-6pm PST This unique gathering brings together artists, scholars, UCLA students and the public to explore the power of surrealist methods—past and present—as tools for resisting systems of domination and imagining new possibilities for being. From spiritual resistance to cultural subversion, surrealism has long offered a way […]

  • Cinema’s First Nasty Women: Breaking Plates and Smashing the Patriarchy

    Billy Wilder Theater 10899 Wilshire Blvd.,, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    When: January 23, 2026 7:30 pm Where: Billy Wilder Theater Admission: Free; no registration required. Cinema’s First Nasty Women returns to the Billy Wilder Theater! Its name a riff on the feminist cri de cœur that arose during the 2016 presidential election, Cinema’s First Nasty Women is an ongoing, curated project to rediscover and revel […]

  • Calling In: Navigating Challenging Conversations with Dr. Loretta Ross

    UCLA Hammer Museum - Galleries 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Presented by the Hammer Museum.  Copresented with the Center for the Study of Women|Streisand Center at UCLA and the UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute Join renowned activist, professor, and 2022 MacArthur Fellow Loretta J. Ross to explore the powerful practice of "Calling In." With five decades in the human rights movement, Ross offers a transformative approach to move […]

  • Book Talk: The Homosexual and the Oligarch: Perverse Figurations and Social Reproduction

    Hybrid

    When: Friday, February 13, 11 am-12:30 pm Where: Hybrid | UCLA Center for the Study of Women| Barbra Streisand Center, 1500 Public Affairs Building Based on Dr. Tamar Shirinian's recent book, Survival of a Perverse Nation: Morality and Queer Possibility in Armenia (Duke University Press, 2024), this talk will introduce the audience to two perverse […]

  • Graduate Lecture & Mixer: War, Migration, and Asymmetrical Gender Transformations in Ukrainian Households

    10383 Bunche Hall UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

    Where:  Bunche Hall, Rm 10383 When: Wednesday, February 25, 2026 from 4:15 PM - 5:45 PM RSVP Here Join the Center for European and Russian Studies for their quarterly Graduate Student Lecture by Natasha Bluth (PhD candidate in Sociology Department) and Mixer, open to all UCLA students, staff and faculty. The lecture by Natasha Bluth […]

  • Otro Corazón 3: Queering Sor Juana: A Symposium

    Northwest Campus Auditorium

    “Sor Juana the Younger and the Elder,” digital photograph by Alma Lopez @2019(models: Alicia Gaspar de Alba as the Elder, and Alicia Billalobos, UCLA Chicana/o Studies alumna, as the Younger) When: February 26, 2026 Where: Northwest Campus Auditorium, UCLA   Organized by the UCLA Center for Musical Humanities in partnership with the Dean of Social […]

  • Lecture: Intersectional Environmental Justice with Amelia Moore, Cornell University

    352 Haines Hall

    Where: 353 Haines Hall When: Thursday, February 26th, 2026 from 12:15pm-1:45pm In this talk, Professor Moore will share her ideas about how engaged scholars can utilize intersectional environmental justice theory and praxis to combat our era of political polarization, ecological precarity, generational social inequity, and planetary uncertainty. Drawing examples from two decades of inter and […]