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SUMMARY:Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead | Book Talk and Signing with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
DESCRIPTION:When: Tuesday\, May 12th at 2:30pm \nWhere: Founder’s Room\, James West Alumni Center \nJoin Leanne Betasamosake Simpson for a book talk and signing for her newest work\, Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead. Leanne\nBetasamosake Simpson is a renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg musician\, writer\, and academic. She is the author of eight books\, including As We Have Always Done (winner of the NAISA subsequent book prize) and the novel Noopiming which was short listed for the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Dublin Literary Prize. Leanne’s new work\, Theory of Water is a national best seller and won the Writer’s Trust Hilary Weston Prize for non-fiction. Leanne has lectured and taught extensively at universities across Canada\, the United States\, Australia\, New Zealand and Europe and has over twenty years experience with Indigenous land based education.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/theory-of-water-nishnaabe-maps-to-the-times-ahead-book-talk-and-signing-with-leanne-betasamosake-simpson/
LOCATION:James West Alumni Center\, 325 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:Dean’s Lecture in Humanistic Inquiry: Kate Manne on Sensitivity and Survival
DESCRIPTION:The Inaugural Dean’s Lecture in Humanistic Inquiry\nThursday\, April 30\n4 p.m. – 6 p.m.\nRoyce Hall Room 314 \nFree admission. Reception with light refreshments to follow lecture. Advance registration strongly recommended. \nPresented by the UCLA College Division of Humanities\nThe Dean’s Lecture in Humanistic Inquiry is a biennial lecture dedicated to exploring cross-cutting topics and ideas in humanistic research and examining how humanistic inquiry connects to the most pressing questions of the day. \nAbout our inaugural speaker\nKate Manne is a professor at the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University. She specializes in moral\, social and feminist philosophy\, and has written three books: DOWN GIRL: The Logic of Misogyny (Oxford University Press\, 2018)\, ENTITLED: How Male Privilege Hurts Women (Crown\, 2020) and UNSHRINKING: How to Face Fatphobia (Crown\, 2024). In addition to her academic work\, she regularly writes opinion pieces and essays for a wider audience\, including in outlets such as The New York Times\, The Cut\, The Washington Post\, The Atlantic\, The Nation and Time. She writes a Substack newsletter\, More to Hate\, exploring misogyny\, fatphobia and their intersection. \nAbout Professor Manne’s lecture\nSensitivity and Survival\nAccusations of oversensitivity are nowadays very common. Are they typically warranted? Is there in fact a scourge of snowflakes? \nIn this lecture\, Kate Manne will distinguish three things that are commonly meant by “oversensitivity”: over-identification of instances\, over-extension of the relevant concepts and over-reactions to the relevant harms or forms of injustice\, such as sexism\, misogyny and racism. Her talk will draw on two rich humanistic traditions: feminist epistemology and non-ideal theory. \nWhile acknowledging that oversensitivity of all three kinds can and does occur\, Manne will highlight and explore the comparatively under-emphasized converse dangers: the under-identification of instances\, the under-extension of concepts\, and under-reactions or the undermining of warranted reactions\, respectively. In view of this\, she concludes that what is called oversensitivity is often simply sensitivity: a normatively valuable and justified way of reacting to harms and injustices that often go under the radar in society as we know it. \nPlease visit this page to register. \nEvent cosponsors\nThank you to our cosponsors: UCLA Department of Philosophy\, UCLA Department of Gender Studies\, UCLA Center for the Study of Women | Streisand Center\, and UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/deans-lecture-in-humanistic-inquiry-kate-manne-on-sensitivity-and-survival/
LOCATION:Royce 314
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:Political Ontology of the Closet with Sinan Birdal\, Gender and Diversity Researcher\, Freie Universitat Berlin
DESCRIPTION:Political Ontology of the Closet: Elite Minorities and Sectarian Majorities in the Wilhemine Empire\nWhen: Thursday\, April 30\, 12:30-1:45 pm \nWhere: 2125 Rolfe Hall \nThis talk develops a political ontology of minority articulation by examining divisions within the 19th century homosexual movement under conditions of repression. Sedgwick’s analysis of this movement emphasized the epistemological impasse between minoritizing and universalizing discourses of sexuality. \nThis talk shifts the focus from epistemology to political ontology. \nDrawing on historical reconstruction and critical discourse analysis\, the talk examines divisions within the German homosexual movement by focusing on the political thought and activism of Benedict Friedlaender\, who attempted to mobilize a political field linking SPD revisionists\, extra-parliamentary socialist critics\, and left liberals in opposition to his main rival Hirschfeld’s SPD-loyal reform strategy. Friedlaender’s interventions demonstrate how competing sexual epistemologies reflected movement cleavages and contending strategies of minority and majority building. In this context\, the talk develops a theory of political articulation by analyzing the relationship between party politics\, social movement fragmentation\, and coalition
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/political-ontology-of-the-closet-with-sinan-birdal-gender-and-diversity-researcher-freie-universitat-berlin/
LOCATION:Rolfe Hall 2125
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:Our Universities on the Brink: The Institution and the Commons
DESCRIPTION:CULTURE\, POWER\, SOCIAL CHANGE PRESENTS… \nCharlie Hale\, Dean of Social Sciences\, \nUC Santa Barbara \nOur Universities on the Brink: The Institution and the Commons \nThursday 4.23.26 \nHaines Hall 352 \n12:15 PM \nThis paper builds from the premise that\, to confront the multiple forces of disruption\, all who inhabit universities are called upon to engage critical university studies. This is especially crucial for those who belong to the imagined “we” that Dean Hale invokes at the outset\, since “our” efforts to advance and defend an alternative social purpose of the public university are most vulnerable to these forces. His analysis explores the general contours and contradictions of this work\, and more specifically\, what happens when the efforts are supported by the dean’s office. \nBoth the analysis\, and his ideas for possible ways forward\, rest on a distinction between the institution and the commons. This notion of the commons offers a means to fortify our defenses and inspire a collective sense of purpose as we engage in a necessary\, and hopefully short-lived\, strategic retreat. \nCharlie Hale is the author of Resistance and Contradiction: Miskitu Indians and the Nicaraguan State\, 1894-1987 (1994); and “Más que un indio…” Racial Ambivalence and Neoliberal Multiculturalism in Guatemala (2006); editor of Engaging Contradictions: Theory\, Politics and Methods of Activist Scholarship (2008); co-editor (with Lynn Stephen) of Otros Saberes: Collaborative Research with Black and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America (2014); author of articles on activist scholarship\, identity politics\, racism\, land rights and territorial autonomy\, resistance to neoliberalism among Indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples of Latin America. Director of LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections (UT Austin\, 2009-16) and President of the Latin American Studies Association (2006-7).
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/our-universities-on-the-brink-the-institution-and-the-commons/
LOCATION:Haines 352
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:Book Event: Queer Throughlines: Spaces of Queer Activism in South Korea and the Korean Diaspora
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Ju Hui Judy Han (UCLA) joined by Prof. Giancarlo Cornejo Salinas (UCLA)\, Prof. Grace Kyung-won Hong (UCLA)\, Laura Hyun Yi Kang (UC Irvine)\, and Dr. Yeong Ran Kim\nTuesday\, April 21\, 2026\n2:00 PM – 4:00 PM\nBunche Hall\, Room 10383 \n\nAbout the Book   \nQueer Throughlines draws on years of direct participation\, interviews\, and ethnography to examine transnational Korean LGBTQ+ activism since the 1990s. Han maps the sites and routes of leftist and queer political movements\, highlighting challenges posed by Christian conservatives in both South Korea and the United States. The book uses the concept of “throughlines” to weave together a web of movement stories across time and space: a coalition of Los Angeles-based LGBTQ+ activists and allies fighting an anti-gay petition campaign led by Korean immigrant churches; queer activists involved in anti-war protests in Seoul; progressive clergy embracing inclusivity and risking heresy charges and excommunication; and queer and trans activists refusing to be sidelined form visions of political change underway. These moments do not always line up in a straightforward narrative of victory of progress\, yet they create powerful lines of solidarity\, community\, and kinship. \nModerated by Grace Kyung-won Hong (Asian American Studies and Gender Studies at UCLA\, it will begin with brief comments by Ju Hui Judy Han (Gender Studies at UCLA) and then shift to an open ended dialogue among panelists\, with Giancarlo Cornejo Salinas (Gender Studies at UCLA)\, Laura Hyun Yi Kang (Gender & Sexuality Studies at UC Irvine)\, and Yeong Ran Kim. \nDiscussion \nModerated by Prof. Grace Kyung-won Hong\, Dept. of Asian American Studies\, UCLA 
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/book-event-queer-throughlines-spaces-of-queer-activism-in-south-korea-and-the-korean-diaspora/
LOCATION:10383 Bunche Hall\, UCLA\, Los Angeles\, CA
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:Beyond the Concrete: A Conversation About the Lost Art of Letter Writing with John Rodriguez
DESCRIPTION:When: April 14\, 2026 at 4 pm PST \nWhere: Virtual  \nJohn Rodriguez is a UCLA alumnus whose sentence was commuted by the California Governor in 2017 after he discovered a life-changing passion for education while incarcerated. Today\, he serves as the Education and Communications Manager at Root & Rebound\, leveraging storytelling to bring visibility to overlooked narratives. John dreams of returning to prison someday—not as an inmate\, but as a teacher with the power to help others find their way out through education. Prabhat Gautam will be introducing and interviewing John Rodriguez. \nThe event is part of a Fiat Lux Seminar “Law\, Justice\, Literary Production\, and Education Behind Bar” in the Department of English. This talk is co-sponsored by the CSW|Streisand Center. \nAll all welcome to attend via zoom.  \nMeeting ID: 927 8244 7447 \nPasscode: 464541
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/beyond-the-concrete-a-conversation-about-the-lost-art-of-letter-writing-with-john-rodriguez/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:UCLA Center for Reproductive Science\, Health and Education Distinguished Speaker Series ft. Teresa K. Woodruff
DESCRIPTION:Where: California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)\, UCLA Campus\n \nWhen: Wednesday\, April 8th at 4pm PT \nTeresa K. Woodruff\, Ph.D. is a leader in higher education and an internationally recognized biologist specializing in reproductive science. Woodruff is president emerita of Michigan StateUniversity (MSU) and MSU Research Foundation Distinguished Professor in the Department of Obstetrics\,Gynecology\, and Reproductive Biology as well as in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at MSU. In 2006\, she coined the term “oncofertility” to describe the merging of two fields: oncology and fertility preservation. Working at the national level\, Woodruff championed a new National Institutes of Health Policy mandating the inclusion of both male and female biological variables in fundamental research. As a leading research scientist\, teacher and mentor\, Woodruff was awarded the National Medal of Science byPresident Joe Biden in 2025 and the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science \nRSVP Here
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/ucla-center-for-reproductive-science-health-and-education-distinguished-speaker-series-ft-teresa-k-woodruff/
LOCATION:CNSI Auditorium
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:Gender\, Criminalization\, Authoritarianism\, and Agency with Andrea Ritchie
DESCRIPTION:When: April 8th from 11:00AM -12:30PM \nWhere: Rolfe 2125 \nJoin us for a powerful conversation on gender criminalization\, authoritarianism\, and agency with Andrea Ritchie. This event will explore how systems of policing and surveillance disproportionately impact marginalized communities while examining the broader rise of authoritarian practices. \nAndrea Ritchie is a writer\, lawyer\, and activist for women of color\, especially LGBTQ women of color\, who have been victims of police violence. Drawing on her extensive work as a scholar\, organizer\, and author\, Ritchie will unpack the ways in which gender is used as a tool of control within legal and social systems.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/gender-criminalization-authoritarianism-and-agency-with-andrea-ritchie/
LOCATION:Rolfe 2125
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:Conversation with Sara Porkalob
DESCRIPTION:When: Monday\, April 6\, 3:30 – 5 pm\nWhere: East Melnitz Hall 302\n\nJoin us for a causal conversation with playwright and performer Sara Porkalob\, whose work explores Filipina-American identity\, family history\, and intergenerational storytelling. The discussion will focus on Dragon Mama\, the second installment of The Dragon Cycle\, following students’ viewing at the Geffen Playhouse.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/conversation-with-sara-porkalob/
LOCATION:East Melnitz Hall\, UCLA School of Theater\, Film and Television\, 235 Charles E Young Dr N\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Intersectional Environmental Justice with Amelia Moore\, Cornell University
DESCRIPTION:Where: 353 Haines Hall \nWhen: Thursday\, February 26th\, 2026 from 12:15pm-1:45pm \nIn 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 anti-disciplinary island-based research\, she describes both problematic and promising forms of socioecological knowledge production\, the frameworks that can inform our methodologies\, and the implications of this work for the future.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/lecture-intersectional-environmental-justice-with-amelia-moore-cornell-university/
LOCATION:352 Haines Hall
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:Otro Corazón 3: Queering Sor Juana: A Symposium
DESCRIPTION:“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) \nWhen: February 26\, 2026 \nWhere: Northwest Campus Auditorium\, UCLA \n\n  \nOrganized by the UCLA Center for Musical Humanities in partnership with the Dean of Social Sciences and the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies \nCo-sponsored by The Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies\, the Chicano Studies Research Center\, and the Center for the Study of Women/Barbara Streisand Center \nFree and open to the public\, but all attendees\, including participants and audience members\, must register online. Lunch and reception will be provided for registered guests only. \n“Otro Corazón 3: Queering Sor Juana” builds on past symposia organized by Alicia Gaspar de Alba in her “Corazón” series\,1 and is offered as part of a year-long celebration of her 32-year academic career at UCLA\, focusing on her lifetime of research and creative engagement with Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz\, the 17th-century Mexican nun/poet/scholar who is hailed all over the world as the “first feminist of the Americas” and the Mexican “Tenth Muse.” \nOTRO CORAZON 3: QUEERING SOR JUANA\nSYMPOSIUM PROGRAM\n9 am: Registration \n9:30 am: Welcome and Introductory Remarks by Professor Raymond Knapp and Dean Abel Valenzuela \n10:30-12 noon: Panel 1. La Décima Musa: Classic Sor Juana \nSpeaker: Cesar Favila\, UCLA \nSpeaker: Charlene Villaseñor Black\, Oxford University \nSpeaker: Emilie Bergman\, UC Berkeley \nModerator: Gabriela Rodriguez Gomez (UCLA Chicana/o Studies PhD) \n12-1 pm: Boxed Lunch \n1:30-3 pm: Panel 2. “La Peor de Todas”: Sapphic Sor Juana \nSpeaker: Emma Perez\, University of Arizona \nSpeaker: Alma López\, UCLA \nSpeaker: Carla Lucero\, Independent Opera Composer \nModerator: Ariel Hernandez (UCLA Chicana/o Studies grad student) \nCoffee Break \n4-5:30 pm: Performances \n4 Arias from “JUANA”– A Spanish-language chamber opera based on the historical novel\, Sor Juana’s Second Dream3 by Alicia Gaspar de Alba. Music by Carla Lucero. \nLibretto by Carla Lucero and Alicia Gaspar de Alba \nShowcase Program \n“Fili”\, performed by Meagan Martin (Mezzo-Soprano) as Sor Juana\n“Hombres necios” performed by Meagan Martin and Maria Valdes-Gomez (Soprano) as la Condesa\n“Sin vos” (abbreviated version) performed by Maria Valdes-Gomez\n“Amor eterno” performed by Meagan Martin and Maria Valdes-Gomez\nAccompanied by pianist\, Peter Walsh\nScreening of “Sin Vos” video (opera on film\, recorded at the Ebell of Los Angeles\, sung by Michelle Allie Drever as la Condesa. María Dominique Lopez portrays Sor Juana. Film created by Carson Gilmore of Vox Visceralis. Music recorded in Prague with BNO Chamber Orchestra through PARMA Recordings and is available on Navona Records) \nQ&A: Carla Lucero and Alicia Gaspar de Alba \n6 pm: Reception
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/otro-corazon-3-queering-sor-juana-a-symposium/
LOCATION:Northwest Campus Auditorium
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:Graduate Lecture & Mixer: War\, Migration\, and Asymmetrical Gender Transformations in Ukrainian Households
DESCRIPTION:Where:  Bunche Hall\, Rm 10383 \nWhen: Wednesday\, February 25\, 2026 from 4:15 PM – 5:45 PM \nRSVP Here \n\n\n\n\n\nJoin 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 (Department of Sociology) is entitled “War\, Migration\, and Asymmetrical Gender Transformations in Ukrainian Households” and will include a presentation\, time for Q&A\, culminating in an informal mixer for students of all disciplines with an interest in Europe and/or Russia. This event is cosponsored by the UCLA Department of Sociology and UCLA Center for the Study of Women | Streisand Center and will be held in Bunche Hall Room 10383 on Wednesday\, February 25\, 2026 at 4:15 pm. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRussia’s ongoing war in Ukraine has generated profound demographic shifts in Ukrainian society and the largest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II. These dynamics are also deeply gendered: international protection policies and Ukrainian mobilization laws have facilitated the mass displacement of Ukrainian women and children while restricting the mobility of men. Drawing on fieldwork with Ukrainian families in Krakow\, Poland\, and Ukraine\, between 2022 and 2025\, this talk explores how these gendered processes are shaping three dimensions of household life: wartime migratory decision-making\, marital relations\, and coming-of-age experiences for young adults. I show that while war and displacement tighten traditional gender norms\, they also create new opportunities for women to transcend these norms—at the same time that horizons narrow for men. These results carry important implications for Ukrainian families and for the future of Ukraine\, where gender politics have become a key terrain of differentiation from Russia. In response\, The Center for European and Russian Studies hosts a quarterly graduate student lecture and mixer.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/graduate-lecture-mixer-war-migration-and-asymmetrical-gender-transformations-in-ukrainian-households/
LOCATION:10383 Bunche Hall\, UCLA\, Los Angeles\, CA
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: The Homosexual and the Oligarch: Perverse Figurations and Social Reproduction
DESCRIPTION:When: Friday\, February 13\, 11 am-12:30 pm \nWhere: Hybrid | UCLA Center for the Study of Women| Barbra Streisand Center\, 1500 Public Affairs Building \nBased 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 figures: the homosexual and the oligarch. \nBoth figured prominently in national anxieties in the 2010s in Armenia as dangerous to the nation and its survival\, and formed particular rhetorics of the nation’s perversion toward annihilation. Focusing on these two figures\, the talk reflects upon neoliberalization’s threats against social reproduction by examining the moralization of political-economic processes and asks what a queer theory of political economy offers to the critique of late capitalism.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/book-talk-the-homosexual-and-the-oligarch-perverse-figurations-and-social-reproduction/
LOCATION:Hybrid
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:Bibliotactics: Libraries and the Colonial Public in Vietnam Book talk with Cindy Anh Nguyen (UCLA)
DESCRIPTION:When: Thursday\, February 12\, 2026 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM (Pacific Time) \nWhere: DataX Impact Forum Murphy Hall\, Rm 3312 \nBibliotactics examines the Hanoi and Saigon state libraries in colonial and postcolonial Vietnam\, uncovering the emergence of a colonial public who reimagined the political meaning and social space of the library through public critique and day-to-day practice. \nRSVP here.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/bibliotactics-libraries-and-the-colonial-public-in-vietnam-book-talk-with-cindy-anh-nguyen-ucla/
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260210T213000
DTSTAMP:20260519T084225
CREATED:20260206T215915Z
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SUMMARY:Calling In: Navigating Challenging Conversations with Dr. Loretta Ross
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Hammer Museum.  \nCopresented with the Center for the Study of Women|Streisand Center at UCLA and the UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute \n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin 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 from conflict to constructive dialogue. In her new book\, Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You’d Rather Cancel\, Ross addresses the challenge of building coalitions and community in a polarized world\, and offers a compassionate alternative through accountability\, empathy\, and connection. \nATTENDING THIS PROGRAM?\nTicketing: Admission is free. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come\, first served basis\, limit one per visitor. Box office opens one hour before the event.\nMember Benefit: Subject to availability\, Hammer Members can choose their preferred seats and pick up tickets for one additional guest. Members receive priority ticketing until 15 minutes before the program. Learn more about membership.\nParking: Self-parking is available under the museum. Rates are $8 for the first three hours with museum validation\, and $3 for each additional 20 minutes\, with a $22 daily maximum. There is an $8 flat rate after 6 p.m. on weekdays\, and all day on weekends.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/calling-in-navigating-challenging-conversations-with-dr-loretta-ross/
LOCATION:UCLA Hammer Museum – Galleries\, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260123T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260123T213000
DTSTAMP:20260519T084225
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SUMMARY:Cinema's First Nasty Women: Breaking Plates and Smashing the Patriarchy
DESCRIPTION:When: January 23\, 2026 7:30 pm\nWhere: Billy Wilder Theater\nAdmission: Free; no registration required. \nCinema’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 in the anarchic spirit of women comedians who brought a rebellious energy to the early silent screen. Organized by an international team of film archivists and scholars\, Maggie Hennefeld\, Laura Horak and Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi\, this new travelling program of restored titles from the project comes with a special twist. Archival collections can inspire new research which in turn helps grow new audiences\, but they can also inspire new films. Based in Australia\, with The Physical TV Company\, filmmaker and author Karen Pearlman has built a feminist film practice that puts cinema’s past and present in dialogue in brilliantly constructed\, canon-busting short film essays. For “Cinema’s First Nasty Women: Breaking Plates and Smashing the Patriarchy\,” Pearlman drew on the project’s images and energy for her latest short\, Breaking Plates. The Archive is thrilled to have Pearlman as our guest at the Billy Wilder Theater with a selection of her work along with the Los Angeles premiere of Breaking Plates and the silent slapstick female performers that inspired it. \nProgrammed by Paul Malcolm with Maggie Hennefeld\, Laura Horak\, Karen Pearlman and Richard James Allen. Notes written by Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm. \nPresented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. \nTotal runtime: 103 min.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/cinemas-first-nasty-women-breaking-plates-and-smashing-the-patriarchy/
LOCATION:Billy Wilder Theater\, 10899 Wilshire Blvd.\,\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251206T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251206T180000
DTSTAMP:20260519T084225
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SUMMARY:Surrealism & Antifascism: A Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Where: 3910 Los Feliz Boulevard \nWhen: Dec 6th\, 2pm-6pm PST \nThis 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 to sidestep the normative\, the colonial\, and the fascistic in pursuit of radical freedom. Together\, we will examine the contradictions and complexities within the Surrealist tradition and its entanglements with institutional power\, gender\, and race. This symposium is a call to those who believe that art\, performance\, spirituality\, and speculation can resist the flattening forces of fascism and imagine other worlds. \nGet tickets here! Tickets are free to UCLA students & PRS members with code UCLAstudent11 / $10 general admission
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/surrealism-antifascism-a-symposium/
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251205T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251205T160000
DTSTAMP:20260519T084225
CREATED:20251124T211543Z
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SUMMARY:Faculty Writing Retreat - December 2025
DESCRIPTION:Join CSW|Streisand Center for a day-long retreat where you can concentrate on your own work alongside like-minded colleagues!\n\n\n\nFriday\, December 5th \n10 am – 4 pm Hershey Hall Salon (Room 158) \nDo 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 where you can concentrate on your own work alongside like-minded colleagues—we will hold the world at bay for you. Breakfast and lunch will be provided in the beautiful setting of Hershey Hall Salon. \nThe writing retreat provides a peaceful place to write as well as meals; please bring your computer and any other materials you may need to work. If you have an extension cord\, please bring it\, as power outlets are limited. Also bring some extra clothes for layers\, as the space sometimes tends to be cool. \nWe also offer a parallel virtual retreat with brief introductions and check-ins. \nDuring lunch\, there will be an optional conversation about the writing process. \nIf you register to attend in person and your plans change\, please let us know immediately so that we may offer your spot to the long waitlist. No-shows will not be granted an in-person spot at future writing retreats. \nIf you are no longer able to attend in person\, please e-mail csw@csw.ucla.edu to let us know. \nCosponsored by: CSW|Streisand Center\, the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music\, the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture\, the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research & Creative Activities (ORCA)\, UCLA Humanities\, UCLA Social Sciences\, UCLA School of Theater\, Film\, and Television \nSave the date for future Faculty Writing Retreats:\nRegistration will be available the week following the most recent retreat. \nFriday February 20 \nFriday March 6 \nFriday May 15
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/faculty-writing-retreat-december-2025/
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship,Streisand Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251118T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251118T170000
DTSTAMP:20260519T084225
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SUMMARY:Fiebre de carnaval: una conversación con Yuliana Ortiz Ruano
DESCRIPTION: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 Latin America. \nWhen: November 18\, 2025\, 4:00 PM \nWhere: Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302 \nThis event will be in Spanish. Light refreshments will be served. \nYuliana Ortiz Ruano is an Afro-Ecuadorian writer\, poet\, and teacher\, as well as a DJ of Afro-Caribbean music. She has published several books of poetry and prose\, including the multi award-winning Fiebre de carnaval (Carnaval Fever)\, which was chosen as one of the 50 best books of 2022 by El País. She is also the author of the poetry books Sovoz\, Canciones del fin del mundo\, y Cuaderno del imposible retorno a Pangea\, and the book of short stories Litorales. She was selected by the International Writers in Residence program in Granada\, Spain in 2023\, and was chosen for the Translator Choice II award at the LATINALE Latin America Literature Festival in Berlin. Her first novel\, Carnaval Fever\, won the Joaquín Gallegos Lara Award (Ecuador)\, the Primo Romanzo Latinoamericano Award (Italy)\, and the PEN Translation Award (UK).
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/fiebre-de-carnaval-una-conversacion-con-yuliana-ortiz-ruano/
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251117T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251117T200000
DTSTAMP:20260519T084225
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SUMMARY:Women's Daily Life in Exile Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Where: UCLA Bunche Hall\, Rm 10383 \nWhen: Monday\, November 17\, 2025 / 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Pacific Time) \nAfter 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 but largely avoided mass killings\, while those sent north were confined in desert tent camps and many were massacred in 1916. This lecture\, led by Dr. Anna Aleksanyan and Dr. Taner Akçam of UCLA’s Promise Armenian Institute\, will explore the varied experiences of these women and the gendered dimensions of the Armenian Genocide. This event is organized by The Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA. \nJoin the Zoom Webinar here.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/womens-daily-life-in-exile-lecture/
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251113T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251113T183000
DTSTAMP:20260519T084225
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SUMMARY:Noura Erakat on Revisiting Zionism as a Form of Racism and Racial Discrimination
DESCRIPTION:When: Thursday\, November 13 at 5:30 pm\nWhere: On the UCLA campus\nRSVP for the address.\nOn 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 an amendment to the Decade Against Racism in the context of Third World Revolt against imperialism; Palestinian liberation was central to this agenda. This lecture will explore the historical context that led to the introduction of this resolution\, its drafting history\, including racial theories of Zionism that were introduced during the deliberations as well as the intense procedural maneuvers that aimed to subvert it all together. Though a hard won victory\, the PLO rescinded the resolution in 1991 as a precondition for entering the Oslo Accords. This discussion will both mark the 50th year anniversary of the resolution as well as its contemporary relevance. \nProfessor Erakat’s talk will be followed by a panel discussion with Professor Nour Joudah (Asian American Studies) and Professor Robin D.G. Kelley (History). \nBio:\nNoura Erakat is Professor of Africana Studies and Criminal Justice at Rutgers University\, New Brunswick. She is the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press\, 2019)\, which received the Palestine Book Award and the Bronze Medal for the Independent Publishers Book Award in Current Events/Foreign Affairs. In 2023\, Noura co-chaired an Independent Task Force on the Application of National Security Memorandum-20 to Israel\, a report documenting how U.S. arms to Israel have been used in violation of U.S. and international law and which was submitted to the White House. She is co-founding editor of Jadaliyya and an editorial board member of the Journal of Palestine Studies as well as Human Geography. She is a co-founding board member of the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival. She has served as Legal Counsel for a Congressional Subcommittee in the US House of Representatives\, as Legal Advocate for the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Refugee and Residency Rights\, and as National Organizer and Legal Advocate of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. Noura has also produced video documentaries\, including “Gaza In Context” and “Black Palestinian Solidarity.” Noura completed a non-resident fellowship of the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School as well as a Mahmoud Darwish Visiting Professorship at Brown University. In 2022\, she was selected as a Freedom Fellow by the Marguerite Casey Foundation. In 2025\, the University of Ghent awarded the Amnesty International Chair in recognition of her contribution to human rights and scholarship.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/noura-erakat-on-revisiting-zionism-as-a-form-of-racism-and-racial-discrimination/
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251113T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251113T110000
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SUMMARY:Embryonic and Fetal Rights? What it Would Mean for Pregnant People and Reproductive Rights\, Health\, and Research
DESCRIPTION:When: November 13\, 10- 11 am PST \nWhere: Virtual. RSVP to attend. \nJoin a discussion featuring: \nProfessor Mary Ziegler\nPanelist\nUC Davis School of Law\nAuthor\, Personhood: The New Civil War Over Reproduction \nHeather Shumaker\nPanelist\nSenior Director State Abortion Policy\, National Women’s Law Center \nDr. Amander Clark\nPanelist\nFounding Director UCLA Center for Reproductive Science\, Health\, and Education \nDiana Kasdan\nModerator\nLegal and Policy Director\, UCLA Law Center on Reproductive Health\, Law\, and Policy \nRSVP here\nCosponsors: CSW|Streisand Center\, UCLA Network for Reproductive Health & Gender Equity\, the Center for Reproductive Science\, Health and Education (CRSHE)\, the Bixby Center\, and the Center on Reproductive Health\, Law\, and Policy at UCLA Law.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/embryonic-and-fetal-rights-what-it-would-mean-for-pregnant-people-and-reproductive-rights-health-and-research/
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251102T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251102T220000
DTSTAMP:20260519T084225
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SUMMARY:"Wanda": Free Screening by UCLA Film & Television Archive
DESCRIPTION:Date: Sunday\, November 2nd \nTime: 7pm \nLocation: Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum \nUCLA Film & Television Archive is hosting a free screening of Wanda along with a Q&A and book signing with Elena Gorfinkel\, author of “BFI Classics: Wanda\,” moderated by Archive Research and Study Center Officer Maya Montañez Smukler. \nIn 1970\, Wanda screened at the Venice Film Festival as the sole U.S. entry winning the International Critics Prize. Actor-turned-filmmaker\, Barbara Loden\, directed\, produced and co-starred in the production of Wanda\, also being her directorial debut. The film follows Loden in a quiet and captivating portrayal of an apathetic young woman on a journey through a bleak and rural Pennsylvanian landscape. On her filmmaking approach\, Loden said\, “I’ve got more movies in me\, but they will have to be done my way. I’m not interested in entertaining people. I only want to do things that mean something to me\, that I can say about a human being on film and then communicate that feeling to others.” \nIn her new book\, Elena Gorfinkel draws on archival sources to trace the film’s feminist legacies\, and its lasting influence on contemporary filmmakers\, artists and writers.—Archive Research and Study Center Officer Maya Montañez Smukler \nCosponsored by: Center for the Study of Women
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/wanda-free-screening-by-ucla-film-television-archive/
LOCATION:Billy Wilder Theater\, James Bridges Theater
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251026
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251207
DTSTAMP:20260519T084225
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SUMMARY:A Place of Rage: Women and Anger on Screen
DESCRIPTION:Post-#MeToo\, films and television — many by women — have redefined female anger not as pathology or threat but as\, in Lorde’s words\, “loaded with information and energy.” This series\, inspired by the work of scholar and UCLA School of Theater\, Film and Television Professor Kathleen McHugh\, explores how women’s rage\, long silenced\, can be reclaimed through feminist filmmaking\, challenging familiar tropes and reframing women’s anger as purposeful. \nThe series \, A Place of Rage\, examines anger as a site of clarity\, resistance and transformation and considers how genres once hostile to female subjectivity have become platforms for feminist disruption. This collection serves as a visual conjuring of the uses of anger: when wielded with precision\, on women’s own terms\, our rage can move beyond catharsis to radical change. \nSeries programmed and notes written by UCLA Professor Kathleen McHugh and Public Programmer Beandrea July \nCommunity partners: UCLA Center for the Study of Women | Barbra Streisand Center\, Women in Media \n 
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/a-place-of-rage-women-and-anger-on-screen/
LOCATION:Billy Wilder Theater\, 10899 Wilshire Blvd.\,\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251020T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251020T170000
DTSTAMP:20260519T084225
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SUMMARY:Center for Reproductive Science\, Health and Education (CRSHE) Distinguished Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:Attend the UCLA Center for Reproductive Science\, Health and Education (CRSHE) Distinguished Speaker Series featuring Diana E. Ramos. \nWhen: Monday\, October 20\, 2025 4:00 p.m. PT \nWhere: California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI). UCLA Campus \nRegister here. \nRegistration is required.Seating is first come\, first served and is not guaranteed. \nAbout the speaker : Dr. Diana E. Ramos\, was appointed Surgeon General of California in 2022. She is avisionary public health leader dedicated to advancing the wellbeing of all communities. Dr. Ramoschampions efforts to address reproductive and maternal health outcomes\, adverse childhood experiences\,and mental health\, shaping policies that leave a lasting impact across the state. As an alumna of UCLA’sFielding School of Public Health with more than three decades as an Obstetrician Gynecologist\, Dr.Ramos has also held leadership roles at the local\, state\, and national levels. A recipient of the Latino SpiritAward and the Public Health Leadership Award\, she is a powerful voice for health equity.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/center-for-reproductive-science-health-and-education-crshe-distinguished-speaker-series/
LOCATION:California Nanosystems Institute\, UCLA
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250908T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250908T123000
DTSTAMP:20260519T084225
CREATED:20250812T205804Z
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SUMMARY:Auto-Correct: Fantasies & Failures of AI Ethics in the Driverless Car
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a book talk and workshop.\n \nBook Talk\nWhen: Monday\, September 8 · 11 am – 12:30 pm PDT \nWhere: DataX\, Murphy Hall 3312\, 410 Charles E Young Drive East Los Angeles\, CA 90095 \nRSVP for the book talk here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is a book talk by Dr Maya Indira Ganesh (Leverhulme Center for Futures of Intelligence\, Cambridge) based on her first monograph. The “trolley problem” remains a useful exercise in drawing out the differences between utilitarian and deontological approaches to ethics in analytic philosophy. However\, the thought experiment also determined imagining what AI-infused artefacts should be capable of\, suggesting that ethical decision-making becomes a data-driven enterprise rather than a human\, social\, or individualised practice. Maya Indira Ganesh tracks the language\, materiality\, and culture of epistemic tools that establish safety and automobility as problems to be solved by the driverless car\, examining outputs of AI systems versus what constitutes our social and technological presents and futures. \nWorkshop\nWhen: Tuesday\, September 9 · 10 am – 1 pm PDT \nWhere: Center for the Study of Women|Barbra Streisand Center\, 1500 public affairs building\, UCLA (Entry from Jimmy’s Coffeeshop side) Los Angeles\, CA 90095 \nRSVP for the workshop. \nJoin us for a free workshop on AI\, Time & Futurity at UCLA with Dr Maya Indira Ganesh (Leverhulme CFI\, UK). Time haunts AI. An origin story in the summer of 1955 that has acquired the status of myth and fact; geopolitical races; the contradictions and entanglements of longtermist and accelerationist ideologies; law and regulation that fail to keep up; promised breakthroughs from the driverless car to superintelligence that fail to arrive\, or seem eternally just around the corner. Computational time is also infrastructural: the lag in software updates pushed to the cloud and then to fleets of driverless cars and mobile phones (Mattern\, 2017). Temporality works unevenly affording ‘just in time’ deliveries for the busy\, but at the cost of bio-social control of delivery workers and on-demand mobility service providers (Sharma\, 2014). \nPresented by:\nUCLA Department of Information Studies \nCosponsored by: \nUCLA Center for the Study of Women|Barbra Streisand Center
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/auto-correct-fantasies-failures-of-ai-ethics-in-the-driverless-car/
LOCATION:Murphy Hall 3312
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250613
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250615
DTSTAMP:20260519T084225
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SUMMARY:Live Performance: Miguel Gutierrez's "Super Nothing"
DESCRIPTION:Super Nothing Dance Performance \nCAP/UCLA presents\nSuper Nothing\nFriday June 13 and Saturday June 14\nFreud Playhouse\n245 Charles E Young Dr E\, Los Angeles\, CA 90024\nInformation/Tickets \nWhat can a dance do to confront the constant grief that we experience in our lives? Super Nothing presents four dancers whose actions and choreographic relationships are analogues for how people support each other to survive. Interdependence takes multiple forms\, as the performers move through representations of the past to create a blueprint for a new future. This piece extends Gutierrez’s interest over the past few years in creating “choreography for the end of the world.” \nChoreography/Direction Miguel Gutierrez\nPerformer/Collaborators: Jay Carlon\, Evelyn Lilian Sanchez Narvaez\, Justin Faircloth\, Wendell Gray II\nLighting Designer: Carolina Ortiz (UCLA Alum!)\nComposer: Rosana Cabán\, with contributions from Miguel Gutierrez\nCostume Designer: Jeremy Wood\nDramaturgical Assistance: Stephanie Acosta\nProduction Stage Manager: Cat Urquhart\nManagement: Michelle Fletcher
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/super-nothing-dance-performance/
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250529T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250529T190000
DTSTAMP:20260519T084225
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SUMMARY:Cristina Pérez Díaz to present “From the Founding of the Country” on May 29
DESCRIPTION:The UCLA Departments of Classics\, English\, Spanish & Portuguese\, Chicano/a & Central American Studies\, as well as the Center for the Study of Women proudly present a reading of “From the Founding of the Country” by classicist\, writer\, and translator Cristina Pérez Díaz (University of Puerto Rico) followed by a conversation with UCLA Professor Patrícia Lino (Department of Spanish & Portuguese) on May 29 in Dodd 248 at 5pm.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/cristina-perez-diaz-to-present-from-the-founding-of-the-country-on-may-29/
LOCATION:Dodd Room 248
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:Fighting Two Battles: Inside California’s Inmate Firefighting Program
DESCRIPTION:When: Tuesday May 27\, 2025\, 7:30 PM \nWhere: Hammer Museum \nLearn more.  \nAdmission is free. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come\, first served basis. Box office opens one hour before the event. \nAmong those fighting the L.A. fires earlier this year were incarcerated individuals participating in California’s controversial inmate firefighting program. This forum examines the program from the perspectives of formerly incarcerated firefighters\, including issues around compensation and potential program reforms. \nModerator Romarilyn Ralston\, a black feminist abolitionist who served 23 years in prison and now leads the Justice Education Center for the Claremont Colleges\, will guide a discussion with panelists Cody Ridley\, Lead Captain of the Golden Eagles Hotshots at Sycuan Indian Reservation and a former inmate firefighter; Brooks Tims\, combat veteran\, EMT\, and Lead Wildland Firefighter with the inmate firefighters program; and Amika Mota\, Executive Director of Sister Warriors Freedom Coalition and former incarcerated firefighter who authored a moving op-ed in Teen Vogue on her experiences. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhoto caption: A line of inmates dressed in orange firefighting gear\, digging a trench Inmate firefighters dig a containment line as they battle the Palisades Fire on January 11\, 2025 in Los Angeles\, California.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/fighting-two-battles-inside-californias-inmate-firefighting-program/
LOCATION:UCLA Hammer Museum – Galleries\, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250523T080000
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SUMMARY:Symposium – Women and Goddesses in Jainism
DESCRIPTION:Photo credit: Samyak Modi \nWhen: Friday\, May 23\nWhere: Hershey Hall Salon \nThroughout the history of Jainism\, one of the world’s oldest living religions\, Jain women have played a crucial role. Jain renouncers\, whose self-denying lifestyle is revered as the highest ideal\, are predominantly female\, while Jain laywomen tend to be significantly more religiously active than their male counterparts. In this symposium\, speakers will provide a range of perspectives on human and divine womanhood in Jain life and thought. Talks will cover the definition of gender in Jain philosophical texts\, Jain goddess-worship and changing gender roles in the contemporary Jain diaspora. \nRSVP here for this in-person event. \nRegister here for a Zoom link. \n  \nSYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE: \n2:00 – 2:05: Welcome and introduction\, Anahita Hoose (UCLA)\, symposium organizer & moderator \n2:05 – 2:45: Ana Bajželj (UC Riverside): Defining Gender in Śvetāmbara Texts \n2:45 – 3:30: Venu Mehta (Claremont School of Theology): Reconceptualizing “Goddess” in Jainism: Devotional Practices for the Jain Goddess Padmāvatī among the Śvetāmbar Mūrtipūjak Jains in Gujarat \n3:30 – 3:45: Break \n3:45 – 4:30: Shivani Bothra (Cal State Long Beach): Spiritual Equality or Social Boundaries: Redefining Gender Roles in Diasporic Jainism \n4:30 – 5:00: Concluding Discussion \n  \nSYMPOSIUM PRESENTERS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF THEIR PAPERS: \nAna Bajželj is Associate Professor and Shrimad Rajchandra Endowed Chair in Jain Studies in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of California\, Riverside. She was previously a research fellow at the University of Rajasthan and the Polonsky Academy (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute)\, and she taught at the University of Ljubljana and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses on Jain philosophy\, particularly metaphysics\, ethics\, and philosophy of mind. She is the author of The Nature of Change in Jaina Philosophy (Ljubljana University Press\, 2016\, in Slovenian) and the co-author of Insistent Life: Principles for Bioethics in the Jain Tradition (UC Press\, 2021). She is currently working on a monograph study of the Tattvārthasūtra and its commentaries. \n“Defining Gender in Śvetāmbara Texts” \nThis presentation analyzes Jain canonical definitions of the term “man” (puruṣa) from a set of standpoints listed in the Sthānāṅga (Ṭhāṇaṃga). These include (1) name (nāman)\, representation (sthāpanā)\, and potentiality (dravya); (2) knowledge (jñāna)\, view (darśana)\, and conduct (caritra); (3) sexual orientation (veda)\, mark (cihna)\, and (verbal) expression (abhilāpa); and (4) superiority (uttamapuruṣa)\, mediocrity (madhyamapuruṣa)\, and inferiority (jaghanyapuruṣa)\, each with three further subcategories. The presentation explores the semantic range of the term indicated by these standpoints by examining similar passages in other Śvetāmbara texts and considers its significance within the broader context of the Jain discussions on gender. \nDr. Venu Mehta is an Assistant Professor of Jainism and Comparative Spiritualities at the Claremont School of Theology. Her research primarily focuses on Jainism\, with a specialization in Jain regional-vernacular devotional literature\, narratives\, and practices. Her doctoral dissertation examines the devotion to the Jain goddess Padmāvatī among Śvetāmbar Mūrtipūjak Jains in Gujarat\, highlighting the interplay between regional devotional expressions and broader Jain theological frameworks. \nBeyond her work on Jain goddess traditions\, Dr. Mehta’s scholarship extends to the Jain concept of forgiveness and the intersections of aparigraha (non-possessiveness) with human dignity\, sustainability\, and Gandhian economic thought. Her recent research and publications also engage in Jain-Hindu comparative theologies and spiritualities\, particularly in relation to goddess traditions. \nIn addition to her expertise in Jain studies\, Dr. Mehta teaches courses on South Asian religious traditions\, comparative spiritualities\, and gender and women in spiritual practices. Her methodological approach integrates ethnographic research with textual analysis\, emphasizing the lived experiences\, devotional expressions\, and ritual practices of Jain communities. \n“Reconceptualizing “Goddess” in Jainism: Devotional Practices for the Jain Goddess Padmāvatī among the Śvetāmbar Mūrtipūjak Jains in Gujarat” \nThis presentation explores how Śvetāmbar Mūrtipūjak Jains in Gujarat reconceptualize the goddess Padmāvatī through their devotional practices\, positioning her as a central female form of divinity within Jain religious tradition. Though Jainism primarily emphasizes the worship of the Tīrthaṅkars\, Padmāvatī\, a śāsanadevatā (guardian deity) and yakṣī of Pārśvanāth\, has been accorded exceptional devotion. By examining vernacular literature\, narratives\, and regional practices from the late sixteenth century to contemporary times\, I argue that Jains in Gujarat have actively shaped a distinct space for goddess worship\, elevating Padmāvatī from an attendant deity to Śakti\, the Great Goddess\, and the Mother Goddess. This process of reimagining Padmāvatī involves a synthesis of universal Jain values with regional devotional expressions\, contributing to the dynamics of democratization\, universalization\, and regionalization in Jain religious life. Lay Jains play a crucial role in this transformation\, engaging with Padmāvatī’s legacy through non-esoteric devotional practices and literature\, thus reaffirming her place within their religious framework. Ultimately\, this presentation highlights how Padmāvatī’s evolving identity reflects broader patterns of Jain devotionalism\, redefining the boundaries of feminine divinity within the Jain tradition in Gujarat. \nShivani Bothra is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at California State University\, Long Beach. Before this\, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Rice University in Houston\, USA\, and taught as a lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. She earned her doctorate from the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Her focus is South Asian traditions\, Jainism\, and Nonviolence. Shivani’s primary research areas are religious education and transnational Jainism\, emphasizing Contemporary Jains. \n“Spiritual Equality or Social Boundaries: Redefining Gender Roles in Diasporic Jainism” \nThis paper critically examines how gender roles in Jain diasporic communities are being redefined or reframed in ways distinct from traditional Indian contexts. How do education\, modern professions\, business ethics\, and transnational networks influence the agency and status of Jain laywomen? In what ways do diasporic Jain women navigate their identities\, negotiating between Indian religious traditions and evolving feminist discourses in their new sociocultural environments? Drawing on structured interviews with early Jain diaspora women\, this research aims to shed light on the evolving spiritual and social roles of Jain women in a transnational context\, assessing the extent to which diasporic Jainism fosters new models of gender participation and leadership. \nThis event is presented by the UCLA Center for the Study of Religion. It is co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women | Barbra Streisand Center.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/symposium-women-and-goddesses-in-jainism/
LOCATION:Hershey Salon
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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