Film Screening of “Maria Schneider, 1983” and Q & A with Elisabeth Subrin

When: Thursday, December 7, 2023 Where: TBD Researching the life and career of Maria Schneider (The Passenger, Last Tango in Paris) for a larger project, filmmaker Elisabeth Subrin discovered a brief interview the actress gave in 1983 for the French TV show Cinéma Cinéma. It’s a conversation alternately defiant and mournful, with Schneider reflecting with […]

Film Screening: Food and Country Screening and Q&A

Where: James Bridges Theater When: December 7, 7 pm Register here. Attend a film screening, Food and Country. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director, Laura Gabbert, and Chef Minh Phan. About the film: Documentarian Laura Gabbert (City of Gold) and chef/writer/editor Ruth Reichl chronicle the plight of the American food industry […]

Talk and Reception: Professor Salamishah Tillet

When: January 10, 4 pm Where: UCLA Royce Hall 314 Professor Salamishah Tillet Pulitzer Prize-winning contributing critic-at-large at The New York Times: "'Rather Than Her Biography': Listening to Nina Simone's Diary" "If we can draw out the emphasis on the female vocalist's art, rather than her biographies" critic Hortense Spillers once wrote. "Then we gather […]

Welcome Reception for 2024 UCLA Activists-in-Residence

Perloff Hall DeCafe

Where: UCLA Perloff Hall, DeCafe 365 Portola Plaza Room 1302 Los Angeles, CA 90095 When: Wednesday, January 24, 2024 · 4 - 6 pm PST RSVP Here With a shared commitment to “turn the university inside out” and invite artists, community organizers, and movement leaders to undertake power-shifting scholarship and pedagogy focused on social change, […]

Reconsidering Music, Technology, and Gender: A Symposium

Schoenberg Music Building 445 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, United States

Sponsored by UCLA Center for Musical Humanities and Center for the Study of Women|Barbara Streisand Center. When: January 27, 2024 Where: Lani Hall, Schoenberg Music Building, UCLA Conference Description The ways sounding technologies contribute to the articulation of musical lives and social selves has been a growing area of scholarly interest over the past several […]

Film Screening: Fenomenal, Rompeforma 1989-1996

Presented by the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance Where: Kaufman 200, 120 Westwood Plaza When: Monday, January 29, 2024, 2:30-5 pm Free and open to the public. Join the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance for a film screening of Fenomenal, Rompeforma 1989-1996, followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers Merián Soto […]

Anne LeBaron: Portrait Concert of a Trailblazing Composer

Where: Lani Hall - Schoenberg Music Building 445 Charles E. Young Drive East Los Angeles, 90095 When: Wednesday, February 7, 7-8:30 pm PST RSVP Internationally acclaimed composer and harpist Anne LeBaron marks her illustrious tenure at CalArts with a retrospective concert at UCLA’s Lani Hall, on Wednesday, February 7, at 7 PM. The program, encapsulating […]

Book Talk: Feng-Mei Heberer

Where: Darren Star Theater (Melnitz 1422A) When: Wednesday, February 14, 2 pm-3:50 pm Join CSW|Streisand Center and the School of Theater, Film and Television for a book talk with author Feng-Mei Heberer, discussing, "Undoing Documentation as Racialized State Surveillance: the Moving Image Undocument." This talk examines visual documentation and the documentary form in their intimate […]

Racializing Reproduction: Maternal Mortality, Asian American Women and COVID-19

Rolfe 2125

Where: UCLA Rolfe Hall room 2125 When: February 26, 2024, Monday, 1:00 - 3:00 pm RSVP Here. Join us for a Visiting Scholar public lecture by Lalaie Ameeriar (Associate Professor, Anthropology, York University) in collaboration with UCLA Institute of American Cultures - Asian American Studies Center. This talk is part of a larger ethnographic study […]

Panel: How to Translate Your Work for a General Audience

When: Wednesday, February 28, 3 pm  Where: Lani Hall (Schoenberg Music Building, UCLA) RSVP Here. Please join us for a panel on public scholarship, specifically on how to write for non-academic audiences. The 2023-24 UCLA Editor in Residence, Public Scholarship Fellow, Tom Lutz (Los Angeles Review of Books, Founding Editor) will be joined by Josh […]

UCLA Center for Reproductive Science, Health and Education (CRSHE) Distinguished Speaker Series

Where: California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), UCLA Campus When: Thursday, February 29, 2024 3:00 p.m. Reception to follow. RVSP Here UCLA Center for Reproductive Science, Health and Education (CRSHE) Distinguished Speaker Series featuring L.A. County Supervisor Holly Mitchell. Join us for a conversation with L.A. County Supervisor Holly Mitchell and CRSHE Director Amander Clark about Black […]

Department of English Presents: One Million Experiments Film Screening & Discussion

When: Thursday, March 7 at 4:00 pm Where: Royce Hall 314 10745 Dickson Ct. Los Angeles, CA 90095 RSVP here.  Join us for a screening of the short documentary One Million Experiments, followed by a conversation with Damon A. Williams, Daniel Kisslinger, and Los Angeles-based organizers. One Million Experiments is a multimodal project that explores […]