Film Screening: Dolores
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. […]
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Melnitz 1409: James Bridges Theater
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Josh Lambert, “New Media Jews: Transparent, Podcasting, and the Place of Jews in 21st-Century American Culture”
UCLA Faculty Center Los Angeles, CAA 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 […]
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Trojan Barbie
Little Theater MacGowan Hall, UCLAUCLA 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 […]
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16th Annual Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies
Royce 314Join 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 […]
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Curating Resistance: Punk as Archival Method
306 and 314 Royce Hall UCLAAt 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 […]
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Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, “Moments and Epiphanies in the Life of a Māhū”
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 […]
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Ari Heinrich, “Chinese Bodies as Biological Surplus: Plastinated Cadavers and Geopolitical Hierarchies of the Human””
Humanities 348 UCLAPart of Area Impossible: Sexuality and GeopoliticsThe first event in the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature 2017-2018 Sexuality & Geopolitics Seminar Series will feature Ari Heinrich, Associate Professor of Literature […]
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Aimee Meredith Cox, Now You See Me, Now You Don’t: Black Girls, Dubious Protection, and the Public
352 Haines HallIn 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 […]
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Sexual Violence and Hookup Culture
Fowler Museum UCLAThis 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 […]
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Nicole George, “Women, Peace, and Security through a Vernacular Frame: Global/local frictions in Solomon Islands and Bougainville”
Rolfe 2125Organized 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 […]
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Maria Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, “Indian Given: Racial Geographies Across Mexico and the United States”
Charles E Young Research Library Conference RoomIndian 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 […]
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A Dialogue on the Challenges of Minoritized Academic Fields at this Time
10383 Bunche Hall UCLA, Los Angeles, CAPart 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, […]
