The Musical and Its Others, Then and Now

UCLA

Song, Stage, and Screen XIII: The Musical and Its Others, Then and Now Organized by the UCLA Center for Musical Humanities Dates: May 31-June 3, 2018 Locations: Royce Hall, Schoenberg Music Building, and Kerckhoff Hall Program, Schedule, and Registration Information: https://cmh.schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/sss-conference-2018/ Keynote Speakers: Stacy Wolf, Theatre, Princeton University Shana Redmond, Musicology and African American Studies, […]

“Hope” — Part of Transformation: Lectures, Conversations and Storytelling about Healing and Social Action

Young Research Library, Conference Room UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Part of the series Transformation: Lectures, Conversations, and Stories About Healing and Social Action, sponsored by Repair. Stories by Kandee Rochelle Lewis, Anam Ella Durrani, Shawna Charles Welcome and Introductions by Rachel Lee, Director, UCLA Center for the Study of Women Opening lecture by Beth Ribet Hope is the second event in the Transformation storytelling series. The series […]

Hannah Kosstrin, “Honest Bodies: Methods for Transnational Dance Analysis”

230 Kaufman Hall

Honest Bodies: Methods for Transnational Dance Analysis Book talk by Hannah Kosstrin, Ohio State University Organized by the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance Date: October 9, 2018 Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Location: 230 Kaufman Hall Anna Sokolow’s choreography circulated American modernist and communist ideologies through predominantly Jewish channels of the international […]

Sami Schalk, “Bodyminds Reimagined: Disability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction”

UCLA Powell Library, East Rotunda

Bodyminds Reimagined: Disability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction Book Talk with Dr. Sami Schalk, Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison Date: Wednesday, October 17 Time: 2:30 - 4:00 PM Location: UCLA Powell Library, East Rotunda This event is wheelchair accessible and will have an ASL Interpreter In Bodyminds […]

Tammy Ko Robinson, “Korean Adoptees, Deportation, and Statelessness”

Korean Adoptees, Deportation, and Statelessness A Talk by Tammy Ko Robinson, Associate Professor of Art, Hanyang University, Seoul Organized by the Department of Asian American Studies Date: October 18, 2018 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Location: Due to space limitations, location will be provided upon RSVP. RSVP: Email Grace Hong at gracehongucla@gmail.com Tammy Ko […]

Beauty Bites Beast: The Missing Conversation About Ending Violence

208 Kaufman Hall

Beauty Bites Beast: The Missing Conversation About Ending Violence Organized by the Department of World Arts and Culture/Dance Featuring Director Ellen Snortland Date: October 24, 2018 Time: 5:00 - 8:00 PM Location: 208 Kaufman Hall Beauty Bites Beast is a documentary film that tracks women's empowerment self-defense training in three national locations, the US, Mexico, […]

New Directions in Black Atlantic Religion

10383 Bunche Hall UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Organized by the African Studies Center and presented by UC Multi-campus Research Group on New Approaches to Black Atlantic Religions and University of California Office of the President Multi-campus Research Programs & Initiative Funding (MRPI) Date: Saturday, October 27, 2018 Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Location: 10383 Bunche Hall Program: http://www.international.ucla.edu/asc/event/13430 The conference is […]

#masshysteria. Hysteria, Politics, and Performance Strategies

Royce 306

#masshysteria. Hysteria, Politics, and Performance Strategies A conference organized by the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies and the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies Date: November 1, 2018 Time: 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM Location: 306 Royce Hall RSVP: https://french.ucla.edu/event/masshysteria-hysteria-politics-and-performance-strategies-conference/ In Europe, especially in Vienna and Paris, around 1900, the hysterical girl […]

A Time to Stir: The 1968 Columbia Student Uprising

Melnitz 1409: James Bridges Theater

Screening and Conversation with Director Paul Cronin   Organized by Susan Slyomovics, UCLA Department of Anthropology Date: November 4, 2018 Time: 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM Location: James Bridges Theater A screening of the seven-hour-long documentary film, with discussion with director Paul Cronin.     Co-Sponsored by: Center for the Study of Women Department of […]

#masshysteria. Trans*: Hystories, Bodies and the Unbuilding of Worlds

10383 Bunche Hall UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Guest Lecture by Jack Halberstam Professor of English, Comparative Literature and Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Columbia University. This guest lecture is part of the UCLA event series #masshysteria. Hysteria, Politics, and Performance Strategies organized by the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies. Date: Monday, November 5, 2018 Time: 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm Location: 10383 […]

Black Feminism and the Practice of Care

Sequoia Room, Faculty Center UCLA, Los Angeles

A one-day symposium on black women's care, wellness, and healing presented by the UC Consortium for Black Studies in California. This event explores the relationship between individual practices of care and care as an investment in communities (particularly those haunted by precarity and disposability), and reimagines care (and harm and depletion) as emerging not just from late […]

Raquel Medina, “Gendering Alzheimer’s Disease: Mothers, Daughters, and Sisters”

Rolfe 2125

A talk by Raquel Medina, Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Director of CinemAGEnder International Research Network, Aston University Organized by the UCLA Department of Gender Studies Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 Time: 3:00 - 5:00 PM Location: 2125 Rolfe Hall This presentation will provide a comparative and cross-cultural analysis of cinematic representations of Alzheimer’s disease […]