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 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, […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Image: New Victims by Zoya Cherkassky Organized by the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies The tremendous diversity of Israeli society, comprised of Jews from around the world, Palestinian Arabs and Druze (among others) with differing national ties, religious beliefs and cultural mores, leads to a complex nexus of overlapping and often conflicting affiliations […]
A talk by Pallabi Chakravorty, Professor at Swarthmore College Organized by the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance Date: Monday, February 25, 2019 Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Location: Kaufman Hall 108 Registration Pallabi Chakravorty is a leading scholar of South Asian performance and has recently published her second monograph, This Is How We […]
Organized by the UCLA Career Center Panel discussion and scenario practice to help graduate students learn how to navigate gender-based issues in academia, including unwanted, inappropriate behavior from faculty, staff, and peers; exclusionary behavior and practices; and gender-specific concerns like breast-feeding. Date: Friday, March 8, 2019 Time: 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Location: Royce 314 […]
Organized by the Iris Cantor-UCLA Women's Health Education & Research Center and the Los Angeles County Lesbian and Bisexual Women's Health Collaborative The Lesbian and Bisexual Women's Health Collaborative, or LBWHC, was created by individuals concerned about health disparities for lesbian and bisexual women in Los Angeles County and is made up of individuals and […]
