#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 […]

Alternative Narratives in Israeli Art: Gender, Identity and Belonging

Royce 314

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 […]

Pallabi Chakravorty, “This Is How We Dance Now”

108 Kaufman Hall

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 […]

Workshop: Navigating Gender in Academia

Royce 314

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 […]

Lesbian and Bisexual Women’s Health in Los Angeles County: Advocacy, Communication, Policy, and Healthcare Delivery

The California Endowment 1000 North Alameda Sreet, Los Angeles, CA, United States

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 […]

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Saidiya Hartman in Conversation

Perloff Hall DeCafe

Hosted by the UCLA Department of Gender Studies Saidiya Hartman will discuss her book, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, which explores the ways young black women created forms of intimacy and kinship indifferent to the dictates of respectability, and outside the bounds of law. They refused to labor like slaves or to accept degrading conditions of […]

LA Women: Female Voices in Audio

Moore Hall Reading Room UCLA

Organized by the Student Chapter of ARSC at UCLA. The Student Chapter of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) at UCLA welcomes current graduate students, faculty, and staff to benefit from the perspectives of four professionals from the field of music librarianship, audio archiving, and sound preservation for a panel discussion about being female […]

Aretha’s Amazing Grace: From Watts to Detroit

California Nanosystems Institute UCLA

Organized by the UCLA Department of African American Studies This symposium will celebrate the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin's ground breaking and historic Album, Amazing Grace. Topics will include: How Sweet the Sound: Blues Ministry and Black Power Soul Print: Music, Place and Albums The People's Queen: Queering Aretha's sound Speakers will include: Marcus Anthony […]