Please join the UCLA Center for Korean Studies as Don Mee Choi reads from her latest collection of poetry entitled Hardly War (2016). Using visual artifacts from her father’s archive, a photographer during the Korean and Viet Nam wars, Choi combines imagery with poetry, opera, and memoir to examine the devastating impact of the unfinished […]
Part of The Philippines and its Elsewheres A series organized by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies Featuring: Maria Josephine Barrios-LeBlanc, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley Nenita Domingo, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA Kie Zuraw, Department of Linguistics. UCLA This interdisciplinary panel of speakers discusses what it means […]
Organized by the UC Consortium for Black Studies in California Ula Y. Taylor discusses her recently published book, The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam (UNC Press, 2017). The patriarchal structure of the Nation of Islam (NOI) promised black women the prospect of finding a provider and a protector among the organization’s […]
Organized by the UCLA Department of English Date: May 4, 2018 Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Location: California Room, UCLA Faculty Center The one-day Crescent Moon Symposium (May 4, 2018) explores the lives of philosopher Hu Shih 胡适 (1891-1962), poet Xu Zhimo 徐志摩 (1897-1931), scholar/Shakespearean Liang Shiqiu 梁实秋, writer/painter Ling Shuhua 凌淑华 (1900-1990), and […]
Representing the Sex Industries With Dr. Beth Ribet, Co-Director of Repair Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 Time: 4:00 - 6:00 PM Location: UCLA School of Law, Room 3467 In this lecture and dialogue, Dr. Beth Ribet, who will be introduced by Professor Claudia Peña, will address the framing and representation of people in systems of […]
Organized by the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature DATE: May 25, 2018 TIME: 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM LOCATION: 314 Royce Hall RSVP: http://complit.ucla.edu/event/area-impossible-sexuality-geopolitics/ Within queer studies, the geopolitical has posed a much-needed challenge to the spatial and temporal logics of the field (logics that often mire the field in the US), especially in the […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
