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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, CA

A 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 21st-century American media? At a moment when companies like Amazon and Netflix were making billion-dollar gambits to reach massive audiences with their own original content, […]

Trojan Barbie

Little Theater MacGowan Hall, UCLA

UCLA 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 who repairs dolls, is captured while on a tour of current-day Troy and flung back into the ancient camp of Euripides' "The Trojan Women." "Trojan […]

16th Annual Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies

Royce 314

Join 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 Bride” Rosie Aroush (UCLA): “A Life of Otherness: The Significance of Familial Support and Community Inclusivity for LGBQ Armenians” Co-sponsors: UCLA Promise Institute for Human […]

Curating Resistance: Punk as Archival Method

306 and 314 Royce Hall UCLA

At 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 and performances are often in defiance of institutional rigors that carve exclusionary boundaries. Yet, as punk celebrates its long fortieth birthday, punk’s contested annals are […]

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 subject of the documentary, “Kumu Hina: The True Meaning of Aloha” (2014, directed by Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson) which won the GLAAD Media Award […]

Ari Heinrich, “Chinese Bodies as Biological Surplus: Plastinated Cadavers and Geopolitical Hierarchies of the Human””

Humanities 348 UCLA

Part 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 and Cultural Studies at UCSD. Their lecture, “Chinese Bodies as Biological Surplus: Plastinated Cadavers and Geopolitical Hierarchies of the Human” will question what a comparative […]

Aimee Meredith Cox, Now You See Me, Now You Don’t: Black Girls, Dubious Protection, and the Public

352 Haines Hall

In 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 urban and suburban U.S., to consider how their experiences in and through various publics offers a reframing of the concepts of protection, social accountability, care, […]

Sexual Violence and Hookup Culture

Fowler Museum UCLA

  This 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 to sexuality and gender during Florida's annual spring break celebration. The panel discussion will discuss the film's relevancy to rape culture on college campuses, drawing […]

Nicole George, “Women, Peace, and Security through a Vernacular Frame: Global/local frictions in Solomon Islands and Bougainville”

Rolfe 2125

Organized 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 key focus of policy making and gender advocacy for those aiming to promote women’s roles in conflict resolution and conflict transition in the western Pacific […]

Maria Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, “Indian Given: Racial Geographies Across Mexico and the United States”

Charles E Young Research Library Conference Room

Indian 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 Visiting Professor of English at UC Berkeley. She is the author of The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development (Duke University […]

A Dialogue on the Challenges of Minoritized Academic Fields at this Time

10383 Bunche Hall UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Part 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, Barnard College Allan Punzalan Isaac, Chair of American Studies and Associate Professor of American Studies and English, Rutgers University Respondent: Steven Nelson, Director, UCLA Center for […]

Don Mee Choi’s Hardly War

Dodd Room 175 UCLA

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 […]