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Reproductive Health and the Environment in Los Angeles County: Best Practices for Los Angeles County

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

Free Symposium organized by the Iris Cantor-UCLA Women's Health Center Plenary Session Environmental Policies of the New Administration that Impact Women’s Health and California’s Response Symposium Topics Addressing the Impact of Poor Air, Soil, and Water Quality on Preconception, Prenatal, and Children’s Health in Relation to: Grassroots Advocacy Applying Research into Action Policy and Legislative […]

Weaving Generations Together: Opening Reception

Powell Library Main and East Rotundas UCLA

Please join us at Powell Library for the opening reception to Weaving Generations Together: Evolving Creativity in the Maya of Chiapas. This exhibition explores cultural transmission and learning through children’s play weaving and apprenticeship in the Maya Highland community of Zincantán, Chiapas, Mexico. The exhibition sho ws over one hundred textiles from Zincantán drawn from […]

Disability Awareness Week

October 9-13 is Disability Awareness Week at UCLA! The week’s events include: Center for Accessible Education Open House Learn about accessibility resources available through CAE and CAPS DATE: Monday, October 9 TIME: 11 AM - 1 PM LOCATION: A255 Murphy Hall UCLA Committee on Disability Open Meeting Meet the committee and discuss your accessibility concerns […]

For those walking to the border for dear life, and for those seeking a place of kinship in resistance: A performance and conversation with Merlinda Bobis

Humanities 193 UCLA

Through performance and conversation with Distinguished Professor Sherene Razack, award-winning poet, novelist and dramatist Merlinda Bobis reflects on Philippine indigenous values of kinship and the intertwined journey of writer-and-characters in her novels Locust Girl. A Lovesong (2016 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction) and Fish-Hair Woman (2014 Philippine National Book Award), and in her new poetry […]

Kathleen Sheldon, “African Women: Early History to the 21st Century”

Bunche 6275 UCLA Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Kathleen Sheldon will discuss her recently published book, African Women: Early History to the 21st Century, a comprehensive study of this expansive story from before the time of records to the present day.  Her book provides a rich background on descent systems and the roles of women in matrilineal and patrilineal systems.  She profiles elite […]

Film Screening: Queens of Syria

Northwest Campus Auditoriium UCLA

Queens of Syria tells the story of sixty women from Syria, all forced into exile in Jordan, who came together in Autumn 2013 to create and perform their own version of the Trojan Women, Euripides's tragedy about the plight of women in war. What followed was an extraordinary moment of cross-cultural contact across millennia, in […]

Kathryn Dudley, “Trusting Mustangs: Feral Ontologies, Trans-Species Affects”

352 Haines Hall

Kathryn Dudley's research focuses on embodied knowledge and social trauma under regimes of labor that are marginalized by transformations in global capitalism. Her books The End of the Line: Lost Jobs, New Lives in Postindustrial America and Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in America’s Heartland are community studies, respectively, of deindustrialization and the demise of […]

Film Screening and Discussion: Silent Song of the Genjer Flowers

10383 Bunche Hall UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

This filmed stage play highlights the perspectives of women activists of Gerwani (Indonesian Women’s Movement) who were political prisoners from 1965, suffered sexual violence, and were stigmatized for decades as immoral women in Indonesia. During that time hundreds of thousands of members of the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) or those considered close to the […]

Tiphanie Yanique, “Belonging: Immigrating into Our Own Country”

Humanities 193 UCLA

A reading by Caribbean feminist and author Tiphanie Yanique. Yanique will read from her novel Land of Love and Drowning which deals with U.S. imperialism through the lives of three generations of women on St. Thomas. Land of Love and Drowning won the 2014 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Award from the Center for Fiction, the Phillis […]

Ranjani Mazumdar, “Technological Networks and Obsolescence in Contemporary Bombay Cinema”

Charles E. Young Research Library, Presentation Room

A talk by Ranjani Mazumdar Professor, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Dehli, India Organized by the UCLA Center for India and South Asia This paper looks at the role of media and communication technologies in the sensorial imagination of urban spaces in contemporary Bombay cinema. If surveillance practices and their resultant […]

Film Screening: Dolores

Melnitz 1409: James Bridges Theater

A special screening of Dolores, the new documentary film about activist Dolores Huerta. History tells us Cesar Chavez transformed the U.S. labor movement by leading the first farm workers’ union. But missing from this narrative is his equally influential co-founder, Dolores Huerta, who fought tirelessly alongside Chavez for racial and labor justice and became one […]

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, […]