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Urgent Issues Forum/Foro Urgente: The Assassination of Berta Cáceres and the Future of Indigenous and Afrodescendant Environmental and Land Rights in Honduras

Charles E. Young Research Library, Presentation Room

On March 2, 2016, award-winning Lenca environmental and indigenous rights activist Berta Cáceres was assassinated in her home in Honduras. She had received multiple threats from military and paramilitary groups linked to the mining and dams interests that she opposed. Gustavo Castro, a Mexican activist who was in Berta's home and was injured in the […]

Black Feminism, The Carceral State, and Abolition

Royce 314

A Book Talk by Sarah Haley with responses by Mariame Kaba and Dayo Gore Drawing upon black feminist criticism and a diverse array of archival materials, Sarah Haley’s No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity illuminates black women’s experiences of imprisonment in the South to uncover how gendered regimes of […]

Chinyere Oparah

Charles E. Young Research Library, Presentation Room

Birth Matters: Research Justice and Black Life African American women are 3 to 4 times as likely as white women to die of childbirth related causes, our infants are twice as likely not to survive their first year. "Birthing while black" is a site of struggle, which for too many leads to disabling, trauma or […]

Women’s Reproductive Health and the Environment

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

Advocacy Through Education Women's Reproductive Health and the Environment: Best Practices for Los Angeles County A free symposium that will bring together health professionals, community activists, researchers, academicians, civic and business leaders, politicians, and government officials to learn about best practices related to research, policy, and community advocacy. Plenary Session Update on the Hidden Reproductive […]

Christina Sharpe, “In the Wake: On Blackness and Being”

Humanities 193 UCLA

Christina Sharpe is Associate Professor of English at Tufts University and the author of Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subject. Her research interests are in black visual culture, black diaspora studies, and feminist epistemologies, with a particular emphasis on black female subjectivity and black women artists. This talk will draw from In the Wake: On Blackness […]

Scope Lab Workshops

3261A Broad Art Center, UCLA UCLA, Los Angeles

Scope Lab is a workshop series focused on exploring code as a creative medium with which to understand and represent diverse perspectives. These studies are framed by the questions: “Whose perspectives are represented?”, “Who has access to the tools to learn and express themselves?”, and “How do we design tools and projects that are more […]

Disability as Spectacle

Luskin Conference Center

Keynote Addresses: ROSEMARIE GARLAND-THOMSON, Professor of English & Bioethics at Emory University DJ KURS, Artistic Director for Deaf West Theatre KAREN NAKAMURA, Robert and Colleen Haas Distinguished Chair in Disability Studies and Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley UCLA’s Disability Studies program announces a two-day conference on Disability as Spectacle (April 13-14, […]

Dissident Friendships: Feminism, Imperialism, and Transnational Solidarity

Rolfe 2125

This talk focuses on the ways that feminist scholars have negotiated the complicated, conflicted, and contradictory terrain of friendship. It offers fresh perspectives on feminists' invested, reluctant, and selective uses of the nation; reflects on how the arts contribute to conversations about feminism, dissent, resistance, and solidarity; and unpacks the details of transnational dissident friendships. […]