Film Screening: Food and Country Screening and Q&A

Where: James Bridges Theater When: December 7, 7 pm Register here. Attend a film screening, Food and Country. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director, Laura Gabbert, and Chef Minh Phan. About the film: Documentarian Laura Gabbert (City of Gold) and chef/writer/editor Ruth Reichl chronicle the plight of the American food industry […]

Talk and Reception: Professor Salamishah Tillet

When: January 10, 4 pm Where: UCLA Royce Hall 314 Professor Salamishah Tillet Pulitzer Prize-winning contributing critic-at-large at The New York Times: "'Rather Than Her Biography': Listening to Nina Simone's Diary" "If we can draw out the emphasis on the female vocalist's art, rather than her biographies" critic Hortense Spillers once wrote. "Then we gather […]

Welcome Reception for 2024 UCLA Activists-in-Residence

Perloff Hall DeCafe

Where: UCLA Perloff Hall, DeCafe 365 Portola Plaza Room 1302 Los Angeles, CA 90095 When: Wednesday, January 24, 2024 · 4 - 6 pm PST RSVP Here With a shared commitment to “turn the university inside out” and invite artists, community organizers, and movement leaders to undertake power-shifting scholarship and pedagogy focused on social change, […]

Reconsidering Music, Technology, and Gender: A Symposium

Schoenberg Music Building 445 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, United States

Sponsored by UCLA Center for Musical Humanities and Center for the Study of Women|Barbara Streisand Center. When: January 27, 2024 Where: Lani Hall, Schoenberg Music Building, UCLA Conference Description The ways sounding technologies contribute to the articulation of musical lives and social selves has been a growing area of scholarly interest over the past several […]

Film Screening: Fenomenal, Rompeforma 1989-1996

Presented by the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance Where: Kaufman 200, 120 Westwood Plaza When: Monday, January 29, 2024, 2:30-5 pm Free and open to the public. Join the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance for a film screening of Fenomenal, Rompeforma 1989-1996, followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers Merián Soto […]

Anne LeBaron: Portrait Concert of a Trailblazing Composer

Where: Lani Hall - Schoenberg Music Building 445 Charles E. Young Drive East Los Angeles, 90095 When: Wednesday, February 7, 7-8:30 pm PST RSVP Internationally acclaimed composer and harpist Anne LeBaron marks her illustrious tenure at CalArts with a retrospective concert at UCLA’s Lani Hall, on Wednesday, February 7, at 7 PM. The program, encapsulating […]

Book Talk: Feng-Mei Heberer

Where: Darren Star Theater (Melnitz 1422A) When: Wednesday, February 14, 2 pm-3:50 pm Join CSW|Streisand Center and the School of Theater, Film and Television for a book talk with author Feng-Mei Heberer, discussing, "Undoing Documentation as Racialized State Surveillance: the Moving Image Undocument." This talk examines visual documentation and the documentary form in their intimate […]

Racializing Reproduction: Maternal Mortality, Asian American Women and COVID-19

Rolfe 2125

Where: UCLA Rolfe Hall room 2125 When: February 26, 2024, Monday, 1:00 - 3:00 pm RSVP Here. Join us for a Visiting Scholar public lecture by Lalaie Ameeriar (Associate Professor, Anthropology, York University) in collaboration with UCLA Institute of American Cultures - Asian American Studies Center. This talk is part of a larger ethnographic study […]

Panel: How to Translate Your Work for a General Audience

When: Wednesday, February 28, 3 pm  Where: Lani Hall (Schoenberg Music Building, UCLA) RSVP Here. Please join us for a panel on public scholarship, specifically on how to write for non-academic audiences. The 2023-24 UCLA Editor in Residence, Public Scholarship Fellow, Tom Lutz (Los Angeles Review of Books, Founding Editor) will be joined by Josh […]

UCLA Center for Reproductive Science, Health and Education (CRSHE) Distinguished Speaker Series

Where: California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), UCLA Campus When: Thursday, February 29, 2024 3:00 p.m. Reception to follow. RVSP Here UCLA Center for Reproductive Science, Health and Education (CRSHE) Distinguished Speaker Series featuring L.A. County Supervisor Holly Mitchell. Join us for a conversation with L.A. County Supervisor Holly Mitchell and CRSHE Director Amander Clark about Black […]

Department of English Presents: One Million Experiments Film Screening & Discussion

When: Thursday, March 7 at 4:00 pm Where: Royce Hall 314 10745 Dickson Ct. Los Angeles, CA 90095 RSVP here.  Join us for a screening of the short documentary One Million Experiments, followed by a conversation with Damon A. Williams, Daniel Kisslinger, and Los Angeles-based organizers. One Million Experiments is a multimodal project that explores […]

The Manicurist’s Daughter: Memoir Reading with Susan Lieu

Where: Math Sciences, Rm 5200 When: April 4, 2024, 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM (Pacific Time) RSVP here. Please join us in welcoming writer and performance artist Susan Lieu, who will read from her new book, The Manicurist's Daughter, an emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees […]