California Digital Humanities Research Institute: The Black Press

UC Irvine/Virtual

Organized by the UCLA Library Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2022-Friday, April 29,2022 Time: 10:00 AM (all days) Location: Online/Zoom REGISTER ONLINE CaliDHRI is a free, annual digital ethnic studies institute inspired and co-sponsored by CUNY DHRI as well as UC Irvine Libraries and UCLA Library. The inaugural CaliDHRI will center Black digital humanities thematically while focusing on California-centric research questions […]

Naming, Understanding, and Playing with Metaphors in Music

Organized by the UCLA Practice-Based Experimental Epistemology Research (PEER) Lab DATE: Friday, April 29-Saturday, April 30 TIME: Begins 9:00 AM (Friday, April 29) LOCATION: Zoom (registration required) CALL FOR PAPERS REGISTER TO ATTEND If music and sound are “thick events” that exceed our ability to grasp them fully (see Eidsheim 2015), what resources do we […]

Representing Disability After CODA

Organized by the Department of Theater DATE: Friday, May 13, 2022 TIME: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM (PDT) LOCATION: Darren Star Screening Room (Melnitz 1422) As part of an increased recognition of the importance of thinking intersectionally and with respect to the feminist and gendered aspects of current disability and representation theories, the UCLA Theater Department is […]

Permanence and Decay

Royce Hall UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Organized by The Graduate Students Association in the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies Date: May 23 and May 24, 2022 Time: 9:00 AM-3:30 PM (PST) Location: Royce Hall 306 and 314 REGISTER ONLINE CONFERENCE WEBSITE Tensions between permanence and decay are constitutive features of European culture. Periods during which cultural and political conventions […]

WACD Speaker Series: Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Online/Zoom

Organized by UCLA World Arts and Cultures/Dance Date: Tuesday, May 24, 2022 Time: 4:00 PM (PDT) Location: Online/Zoom and Kaufman 240 (RSVP required for in-person participation) ZOOM ROOM (for online viewing) EVENTBRITE REGISTRATION (for in-person participation) WACD BEYOND PUNISHMENT SPEAKER SERIES PRESENTS Copper Wires: Solidarity and Intimacy (for Audre Lorde) by Alexis Pauline Gumbs Based […]

Center for Justice at UCLA Launch: “Lyrics from Lockdown”

Organized by the Center for Justice at UCLA and the Skirball Cultural Center Date: Thursday, June 2, 2022 Time: 7:00 PM-10:00 PM (PST) (Doors open at 6) Location: Skirball Cultural Center BUY TICKETS The Skirball Cultural Center and Los Angeles Philharmonic present Lyrics from Lockdown, a groundbreaking multimedia production created by theater innovator Bryonn Bain. Exposing the […]

Lavender Graduation

Organized by the LGBTQ Campus Resource Center DATE: Saturday, June 11, 2022 TIME: 1:00−3:00 PM LOCATION: Korn Convocation Hall, UCLA Anderson School of Management Lavender Graduation is an annual ceremony conducted on numerous campuses to honor lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer students and to acknowledge their achievements and contributions to their universities. EVENT DETAILS

Caring is Connecting: The Extractive Logics of AI Voice Assistants in the Home

111 GSEIS Building 290 Charles E. Young Drive N, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Organized by the Center for Critical Internet Inquiry and the UCLA School of Education & Information Studies Date: Thursday, October 6, 2022 Time: 3:00 PM Location: GSE&IS Room 111 Reception and refreshments to follow in the IS Salon. “More peace of mind as your loved ones need more care.” This tag line appears in large, bolded […]

Writing Health Through Black Feminist Theory

Hershey Hall Grand Salon Rm. 158 612 Charles E Young Dr East, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Organized by the Department of African American Studies and the Collaboratory for Black Feminist Health and Healing Date: Monday, October 24, 2022 Time: 3:00-5:00 PM Location: Hershey Hall Grand Salon Rm. 158 and Online/Zoom Natali Valdez, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Purdue University, will be speaking about her recent book: Weighing the Future: Race, Science, and Pregnancy Trials in the […]

Public Health Consequences of the Criminalization of Abortion

Online/Zoom

Organized by the David Geffen School of Medicine and the Iris Cantor - UCLA Women's Health Center Date: Wednesday, November 2, 2022 Time: 8:30-9:30 AM Location: Online/Zoom This event will discuss the public health consequences and implications of criminalizing abortion.

Elemental Cartographies in an Era of Climate Change

Charles E. Young Research Library, Presentation Room

Organized by the Department of English and the Department of Gender Studies Date: Tuesday, November 8, 2022 Time: 3:30-6:00 PM Location: Charles E. Young Research Library Presentation Room 11348 As we bear witness to the wastelanding of the earth by late liberal capital, Kānaka Maoli are recovering ancestral knowledges encoded in oli (chants) and moʻolelo […]