• Awards and Benefit Luncheon 2018

    UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    This event is now past. Photo highlights of the 2018 Awards Luncheon can be viewed HERE. Join the UCLA Center for the Study of Women for a special end of the year event to honor the Center’s accomplishments, student award recipients, and this year's Distinguished Leader in Feminism Award honorees! FEATURING THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS 40 Years in […]

  • Fall Welcome Reception

    Rolfe Courtyard

    Join CSW and the UCLA Department of Gender Studies as we celebrate the start of a new academic year! Join us for an opportunity to meet and network with faculty, students, and staff, and to learn about CSW’s and Gender Studies’ upcoming projects, research, and events. Refreshments will be served. RSVP: To RSVP, please fill […]

  • Eli Clare, “Cautionary Tales: Environmental Injustice, Disability, and Chronic Illness”

    Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon UCLA, Los Angeles

    CSW is delighted to welcome Eli Clare to UCLA to give a talk as part of our Chemical Entanglements research initiative. RSVPs for this event are NOW CLOSED. Standby seats may be available; we encourage you to arrive early if you would like a standby seat. About Eli Clare Photo description: Eli sits on driftwood […]

  • Lara K. Schubert, “Workshopping Postsecular Feminist Subjectivity: An Alternative Inspired by Cambodian Women”

    Rolfe 2125

    CSW Research Affiliate Brown Bag DATE: Friday, January 18 TIME: 12-1:30 PM LOCATION: Rolfe 2125 Participants are welcome to bring a snack or lunch. Cambodian women religious provide insights into rethinking subjectivity.  These women experience empowerment while they subscribe to the restrictive rules of their communities, including gender-specific stipulations. In Schubert’s research in Cambodia, her […]

  • Thinking Gender 2019: Feminists Confronting the Carceral State

    FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2019 UCLA LUSKIN CONFERENCE CENTER REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT IS NOW CLOSED. CONFERENCE OVERVIEW DETAILED SCHEDULE Thinking Gender 2019 will focus on gendered regimes of incarceration, and feminist, queer, abolitionist, and intersectional interventions. The US justice system is a site of widespread gendered and race-based violence.  The U.S. currently incarcerates nearly a […]

  • CSW Research Affiliate Brown Bag: “On Sarah Dorsey: A Nineteenth-century Southern Woman’s Rediscovered Lecture on the Philosophy of the University of France”

    Rolfe 2125

    Philosopher Sarah Dorsey On Sarah Dorsey: A Nineteenth-century Southern Woman’s Rediscovered Lecture on the Philosophy of the University of France A talk by Carol Bensick, PhD Sarah Dorsey (1829-1879) is the earliest woman from the U.S. South to devote herself to philosophy. Besides the later Anna Julia Cooper, she is only the second Southern woman […]

  • Gender and Water: Andrea Ballestero, “A Future History of Water”

    352 Haines Hall

    Hosted by UCLA Department of Anthropology Culture, Power, and Social Change Interest Group. Part of Gender and Water In this book talk, Andrea Ballestero will discuss how to think anthropologically about the techno-legal devices used to deal with the politics of water in the present and in the yet to come. Ballestero will focus on […]

  • Gender and Water: Research Masterclass with Andrea Ballestero

    Part of Gender and Water At this Research Masterclass, students from the Gender and Water Research team will discuss research findings and forthcoming papers with visiting facilitator Andrea Ballestero, who will provide commentary and feedback.  Observers are welcome. Andrea Ballestero is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Rice University. Ballestero's work looks at the unexpected ethical […]

  • True Bruin Welcome Week – CSW Open House

    Center for the Study of Women 1500 Public Affairs

    Welcome back, UCLA Bruins! Want to learn opportunities for students interested in gender and sexuality studies? Drop by the CSW open house, meet the staff, and find out about our funding and research opportunities for students! Diddy Reise cookies will be available on a first-come, first-served basis!   Date: September 25, 2019 Time: 11:00 AM […]

  • CSW and Gender Studies Fall Reception

    Rolfe Courtyard

    Join CSW and the UCLA Department of Gender Studies as we celebrate the start of a new academic year! Join us for an opportunity to meet and network with faculty, students, and staff, and to learn about CSW’s and Gender Studies’ upcoming projects, research, and events. Refreshments will be served. RSVP online by October 1, […]

  • CSW Research Affiliate Brown Bag: Down with Bridewealth! The Organization of Mozambican Women Debates Women’s Issues

    Rolfe 2125

    Down with Bridewealth! The Organization of Mozambican Women Debates Women's Issues A talk by Kathleen Sheldon, PhD In the early 1980s, Mozambique was in its first decade of independence under a socialist government that supported women's issues. This talk will report on a single provincial-level meeting of the women's organization in 1983 that included extended […]

  • Black Feminism, Care, and Reproductive Justice in Urgent Times: A Conversation with Kimberly Durdin

    306 Royce Hall

    Followed by a discussion with Ariel Hart This event focuses on the innovative historical and ongoing care practices and visions for justice that Black women have developed to confront institutionalized reproductive racial violence. Kimberly Durdin will be joined in discussion by UCLA doctoral student Ariel Hart. Q&A to follow. Kimberly Durdin is a leading figure in […]