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  • Sharra Vostral, “Testing Tampons: Toxic Shock Syndrome, Feminist Advocates, and Absorbency Standards”

    Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon UCLA, Los Angeles

    Part of CSW's Feminism + the Senses Lecture Series RSVP ONLINE: HTTP://WWW.CSW.UCLA.EDU/VOSTRAL During the 1980s in the aftermath of Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSS), the Centers for Disease Control recommended that women use the least absorbent tampons possible, yet manufacturers did not label boxes with reliable information.  This talk examines the establishment of the Tampon Task […]

  • CSW Research Affiliate Brown Bag: “Polar Environmental Discourses: Film, Politics, and Oil in the Anthropocene,” Lisa Bloom

    Rolfe 2125

    Polar Environmental Discourses:  Film, Politics, and Oil in the Anthropocene Bring your lunch and join CSW Research Affiliates for a brown bag research presentation! RSVP ONLINE Taken from a book project titled Polar Aesthetics in the Anthropocene: Imagining Climate, Lisa Bloom brings together issues in critical climate change scholarship to examine aspects of feminist and […]

  • Chemical Entanglements: Gender and Exposure

    UCLA 330 De Neve Dr., Los Angeles, CA, United States

    May 4-5, 2017 UCLA FREE and OPEN to the public! REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! This symposium will convene a group of scholars, scientists and community based researchers, artists, documentarians, and policy makers to assess the gendered impacts of (primarily endocrine-disrupting) chemicals on human populations. By marshaling a variety of perspectives—laboratory, ethnographic, epidemiological, and narrative, this transdisciplinary […]

  • CSW Awards Luncheon & Keynote Address

    Sequoia Room, Faculty Center UCLA, Los Angeles

    This event is now past. Photo highlights of the 2017 Awards Luncheon are available HERE.   Join the UCLA Center for the Study of Women for a special end of the year event to honor our student award recipients and the Center’s accomplishments over the past year! FEATURING A KEYNOTE ADDRESS Rise Up! Feminism in […]

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  • CSW Open House

    Center for the Study of Women 1500 Public Affairs

    Welcome, new Bruins; and welcome back, continuing UCLA Students!  Drop by CSW during True Bruin Welcome Week Departmental Open House Day!  Come learn about our student award opportunities, student research projects, upcoming events, and other opportunities for students! Meet our staff, and find out more about what CSW offers to all members of our campus […]

  • Breaking the Silence on Hooking Up: A Facilitated Discussion

    Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon UCLA, Los Angeles

      What are the risks and rewards of hooking up? Who hooks up, and when and why? How does hookup culture shape attitudes towards sex and desire? How ubiquitous is hookup culture on campus--and how does it shape the lives of UCLA students? CSW invites students, faculty, and staff to explore these kinds of questions […]

  • Nonny de la Peña, “Immersive Journalism, Breaking the Frame, and the Gender Struggle in Virtual Reality”

    Sequoia Room, Faculty Center UCLA, Los Angeles

    CSW is thrilled to feature Nonny de la Peña as part of Feminism and the Senses. RSVP for the Talk (Nov. 13, 4pm, Faculty Center): https://csw.ucla.edu/VR REQUEST an Individual Virtual Reality Appointment (Nov. 13, 10am-3:30pm): https://csw.ucla.edu/VR-Request Nonny de la Peña, named “The Godmother of Virtual Reality” by The Guardian and Engadget and one of the […]

  • Weaving Generations Together: Guided Exhibition Tour

    Powell Library Main and East Rotundas UCLA

    JNearoin curator Patricia Greenfield for a guided tour of Weaving Generations Together, an exhibition of Maya textiles on view in the UCLA Powell Library! The exhibition will be open from October 2 - December 15 and is free and open to the public. The opening reception for this exhibition will be held on October 5. […]

  • Panel: “Edible Feminisms: On Discard, Waste, and Metabolism”

    Luskin Conference Center

    Activists and scholars will offer live reflections on how the past lurks in our shared food future, and what to do about it. FEATURED PANELISTS Food justice and food waste activists: Tanya Fields (Founder and Executive Director, The BLK ProjeK) Lisa "Tiny" Gray-Garcia (Co-Editor, Poor Magazine; author of Criminal of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless in America) Rick […]

  • Sara Ahmed, “Complaint as Diversity Work”

    Ackerman Grand Ballroom UCLA, Los Angeles

      CSW is delighted to welcome Sara Ahmed as a featured speaker in our Feminism + the Senses series. We are presenting two events featuring Sara Ahmed on February 13, 2018:   Public Talk: Complaint as Diversity Work DATE: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 TIME: 3:00 - 5:00 PM LOCATION: Ackerman Grand Ballroom Free and Open […]

  • Thinking Gender 2018: Pre-existing Conditions

    UCLA Faculty Center Los Angeles, CA

    Thinking Gender, Pre-existing Conditions 28th Annual Thinking Gender Graduate Student Research Conference March 1-2, 2018, UCLA Conference Schedule: https://csw.ucla.edu/TG18-schedule Pre-Registration for Thinking Gender is now closed. On-site registration will be available on the days of the conference. Thinking Gender is an annual public conference highlighting graduate student research on women, sexuality, and gender across all […]

  • Kristine Gunnell, “Grantmaking for Systemic Change: Daughters of Charity, Seton Institute, and Alleviating Poverty in the Global South, 1985-2010”

    Rolfe 2125

    CSW Research Affiliate Brown Bag Talk A talk by Kristine Gunnell, Research Affiliate, UCLA Center for the Study of Women Committed to easing suffering wherever they find it, Daughters of Charity in the western United States founded Seton Institute for International Development in 1985. Through its fundraising and in-kind distribution programs, the institute offered targeted […]