Center for the Study of Women

Ranjani Mazumdar, "Technological Networks and Obsolescence in Contemporary Bombay Cinema"
2017-11-06 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Charles E. Young Research Library, Presentation Room
A talk by Ranjani Mazumdar
Professor, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Dehli, India
Organized by the UCLA Center for India and South Asia
This paper looks at the role of media and communication technologies in the sensorial imagination of urban spaces in contemporary Bombay cinema. If surveillance practices and their resultant structuring becomes one part of this imagination (No Smoking 2007, LSD 2010, Ugly, 2013), we also see the role of the Internet and social media in the framing of spatial encounters in small town India (Masaan 2015). A fascination for ‘obsolete’ technology frames another order of space linked to the recent past (Gangs of Wasseypur 2012, Miss Lovely 2012, Dum Lagake Haisha, 2015), while documentary films like John and Jayne (2005) invoke the call centre imagination within a fractured urban subjectivity. Through a framing of the spatial terrain triggered by new media technologies, the films offer a new geography of the experiential changes unravelling in contemporary India.
Ranjani Mazumdar is Professor of Cinema Studies at the School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her publications focus on urban cultures, popular cinema, gender and the cinematic city. She is the author of Bombay Cinema: An Archive of the City (2007) and co-author with Nitin Govil of the forthcoming The Indian Film Industry. She has also worked as a documentary filmmaker and her productions include Delhi Diary 2001 and The Power of the Image (Co-Directed). Her current research focuses on globalization and film culture, the visual culture of film posters and the intersection of technology, travel, design and colour in 1960s Bombay Cinema.

Nonny de la Peña, "Immersive Journalism, Breaking the Frame, and the Gender Struggle in Virtual Reality"
2017-11-13 16:00 | Sequoia Room, Faculty Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, 90024
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 20 most influential Latina/os in tech by CNET, is a pioneer of virtual reality and immersive journalism. As the founder and CEO of Emblematic Group she has collaborated with PBS Frontline, Wall Street Journal, Planned Parenthood, the True Colors Fund, the New York Times, and other organizations to create impactful virtual reality experiences depicting real-life events. Her VR projects include “Across the Line,” which helps viewers understand what some women go through to access abortion services, “After Solitary,” which takes viewers inside the Maine State Prison to experience a harrowing story of solitary confinement, and “Out of Exile,” which uses VR to draw attention to the plight of homeless LGBTQ youth. Other projects have explored Guantanamo Bay Prison, then experiences of refugees, and, most recently, the impact of climate change on the landscape of Greenland.
De la Peña’s talk will explore how immersive journalism can function as a vehicle for change by “breaking the frame” and by engaging the senses of viewers. She will discuss how this approach is informed by feminism, and how gender inequity in the tech sector—and in VR in particular—shapes her work.

Experience Immersive Journalism First-Hand: Sign up for a Virtual Reality Appointment prior to the talk
CSW is thrilled to be partnering with Emblematic Group and the UCLA Transient Media Lab in order to offer members of our community a chance to experience Nonny de la Peña’s immersive journalism through the use of Virtual Reality technology and equipment. We will offer the opportunity to view one of the following virtual reality experiences:
Across the Line

Produced in partnership with the Planned Parenthood Foundation of America, Across the Line helps viewers understand what some women go through to access abortion services. The experience places viewers in the shoes of a patient entering a health center. Using real audio gathered at protests, scripted scenes, and documentary footage, the film is a powerful multimedia depiction of the toxic environment that many health care providers, health center staff, and patients must endure to provide or access care on a daily basis.
Out of Exile: Daniel’s Story

Out of Exile is a powerful reminder of the kind of hostility faced by so many in the LGBTQ community. The piece shines a light on a terrible statistic: forty per cent of homeless youth in America identify as LGBTQ, with the majority coming from communities of color. When Daniel Ashley Pierce is confronted about his sexual orientation by his family in a “religious intervention,” the scene turns dramatic and violent. This piece, created in partnership with the True Colors Foundation, recreates the event using video captured by Daniel at the time.
Greenland Melting

On the heels of the United State’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate agreement, Emblematic’s Greenland Melting – created in collaboration with FRONTLINE and NOVA – provides a rare, up-close view of icy Arctic scenery that’s disappearing faster than predicted.

Please be aware that these experiences address sensitive topics and depict situations which viewers may find triggering, upsetting, or difficult to watch.
Appointments to view these pieces will take place on November 13th between 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM.
While Nonny de la Peña’s talk is open to all, limited spots will be available for individual experiences of her virtual reality work.
To learn more and request an appointment, visit https://csw.ucla.edu/VR-request

THIS IS A FRAGRANCE-FREE EVENT. For the health and safety of all attendees, please refrain from wearing products that contain fragrances when attending CSW events. Such products include: perfumes, hair products, deodorants, detergents, etc. For more information, visit our Events Accessibility Page: https://csw.ucla.edu/event-accessibility.
If you require accommodations in order for this event to be accessible to you (e.g., sign language interpretation, large print materials, etc.), please contact CSW at csw@csw.ucla.edu at least two weeks prior to the event.

Co-sponsored by:

Supported by the Estrin Family Lecture Series Fund
Chicano Studies Research Center
Department of Communication Studies
Department of Information Studies
Program in Digital Humanities
Dr. Steve Anderson, Director of the UCLA Transient Media Lab, School of Theater, Film, and Television
Division of Social Sciences

Film Screening: Dolores
2017-11-13 18:00 - 21:00 | Melnitz 1409: James Bridges Theater
A special screening of Dolores, the new documentary film about activist Dolores Huerta.
History tells us Cesar Chavez transformed the U.S. labor movement by leading the first farm workers’ union. But missing from this narrative is his equally influential co-founder, Dolores Huerta, who fought tirelessly alongside Chavez for racial and labor justice and became one of the most defiant feminists of the twentieth century.
Like so many powerful women advocates, Dolores and her sweeping reforms were – and still are – sidelined and diminished. Even as she empowered a generation of immigrants to stand up for their rights, her relentless work ethic was constantly under attack. False accusations from foes and friends alike, of child neglect and immoral behavior—she married three times and raised 11 children – pushed Dolores out of the very union she helped create.
Peter Bratt’s provocative and energizing documentary challenges an incomplete history. Through beautifully woven archival footage and interviews from contemporaries and from Dolores herself, now an octogenarian, the film sets the record straight on one of the most effective and undervalued civil and labor rights leaders in modern U.S. history.
View the trailer:

Organized by the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs

Josh Lambert, "New Media Jews: Transparent, Podcasting, and the Place of Jews in 21st-Century American Culture"
2017-11-30 16:00 | UCLA Faculty Center, Los Angeles, CA
A talk by Josh Lambert (Yiddish Book Center/University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Naftulin Family Lecture on Studies in Jewish Identity
How can we explain the prominence of Jews and Jewishness in 21st-century American media? At a moment when companies like Amazon and Netflix were making billion-dollar gambits to reach massive audiences with their own original content, it turned out to be Jill Soloway’s Transparent, that proved that a website could beat out the cable and broadcast television networks at the Golden Globes and Emmys. This lecture proposes that we consider the current wave of Jewish culture as resulting from two key developments: the increasing institutionalization of Jewish culture in America since the late 20th-century, and the affinity between streaming media technology and demographic minorities.
Moderator: Lia Brozgal (UCLA)

While this event is free and open to Leve Center members, pre-registration is required.
E-mail cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu or call 310-267-5327 to register.

Weaving Generations Together: Guided Exhibition Tour
2017-12-01 16:00 - 17:30 | 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.
A limited number of spots are available in this guided exhibition tour, which will take place at 4:00 PM on Friday, December 1.
Reserve your spot online!
This exhibition explores cultural transmission and learning through children’s play weaving and apprenticeship in the Maya Highland community of Zincantán, Chiapas, Mexico. The exhibition shows over one hundred textiles from Zincantán drawn from a research collection spanning from 1943 to the present, including hand-woven and embroidered ponchos, shawls, and huipils in vibrant colors and metallic threads as well as looms and weavings made by children. Maya people wear traditional clothing today and the exhibition demonstrates both continuity and change through the expression of weaving and embroidery.
This exhibition is based on a book by Patricia Marks Greenfield.
More information on the exhibition’s run can also be found HERE.
This tour is part of Feminism + the Senses: Sensitivity and Sense Data in an Age of Precarity
LOCATION:

Location: Powell Library
Nearest Parking: Parking Structure 4 (Enter via Westwood Plaza from Sunset Blvd)
Exhibit Co-sponsored by:

Center for the Study of Women
UCLA Library
Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
American Indian Studies Center
Chicano Studies Research Center
Latin American Institute
Center for Mexican Studies
Fiat Lux
Office of Instructional Development

Panel: "Edible Feminisms: On Discard, Waste, and Metabolism"
2018-02-01 16:00 - 18:00 | 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 Nahmias (Founder and Executive Director, Food Forward LA)
Award-winning scholars:
Heather Paxson (Professor of Anthropology, MIT; author of The Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value in America)
Kyla Wazana Tompkins (Associate Professor of English and Gender and Women’s Studies, Pomona College; author of Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the 19th Century)

DATE: Thursday, February 1, 2018
TIME: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM. Reception to follow.
LOCATION: Luskin Conference Center, UCLA
Free and open to the public.
Register: https://uclacsw.submittable.com/submit/102504/free-registration-edible-feminisms-panel

This panel is part of Edible Feminisms: On Discard, Waste and Metabolism, a project organized by CSW Adjunct Assistant Professors Sarah Tracy and Rachel Vaughn.
Edible Feminisms will culminate in a special issue of the journal Food, Culture, and Society. Contributors to the special issue will gather for a private writing workshop following the public panel.
This project was inspired by Dr. Kyla Wazana Tompkins‘ framing of “critical eating studies” in her award-winning Racial Indigestion (New York University Press, 2012) and reflects on the ways in which American Studies, Food Studies, Sensory Studies, Science & Technology Studies, and Postcolonial Studies are speaking to one another. Through the promptings of food science popularization, culinary tourism, food waste, sustainability, and access debates, questions of race, identity, and pleasure are currently as germane as the science of obesity/diabetes, allergy, and chemical exposure. Rather than separate such strands, we wish to forward the proposition of “critical eating studies” through explorations of the theme of Re(Value). How do individuals, companies, and policy-makers deploy science (e.g., evolutionary, genetic, molecular) to do the work of differentiation—where differentiation is an expression of value, whether ethnic, cultural, distinction, or brand? How do such actors center science in their route to positive futures? In other words, how is latent capacity transformed into new sources of value and to what benefit, and through which kinds of violence? How does making explicit the materiality, politics, and symbolism of eating (a mutual, subjective, and intractable affair), as feminist and queer critical practice, help illuminate such questions and to what ends?

Panel Details

NEAREST AVAILABLE PARKING: Parking Structure 8 (enter via Westwood Plaza)
REGISTER: https://uclacsw.submittable.com/submit/102504/free-registration-edible-feminisms-panel

THIS IS A FRAGRANCE-FREE EVENT. For the health and safety of all attendees, please avoid wearing products that contain fragrances when attending CSW events. Such products include: perfumes, hair products, deodorants, detergents, etc. For more information, visit our Events Accessibility Page: https://csw.ucla.edu/event-accessibility.
If you require accommodations in order for this event to be accessible to you (e.g., sign language interpretation, large print materials, etc.), please contact CSW at csw@csw.ucla.edu at least two weeks prior to the event.

Co-sponsored by:
Luskin Endowment for Thought Leadership
Division of Humanities
Luskin School of Public Affairs
Food Studies Graduate Certificate Program
Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
Institute of American Cultures
Iris Cantor – UCLA Women’s Health Center
Asian American Studies Center
Department of African American Studies
Department of History
Department of Asian American Studies
Department of Gender Studies
Institute for Society and Genetics
Backed by Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Division of Social Sciences

16th Annual Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies
2018-02-02 10:00 - 18:00 | Royce 314
Join the UCLA Armenian Graduate Students Association for their 16th annual Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies.
Featured speakers will include:
Carla Kekejian (University of Utah): “Harsneren: Language of the Bride”
Rosie Aroush (UCLA): “A Life of Otherness: The Significance of Familial Support and Community Inclusivity for LGBQ Armenians”
Co-sponsors: UCLA Promise Institute for Human Rights, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and UCLA Department of History

Curating Resistance: Punk as Archival Method
2018-02-09 - 2018-02-10 | 306 and 314 Royce Hall, UCLA
At a time when performative resistances to exploitative mainstream cultural practices are increasingly under attack, punk persists as an important space for cultivating and curating expressive means. Punk’s resistant literacies and performances are often in defiance of institutional rigors that carve exclusionary boundaries. Yet, as punk celebrates its long fortieth birthday, punk’s contested annals are increasingly not only part of but also help shape institutional efforts to exceed canonic representations. Bringing together scholars, musicians, fans, writers, and community members, including bands, public intellectuals, and workshops to augment the conventional structure of the academic panel, Curating Resistance: Punk as Archival Method is teaming up with the UCLA Library Special Collections “Punk Archive” for hands-on, thoughtful community building within, across, and beyond the university. This two-day event, hosted by the UCLA Center for Musical Humanities, focuses on the interstices of punk and archive, using both as method, so as to push the boundaries of these three terms and practices. The conference focuses on documenting punk musicality, how sound repertoires and archival practices can give shape to the lived contours of diversity across scale, from the local to transnational, and what this means in terms of empowerment for research and endeavors that destabilize this colonial history of the academy. Punk as archival method curates resistance by contributing to these larger conversations via the possibilities of musical subcultures’ collaborative systemic interruptions.
Curating Resistance: Punk as Archival Method will include speaker panels, punk performances, and renowned figures drawn from the gendered and politicized worlds of both musical and visual punk artistry.

Sara Ahmed, "Complaint as Diversity Work"
2018-02-13 15:00 - 17:00 | 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 to the Public
REGISTER ONLINE: https://uclacsw.submittable.com/submit/abe1c4bb-ee7a-4da5-8eb4-16d04bc6f58f/free-registration-sara-ahmed-feminism-and-the-senses

Graduate Seminar
All UCLA Graduate Students are eligible to apply to participate in this one-time graduate seminar (not for course credit). Only those selected will be able to attend.
DATE: Tuesday, February 13, 2018
TIME: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
APPLY ONLINE: https://uclacsw.submittable.com/submit/ad6ab305-dbfd-43af-8f63-c84c3484c871/application-graduate-seminar-with-sara-ahmed
APPLICATION DEADLINE: January 15, 2018

About the Speaker
Sara Ahmed is an independent feminist scholar and writer. She has held academic appointments at Lancaster University and Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work is concerned with how power is experienced and challenged in everyday life and institutional cultures. She has recently completed a book What’s the Use? On the Uses of Use and has begun a new research project on complaint. Her previous publications include Living a Feminist Life (2017), Willful Subjects (2014), On Being Included (2012), The Promise of Happiness (2010), Queer Phenomenology (2006), The Cultural Politics of Emotion (2014, 2004), Strange Encounters (2000) and Differences that Matter (1998). She also blogs at www.feministkilljoys.com.
In 2016, Ahmed resigned in protest from her post as Professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldmiths in response to the institution’s failure to deal with students’ sexual harassment and assault complaints against staff and faculty members. She continues to work to make the problem of sexual harassment at universities more visible through her involvement with organizations like The 1752 Group.

About the Talk
Register online to attend: https://uclacsw.submittable.com/submit/abe1c4bb-ee7a-4da5-8eb4-16d04bc6f58f/free-registration-sara-ahmed-feminism-and-the-senses
Ahmed will speak about her new research project on “Complaint.”
The lecture explores how complaint can be understood as a form of diversity work: the work you do to transform an institution, or the work you do when you do not quite inhabit the norm of an institution. If doing diversity work is heard as complaint, making a complaint often requires becoming a diversity worker. This is not to say that those who make complaints always think of themselves as diversity workers in the sense of trying to transform the institution in which the complaint is lodged. But in order to proceed with a complaint you often have to become a diversity worker because making a complaint within an institution brings you up against it. The lecture explores how we learn about the institutional (as usual) from those who are trying to transform institutions. The lecture will discuss how complaint is a sensational intervention into institutional life.
LOCATION:

Location: Ackerman Studen Union, 2nd floor Grand Ballroom
Nearest Parking: Parking Structure 4 (enter via Westwood Plaza from Sunset Blvd.)

THIS IS A FRAGRANCE-FREE EVENT. For the health and safety of all attendees, please refrain from wearing products that contain fragrances when attending CSW events. Such products include: perfumes, hair products, deodorants, detergents, etc. For more information, visit our Events Accessibility Page: https://csw.ucla.edu/event-accessibility.
If you require accommodations in order for this event to be accessible to you (e.g., sign language interpretation, large print materials, etc.), please contact CSW at csw@csw.ucla.edu at least two weeks prior to the event.

About the Seminar
Registered UCLA Graduate Students from all departments are invited to apply to participate in a 1-time, 2-hour graduate seminar (not for course credit) with Sara Ahmed.
SEMINAR DATE: Tuesday, February 13, 2018
SEMINAR TIME: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location will be provided to accepted applicants
Participants will be required to read Chapters 4, 5, and 6 of Sara Ahmed’s Living and Feminist Life. Copies will be made available to participants in advance of the seminar. Participants are also expected to attend Dr. Ahmed’s public talk, “Complaint as Diversity Work,” at 3:00 PM on Tuesday, February 13, in the Ackerman Grand Ballroom.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE:
Please complete the online form available at: https://uclacsw.submittable.com/submit/ad6ab305-dbfd-43af-8f63-c84c3484c871/application-graduate-seminar-with-sara-ahmed

You will be required to upload the following documents:

Current CV
A brief statement (250 words MAXIMUM) describing your research and/or activist interests and how you see this seminar contributing to them.

DEADLINE: JANUARY 15, 2018
We will only consider COMPLETE applications submitted by the deadline. Late applications will not be accepted.

Co-sponsored by:

Backed by Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Division of Humanities
Department of Comparative Literature
Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health
International Institute
Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
Department of English
Department of Philosophy
Department of Anthropology
Department of Gender Studies
LGBTQ Studies Program
Division of Social Sciences

Ari Heinrich, "Chinese Bodies as Biological Surplus: Plastinated Cadavers and Geopolitical Hierarchies of the Human""
2018-02-27 17:00 - 20:30 | Humanities 348, UCLA
Part of Area Impossible: Sexuality and Geopolitics

The first event in the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature 2017-2018 Sexuality & Geopolitics Seminar Series will feature Ari Heinrich, Associate Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at UCSD. Their lecture, “Chinese Bodies as Biological Surplus: Plastinated Cadavers and Geopolitical Hierarchies of the Human” will question what a comparative examination of Chinese-language discourse on the plastinated human cadaver exhibits might reveal about the political economics of race and capital distribution that inform them.A firestorm of human rights critiques often greets the opening of an exhibit of plastinated cadavers in Europe and North America, obscuring any attempts to critique the notion of the human (and indeed of “rights”) in the smoke from its blaze. This talk asks what a comparative examination of Chinese-language discourse on the plastinated human cadaver exhibits might reveal about the political economies of race and capital distribution that inform them.
Date: February 27, 2018
Time: 5:30 – 8:00 PM
Location: Humanities 348

Thinking Gender 2018: Pre-existing Conditions
2018-03-01 - 2018-03-02 | 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 disciplines and historical periods. This year’s conference theme, Pre-existing Conditions, will focus on the connections between health and gender as in the context of on-going discussions about gender-focused health and healthcare.

The conference will feature paper, poster, speed pitching research roundtable, and visual arts presentations.
Conference Schedule
Call for Proposals and Submission Guidelines
Accommodation and Parking Information
Registration

CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS

Keynote Address:
Anticipated Pleasures and Sexual Double Standards:
Explaining gender differences in reaction to real and hypothetical sexual offers
Terri Conley, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan
Date: Thursday, March 1
Time: 3:15 PM
Location: California Room, UCLA Faculty Center

Workshop:
Trauma-Informed Yoga
Zabie Yamasaki
UCLA Campus Assault Resources and Education (CARE) Program
Date: Friday, March 2
Time: 9:00 AM
Location: California Room, UCLA Faculty Center

Art Exhibition:
February 26 – March 2, 2018
Kerckhoff Hall Art Gallery
Join us for a Reception, Film Screening and Networking Event celebrating the Thinking Gender Conference and Art Exhibition!
Date: Thursday, March 1
Time: 5:30 PM
Location: Kerckhoff Grand Salon & Art Gallery

Sign language interpretation will be provided at selected panels on March 2:

10:15 AM: Gendered Violence
1:00 PM: Sex and Sexuality
4:00 PM: Affective Labor and Mental Health

Co-sponsored by:

Backed by UCLA Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
UCLA Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health
UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity
Southern California HIV/AIDS Policy Research Center
UCLA Department of Psychology
UCLA Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
UCLA Department of Community Health Sciences
UCLA Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media
UCLA World Arts & Cultures/Dance
UCLA Art and Global Health Center
UCLA Cultural Affairs Commission
UCLA Art|Sci Center
UCLA Public Health Student Association
Division of Social Sciences

THIS IS A FRAGRANCE-FREE EVENT. For the health and safety of all attendees, please refrain from wearing products that contain fragrances when attending CSW events. Such products include: perfumes, hair products, deodorants, detergents, etc. For more information, visit our Events Accessibility Page: https://csw.ucla.edu/event-accessibility.
If you require accommodations in order for this event to be accessible to you (e.g., sign language interpretation, large print materials, etc.), please contact CSW at csw@csw.ucla.edu at least two weeks prior to the event.

Aimee Meredith Cox, Now You See Me, Now You Don’t: Black Girls, Dubious Protection, and the Public
2018-03-15 12:15 - 13:45 | 352 Haines Hall
In this structured conversation, Cox will draw from her first ethnography, Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship, as well as on work with young Black women in the urban and suburban U.S., to consider how their experiences in and through various publics offers a reframing of the concepts of protection, social accountability, care, legibility, and value.
Aimee Meredith Cox is jointly appointed as an Associate Professor in the departments of African American Studies and Anthropology at Yale University. Cox earned her M.A. and PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and B.A. with honors in Anthropology from Vassar College. Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of Anthropology, Black Studies, and Performance Studies. Cox’s first monograph, Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship (Duke 2015), won a 2016 Victor Turner Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing, and Honorable Mention from the 2016 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize, given by the National Women’s Studies Association. She is the editor of the forthcoming volume, Gender: Space (MacMillan) and co-editor of a special issue of Public: A Journal of Imagining America on art and knowledge production in the academy. Cox is also a former professional dancer. She danced on scholarship with the Dance Theatre of Harlem and toured extensively with Ailey II. Her next ethnographic project, Living Past Slow Death, explores the creative protest strategies individuals and communities enact to reclaim Black life in the urban United States.
Organized by the Department of Anthropology Culture Power and Social Change Colloquium.
DATE: March 15, 2018
TIME: 12:15 PM
LOCATION: 352 Haines Hall

Nicole George, "Women, Peace, and Security through a Vernacular Frame: Global/local frictions in Solomon Islands and Bougainville"
2018-04-09 15:00 - 17:00 | Rolfe 2125
Organized by the UCLA Department of Asian American Studies
Since the early 2000s, United Nations Security Council Resolutions on Women Peace and Security, and particularly UNSCR 1325, have become a key focus of policy making and gender advocacy for those aiming to promote women’s roles in conflict resolution and conflict transition in the western Pacific Islands region. But in these contexts, arguments about the rights of women to be recognized as those who bear specific sorts of burdens in times of instability, or those who bring particular types of skills or insights to the processes of post-conflict governance also come into friction with vernacular notions of security and localized sentiments about the foundations for the safe ordering of community. In this presentation Nicole George reflects on recent academic development of the concept of vernacular security and the insights this work might offer into the challenges surrounding promotion of women peace and security principles in this region. George then draws upon lessons learned from research with everyday communities of women impacted by the long process of conflict transition. George examines where and how frictions occur between conceptualizations of gendered security that uphold women’s rights to safety and participation, and those which equate gendered security with respect for, and adherence to, gendered codes of responsibility to family and community.
Nicole George is a leading feminist in Oceania and the author of Situating Women: Gender Politics and Circumstance in Fiji (Australian National University Press, 2012).
DATE: April 9, 2018
TIME: 3:00 PM
LOCATION: Rolfe 2125

Maria Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, "Indian Given: Racial Geographies Across Mexico and the United States"
2018-04-12 15:00 | Charles E Young Research Library Conference Room
Indian Given: Racial Geographies Across Mexico and the United States
A Book Talk by Maria Josefina Saldaña-Portillo
María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU and Visiting Professor of English at UC Berkeley. She is the author of The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development (Duke University Press, 2003) and Indian Given: Racial Geographies Across Mexico and the United States (Duke University Press, 2016). Indian Given was awarded the Best Book Award from the National Association for Chicano and Chicana Studies (NACCS) in 2017
In Indian Given María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo addresses current racialized violence and resistance in Mexico and the United States with a genealogy that reaches back to the sixteenth century. Saldaña-Portillo formulates the central place of indigenous peoples in the construction of national spaces and racialized notions of citizenship, showing, for instance, how Chicanos/as in the U.S./Mexico borderlands might affirm or reject their indigenous background based on their location. In this and other ways, she demonstrates how the legacies of colonial Spain’s and Britain’s differing approaches to encountering indigenous peoples continue to shape perceptions of the natural, racial, and cultural landscapes of the United States and Mexico. Drawing on a mix of archival, historical, literary, and legal texts, Saldaña-Portillo shows how los indios/Indians provided the condition of possibility for the emergence of Mexico and the United States.

Professor Saldaña’s presentation addresses the imbrication of NAFTA, narcos, and the legacy of the indio bárbaro.

Date: Thursday April 12th 2018
Time: 3:00pm
Location: Charles E. Young Research Library, Main Conference Room 11360
Organized by the Department of Gender Studies
Co-Sponsored by The Center for the Study of Women, American Indian Studies Center, American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program, Department of English and The Latin American Institute

A Dialogue on the Challenges of Minoritized Academic Fields at this Time
2018-04-13 12:00 - 14:00 | 10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Part of The Philippines and its Elsewheres
A series organized by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Featuring:
Neferti Tadiar, Professor and Chair of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Barnard College
Allan Punzalan Isaac, Chair of American Studies and Associate Professor of American Studies and English, Rutgers University
Respondent: Steven Nelson, Director, UCLA Center for African Studies
The theme of the conversation orbits around the challenges minoritized fields–including Gender/Women/Feminist Studies as a field–must take up at this time. “At this time” is broadly and vaguely, yet pointedly invoked. “At this time” could be: Trumpudo time, Duterte, Modi, thinly veiled dictatorship, resurgence of populism/neopopulism, #metoo…. Or, with fires, floodings, drought, landslides, and bomb cyclones in our immediate surroundings, “At this time” could also be the end of times, Z apocalypse, a time toward Extinction Level Event.
“The Philippines and its Elsewhere” explores the politics of knowledge production, university education, and global citizenship with Filipino Studies as its launching point. It is concerned with what interconnectivity across borders enables and demands, as forms and politics of the global continually shifts.
DATE: April 13, 2018
TIME: 12:00 PM
LOCATION: 10383 Bunche Hall
RSVP: http://www.international.ucla.edu/cseas/event/13134

Don Mee Choi's Hardly War
2018-04-26 16:00 - 17:30 | Dodd Room 175, UCLA
Please join the UCLA Center for Korean Studies as Don Mee Choi reads from her latest collection of poetry entitled Hardly War (2016). Using visual artifacts from her father’s archive, a photographer during the Korean and Viet Nam wars, Choi combines imagery with poetry, opera, and memoir to examine the devastating impact of the unfinished Korean War.
Don Mee Choi is a poet and translator. Choi’s other poetry collections include The Morning News is Exciting (Action Books, 2010), a chapbook, Petite Manifesto (Vagabond, 2014), and a pamphlet, Freely Frayed. She has received a Whiting Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, and the 2012 Lucien Stryk Translation Prize.
Organized by the UCLA Center for Korean Studies.
DATE: Thursday, April 26, 2018
TIME: 4:00-5:30 PM
LOCATION: Dodd Room 175
RSVP: Contact Jenny Yoo, yoo@international.ucla.edu

Dreaming in Filipino: Languages and Literatures Beyond English:
2018-04-30 12:00 - 14:00 | 10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Part of The Philippines and its Elsewheres
A series organized by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Featuring:
Maria Josephine Barrios-LeBlanc, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley
Nenita Domingo, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA
Kie Zuraw, Department of Linguistics. UCLA
This interdisciplinary panel of speakers discusses what it means to speak, write, and
dream in languages other than English at this time of increasingly shrinking borders and
yet widening gap of inequality.
“The Philippines and its Elsewhere” explores the politics of knowledge production, university education, and global citizenship with Filipino Studies as its launching point. It is concerned with what interconnectivity across borders enables and demands, as forms and politics of the global continually shifts.
Date: Monday, April 30
Time: 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Location: Room 10383, Bunche Hall

Ula Taylor, "The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam"
2018-04-30 16:00 - 18:00 | Bunche 6275, UCLA Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Organized by the UC Consortium for Black Studies in California
Ula Y. Taylor discusses her recently published book, The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam (UNC Press, 2017). The patriarchal structure of the Nation of Islam (NOI) promised black women the prospect of finding a provider and a protector among the organization’s men, who were fiercely committed to these masculine roles. Black women’s experience in the NOI, however, has largely remained on the periphery of scholarship. Here, Ula Taylor documents their struggle to escape the devaluation of black womanhood while also clinging to the empowering promises of patriarchy. Taylor shows how, despite being relegated to a lifestyle that did not encourage working outside of the home, NOI women found freedom in being able to bypass the degrading experiences connected to labor performed largely by working-class black women and in raising and educating their children in racially affirming environments. Telling the stories of women like Clara Poole (wife of Elijah Muhammad) and Burnsteen Sharrieff (secretary to W. D. Fard, founder of the Allah Temple of Islam), Taylor offers a compelling narrative that explains how their decision to join a homegrown, male-controlled Islamic movement was a complicated act of selfpreservation and self-love in Jim Crow America.
Ula Taylor is a leading feminist historian. She is Professor and H. Michael and Jeanne Williams Department Chair in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
DATE: April 30, 2018
TIME: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
LOCATION: Room 6275, Bunche Hall

Kristine Gunnell, "Grantmaking for Systemic Change: Daughters of Charity, Seton Institute, and Alleviating Poverty in the Global South, 1985-2010"
2018-05-10 12:00 - 13:30 | 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 support for Catholic sisters engaged in primary health care activities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. A case study of faith-based non-profits, the institute’s history illustrates Catholic efforts to strengthen transnational ties among sisters, while also promoting practices to spur systemic change to reduce poverty in local communities throughout the Global South.
Kristine Gunnell is a research affiliate at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. Gunnell’s book, Daughters of Charity: Women, Religious Mission, and Hospital Care in Los Angeles, 1856-1927 (DePaul University Vincentian Studies Institute, 2013) illustrates the innovative ways that these Catholic sisters adapted to the changing demands of the emerging hospital industry while maintaining their religious mission to care for the sick and poor. While her previous work focused on the Daughters’ early history in Los Angeles, Gunnell has recently turned her attention to the sisters’ activities in the late twentieth century. Her current book project focuses on the efforts of the Daughters of Charity Foundation to promote systemic change as it seeks to combat poverty in California and elsewhere in the world.
DATE: Thursday, May 10
TIME: 12-1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Rolfe 2125
Bring your lunch!
RSVP online: https://uclacsw.submittable.com/submit/107912/free-registration-grantmaking-for-systemic-change-by-kristine-gunnell

Representing the Sex Industries
2018-05-15 16:00 - 18:00 | UCLA School of Law, Room 3467, UCLA
Representing the Sex Industries
With Dr. Beth Ribet, Co-Director of Repair
Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Time: 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Location: UCLA School of Law, Room 3467
In this lecture and dialogue, Dr. Beth Ribet, who will be introduced by Professor Claudia Peña, will address the framing and representation of people in systems of prostitution in popular media, academic theory, political discourse, and in the criminal justice system. Within this discussion, Dr. Ribet will explore the contemporary politics of sex trafficking rhetoric, and will specifically introduce analysis of the recent framing, in right-wing media, of Donald Trump as an anti-trafficking hero supposedly responsible for the rescue of trafficked children and women. She will also delve into the history and ramifications of the dichotomy between the terms “sex work” and “sex trafficking”, and will identify the need for feminist, race-conscious analysis and interventions to address the relationship between whiteness, white women, and pimping in the United States. Dr. Ribet’s lecture will conclude with discussion of the hyper-vulnerability of sexually exploited youth and adults, and the prospects for advancing survivor-driven approaches to comprehending and naming the sex industries. Discussion and commentary will follow by Jyoti Nanda, Binder Clinical Teaching Fellow at UCLA School of Law.
Organized by Repair. Co-sponsored by CSW, UCLA Department of Gender Studies, and the UCLA Law Youth and Justice Clinic.

Area Impossible: Sexuality and Geopolitics Symposium
2018-05-25 09:30 - 17:00 | Royce 314
Organized by the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature
DATE: May 25, 2018
TIME: 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM
LOCATION: 314 Royce Hall
RSVP: http://complit.ucla.edu/event/area-impossible-sexuality-geopolitics/
Within queer studies, the geopolitical has posed a much-needed challenge to the spatial and temporal logics of the field (logics that often mire the field in the US), especially in the aftermath of the turn to transnationalism. Comparative literature has historically fashioned its domains outside US borders, but despite its range has remained somewhat tied to nationalist coagulations/formations. This symposium brings together speakers who engage comparative analytical forms towards a more disruptive and capacious queer geopolitics.
Program
9:30-10:00am
Introductory remarks
Anjali Arondekar, Visiting Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, UCLA and Associate Professor, Feminist Studies, UCSC
Welcome address
David Schaberg, Dean of Humanities, UCLA
10:00-10:45am
Queer Coolitude/ An Indo-Caribbean Reading
Rajiv Mohabir, Assistant Professor of English, Auburn University.
11:00am-12:30pm
Freud in Translation/ Three Essays, a Survey, and a Group
Omnia El Shakry, Professor of History, UCD
Respondent: Gil Hochberg, Ransford Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, and Middle East Studies, Columbia University
12:30-1:30pm
Lunch for participants
1:30-3:15pm
Trespassing Queer Kindship/ Temporality and the Geopolitics of Attachment
Sima Shakhsari, Assistant Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota
Respondent: Ananya Roy, Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare and Geography, UCLA
3:15-3.30pm
Coffee break
3:30 -5:00 p.m.
None Like Us/ Black Exception Black Exemption
Stephen M. Best, Associate Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley
Respondent: Shana Redmond, Associate Professor, Musicology and African-American Studies, UCLA
5:00-6:30pm
Reception

Awards and Benefit Luncheon 2018
2018-05-31 12:00 - 14:30 | UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, 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 Corporate Culture: A Successful Woman’s Strategies for Surviving and Thriving
By Paula Williams Madison
Chairman and CEO, Madison Media Management, LLC
Former CEO, Los Angeles Sparks
Former Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer, NBCUniversal

This year, CSW has selected Paula Williams Madison and LA Sparks Player Nneka Ogwumike as the recipients of the Center for the Study of Women’s 2018 Distinguished Leader in Feminism Award.
Learn more about Paula Williams Madison’s work on diversity in the media

Event Details
Thursday, May 31, 2018
12:00 – 2:30 PM
UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, Optimist Room
Tickets are $30 and non-refundable
REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED
To make this event accessible and to accommodate all attendees, we ask for your help in making this event fragrance-free. We would appreciate that all guests avoid wearing products that contain fragrances, which can include perfumes, hair products, deodorants, detergents, etc. These products can make some members of our community very ill. For more information, visit our Event Accessibility page.
If you have questions or have registered and can no longer attend, please contact CSW Management Services Officer Kristina Magpayo Nyden.

Location & Parking
The 2018 CSW Awards and Benefit Luncheon will take place at the UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center located in Westwood Plaza on the corner of Strathmore and Westwood Boulevard (left map).
Within the Luskin Conference Center, the Luncheon will take place in the Optimist Room, located on the 2nd floor (right map).

For a full UCLA map, please visit http://maps.ucla.edu/downloads.
The closest parking area to the Luskin Conference Center is Parking Structure #8 (see map above-left). There are two ways to purchase parking in Structure #8:

Purchase Pay-by-License Plate parking on the 4th level (top floor) in the designated Visitor Parking area. Go to a self-service Daily Visitor Pay Station and follow posted instructions to purchase parking (remember license plate number). The self-service station will dispense a parking pass based on your license plate number. Please read posted instructions at each pay station carefully. Parking rates vary from $1 for 20 minutes to $12 for All-Day parking. Pay stations accept cash and credit cards. For more information, please visit the Transportation website.
Purchase All-Day parking for $12/day at the Parking Information Kiosk located in Westwood Plaza (designated by the “i” on the map above). Only cash is accepted at this kiosk (no bills higher than $20 accepted). Transportation Services representatives are also present at this kiosk to answer your questions.

A bridge is located on the 3rd floor of Structure #8 that leads directly to the Luskin Conference Center.

About the Keynote

Paula Williams Madison is Chairman and CEO of Madison Media Management LLC, a Los Angeles-based media consultancy company with global reach. She also serves as a Founding Partner with The Group LLC, a high-level strategy, marketing, and communications consultancy also headquartered in Los Angeles.
In 2011, Madison retired from NBCUniversal where she was President and General Manager of NBC4 Los Angeles. She was also Los Angeles Regional General Manager for NBCU’s Telemundo TV stations, and Vice President and News Director of NBC4 New York. Under Madison’s watch, WNBC4 Los Angeles earned numerous Emmy, Golden Mike, and Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards.
Her concurrent career as a writer and journalist also led to a 1996 Peabody Award for NBC4 New York’s investigation, “A License to Kill.”
Madison is executive producer, and subject of Finding Samuel Lowe: From Harlem to China, a compelling documentary that chronicles her journey to her maternal grandfather’s homeland in China and the reconnection of her family with his 300 descendants. HarperCollins published a memoir of the journey, Finding Samuel Lowe: China, Jamaica, Harlem, in April 2015 and Shenzhen Publishing (Shenzhen, China) reissued the book in 2016 in Chinese.

A highly sought-after public speaker, Madison received numerous honors and awards: named one of the “75 Most Powerful African Americans in Corporate America” by Black Enterprise Magazine in 2005, and included in the Hollywood Reporter’s “Power 100.” In 2013, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti appointed Madison to the Los Angeles Police Commission, where she served as Vice President until 2015.

Madison is the former Owner/CEO of the Los Angeles Sparks WNBA basketball team. She also serves on the Boards of the Los Angeles Chinese American Museum, the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, Cardinal Spellman High School, the Greater Los Angeles United Way, the California Science
Center Foundation, as well as Chair of The Nell Williams Family Foundation, and National CineMedia, the largest cinema advertising network in the U.S., where she chairs the Nominating and the Governance Committee(s).
She is also an honorary member of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., a predominantly African-American sorority whose members boast more than 250,000 college-educated women.
Madison graduated from Vassar College and has served 10 years as a Vassar Trustee (to the College); and two years as President of the Board of Directors of the Alumnae/I Association of Vassar College.

Fall Welcome Reception
2018-10-10 16:00 - 18:00 | 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 out the online registration form.
Date: Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Time: 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Location: Rolfe Hall Courtyard, UCLA

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Eli Clare, "Cautionary Tales: Environmental Injustice, Disability, and Chronic Illness"
2018-10-18 16:00 - 18:00 | 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 log, smiling in the sun.
White, disabled, and genderqueer, Eli Clare lives near Lake Champlain in occupied Abenaki territory (currently known as Vermont) where he writes and proudly claims a penchant for rabble-rousing. He has written two books of creative non-fiction, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure and Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation, and a collection of poetry, The Marrow’s Telling: Words in Motion, and has been published in many periodicals and anthologies.
Eli speaks, teaches, and facilitates all over the United States and Canada at conferences, community events, and colleges about disability, queer and trans identities, and social justice. Among other pursuits, he has walked across the United States for peace, coordinated a rape prevention program, and helped organize the first ever Queerness and Disability Conference.
When he’s not writing or on the road, you can find him reading, hiking, camping, riding his recumbent trike, or otherwise having fun adventures.

About the Talk
Eli Clare’s talk is entitled “Cautionary Tales: Environmental Injustice, Disability, and Chronic Illness”
Date: Thursday, October 18, 2018
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon
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.
Free and Open to the Public

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Co-sponsored by:

UCLA Disability Studies Program
UCLA Department of English
UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics
UCLA Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS)
UCLA Department of Gender Studies
UCLA Division of Social Sciences

Lara K. Schubert, "Workshopping Postsecular Feminist Subjectivity: An Alternative Inspired by Cambodian Women"
2019-01-18 12:00 - 13:30 | 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 interlocutors demonstrate subjectivity that is not based on freedom and liberation, which are prioritized in many women’s organizations. Her larger project, “Retheorizing Women’s Empowerment with Insights from Cambodian Women,” aims to enhance the concepts of empowerment employed by many women’s organizations and in the realm of development in general. In this talk, Schubert will present one alternative to this historically feminist liberationist subjectivity—postsecular feminist subjectivity. This will include a presentation of various ways of defining postsecular feminism, considering resources from thinkers who seek inspiration from different traditions—both Judith Butler and Rosi Braidotti. This is a workshopping session to think with all participants and together to explore possibilities.
Lara K. Schubert received her PhD in Religion in 2016 from Claremont Graduate University and is currently a Research Affiliate at UCLA’s Center for the Study of Women. She is also a Lecturer in Liberal Studies and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at California State University, Los Angeles. She taught courses in Religious Studies at Pomona College and the Ethnic and Women’s Studies department at Cal Poly Pomona. She was awarded a Fulbright Grant for her field work in Cambodia.

Thinking Gender 2019: Feminists Confronting the Carceral State
2019-02-22
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 third of all female prisoners in the world, and between 1977 and 2004, the number of women in U.S. prisons increased by an unprecedented 757%. As a 2015 CSW co-sponsored report revealed, women suffering from mental illness in LA County jails are routinely denied treatment, medication, and reproductive hygiene products, and are disproportionately punished with solitary confinement. LGBTQ women are also disproportionately impacted: nearly 40% of incarcerated girls identify as LGBTQ, while nearly one in six transgender Americans, and one in two black transgender people, have been to prison.
Emerging student scholars and activists will reckon with these issues through feminist and queer perspectives.

KEYNOTE PANEL

ABOLITIONIST FEMINIST FUTURES
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2019, 3:45 PM
UCLA Luskin Conference Center, Centennial Ballroom A & B
Thinking Gender: Feminists Confronting the Carceral State will feature a keynote panel of distinguished scholar-activists.
READ FULL BIOGRAPHIES.
BETH RICHIE, Department Head, Criminology, Law and Justice and Professor of African American Studies & Criminology, University of Illinois at Chicago; Author of Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence and America’s Prison Nation

ALISA BIERRIA, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies, UC Riverside; Co-founder of Survived & Punished

COLBY LENZ, PhD Candidate, American Studies and Ethnicity, USC; Co-founder of Survived & Punished

ROMARILYN RALSTON, Program Coordinator, Project Rebound, CSU-Fullerton; Organizer, California Coalition for Women Prisoners

MODERATOR: GRACE HONG, Chair, CSW Advisory Committee; Professor, Gender Studies and Asian American Studies

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
The conference schedule is available online.
Check back regularly and join our email list for updates!

PRE-CONFERENCE SEMINAR WITH BETH RICHIE
CSW is pleased to offer an opportunity to participate in a 1-time, 2-hour seminar with Keynote Panelist Beth Richie, author of Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation and Professor of African American Studies and Criminology, University of Illinois at Chicago. The seminar will take place on Thursday, February 21, 2019. UCLA Graduate Students from all disciplines and UCLA Undergraduate Students in their senior year who are completing a Senior Thesis, Capstone, or Honors Project are eligible to apply.
Application Deadline EXTENDED! NEW DEADLINE: January 11, 2019
Application Details: https://csw.ucla.edu/tg19-seminar

ACCESSIBILITY
THIS IS A FRAGRANCE-FREE EVENT. For the health and safety of all attendees, please refrain from wearing products that contain fragrances when attending CSW events. Such products include: perfumes, hair products, deodorants, detergents, etc. For more information on fragrance and accessibility, visit https://sharetheair.ucla.edu.
If you require accommodations in order for this event to be accessible to you (e.g., sign language interpretation, large print materials, etc.), please contact CSW at csw@csw.ucla.edu at least two weeks prior to the event. For more information, visit our Events Accessibility Page.
Sign language interpretation will be provided at the Keynote Panel.

ACCOMMODATIONS AND PARKING
Thinking Gender 2019: Feminists Confronting the Carceral State will take place at the UCLA Luskin Conference Center, which is centrally-located on the UCLA Campus.
Parking and Accommodation information.

THINKING GENDER RECEIVES GRANT FROM THE LUSKIN ENDOWMENT FOR THOUGHT LEADERSHIP!
The Center for the Study of Women is proud to announce that we have been awarded a grant from the UCLA Luskin Endowment for Thought Leadership in support of Thinking Gender 2019!

CO-SPONSORED BY:

Backed by Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
UCLA Luskin Endowment for Thought Leadership
UCLA Interdisciplinary & Cross Campus Affairs (ICCA)
UCLA Graduate Division
UCLA Division of Humanities
Political Theology Network
UCLA Department of African American Studies
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
UCLA American Indian Studies Center
UCLA Black Male Institute
Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin
UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
UCLA Department of Philosophy
UCLA Department of Social Welfare
UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies
UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies
UCLA Department of Asian American Studies
UCLA Department of Sociology
UCLA Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics
UCLA Department of History
UCLA Department of Public Policy
The Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law
UCLA Department of Anthropology
UCLA LGBT Campus Resource Center
UCLA Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health
Criminal Justice Program at UCLA School of Law
UCLA Division of Social Sciences

Gender and Water: Andrea Ballestero, "A Future History of Water"
2019-05-16 12:45 - 14:15 | 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 the work of regulators in Costa Rica and how they use pricing formulas and the consumer price index to imagine their responsibility for society and the household as a space of water politics. Ballestero will invite the audience to think about what an anthropology of techno-legal devices looks like if we are open to wonder as an epistemic disposition. This is particularly powerful at a moment in which notions of crisis overwhelm our sense of the limits of the possible.
Ballestero’s first book, A Future History of Water (forthcoming from Duke University Press) asks how the difference between a human right and a commodity is produced in regulatory and governance spaces that purport to be open to different forms of knowledge and promote flexibility and experimentation. Ballestero has worked with regulators, policy-makers, and NGOs in Costa Rica and Brazil to trace how technolegal devices embody moral distinctions, pose questions about the foundations of liberal capitalist societies, and help people inhabit non-linear and generative futures.
Andrea Ballestero is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Rice University. Ballestero’s work looks at the unexpected ethical and technical entanglements through which experts understand water in Latin America.
Date: Thursday, May 16, 2019
Time: 12:45-2:15 PM
Location: 352 Haines Hall

Don’t miss a second event with Andrea Ballestero on May 17: Gender and Water Research Masterclass.

CSW and Gender Studies Fall Reception
2019-10-10 16:00 - 18:00 | 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, 2019
Date: Thursday, October 10, 2019
Time: 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Location: Rolfe Hall Courtyard, UCLA
RSVP ONLINE

Black Feminism, Care, and Reproductive Justice in Urgent Times: A Conversation with Kimberly Durdin
2020-02-10 16:00 - 18:00 | 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 the reproductive justice movement. A lactation consultant, childbirth educator and doula, in 2018 she and business partner Allegra Hill, opened Kindred Space LA, a birth, lactation and education space. They are co-founders of the Birthing People Foundation, a non-profit established to train birth workers of color.
Ariel Hart is a graduate student in the joint MD/Sociology doctoral program at UCLA. Her areas of expertise include medical Sociology, race and ethnicity, social movements; critical race theory, gender and sexuality, and Black Feminist Thought.
RSVP on EventBrite
Date: Monday, February 10, 2020
Time: 4 PM
Location: 306 Royce Hall
This is the first event in the Black Feminism Initiative Public Program Series, a series of public talks and events on subjects of pressing political and social concern.

Thinking Gender 2020: Sexual Violence as Structural Violence: Feminist Visions of Transformative Justice
2020-03-06 08:00 - 18:30 | Carnesale Commons, UCLA, 350 De Neve Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
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This year marks Thinking Gender’s 30th anniversary!
FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 2020
CARNESALE COMMONS, UCLA
PRE-REGISTRATION IS CLOSED
In-person registration will be available on the day of. First come, first serve. Please visit the registration table in the Palisades Lobby on the 3rd floor.
DETAILED SCHEDULE
Thinking Gender 2020 will focus on feminist, queer, trans, anti-carceral, transnational, and intersectional approaches to sexual violence.
Recent #MeToo mobilizations against high-profile predatory sexual abusers including Harvey Weinstein, R. Kelly, and Jeffrey Epstein have heightened public conversation around sexual violence. While important contributions have challenged dominant approaches to sexual violence, much of it has remained caught in legalistic, carceral, or criminal justice discourses that emphasize the punishment of individual actors to the exclusion of envisioning alternative definitions of repair and justice. Such dominant approaches center evidence and proof, and offer only the punishment of individual perpetrators as remedy, often in ways that exacerbate existing structural inequalities. Decades of scholarship and activism have demonstrated the inefficacy of such punitive models to curb sexual violence as well as the ways in which they exacerbate the policing of already marginalized communities.

KEYNOTE PANEL
Transformational Justice: Refusing Criminalization and Sexual Violence
Friday, March 6, 2020, 3:15 PM
Thinking Gender 2020: Sexual Violence as Structural Violence: Feminist Visions of Transformative Justice will feature a keynote panel of scholars and activists, headlined by Mariame Kaba. The panel will follow an opening presentation by Tongva artist, Weshoyot Alvitre.
READ FULL BIOGRAPHIES
Keynote Panelists:
Mariame Kaba
Founder and Director, Project NIA; Researcher-in-Residence, Social Justice Institute, Barnard Center for Research on Women

Mimi Kim
Assistant Professor of Social Work, California State University, Long Beach

Emily Thuma
Assistant Professor of American Politics and Public Law, University of Washington Tacoma

Sarah Haley (Moderator)
Chair, CSW Advisory Committee; Director, UCLA Black Feminism Initiative; Professor, Gender Studies and African American Studies

Keynote Opener:
Weshoyot Alvitre
Illustrator and Comic Book Artist, Tongva (Los Angeles Basin)

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
View Conference Overview
Check back regularly and join our email list for updates.

ACCESSIBILITY
THIS IS A FRAGRANCE-FREE EVENT. For the health and safety of all attendees, please refrain from wearing products that contain fragrances when attending CSW events. Such products include: perfumes, hair products, deodorants, detergents, etc. For more information on fragrance and accessibility, read about CSW’s Share the Air campaign.
If you require accommodations in order for this event to be accessible to you (e.g., sign language interpretation, large print materials, etc.), please contact thinkinggender@women.ucla.edu by Friday, February 14, 2020. For more information, visit our Events Accessibility Page.

PARKING AND ACCOMMODATIONS
Thinking Gender 2020 will take place at Carnesale Commons which is located in UCLA’s residential community known as the Hill.
Parking and Accommodations Information

NOTICE OF PHOTOGRAPHIC AND MEDIA RECORDING
Photography, audio, and video recording may occur at this event. By entering the event premises, you consent to interviews, photography, audio recording, video recording, and their release, publication, exhibition, or reproduction to be used for news, webcasts, promotional purposes, telecasts, advertising, inclusion on websites, or any other purpose by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women.

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Backed by Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
African American Studies Department
African Studies Center
American Indian Studies Center
American Indian Studies Program
Anthropology Department
Asian American Studies Department
Asian American Studies Center
Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health
Black Male Institute and Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families
Bruin Consent Coalition
Campus Assault Resources and Education (CARE)
Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity
Center for Health Policy Research
Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice, & Health
Center X
Chicana/o Studies Department
Chicano Studies Research Center
Community Health Sciences Department
Comparative Literature Department
Criminal Justice Program, UCLA School of Law
Disabilities Studies Program
Education Department
English Department
Fielding School of Public Health
Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History
Gender Studies Department
Healthy Campus Initiative
Humanities Division
Information Studies Department
Institute for Research on Labor & Employment
Institute of American Cultures
Institute of Transportation Studies
Institute on Inequality and Democracy
International Development and Policy Outreach
International Institute
Iris Cantor-UCLA Women’s Health Center
Labor Center
Latin American Institute
Latino Policy and Politics Initiative
Office of Residential Life
Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies
Promise Institute for Human Rights
Ralph and Goldy Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies
School of Medicine-Office of Diversity Affairs
School of Nursing
School of Theater, Film, and Television
Social Sciences Division
Social Welfare Department
Sociology Department
UC Speaks Up
UC Global Health Institute’s Center of Expertise on Women’s Health, Gender and Empowerment
Veterans Legal Clinic
Urban Planning Department
World Arts and Cultures/Dance Department
