Lara K. Schubert, "Workshopping Postsecular Feminist Subjectivity: An Alternative Inspired by Cambodian Women"
2019-01-18 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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.
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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.
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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!

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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.

CO-SPONSORED BY:

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

2020 Awards Celebration
2020-10-16 13:00 - 15:00 | Online
This event has passed. Watch Alicia Garza’s keynote address and Q&A on CSW’s YouTube channel!

CELEBRATE 35 YEARS OF THE UCLA CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF WOMEN
Join the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) for a special virtual event on Friday, October 16th to honor the Center’s accomplishments, student award recipients, and this year’s Distinguished Leader in Feminism Award honoree!
FEATURING THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS
The Purpose of Power: Building Movements in A Time of Pandemic
by
Alicia Garza

Co-Creator, #BlackLivesMatter
Co-Founder, Supermajority
Founder, Black Futures Lab
This year, CSW has selected Alicia Garza as the recipient of the Center for the Study of Women’s 2020 Distinguished Leader in Feminism Award. She is an innovator, strategist, and organizer, and the co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter and the Black Lives Matter Global Network, an international organizing project to end state violence and oppression against Black people.
Building on the insights in her soon-to-be-released book The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart, Alicia Garza addresses some of the most pressing and important questions around movement building and brutal anti-Black state violence in a time of global pandemic. How do we build relations of care and solidarity amongst people and groups with different investments and interests? What lessons can we learn from decades of Black feminist theorizing and organizing around coalition? How do the specificities of today’s conditions, including the challenges of organizing remotely and the contemporary manifestation of state white supremacy, call for new strategies?
Event Flyer (PDF)
The keynote will be followed by a Q&A with Brittnee Meitzenheimer and Zama Dube of the Black Feminism Initiative.

EVENT DETAILS & REGISTRATION
Date: Friday, October 16th
Time: 1:00 – 3:00 PM (PST)
Location: Zoom Webinar
Registrants will receive a Zoom link a few days prior to the event. If the Zoom room is at capacity, attendees will be able to view the event on YouTube live stream.
This event has now passed. Please watch Alicia Garza’s keynote address, The Purpose of Power: Building Movements in a Time of Pandemic, followed by a Q&A with the Black Feminism Initiative at our YouTube channel.
For questions, please contact CSW at csw@csw.ucla.edu.

ABOUT THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Alicia Garza founded the Black Futures Lab to make Black communities powerful in politics. In 2018, the Black Futures Lab conducted the largest survey of Black communities in over 150 years.
Alicia believes that Black communities deserve what all communities deserve — to be powerful in every aspect of their lives. An innovator, strategist, organizer, and cheeseburger enthusiast, she is the co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter and the Black Lives Matter Global Network, an international organizing project to end state violence and oppression against Black people. The Black Lives Matter Global Network now has 40 chapters in 4 countries.
Alicia serves as the Strategy & Partnerships Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance, the nation’s premier voice for millions of domestic workers in the United States. She is also the co-founder of Supermajority, a new home for women’s activism. She shares her thoughts on the women transforming power in Marie Claire magazine every month.
Her forthcoming book, The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart, will be released on October 20, 2020, and she warns you — hashtags don’t start movements. People do.

Co-sponsored by:

UCLA International Institute
