“Backlash: Misogyny in the Digital Age” Screening & Panel Discussion

When: Thursday, November 2, 2023 7:00 p.m. Panel & Discussion Reception to follow Where: California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) UCLA Campus RSVP to the event Warning: This video contains adult content and graphic language, and is not suitable for children. UCLA Division of Social Sciences and UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television invite you to […]

Beyond The Bars LA Conference

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

The Center for Justice at UCLA presents a collaboration between the Bruin Underground Scholars (BUS) and the UCLA Prison Education Program (PEP). BEYOND THE BARS LA — our third biannual national conference — will take place on Friday and Saturday, November 3-4, 2023 at UCLA. The BTB LA team is an inspired group of system-impacted […]

Faculty Writing Retreat

306 and 314 Royce Hall UCLA

Date: Friday, November 3, 2023 Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Location: Royce 306 and 314. On-site space is limited. Virtual option available. RSVP Here.  Do you want to block out a day for writing and contemplation? The quarterly Faculty Writing Retreat is your solution. Join us for a day-long retreat where you can concentrate […]

Gendered Fortunes Book Talk

Rolfe Courtyard

When: Thursday, November 9, 2-4 pm  Where: UCLA Rolfe Courtyard Scultpure Garden RSVP Here. About Join us for a book talk featuring Professor Zeynep Korkman in discussion Professor Purnima Mankekar. In Gendered Fortunes (Duke University Press), Zeynep K. Korkman examines Turkey’s commercial fortunetelling cafés where secular Muslim women and LGBTIQ individuals navigate the precarities of twenty-first-century life. Criminalized […]

ELTS 3rd Annual Graduate Student Conference

308 Royce Hall

Where: Royce Hall 308 When: November 13-14, 2023 Join the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies' 3rd Annual Graduate Student Conference: "Speculative Futurities, Past and Present." Register Here View the program (PDF). The graduate students of the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles are inviting submissions […]

Mariam’s Tattoos: The Afterlives of a Humanitarian Photograph

When: Wednesday, November 15, 2023 10:00 am - 12:00 pm (Pacific Time) Where: Virtual RSVP for the event. Virtual book talk by Professor Elyse Semerdjian, Robert Aram and Marianne Kaloosdian and Stephen and Marian Mugar Chair of Armenian Genocide Studies at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. Foremost among the images […]

Oral Histories of Environmental Illness (OHEI) Symposium

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

Canary Knowledge: Chronic Fatigue, Chemical Sensitivities and the Limits of Medicine Presented by the CSW|Streisand Center. RSVP to the symposium. View the program and schedule. View the accessibility copies. When: Friday, November 17 – Saturday, November 18, 2023 Where: Hershey Hall Salon (158), 612 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA 90095 (Parking structure 2 is […]

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Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America Book Talk

Where: Bunche 6275 (Lunch included) When: Thursday, December 7, 12 - 1:30 pm View event flyer (PDF). Margot Canaday, Princeton University Dodge Professor of History, is an award-winning historian who studies gender and sexuality in modern America. She is the author of The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Century America (Princeton, 2009) and […]

Film Screening of “Maria Schneider, 1983” and Q & A with Elisabeth Subrin

When: Thursday, December 7, 2023 Where: TBD Researching the life and career of Maria Schneider (The Passenger, Last Tango in Paris) for a larger project, filmmaker Elisabeth Subrin discovered a brief interview the actress gave in 1983 for the French TV show Cinéma Cinéma. It’s a conversation alternately defiant and mournful, with Schneider reflecting with […]

Film Screening: Food and Country Screening and Q&A

Where: James Bridges Theater When: December 7, 7 pm Register here. Attend a film screening, Food and Country. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director, Laura Gabbert, and Chef Minh Phan. About the film: Documentarian Laura Gabbert (City of Gold) and chef/writer/editor Ruth Reichl chronicle the plight of the American food industry […]

Talk and Reception: Professor Salamishah Tillet

When: January 10, 4 pm Where: UCLA Royce Hall 314 Professor Salamishah Tillet Pulitzer Prize-winning contributing critic-at-large at The New York Times: "'Rather Than Her Biography': Listening to Nina Simone's Diary" "If we can draw out the emphasis on the female vocalist's art, rather than her biographies" critic Hortense Spillers once wrote. "Then we gather […]

Faculty Writing Retreat

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

When: Friday, January 19, 2024 10 am – 4 pm Where: Hershey Hall Salon (Room 158) (In-person Waitlist Only. Virtual Spots Available) RSVP Here.  Do you want to block out a day for writing and contemplation? The quarterly Faculty Writing Retreat is your solution. Join us for a day-long retreat where you can concentrate on […]