When: April 11 9:30-4pm Where: Room 1420 RSVP: tinyurl.com/cjlrsymposium Restorative Justice Panel & Individual Scholar Presentations On the Relationship between American Feminism and the Criminal System at 9:45-10:20 Aya Gruber (USC Gould School of Law) On Responses to Gender-Based Violence at 10:25-11:10 Leigh Goodmark (University of Maryland Carey School of Law) On Immigration x Abolition […]
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO FALL 2025. Date: April 11, 2025 Time: 5 – 6:30 pm Location: UCLA Mathias Botanical Garden This talk uses a combination of poetry, research, and prose to consider some of the discursive and material facets of Palestinian liberation theories and practices, with special attention to forms of affective and […]
Professor, Suzy Kim, Rutgers University Tuesday, April 22, 2025 4:00 PM (Pacific Time) Bunche Hall, Rm 10383 While social movements may appear to have receded in the 1950s with the rise of Cold War domesticity and McCarthyism (much like the upsurge of authoritarianisms today), the Korean War galvanized women to promote women’s rights in the […]
UCLA Editor-in-Residence Public Events with Courtney Berger, Executive Editor, Duke University Press RSVP for one or both events. Hershey Salon 158 Wednesday, April 23, 10:30 am-11:30 am: Talk Talk: Writing Books People Will Want to Read: Advice for First-Time Authors Thursday, April 24, 4:00-5:45 pm: Panel Panel & Reception: Writing and Publishing as a Scholar-Activist Talk: Writing Books […]
UCLA Transnational Gender and Labor Working Group Presents: "Evelyn Nakano Glenn and the Feminist Work of Studying Women's Labor" By Laura Hyun-Yi Kang, Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at UC Irvine Join us for a public lecture on scholar Evelyn Nakano Glenn's abiding commitment to illuminating the historical and contemporary experiences of working women […]
Mark your calendars: Black Study Days is happening April 28–30 at Kaufman Hall, UCLA! Join Whistle Space for a powerful three-day symposium centering Black arts, scholarship, embodiment, and resistance. Hosted in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance and initiated by Associate Professor Will Rawls, Whistle Space is a platform for artistic and political research—part […]
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 your own work alongside like-minded colleagues-we will hold the world at bay for you. Breakfast and lunch will be provided. When: Friday, May 9, […]
Where: Kinsey Pavilion 1220B When: Friday, May 9, 2 pm Join us for a screening of From Ground Zero, an anthology project comprised of 22 short films created by filmmakers from Gaza. Launched by renowned Palestinian filmmaker Rashid Masharawi, the initiative was created during the current 2023/2024 conflict and aims to provide a platform for young […]
Photo credit: Samyak Modi When: Friday, May 23 Where: Hershey Hall Salon Throughout the history of Jainism, one of the world’s oldest living religions, Jain women have played a crucial role. Jain renouncers, whose self-denying lifestyle is revered as the highest ideal, are predominantly female, while Jain laywomen tend to be significantly more religiously active […]
When: Tuesday May 27, 2025, 7:30 PM Where: Hammer Museum Learn more. Admission is free. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis. Box office opens one hour before the event. Among those fighting the L.A. […]
The UCLA Departments of Classics, English, Spanish & Portuguese, Chicano/a & Central American Studies, as well as the Center for the Study of Women proudly present a reading of “From the Founding of the Country” by classicist, writer, and translator Cristina Pérez Díaz (University of Puerto Rico) followed by a conversation with UCLA Professor Patrícia […]
Join us for the UCLA Activists-in-Residence closing reception. When: Tuesday, June 3 · 5 - 7pm PDT Where: James West Alumni Center 325 Westwood Plaza Los Angeles, CA 90095 RSVP here. With a shared commitment to “turn the university inside out” and invite artists, community organizers, and movement leaders to undertake power-shifting scholarship and pedagogy […]
