“Wanda”: Free Screening by UCLA Film & Television Archive

Billy Wilder Theater, James Bridges Theater

Date: Sunday, November 2nd Time: 7pm Location: Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum UCLA Film & Television Archive is hosting a free screening of Wanda along with a Q&A and book signing with Elena Gorfinkel, author of “BFI Classics: Wanda,” moderated by Archive Research and Study Center Officer Maya Montañez Smukler. In 1970, Wanda screened at the Venice Film […]

Embryonic and Fetal Rights? What it Would Mean for Pregnant People and Reproductive Rights, Health, and Research

When: November 13, 10- 11 am PST Where: Virtual. RSVP to attend. Join a discussion featuring: Professor Mary Ziegler Panelist UC Davis School of Law Author, Personhood: The New Civil War Over Reproduction Heather Shumaker Panelist Senior Director State Abortion Policy, National Women's Law Center Dr. Amander Clark Panelist Founding Director UCLA Center for Reproductive […]

Noura Erakat on Revisiting Zionism as a Form of Racism and Racial Discrimination

When: Thursday, November 13 at 5:30 pm Where: On the UCLA campus RSVP for the address. On November 10, 1975, the UN General Assembly passed Resolution 3379 declaring Zionism as a Form of Racism and Racial Discrimination. A coalition of states introduced the resolution at the start of the 30th session of the General Assembly as […]

Faculty Writing Retreat – November 2025

Hershey Salon

RSVP Here Join CSW|Streisand Center for a day-long retreat where you can concentrate on your own work alongside like-minded colleagues. Friday, November 14 10 am – 4 pm Hershey Hall Salon (Room 158) Do you want to block out a day for writing and contemplation? The Faculty Writing Retreat is your solution. Join us for […]

Beyond Sanctuary: UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy

When: Friday, November 14th from 10am to 4:30pm Where: 2355 Public Affairs Building, UCLA RSVP Here UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy presents "Beyond Sanctuary", a series of dialogues intended to restituate the imperial vest in the global histories -- and posssibilites -- of decolonization and abolition.

Highlighting Resources for Trans Awareness Month

A reimagination of the light blue and light pink striped Trans flag highlighting and celebrating Trans identities. By Ria Rao, Cognitive Science, CSW|Streisand Center Student Worker  Trans Awareness Month is celebrated in November to honor the transgender and gender-nonconforming community through education, celebration, and advocacy. Some highlights for this month is Transgender Awareness Week from […]

Women’s Daily Life in Exile Lecture

Where: UCLA Bunche Hall, Rm 10383 When: Monday, November 17, 2025 / 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (Pacific Time) After being deported from their homes, Armenian women experienced vastly different fates depending on where they were sent within the Arab-speaking provinces of the Ottoman Empire. Those on the eastern deportation route faced famine and disease […]

Fiebre de carnaval: una conversación con Yuliana Ortiz Ruano

The Spanish & Portuguese Department would like to invite you to a conversation with Ecuadorian novelist and poet Yuliana Ortiz Ruano. In this conversation, Ortiz Ruano will discuss her recently translated novel Carnival Fever (Fiebre de Carnaval), her practice as a writer, and the intersections of decolonial thought and Black and Caribbean intellectual traditions in […]

Lynn Hershman Leeson: Private I

When: Tuesday, November 18, 2025, at 7:30 PM Where: Hammer Museum Pioneering conceptual artist Lynn Hershman Leeson, known for her six-decade exploration of technology, identity, and surveillance, joins Margot Norton, Chief Curator at BAMPFA, for an evening of video screenings and discussion. Leeson will reflect on her visionary works including the Roberta Breitmore series to […]

Faculty Writing Retreat – December 2025

Join CSW|Streisand Center for a day-long retreat where you can concentrate on your own work alongside like-minded colleagues! Friday, December 5th 10 am – 4 pm Hershey Hall Salon (Room 158) Do you want to block out a day for writing and contemplation? The Faculty Writing Retreat is your solution. Join us for a day-long retreat […]

Surrealism & Antifascism: A Symposium

Where: 3910 Los Feliz Boulevard When: Dec 6th, 2pm-6pm PST This unique gathering brings together artists, scholars, UCLA students and the public to explore the power of surrealist methods—past and present—as tools for resisting systems of domination and imagining new possibilities for being. From spiritual resistance to cultural subversion, surrealism has long offered a way […]