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  • Book Event: Queer Throughlines: Spaces of Queer Activism in South Korea and the Korean Diaspora

    10383 Bunche Hall UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

    Prof. Ju Hui Judy Han (UCLA) joined by Prof. Giancarlo Cornejo Salinas (UCLA), Prof. Grace Kyung-won Hong (UCLA), Laura Hyun Yi Kang (UC Irvine), and Dr. Yeong Ran Kim Tuesday, April 21, 2026 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Bunche Hall, Room 10383 About the Book   Queer Throughlines draws on years of direct participation, interviews, and […]

  • Flier text reads: CULTURE, POWER, SOCIAL CHANGE PRESENTS... Charlie Hale, Dean of Social Sciences, UC Santa Barbara Our Universities on the Brink: The Institution and the Commons Thursday 4.23.26 Haines Hall 352 12:15 PM This paper builds from the premise that, to confront the multiple forces of disruption, all who inhabit universities are called upon to engage critical university studies. This is especially crucial for those who belong to the imagined "we" that Dean Hale invokes at the outset, since "our" efforts to advance and defend an alternative social purpose of the public university are most vulnerable to these forces. His analysis explores the general contours and contradictions of this work, and more specifically, what happens when the efforts are supported by the dean's office. Both the analysis, and his ideas for possible ways forward, rest on a distinction between the institution and the commons. This notion of the commons offers a means to fortify our defenses and inspire a collective sense of purpose as we engage in a necessary, and hopefully short-lived, strategic retreat. Charlie Hale is the author of Resistance and Contradiction: Miskitu Indians and the Nicaraguan State, 1894-1987 (1994); and "Más que un indio..." Racial Ambivalence and Neoliberal Multiculturalism in Guatemala (2006); editor of Engaging Contradictions: Theory, Politics and Methods of Activist Scholarship (2008); co-editor (with Lynn Stephen) of Otros Saberes: Collaborative Research with Black and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America (2014); author of articles on activist scholarship, identity politics, racism, land rights and territorial autonomy, resistance to neoliberalism among Indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples of Latin America. Director of LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections (UT Austin, 2009-16) and President of the Latin American Studies Association (2006-7).

    Our Universities on the Brink: The Institution and the Commons

    Haines 352

    CULTURE, POWER, SOCIAL CHANGE PRESENTS... Charlie Hale, Dean of Social Sciences, UC Santa Barbara Our Universities on the Brink: The Institution and the Commons Thursday 4.23.26 Haines Hall 352 12:15 PM This paper builds from the premise that, to confront the multiple forces of disruption, all who inhabit universities are called upon to engage critical […]

  • “Dolores”: Free Spring Film Screening by CSW|Streisand Center

    1500 Public Affairs

    When: Thursday, April 23rd from 2-3:30pm Where: Center for the Study of Women | Streisand Center, 1500 Public Affairs Join us at CSW|Streisand Center for our Spring Film Screening of Dolores. Dolores (2017) is a documentary directed by Peter Bratt that chronicles the life of Dolores Huerta, the undervalued co-founder of the United Farm Workers union. […]

  • Political Ontology of the Closet with Sinan Birdal, Gender and Diversity Researcher, Freie Universitat Berlin

    Rolfe Hall 2125

    Political Ontology of the Closet: Elite Minorities and Sectarian Majorities in the Wilhemine Empire When: Thursday, April 30, 12:30-1:45 pm Where: 2125 Rolfe Hall This talk develops a political ontology of minority articulation by examining divisions within the 19th century homosexual movement under conditions of repression. Sedgwick's analysis of this movement emphasized the epistemological impasse […]

  • Dean’s Lecture in Humanistic Inquiry: Kate Manne on Sensitivity and Survival

    Royce 314

    The Inaugural Dean’s Lecture in Humanistic Inquiry Thursday, April 30 4 p.m. – 6 p.m. Royce Hall Room 314 Free admission. Reception with light refreshments to follow lecture. Advance registration strongly recommended. Presented by the UCLA College Division of Humanities The Dean’s Lecture in Humanistic Inquiry is a biennial lecture dedicated to exploring cross-cutting topics and […]

  • Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead | Book Talk and Signing with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

    James West Alumni Center 325 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    When: Tuesday, May 12th at 2:30pm Where: Founder's Room, James West Alumni Center Join Leanne Betasamosake Simpson for a book talk and signing for her newest work, Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg musician, writer, and academic. She is the author of eight […]

  • Beyond Representation: Practicing Feminist Engineering with Regan Patterson, whose research connects sustainable transportation, air quality, community engagement, and environmental justice. Dr. Patterson’s work focuses on how transportation and infrastructure policies impact communities differently — and how community-driven interventions can help create more equitable futures. 📅 Wednesday, May 20 ⏰ 3:30–5 PM 📍 UCLA Center for the Study of Women | Barbra Streisand Center, 1500 Public Affairs All are welcome. No registration required. Light refreshments will be served.

    Beyond Representation: Practicing Feminist Engineering featuring Regan Patterson

    Center for the Study of Women 1500 Public Affairs

    Date: Wednesday, May 20th Time: 3:30-5 PM Location: Center for the Study of Women|Streisand Center 1500 Public Affairs All are welcome! Open to students, faculty, staff, community members. Dr. Regan F. Patterson is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles, Principal Investigator of the Engineering Environmental Justice […]

  • An event flier for a book discussion titled "Memory, Madness, & Messianism: Thinking with My Father, the Messiah." The flier features a book cover image of a child standing over a person lying down, overlaid with warm, reddish tones.

    Memory, Madness, Messianism: Thinking with My Father, the Messiah

    Rolfe Hall 2125

    Date: May 21st Time: 5 P.M. Location: 2125 Rolfe Hall (UCLA) Featured Speaker: Gil Hochberg, Ransford Professor of Hebrew, Comparative Literature, and Middle East Studies at Columbia University, discussing her new memoir, My Father, the Messiah. UCLA Panel: Hannah Jakobsen (Comparative Literature) Rachel Lee (English/Gender Studies/Institute of Society & Genetics) Michael Rothberg (English/Comparative Literature) Presented […]

  • New Directions IN MUSIC, ARTS, AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES Feminist Armenian Research Collective (FemARC) - Third Workshop May 26-27, 2026 UCLA Schoenberg Music Building, Green Room Organized by Melissa Bilal, Promise Chair in Armenian Music, Arts, and Culture, UCLA Lerna Ekmekcioglu, McMillan-Stewart Professor of History, MIT

    Feminist Armenian Research Collective Workshop: New Directions in Music, Arts, and Performance Studies

    Schoenberg Music Building 445 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, United States

    When: May 26th-27th Where: UCLA Schoenberg Music Building, Green Room View full schedule here. Join us for the Feminist Armenian Research Collective’s (FemARC) Third Workshop, New Directions in Music, Arts, and Performance Studies, which will be held at UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music’s Schoenberg Music Building on May 26–27, 2026. This workshop was organized […]

  • Cozy Book Swap + Books to Jails Drive

    1500 Public Affairs

    Join us for the CSW|Streisand Center Cozy Book Swap! Bring a wrapped book, add a hint note, and swap with others! Additionally, donate a popular book to LA County Jails in partnership with LA County Library as a part of our Books to Jails Drive. What kinds of books to donate to the Books to […]

  • CULTURE, POWER, SOCIAL CHANGE PRESENTS... The Fire-Break: Latinx Fire Mitigation Workers and Settler Land Control in Southern California Thursday 6.4.26 | Haines Hall 352 | 12:15 PM | Pizza served at noon This presentation discusses the settler practice of managing fire risk to valorize property in Orange County's wildland urban interface. The presentation draws on four years of ethnographic research with Latinx fire mitigation workers in the chaparral canyon ecologies of Orange County. It also incorporates over three decades of archival materials from the Orange County Fire Authority and Dr. Zarate's family's involvement with the County of Orange fire mitigation program. The presentation contends that workers employ Migrant Ecological Knowledge, a practice grounded in the geographies of dispossession and displacement, to create forms of care and life in places where personal risks related to health, legal, and social precarity accumulate. These affective and social practices amongst workers denaturalize fire management across Southern California as a structure of risk-production that expands settler claims to land through regimes of racialized labor that seek to have Latinx migrants do the work of protecting property from fire and cultural obsolescence. Salvador Zarate is an assistant professor in the department of anthropology at UC Irvine. His work dovetails ethnographic research with historical methods and centers on questions of racialized gender, labor, and the ecology. His recent work explores Latinx residential gardening, drought as a science of land domination, and wildfire as a cultural practice of racial domination and settler conquest. He has published in Anthropology of Work Review, Journal of Political Ecology, Feminist Formations, Catalyst, Practicing Anthropology, Latino Studies, Aztlan, and others. His co-written book on the politics of doing transformative community research, Transforming Science, will be published in May of this year.

    The Fire-Break: Latinx Fire Mitigation Workers and Settler Land Control in Southern California

    352 Haines Hall

    CULTURE, POWER, SOCIAL CHANGE PRESENTS: The Fire-Break: Latinx Fire Mitigation Workers and Settler Land Control in Southern California Thursday 6.4.26 | Haines Hall 352 | 12:15 PM | Pizza served at noon This presentation discusses the settler practice of managing fire risk to valorize property in Orange County's wildland urban interface. The presentation draws on […]