Center for the Study of Women

Panel: "Edible Feminisms: On Discard, Waste, and Metabolism"
2018-02-01 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Luskin Conference Center
Activists and scholars will offer live reflections on how the past lurks in our shared food future, and what to do about it.
FEATURED PANELISTS
Food justice and food waste activists:
Tanya Fields (Founder and Executive Director, The BLK ProjeK)
Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia (Co-Editor, Poor Magazine; author of Criminal of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless in America)
Rick Nahmias (Founder and Executive Director, Food Forward LA)
Award-winning scholars:
Heather Paxson (Professor of Anthropology, MIT; author of The Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value in America)
Kyla Wazana Tompkins (Associate Professor of English and Gender and Women’s Studies, Pomona College; author of Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the 19th Century)

DATE: Thursday, February 1, 2018
TIME: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM. Reception to follow.
LOCATION: Luskin Conference Center, UCLA
Free and open to the public.
Register: https://uclacsw.submittable.com/submit/102504/free-registration-edible-feminisms-panel

This panel is part of Edible Feminisms: On Discard, Waste and Metabolism, a project organized by CSW Adjunct Assistant Professors Sarah Tracy and Rachel Vaughn.
Edible Feminisms will culminate in a special issue of the journal Food, Culture, and Society. Contributors to the special issue will gather for a private writing workshop following the public panel.
This project was inspired by Dr. Kyla Wazana Tompkins‘ framing of “critical eating studies” in her award-winning Racial Indigestion (New York University Press, 2012) and reflects on the ways in which American Studies, Food Studies, Sensory Studies, Science & Technology Studies, and Postcolonial Studies are speaking to one another. Through the promptings of food science popularization, culinary tourism, food waste, sustainability, and access debates, questions of race, identity, and pleasure are currently as germane as the science of obesity/diabetes, allergy, and chemical exposure. Rather than separate such strands, we wish to forward the proposition of “critical eating studies” through explorations of the theme of Re(Value). How do individuals, companies, and policy-makers deploy science (e.g., evolutionary, genetic, molecular) to do the work of differentiation—where differentiation is an expression of value, whether ethnic, cultural, distinction, or brand? How do such actors center science in their route to positive futures? In other words, how is latent capacity transformed into new sources of value and to what benefit, and through which kinds of violence? How does making explicit the materiality, politics, and symbolism of eating (a mutual, subjective, and intractable affair), as feminist and queer critical practice, help illuminate such questions and to what ends?

Panel Details

NEAREST AVAILABLE PARKING: Parking Structure 8 (enter via Westwood Plaza)
REGISTER: https://uclacsw.submittable.com/submit/102504/free-registration-edible-feminisms-panel

THIS IS A FRAGRANCE-FREE EVENT. For the health and safety of all attendees, please avoid wearing products that contain fragrances when attending CSW events. Such products include: perfumes, hair products, deodorants, detergents, etc. For more information, visit our Events Accessibility Page: https://csw.ucla.edu/event-accessibility.
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.

Co-sponsored by:
Luskin Endowment for Thought Leadership
Division of Humanities
Luskin School of Public Affairs
Food Studies Graduate Certificate Program
Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
Institute of American Cultures
Iris Cantor – UCLA Women’s Health Center
Asian American Studies Center
Department of African American Studies
Department of History
Department of Asian American Studies
Department of Gender Studies
Institute for Society and Genetics
Backed by Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Division of Social Sciences

16th Annual Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies
2018-02-02 10:00 - 18:00 | Royce 314
Join the UCLA Armenian Graduate Students Association for their 16th annual Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies.
Featured speakers will include:
Carla Kekejian (University of Utah): “Harsneren: Language of the Bride”
Rosie Aroush (UCLA): “A Life of Otherness: The Significance of Familial Support and Community Inclusivity for LGBQ Armenians”
Co-sponsors: UCLA Promise Institute for Human Rights, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and UCLA Department of History

Curating Resistance: Punk as Archival Method
2018-02-09 - 2018-02-10 | 306 and 314 Royce Hall, UCLA
At a time when performative resistances to exploitative mainstream cultural practices are increasingly under attack, punk persists as an important space for cultivating and curating expressive means. Punk’s resistant literacies and performances are often in defiance of institutional rigors that carve exclusionary boundaries. Yet, as punk celebrates its long fortieth birthday, punk’s contested annals are increasingly not only part of but also help shape institutional efforts to exceed canonic representations. Bringing together scholars, musicians, fans, writers, and community members, including bands, public intellectuals, and workshops to augment the conventional structure of the academic panel, Curating Resistance: Punk as Archival Method is teaming up with the UCLA Library Special Collections “Punk Archive” for hands-on, thoughtful community building within, across, and beyond the university. This two-day event, hosted by the UCLA Center for Musical Humanities, focuses on the interstices of punk and archive, using both as method, so as to push the boundaries of these three terms and practices. The conference focuses on documenting punk musicality, how sound repertoires and archival practices can give shape to the lived contours of diversity across scale, from the local to transnational, and what this means in terms of empowerment for research and endeavors that destabilize this colonial history of the academy. Punk as archival method curates resistance by contributing to these larger conversations via the possibilities of musical subcultures’ collaborative systemic interruptions.
Curating Resistance: Punk as Archival Method will include speaker panels, punk performances, and renowned figures drawn from the gendered and politicized worlds of both musical and visual punk artistry.

Sara Ahmed, "Complaint as Diversity Work"
2018-02-13 15:00 - 17:00 | Ackerman Grand Ballroom, UCLA, Los Angeles
CSW is delighted to welcome Sara Ahmed as a featured speaker in our Feminism + the Senses series. We are presenting two events featuring Sara Ahmed on February 13, 2018:

Public Talk: Complaint as Diversity Work
DATE: Tuesday, February 13, 2018
TIME: 3:00 – 5:00 PM
LOCATION: Ackerman Grand Ballroom
Free and Open to the Public
REGISTER ONLINE: https://uclacsw.submittable.com/submit/abe1c4bb-ee7a-4da5-8eb4-16d04bc6f58f/free-registration-sara-ahmed-feminism-and-the-senses

Graduate Seminar
All UCLA Graduate Students are eligible to apply to participate in this one-time graduate seminar (not for course credit). Only those selected will be able to attend.
DATE: Tuesday, February 13, 2018
TIME: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
APPLY ONLINE: https://uclacsw.submittable.com/submit/ad6ab305-dbfd-43af-8f63-c84c3484c871/application-graduate-seminar-with-sara-ahmed
APPLICATION DEADLINE: January 15, 2018

About the Speaker
Sara Ahmed is an independent feminist scholar and writer. She has held academic appointments at Lancaster University and Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work is concerned with how power is experienced and challenged in everyday life and institutional cultures. She has recently completed a book What’s the Use? On the Uses of Use and has begun a new research project on complaint. Her previous publications include Living a Feminist Life (2017), Willful Subjects (2014), On Being Included (2012), The Promise of Happiness (2010), Queer Phenomenology (2006), The Cultural Politics of Emotion (2014, 2004), Strange Encounters (2000) and Differences that Matter (1998). She also blogs at www.feministkilljoys.com.
In 2016, Ahmed resigned in protest from her post as Professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldmiths in response to the institution’s failure to deal with students’ sexual harassment and assault complaints against staff and faculty members. She continues to work to make the problem of sexual harassment at universities more visible through her involvement with organizations like The 1752 Group.

About the Talk
Register online to attend: https://uclacsw.submittable.com/submit/abe1c4bb-ee7a-4da5-8eb4-16d04bc6f58f/free-registration-sara-ahmed-feminism-and-the-senses
Ahmed will speak about her new research project on “Complaint.”
The lecture explores how complaint can be understood as a form of diversity work: the work you do to transform an institution, or the work you do when you do not quite inhabit the norm of an institution. If doing diversity work is heard as complaint, making a complaint often requires becoming a diversity worker. This is not to say that those who make complaints always think of themselves as diversity workers in the sense of trying to transform the institution in which the complaint is lodged. But in order to proceed with a complaint you often have to become a diversity worker because making a complaint within an institution brings you up against it. The lecture explores how we learn about the institutional (as usual) from those who are trying to transform institutions. The lecture will discuss how complaint is a sensational intervention into institutional life.
LOCATION:

Location: Ackerman Studen Union, 2nd floor Grand Ballroom
Nearest Parking: Parking Structure 4 (enter via Westwood Plaza from Sunset Blvd.)

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, visit our Events Accessibility Page: https://csw.ucla.edu/event-accessibility.
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.

About the Seminar
Registered UCLA Graduate Students from all departments are invited to apply to participate in a 1-time, 2-hour graduate seminar (not for course credit) with Sara Ahmed.
SEMINAR DATE: Tuesday, February 13, 2018
SEMINAR TIME: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location will be provided to accepted applicants
Participants will be required to read Chapters 4, 5, and 6 of Sara Ahmed’s Living and Feminist Life. Copies will be made available to participants in advance of the seminar. Participants are also expected to attend Dr. Ahmed’s public talk, “Complaint as Diversity Work,” at 3:00 PM on Tuesday, February 13, in the Ackerman Grand Ballroom.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE:
Please complete the online form available at: https://uclacsw.submittable.com/submit/ad6ab305-dbfd-43af-8f63-c84c3484c871/application-graduate-seminar-with-sara-ahmed

You will be required to upload the following documents:

Current CV
A brief statement (250 words MAXIMUM) describing your research and/or activist interests and how you see this seminar contributing to them.

DEADLINE: JANUARY 15, 2018
We will only consider COMPLETE applications submitted by the deadline. Late applications will not be accepted.

Co-sponsored by:

Backed by Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Division of Humanities
Department of Comparative Literature
Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health
International Institute
Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
Department of English
Department of Philosophy
Department of Anthropology
Department of Gender Studies
LGBTQ Studies Program
Division of Social Sciences

Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, "Moments and Epiphanies in the Life of a Māhū"
2018-02-22
The Asian American Studies Department presents a talk by Hinaleimoana Kwai Kong Wong-Kalu, also known as Kumu Hina (hula teacher), an educator and native Hawaiian transgender activist. She is the subject of the documentary, “Kumu Hina: The True Meaning of Aloha” (2014, directed by Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson) which won the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary among many other film awards. In 2015, PBS Hawai’i released a shorter educational version of film intended for younger audiences and classrooms titled, “A Place in the Middle”. Kumu Hina is a native Hawaiian mahu, a person who embodies a third gender, and has both the male and the female spirit.
Wong-Kalu will be featured at two events:
Public Lecture
Introduction by Professor Randall Akee
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM
Location: Haines Hall A18
Community Talk
“Moments and Epiphanies in the Life of a Māhū”
Time: 2:00 – 3:30 PM
Powell Library East Rotunda
Light Reception to Follow

Co-sponsored by:

Office of Instructional Development
American Indian Studies Center
Center for the Study of Women
Institutes for American Cultures
Asian American Studies Center

Ari Heinrich, "Chinese Bodies as Biological Surplus: Plastinated Cadavers and Geopolitical Hierarchies of the Human""
2018-02-27 17:00 - 20:30 | Humanities 348, UCLA
Part of Area Impossible: Sexuality and Geopolitics

The first event in the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature 2017-2018 Sexuality & Geopolitics Seminar Series will feature Ari Heinrich, Associate Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at UCSD. Their lecture, “Chinese Bodies as Biological Surplus: Plastinated Cadavers and Geopolitical Hierarchies of the Human” will question what a comparative examination of Chinese-language discourse on the plastinated human cadaver exhibits might reveal about the political economics of race and capital distribution that inform them.A firestorm of human rights critiques often greets the opening of an exhibit of plastinated cadavers in Europe and North America, obscuring any attempts to critique the notion of the human (and indeed of “rights”) in the smoke from its blaze. This talk asks what a comparative examination of Chinese-language discourse on the plastinated human cadaver exhibits might reveal about the political economies of race and capital distribution that inform them.
Date: February 27, 2018
Time: 5:30 – 8:00 PM
Location: Humanities 348

Thinking Gender 2018: Pre-existing Conditions
2018-03-01 - 2018-03-02 | UCLA Faculty Center, Los Angeles, CA
Thinking Gender, Pre-existing Conditions
28th Annual Thinking Gender Graduate Student Research Conference
March 1-2, 2018, UCLA
Conference Schedule: https://csw.ucla.edu/TG18-schedule
Pre-Registration for Thinking Gender is now closed. On-site registration will be available on the days of the conference.

Thinking Gender is an annual public conference highlighting graduate student research on women, sexuality, and gender across all disciplines and historical periods. This year’s conference theme, Pre-existing Conditions, will focus on the connections between health and gender as in the context of on-going discussions about gender-focused health and healthcare.

The conference will feature paper, poster, speed pitching research roundtable, and visual arts presentations.
Conference Schedule
Call for Proposals and Submission Guidelines
Accommodation and Parking Information
Registration

CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS

Keynote Address:
Anticipated Pleasures and Sexual Double Standards:
Explaining gender differences in reaction to real and hypothetical sexual offers
Terri Conley, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan
Date: Thursday, March 1
Time: 3:15 PM
Location: California Room, UCLA Faculty Center

Workshop:
Trauma-Informed Yoga
Zabie Yamasaki
UCLA Campus Assault Resources and Education (CARE) Program
Date: Friday, March 2
Time: 9:00 AM
Location: California Room, UCLA Faculty Center

Art Exhibition:
February 26 – March 2, 2018
Kerckhoff Hall Art Gallery
Join us for a Reception, Film Screening and Networking Event celebrating the Thinking Gender Conference and Art Exhibition!
Date: Thursday, March 1
Time: 5:30 PM
Location: Kerckhoff Grand Salon & Art Gallery

Sign language interpretation will be provided at selected panels on March 2:

10:15 AM: Gendered Violence
1:00 PM: Sex and Sexuality
4:00 PM: Affective Labor and Mental Health

Co-sponsored by:

Backed by UCLA Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
UCLA Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health
UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity
Southern California HIV/AIDS Policy Research Center
UCLA Department of Psychology
UCLA Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
UCLA Department of Community Health Sciences
UCLA Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media
UCLA World Arts & Cultures/Dance
UCLA Art and Global Health Center
UCLA Cultural Affairs Commission
UCLA Art|Sci Center
UCLA Public Health Student Association
Division of Social Sciences

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, visit our Events Accessibility Page: https://csw.ucla.edu/event-accessibility.
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.

Aimee Meredith Cox, Now You See Me, Now You Don’t: Black Girls, Dubious Protection, and the Public
2018-03-15 12:15 - 13:45 | 352 Haines Hall
In this structured conversation, Cox will draw from her first ethnography, Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship, as well as on work with young Black women in the urban and suburban U.S., to consider how their experiences in and through various publics offers a reframing of the concepts of protection, social accountability, care, legibility, and value.
Aimee Meredith Cox is jointly appointed as an Associate Professor in the departments of African American Studies and Anthropology at Yale University. Cox earned her M.A. and PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and B.A. with honors in Anthropology from Vassar College. Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of Anthropology, Black Studies, and Performance Studies. Cox’s first monograph, Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship (Duke 2015), won a 2016 Victor Turner Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing, and Honorable Mention from the 2016 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize, given by the National Women’s Studies Association. She is the editor of the forthcoming volume, Gender: Space (MacMillan) and co-editor of a special issue of Public: A Journal of Imagining America on art and knowledge production in the academy. Cox is also a former professional dancer. She danced on scholarship with the Dance Theatre of Harlem and toured extensively with Ailey II. Her next ethnographic project, Living Past Slow Death, explores the creative protest strategies individuals and communities enact to reclaim Black life in the urban United States.
Organized by the Department of Anthropology Culture Power and Social Change Colloquium.
DATE: March 15, 2018
TIME: 12:15 PM
LOCATION: 352 Haines Hall

Sexual Violence and Hookup Culture
2018-04-03 18:00 - 20:30 | Fowler Museum, UCLA
This consciousness raising event includes a film screening of the Netflix documentary Liberated and a panel discussion with subject matter experts and filmmakers. The film examines disturbing trends related to sexuality and gender during Florida’s annual spring break celebration. The panel discussion will discuss the film’s relevancy to rape culture on college campuses, drawing connections specific to Los Angeles.
The objective is to activate college communities to create safe spaces focused on discussing and dismantling sexual violence and gender-based violence in an effort to move closer to gender equity.
Panelists:
Kim Biddle, Founder and Executive Director of Saving Innocence
Morgan Perry, Producer of Liberated
Shay, documentary film participant
Sarah Godoy, UCLA Department of Social Welfare

DATE: April 3, 2018
TIME: 6:00 PM
LOCATION: Fowler Museum, UCLA

Nicole George, "Women, Peace, and Security through a Vernacular Frame: Global/local frictions in Solomon Islands and Bougainville"
2018-04-09 15:00 - 17:00 | Rolfe 2125
Organized by the UCLA Department of Asian American Studies
Since the early 2000s, United Nations Security Council Resolutions on Women Peace and Security, and particularly UNSCR 1325, have become a key focus of policy making and gender advocacy for those aiming to promote women’s roles in conflict resolution and conflict transition in the western Pacific Islands region. But in these contexts, arguments about the rights of women to be recognized as those who bear specific sorts of burdens in times of instability, or those who bring particular types of skills or insights to the processes of post-conflict governance also come into friction with vernacular notions of security and localized sentiments about the foundations for the safe ordering of community. In this presentation Nicole George reflects on recent academic development of the concept of vernacular security and the insights this work might offer into the challenges surrounding promotion of women peace and security principles in this region. George then draws upon lessons learned from research with everyday communities of women impacted by the long process of conflict transition. George examines where and how frictions occur between conceptualizations of gendered security that uphold women’s rights to safety and participation, and those which equate gendered security with respect for, and adherence to, gendered codes of responsibility to family and community.
Nicole George is a leading feminist in Oceania and the author of Situating Women: Gender Politics and Circumstance in Fiji (Australian National University Press, 2012).
DATE: April 9, 2018
TIME: 3:00 PM
LOCATION: Rolfe 2125

Maria Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, "Indian Given: Racial Geographies Across Mexico and the United States"
2018-04-12 15:00 | Charles E Young Research Library Conference Room
Indian Given: Racial Geographies Across Mexico and the United States
A Book Talk by Maria Josefina Saldaña-Portillo
María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU and Visiting Professor of English at UC Berkeley. She is the author of The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development (Duke University Press, 2003) and Indian Given: Racial Geographies Across Mexico and the United States (Duke University Press, 2016). Indian Given was awarded the Best Book Award from the National Association for Chicano and Chicana Studies (NACCS) in 2017
In Indian Given María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo addresses current racialized violence and resistance in Mexico and the United States with a genealogy that reaches back to the sixteenth century. Saldaña-Portillo formulates the central place of indigenous peoples in the construction of national spaces and racialized notions of citizenship, showing, for instance, how Chicanos/as in the U.S./Mexico borderlands might affirm or reject their indigenous background based on their location. In this and other ways, she demonstrates how the legacies of colonial Spain’s and Britain’s differing approaches to encountering indigenous peoples continue to shape perceptions of the natural, racial, and cultural landscapes of the United States and Mexico. Drawing on a mix of archival, historical, literary, and legal texts, Saldaña-Portillo shows how los indios/Indians provided the condition of possibility for the emergence of Mexico and the United States.

Professor Saldaña’s presentation addresses the imbrication of NAFTA, narcos, and the legacy of the indio bárbaro.

Date: Thursday April 12th 2018
Time: 3:00pm
Location: Charles E. Young Research Library, Main Conference Room 11360
Organized by the Department of Gender Studies
Co-Sponsored by The Center for the Study of Women, American Indian Studies Center, American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program, Department of English and The Latin American Institute

A Dialogue on the Challenges of Minoritized Academic Fields at this Time
2018-04-13 12:00 - 14:00 | 10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Part of The Philippines and its Elsewheres
A series organized by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Featuring:
Neferti Tadiar, Professor and Chair of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Barnard College
Allan Punzalan Isaac, Chair of American Studies and Associate Professor of American Studies and English, Rutgers University
Respondent: Steven Nelson, Director, UCLA Center for African Studies
The theme of the conversation orbits around the challenges minoritized fields–including Gender/Women/Feminist Studies as a field–must take up at this time. “At this time” is broadly and vaguely, yet pointedly invoked. “At this time” could be: Trumpudo time, Duterte, Modi, thinly veiled dictatorship, resurgence of populism/neopopulism, #metoo…. Or, with fires, floodings, drought, landslides, and bomb cyclones in our immediate surroundings, “At this time” could also be the end of times, Z apocalypse, a time toward Extinction Level Event.
“The Philippines and its Elsewhere” explores the politics of knowledge production, university education, and global citizenship with Filipino Studies as its launching point. It is concerned with what interconnectivity across borders enables and demands, as forms and politics of the global continually shifts.
DATE: April 13, 2018
TIME: 12:00 PM
LOCATION: 10383 Bunche Hall
RSVP: http://www.international.ucla.edu/cseas/event/13134

Don Mee Choi's Hardly War
2018-04-26 16:00 - 17:30 | Dodd Room 175, UCLA
Please join the UCLA Center for Korean Studies as Don Mee Choi reads from her latest collection of poetry entitled Hardly War (2016). Using visual artifacts from her father’s archive, a photographer during the Korean and Viet Nam wars, Choi combines imagery with poetry, opera, and memoir to examine the devastating impact of the unfinished Korean War.
Don Mee Choi is a poet and translator. Choi’s other poetry collections include The Morning News is Exciting (Action Books, 2010), a chapbook, Petite Manifesto (Vagabond, 2014), and a pamphlet, Freely Frayed. She has received a Whiting Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, and the 2012 Lucien Stryk Translation Prize.
Organized by the UCLA Center for Korean Studies.
DATE: Thursday, April 26, 2018
TIME: 4:00-5:30 PM
LOCATION: Dodd Room 175
RSVP: Contact Jenny Yoo, yoo@international.ucla.edu

Dreaming in Filipino: Languages and Literatures Beyond English:
2018-04-30 12:00 - 14:00 | 10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Part of The Philippines and its Elsewheres
A series organized by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Featuring:
Maria Josephine Barrios-LeBlanc, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley
Nenita Domingo, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA
Kie Zuraw, Department of Linguistics. UCLA
This interdisciplinary panel of speakers discusses what it means to speak, write, and
dream in languages other than English at this time of increasingly shrinking borders and
yet widening gap of inequality.
“The Philippines and its Elsewhere” explores the politics of knowledge production, university education, and global citizenship with Filipino Studies as its launching point. It is concerned with what interconnectivity across borders enables and demands, as forms and politics of the global continually shifts.
Date: Monday, April 30
Time: 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Location: Room 10383, Bunche Hall

Ula Taylor, "The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam"
2018-04-30 16:00 - 18:00 | Bunche 6275, UCLA Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Organized by the UC Consortium for Black Studies in California
Ula Y. Taylor discusses her recently published book, The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam (UNC Press, 2017). The patriarchal structure of the Nation of Islam (NOI) promised black women the prospect of finding a provider and a protector among the organization’s men, who were fiercely committed to these masculine roles. Black women’s experience in the NOI, however, has largely remained on the periphery of scholarship. Here, Ula Taylor documents their struggle to escape the devaluation of black womanhood while also clinging to the empowering promises of patriarchy. Taylor shows how, despite being relegated to a lifestyle that did not encourage working outside of the home, NOI women found freedom in being able to bypass the degrading experiences connected to labor performed largely by working-class black women and in raising and educating their children in racially affirming environments. Telling the stories of women like Clara Poole (wife of Elijah Muhammad) and Burnsteen Sharrieff (secretary to W. D. Fard, founder of the Allah Temple of Islam), Taylor offers a compelling narrative that explains how their decision to join a homegrown, male-controlled Islamic movement was a complicated act of selfpreservation and self-love in Jim Crow America.
Ula Taylor is a leading feminist historian. She is Professor and H. Michael and Jeanne Williams Department Chair in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
DATE: April 30, 2018
TIME: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
LOCATION: Room 6275, Bunche Hall

The Crescent Moon Symposium
2018-05-04 09:00 - 17:00 | Faculty Center, California Room
Organized by the UCLA Department of English
Date: May 4, 2018
Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: California Room, UCLA Faculty Center
The one-day Crescent Moon Symposium (May 4, 2018) explores the lives of philosopher Hu Shih 胡适 (1891-1962), poet Xu Zhimo 徐志摩 (1897-1931), scholar/Shakespearean Liang Shiqiu 梁实秋, writer/painter Ling Shuhua 凌淑华 (1900-1990), and their literary communities. The quartet of bilingual intellectuals epitomized the vibrant East-West exchanges in the wake of the May Fourth movement. All four were members of the Crescent Moon Society 新月社, established by Xu Zhimo and Hu Shi and designed as a counterpart of the Bloomsbury Group of England. Three also happened to be prolific epistolary writers. A cosmopolitan friendly with Katherine Mansfield, Roger Fry, and Rabindranath Tagore, Xu was most famous for his Chinese poetry and love letters. Hu Shi corresponded with Bertrand Russell, Arthur Waley, and a number of American literary luminaries. Ling Shuhua corresponded with Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, and Julian Bell.
Two of the four keynote speakers are descendants of Xu Zhimo and Ling Shuhua, respectively: Tony S. Hsu 徐善曾, Xu Zhimo’s only grandson and author of Chasing the Modern《志在摩登》(2017); Sasha Su-Ling Welland 魏淑凌 (U of Washington), grandniece of Ling Shuhua and author of A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters (2007). The other two keynoters are Susan Chan Egan 陈毓贤, co-author of A Pragmatist and His Free Spirit: The Half-Century Romance of Hu Shi and Edith Clifford Williams (2009), and Michelle Yeh (UC Davis), author of Modern Chinese Poetry: Theory and Practice since 1917 (1991). The symposium will also feature a round table discussion of the Crescent Moon Society (a literary society named after a volume of prose poems by Rabindranath Tagore) and its Bloomsbury connection, and a literary salon with bilingual readings, songs, slides, and documentaries about Xu, Hu, and Ling. Round table participants include the four keynoters, visiting scholar Liu Cong 刘聪 (Liang Shiqiu 梁实秋 scholar), and three UCLA faculty members (Michael Berry 白睿文, King-Kok Cheung 张敬珏, Louise Hornby). Admission is free and open to the community.
Speakers:
Susan Chan Egan 陈毓贤, retired securities analyst, author of A Latterday Confucian and A Pragmatist and His Free Spirit: The Half-Century Romance of Hu Shi and Edith Clifford Williams
Louise Hornby, Assistant Professor of English at UCLA; author of Still Modernism: Photography, Literature, Film
Liu Cong 刘聪, Visiting scholar at UCLA and Liang Shiqiu specialist
Tony S. Hsu徐善曾, physicist, entrepreneur turned writer; author of Chasing the Modern: The Twentieth-Century Life of Poet Xu Zhimo
Sasha Su-Ling Welland 魏淑凌, Associate Professor of Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies, U of Washington; author of A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters and Experimental Beijing: Gender and Globalization in Chinese Contemporary Art
Michelle Yeh, Distinguished Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Davis and Director of the Confucius Institute at UC Davis; author of Modern Chinese Poetry: Theory and Practice since 1917
Co-sponsors:
Center for the Study of Women
Department of Asian American Studies
Asian American Studies Center
Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
Confucius Institute
Institute of International Exchange

Kristine Gunnell, "Grantmaking for Systemic Change: Daughters of Charity, Seton Institute, and Alleviating Poverty in the Global South, 1985-2010"
2018-05-10 12:00 - 13:30 | Rolfe 2125
CSW Research Affiliate Brown Bag Talk
A talk by Kristine Gunnell, Research Affiliate, UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Committed to easing suffering wherever they find it, Daughters of Charity in the western United States founded Seton Institute for International Development in 1985. Through its fundraising and in-kind distribution programs, the institute offered targeted support for Catholic sisters engaged in primary health care activities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. A case study of faith-based non-profits, the institute’s history illustrates Catholic efforts to strengthen transnational ties among sisters, while also promoting practices to spur systemic change to reduce poverty in local communities throughout the Global South.
Kristine Gunnell is a research affiliate at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. Gunnell’s book, Daughters of Charity: Women, Religious Mission, and Hospital Care in Los Angeles, 1856-1927 (DePaul University Vincentian Studies Institute, 2013) illustrates the innovative ways that these Catholic sisters adapted to the changing demands of the emerging hospital industry while maintaining their religious mission to care for the sick and poor. While her previous work focused on the Daughters’ early history in Los Angeles, Gunnell has recently turned her attention to the sisters’ activities in the late twentieth century. Her current book project focuses on the efforts of the Daughters of Charity Foundation to promote systemic change as it seeks to combat poverty in California and elsewhere in the world.
DATE: Thursday, May 10
TIME: 12-1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Rolfe 2125
Bring your lunch!
RSVP online: https://uclacsw.submittable.com/submit/107912/free-registration-grantmaking-for-systemic-change-by-kristine-gunnell

Representing the Sex Industries
2018-05-15 16:00 - 18:00 | UCLA School of Law, Room 3467, UCLA
Representing the Sex Industries
With Dr. Beth Ribet, Co-Director of Repair
Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Time: 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Location: UCLA School of Law, Room 3467
In this lecture and dialogue, Dr. Beth Ribet, who will be introduced by Professor Claudia Peña, will address the framing and representation of people in systems of prostitution in popular media, academic theory, political discourse, and in the criminal justice system. Within this discussion, Dr. Ribet will explore the contemporary politics of sex trafficking rhetoric, and will specifically introduce analysis of the recent framing, in right-wing media, of Donald Trump as an anti-trafficking hero supposedly responsible for the rescue of trafficked children and women. She will also delve into the history and ramifications of the dichotomy between the terms “sex work” and “sex trafficking”, and will identify the need for feminist, race-conscious analysis and interventions to address the relationship between whiteness, white women, and pimping in the United States. Dr. Ribet’s lecture will conclude with discussion of the hyper-vulnerability of sexually exploited youth and adults, and the prospects for advancing survivor-driven approaches to comprehending and naming the sex industries. Discussion and commentary will follow by Jyoti Nanda, Binder Clinical Teaching Fellow at UCLA School of Law.
Organized by Repair. Co-sponsored by CSW, UCLA Department of Gender Studies, and the UCLA Law Youth and Justice Clinic.

Area Impossible: Sexuality and Geopolitics Symposium
2018-05-25 09:30 - 17:00 | Royce 314
Organized by the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature
DATE: May 25, 2018
TIME: 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM
LOCATION: 314 Royce Hall
RSVP: http://complit.ucla.edu/event/area-impossible-sexuality-geopolitics/
Within queer studies, the geopolitical has posed a much-needed challenge to the spatial and temporal logics of the field (logics that often mire the field in the US), especially in the aftermath of the turn to transnationalism. Comparative literature has historically fashioned its domains outside US borders, but despite its range has remained somewhat tied to nationalist coagulations/formations. This symposium brings together speakers who engage comparative analytical forms towards a more disruptive and capacious queer geopolitics.
Program
9:30-10:00am
Introductory remarks
Anjali Arondekar, Visiting Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, UCLA and Associate Professor, Feminist Studies, UCSC
Welcome address
David Schaberg, Dean of Humanities, UCLA
10:00-10:45am
Queer Coolitude/ An Indo-Caribbean Reading
Rajiv Mohabir, Assistant Professor of English, Auburn University.
11:00am-12:30pm
Freud in Translation/ Three Essays, a Survey, and a Group
Omnia El Shakry, Professor of History, UCD
Respondent: Gil Hochberg, Ransford Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, and Middle East Studies, Columbia University
12:30-1:30pm
Lunch for participants
1:30-3:15pm
Trespassing Queer Kindship/ Temporality and the Geopolitics of Attachment
Sima Shakhsari, Assistant Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota
Respondent: Ananya Roy, Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare and Geography, UCLA
3:15-3.30pm
Coffee break
3:30 -5:00 p.m.
None Like Us/ Black Exception Black Exemption
Stephen M. Best, Associate Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley
Respondent: Shana Redmond, Associate Professor, Musicology and African-American Studies, UCLA
5:00-6:30pm
Reception

The Musical and Its Others, Then and Now
2018-05-31 - 2018-06-03 | UCLA
Song, Stage, and Screen XIII: The Musical and Its Others, Then and Now
Organized by the UCLA Center for Musical Humanities
Dates: May 31-June 3, 2018
Locations: Royce Hall, Schoenberg Music Building, and Kerckhoff Hall
Program, Schedule, and Registration Information: https://cmh.schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/sss-conference-2018/
Keynote Speakers:
Stacy Wolf, Theatre, Princeton University
Shana Redmond, Musicology and African American Studies, UCLA
Robynn Stilwell, Media Studies and Musicology, Georgetown University

Awards and Benefit Luncheon 2018
2018-05-31 12:00 - 14:30 | UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
This event is now past. Photo highlights of the 2018 Awards Luncheon can be viewed HERE.
Join the UCLA Center for the Study of Women for a special end of the year event to honor the Center’s accomplishments, student award recipients, and this year’s Distinguished Leader in Feminism Award honorees!
FEATURING THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS
40 Years in Corporate Culture: A Successful Woman’s Strategies for Surviving and Thriving
By Paula Williams Madison
Chairman and CEO, Madison Media Management, LLC
Former CEO, Los Angeles Sparks
Former Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer, NBCUniversal

This year, CSW has selected Paula Williams Madison and LA Sparks Player Nneka Ogwumike as the recipients of the Center for the Study of Women’s 2018 Distinguished Leader in Feminism Award.
Learn more about Paula Williams Madison’s work on diversity in the media

Event Details
Thursday, May 31, 2018
12:00 – 2:30 PM
UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, Optimist Room
Tickets are $30 and non-refundable
REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED
To make this event accessible and to accommodate all attendees, we ask for your help in making this event fragrance-free. We would appreciate that all guests avoid wearing products that contain fragrances, which can include perfumes, hair products, deodorants, detergents, etc. These products can make some members of our community very ill. For more information, visit our Event Accessibility page.
If you have questions or have registered and can no longer attend, please contact CSW Management Services Officer Kristina Magpayo Nyden.

Location & Parking
The 2018 CSW Awards and Benefit Luncheon will take place at the UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center located in Westwood Plaza on the corner of Strathmore and Westwood Boulevard (left map).
Within the Luskin Conference Center, the Luncheon will take place in the Optimist Room, located on the 2nd floor (right map).

For a full UCLA map, please visit http://maps.ucla.edu/downloads.
The closest parking area to the Luskin Conference Center is Parking Structure #8 (see map above-left). There are two ways to purchase parking in Structure #8:

Purchase Pay-by-License Plate parking on the 4th level (top floor) in the designated Visitor Parking area. Go to a self-service Daily Visitor Pay Station and follow posted instructions to purchase parking (remember license plate number). The self-service station will dispense a parking pass based on your license plate number. Please read posted instructions at each pay station carefully. Parking rates vary from $1 for 20 minutes to $12 for All-Day parking. Pay stations accept cash and credit cards. For more information, please visit the Transportation website.
Purchase All-Day parking for $12/day at the Parking Information Kiosk located in Westwood Plaza (designated by the “i” on the map above). Only cash is accepted at this kiosk (no bills higher than $20 accepted). Transportation Services representatives are also present at this kiosk to answer your questions.

A bridge is located on the 3rd floor of Structure #8 that leads directly to the Luskin Conference Center.

About the Keynote

Paula Williams Madison is Chairman and CEO of Madison Media Management LLC, a Los Angeles-based media consultancy company with global reach. She also serves as a Founding Partner with The Group LLC, a high-level strategy, marketing, and communications consultancy also headquartered in Los Angeles.
In 2011, Madison retired from NBCUniversal where she was President and General Manager of NBC4 Los Angeles. She was also Los Angeles Regional General Manager for NBCU’s Telemundo TV stations, and Vice President and News Director of NBC4 New York. Under Madison’s watch, WNBC4 Los Angeles earned numerous Emmy, Golden Mike, and Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards.
Her concurrent career as a writer and journalist also led to a 1996 Peabody Award for NBC4 New York’s investigation, “A License to Kill.”
Madison is executive producer, and subject of Finding Samuel Lowe: From Harlem to China, a compelling documentary that chronicles her journey to her maternal grandfather’s homeland in China and the reconnection of her family with his 300 descendants. HarperCollins published a memoir of the journey, Finding Samuel Lowe: China, Jamaica, Harlem, in April 2015 and Shenzhen Publishing (Shenzhen, China) reissued the book in 2016 in Chinese.

A highly sought-after public speaker, Madison received numerous honors and awards: named one of the “75 Most Powerful African Americans in Corporate America” by Black Enterprise Magazine in 2005, and included in the Hollywood Reporter’s “Power 100.” In 2013, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti appointed Madison to the Los Angeles Police Commission, where she served as Vice President until 2015.

Madison is the former Owner/CEO of the Los Angeles Sparks WNBA basketball team. She also serves on the Boards of the Los Angeles Chinese American Museum, the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, Cardinal Spellman High School, the Greater Los Angeles United Way, the California Science
Center Foundation, as well as Chair of The Nell Williams Family Foundation, and National CineMedia, the largest cinema advertising network in the U.S., where she chairs the Nominating and the Governance Committee(s).
She is also an honorary member of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., a predominantly African-American sorority whose members boast more than 250,000 college-educated women.
Madison graduated from Vassar College and has served 10 years as a Vassar Trustee (to the College); and two years as President of the Board of Directors of the Alumnae/I Association of Vassar College.

"Hope" -- Part of Transformation: Lectures, Conversations and Storytelling about Healing and Social Action
2018-09-27 18:30 - 20:30 | Young Research Library, Conference Room, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
Part of the series Transformation: Lectures, Conversations, and Stories About Healing and Social Action, sponsored by Repair.
Stories by Kandee Rochelle Lewis, Anam Ella Durrani, Shawna Charles
Welcome and Introductions by Rachel Lee, Director, UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Opening lecture by Beth Ribet
Hope is the second event in the Transformation storytelling series. The series features community organizers, advocates, healers, survivors, theorists, and artists, in the role of “storyteller”. Storytellers will draw from their life experiences and personal and communal narratives and histories in order to speak to the seven event themes included in the series. The events in the Transformation series are intended to speak to our collective desire for deep social change, and to support us in finding the energy, strength, connection, and knowledge that we need in order to repair our world, and to heal ourselves and our communities.
View the full schedule and learn more about the Transformation Storytelling Series.
Co-sponsors:

UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Positive Results Corporation

Hannah Kosstrin, "Honest Bodies: Methods for Transnational Dance Analysis"
2018-10-09 10:00 - 12:00 | 230 Kaufman Hall
Honest Bodies: Methods for Transnational Dance Analysis
Book talk by Hannah Kosstrin, Ohio State University
Organized by the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Date: October 9, 2018
Time: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: 230 Kaufman Hall
Anna Sokolow’s choreography circulated American modernist and communist ideologies through predominantly Jewish channels of the international Left between the 1930s and 1960s. In this talk, Kosstrin highlights how Sokolow’s body as a Jewish, gendered site determined her relationship to social politics in the dance landscapes of New York, Mexico City, and Tel Aviv in which she and her dance companies participated. Kosstrin introduces her framework for transnational dance analysis, “honest bodies,” and how it exposes cultural- and dance-based kinesthetic influences that implicated Sokolow and her movement practices in global dance modernism and its choreographic discourses.
Dr. Hannah Kosstrin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Dance at The Ohio State University and affiliated with the Melton Center for Jewish Studies and Center for Slavic and East European Studies. She is author of Honest Bodies: Revolutionary Modernism in the Dances of Anna Sokolow (Oxford UP, 2017).
Co-sponsors:

Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies
Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies
Center for Near Eastern Studies

Fall Welcome Reception
2018-10-10 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: To RSVP, please fill out the online registration form.
Date: Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Time: 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Location: Rolfe Hall Courtyard, UCLA

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Sami Schalk, "Bodyminds Reimagined: Disability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction"
2018-10-17 14:30 - 16:00 | UCLA Powell Library, East Rotunda
Bodyminds Reimagined: Disability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction
Book Talk with Dr. Sami Schalk, Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Date: Wednesday, October 17
Time: 2:30 – 4:00 PM
Location: UCLA Powell Library, East Rotunda
This event is wheelchair accessible and will have an ASL Interpreter
In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how black women’s speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds—the intertwinement of the mental and the physical—in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability. Bridging black feminist theory with disability studies, Schalk demonstrates that this genre’s political potential lies in the authors’ creation of bodyminds that transcend reality’s limitations. She reads (dis)ability in neo-slave narratives by Octavia Butler (Kindred) and Phyllis Alesia Perry (Stigmata) not only as representing the literal injuries suffered under slavery, but also as a metaphor for the legacy of racial violence. The fantasy worlds in works by N. K. Jemisin, Shawntelle Madison, and Nalo Hopkinson—where werewolves have obsessive-compulsive-disorder and blind demons can see magic—destabilize social categories and definitions of the human, calling into question the very nature of identity. In these texts, as well as in Butler’s Parable series, able-mindedness and able-bodiedness are socially constructed and upheld through racial and gendered norms. Outlining (dis)ability’s centrality to speculative fiction, Schalk shows how these works open new social possibilities while changing conceptualizations of identity and oppression through nonrealist contexts.
This event is sponsored by UCLA African-American Studies, the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, UCLA Disability Studies, UCLA Department of English, and UCLA Department of Gender Studies.

Tammy Ko Robinson, "Korean Adoptees, Deportation, and Statelessness"
2018-10-18 11:00 - 12:15
Korean Adoptees, Deportation, and Statelessness
A Talk by Tammy Ko Robinson, Associate Professor of Art, Hanyang University, Seoul
Organized by the Department of Asian American Studies
Date: October 18, 2018
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM
Location: Due to space limitations, location will be provided upon RSVP.
RSVP: Email Grace Hong at gracehongucla@gmail.com
Tammy Ko Robinson will discuss loopholes in US law that created a situation in which several thousand adoptees, many of whom are from Korea, were never naturalized for citizenship, and are thus undocumented and eligible for deportation, theorizing the contradictions between kinship and family, on the one hand, and statelessness on the other.
Co-Sponsored by:

Department of Asian American Studies
Center for Korean Studies

Eli Clare, "Cautionary Tales: Environmental Injustice, Disability, and Chronic Illness"
2018-10-18 16:00 - 18:00 | Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon, UCLA, Los Angeles
CSW is delighted to welcome Eli Clare to UCLA to give a talk as part of our Chemical Entanglements research initiative.
RSVPs for this event are NOW CLOSED. Standby seats may be available; we encourage you to arrive early if you would like a standby seat.
About Eli Clare

Photo description: Eli sits on driftwood log, smiling in the sun.
White, disabled, and genderqueer, Eli Clare lives near Lake Champlain in occupied Abenaki territory (currently known as Vermont) where he writes and proudly claims a penchant for rabble-rousing. He has written two books of creative non-fiction, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure and Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation, and a collection of poetry, The Marrow’s Telling: Words in Motion, and has been published in many periodicals and anthologies.
Eli speaks, teaches, and facilitates all over the United States and Canada at conferences, community events, and colleges about disability, queer and trans identities, and social justice. Among other pursuits, he has walked across the United States for peace, coordinated a rape prevention program, and helped organize the first ever Queerness and Disability Conference.
When he’s not writing or on the road, you can find him reading, hiking, camping, riding his recumbent trike, or otherwise having fun adventures.

About the Talk
Eli Clare’s talk is entitled “Cautionary Tales: Environmental Injustice, Disability, and Chronic Illness”
Date: Thursday, October 18, 2018
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon
RSVPs for this event are NOW CLOSED. Standby seats may be available; we encourage you to arrive early if you would like a standby seat.
Free and Open to the Public

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Co-sponsored by:

UCLA Disability Studies Program
UCLA Department of English
UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics
UCLA Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS)
UCLA Department of Gender Studies
UCLA Division of Social Sciences

Beauty Bites Beast: The Missing Conversation About Ending Violence
2018-10-24 17:00 | 208 Kaufman Hall
Beauty Bites Beast: The Missing Conversation About Ending Violence
Organized by the Department of World Arts and Culture/Dance
Featuring Director Ellen Snortland
Date: October 24, 2018
Time: 5:00 – 8:00 PM
Location: 208 Kaufman Hall
Beauty Bites Beast is a documentary film that tracks women’s empowerment self-defense training in three national locations, the US, Mexico, and Israel. The film treats violence against women as a tool of social control and examines the ways in which women have been systematically denied the right to self-defense and the skills to exercise that right. The film investigates the process through which gender is lived and embodied and how this embodiment can shift through physical practice. It is also dedicated to altering the social structures through which women and non-binary people are oppressed by advocating for options for women who face violence and harassment.

New Directions in Black Atlantic Religion
2018-10-27 09:00 - 17:00 | 10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Organized by the African Studies Center and presented by UC Multi-campus Research Group on New Approaches to Black Atlantic Religions and University of California Office of the President Multi-campus Research Programs & Initiative Funding (MRPI)
Date: Saturday, October 27, 2018
Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: 10383 Bunche Hall
Program: http://www.international.ucla.edu/asc/event/13430
The conference is free and open to the public; RSVP requested by emailing Sheila Breeding, African Studies Center, at sbreeding@international.ucla.edu.
Free and open to the public!
This multidisciplinary group composed of faculty from multiple UC campuses will critically assess the current state of scholarship on Black Atlantic belief systems and theorize new methodologies and analytic orientations for comparative and regional studies. Our objective is to expand UC’s historical role as a hub for the study of Black Atlantic religions by fostering dialogue and collaboration amongst a new generation of scholars. We will explore where new research is needed, ways to develop new methods, what new theoretical paradigms are available, and carefully consider how we as scholars can contribute to the anti-racist struggles of the peoples of the Black Atlantic world.
Participants include Jeffrey Kahn (UC Davis), Rachel O’Toole (UC Irvine), Roberto Strongman, Elizabeth Pérez and Claudine Michel (UC Santa Barbara), Jeroen Dewulf (UC Berkeley), and Patrick A. Polk, Lauren Derby, Katherine Smith and Andrew Apter (UCLA).
Outside speakers include Brendan Jamal Thornton from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill whose book on Pentecostalism and masculinity in the Dominican Republic won the Caribbean Studies award for best book in the humanities.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS by YANIQUE HUME

“Dancing for the Dead and the Living: Embodiment and Invocation in Caribbean Mortuary Praxis”
Yanique Hume is a Professor, professional dancer, choreographer, and writer based at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Barbados.
Co-sponsored by:

Center for the Study of Women
Patricia Turner, Dean and Vice Provost, Division of Undergraduate Education
Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies
Center for the Study of Religion
Robin D.G. Kelley, Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History
Fowler Museum
Atlantic History Cluster
UCL

#masshysteria. Hysteria, Politics, and Performance Strategies
2018-11-01 09:30 - 17:30 | Royce 306
#masshysteria. Hysteria, Politics, and Performance Strategies
A conference organized by the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies and the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies
Date: November 1, 2018
Time: 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM
Location: 306 Royce Hall
RSVP: https://french.ucla.edu/event/masshysteria-hysteria-politics-and-performance-strategies-conference/

In Europe, especially in Vienna and Paris, around 1900, the hysterical girl was a well-studied object in arts and sciences; she re-appeared, a hundred years later, in countless manifestations in US mainstream horror films. In addition, key words describing women in protest as “hysterical”, “nasty”, “possessed”, or “monstrous” dominate contemporary public discourse. The female hysteric in these current narratives references strikingly established representations of the hysteric as (public) performer that extend well beyond the European studies of the nineteenth century. For example, although the medical term hysteria was struck from the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 1994, it simultaneously reappeared as Histrionic Personality Disorder (Latin: histrio, actor/actress). This rebranding further underlines the point of this investigation: the female hysteric is diagnosed as performer. Given this reintroduction, and the re-appearance of the hysteric in current discourses, one may assume that the self-reflective media figure of the female hysteric will continue to gain ground in its cultural impact. The aim of this project is to show the ways in which a historical European phenomenon enjoys an active legacy in the United States one hundred years later and, in turn, resonates around the world.
Although the history and evolution of the representation of hysteria have been extensively researched, the study of how these discourses have been transferred to twenty-first-century US popular culture remains uncharted territory. This conference’s main focus is the way in which the hysteric is involved in and performs on the pressing intersection of hysteria, cultural, (horror) film and performance studies.
Furthermore, as a result of performance studies being a paradigm-driven field, this conference (and the subsequent publication) will be divided into two sections: In the beginning, we will follow the hysteric’s performance as object of inquiry, which will enable us to put the current phenomenon in its (historical) context. Thereafter, we will expand the scope and focus on performance studies as a primary analytical concept, which will enable us to uncover the potentiality of agency in the hysteric’s performance. We welcome scholarship and practice-based research in relation to hysteria and performance from all disciplines and backgrounds. As this event is designed to bring together a diverse group of scholars and artists, we value traditional paper submissions as well as encourage experimental forms of presentations, such as (new) media-, video-, performance and performance-lecture.
Co-sponsored by:

Department of French and Francophone Studies
Center for European and Russian Studies
Center for Performance Studies
