Fall Reception
Rolfe CourtyardUCLA Center for the Study of Women and the UCLA Department of Gender Studies invite you to join us as we celebrate the start of a new academic year. All […]
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Personal Safety and Conflict Resolution: An Empowerment Self-Defense Workshop
Kaufman 208This workshop will introduce participants to Empowerment Self-Defense training methodologies, a feminist, anti-racist, gender-inclusive approach to eradicating violence and fostering equality. Empowerment self-defense is based on the premise that, although […]
Ely Guerra
Schoenberg Hall and Royce Hall 314A Concert by the UC Regents Lecturer Ely Guerra is a composer, lyricist, and musician acclaimed for her artistic activism on behalf of women's freedom, rights of indigenous people, and […]
A Critical Moment: Sex/Gender Research at the Intersection of Culture, Brain, & Behavior
UCLA 330 De Neve Dr., Los Angeles, CA, United StatesBe there when many of the world’s leading scholars from the Humanities and Sciences discuss and debate issues at the intersection of sex/gender, culture, brain, and behavior. Great minds. Thrilling discussions. New connections. […]
Refusing to Eat: Sensations, Solidarities and the Crises of Detainee Hunger Strikes
Charles E Young Research Library Conference RoomNayan Shah, American Studies, USC Why, when and how does the refusal to eat while in detention become a viscerally potent and politically volatile protest that challenges the legitimacy and […]
Dying From Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody
Law School Room 1314A book talk by Sherene Razack, Professor of Social Justice Education, University of Toronto What do inquests and inquiries reveal about how and why Indigenous people die in custody? What is said […]
Precarious Lives: Gendered Engagement with Neoliberal Development and the Contemporary Academy –CANCELLED
352 Haines HallThis talk is an engagement with the conditions of precarity that characterize the current moment. Linking my ethnographic research on offshore banking in the US-owned Virgin Islands to scholarship detailing […]
The Myth of the Superwoman Revisited
Bunche 6275 UCLA Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesThe history of modern Black Feminism is unimaginable without the courage, words, and insights of Michele Wallace. From her 1978 memoir/manifesto, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, through […]
Ordinary Lesbians and Special Collections: The June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives at UCLA
Cypress Room, Faculty CenterAnn Cvetkovich Ellen Clayton Garwood Centennial Professor of English and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin Ordinary Lesbians and Special Collections: The June […]
CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap
Melnitz 1409: James Bridges TheaterThis film screening and panel discussion will feature: Robin Hauser Reynolds, Producer; Jane Margolis, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies This event will explore the systemic factors and barriers that prevent […]
Coming Out As…
Charles E. Young Research Library, Presentation RoomA colloquium on how the phrase “coming out” has expanded, migrated, and been re-purposed by various marginalized groups, such as transgender individuals, undocumented immigrants, or the plural marriage rights movement. SPEAKERS: […]
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Gendering Disposability with Sherene H. Razack
Hacienda Room, Faculty CenterIn 2011, 36 year old Cindy Gladue, a Cree woman, bled to death in a hotel bathtub in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada after having sex with Brad Barton, a trucker and […]
