Black Feminism, The Carceral State, and Abolition

Royce 314

A Book Talk by Sarah Haley with responses by Mariame Kaba and Dayo Gore Drawing upon black feminist criticism and a diverse array of archival materials, Sarah Haley’s No Mercy […]

Racialized State Violence in Global Perspective

Royce 306 & 314 and Harry and Yvonne Lenart Auditorium of the Fowler Museum

RSVP! eventsrsvp.ucla.edu/RacializedViolence Conference schedule now available! Download here or view online! Questions? Email: rsv@csw.ucla.edu The conference brings together scholars who work on racialized police violence in North America with others […]

Chinyere Oparah

Charles E. Young Research Library, Presentation Room

Birth Matters: Research Justice and Black Life African American women are 3 to 4 times as likely as white women to die of childbirth related causes, our infants are twice […]

Women’s Reproductive Health and the Environment

The California Endowment 1000 North Alameda Sreet, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Advocacy Through Education Women's Reproductive Health and the Environment: Best Practices for Los Angeles County A free symposium that will bring together health professionals, community activists, researchers, academicians, civic and […]

Christina Sharpe, “In the Wake: On Blackness and Being”

Humanities 193 UCLA

Christina Sharpe is Associate Professor of English at Tufts University and the author of Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subject. Her research interests are in black visual culture, black diaspora studies, […]

Fear: UCLA French and Francophone Studies 2016 Graduate Conference

306 and 314 Royce Hall UCLA

Discourses of fear dominate our contemporary moment. In this so-called “Age of Terrorism,” fear knows no borders, spreads quickly, and provokes the fearful to react in unpredictable ways. Politicians lash […]

Black Feminist Vision: A Symposium on Possibility and Practice

Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon UCLA, Los Angeles

A two-day symposium on Thursday, October 20 and Friday, October 21 presented by the UC Consortium for Black Studies in California. Featuring some of the most important established and rising […]