Black Feminism, The Carceral State, and Abolition
Royce 314A 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 […]
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Racialized State Violence in Global Perspective
Royce 306 & 314 and Harry and Yvonne Lenart Auditorium of the Fowler MuseumRSVP! 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 RoomBirth 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 StatesAdvocacy 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 UCLAChristina 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, […]
The Poetics of Fragility: a Film Screening and Discussion with Lata Mani
Charles E Young Research Library Conference RoomA film screening and conversation. Lata Mani is a feminist historian, cultural critic, contemplative writer and filmmaker. She has published on a broad range of issues, from feminism and colonialism, […]
Fear: UCLA French and Francophone Studies 2016 Graduate Conference
306 and 314 Royce Hall UCLADiscourses 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 AngelesA 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 […]
Talking Trash: Oral Histories of Food In/Security from the Margins of a Dumpster
Ackerman Grand Ballroom UCLA, Los AngelesPart of Dishing: A Lecture Series on Food, Feminism, and the Way We Eat. Video now available on YouTube! A talk by Rachel Vaughn, Adjunct Assistant Professor at the UCLA […]
Andrea C. Gore, “Environmental Endocrine Disruption of Reproduction, the Brain, and Behavior”
Community Health Sciences 43-105 UCLA, Los AngelesThe chemical revolution that began during World War II transformed our world. While our lives are undoubtedly improved in many ways, we now know that a subset of chemicals, called […]
Ruha Benjamin: “The Emperor’s New Genes: Science, Race, Justice, and the Allure of Objectivity
Charles E. Young Research Library, Presentation RoomIn this talk, Ruha Benjamin discusses advances in genomic science and explores questions of racial difference, scientific objectivity, medical trustworthiness, and social justice. Drawing upon developments in Mexico, South Africa, […]
Aurora Levins Morales, “Justice is Our Medicine: Ecology, Disability and Health”
Cypress Room, Faculty CenterAurora Levins Morales describes herself as "a writer, an artist, a historian, a teacher and a mentor. I'm also an activist, a healer, a revolutionary. I tell stories with medicinal […]
