Disability Awareness Week
October 9-13 is Disability Awareness Week at UCLA! The week’s events include: Center for Accessible Education Open House Learn about accessibility resources available through CAE and CAPS DATE: Monday, October […]
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CrossCheck Live: “Campus Speech: A Right to Speak? A Duty to Listen? An Obligation to Learn?”
Pauley Pavillion Club UCLAIn recent years, both the left and the right have raised concerns about free speech, censorship, and academic freedom on college campuses. And media outlets—from the Atlantic to the New […]
Kathleen Sheldon, “African Women: Early History to the 21st Century”
Bunche 6275 UCLA Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesKathleen Sheldon will discuss her recently published book, African Women: Early History to the 21st Century, a comprehensive study of this expansive story from before the time of records to […]
Film Screening: Queens of Syria
Northwest Campus Auditoriium UCLAQueens of Syria tells the story of sixty women from Syria, all forced into exile in Jordan, who came together in Autumn 2013 to create and perform their own version […]
Breaking the Silence on Hooking Up: A Facilitated Discussion
Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon UCLA, Los AngelesWhat are the risks and rewards of hooking up? Who hooks up, and when and why? How does hookup culture shape attitudes towards sex and desire? How ubiquitous is […]
Kathryn Dudley, “Trusting Mustangs: Feral Ontologies, Trans-Species Affects”
352 Haines HallKathryn Dudley's research focuses on embodied knowledge and social trauma under regimes of labor that are marginalized by transformations in global capitalism. Her books The End of the Line: Lost […]
QGrad 2017, Radical Imaginaries: Scholar-Activism Dismantling the Politics of Hate
Bruin Reception Room Ackerman Union, UCLAUCLA’s QGrad is the oldest, interdisciplinary queer research conference in the United States. In celebration of the 20th anniversary of LGBTQ Studies at UCLA, the 2017 QGrad Conference will focus […]
Film Screening and Discussion: Silent Song of the Genjer Flowers
10383 Bunche Hall UCLA, Los Angeles, CAThis filmed stage play highlights the perspectives of women activists of Gerwani (Indonesian Women’s Movement) who were political prisoners from 1965, suffered sexual violence, and were stigmatized for decades as […]
Tiphanie Yanique, “Belonging: Immigrating into Our Own Country”
Humanities 193 UCLAA reading by Caribbean feminist and author Tiphanie Yanique. Yanique will read from her novel Land of Love and Drowning which deals with U.S. imperialism through the lives of three […]
Ranjani Mazumdar, “Technological Networks and Obsolescence in Contemporary Bombay Cinema”
Charles E. Young Research Library, Presentation RoomA talk by Ranjani Mazumdar Professor, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Dehli, India Organized by the UCLA Center for India and South Asia This paper looks […]
Nonny de la Peña, “Immersive Journalism, Breaking the Frame, and the Gender Struggle in Virtual Reality”
Sequoia Room, Faculty Center UCLA, Los AngelesCSW is thrilled to feature Nonny de la Peña as part of Feminism and the Senses. RSVP for the Talk (Nov. 13, 4pm, Faculty Center): https://csw.ucla.edu/VR REQUEST an Individual Virtual […]
Film Screening: Dolores
Melnitz 1409: James Bridges TheaterA special screening of Dolores, the new documentary film about activist Dolores Huerta. History tells us Cesar Chavez transformed the U.S. labor movement by leading the first farm workers’ union. […]
