Indigenous Insights about Policing

Organized by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center The discussion is free and open to the public, but registration is still required. Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Location: Virtual Event Event Details This virtual panel discussion features Sarah Deer (Muscogee (Creek) Nation), Dian Million (Tanana Athabascan), Stephanie Lumsden (Hupa), and Sandi Pierce (Seneca) speaking on the subject of […]

An Archival Cure: Remedy, Care, and Curation of HIV-Positive Artists’ Records with the Visual AIDS Archive Project

Organized by the UCLA Department of Information Studies Date: Thursday, October 29, 2020 Time: 3:00 PM Location: Online/Zoom Marika Cifor, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington. She is a feminist scholar of archival studies and digital studies. Her research investigates how individuals and communities marginalized by gender, […]

CSW Research Affiliate Brown Bag: Women in Postwar Franco-Japanese Films

Women in Postwar Franco-Japanese Films A Talk by Hannah Holtzman, PhD Date: Friday, October 30thTime: 12-1 pm Location: Online/Zoom RSVP As part of a larger project on Franco-Japanese exchange in cinema, Hannah Holtzman will discuss the roles of women in the first two Franco-Japanese cinematic co-productions, Typhoon over Nagasaki (1957) and Hiroshima mon amour (1959). […]

Planning for a Healthy Home, Body, and Baby

Organized by the Iris Cantor-UCLA Women's Health Center Register for this event to receive Zoom link Session 1 Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 Time: 3:00 - 4:30 PM Location: Online/Zoom Topics: "Planning for a Healthy Home, Body & Baby During COVID-19 and Beyond" presented by Luz Chacon, Salud y Algeria Wellness "How to Make a […]

Gender, Alterity and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fishbowl

Organized by the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA Law Date: Friday, November 13 Time: 9:00 - 10:00 AM Location: Online/Zoom Event Details | RSVP for Zoom link Ratna Kapur, a Professor of International Law at Queen Mary University of London, will be discussing her book “Gender, Alterity, and Human Rights: Freedom in a […]

Gender, Race, and Age Behind Bars: Impacts of Long-term Sentencing

Virtual

This event has passed. Watch the discussion on CSW's YouTube channel!   The parole suitability rate for the elderly incarcerated is 10 percent BELOW the average suitability rate, even though research indicates seniors are the safest population to release. -- Jane Dorotik Co-hosted by the Criminal Justice Program at the UCLA School of Law and […]

CSW Research Affiliates Brown Bag: Counternarratives and “Copy Cats”: Alma Whitaker

Counternarratives and “Copy Cats”: Alma Whitaker, Newspaper Women and Place Making in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles A Talk by Julie Cohen, PhD Date: Thursday, February 11, 2021 Time: 12-1 pm Location: Zoom RSVP Online As part of a larger project on women journalists in US Western cities in the early twentieth century, Julie Cohen will […]

“Since U Been Gone”: What Needs to Happen Post-Trump to Restore and Expand Reproductive Rights

Organized by the UCLA Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health Date: Wednesday, February 24, 2021 Time: 9:00 - 10:00 AM Location: Online/Zoom (password: 711038) This is a Bixby lecture featuring Katherine Gillespie, Senior Federal Policy Counsel at the Center for Reproductive Rights, that focuses on restoring reproductive rights in a post-Trump era.

Visions of Fire: LGBTQ+ Voices (Weekend 2 of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center Film Festival 2021)

Organized by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the UCLA Film & Television Archive Date: Saturday, February 27 Time: 3:00 PM Location: Online/Zoom FREE EVENT WITH RSVP Event Details | RSVP The Visions of Fire: LGBTQ+ Voices program will feature: FRUIT FLY (2009) 10TH ANNIVERSARY SING-ALONG EDITION! Fabulous. Fantastic. Fierce. Clear your living room, so […]

Imagining the Political: Vernacular Idioms of Sexuality in India

Organized by the Department of Asian American Studies and the UCLA Asian American Studies Center Date: Tuesday, March 2, 2021 Time: 6:00 - 7:15 PM Location: Online/Zoom (RSVP) Professor Navaneetha Mokkil will discuss her new book, Unruly Figures, which navigates the pulsating links between subjectivity, political activism and the world-making capacity of cultural practices in a […]

International human rights law and domestic violence: progress or retreat?

Online/Zoom

Organized by the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA Law A Talk by Dr. Dubravka Šimonović Date: Friday, March 5 Time: 9:00 - 10:15 AM Location: Online/Zoom (RSVP for Zoom link) Event Details Dr. Dubravka Šimonović was appointed as United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences in June 2015 by […]