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 […]

CSW Research Affiliates Brown Bag, “Resist, Reframe, Insist: Alice Notley’s Poetics of Inclusion” by Elline Lipkin

A Talk by Elline Lipkin, PhD Register Online This talk considers the experimental poetics of contemporary American poet Alice Notley, one of the few women considered part of the New York school. Notley’s use of an “expanded ‘I’” within her work admits other voices into her poems, rather than just a singular speaker, particularly within […]

Connecting Art & Law for Liberation

Online

Organized by Criminal Justice Program, School of Law Join visionary artists, activists, attorneys, advocates, legal scholars, and community members at UCLA to share innovative, cutting-edge collaborations at the intersection of ART and LAW - aimed at developing and disseminating new strategies to end mass incarceration. FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC  

Africa’s Readiness for Climate Change (ARCC) Forum

Organized by the UCLA African Studies Center Registration to attend ARCC is now open: RSVP here Date: April 19-23, 2021 Time: 9:00 AM Location: Zoom (RSVP for link) The UCLA African Studies Center and the Earth Rights Institute invite you to engage with us in the 2021 virtual ARCC Forum. The inaugural forum will expand […]

The Films of Sarah Maldoror

Online/Zoom

Organized by UCLA Film & Television Archive Free Registration (RSVP to receive Zoom link) The UCLA Film & Television Archive is partnering with CSW and the Black Feminism Initiative to present two of Sarah Maldoror’s markedly distinct works: her first short, Monangambé (1969), and her satiric, delightful French television film, Dessert for Constance (1981). Presented in dialogue with […]