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SUMMARY:Bibliotactics: Libraries and the Colonial Public in Vietnam Book talk with Cindy Anh Nguyen (UCLA)
DESCRIPTION:When: Thursday\, February 12\, 2026 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM (Pacific Time) \nWhere: DataX Impact Forum Murphy Hall\, Rm 3312 \nBibliotactics examines the Hanoi and Saigon state libraries in colonial and postcolonial Vietnam\, uncovering the emergence of a colonial public who reimagined the political meaning and social space of the library through public critique and day-to-day practice. \nRSVP here.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/bibliotactics-libraries-and-the-colonial-public-in-vietnam-book-talk-with-cindy-anh-nguyen-ucla/
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260213T110000
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: The Homosexual and the Oligarch: Perverse Figurations and Social Reproduction
DESCRIPTION:When: Friday\, February 13\, 11 am-12:30 pm \nWhere: Hybrid | UCLA Center for the Study of Women| Barbra Streisand Center\, 1500 Public Affairs Building \nBased on Dr. Tamar Shirinian’s recent book\, Survival of a Perverse Nation: Morality and Queer Possibility in Armenia (Duke University Press\, 2024)\, this talk will introduce the audience to two perverse figures: the homosexual and the oligarch. \nBoth figured prominently in national anxieties in the 2010s in Armenia as dangerous to the nation and its survival\, and formed particular rhetorics of the nation’s perversion toward annihilation. Focusing on these two figures\, the talk reflects upon neoliberalization’s threats against social reproduction by examining the moralization of political-economic processes and asks what a queer theory of political economy offers to the critique of late capitalism.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/book-talk-the-homosexual-and-the-oligarch-perverse-figurations-and-social-reproduction/
LOCATION:Hybrid
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260225T163000
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SUMMARY:Graduate Lecture & Mixer: War\, Migration\, and Asymmetrical Gender Transformations in Ukrainian Households
DESCRIPTION:Where:  Bunche Hall\, Rm 10383 \nWhen: Wednesday\, February 25\, 2026 from 4:15 PM – 5:45 PM \nRSVP Here \n\n\n\n\n\nJoin the Center for European and Russian Studies for their quarterly Graduate Student Lecture by Natasha Bluth (PhD candidate in Sociology Department) and Mixer\, open to all UCLA students\, staff and faculty. The lecture by Natasha Bluth (Department of Sociology) is entitled “War\, Migration\, and Asymmetrical Gender Transformations in Ukrainian Households” and will include a presentation\, time for Q&A\, culminating in an informal mixer for students of all disciplines with an interest in Europe and/or Russia. This event is cosponsored by the UCLA Department of Sociology and UCLA Center for the Study of Women | Streisand Center and will be held in Bunche Hall Room 10383 on Wednesday\, February 25\, 2026 at 4:15 pm. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRussia’s ongoing war in Ukraine has generated profound demographic shifts in Ukrainian society and the largest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II. These dynamics are also deeply gendered: international protection policies and Ukrainian mobilization laws have facilitated the mass displacement of Ukrainian women and children while restricting the mobility of men. Drawing on fieldwork with Ukrainian families in Krakow\, Poland\, and Ukraine\, between 2022 and 2025\, this talk explores how these gendered processes are shaping three dimensions of household life: wartime migratory decision-making\, marital relations\, and coming-of-age experiences for young adults. I show that while war and displacement tighten traditional gender norms\, they also create new opportunities for women to transcend these norms—at the same time that horizons narrow for men. These results carry important implications for Ukrainian families and for the future of Ukraine\, where gender politics have become a key terrain of differentiation from Russia. In response\, The Center for European and Russian Studies hosts a quarterly graduate student lecture and mixer.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/graduate-lecture-mixer-war-migration-and-asymmetrical-gender-transformations-in-ukrainian-households/
LOCATION:10383 Bunche Hall\, UCLA\, Los Angeles\, CA
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260226
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260227
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SUMMARY:Otro Corazón 3: Queering Sor Juana: A Symposium
DESCRIPTION:“Sor Juana the Younger and the Elder\,” digital photograph by Alma Lopez @2019(models: Alicia Gaspar de Alba as the Elder\, and Alicia Billalobos\, UCLA Chicana/o Studies alumna\, as the Younger) \nWhen: February 26\, 2026 \nWhere: Northwest Campus Auditorium\, UCLA \n\n  \nOrganized by the UCLA Center for Musical Humanities in partnership with the Dean of Social Sciences and the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies \nCo-sponsored by The Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies\, the Chicano Studies Research Center\, and the Center for the Study of Women/Barbara Streisand Center \nFree and open to the public\, but all attendees\, including participants and audience members\, must register online. Lunch and reception will be provided for registered guests only. \n“Otro Corazón 3: Queering Sor Juana” builds on past symposia organized by Alicia Gaspar de Alba in her “Corazón” series\,1 and is offered as part of a year-long celebration of her 32-year academic career at UCLA\, focusing on her lifetime of research and creative engagement with Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz\, the 17th-century Mexican nun/poet/scholar who is hailed all over the world as the “first feminist of the Americas” and the Mexican “Tenth Muse.” \nOTRO CORAZON 3: QUEERING SOR JUANA\nSYMPOSIUM PROGRAM\n9 am: Registration \n9:30 am: Welcome and Introductory Remarks by Professor Raymond Knapp and Dean Abel Valenzuela \n10:30-12 noon: Panel 1. La Décima Musa: Classic Sor Juana \nSpeaker: Cesar Favila\, UCLA \nSpeaker: Charlene Villaseñor Black\, Oxford University \nSpeaker: Emilie Bergman\, UC Berkeley \nModerator: Gabriela Rodriguez Gomez (UCLA Chicana/o Studies PhD) \n12-1 pm: Boxed Lunch \n1:30-3 pm: Panel 2. “La Peor de Todas”: Sapphic Sor Juana \nSpeaker: Emma Perez\, University of Arizona \nSpeaker: Alma López\, UCLA \nSpeaker: Carla Lucero\, Independent Opera Composer \nModerator: Ariel Hernandez (UCLA Chicana/o Studies grad student) \nCoffee Break \n4-5:30 pm: Performances \n4 Arias from “JUANA”– A Spanish-language chamber opera based on the historical novel\, Sor Juana’s Second Dream3 by Alicia Gaspar de Alba. Music by Carla Lucero. \nLibretto by Carla Lucero and Alicia Gaspar de Alba \nShowcase Program \n“Fili”\, performed by Meagan Martin (Mezzo-Soprano) as Sor Juana\n“Hombres necios” performed by Meagan Martin and Maria Valdes-Gomez (Soprano) as la Condesa\n“Sin vos” (abbreviated version) performed by Maria Valdes-Gomez\n“Amor eterno” performed by Meagan Martin and Maria Valdes-Gomez\nAccompanied by pianist\, Peter Walsh\nScreening of “Sin Vos” video (opera on film\, recorded at the Ebell of Los Angeles\, sung by Michelle Allie Drever as la Condesa. María Dominique Lopez portrays Sor Juana. Film created by Carson Gilmore of Vox Visceralis. Music recorded in Prague with BNO Chamber Orchestra through PARMA Recordings and is available on Navona Records) \nQ&A: Carla Lucero and Alicia Gaspar de Alba \n6 pm: Reception
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/otro-corazon-3-queering-sor-juana-a-symposium/
LOCATION:Northwest Campus Auditorium
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Intersectional Environmental Justice with Amelia Moore\, Cornell University
DESCRIPTION:Where: 353 Haines Hall \nWhen: Thursday\, February 26th\, 2026 from 12:15pm-1:45pm \nIn this talk\, Professor Moore will share her ideas about how engaged scholars can utilize intersectional environmental justice theory and praxis to combat our era of political polarization\, ecological precarity\, generational social inequity\, and planetary uncertainty. Drawing examples from two decades of inter and anti-disciplinary island-based research\, she describes both problematic and promising forms of socioecological knowledge production\, the frameworks that can inform our methodologies\, and the implications of this work for the future.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/lecture-intersectional-environmental-justice-with-amelia-moore-cornell-university/
LOCATION:352 Haines Hall
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Kinship as Method: Rethinking Ethics\, Collaboration\, and Knowledge Production in Anthropology
DESCRIPTION:Where: 353 Haines Hall \nWhen: Thursday\, March 12th\, 2026 from 1 pm-2:30 pm \nLunch provided.  \nThis lecture examines how long-term Indigenous collaboration in Papua New Guinea unsettles conventional anthropological approaches to ethics\, method\, and authorship. Grounded in kinship\, reciprocity\, and relational accountability\, the work challenges extractive research models\, short-term field engagements\, and institutionalized ethics frameworks that separate knowledge production from moral obligation and social life. By treating kinship not as metaphor but as a methodological and ethical infrastructure\, the lecture proposes alternative forms of collaboration\, co-authorship\, consent\, and responsibility. These practices extend anthropology’s commitments to decolonial scholarship by reconfiguring what counts as evidence\, expertise\, and accountability in engaged environmental research.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/lecture-kinship-as-method-rethinking-ethics-collaboration-and-knowledge-production-in-anthropology/
LOCATION:Haines 352
CATEGORIES:CSW originated
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260317
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260319
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SUMMARY:Spring Book Swap + Books to Jails Drive
DESCRIPTION:When: Tuesday March 17 – Wednesday\, March 18\, 10 am- 2 pm\nWhere: CSW|Streisand Center Office\, 1500 Public Affairs (Located across from Jimmy’s Coffee House) \nJoin us for the CSW|Streisand Center Spring Book Swap! Bring a wrapped book\, add a hint note\, and swap with others! \n\nAdditionally\, donate a popular book to LA County Jails in partnership with LA County Library as a part of our Books to Jails Drive. \n\n\nWhat kinds of books to donate to the Books to Jails Drive (per LA County Library Guidelines)\n\nFantasy novels\nAdventure novels\nMystery novels\nSci-Fi and Fantasy novels\nSpiritual books\nPoetry\nSelf-help books\nBooks in Spanish\n\n\n\n\n\nDonation guidelines\n\nNO hardcovers – ONLY paperback books\nNO textbooks or academic books\nNO depictions or descriptions on how to commit crimes\nMUST be in good condition / shape\n\n\n\nLearn more about our mini library and the books to jails partnership. \n\n 
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/spring-book-swap-books-to-jails-drive/
CATEGORIES:CSW originated
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260402T120000
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SUMMARY:"Nakba as Wounding Ecology" with Dr. Sherena Razek
DESCRIPTION:Culture\, Power\, Social Change presents “Nakba as Wounding Ecology” with Dr. Sherena Razek\, President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow\, UCLA\, Gender Studies. \nWhen: Thursday\, April 2 \nLunch: 12 pm. Talk: 12:15 – 1:45 pm \nWhere: Haines Hall 352 \nNo registration required. First come\, first served for lunch. \nJoin a talk by Dr. Sherena Razek\, Nakba as Wounding Ecology\, with lunch provided. \nIn this talk\, Sherena reflects on how the Palestinian condition can reshape the way we understand the climate crisis\, approaching the Nakba as a form of “wounding ecology.” Moving across land and body\, symbol and materiality\, she brings together questions of settler colonialism\, indigenous resistance\, and environmental catastrophe in ways that highlight their deep interconnectedness and urgency. \nDr. Sherena Razek is a diasporic Palestinian feminist educator\, scholar\, activist\, and labor organizer. She is currently a President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender Studies at UCLA and earned her PhD in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University. Her research engages Palestinian visual culture\, anti-imperialist struggle\, and decolonial feminist ecologies\, and her writing has appeared in The Journal of Palestine Studies\, Women & Performance\, InVisible Culture\, and Social Text.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/nakba-as-wounding-ecology-with-dr-sherena-razek/
LOCATION:Haines 352
CATEGORIES:CSW originated
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260406T153000
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SUMMARY:Conversation with Sara Porkalob
DESCRIPTION:When: Monday\, April 6\, 3:30 – 5 pm\nWhere: East Melnitz Hall 302\n\nJoin us for a causal conversation with playwright and performer Sara Porkalob\, whose work explores Filipina-American identity\, family history\, and intergenerational storytelling. The discussion will focus on Dragon Mama\, the second installment of The Dragon Cycle\, following students’ viewing at the Geffen Playhouse.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/conversation-with-sara-porkalob/
LOCATION:East Melnitz Hall\, UCLA School of Theater\, Film and Television\, 235 Charles E Young Dr N\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260408T160000
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SUMMARY:UCLA Center for Reproductive Science\, Health and Education Distinguished Speaker Series ft. Teresa K. Woodruff
DESCRIPTION:Where: California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)\, UCLA Campus\n \nWhen: Wednesday\, April 8th at 4pm PT \nTeresa K. Woodruff\, Ph.D. is a leader in higher education and an internationally recognized biologist specializing in reproductive science. Woodruff is president emerita of Michigan StateUniversity (MSU) and MSU Research Foundation Distinguished Professor in the Department of Obstetrics\,Gynecology\, and Reproductive Biology as well as in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at MSU. In 2006\, she coined the term “oncofertility” to describe the merging of two fields: oncology and fertility preservation. Working at the national level\, Woodruff championed a new National Institutes of Health Policy mandating the inclusion of both male and female biological variables in fundamental research. As a leading research scientist\, teacher and mentor\, Woodruff was awarded the National Medal of Science byPresident Joe Biden in 2025 and the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science \nRSVP Here
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/ucla-center-for-reproductive-science-health-and-education-distinguished-speaker-series-ft-teresa-k-woodruff/
LOCATION:CNSI Auditorium
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260410T100000
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SUMMARY:Dreaming Together: California Student Survivors Reimagining Campus Responses to Sexual Violence
DESCRIPTION:Where: Royce 314 + Zoom \nWhen: Friday\, April 10th from 10:00 AM-12:00 PM PT \nSurvivors + Allies is a UCLA-student organization within the CSW|Barbra Streisand Center dedicated to advocating with and for survivors of sexual violence and sexual harassment (SVSH). Over the past year\, we conducted a mixed-methods research study across California college campuses\, including the University of California (UC)\, California State University (CSU)\, and community college systems\, to better understand the conditions that enable or prevent student-survivor healing. \nWe invite you to join us for the official launch of our 2025-2026 research report. We are excited to present our findings and recommendations with you. 
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/dreaming-together-california-student-survivors-reimagining-campus-responses-to-sexual-violence/
LOCATION:Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:CSW originated
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260414T160000
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SUMMARY:Beyond the Concrete: A Conversation About the Lost Art of Letter Writing with John Rodriguez
DESCRIPTION:When: April 14\, 2026 at 4 pm PST \nWhere: Virtual  \nJohn Rodriguez is a UCLA alumnus whose sentence was commuted by the California Governor in 2017 after he discovered a life-changing passion for education while incarcerated. Today\, he serves as the Education and Communications Manager at Root & Rebound\, leveraging storytelling to bring visibility to overlooked narratives. John dreams of returning to prison someday—not as an inmate\, but as a teacher with the power to help others find their way out through education. Prabhat Gautam will be introducing and interviewing John Rodriguez. \nThe event is part of a Fiat Lux Seminar “Law\, Justice\, Literary Production\, and Education Behind Bar” in the Department of English. This talk is co-sponsored by the CSW|Streisand Center. \nAll all welcome to attend via zoom.  \nMeeting ID: 927 8244 7447 \nPasscode: 464541
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/beyond-the-concrete-a-conversation-about-the-lost-art-of-letter-writing-with-john-rodriguez/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260418
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SUMMARY:Thinking Gender 2026: Feminist and Queer Ecologies
DESCRIPTION:Thinking Gender 2026\n36th Annual Graduate Student Research Conference\n“Feminist and Queer Ecologies”\nFriday\, April 17\, 2026\nJames West Alumni Center\, UCLA Campus\nView Conference Program and Schedule\nFree registration here\n \nJoin us for a day of graduate student presentations highlighting innovative research at the intersections of gender\, sexuality\, environment\, and justice. The conference will feature keynote speaker Cutcha Risling Baldy (Cal Poly Humboldt; NAS Rou Dalagurr Food Sovereignty Lab & Traditional Ecological Knowledges Institute)\, whose work centers Indigenous feminisms\, land relations\, and food sovereignty. \n“Feminist and Queer Ecologies\,” explores how environments and ecologies are shaped\, understood\, and contested through relations of sex\, gender\, and sexuality. The theme also considers how feminist and queer theorists\, artists\, and organizers have drawn on ecological processes and environmental knowledge to build new insights\, movements\, and practices. \nGendered and colonial ideas of wilderness\, domesticity\, and reproduction have historically shaped landscapes and environmental policy. At the same time\, feminist and queer methodologies—from place-based storytelling to multimodal practice—offer critical tools for climate resilience\, environmental justice\, and community well-being. Around the world\, social movements resisting environmental injustice—from Standing Rock to Flint\, from the Everglades to rural India—have been led by women and gender-expansive people. Climate change and climate justice continue to affect communities differentially along lines of gender\, sexuality\, race\, and class\, revealing how struggles for ecological flourishing are inseparable from feminist and queer justice. \nFeminist and queer ecologies demand multidisciplinary collaboration. This year’s theme invites environmental scientists\, humanists\, social scientists\, artists\, organizers\, and practitioners to come together across methods\, disciplines\, temporalities\, species\, and geographies. It encourages experimentation with scientific inquiry\, ethnography\, storytelling\, political theory\, environmental history\, modeling\, and other forms of knowledge-making and truth-telling. \n\nConference Keynote:\n“Indigenous Women Know How to Save the World: Framing a California Indigenous Ecofeminist Ethic.”\n \nThis talk builds a California Indigenous ecofeminist ethic grounded in place\, fugitivity\, resistance\, and humor. It asks what it means to rethink how we talk about climate change and to recognize how land\, water\, and more than human relatives model resilience\, refusal\, and justice. By examining examples from California such as the damming\, diversion\, and even paving over of rivers\, this talk argues that environmental devastation is not a future fear but an ongoing history that Indigenous peoples have survived and theorized for generations. Green colonialism\, conservation land grabs\, and the expectation that Indigenous communities must solve climate change while contributing the least to it exposes the absurdity and gaslighting in contemporary environmental discourse and policy. At the same time\, Indigenous women who have long been leaders in ecological knowledge and restoration are kept busy navigating patriarchal structures rather than being supported as the scientific and cultural leaders they already are. Ultimately\, this talk explores how the world around us is already feminist\, already resistant\, and already offering models for collective thriving beyond capitalism\, patriarchy\, and extraction. Indigenous peoples carry structures and methodologies that are sustainable\, relational\, and deeply grounded in place. We have lived them. And we are still building these futures now. \nCutcha Risling Baldy\, Associate Professor of Native American Studies at Cal Poly Humboldt researches Indigenous feminisms\, California Indians\, Environmental Justice\, Traditional Ecological Knowledge and decolonization. She is also the Co-Director of the NAS Rou Dalagurr Food Sovereignty Lab & Traditional Ecological Knowledges Institute. \nIn 2025 Dr. Risling Baldy along with Co-Director Dr. Kaitlin Reed were awarded the James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award for their work with the lab. Her book: We Are Dancing For You: Native feminisms and the revitalization of women’s coming-of-age ceremonies received “Best First Book in Native American and Indigenous Studies” at the 2019 Native American Indigenous Studies Association Conference. She received her Ph.D. in Native American Studies at UC Davis; her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from San Diego State University; and her B.A. in Psychology with a Specialization in Health and Development from Stanford University. She is also the volunteer Executive Director for the Native Women’s Collective\, a nonprofit organization that focuses on the continued revitalization of Native American arts and culture. She is Hupa\, Karuk\, and Yurok and enrolled in the Hoopa Valley Tribe. \nThinking Gender Blog Posts\n\n\nFire Tender Film Screening\nTuesday\, February 10\, 2026\n12:15–1:15 PM | CSW|Streisand Center\nJoin us for a screening of Fire Tender\, directed by Roni Jo Draper (Yurok)\, followed by a discussion. \nFire Tender tells the story of Yurok tribal members returning to traditional fire practices as an essential form of land stewardship. The film centers on Margo Robbins—grandmother\, cultural educator\, healer\, and Indigenous fire practitioner—who is leading efforts to restore Yurok fire sovereignty: the right to use fire for tribal land care\, a practice outlawed under settler colonial policies. \n\nCosponsors\nAfrican American Studies Department\nAmerican Indian Studies Center\nAmerican Indian Studies Department\nAnthropology Department\nAsian American Studies Center\nAsian American Studies Department\nBixby Center to Advance Sexual and Reproductive Health Equity\nCenter for Community Engagement\nCenter for the Study of Racism\, Social Justice & Health\nChicana/o and Central American Studies Department\nChicano Studies Research Center\nCritical Race Studies Program (Law)\nDepartment of Geography\nDisability Studies\nEnglish Department\nGender Studies Department\nGraduate Division\nHumanities Division\nInformation Studies Department\nInstitute of American Cultures\nInstitute of Society and Genetics\nInstitute of the Environment and Sustainability\nInstitute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin\nInternational Institute\nIris Cantor Women’s Health Center\nLabor Center\nLaboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies\nLGBTQ Campus Resource Center\nLGBTQ Studies Program\nLuskin Center for Innovation\nRalph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies\nSchool of Engineering\nSchool of the Arts and Architecture\nSchool of Theater\, Film and Television\nSocial Welfare Department\nSociology Department\nWater Resources Group \nFriendly Reminder: Seating is first-come\, first-served. Due to frequent no-shows\, we overbook our events; a reservation does not guarantee a seat. Please arrive early. We appreciate your understanding.
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SUMMARY:Dean’s Lecture in Humanistic Inquiry: Kate Manne on Sensitivity and Survival
DESCRIPTION:The Inaugural Dean’s Lecture in Humanistic Inquiry\nThursday\, April 30\n4 p.m. – 6 p.m.\nRoyce Hall Room 314 \nFree admission. Reception with light refreshments to follow lecture. Advance registration strongly recommended. \nPresented by the UCLA College Division of Humanities\nThe Dean’s Lecture in Humanistic Inquiry is a biennial lecture dedicated to exploring cross-cutting topics and ideas in humanistic research and examining how humanistic inquiry connects to the most pressing questions of the day. \nAbout our inaugural speaker\nKate Manne is a professor at the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University. She specializes in moral\, social and feminist philosophy\, and has written three books: DOWN GIRL: The Logic of Misogyny (Oxford University Press\, 2018)\, ENTITLED: How Male Privilege Hurts Women (Crown\, 2020) and UNSHRINKING: How to Face Fatphobia (Crown\, 2024). In addition to her academic work\, she regularly writes opinion pieces and essays for a wider audience\, including in outlets such as The New York Times\, The Cut\, The Washington Post\, The Atlantic\, The Nation and Time. She writes a Substack newsletter\, More to Hate\, exploring misogyny\, fatphobia and their intersection. \nAbout Professor Manne’s lecture\nSensitivity and Survival\nAccusations of oversensitivity are nowadays very common. Are they typically warranted? Is there in fact a scourge of snowflakes? \nIn this lecture\, Kate Manne will distinguish three things that are commonly meant by “oversensitivity”: over-identification of instances\, over-extension of the relevant concepts and over-reactions to the relevant harms or forms of injustice\, such as sexism\, misogyny and racism. Her talk will draw on two rich humanistic traditions: feminist epistemology and non-ideal theory. \nWhile acknowledging that oversensitivity of all three kinds can and does occur\, Manne will highlight and explore the comparatively under-emphasized converse dangers: the under-identification of instances\, the under-extension of concepts\, and under-reactions or the undermining of warranted reactions\, respectively. In view of this\, she concludes that what is called oversensitivity is often simply sensitivity: a normatively valuable and justified way of reacting to harms and injustices that often go under the radar in society as we know it. \nPlease visit this page to register. \nEvent cosponsors\nThank you to our cosponsors: UCLA Department of Philosophy\, UCLA Department of Gender Studies\, UCLA Center for the Study of Women | Streisand Center\, and UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/deans-lecture-in-humanistic-inquiry-kate-manne-on-sensitivity-and-survival/
LOCATION:Royce 314
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