Workshop: How to Pitch and Write for Non-Academic Outlets
2024-04-19 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Editor-in-Residence: Public Scholarship
When: Monday, May 6, 2024
Workshop 10 am-12 pm
Where: Royce Hall, Room 314
Open to all campus members.
Submit a pitch for review or for an individual consultation. Deadline: April 29.
RSVP Here for Attendance at the Workshop.
In this workshop-taught by The Los Angeles Review of Books Editor-in-Chief, Medaya Ocher-you can receive individualized feedback on your writing pitch, or, learn to write your first pitch.
The UCLA Humanities Editor-in-Residence series, the brainchild of Professor Nina Eidsheim working closely with Barbara Van Nostrand, is designed to offer an opportunity for graduate students and faculty to gain familiarity and practical insights into the publishing process, writ large. The program has expanded to include Public Scholarship in addition to the Academic Press. The invited distinguished fellow will give a presentation/ panel open to the UCLA community before individual consultations with faculty and students from the divisions of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Center for the Study of Women | Streisand Center, the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, the UCLA Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health.
The UCLA Humanities Editor-in-Residence series is created to facilitate long-term relationships between UCLA and editors in the academic press arena and the general public, thus setting graduate students and faculty up for early publication successes. The UCLA Humanities-in-Residence recognizes that, to quote OUP editor Norman Hirschy, “authors and presses alike share a common goal and purpose: publish new scholarship well and with as broad of distribution as possible.”

UCLA Law Menstrual Equity in the Carceral System
2024-04-19 17:00 - 18:00 | UCLA Law School, 385 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA 90095
When: Friday, April 19th, 5:00-6:00 PM; Reception to follow 6:00-6:30 PM
Where: UCLA School of Law, Room 1347, 385 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA 90095 Room 1347
Register here.
Register for the April 19th UCLA Law Menstrual Equity in the Carceral System, with Asm. Isaac G. Bryan, Professor Jody Heymann, and Ilka Rosales. Join the in-person conversation about menstrual equity in the carceral system with Assembly member Bryan, Professor Jody Heymann, and Ilka Rosales. We will be discussing the history of reproductive health access in California prisons and jails, recent legislative advocacy seeking to expand menstrual product access, and the public health implications of menstrual health access.
Co-sponsors
This event will be moderated by UCLA Criminal Justice Program’s Alicia Virani, and cosponsored by the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health, UCLA Criminal Justice Program, UCLA Center for the Study of Women Streisand Center, Preserve Abortion Access California Taskforce, What We Deserve, and UCLA Fielding Reproductive Health Interest Group.
Contact Winnie Xu, winnieexu@ucla.edu for questions with registration.

Spring 2024 Black Health Seminar Series: Building Bridges, Connecting Community
2024-04-24 12:00 - 13:30
Date: Wednesday, April 24
Panel Discussion: 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Networking: 1:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Location: UCLA Health Equity Hub CHS 71-242B
Lunch will be served.
The Collaborative Research on African American Wellness & Longevity (C.R.A.A.W.L.) Lab, in collaboration with the FSPH Office of Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion, is thrilled to invite you to the second event of our Spring 2024 Black Health Seminar Series:

“Building Bridges, Connecting Communities: Creative Approaches to Public Health Communication in Black Communities.”
This dynamic event promises to explore innovative approaches in public health, health risk communications, research translation, and authentic engagement with Black communities. Our interdisciplinary panel discussion will tackle practical and ethical challenges while highlighting the benefits of thinking outside the box to improve health outcomes and foster community empowerment.

Panelists:
Monica Ponder, PhD, MS, MSPH, Assistant Professor, Howard University Communication, Culture & Media Studies
Jaih Craddock, PhD, ACSW, Founder & Lead Researcher, Callea LLC, Research Marketing & Design + Black Girls Mental Health Collective
Kia Skrine Jeffers, PhD, RN, PHN, Assistant Professor, UCLA School of Nursing
Sonya Brooks, MS, UCLA Urban Schooling PhD Student + Community Health Sciences MPH Student

RSVP

Please RSVP for lunch and a great conversation by visiting https://tinyurl.com/BHSSSpring2024

We look forward to welcoming you to this enriching dialogue on public health communication in Black communities.

Walking Away from the Headscarf: Analyzing the Online Platform, "You Will Not Walk Alone"
2024-04-29 16:00 - 17:00
When: Monday, April 29, 2024, 4:00 pm
Where: Webinar
View the event recording.
Semiha Topal will discuss the changing dynamics between the Islamist and secularist regimes of power in Turkey within the last decade. Since 2018, an online platform with the name “You Will Not Walk Alone,” has been publishing anonymous letters from Turkish Muslims, the majority of whom are young women socialized into wearing the headscarf during the AKP era. By questioning what these young women are walking away from and what they are walking towards with their desire to remove their hijab, this virtual lecture offers a rethinking of the current role of the headscarf as a maker and/or marker of Islamic piety and political subjectivity.
The event is part of the MESA Global Academy Initiative.
Semiha Topal, recieved her Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Arizona State University in 2012, with her dissertation on “Building a Pious Self in Secular Settings: Muslim Women in Modern Turkey.” She holds an M.A. in Gender Studies and Religion from SOAS, University of London in the UK. Before her current role as the Program Manager of the Tuohy Center for Interreligious Understanding at John Carroll University in Cleveland, OH, Dr. Topal worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Colgate University in Hamilton, NY, and at William & Mary in Williamsburg, VA, teaching courses on gender, secularism, and Islam, in Turkey and the Middle East.
Organized by:
Center for Near Eastern Studies
Cosponsored by:
Department of Gender Studies, UCLA Center for the Study of Women|Barbra Streisand Center

STARRY FIELD: A Memoir of Lost History
2024-05-02 17:00 - 18:30
This is event has been cancelled and will be rescheduled.
When: Thursday, May 2, 2024 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Where: Rolfe 2125
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Join us in a conversation with journalist Margaret Juhae Lee as she discusses her poignant memoir,Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History. In Starry Field, Lee sets out on a search for her family’s history lost to the darkness of Korea’s colonial decades, and contends with the shockwaves of violence that followed them over four generations and across continents.
Combining investigative journalism, oral history, and archival research, Margaret reveals the truth about the grandfather she never knew. What she found is that Lee Chul Ha, her grandfather who left her grandmother and two young sons in 1936, was not a source of shame; he was a student revolutionary imprisoned in 1929for protesting the Japanese government’s colonization of Korea. He was a hero—and eventually honored as aPatriot of South Korea almost 60 years after his death. But reclaiming her grandfather’s legacy, in the end, isn’twhat Margaret finds the most valuable. It is through the series of three long-form interviews with her grandmother that Margaret finally finds a sense of recognition she’s been missing her entire life. A story of healing old wounds and the reputation of an extraordinary young man, Starry Field bridges the tales of two women, generations and oceans apart, who share the desire to build family in someplace called home.

Postponed: Workshop: How to Pitch and Write for Non-academic Outlets
2024-05-06
This event will be postponed to fall 2024.

Members of the UCLA community are invited to take part in a Pitch Workshop. In the Pitch Workshop The Los Angeles Review of Books Editor-in-Chief, Medaya Ocher, will offer general guidance as well as direct feedback on pitches. You can participate in two different ways: (1) Apply with a pitch for the possibility to be selected to receive feedback as part of the workshop and with the possibility to sign up for short follow up “office hours,” or, (2) RSVP to sit in on the workshop without a pitch.
When: Monday, May 6
Workshop: 10-12 noon
Lunch: 1-2pm
Office hours: 2-4pm
Application Eligibility: The program is available for UCLA ladder faculty, adjuncts and lecturers, postdocs, and graduate students.
To apply and further information: https://humanities.ucla.edu/events/editor-in-residence/apply
Deadline to apply: Wednesday May 1, 2024
Any questions, email Barbara Van Nostrand: bvannost@humnet.ucla.edu
Co-sponsors:
We thank the co-sponsors: the Center for the Study of Women | Streisand Center, Divisions of Humanities & Social Sciences, Herb Alpert School of Music, or the Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health.

Virtual Symposium on Questing Excellence in Academia
2024-05-09 09:00 - 20:30
When: Thursday, May 9, 2024
9:00-11:30 AM (PST)
12:00-2:30 PM (EST)
6:00-8:30 PM (CET)
We invite you to attend the first event of the Questing Excellence in Academia Virtual Symposium.
RSVP Here
Opening Remarks
Safiya U. Noble, Professor of Gender Studies, African American Studies, and Information Studies, Interim Director of UCLA DataX Initiative, Director of Center on Race and Digital Justice, Co-Director of Minderoo Initiative on Tech & Power at Center for Critical Internet and Inquiry, University of California, Los Angeles
A Conversation with Co-Authors of Questing Excellence in Academia: A Tale of Two Universities
Moderator: Kim Fortun, Professor of Anthropology, Director of EcoGovLab & PECE Labs, University of California, Irvine
Knut H. Sørensen, Professor Emeritus of Science and Technology Studies,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
Sharon Traweek, Assoc. Prof., Gender Studies, History, & Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Scholars Engaging with Questing Excellence in Academia
Mike Fortun, Professor of Anthropology, Director of PECE Labs, University of California, Irvine
Maria do Mar Pereira, Associate Professor of Sociology,
Co-Director of the Study of Women and Gender, University of Warwick, UK
Martin Oliver, Professor of Education & Technology, University College London
Questing Excellence in Academia Virtual Symposium Organizing Committee
Nashra Mahmood, UCLA, Kyriaki Papageorgiou, Knut H. Sørensen, NTNU, Nadine Tanio, UC Irvine/UCLA, and Sharon Traweek, UCLA
Co-sponsored by
UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry
UCLA Data X
UCLA Disability Studies Inclusion Labs
UCLA Gender Studies Department
UCLA History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
UCLA Barbra Streisand Center for the Study of Women
UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies

Postponed: C2i2 2024 Spring Symposium
2024-05-10 08:00 - 17:30 | UCLA Faculty Club, 480 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
This event is postponed.
Date: Friday, May 10, 2024
Time: 8:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. PT
Venue: UCLA Faculty Club, Morrison Room, UCLA Campus
Program and schedule.
RSVP here.
The C2i2 2024 Spring Symposium will delve into the critical issues surrounding the internet’s evolution over the past two decades, its implications on society, and the challenges we face in ensuring equity, autonomy, and social justice in the digital age.
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Kate Starbird, Associate Professor in Human Centered Design & Engineering, Director of the Emerging Capacities of Mass Participation (emCOMP) Laboratory, Co-Founder of the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public.
About the Organizer:
The Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2) is a critical internet studies community committed to reimagining technology, championing social justice, and strengthening human rights through research, culture, and public policy. C2i2 initiatives include the Minderoo Initiative on Technology and Power, the Critical Internet Studies Program, Digital Civil Rights, and the Data, Power, and Racial Justice Initiative.

Postponed: Drop LWOP Legislative Action
2024-05-10 10:00 - 12:30 | Center for the Study of Women, 1500 Public Affairs
This event is postponed.

When: Friday, May 10th 2024 from 10 am-12:30 pm
Where: UClA Center for the Study of Women
1500 Public Affairs – across from Jimmy’s Coffeehouse
Join the Drop LWOP Coalition for a day of legislative action! Drop LWOP’s mission is to end Life Without Parole sentencing in California with the goal of affording relief to those currently serving this sentence, no matter the conviction, through legislative change, commutations, pardons, resentencing, and public awareness about the injustice of the LWOP sentence. On Friday, May 10 support the coalition by:
CA Bills and Districts

Learn an overview of legislative process in California and of State Assembly Districts.

Senate Bill 94

Learn the SB 94 breakdown and trajectory; what is it, who does it affect and what does it need?

Write Letters to Legislators

Connect with our legislators and politically advocate for criminal justice reform!

Engage Community!

Reach out to our friends, families, communities and networks to encourage advocacy.

RSVP here: https://forms.gle/18UQc7k4vatttiBR7

Postponed: Bad Dance: A Lecture by Dr. Kemi Adeyemi
2024-05-13 17:30 - 18:30 | 200 Kaufman Hall, UCLA
This event has been postponed.
Where: Kaufman Hall Room 200
When: May 13, 5:30 – 6:30 PM
To hear them tell it, studs are bad dancers. They’re awkward, self- conscious, and stand on the wall. They don’t know the right steps, can’t distribute their weight, never know what to do with their hands.
They knock knees, can’t hold twerkers up, aren’t smooth enough. This talk takes black queer people seriously as self described “bad” dancers in order to rethink how dance is presumed to consolidate queer community.
Kemi Adeyemi is Associate Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. Her practice
uses performance as a site and methodology for theorizing the contours of contemporary black queer life.
This talk will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Associate Professor of Choreography, Will Rawls.
Co-sponsored by:
Black Feminist Initiative at the CSW Barbara Streisand
Center, and by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Studies.

Postponed: Anti-Asian Violence Graduate Writing Workshop at UCLA
2024-05-17 10:00 - 15:00
Postponed until Fall 2024.
CFP and Submission Guidelines.

View event flier.
A workshop for UC graduate students working on articles, essays, or dissertation chapters related to themes on anti-Asian violence. Invited participants will submit their writing in advance and receive feedback from UC faculty and participating graduate students in a shared dialogue and setting. We encourage scholarship from a wide range of disciplines.
Selected abstract authors will be invited to submit final papers by April 15th 2024.
The Spring workshop will take place at UCLA on May 17, 2024 from 10 am to 3 pm. Partial travel funding provided.
This workshop is funded by a UC Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives project “Anti-Asian Violence: Origins and Trajectories” Leti Volpp (UCB), Susette Min (UCDavis), Laura Kang (UCI), and Lee Ann Wang (UCLA) and co-sponsored by the Asian American Studies Center (UCLA), Institute of American Cultures (UCLA), and Center for the Study of Women | Streisand (UCLA).
For Questions please email: aavotgrad@gmail.com

Foragers Screening & Panel Discussion
2024-05-22 17:00 - 19:00 | botanical
When: Wednesday, May 22, 2024, 5-7 pm
Where: UCLA Mathias Botanical Garden La Kretz Garden Pavillion
Produced and directed by filmmaker Jumana Manna, Foragers (2022) depicts the dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel with wry humor and a meditative pace. Shot in the Golan Heights, the Galilee, and Jerusalem, it employs fiction, documentary, and archival footage to portray the impact of Israeli nature protection laws on these customs. Following a screening of the film, please stay for a moderated discussion featuring UCLA faculty that will engage topics at the intersection of Indigeneity, settler colonialism, and nature-culture relations in Palestine/Israel and beyond. Light refreshments will be provided.
This event is co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, Center for the Study of Women, Gender Studies Department, American Indian Studies Department, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, and Center for Near Eastern Studies.

Registration is open to UCLA students, faculty, and staff only. Please RSVP here: bit.ly/ForagersRSVP

The Black Women and Femmes Research Summit
2024-05-25 10:00 - 16:30 | Geffen Hall, 885 Tiverton Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
When: May 25, 2024 from 10 am to 4:30 pm
Where: UCLA”s Geffen Hall
The Black Women and Femmes Research Summit (BWFRS) is intended to amplify the contributions of Black Women and Femmes to research. We aim to provide a platform for Black women and femmes conducting research on UCLA’s campus to highlight their research and provide networking opportunities for those interested in greater exposure to academic research.
RSVP
Register to Volunteer

Cosponsors:
CSW|Barbra Streisand Center, UCLA Luskin Center, UCLA LGBTQ Campus Resource Center, UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, ULCA D3 Initiative.

May Faculty Writing Retreat
2024-05-31 10:00 - 16:00 | Charles E Young Research Library Conference Room
When: Friday, May 31, 2024
10 AM – 4 PM
Where: Charles E. Young Research Library, Main Conference Room 11360
Parking: The closest parking lots are lot 3, where you are more likely to find parking, and lot 5, which is the closest to the venue.
RSVP Here.
Do you want to block out a day for writing and contemplation? The UCLA Faculty Writing Retreat is your solution. During the retreat, you’ll have the chance to concentrate on your own work in a supportive virtual environment. Whether you’re working on research papers, grant proposals, book chapters, or any other writing project, this retreat is designed to provide uninterrupted time for productivity.
The writing retreat provides a peaceful place for UCLA faculty to write as well as meals; please bring your computer and any other materials you may need to work. If you have an extension cord, please bring it, as power outlets are limited. Also bring some extra clothes for layers, as the space sometimes tend to be cool.
Who may attend: This retreat is for UCLA faculty, post-docs, academic administrators, and lecturers.
If you are attending virtually, we hope you get situated with a beverage and snacks for the day. Those of us attending in person will have a conversation about the writing process over lunch. This conversation is entirely optional.
If you register to attend in person and your plans change, please let us know right away so that we may offer your spot to the waitlist. No-shows will not be granted an in-person spot at future writing retreats.
If you are no longer able to attend in person, please e-mail csw@csw.ucla.edu to let us know.

What the World’s Silence Says: A Reading With Gazan Poet Yahya Ashour
2024-06-03 17:00 - 18:30 | Royce 314
When: Monday, June 3 at 5:00 pm
Where: Royce Hall, room 314
10745 Dickson Ct,
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Join UCLA English for a poetry reading and conversation with Gazan poet Yahya Ashour. Yahya Ashour, born in Gaza City on April 22nd, 1998, is a touring poet and awarded author. He’s a 2022 honorary fellow in writing at the University of Iowa. His recent poetry e-book, titled “A Gaza of Siege & Genocide,” was published by Mizna in March 2024. Ashour has also authored a poetry collection and a children’s book in Arabic, along with contributing to numerous printed anthologies and online journals worldwide. His works have been translated into several languages, including English, French, Spanish, Italian, Finnish, Japanese, and Bengali. Since October 2023, he has presented his poetry and talked about Gaza at several organizations and 30 universities across the United States, including Princeton, Stanford, and Cornell.
Learn more about the event here.
RSVP.
Questions about the event?
Email: englishevents@ucla.edu

Book Launch and Discussion: Space Feminisms
2024-09-18 11:00 - 12:00 | Online/Zoom
When:
18 September 2024
11:00 AM (US-PST)
Where: Online
Register Here.
Join us for an engaging online book launch and discussion presented by the UCLA Center for Performance Studies and the UCLA Center for the Study of Women | Barbra Streisand Center.
We will explore the groundbreaking work Space Feminisms: People, Planets, Power, and joined by book editors Marie-Pier Boucher, Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Toronto, and Nahum Romero, Director of the KOSMICA Institute. The event will be moderated by Felipe Cervera, Assistant Professor of Theater and Performance Studies at UCLA.
This compelling volume employs a global approach to feminist theory, examining how scientific, popular, scholarly, and artistic imaginations of space have, since the 1950s, reflected and embedded Earthly hopes, anxieties, and visions for the future. Space Feminisms moves beyond traditional futurist narratives to cultivate radical and alternative modes of inquiry, viewing space as a material reality that mirrors humanity’s self-perceptions both on Earth and beyond.

UCLA's True Bruin Welcome: Academic Open House
2024-09-25 09:00 - 16:00 | Center for the Study of Women, 1500 Public Affairs
When: Wednesday, September 25, 9 am – 4 pm
Where: 1500 Public Affairs Building

The main entrance is located on the south side of the Public Affairs Building, facing the north side of LuValle Commons (Jimmy’s Coffeeshop).

Join the Center for the Study of Women | Streisand Center for a day of exploration, learning, and connection at UCLA’s True Bruin Welcome! As part of the campus-wide Academic Open Houses, we invite you to stop by, meet our passionate staff, enjoy some snacks, and take a guided tour of our center. Discover opportunities to engage with groundbreaking research, explore academic funding options, and learn how we contribute to advancing gender equity and social justice.
Whether you’re a new student or returning, this is a great opportunity to connect with faculty, learn about our current projects, and find ways to get involved.

Out of Place Marathon Reading
2024-10-01 - 2024-10-02 | Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden, Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden 245 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
When: 9 am October 1 through 9 am October 2
Where: Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden
Please join UCLA faculty from across campus for a 24-hour read-a-thon of “Out of Place” by Edward Said starting Tuesday, October 1st at the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden.
We are coming together on campus, five months following the attacks on and then clearing of the Palestine Solidarity Encampment at UCLA on May 1st and 2nd, to read his work aloud and reflect on the late Palestinian scholar’s memoir, carving space for critical inquiry into questions at the intersection of colonialism, exile, memory, belonging, and of course, Palestine.
You are not required to attend for the full 24 hours, and can drop in at anytime.
Co-sponsored by:
AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES CENTER
ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES CENTER
ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES DEPARTMENT
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF WOMEN
STREISAND CENTER
CÉSAR E. CHAVEZ DEPARTMENT OF CHICANA/O AND CENTRAL AMERICAN STUDIES
CRITICAL RACE STUDIES PROGRAM
DEPARTMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY
DEPARTMEnt OF ENGLISH
DEPARTMENT OF EUROPEAN LANGUAGES AND
TRANSCULTURAL STUDIES
DEPARTMENT OF FILM. TELEVISION AND
IGITAL MEDIA
DEPARTMENT OF GENDER STUDIES
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
DEPARTMENT OF NEAR EASTERN LANGUAGES
AND CULTURES
DEPARTMENT OF WORLD ARTS and CULTURES /DANCE
DISABILITY STUDIES
LABOR STUDIES CENTER
LATINO POLITICS AND POLICY INSTITUTE RALPH J. BUNCHE CENTER FOR AFRICAN
AMERICAN STUDIES
UCLA VOTING RIGHTS PROJECT
WORKING GROUP IN MEMORY STUDIES

CSW|Streisand Center / Gender Studies / LGBTQ Studies 2024 Fall Reception
2024-10-02 16:00 - 18:00
Join CSW|Streisand Center, the UCLA Department of Gender Studies, and LGBTQ Studies as we celebrate the start of a new academic year!
Join us for an opportunity to meet and network with faculty, students, and staff, and to learn about our upcoming projects, research, and events. Refreshments will be served.
Event Date: Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Event Time: 4:00–6:00 PM
Event Location: Rolfe Hall Courtyard, UCLA (outdoors)
Please fill out the registration form below in order to assist us in planning this event.
Registration is FREE.
Please note that we may take photos of guests at the reception for CSW|Streisand Center’s website and publications.
If you are no longer able to attend, please e-mail csw@csw.ucla.edu to let us know.

Dragon Lady: Q & A With Sara Porkalob
2024-10-03 12:00 - 13:30 | Macgowan Hall – UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, 245 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
When: Thursday, October 3, 12:00-1:30 pm
Where: Macgowan 1340
RSVP here.
Can karaoke lead to narratives for justice?
Join theater artist-activist Sara Porkalob to discuss their solo-performance, Dragon Lady, premiering at the Geffen Playhouse, justice-oriented approaches to theater, and Asian American performance.
Light refreshments provided.
Cosponsored by:
CSW|Streisand Center, UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television, and the UCLA Asian American Studies Center.

UCLA Center for Reproductive Science, Health and Education (CRSHE) Distinguished Speaker Series
2024-10-03 12:00 - 15:00 | California Nanosystems Institute, UCLA
When: Thursday, October 3, 2024
12:00 p.m. PT
Reception to follow
Where: California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)
UCLA Campus
Please join us for this timely event where the science of human embryos and embryo models will be explained by preeminent scientist and author Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz. Opening remarks will be provided by CRSHE’s co-director, Hannah Landecker.
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Registration is required.
Seating is first come first served and is not guaranteed.
About the event:
The UCLA Center for Reproductive Science, Health and Education (CRSHE), Broad Stem Cell Research Center (BSCRC) and Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology (MCDB) are delighted to host Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz as our upcoming distinguished speaker. Zernicka-Goetz is the Bren Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering at Caltech and professor of mammalian development and stem cell biology at the University of Cambridge. Spanning the last 25 years, her lab has made seminal contributions to the study of human embryos and is a pioneer in the field of stem cell-based embryo models.
In her talk, Zernicka-Goetz will discuss how early mammalian development is characterized by a series of critical transitions that lay the foundation for a healthy pregnancy and healthy baby. To understand the scientific basis for this, the Zernicka-Goetz laboratory develops innovative scientific technologies using stem cells to model the early human embryo. These models provide a system to study fundamental aspects of human embryo development and offer significant potential to improve outcomes for assisted reproduction, elucidate the causes of early pregnancy failure and provide insights into the developmental origins of diseases.
Opening remarks will be provided by Hannah Landecker, professor in the UCLA Department of Sociology and the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics. Professor Landecker uses the tools of history and social science to study contemporary developments in the life sciences and their historical taproots in the 20th century.

Dawayer with Huda Asfour
2024-10-11 18:30 - 20:30 | Lani Hall, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Schoenberg Music Building, 445 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
When: Friday, Oct 11, 2024, 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Where: Lani Hall, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Schoenberg Music Building
Get tickets here.
Attend a musical performance and conversation with musician Huda Asfour. “Dawayer” is Huda’s latest solo project for oud, looper, and vocals. In this improvisation-based journey, Huda presents new and old songs and compositions, revisited after the pandemic, and more recently after the war in Gaza, through the lens of repetitions, exploring the concept of a loop and our perception of it. The project premiered in Alexandria Egypt in 2020 and has since been performed at theaters like the Kennedy Center, The Arabic Music institute in Cairo, the Arab American National Museum in Michigan, Oldtown school of folk music in Chicago and the Brooklyn Museum in NY.
Seating is on a first-come basis. Due to frequent no-shows, we overbook our events. A reservation does not guarantee a seat, so please arrive early. We appreciate your understanding.
This event is supported by the Mellon Foundation, CSW|Streisand Center, Consortium for Palestine Studies at UCLA, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, UCLA Department of Asian American Studies, UCLA Department of Gender Studies, and the Racial Violence Hub.
Notice of event photography: By attending this program, you are entering a space where event photography may occur.

Carceral Entanglements with Wendi Yamashita
2024-10-15 12:00 - 13:30 | Rolfe 2125
Where: 2125 Rolfe Hall
When: Tuesday, October 15, 12-1:30 pm
Light lunch will be served. Seating is first come first served.
Carceral Entanglements: Gendered Public Memories of Japanese American World War II Incarceration argues that Japanese American WWII incarceration narratives substantiate discourses of gender, sexual, racial, and carceral/colonial power yet contain possibilities for disruption. Understanding the contradictory location of Japanese American identity and community through public memory is an important part of ethical and meaningful solidarity work. This talk will focus on the first chapter of the book to examine how antiblackness operates within Japanese American memorial practices and how that has shifted and been challenged after the murder of George Floyd in 2020.
Presented by:
CSW|Streisand Center
UCLA Asian American Studies Center
UCLA Gender Studies Department
UCLA Asian American Studies

Alexis Pauline Gumbs Book Talk
2024-10-15 16:00 - 17:30 | Kerckhoff Grand Salon
When: Tuesday, October 15, 4:00 – 5:30 PM
Where: Kerckhoff Grand Salon
Seating is on a first-come basis.
Join us for Alexis Pauline Gumbs in conversation with Robin D. G. Kelley on her recent book, Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde.
The author will sign books purchased on site, courtesy of The Reparations Club. Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a self-described “Queer Black Troublemaker and Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all sentient beings.” She has revolutionized intellectual, creative and oracular writing with her triptych of experimental works published by Duke University Press (Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity in 2016, M Archive: After the End of the World in 2018 and Dub: Finding Ceremony, 2020.) She is also the author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Animals, which won a Whiting Writers’ Award in 2022. In 2023, she won a Windham Campbell Prize for her poetry.
Co-sponsored by:
CSW|Streisand Center, UCLA Department of English, UCLA Department of History, Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in History

UCLA Latinx Welcome
2024-10-15 16:00 - 18:00 | Wilson Plaza
Where: Wilson Plaza
When: October 15th from 4-6 pm
Free and open to the public.
Meet the CSW|Streisand Center staff, pick up swag, and learn about funding opportunities at the 2024 UCLA Latinx welcome event. Every fall quarter, the UCLA Latinx Welcome Planning Committee hosts a Latinx Welcome event for new and continuing Latinx undergraduate and graduate students, where they can connect with current students, staff, faculty and alumni.
The Latinx Welcome aims to accomplish the following:

Send affirming and welcoming messages to all Latinx students and their families
Increase student’s knowledge of campus-wide resources, organizations and opportunities
Foster self-efficacy and community-efficacy Increase knowledge of Latinx contributions to UCLA and higher education.

UCLA Barbra Streisand Center Public Lecture
2024-10-16 18:00 - 20:00
The UCLA Barbra Streisand Center invites you to a public lecture on the topic of:
A Requiem for Roe v. Wade: When Property Has No Privacy

Michele Bratcher Goodwin
Linda D. & Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Constitutional Law and Global Health Policy
Co-Faculty Director, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health LawGeorgetown Law
Followed by a panel discussion featuring:
Jessica Gipson
Professor and Fred H. Bixby Endowed Chair of Population and Reproductive Health
Director, UCLA Bixby Center to Advance Sexual and Reproductive Health Equity | UCLA Fielding School of Public Healthand
Melissa Goodman
Executive Director, UCLA Center on Reproductive Health, Law and Policy | UCLA School of Law
Moderated by Grace Hong
Director, UCLA Barbra Streisand Center
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
6:00 p.m. PT. Reception to follow
California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)
UCLA Campus
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About the Speaker
Michele Bratcher Goodwin is the Linda D. & Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Constitutional Law and Global Health Policy and Co-Faculty Director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. Dr. Goodwin is one to the most cited health law scholars in the world and a highly regarded public intellectual with commentaries appearing in the NY Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Nation, the L.A. Times, Newsweek, Ms. magazine and other publications. She has testified before state and federal legislators on matters of health and reproductive justice. Dr. Goodwin is the author of six books and over 100 articles and commentaries on matters of law, medicine, reproductive health, and biotechnologies. She is the 2022 recipient of the American Bar Association’s Margaret Brent Award and in 2023 she was honored by the California Women’s Law Center with their prestigious Pursuit of Justice Award. Dr. Goodwin is author of the award-winning book, Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and The Criminalization of Motherhood.
About the future Barbra Streisand Institute at UCLA
The UCLA Barbra Streisand Center was established in 2021 and made possible by the vision and generosity of Barbra Streisand. The Streisand Center will become the future Barbra Streisand Institute at UCLA, a forward-thinking institute dedicated to finding solutions to the most vital social issues.

Perpetrator as Victim: Putin's War in Ukraine and Criticism of Title IX
2024-10-30 16:00 - 17:30 | 10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Joy Neumeyer on her new book, A Survivor’s Education: Women, Violence, and the Stories We Don’t Tell, in conversation with Jared McBride, UCLA History.

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The Center for European and Russian Studies, in cosponsorship with the Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures, UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy, and UCLA Center for the Study of Women – Barbra Streisand Center, invites you to a book talk with Joy Neumeyer to discuss her book, A Survivor’s Education: Women, Violence, and the Stories We Don’t Tell (2024). The talk will be followed by discussion with Professor Jared McBride, UCLA Department of History. This book talk will take place at Bunche Hall Room 10383 on October 30th at 4 PM. Register now!
About the Book

In this poignant self-investigation, historian and journalist Joy Neumeyer explores how violence against women is portrayed, perceived, and adjudicated today. Interweaving the harrowing account of the abuse she experienced as a graduate student at Berkeley with those of others who faced violence on campus and beyond, Neumeyer offers a startling look at how the hotly-debated Title IX system has altered university politics and culture, and uncovers the willful misremembrance that enables misconduct on scales large and small. Deeply researched, daringly inquisitive, and resonant for our times, A Survivor’s Education reveals the entanglement of storytelling, abuse, and power–and how we can balance narrative and evidence in our attempts to determine what “really” happened.

About the Author
Joy Neumeyer is a journalist and historian of Russia and Eastern Europe. She received a PhD in History from the University of California, Berkeley and was a Fulbright Fellow in Russia and a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. She has also worked as a reporter in Moscow and Warsaw. Her writing has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Nation, Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, New Left Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Aeon, The Baffler, Vice, ARTNews, the Guardian, Tablet Magazine, The Moscow Times, Calvert Journal, and Cat Fancy.

Her first book, A Survivor’s Education: Women, Violence, and the Stories We Don’t Tell—an investigative memoir about abuse and the tension between narrative and evidence in understanding the past—was released on August 20, 2024 by PublicAffairs.
About the Discussant
Jared McBride is a historian who examines Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe in the 20th century with a focus on nationalist movements, mass violence, interethnic conflict, and war crimes prosecution, related to both the Second World War and Cold War periods. He also has a strong interest in the politics of archival research and access to freedom of information. His research has been supported by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Fulbright-Hays Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council, among others, and he has published in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Journal of Genocide Research, The Carl Beck Papers, Ab Imperio, Kritika, and Slavic Review.
Prior to starting at UCLA, Dr. McBride held post-doctoral positions at Columbia University, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Kennan Institute, and USC’s Shoah Foundation. Over the past five years, he has directed and instructed “Political Violence in the Modern World,” a year-long Cluster course that one thousand first-year students have completed at UCLA. He also teaches courses on the Soviet Union, 20th century Eastern Europe, the Second World War, and on History and Film. Presently, he is completing a book manuscript concerning interethnic violence and local perpetrators in Nazi-occupied western Ukraine. Dr. McBride is available for media inquiries concerning Ukraine and Russia.
Venue
Bunche Hall 10383
(10th floor of Bunche Hall)
315 Portola Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Parking
Parking Structure 5 is closest to the event venue. Parking Structure 5 is accessible from Royce Drive, south of Sunset Boulevard, and west of Hilgard Ave. (in the northeast section of the campus). Alternatively, Parking Structure 4 is also close to the venue and has Pay-By-Space Visitor Parking available. Guest drop/Ride-share drop off is closest at the turnaround at the front of Royce Hall located at: 10745 Dickson Court, Los Angeles, CA 90095. Accessible parking: If you have accessibility needs, you may park in the Pay-By-Space/Visitor Parking area on the rooftop (level 5) of this structure, and proceed to the Self-Service Pay Station machine to pay by credit card.

Related Document: Joy-Neumeyer-Flyer-rf-byf.pdf
Sponsor(s): Center for European and Russian Studies, Department of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures, UCLA Center for the Study of Women, Department of History, UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy

Faculty Writing Retreat - Fall 2024
2024-11-01 10:00 - 16:00 | Hershey Hall Grand Salon Rm. 158, 612 Charles E Young Dr East, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
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Event Details

Limited spots available.
Friday, November 1, 2024
10 AM – 4 PM
Hershey Hall Salon (Room 158)
Do you want to block out a day for writing and contemplation? The quarterly Faculty Writing Retreat is your solution. Join us for a day-long retreat where you can concentrate on your own work alongside like-minded colleagues—we will hold the world at bay for you. Breakfast and lunch will be provided in the beautiful setting of Hershey Hall Salon.
The writing retreat provides a peaceful place to write as well as meals; please bring your computer and any other materials you may need to work. If you have an extension cord, please bring it, as power outlets are limited. Also bring some extra clothes for layers, as the space sometimes tend to be cool.
If you are attending virtually, we hope you get situated with a beverage and snacks for the day.
Those of us attending in person will have a conversation about the writing process over lunch. This conversation is entirely optional.
If you register to attend in person and your plans change, please let us know right away so that we may offer your spot to the waitlist. No-shows will not be granted an in-person spot at future writing retreats.
If you are no longer able to attend in person, please e-mail csw@csw.ucla.edu to let us know.

Creating Inclusive Sociotechnical Systems: Classification, Inequality, and Expertise in Epilepsy Care
2024-11-05 14:00 - 15:00 | Center for the Study of Women, 1500 Public Affairs
Come join us for an enlightening talk by Dr. Megh Marathe on Inclusive Sociotechnical Systems: Classification, Inequality, and Expertise in Epilepsy Care event.
Register Here.
DESCRIPTION
This talk examines how classification amplifies or alleviates the exclusion of marginalized people in healthcare. Through the case of epilepsy, the talk shows how reductionist classifications lead to narrow definitions of wellbeing and reinstate gendered, racist, classist, and ableist hierarchies. These findings advance our understanding of how experts navigate classificatory decisions and of technology’s role in amplifying inequality and how to work towards a more just society.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Megh Marathe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media & Information (ComArtSci) and the Center for Bioethics & Social Justice (College of Human Medicine). Their research seeks to foster inclusion in expert practices and technologies by centering the perspectives of marginalized people. They do this by studying the experiences and practices of multiple stakeholders — doctors and patients, citizens and civic officials — that is, laypeople and professionals, people who are marginalized as well as those in powerful positions, to generate critical theory and practical interventions for inclusive practice and technology design. Marathe adopts an ethnographic approach that is inflected by their computer science training and software industry experience.
Marathe’s interests are in science and technology studies, information studies, and medical anthropology. They are currently examining the social implications of therapeutic brain implants and the inclusion of gender-diverse people in data systems (and the lack thereof), in addition to developing their research on epilepsy diagnosis and treatment.
Marathe’s work has been published in prestigious information and social science venues including Transactions of the ACM in Human-Computer Interaction (TOCHI), Medical Anthropology Quarterly, PACM-HCI (CSCW), CHI, Time & Society, and ICTD, winning a CHI Best Paper Award. They received a PhD in information from the University of Michigan, a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Toronto, and a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Mumbai. Prior to MSU, Marathe was President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine.
DATE & TIME
Tuesday, Nov. 4th
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
LOCATION
CSW | Streisand Center
1500 Public Affairs Building,
UCLA Campus

Reception to follow with light refreshments.
Related document: DR_MEGH_MARATHE_Flyer
Sponsor(s): UCLA Department of Information Studies, UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, UCLA Center for the Study of Women | Barbara Streisand Center

Webinar: The French Army and Mobile Field Brothels: Algeria, France, Indochina (1939-1962)
2024-11-07 12:00 - 13:00 | Online/Zoom
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The question of Mobile Field Brothels (Bordels Militaires de Campagne or BMC) is not new, nor of course is it specific to contemporary colonial contexts, as we see in the global history of prostitution dating back times of antiquity. Moreover, it goes without saying that militaries (in times of both peace and war) and prostitution are intimately connected, yesterday, today and doubtless tomorrow, as we currently see in certain contemporary situations in sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Balkans, including within the United Nations Peace Corps. Nevertheless, the BMC have a particular connotation within the racialized contexts of the French Colonial Second Empire (1830-1962), as much as in French Algeria during colonization and the Algerian war (1954-1962) as in metropolitan France and the occupied zones during the Second World War (1939-1947). This is as a result of the presence within the army of colonial troops from the Maghreb (especially those of the Algerian “Tirailleurs” and the Moroccan “Goumiers”), as well as in French Indochina during the decolonization war (1946-1954) in which these same soldiers were also largely mobilized for « peacekeeping » operations which quickly dissolved into armed conflict. Using these three different colonial situations and these three territories – Algeria, Metropolitan France, and French Indochina—within the above time frames, we will attempt to shed light on the BMC systems of the French army.

About the Speaker

Christelle Taraud is a historian and feminist specializing in women, gender and sexuality in a colonial context, and in gender-based violence (GBV) and feminicide from a global perspective, which has led her to coin the concept of the “feminicide continuum”. She is Senior Lecturer at NYU Paris and associate member of the Centre d’histoire du XIXe siècle (Paris I-Paris IV). Her books include La Prostitution coloniale (Payot, 2003 and 2009) and Amour interdit. Prostitution, marginality and colonialism (Payot, 2012). She has also co-edited Sexe, race et colonies (La Découverte, 2018) and Sexualités, identités et corps colonisés (CNRS Editions, 2019) and edited Féminicides: Une Histoire mondiale (La Découverte, 2022). Her next book, Histoire des sexualités en France, XIXe-XXIe siècle, will be published by Armand Colin in autumn 2024.

Sponsor(s): Center for Near Eastern Studies, Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies, UCLA Center for the Study of Women
