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Lesbian and Bisexual Women’s Health in Los Angeles County: Advocacy, Communication, Policy, and Healthcare Delivery

The California Endowment 1000 North Alameda Sreet, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Organized by the Iris Cantor-UCLA Women's Health Education & Research Center and the Los Angeles County Lesbian and Bisexual Women's Health Collaborative The Lesbian and Bisexual Women's Health Collaborative, or LBWHC, was created by individuals concerned about health disparities for lesbian and bisexual women in Los Angeles County and is made up of individuals and […]

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Saidiya Hartman in Conversation

Perloff Hall DeCafe

Hosted by the UCLA Department of Gender Studies Saidiya Hartman will discuss her book, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, which explores the ways young black women created forms of intimacy and kinship indifferent to the dictates of respectability, and outside the bounds of law. They refused to labor like slaves or to accept degrading conditions of […]

LA Women: Female Voices in Audio

Moore Hall Reading Room UCLA

Organized by the Student Chapter of ARSC at UCLA. The Student Chapter of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) at UCLA welcomes current graduate students, faculty, and staff to benefit from the perspectives of four professionals from the field of music librarianship, audio archiving, and sound preservation for a panel discussion about being female […]

Aretha’s Amazing Grace: From Watts to Detroit

California Nanosystems Institute UCLA

Organized by the UCLA Department of African American Studies This symposium will celebrate the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin's ground breaking and historic Album, Amazing Grace. Topics will include: How Sweet the Sound: Blues Ministry and Black Power Soul Print: Music, Place and Albums The People's Queen: Queering Aretha's sound Speakers will include: Marcus Anthony […]

Women as Writers of Heroic Poetry in Renaissance Italy: An Epic Micro-tradition?

306 and 314 Royce Hall UCLA

Organized by the UCLA Department of Italian "Women as Writers of Heroic Poetry in Renaissance Italy: An Epic Micro-tradition?" explores all facets of heroic poetry as written by Italian Renaissance women. Moreover, this conference aims to spotlight their heroic poems and place them in an tradition that has for the most part ignored their work. We […]

Faculty Writing Retreat

Royce 306

Date: April 19, 2019 Time: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Location: Royce 306 RSVP: http://humanities.ucla.edu/events/writing-retreats/ 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 […]

I Am Not My Trauma: Word On Wednesday Spoken Word and Poetry Night

Kerckhoff Hall Art Gallery UCLA

Part of the UCLA CARE Program's Sexual Assault Awareness Month A special edition of the UCLA Cultural Affairs Comission's Word on Wednesday poetry and spoken word series, recognizing Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 Time: 7:00 - 9:00 PM Location: Kerckhoff Art Gallery Don't miss the other Sexual Assault Awareness Month events! […]

CSW Research Affiliate Brown Bag: “On Sarah Dorsey: A Nineteenth-century Southern Woman’s Rediscovered Lecture on the Philosophy of the University of France”

Rolfe 2125

Philosopher Sarah Dorsey On Sarah Dorsey: A Nineteenth-century Southern Woman’s Rediscovered Lecture on the Philosophy of the University of France A talk by Carol Bensick, PhD Sarah Dorsey (1829-1879) is the earliest woman from the U.S. South to devote herself to philosophy. Besides the later Anna Julia Cooper, she is only the second Southern woman […]

Marathon Reading of The Handmaid’s Tale and Earthseed

Powell Courtyard

The UCLA Marathon Reading is a cultural initiative that promotes literacy and community building by presenting a novel or novels aloud in their entirety. The event is free and open to the public beyond campus. Audience members come and go throughout the two-day event, and there are booths with tie-in activities. This year, we have […]

Aurora Levins Morales, “Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals”

Hacienda Room, Faculty Center

Organized by the Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair Aurora Levins Morales is an internationally known Puerto Rican Jewish feminist writer and lifelong arts-based organizer. She is the author of six books, including Kindling: Writings on the Body, Getting Home Alive, Remedios: Stories of Earth and Iron from the History of Puertorriquenas, and Telling to Live: […]

Gender and Water: Andrea Ballestero, “A Future History of Water”

352 Haines Hall

Hosted by UCLA Department of Anthropology Culture, Power, and Social Change Interest Group. Part of Gender and Water In this book talk, Andrea Ballestero will discuss how to think anthropologically about the techno-legal devices used to deal with the politics of water in the present and in the yet to come. Ballestero will focus on […]

Gender and Water: Research Masterclass with Andrea Ballestero

Part of Gender and Water At this Research Masterclass, students from the Gender and Water Research team will discuss research findings and forthcoming papers with visiting facilitator Andrea Ballestero, who will provide commentary and feedback.  Observers are welcome. Andrea Ballestero is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Rice University. Ballestero's work looks at the unexpected ethical […]