Faculty Writing Retreat - Fall 2024
2024-11-01 10:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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.
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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

Book Talk: Jennifer Lynn Kelly, Invited to Witness: Solidarity Tourism Across Occupied Palestine
2024-11-12 15:30 - 17:00 | Online/Zoom
Register Here.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jennifer Lynn Kelly is an Associate Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at University of California, Santa Cruz. She received her Ph.D. in American Studies with a Portfolio in Women’s and Gender Studies from University of Texas at Austin, her master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Humanities from New York University, ad her bachelor’s degree in Feminist Studies and Literature from University of California, Santa Cruz.
DATE & TIME
November 12th, 3:30 – 5pm
LOCATION
Online / Zoom

Related Document: BOOK TALK Flyer J L Kelly (1)
Sponsor(s): UCLA Department of Gender Studies, UCLA Center for the Study of Women, Consortium for Palestine Studies at UCLA

Where We Stand: A Conversation on Black Feminisms with Djamila Ribeiro
2024-11-15 14:00 - 15:30
When: Friday, November 15 | 2:00 PM PT
Where: Bunche Hall, Rm 10383 & Online
Zoom RSVP: https://bit.ly/48u49nS
In a society shaped by the legacies of enslavement, white supremacy, and sexism, who has the right to a voice? In her recently-translated book, Djamila Ribeiro offers a compelling intervention into contemporary discussions of power and identity: the concept of “speaking place” (lugar de fala), which has become a crucial component of conversations on race and gender in Brazil.
Moderator:
Nohora Arrieta Fernández, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Djamila Ribeiro is a philosopher, essayist, editor, and one of the most influential leaders in the Afro-Brazilian women’s rights movement. She is the 2024-2025 Andrés Bello Chair In Latin American Cultures And Civilizations at New York University.
Cosponsored by:
International Institute | Latin American Institute UCLA Center for Brazilian Studies, UCLA Department of African American Studies, UCLA Department of Latin American Institute, UCLA Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Consulate General of Brazil, Los Angeles.

Home/Girl Healin’ Booktalk
2024-11-18 15:00 - 16:30 | 352 Haines Hall
When: Monday, Nov 18th 3-4:30 PM
Where: Haines Hall 352
Please join us and MMAC in welcoming Dr. Reelaviolette Botts-Ward on Monday, November 18th, to discuss her book manuscript which is under review, Home/Girl Healin’: The Sacred Geographies of Everyday Black Feminist Healing Arts in Oakland. We will be reading the introduction of the manuscript.
Please RSVP at this link, so we can get a sense of how many people will be in attendance.
Contact: faithco@ucla.edu or aciksoz@ucla.edu
MMAC is an interdisciplinary discussion group housed in UCLA’s Department of Anthropology.

Labor of Care and Solidarity Panel
2024-11-19 12:00 - 14:00 | Rolfe Hall 2125
The UCLA Transnational Gender and Labor Working Group presents:
The Labor of Care and Solidarity: A panel discussion with Professors Rob Chlala and Kaily Heitz
Nov 19, 12-2pm | Rolfe Hall 2125
RSVP here.
Join us for a panel discussion with Professors Rob Chlala, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Cal State Long Beach, Visiting Researcher, IRLE and Labor Center, UCLA, and Kaily Heitz, Assistant Professor of Geography, UCLA, who will discuss their research on the labor of care and solidarity. Prof. Chlala’s talk is entitled, “Cannabis Care and Fugitive Value in Carceral Los Angeles.” Prof. Heitz talk is entitled, “Black Culture Work and Sites of Sustenance in Oakland’s Landscapes of Abandonment.” The panel will be moderated by Professor Jennifer Jihye Chun.
Speaker Bios
Rob Chlala is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Cal State Long Beach and a Visiting Researcher at UCLA Labor Center/IRLE. His work is produced in collective, collaborative processes that bridge labor, urban geography, movement-building and abolition. He will be sharing from a developing book manuscript that takes the changing cannabis industry in LA for glimpses into worlds of freedom, exploring the ways Black, Latinx and/or LGBTQ+ workers in cannabis generate expansive forms of value in the midst of carceral dispossession.
Kaily Heitz is an Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. As a critical human geographer and Black geographies scholar, Dr. Heitz’s work focuses on cultural and community responses to racialized dispossession in California. She is presenting a chapter from her manuscript entitled Oakland is a Vibe: The Relational Geographies of Black Cultural Development, which explores anti-displacement activist projects in Oakland that manipulate the practices of racial capitalist development in order to create sanctuaries for Black life and liberation.
Jennifer Jihye Chun is Professor of Asian American Studies, Labor Studies and the International Institute and Associate Director of the IRLE.
Learn more about the Transnational Gender and Labor Working Group.

Book Talk: Women’s Political Imagination in the Kurdish Movement
2024-11-21 12:30 - 13:45
When: Thursday, November 21
Where: Online
Register here.
Join an online book talk with Nazan Üstündağ to celebration her latest book, The Mother, the Politician, and the Guerrilla.
Nazan Üstündağ’s new book The Mother, the Politician, and the Guerrilla: Women’s political imagination in the Kurdish movement delves into the powerful role Kurdish women play in shaping the Kurdish liberation movement. The book, which has garnered significant international attention, traces how women—acting as mothers, politicians and guerrilla fighters—redefine the concepts of identity, politics and freedom.

Cozy Book Swap
2024-12-10 - 2024-12-12
Join us for the CSW|Streisand Center Cozy Book Swap! Bring a wrapped book or wrap one at our center! Add a hint note, and swap with others! We will provide wrapping paper and gift tags for adding yours to the mix. Any genre is welcome.
Come and enjoy a free book, apple cider, stickers, and cozy vibes!
When: Tuesday – Thursday, 12/10 – 12/12
10:30 am – 4:30 pm
Where: CSWIStreisand Center Office
1500 Public Affairs

POSTPONED: 2025 UCLA Activists-in-Residence Welcome Reception
2025-01-21 16:00 - 18:00 | Perloff Hall DeCafe
Event Postponed: Due to the LA fires, this event has been postponed.

Join us in welcoming the 2025 UCLA Activists-in-Residence!
On behalf of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy, UCLA Asian American Studies Center, cityLAB-UCLA, and the UCLA Center for the Study of Women|Barbra Streisand Center, we are thrilled to welcome Lupita Limón Corrales, Kaya Dantzler, Kari Okubo, Romarilyn Ralston, and James Suazo as the 2025 UCLA Activists-in-Residence. The activists will be in residence at UCLA from January through May.
RSVP Here
Tuesday, January 21, 2024 • 4 to 6 PM
UCLA Perloff Hall, DeCafe – 365 Portola Plaza,
Room 1302
UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy activists:
Lupita Limón Corrales (she/they) is a poet, artist, organizer, and language interpreter. Born in Sinaloa, Mexico and raised in the San Gabriel Valley, she comes from a long line of arboleros, theologians, homemakers, peasant farmers, criminals, factory workers, and cashiers who party on the weekend. She is a founding member of the Echo Park local of the Los Angeles Tenants Union, organized by struggles to end renovictions in LA and defend the caretakers of the oldest house in the neighborhood. Her writing can be found in dozens of zines and handmade books; on Dublab and Lower Grand Radio; and in Dryland, Protean Magazine, Longreads, Street Views, and Huizache. Her first full-length poetry book ESTA BOCA ES MIA was published by nueoi press in Spring 2024.
James Suazo (he/him) is a 34-year-old reader, writer, organizer, and abolitionist who identifies as queer, Latinx, and Jicarilla Apache. James was born, raised, and politicized in occupied Tongva and Acjachemen land known as modern-day Santa Ana, California and has lived in Long Beach since 2011. James’ passion for organizing began as an 18-year-old growing up in Santa Ana’s Delhi neighborhood where he started organizing low-income bus riders at the height of the Great Recession. As his organizing journey continued, James contributed to and led community, labor, and electoral organizing efforts to address poverty, housing, transit justice, education equity, justice reform, and racial justice. James has spent the last 10 years organizing with Long Beach Forward, a nonprofit organization building community knowledge, leadership, and power with low-income BIPOC communities in the City of Long Beach, where he currently serves as Executive Director. James has and continues to learn from, train, and mentor organizers locally and nationally as part of his personal commitment to building a better world.
UCLA Asian American Studies Center activist:
Kari Okubo (she/her) is a digital strategist, cultural worker, and organizer who is a fifth-generation Uchinānchu and Japanese settler from ‘Aiea, Hawai’i. As the Social Media Strategist for 18 Million Rising, an organization mobilizing Asian Americans through digital organizing, Kari brings eight years of experience working in social media across various industries to power Asian American grassroots campaigns and creative projects. Her work addresses immigrant rights, demilitarization, abolition, decolonization, gender justice, and LGBTQIA+ rights. Kari focuses on building narrative power in digital spaces and utilizing storytelling as an organizing tool to shift culture and engage communities in the fight for collective liberation.
cityLAB-UCLA activist:
Kaya Dantzler (she/her) is a cultural organizer from South Los Angeles dedicated to uplifting Black communities through creative placekeeping and cultivating ecosystems of solidarity and collective care. She led local and national campaigns at Color of Change, mobilizing communities to advance racial justice. As co-founder of We Love Leimert, she organizes alongside community members to nurture and sustain Leimert Park Village as a sanctuary for Black people and a thriving hub of Black culture and community. Rooted in the Black radical tradition, Kaya envisions a future where Leimert Park Village serves as a global model for a solidarity economy that fosters shared prosperity and collective liberation for people from the African diaspora.
UCLA Center for the Study of Women|Barbra Streisand Center activist:
Romarilyn Ralston (she/her) is the Director of the Justice Education Center at the Claremont Colleges and former Executive Director of Project Rebound at CSU Fullerton. Identifying as a Black feminist abolitionist, she earned a Bachelor’s in Gender and Feminist Studies from Pitzer College and a Master’s in Liberal Arts from Washington University in St. Louis after 23 years in prison. Her work focuses on empowering women and justice-involved people. Romarilyn is a member of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners. In 2022, she received a full pardon from Governor Gavin Newsom and is a PhD student in Executive Management at Claremont Graduate University.

Book Talk: Hear Our Stories Campus Sexual Violence, Intersectionality, and How We Build a Better University
2025-01-22 16:00 - 17:30 | Moore Hall 3340
When: Wednesday, January 22, 2025
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Where: Moore Hall 3340
Light refreshments will be served. A limited number of books will be available for event participants at no cost.
Join us for Dr. Jessica Harris in conversation with Dr. Shannon Speed about her recently published book, Hear Our Stories: Campus Sexual Violence, Intersectionality, and How to Build a Better University.
Jessica Harris is an Associate Professor in the UCLA Department of Education. In Hear Our Stories, Harris draws on interviews with 34 Women of Color student survivors, campus staff, and institutional documents from three universities to demonstrate how we can use intersectionality to inform more effective sexual violence prevention and response efforts.
RSVP Here.
Cosponsored by:
The Office of Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at UCLA’s School of Education and Information Studies
CSW|Streisand Center

Book Talk: Care without Pathology How Trans- Health Activists are Changing Medicine
2025-01-29 15:00 - 17:30
When: Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Book Talk: 3–4:30 pm
Reception: 4:30–5:30 pm
Where: Hershey Salon (Hershey Hall 158)
Seating is first come first served.
Care without Pathology examines the transnational emergence of trans health as an institutionalizing field and public good. It argues that the field of trans health can be characterized as a struggle between paternalistic and pathologizing modes of care, on the one hand, and the notion of “care without pathology” on the other. The book suggests that trans health movements—alongside reproductive justice, disability justice, and others—have mobilized care without pathology to transform health politics. Drawing on ethnographic and document-based data centered in New York City and Buenos Aires, Care without Pathology examines how activists and care providers across the Americas work to change the protocols, governing logics, and distributive arguments underpinning trans health as a field.
It follows activists and providers as they grapple with diagnoses, economic accessibility, population health, austerity politics, racialized politics of care and debt, colonial regimes of knowledge, and depathologizing demands. Care without Pathology argues that trans health is far from being an exceptional or unusual form of health care. Rather, its constitutive debates are at the heart of broader contemporary transformations related to biomedicine and health politics writ large.
About the author: Christoph Hanssmann is an Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Davis.
Cosponsored by:
CSW|Streisand Center
UCLA LGBTQ Studies
UCLA Gender Studies
UCLA Latin American Institute
UCLA Williams Institute

The Silver Woman: How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal
2025-01-30 15:00 - 16:30 | Bunche 6275, UCLA Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
When: Thursday, January 30, 2025
3:00pm – 4:30pm
Where: Bunche 6275
Joan Flores-Villalobos is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at USC. She received her Ph.D. in African Diaspora History from New York University in 2018. Her work focuses on histories of gender, race, and diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Letters to Home: Art and Writing by LGBTQ+ Nikkei and Allies Book TalkThursday,
2025-02-13 17:00 - 18:30
When: Thursday, February 13, 2025, 5:00pm – 6:15pm
Where: Broad 2160E
Letters to Home is among the first anthologies to spotlight LGBTQ+ Nikkei experiences and allyship through an intergenerational lens.
Marsha Aizumi (she/her) is the founder of Okaeri, co-founder of PFLAG San Gabriel Valley API, and a mother of a transgender son who
inspired her to advocate for the Nikkei LGBTQ+ communities. Marsha and her son, Aiden, wrote “Two Spirits, One Heart.” They have traveled all over the U.S. to speak and encourage LGBTQ+ individuals and their families to embrace their true selves.
Cody Uyeda (he/him) is a fourth generation Japanese American from Southern California. He is currently Okaeri’s Program & Admin Coordinator, and previously came from a background in the education, research, and legal fields. He is passionate about supporting the Japanese American community, as well as exploring culture, arts, and the outdoors.
Rino Kodama (they/them) is a nonbinary shin- nisei artist based in Los Angeles, originally from the Bay Area. When they are not working as Okaeri’s Tech & Media Marketing Coordinator, you can find them in their backyard ceramic studio hand building sculptures and vases. They are passionate in helping shape a compassionate Japanese American community that is able to hold our queer and trans multiplicities and expansiveness.
Moderated by Grace Hong, professor of Gender Studies and Asian American Studies at UCLA.

Faculty Writing Retreat
2025-02-14 09:30 - 16:00
Date and Time:
Friday, February 14, 2025
10 AM – 4 PM PST
Location:
Hershey Hall Salon (Room 158)
801 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095
About the Retreat:
This quarterly Faculty Writing Retreat is designed to provide you with a peaceful and focused environment to work on your writing projects. Join like-minded colleagues for a day of uninterrupted productivity, complemented by a serene setting and nourishing meals.
What to Expect:

Breakfast and lunch provided
A quiet space to write
Optional lunchtime discussion on the writing process

What to Bring:

Your computer and any materials you need to work
An extension cord (power outlets are limited)
Extra layers of clothing (the space can be cool)

Virtual Attendance:
For those attending virtually, we encourage you to prepare a cozy setup with your favorite snacks and beverages.
Register Here:
RSVP on Eventbrite
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.
Cosponsored by: CSW|Streisand Center, the UCLA Bixby Center, the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

Book Talk: Post/Revolutionary Conditions: Renewed Visions of the Iranian Freedom Struggle with author Alborz Ghandehari
2025-02-27 15:00 - 17:00 | Rolfe Hall 2125
Join the UCLA IRLE and CSW|Streisand Center’s Transnational Gender and Labor Working Group for a book talk on Post/Revolutionary Conditions: Renewed Visions of the Iranian Freedom Struggle with author Alborz Ghandehari on February 27, 2025 at 3 pm at 2125 Rolfe Hall.
The discussion will offer an intersectional analysis of how radical and progressive movement builders have re-envisioned liberation in the post-’79 era, despite new forms of oppression under the Islamic Republic and from US and other foreign imperial powers. Post/Revolutionary Conditions shows how potent reimaginings of a radically democratic future have been shaped by multiple generations of protest and kindred struggles globally.
About the author:
Alborz Ghandehari is an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Utah. His research centers social movements in Iran and Southwest Asia/North Africa, as well as movements in the region’s diasporas.
To RSVP to attend the talk and book signing, click here

Transnational Gender and Labor Working Group Faculty Research Workshop
2025-02-28 12:30 - 14:00 | Rolfe Hall 2125
The Transnational Gender and Labor Working Group will host the following faculty workshop on Friday, February 28th, 2025 from 12-2pm:

“The Neoliberal Turn in Inglewood’s Politics: Sports, Stadiums, and the Assault on Second Sight” by Jasmine Hill, Assistant Professor, Public Policy and Sociology, UCLA
“Fighting Triple Oppression: Domestic Workers in the Vanguard of 1930s Antifascism” by Katherine Marino, Associate Professor, History, UCLA

The purpose of the workshop is to discuss and provide constructive feedback on works-in-progress by working group members. Participants who RSVP will receive workshop papers in advance. Workshop papers are not to be cited or distributed.

The workshop will be held at 2125 Rolfe Hall. Lunch will be available from 12-12:30pm and the formal workshop component will begin at 12:30pm.

RSVP here.

Gender and Los Angeles Residential Water: Use, Knowledge, and Justice in Water Conservation
2025-03-04 12:00 - 13:30 | IoES Conference Room
When: Tuesday, March 4th, 2025
Talk: 12 –1:30 pm
Where: IoES Conference Room
Join us for an insightful talk, “Gender and Los Angeles Residential Water: Use, Knowledge, and Justice in Water Conservation, hosted by Gregory Pierce, Director of the Human Right to Water Solutions Lab. Presenters Jessica Cattelino and Kelsey Kim will dive into the often-overlooked role of gender in water use, management, and conservation, exploring its intersection with migration, race, and class. Drawing on research from diverse Los Angeles households, this discussion will highlight critical social and environmental justice insights.
Lunch served!

Listening to the Dead: Methods of Studying Genocide
2025-03-04 12:00 - 13:30 | Kaufman Hall, Room 200, Janss Steps, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Although Genocide Studies is an academic discipline that researches genocide, Genocide Studies—in its institutionalization—is not necessarily a study of the dead. The crime was codified in 1948 by the United Nations Genocide Convention, however, Zoé Samudzi writes both that genocide’s designation as crime is “probably the least important thing about it” and that “genocide the process is not necessarily the same as genocide the crime.”

Against empirical and taxonomical capture of mass death by international law and its tools of assessment are the ethnopolitical philosophies that register humanity, personhood, life and death in stark contrast and contradiction.
Samudzi’s lecture engages her transnational grammar of wandering (after Sarah Jane Cervenak’s description of “the enactment of black female philosophical desire”) through which the image, language, ecology, and ancestral responsibility provide a state-illegible but community-oriented conception of intergenerational loss.

Zoé Samudzi
is the Charles E. Scheidt Visiting Assistant Professor in Genocide Studies and Genocide Prevention at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. She is also a Global Blackness Research Fellow at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Johannesburg and a fellow with African Museums and Heritage Restitution. She is also a writer and an associate editor with Parapraxis Magazine.

Resistance and Reimagining: Perspectives on Reproductive and Gender Justice
2025-03-06 16:00 - 17:00
Attend the Resistance and Reimagining: Perspectives on Reproductive and Gender Justice from the Academy, Advocacy, and Public Service!
Where: UCLA Law Room 1314, virtually
When: March 6th, 2025 from 4:00-5:00 pm PT.
The Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy (CRHLP), in partnership with Yale Law School’s Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice and Temple University Beasley School of Law, invites you to Resistance and Reimagining: Perspectives on Reproductive and Gender Justice from the Academy, Advocacy, and Public Service.
This event will feature a panel moderated by CRHLP’s Legal and Policy Director, Diana Kasdan. The panel will include Professor Khiara M. Bridges from UC Berkeley School of Law, Leila Abolfazli, Senior Director of National Abortion Strategy at National Women’s Law Center, Mary Bonauto, Senior Director of Civil Rights and Legal Strategies at GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders, and Karli Eisenberg, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, CA AG’s Office for Healthcare Rights and Access. This event is in person and will be streamed over Zoom, refreshments will be served.
Register here.

Thinking Gender 2025: “Gendered Labors & Transnational Solidarities”
2025-03-07 | James West Alumni Center, 325 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Online registration is now closed. In-person walk-in registration will be available starting at 8:30 AM on Friday, March 7 at the event venue.
View conference program.

35th Annual Graduate Student Research Conference
“Gendered Labors & Transnational Solidarities”
When: Friday, March 7, 2025 (in-person)
8:30 AM – 6:00 PM PST
Where: James West Alumni Center, The Collins Conference Room, 325 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095

This year’s Thinking Gender theme, “Gendered Labors and Transnational Solidarities,” highlights the rich repertoire of organizing strategies as well as contemporary and historical examples of campaigns led by precarious workers around the world. We are bringing together feminist, queer, and BIPOC scholars, artists, and organizers to reflect upon the meanings of labor solidarity and care to imagine a more livable society. Register today to attend!
Friendly Reminder: Seating is on a first come, first served basis. Due to the high percentage of no-shows, we do overbook our events. Therefore, a reservation does not guarantee a seat, so we suggest you arrive early. We appreciate your understanding and apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Learn more about our annual Thinking Gender Conference.
Cosponsors
School of the Arts and Architecture
School of Theater, Film, & Television
Center for Community Engagement
American Indian Studies Center
American Indian Studies Department
Anthropology Department
Asian American Studies Department
Asian American Studies Center
Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health
Chicana/o and Central American Studies Department
Chicano Studies Research Center
Disability Studies
Department of Education
English Department
Gender Studies Department
Graduate Division
Humanities Division
Information Studies Department
Institute for Research on Labor & Employment
Institute of American Cultures
Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin
International Institute
LGBTQ Campus Resource Center
LGBTQ Studies Department
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Promise Institute
Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies
Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, David Geffen School of Medicine
Social Welfare Department
Sociology Department
Williams Institute (Law)
UCLA Labor Center
UCLA Latin American Institute

CSW Cozy Book Swap
2025-03-11 | 1500 Public Affairs

LADINO In & Beyond the Home
2025-04-02 09:00 - 16:00
In its thirteenth consecutive year, the ucLADINO conference supports and celebrates the growing preservation of Ladino language and culture in the Judeo-Spanish diaspora. The theme for this year’s ucLADINO conference centers around Ladino in and beyond the home, exploring language and culture in domestic spaces and in migration. How has Ladino taken shape within domestic worlds and how has Ladino adapted in transit, carried from one home to the next?

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Jewish Critiques of Zionism and the Weaponization of Antisemitism
2025-04-02 18:30 - 20:00
When: Wednesday, April 2, 6:30 pm
Register for location:
https://tinyurl.com/critiquesofzionism

Join us for a panel discussion between progressive and left-wing Jews about their relationships to Palestine and Israel, critical perspectives on the recent arrest of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, and interpretations and responses to charges of antisemitism deployed in opposition to racial justice work by the Trump administration, the UCLA administration, and the political right.

Featuring: Izzy Cortes, Michal David, Benjamin Kersten, Beth Ribet, and Noah Zatz
Chaired by Hannah Appel

Beyond Barbie
2025-04-06 - 2025-06-08 | Billy Wilder Theater, 10899 Wilshire Blvd.,, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive
When: April 6 – June 8
Where: Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum
Free | No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis. The box office opens one hour before the event.
Writer Isabel Cristo describes the essence of girlhood as a “before time,” untouched by the weighty choices of adulthood — marriage, careers, caretaking. Though often disrupted by reality, girlhood remains a space of unfiltered potential, free from feminism’s historical burdens. Cinema has long confined it to familiar narratives, typically shaped by a girl’s longing for male validation. This series seeks to redefine coming-of-age narratives about girlhood by showcasing films made mostly by women filmmakers from across the globe whose work challenges conventions and is united in their shared focus on a girl’s desire to know and express herself. By foregrounding a protagonist’s self-discovery and agency, these narratives insist that a girl’s psyche — no matter how wounded or raw — is worth exploring. Infused with rare, aching empathy, they illuminate feminine characters whose multi-dimensional stories have too often been absent from cinema. Through them, girlhood emerges as complex, vibrant and inherently cinematic.
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UCLA Center for Reproductive Science, Health and Education Distinguished Speaker Series
2025-04-07 17:00 - 18:00
Please join us for this timely event in which Elizabeth Dias, the New York Times national religion correspondent, will be discussing her bestselling book, “The Fall of Roe: The Riseof a New America,” co-authored with Lisa Lerer. Opening remarks will be provided by Dr.Tracy Johnson, dean of UCLA Division of Life Sciences.
Monday, April 7, 2025 5:00 p.m. PT
Book signing to follow
Location: California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)UCLA Campus
Registration is required. Seating is first come, first served and is not guaranteed.
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About the event: Elizabeth Dias is the national religion correspondent for The New York Times andhas reported on religion and politics for 15 years. She covers the shifting expressions of belief andpower in American society, and the values, emotions and people that shape public life. She hasreported from more than 30 states and written about religion in four presidential elections. She joinedThe Times in 2018, and reported as part of the national and political reporting teams. Previously shecovered religion, politics and national news at Time magazine, where she traveled with Pope Francis,interviewed the Dalai Lama and explored conservative Christianity’s rise to power with the Trumpmovement. She is a graduate of Wheaton College and has a master of divinity degree from PrincetonTheological Seminary. She is from Arizona by way of Ohio, Germany and Canada, and now lives inWashington. She is the co-author of the national bestselling book “The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a NewAmerica,” with her New York Times colleague Lisa Lerer.

Criminal Justice Law Review 2025: On Carceral Feminism
2025-04-11 09:30 - 16:00
When: April 11 9:30-4pm
Where: Room 1420
RSVP: tinyurl.com/cjlrsymposium
Restorative Justice Panel & Individual Scholar Presentations

On the Relationship between American Feminism and the Criminal System at 9:45-10:20 Aya Gruber (USC Gould School of Law)
On Responses to Gender-Based Violence at 10:25-11:10
Leigh Goodmark (University of Maryland Carey School of Law)
On Immigration x Abolition Feminism at 11:15-12:00 Lee Ann Wang (UCLA)
On Participatory Defense Campaigns at 1:00-1:45 Colby Lenz (UCLA Center for the Study of Women), Alisa Bierria (UCLA)
On the Changing Landscape/Organizing Efforts to Resist at 1:45-2:20 Erica Miners (Northeastern Illinois University) Restorative Justice Panel at 2:25 – 3:50 Mimi Kim (California State University, Long Beach), Grace Carson (National Center on Restorative Justice, UCLA Law Alumni), Donna Coker (UMiami School

POSTPONED: Sahq, Dirt, Shaheed: Queer Poetics and Palestinian Resistance
2025-04-11 17:00 - 18:30 | UCLA Mathias Botanical Garden, 707 Tiverton Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO FALL 2025.

Date: April 11, 2025
Time: 5 – 6:30 pm
Location: UCLA Mathias Botanical Garden
This talk uses a combination of poetry, research, and prose to consider some of the discursive and material facets of Palestinian liberation theories and practices, with special attention to forms of affective and embodied resistance.
Mejdulene Bernard Shomali is a queer Palestinian poet and associate professor in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Williams College. She received an MA in Women’s Studies from the Ohio State University and a PhD in American Culture from the University of Michigan. Her research and creative writing occur at the intersection of transnational feminist thought, queer of color critique, and Arab and diasporic Arab cultural production.
Meidulene was a fellow in the Institute for Citizens and Scholars and the Cornell Society for the Humanities. She is the author of Between Banat: Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives (Duke University Press 2023) which won the 2024 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies book award honorable mention. She is also the author of the poetry chapbook agriculture of grief: prayers for my father’s dementia (Finishing Line Press 2024). Her current research concerns affect and embodiment in Palestinian resistance.
Cosponsored by:
UCLA Gender Studies
UCLA American Indian Studies Center
UCLA Near Easthern Languages and Cultures
UCLA American Indian Studies
UCLA English
UCLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Studies
UCLA Asian American Studies
UCLA Asian American Studies Center

Among Women Across Worlds: North Korea in Global Cold War
2025-04-22 16:00 - 17:00 | 10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Professor, Suzy Kim, Rutgers University
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
4:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383
While social movements may appear to have receded in the 1950s with the rise of Cold War domesticity and McCarthyism (much like the upsurge of authoritarianisms today), the Korean War galvanized women to promote women’s rights in the context of the first global peace campaign during the Cold War. Recuperating the erasure of North Korean women from this movement, this talk excavates buried histories of Cold War sutures to show how leftist women tried to bridge the Cold War divide through maternalist strategies. Socialist feminism in the context of a global peace movement facilitated a productive
understanding of “difference” toward a transversal politics of solidarity. The talk weaves together the women’s press with photographs and archival film footage to contemplate their use in transnational movements of resistance and solidarity, both then and now.
Suzy Kim is a historian and teaches at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She is author of Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950 published by Cornell University Press in 2013 and Among Women across Worlds: North Korea in the Global Cold War also published by Cornell in 2023. She is senior editor of positions: asia critique, and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Korean Studies and Yŏsŏng kwa yŏksa [Women and History], the Journal of the Korean Association of Women’s History. As a public scholar, she has been an advocate for social justice and peace in Korea as a founding member of Women Cross DMZ.
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UCLA Editor-in-Residence Public Events with Courtney Berger
2025-04-23 10:30 - 2025-04-24 17:30 | Hershey Salon
UCLA Editor-in-Residence Public Events with Courtney Berger, Executive Editor, Duke University Press
RSVP for one or both events.
Hershey Salon 158
Wednesday, April 23, 10:30 am-11:30 am: Talk
Talk: Writing Books People Will Want to Read: Advice for First-Time Authors
Thursday, April 24, 4:00-5:45 pm: Panel
Panel & Reception: Writing and Publishing as a Scholar-Activist

Talk: Writing Books People Will Want to Read: Advice for First-Time Authors
We will discuss some of the most common issues that first-time authors face during the writing and publishing process. Berger will offer guidance on how to conceptualize a scholarly book project, put together a book proposal, and make the most of the peer review process. She will also offer strategies for finding the right publisher and working with an acquisitions editor. This will be an informal workshop designed to help first-time authors navigate the publication process and think about the purpose and reach of their writing. There will be plenty of time for discussion, so please bring your questions!

Panel & Reception: Writing and Publishing as a Scholar-Activist
In this conversation, Courtney Berger (Executive Editor at Duke University Press) and members from the UCLA community—Colby Lenz, Juan Herrera, Kian Goh, Lee Ann Wang—will discuss the challenges and rewards of writing as both scholar and activist. We will address a range of questions that scholar-activists navigate in their work and in their writing. What does it mean to be a scholar-activist and how does it change the kind of writing you do? How do you negotiate the competing demands of activism and the university? How do you write in a way that will reach both scholarly and non-scholarly audiences? And how do you maintain ethical relations with the communities you work with while doing scholarly work?

About the Editor-in-Residence
Courtney Berger (she/they) is Executive Editor at Duke University Press. She joined the Press in 2003, after receiving her Ph.D. in English from Johns Hopkins University. Courtney acquires books across the humanities and social sciences, including American studies, Native American and Indigenous studies, Asian American studies, queer, trans, and gender studies, media and technology, and environmental humanities. Berger seeks out books that are theoretically and politically engaged and that speak to a wide, interdisciplinary audience. They have published books by many prominent scholars, but also enjoy collaborating with first-time authors who are in the process of establishing their critical voice.
Friendly Reminder: Seating is on a first come, first served basis. Due to the high percentage of no-shows, we do overbook our events. Therefore, a reservation does not guarantee a seat, so we suggest you arrive early. We appreciate your understanding and apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Cosponsored By:
CSW|Barbra Streisand Center
UCLA Social Sciences
UCLA Humanities
UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
UCLA Bixby Center to Advance Sexual and Reproductive Health Equity
