Center for the Study of Women

Imagining the Political: Vernacular Idioms of Sexuality in India
2021-03-02 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Organized by the Department of Asian American Studies and the UCLA Asian American Studies Center
Date: Tuesday, March 2, 2021
Time: 6:00 – 7:15 PM
Location: Online/Zoom (RSVP)
Professor Navaneetha Mokkil will discuss her new book, Unruly Figures, which navigates the pulsating links between subjectivity, political activism and the world-making capacity of cultural practices in a non-metropolitan region in India. It focuses on the non-linear figurations of the sex worker and the lesbian in Kerala, a state in Southern India, and the fractured processes of staging the politics of sexuality. The book moves back and forth from the post-1990s to the pre-1990s interlinking different forms, texts, genres and events in order to show how sexual subjects are not finished portraits, nor silenced bodies eager to claim visibility and recognition. Rather, the transactions between the subject and the figure point to the breaks in the conception of a cohesive, visible and agential political actor.
Navaneetha Mokkil teaches at the Center for Women’s Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. She is currently Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.

The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women’s Liberation in Mass Incarceration
2021-03-02 12:15 - 13:30
Organized by Critical Race Studies at UCLA School of Law
DATE: Tuesday, March 2, 2021
TIME: 12:15 PM – 1:30 PM
LOCATION: Online/Zoom
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Aya Gruber, author and Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School, and Jennifer M. Chacón, Professor of Law and CRS core faculty member at UCLA Law School, will be discussing Gruber’s new book, The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women’s Liberation in Mass Incarceration.
About the book: Many feminists grapple with the problem of hyper-incarceration in the United States, yet commentators on gender crime continue to assert that criminal law is not tough enough. This punitive impulse, prominent legal scholar Aya Gruber argues, is dangerous and counterproductive. In their quest to secure women’s protection from domestic violence and rape, American feminists have become soldiers in the war on crime by emphasizing white female victimhood, expanding the power of police and prosecutors, touting the problem-solving power of incarceration, and diverting resources toward law enforcement and away from marginalized communities. Deploying vivid cases and unflinching analysis, Gruber documents the failure of the state to combat sexual and domestic violence through law and punishment. Zero-tolerance anti-violence law and policy tend to make women less safe and more fragile. Mandatory arrests, no-drop prosecutions, forced separation, and incarceration embroil poor women of color in a criminal justice system that is historically hostile to them. This carceral approach exacerbates social inequalities by diverting more power and resources toward a fundamentally flawed criminal justice system, further harming victims, perpetrators, and communities alike. In order to reverse this troubling course, Gruber contends that we must abandon the conventional feminist wisdom, fight violence against women without reinforcing the American prison state, and use criminalization as a technique of last—not first—resort.

Visions of Fire: LGBTQ+ Voices (Weekend 2 of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center Film Festival 2021)
2021-02-27 15:00 - 18:00
Organized by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the UCLA Film & Television Archive
Date: Saturday, February 27
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: Online/Zoom
FREE EVENT WITH RSVP
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The Visions of Fire: LGBTQ+ Voices program will feature:
FRUIT FLY (2009)
10TH ANNIVERSARY SING-ALONG EDITION!

Fabulous. Fantastic. Fierce. Clear your living room, so you can sing and dance along in our celebration of this musical extravaganza’s 10th anniversary! Learn a few new moves and a whole lot of tunes as you follow our protagonist, a Filipina American performance artist, making a home for herself in her world and ours. Fruit Fly celebrates those who might feel marginal but are indispensable to community formation. This romp through San Francisco is brought to you by the team behind the indie hit Colma: The Musical. This screening will be an unforgettable party with queer Asian Americans and those who love them. You don’t want to miss it!
Color, 94 min. Directors: H.P. Mendoza.

Shu Mai Online (2020)

What’s a drag queen to do in the middle of a pandemic? Enter Jeffrey Liang, aka Miss Shu Mai, who teaches others to display the butt butt. This is UCLA EthnoCommunications alum and current UCLA Theater, Film and Television graduate student, Emory Chao Johnson’s contribution to Asian American Documentary Network’s #AsianAmCovidStories micro doc series.
Color, 2 min. Director: Emory Chao Johnson.

Razor Tongue, Episode 1 (2019)

If you don’t have the privilege of having a transgender Guamanian in your life, get ready! Rain Valdez will provide you with an education through this collaboratively created web series.
Color, 5 min. Director: Natalie Heltzel. Screenwriter: Rain Valdez. Cast: Rain Valdez, Shaan Dasani, Sarah Parlow.

Unspoken (2019)

This poignant short explores coming out to immigrant parents through what might be described as an epistolary genre. The audience bears witness to recitations from a group of diverse Asian Americans that might forever alter family dynamics.
Color, 18 min. Director: Patrick G. Lee.

Program will be introduced by UCLA Film & Television Archive Director May Hong HaDuong.
Conversation to follow with filmmaker H.P. Mendoza and actress, filmmaker, producer Rain Valdez.
Moderated by UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television associate dean and professor Sean Metzger.

"Since U Been Gone”: What Needs to Happen Post-Trump to Restore and Expand Reproductive Rights
2021-02-24 09:00 - 10:00
Organized by the UCLA Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health
Date: Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Time: 9:00 – 10:00 AM
Location: Online/Zoom (password: [REDACTED]
This is a Bixby lecture featuring Katherine Gillespie, Senior Federal Policy Counsel at the Center for Reproductive Rights, that focuses on restoring reproductive rights in a post-Trump era.

CSW Research Affiliates Brown Bag: Counternarratives and “Copy Cats”: Alma Whitaker
2021-02-11 12:00 - 13:00
Counternarratives and “Copy Cats”: Alma Whitaker, Newspaper Women and Place Making in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles
A Talk by Julie Cohen, PhD
Date: Thursday, February 11, 2021
Time: 12-1 pm
Location: Zoom
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As part of a larger project on women journalists in US Western cities in the early twentieth century, Julie Cohen will discuss writer Alma Whitaker—feminist, reporter, and columnist for the Los Angeles Times from 1910 to 1944. Widely known in her time but almost totally forgotten today, Whitaker employed wit, satire, and sarcasm to advance a strong feminist perspective with an emphasis on economic independence for women. Like so many “copy cats” in the region, her message both bolstered the white settler campaign to create Los Angeles as a “white spot” and challenged patriarchal norms. Situating Whitaker within the emergence of the mass-circulating urban newspaper industry, Cohen will analyze Whitaker’s prolific writings and the way in which they promoted and re-defined notions of women’s selfhood in the “frontier” space of Los Angeles.
Julie Cohen is a Research Affiliate at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and a lecturer in the Department of History at Cal State Los Angeles.

Gender, Race, and Age Behind Bars: Impacts of Long-term Sentencing
2021-02-03 12:15 - 13:30 | Virtual
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The parole suitability rate for the elderly incarcerated is 10 percent BELOW the average suitability rate, even though research indicates seniors are the safest population to release.
— Jane Dorotik
Co-hosted by the Criminal Justice Program at the UCLA School of Law and the Los Angeles County Public Defender’s Office
DATE: Wednesday, February 3, 2021
TIME: 12:15 PM-1:30 PM
LOCATION: Zoom Webinar (View Livestream)
View event flyer.
Join us for a rare opportunity to hear from two formerly-incarcerated women activists on the compounded adverse impacts of long-term sentencing on the elderly incarcerated, women and transgender people, and people of color in prison and beyond. Jane Dorotik was incarcerated for almost 20 years on a wrongful conviction. She was released in April 2020 due to COVID-19 concerns, and her conviction was reversed in July 2020. Romarilyn Ralston was incarcerated for 23 years, and is now the Program Director of Project Rebound at the California State University-Fullerton. Both are organizers with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP). Dorotik and Ralston will be in dialogue with LA County Public Defender, Ricardo Garcia, and moderator Alicia Virani, Gilbert Foundation Director of the Criminal Justice Program at the UCLA School of Law.
This event is free and open to the public with registration.
This activity is approved for 1 hour of general MCLE credit. UCLA School of Law is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider.
Co-Sponsored by

The Promise Institute for Human Rights at the UCLA School of Law

Required readings for MCLE credit:
All Zoom registrants will be contacted after the event with instructions for how to receive MCLE credit.

CSW Policy Brief 2020, “Confronting the Carceral State: Reimagining Justice” (please note: this links to all 2020 Policy Briefs, but only the briefs listed below are required reading):

“Release Elderly Lifers to Reduce Mass Incarceration” by Jane Dorotik
“Long-Term Incarcerated People Need Retirement Benefits” by Romarilyn Ralston with Ginny Oshiro and Fidelia Santos-Aminy

Legislation on elderly parole: Assembly Bill No. 1448
What Prisoners Need to Know by the Social Security Administration

PANELISTS

Jane Dorotik is a Registered Nurse and healthcare professional who worked in community mental health administration for many years. She had been incarcerated for almost 20 years on a wrongful conviction that she relentlessly works to overturn. She was released in April 2020 due to COVID-19 concerns, and her conviction was reversed in July 2020. She is a member of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP), a current member of the Board of Directors of Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB), and a former board member of Justice Now. She also founded Compassionate Companions, an organization within the California Institution for Women (CIW) that provides care and companionship for terminally ill incarcerated people, and founded and published the CIW newsletter Strive High for eight years. She advocates for prison abolition as well as dignity and compassion for her fellow prisoners, especially those who are terminally ill.
Romarilyn Ralston is the Program Director of Project Rebound at the California State University-Fullerton (CSUF), which provides formerly incarcerated students with tools and opportunities to help them thrive as scholars. She is also an organizer with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP), and an alumna of California’s Women’s Policy Institute. Ralston holds a BA with honors in Gender and Feminist Studies from Pitzer College and an MA in Liberal Arts from Washington University.

Ricardo D. García currently serves as Los Angeles County’s Public Defender, the oldest and largest public defender agency in the United States. Born in Los Angeles to immigrant parents from Mexico, Mr. García is a first-generation college graduate. He received his Juris Doctorate in 1995 from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, and his Bachelor of Art in Politics in 1991 at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He began his legal career in 1995 with the San Diego Public Defender’s Office. Mr. Garcia is known as a noteworthy leader in the field of criminal defense. He has handled several high-profile cases in the San Diego County Public Defender’s Office, including the longest and most complicated death penalty trial in state history, and was awarded Trial Lawyer of the Year by the Criminal Defense Association of San Diego.
Alicia Virani (Moderator) is the Gilbert Foundation Associate Director of the Criminal Justice Program at UCLA School of Law. She was previously a Deputy Public Defender in the Orange County Public Defender’s Office where she represented indigent clients in criminal matters and parents navigating the dependency system. She currently teaches a clinical course where students represent clients in felony bail hearings as well as a course on trauma informed lawyering and restorative justice. Her work and expertise is in developing alternatives to the criminal legal system.

Gender, Alterity and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fishbowl
2020-11-13 09:00 - 10:00
Organized by the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA Law
Date: Friday, November 13
Time: 9:00 – 10:00 AM
Location: Online/Zoom
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Ratna Kapur, a Professor of International Law at Queen Mary University of London, will be discussing her book “Gender, Alterity, and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fishbowl.” The book is about the possibility of freedom in the aftermath of the critique of human rights. Kapur interrogates human rights as a project of freedom through a critical evaluation and analysis of scholarship and advocacy on LGBT rights, campaigns against violence against women, and gender equality interventions in the context of the Islamic veil bans in Europe. Kapur illustrates how human rights emerge as a governance and regulatory endeavour in relation to gender and alterity, and how more rights for women, sexual and religious minorities have not necessarily produced more freedom for these constituencies. In response to what happens when the faith in human rights as a liberal freedom project is so substantively eroded, she provocatively argues in favor of exploring non-liberal approaches to freedom and the futurity of human rights within such a pursuit.

Planning for a Healthy Home, Body, and Baby
2020-11-10 15:00 - 2020-11-17 16:30
Organized by the Iris Cantor-UCLA Women’s Health Center
Register for this event to receive Zoom link
Session 1
Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Time: 3:00 – 4:30 PM
Location: Online/Zoom
Topics:
“Planning for a Healthy Home, Body & Baby During COVID-19 and Beyond” presented by Luz Chacon, Salud y Algeria Wellness
“How to Make a Non-Toxic Cleaning Product (demonstration)” presented by Maria Bejarano, Esperanza Community Housing Corporation
“Lead Poisoning Prevention” presented by Ellie Tam, LA County Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
Session 2
Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Time: 3:00 – 4:30 PM
Location: Online/Zoom
Topics:
“Toxic-Free Face Creams” presented by Faith Rader, CA Dept. of Public Health
“Making and Choosing Toxic-Free Cosmetics (demonstration)” presented by Ellen Branch, Black Women for Wellness
“Healthy Nail Salons” presented by Dung Nguyen – CA Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative

CSW Research Affiliate Brown Bag: Women in Postwar Franco-Japanese Films
2020-10-30 12:00 - 13:00
Women in Postwar Franco-Japanese Films
A Talk by Hannah Holtzman, PhD
Date: Friday, October 30thTime: 12-1 pm
Location: Online/Zoom
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As part of a larger project on Franco-Japanese exchange in cinema, Hannah Holtzman will discuss the roles of women in the first two Franco-Japanese cinematic co-productions, Typhoon over Nagasaki (1957) and Hiroshima mon amour (1959). Hiroshima mon amour, a collaboration by Marguerite Duras and Alain Resnais, is perhaps best known for its formal innovation, but it also introduced a new configuration of gender roles, responding to both the fading tradition of Japonisme and the stereotypical race and gender roles in its immediate precursor Typhoon over Nagasaki. Typhoon over Nagasaki, a commercial if not critical success at its release, has been more or less forgotten by scholars today. This talk will compare gender in these films and analyze how both played a pivotal role in restarting Franco-Japanese cultural exchange in the postwar era.
Hannah Holtzman is a Research Affiliate at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of San Diego’s Humanities Center. Her
research in global film studies and the environmental humanities focuses on Franco-
Japanese cultural exchange and nuclear cinema. Her work has been published in French Studies and Contemporary French Civilization.

An Archival Cure: Remedy, Care, and Curation of HIV-Positive Artists’ Records with the Visual AIDS Archive Project
2020-10-29 15:00 - 17:00
Organized by the UCLA Department of Information Studies
Date: Thursday, October 29, 2020
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: Online/Zoom
Marika Cifor, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington. She is a feminist scholar of archival studies and digital studies. Her research investigates how individuals and communities marginalized by gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity, and HIV-status are represented and how they document and represent themselves and their social movements in archives and digital cultures. This multidisciplinary scholarship uncovers how archives and digital technologies, data, and cultures are shaping identities, experiences, and social movements.
AIDS activists, advocacy organizations, physicians and medical researchers, and people living with HIV/AIDS have devoted vast energy and resources to finding a medical cure for HIV/AIDS. Now well into the fourth decade of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, a medical cure remains elusive. Drawing from her book-in-progress, Viral Cultures: Activist Archives at the End of AIDS, Marika Cifor examines activist archiving as cure. Since 1994, Visual AIDS a community-based arts organization has documented, collected, preserved, and made accessible the records of artists living with HIV and estates of artists who have perished, in order to preserve and honor their legacies, and to expose and redress AIDS’ injustices. The holistic cure Visual AIDS demands is requisite to responding in kind to an epidemic that is and always has been political and cultural as much as biomedical. In this talk, Cifor analyzes the Archive Project’s curative efforts and their implications in three parts. First, examining the archives as a remedy for one kind of death, that of artistic career. Second, she turns to AIDS archiving as communal acts of critical care. Finally, she examines the archives as curing, preserving digitally to ensure long-term animation. The Archive Project and the Artist+ Registry, its digital archives counterpart, highlight the material and conceptual affordances of archiving as anti-AIDS activism. Its records and their nimble activation hold imaginative capacities for challenging persistent gendered, racialized, and classed discrimination and stigmatization faced by those living with HIV/AIDS. The archives’ work also demonstrates the conjoined limitations of art and activist archiving in meeting urgent needs and redressing harm. Despite such constraints, activist archiving can vitally engender survival.

Indigenous Insights about Policing
2020-10-27 16:00 - 18:00
Organized by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
The discussion is free and open to the public, but registration is still required.
Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Time: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Location: Virtual Event
Event Details
This virtual panel discussion features Sarah Deer (Muscogee (Creek) Nation), Dian Million (Tanana Athabascan), Stephanie Lumsden (Hupa), and Sandi Pierce (Seneca) speaking on the subject of policing in the United States. The session will be moderated by Christine Stark (Anishinaabe & Cherokee).
The event is co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, Repair, the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, and Innovations Human Trafficking Collaborative
This event is open to the public. Free tickets are available on demand. Optional sliding-scale donations are also welcome and help offset event costs.

Planning for a Feminist Future: Building back differently
2020-10-26 09:00 - 10:30
Organized by the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA Law
Date: Monday, October 26, 2020
Time: 9:00 AM
Location: Online/Zoom
Event Details
Promise Institute for Human Rights High-Level Speaker Series on Human Rights Around the World
Leymah Gbowee, 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, is a peace activist, trained social worker, and women’s rights advocate. She currently serves as Executive Director of the Women, Peace, and Security Program at the Earth Institute at Columbia University. She is the founder and current President of the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa, the founding head of the Liberia Reconciliation Initiative, and the co-founder and former Executive Director of Women Peace and Security Network Africa (WIPSEN-A).

(still) Missing in Action: The International Crime of the Slave Trade
2020-10-23 09:00 - 10:00
Organized by the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA Law
Date: Friday, October 23, 2020
Time: 9:00 AM
Location: Online/Zoom
Event Details
Please join us for the next talk in the Promise Institute for Human Rights’ High-Level Speaker Series on Women, Gender and the Law. Patricia Viseur Sellers will speak on the missing international crime of the slave trade, incorporating jurisprudence from the Yugoslavia tribunal and International Criminal Court as well as evidence of the Yazidi and the Libyan situation of Slave Markets. With a particular focus on gender, she will examine how this trajectory ties into current issues of reparations for slavery and colonialism.

Whose Streets? Building Safe Communities for All
2020-10-19 12:15 - 2020-11-02 13:30
Organized by the UCLA Law Criminal Justice Law Review
Date: Monday, October 19, 2020
Time: 12:15 – 1:30 PM
Location: Online/Zoom, occurring every Monday for 3 weeks (Oct. 19, Oct. 26, and Nov. 2)
Event Details: Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3
Free and open to the public, this symposium will invite scholars, policymakers, and activists together to discuss community-centered alternatives to traditional policing. A major focus of the symposium is to elevate new modes of public safety that better protect vulnerable populations, including women, and especially women of color. While this theme will run throughout, we are focusing a day (10/26) on policing inside the home, with a special emphasis on discussing interventions for domestic abuse that do not result in greater danger to victims or systemic and unjustified separation of families.
Speakers include:
Ronda Goldfein, Safehouse
Mariah Monsanto, BYP100 (She Safe, We Safe campaign)
Assemblymember Sydney Kamlager-Dove, California State Assembly
Farhang Heydari, Policing Project at NYU Law

2020 Awards Celebration
2020-10-16 13:00 - 15:00 | Online
This event has passed. Watch Alicia Garza’s keynote address and Q&A on CSW’s YouTube channel!

CELEBRATE 35 YEARS OF THE UCLA CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF WOMEN
Join the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) for a special virtual event on Friday, October 16th to honor the Center’s accomplishments, student award recipients, and this year’s Distinguished Leader in Feminism Award honoree!
FEATURING THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS
The Purpose of Power: Building Movements in A Time of Pandemic
by
Alicia Garza

Co-Creator, #BlackLivesMatter
Co-Founder, Supermajority
Founder, Black Futures Lab
This year, CSW has selected Alicia Garza as the recipient of the Center for the Study of Women’s 2020 Distinguished Leader in Feminism Award. She is an innovator, strategist, and organizer, and the co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter and the Black Lives Matter Global Network, an international organizing project to end state violence and oppression against Black people.
Building on the insights in her soon-to-be-released book The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart, Alicia Garza addresses some of the most pressing and important questions around movement building and brutal anti-Black state violence in a time of global pandemic. How do we build relations of care and solidarity amongst people and groups with different investments and interests? What lessons can we learn from decades of Black feminist theorizing and organizing around coalition? How do the specificities of today’s conditions, including the challenges of organizing remotely and the contemporary manifestation of state white supremacy, call for new strategies?
Event Flyer (PDF)
The keynote will be followed by a Q&A with Brittnee Meitzenheimer and Zama Dube of the Black Feminism Initiative.

EVENT DETAILS & REGISTRATION
Date: Friday, October 16th
Time: 1:00 – 3:00 PM (PST)
Location: Zoom Webinar
Registrants will receive a Zoom link a few days prior to the event. If the Zoom room is at capacity, attendees will be able to view the event on YouTube live stream.
This event has now passed. Please watch Alicia Garza’s keynote address, The Purpose of Power: Building Movements in a Time of Pandemic, followed by a Q&A with the Black Feminism Initiative at our YouTube channel.
For questions, please contact CSW at csw@csw.ucla.edu.

ABOUT THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Alicia Garza founded the Black Futures Lab to make Black communities powerful in politics. In 2018, the Black Futures Lab conducted the largest survey of Black communities in over 150 years.
Alicia believes that Black communities deserve what all communities deserve — to be powerful in every aspect of their lives. An innovator, strategist, organizer, and cheeseburger enthusiast, she is the co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter and the Black Lives Matter Global Network, an international organizing project to end state violence and oppression against Black people. The Black Lives Matter Global Network now has 40 chapters in 4 countries.
Alicia serves as the Strategy & Partnerships Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance, the nation’s premier voice for millions of domestic workers in the United States. She is also the co-founder of Supermajority, a new home for women’s activism. She shares her thoughts on the women transforming power in Marie Claire magazine every month.
Her forthcoming book, The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart, will be released on October 20, 2020, and she warns you — hashtags don’t start movements. People do.

Co-sponsored by:

UCLA International Institute

Beyond Innocence
2020-10-08 12:15 - 13:45
Talk by Professor Miriam Ticktin, the New School for Social Research
Date: Thursday, October 8, 2020
Time: 12:15 PM – 1:45 PM
Location: Zoom
Professor Ticktin’s talk on Racial Innocence will launch our year-long speakers’ series on Structural Violence. Culture, Power, and Social Change is a colloquium series in the Department of Anthropology that is aimed at an interdisciplinary audience of graduate students from a range of departments including anthropology, gender studies, sociology, ethnic studies departments, world arts and cultures/dance, ethnomusicology, urban planning and public policy, and the School of Medicine.
This talk addresses the relationship between innocence and politics; even as innocence is defined against politics, as freedom from the worldly and unworldly – my argument is that innocence is deployed in politically potent ways . Indeed, I suggest it has moved to the center of political life today. The larger book of which this is a part investigates how discourses and images of innocence get assembled and weaponized across the fields of immigration, gender politics, racial politics and environmentalism. It is a flexible concept that intimately shapes why and how we should care, for whom, and whose lives matter. I will focus on innocence as a racialized tool that is central to border regimes—I will discuss both European and American borders — producing the difference between deserving and undeserving, refugee and economic migrant, and ultimately functioning to redraw understandings of “humanity” and its constituent outsides.
Professor Miriam Ticktin has served as Director of Gender Studies, Chair of Anthropology, and Co-Director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at the New School. Her work sits at the intersection of the race and immigration studies, anthropology of medicine, and transnational and postcolonial feminist theory.
Co-Sponsored by

Center for the Study of Women
Center for European and Russian Studies

Once More, With Feeling... (New Wight Biennial 2020)
2020-10-01 09:00 - 2020-10-31 23:30 | Online
Organized by the UCLA Department of Art
Date: Tuesday, October 1, 2020
Time: 9:00 AM
Location: Online Exhibition, on display Oct 1.-Oct. 31
Gallery Website
The exhibition focuses on the contemporary resonances of the Non-Aligned Movement. We were interested in asking how Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Empire throughout the third world impact contemporary art globally by engaging with how the political project of Non-Alignment finds itself articulated in the aesthetic, formal, social, economic, and political articulations of contemporary art today. The question that arises is, why deal with this movement today, or better, why have the ideas and concepts of this movement seen such a resurgence, and with such prominence in art in the past few years?
The exhibition will “open” (the website will become live & accessible) on October 1st. The website will display the work (sculpture, video, performance, painting) of the 24 participating artists and will be complemented by programming. There will be 4 different panel discussions each centered around a different theme related to Non-Alignment. There will also be a feminist manifesto writing workshop that will meet 3 times throughout October in order to bring together a manifesto for the exhibition.

CSW Information Session for Graduate Students
2020-09-30 14:00 - 14:30
This 30-minute session will offer an overview of the Center for the Study of Women with a short video and a Q&A on the center’s funding and job opportunities for UCLA Graduate students.

CSW Open House 2020
2020-09-30 12:00 - 14:00 | Online/Zoom
Come learn about the UCLA Center for the Study of Women! Stop by our open Zoom room between 12 and 2pm to find out about our research streams, upcoming events (Alicia Garza on 10/16!), funding opportunities (for both grad students and undergrads), and job opportunities. When you visit, sign up for our mailing list to automatically enter our raffle. Winners will receive CSW swag!

Explore "The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization" and talk with author Sean Metzger
2020-05-28 12:00 - 13:00
Organized by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center
Zoom talk with author Sean Metzger and CSW Director Rachel Lee
In The Chinese Atlantic, Sean Metzger charts processes of global circulation across and beyond the Atlantic, exploring how seascapes generate new understandings of Chinese migration, financial networks and artistic production. Moving across film, painting, performance, and installation art, Metzger traces flows of money, culture, and aesthetics to reveal the ways in which routes of commerce stretching back to the Dutch Golden Age have molded and continue to influence the social reproduction of Chineseness. With a particular focus on the Caribbean, Metzger investigates the expressive culture of Chinese migrants and the communities that received these waves of people. He interrogates central issues in the study of similar case studies from South Africa and England to demonstrate how Chinese Atlantic seascapes frame globalization as we experience it today. Frequently focusing on art that interacts directly with the sites in which it is located, Metzger explores how Chinese migrant laborers and entrepreneurs did the same to shape— both physically and culturally—the new spaces in which they found themselves. In this manner, Metzger encourages us to see how artistic imagination and practice interact with migration to produce a new way of framing the global.
DATE: Thursday, May 28, 2020
TIME: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
LOCATION: Webinar (RSVP through EventBrite for webinar link)
Sean Metzger is the Vice Chair, Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Theater. He is a scholar who works at the intersections of several fields: visual culture (art, fashion, film, theater) as well as Asian American, Caribbean, Chinese, film, performance and sexuality studies. His new book is titled: The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization (Indiana University Press, 2020) the text complicates discourses of globalization and reimagines geographies through an examination of aesthetic objects and practices situated in cities from Shanghai to Cape Town.
Rachel Lee is Director of the Center for the Study of Women and Professor of Gender Studies, English, and the Institute of Society and Genetics at UCLA. She is the author of The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies (NYU, 2014) and editor of a newly published special issue of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience (May 2020) on Chemical Entanglements: Gender and Exposure, the introduction of which highlights the work of Hong Kong and Brooklyn-based glassmaker and artist, Jes Fan.
Co-sponsored by:

Department of Theater
Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media
Asia Pacific Center
Asian American Studies Department

Digital Dance Criticism: Screens as Choreographic Apparatus
2020-04-14 18:30 - 20:00
Organized by the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance
An online lecture by Kate Mattingly, University of Utah
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Time: 6:30pm-7:50pm
Location: Zoom
Prior to the introduction of websites and social media, professional dance criticism circulated through print publications: newspapers, magazines, and journals. This presentation examines the current proliferation of screens as platforms for criticism and how they-mobile devices, laptops, televisions, and computers-shift the frameworks that writers and readerships use to engage with dance. I use the concept of a choreographic apparatus to show how digital technologies generate symbiotic relationships between online contexts and contemporary performance. By focusing on three sites-thlNKingDANCE, On the Boards TV, and Amara Tabor-Smith’s House/Full of Black Women-I analyze how these platforms challenge widespread assumptions about the disappearance of dance critics.
Kate Mattingly is an Assistant Professor in the School of Dance at the University of Utah. She received her doctoral degree in Performance Studies with a Designated Emphasis in New Media from the University of California, Berkeley. She currently teaches courses in dance histories, theory, and criticism.

InterActions LA 2020
2020-04-03 09:30 - 12:00 | Virtual
Organized by the Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
InterActions LA is now a free virtual event. Registration still required.
Date: Friday, April 3, 2020
Time: 9:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Virtual Event
Event Details
This year’s event will discuss the opportunities to improve safety for women, girls, and other vulnerable populations as they travel throughout the Los Angeles region. Too often, people in these groups feel unsafe in public and this inhibits their freedom, independence and quality of life. Fear shouldn’t be the status quo for anyone. LA Metro’s recent “Understanding How Women Travel” report highlighted a litany of problems but what are the solutions? How can solutions benefit everyone?
We will explore the most pressing problems and opportunities in crime prevention through environmental design, bystander programs, and the possibility of other non-policing strategies. Safety improvements should buoy all people and not introduce fear for others with concerns around racial profiling or other biases.
This spring, InterActionsLA will pair results from recent academic work on public transit safety from LA and around the world with real-world examples and thoughts for advancing safety for everyone. Participants will have an opportunity to exchange their best ideas with each other and engage deeply on solutions to advance mobility justice for women, girls, and everyone.

The Right to Vote Then and Now: A Symposium on the 100th Anniversary of the Ratification of the Woman Suffrage Amendment
2020-03-08 13:00 - 16:00 | Royce 314
Organized by the Luskin Center for History and Policy
Date: March 8, 2020
Time: 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Location: 314 Royce Hall
Devoted to the hundredth anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment, the symposium will be held on International Women’s Day, March 8, 2020. The Luskin Center for History and Policy seeks to bring together scholars and activists, historians and political figures, in a rich conversation about the link between past and present. The event will host two panels, one on the historical legacy of the 19th Amendment with Professors Ellen Dubois, Brenda Stevenson, Katherine Marino, and Adam Winkler; and a second on the contemporary political issues related to the still unrealized dream of voting rights for all, with City Council President Nury Martinez and Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl.

Thinking Gender 2020: Sexual Violence as Structural Violence: Feminist Visions of Transformative Justice
2020-03-06 08:00 - 18:30 | Carnesale Commons, UCLA, 350 De Neve Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
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This year marks Thinking Gender’s 30th anniversary!
FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 2020
CARNESALE COMMONS, UCLA
PRE-REGISTRATION IS CLOSED
In-person registration will be available on the day of. First come, first serve. Please visit the registration table in the Palisades Lobby on the 3rd floor.
DETAILED SCHEDULE
Thinking Gender 2020 will focus on feminist, queer, trans, anti-carceral, transnational, and intersectional approaches to sexual violence.
Recent #MeToo mobilizations against high-profile predatory sexual abusers including Harvey Weinstein, R. Kelly, and Jeffrey Epstein have heightened public conversation around sexual violence. While important contributions have challenged dominant approaches to sexual violence, much of it has remained caught in legalistic, carceral, or criminal justice discourses that emphasize the punishment of individual actors to the exclusion of envisioning alternative definitions of repair and justice. Such dominant approaches center evidence and proof, and offer only the punishment of individual perpetrators as remedy, often in ways that exacerbate existing structural inequalities. Decades of scholarship and activism have demonstrated the inefficacy of such punitive models to curb sexual violence as well as the ways in which they exacerbate the policing of already marginalized communities.

KEYNOTE PANEL
Transformational Justice: Refusing Criminalization and Sexual Violence
Friday, March 6, 2020, 3:15 PM
Thinking Gender 2020: Sexual Violence as Structural Violence: Feminist Visions of Transformative Justice will feature a keynote panel of scholars and activists, headlined by Mariame Kaba. The panel will follow an opening presentation by Tongva artist, Weshoyot Alvitre.
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Keynote Panelists:
Mariame Kaba
Founder and Director, Project NIA; Researcher-in-Residence, Social Justice Institute, Barnard Center for Research on Women

Mimi Kim
Assistant Professor of Social Work, California State University, Long Beach

Emily Thuma
Assistant Professor of American Politics and Public Law, University of Washington Tacoma

Sarah Haley (Moderator)
Chair, CSW Advisory Committee; Director, UCLA Black Feminism Initiative; Professor, Gender Studies and African American Studies

Keynote Opener:
Weshoyot Alvitre
Illustrator and Comic Book Artist, Tongva (Los Angeles Basin)

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
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ACCESSIBILITY
THIS IS A FRAGRANCE-FREE EVENT. For the health and safety of all attendees, please refrain from wearing products that contain fragrances when attending CSW events. Such products include: perfumes, hair products, deodorants, detergents, etc. For more information on fragrance and accessibility, read about CSW’s Share the Air campaign.
If you require accommodations in order for this event to be accessible to you (e.g., sign language interpretation, large print materials, etc.), please contact thinkinggender@women.ucla.edu by Friday, February 14, 2020. For more information, visit our Events Accessibility Page.

PARKING AND ACCOMMODATIONS
Thinking Gender 2020 will take place at Carnesale Commons which is located in UCLA’s residential community known as the Hill.
Parking and Accommodations Information

NOTICE OF PHOTOGRAPHIC AND MEDIA RECORDING
Photography, audio, and video recording may occur at this event. By entering the event premises, you consent to interviews, photography, audio recording, video recording, and their release, publication, exhibition, or reproduction to be used for news, webcasts, promotional purposes, telecasts, advertising, inclusion on websites, or any other purpose by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women.

CO-SPONSORED BY:

Backed by Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
African American Studies Department
African Studies Center
American Indian Studies Center
American Indian Studies Program
Anthropology Department
Asian American Studies Department
Asian American Studies Center
Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health
Black Male Institute and Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families
Bruin Consent Coalition
Campus Assault Resources and Education (CARE)
Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity
Center for Health Policy Research
Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice, & Health
Center X
Chicana/o Studies Department
Chicano Studies Research Center
Community Health Sciences Department
Comparative Literature Department
Criminal Justice Program, UCLA School of Law
Disabilities Studies Program
Education Department
English Department
Fielding School of Public Health
Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History
Gender Studies Department
Healthy Campus Initiative
Humanities Division
Information Studies Department
Institute for Research on Labor & Employment
Institute of American Cultures
Institute of Transportation Studies
Institute on Inequality and Democracy
International Development and Policy Outreach
International Institute
Iris Cantor-UCLA Women’s Health Center
Labor Center
Latin American Institute
Latino Policy and Politics Initiative
Office of Residential Life
Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies
Promise Institute for Human Rights
Ralph and Goldy Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies
School of Medicine-Office of Diversity Affairs
School of Nursing
School of Theater, Film, and Television
Social Sciences Division
Social Welfare Department
Sociology Department
UC Speaks Up
UC Global Health Institute’s Center of Expertise on Women’s Health, Gender and Empowerment
Veterans Legal Clinic
Urban Planning Department
World Arts and Cultures/Dance Department

[POSTPONED] IMAGE MOVERS: Asian American Studies Center 50th Anniversary Film Festival
2020-03-06 - 2020-03-21 | Billy Wilder Theater, James Bridges Theater
This event has been postponed. Please see the event website for more details.
Organized by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center
Date: POSTPONED
Time: POSTPONED
Location: Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammar Museum and UCLA James Bridges Theater
Tickets for the event
Image Movers is a three-weekend film festival featuring powerful imagery and poignant commentary about some of the most meaningful issues facing our AAPI communities. Each program features films organized around central themes. After each screening, audiences will hear from Asian American and Pacific Islander filmmakers and actors speaking to their creative journeys, as well as from scholars, artists, and community leaders on the meaning of these themes in today’s world.

Kanner Lecture Series: Hazel Carby
2020-03-03 12:00 - 14:00 | Kaplan 193
Organized by the Department of English and Co-sponsored by the CSW Black Feminism Initiative
This lecture is part of the Kanner Lecture Series.
More details.
DATE: Tuesday, March 3, 2020
TIME: 12:00-2:00 PM
LOCATION: Royce Hall 314

Black Feminism, Care, and Reproductive Justice in Urgent Times: A Conversation with Kimberly Durdin
2020-02-10 16:00 - 18:00 | 306 Royce Hall
Followed by a discussion with Ariel Hart
This event focuses on the innovative historical and ongoing care practices and visions for justice that Black women have developed to confront institutionalized reproductive racial violence. Kimberly Durdin will be joined in discussion by UCLA doctoral student Ariel Hart. Q&A to follow.
Kimberly Durdin is a leading figure in the reproductive justice movement. A lactation consultant, childbirth educator and doula, in 2018 she and business partner Allegra Hill, opened Kindred Space LA, a birth, lactation and education space. They are co-founders of the Birthing People Foundation, a non-profit established to train birth workers of color.
Ariel Hart is a graduate student in the joint MD/Sociology doctoral program at UCLA. Her areas of expertise include medical Sociology, race and ethnicity, social movements; critical race theory, gender and sexuality, and Black Feminist Thought.
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Date: Monday, February 10, 2020
Time: 4 PM
Location: 306 Royce Hall
This is the first event in the Black Feminism Initiative Public Program Series, a series of public talks and events on subjects of pressing political and social concern.

“The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw” by Shelley Niro
2020-01-16 19:30 - 21:30 | Melnitz 1409: James Bridges Theater
Film Screening: The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw (2019)
The UCLA American Indian Studies Center will be hosting the Los Angeles premiere of award-winning visual artist and filmmaker Shelley Niro’s new feature film, The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw. A Q&A will follow with Director Shelley Niro.
Please RSVP by Thursday, January 9, 2020
Date: Thursday, January 16, 2020
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: James Bridges Theater
Co-sponsored by:

Melnitz Movies (UCLA Graduate Students Association and the ASUCLA Student Interaction Fund)
Bruin Film Society
Department of Gender Studies
American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program
Department of World Arts and Culture/Dance
Center for the Advancement of Teaching
Center for the Study of Women
Canadian Studies Program
Institute of American Cultures
Division of Social Sciences

Feminist Approaches to Understanding Global Anti-Muslim Racism
2019-12-05 17:00 - 2019-12-06 14:00 | Charles E. Young Research Library and Rolfe Hall
Featuring Nadine Naber (University of Illinois) and Nadera Shalhoub Kevorkian (Hebrew University)
Book Launch and Workshop
DATE: December 5, 2019
TIME: 5:00-8:00 PM
LOCATION: Young Research Library
Keynote Address
DATE: December 6, 2019
TIME: 12:00-2:00 PM
LOCATION: Rolfe Hall 314
Co-sponsored by:

UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies
Islamic Studies Program
Promise Institute for Human Rights

Library services to people who are incarcerated: Attempting anti-racism through LIS
2019-12-05 15:00 - 16:00 | 111 GSEIS Building, 290 Charles E. Young Drive N, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Organized by the Department of Information Studies
Date: December 5, 2019
Time: 3:00 pm
Location: 111 GSEIS Building
A talk featuring Dr. Jeanie Austin, Librarian, Jail & Reentry Services Program, San Francisco Public Library. Part of the Information Studies Colloquium.
All events are fragrance-free and open to the public.
