Black Feminism and the Practice of Care

Sequoia Room, Faculty Center UCLA, Los Angeles

A one-day symposium on black women's care, wellness, and healing presented by the UC Consortium for Black Studies in California. This event explores the relationship between individual practices of care and care as an investment in communities (particularly those haunted by precarity and disposability), and reimagines care (and harm and depletion) as emerging not just from late […]

#masshysteria. Hysteria, Race, and Masculinity

10383 Bunche Hall UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Guest lecture by Sander L. Gilman, Emory University This guest lecture is part of the UCLA event series #masshysteria. Hysteria, Politics, and Performance Strategies organized by the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies. Date: Friday, November 16, 2018 Time: 2:00 - 3:00 PM Location: UCLA Bunche Hall 10383 Free admission. RSVP Here. Sander L. Gilman has extensively […]

Faculty Writing Retreat

Young Research Library, Conference Room UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

DATE: Friday, November 30, 2018 TIME: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM LOCATION: Charles E. Young Research Library Main Conference Room RSVP: http://humanities.ucla.edu/events/writing-retreats/ Do you want to block out a day for writing and contemplation? The quarterly Faculty Writing Retreat is your solution. Join us for a day-long retreat where you can concentrate on your own […]

Until and Unless, Film Screening and Discussion with Dr. Soma Roy, Sintu Bagui and Nitai Giri

208 Kaufman Hall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNXjLvouD2A This event will entail the screening of Until and Unless, a short documentary film addressing the queer and trans rights movement in India. Set in West Bengal a year before the historic decision to repeal India's anti-sodomy law Penal Code 377, "Until and Unless", follows the story of four individuals and the impact of […]

Raquel Medina, “Gendering Alzheimer’s Disease: Mothers, Daughters, and Sisters”

Rolfe 2125

A talk by Raquel Medina, Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Director of CinemAGEnder International Research Network, Aston University Organized by the UCLA Department of Gender Studies Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 Time: 3:00 - 5:00 PM Location: 2125 Rolfe Hall This presentation will provide a comparative and cross-cultural analysis of cinematic representations of Alzheimer’s disease […]

Faculty Writing Retreat

Royce 306

Date: January 18, 2019 Time: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Location: Royce 306 RSVP: http://humanities.ucla.edu/events/writing-retreats/ Do you want to block out a day for writing and contemplation? The quarterly Faculty Writing Retreat is your solution. Join us for a day-long retreat where you can concentrate on your own work alongside like-minded colleagues—we will hold the […]

Lara K. Schubert, “Workshopping Postsecular Feminist Subjectivity: An Alternative Inspired by Cambodian Women”

Rolfe 2125

CSW Research Affiliate Brown Bag DATE: Friday, January 18 TIME: 12-1:30 PM LOCATION: Rolfe 2125 Participants are welcome to bring a snack or lunch. Cambodian women religious provide insights into rethinking subjectivity.  These women experience empowerment while they subscribe to the restrictive rules of their communities, including gender-specific stipulations. In Schubert’s research in Cambodia, her […]

17th Annual Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies

Royce 314

The Annual Colloquia in Armenian Studies are a forum for graduate and undergraduate students from various disciplines whose research bears on Armenian Studies to present scholarly papers in the humanities and social sciences, within disciplines as wide-ranging as Anthropology, Archaeology, Art history, Comparative Literature, Gender Studies, History, and Political Science.

Alternative Narratives in Israeli Art: Gender, Identity and Belonging

Royce 314

Image: New Victims by Zoya Cherkassky Organized by the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies The tremendous diversity of Israeli society, comprised of Jews from around the world, Palestinian Arabs and Druze (among others) with differing national ties, religious beliefs and cultural mores, leads to a complex nexus of overlapping and often conflicting affiliations […]

Thinking Gender 2019: Feminists Confronting the Carceral State

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2019 UCLA LUSKIN CONFERENCE CENTER REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT IS NOW CLOSED. CONFERENCE OVERVIEW DETAILED SCHEDULE Thinking Gender 2019 will focus on gendered regimes of incarceration, and feminist, queer, abolitionist, and intersectional interventions. The US justice system is a site of widespread gendered and race-based violence.  The U.S. currently incarcerates nearly a […]

Pallabi Chakravorty, “This Is How We Dance Now”

108 Kaufman Hall

A talk by Pallabi Chakravorty, Professor at Swarthmore College Organized by the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance Date: Monday, February 25, 2019 Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Location: Kaufman Hall 108 Registration Pallabi Chakravorty is a leading scholar of South Asian performance and has recently published her second monograph, This Is How We […]

Workshop: Navigating Gender in Academia

Royce 314

Organized by the UCLA Career Center Panel discussion and scenario practice to help graduate students learn how to navigate gender-based issues in academia, including unwanted, inappropriate behavior from faculty, staff, and peers; exclusionary behavior and practices; and gender-specific concerns like breast-feeding. Date: Friday, March 8, 2019 Time: 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Location: Royce 314 […]