Center for Reproductive Science, Health and Education (CRSHE) Distinguished Speaker Series
2025-10-20 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | California Nanosystems Institute, UCLA
Attend the UCLA Center for Reproductive Science, Health and Education (CRSHE) Distinguished Speaker Series featuring Diana E. Ramos.
When: Monday, October 20, 2025 4:00 p.m. PT
Where: California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI). UCLA Campus
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Registration is required.Seating is first come, first served and is not guaranteed.
About the speaker : Dr. Diana E. Ramos, was appointed Surgeon General of California in 2022. She is avisionary public health leader dedicated to advancing the wellbeing of all communities. Dr. Ramoschampions efforts to address reproductive and maternal health outcomes, adverse childhood experiences,and mental health, shaping policies that leave a lasting impact across the state. As an alumna of UCLA’sFielding School of Public Health with more than three decades as an Obstetrician Gynecologist, Dr.Ramos has also held leadership roles at the local, state, and national levels. A recipient of the Latino SpiritAward and the Public Health Leadership Award, she is a powerful voice for health equity.

Barbra Streisand Center Annual Lecture feat. Timothy Snyder
2025-10-23 18:00 - 20:00 | California Nanosystems Institute, UCLA
Date: Thursday, October 23rd
Time: 6 pm, Reception to follow
Location: UCLA California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at 570 Westwood Plaza Los Angeles, CA 90095
Register to join virtually.
Talk
Timothy Snyder, Chair in Modern European History is giving a public lecture at UCLA CNSI on the topic, The Truth about Freedom: How Lies Oppress and How Facts Liberate. He is supported by the Temerty Endowment for Ukrainian Studies Director and is involved with Public History, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy University of Toronto. Additionally, Synder is the bestselling author of “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century” and “On Freedom”. Copies of Timothy Snyder’s book “On Freedom” will be available for purchase and signature.
Panel
The talk will be followed by a panel discussion on the topic of Global Lessons on Authoritarianism and Resistance, featuring
Ju Hui Judy Han, Associate Professor, Gender Studies, UCLA
Shannon Speed, Director, American Indian Studies Center, Special Advisor to the Chancellor on Native American and Indigenous Affairs, Professor, American Indian Studies, Anthropology and Gender Studies, UCLA
Moderated by Jessica Cattelino, Director, UCLA Barbra Streisand Center

A Place of Rage: Women and Anger on Screen
2025-10-26 - 2025-12-06 | Billy Wilder Theater, 10899 Wilshire Blvd.,, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Post-#MeToo, films and television — many by women — have redefined female anger not as pathology or threat but as, in Lorde’s words, “loaded with information and energy.” This series, inspired by the work of scholar and UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television Professor Kathleen McHugh, explores how women’s rage, long silenced, can be reclaimed through feminist filmmaking, challenging familiar tropes and reframing women’s anger as purposeful.
The series , A Place of Rage, examines anger as a site of clarity, resistance and transformation and considers how genres once hostile to female subjectivity have become platforms for feminist disruption. This collection serves as a visual conjuring of the uses of anger: when wielded with precision, on women’s own terms, our rage can move beyond catharsis to radical change.
Series programmed and notes written by UCLA Professor Kathleen McHugh and Public Programmer Beandrea July
Community partners: UCLA Center for the Study of Women | Barbra Streisand Center, Women in Media

Academic Freedom and The Crisis of the Democratic University
2025-10-29 10:00 - 17:00
Date: October 29th, 2025
Time: 10am – 5pm
Location: Royce 314
Attend the Academic Freedom and The Criss of the Democratic University program, a symposium on higher education in honor of Michael Meranze.

"Wanda": Free Screening by UCLA Film & Television Archive
2025-11-02 19:00 - 22:00 | Billy Wilder Theater, James Bridges Theater
Date: Sunday, November 2nd
Time: 7pm
Location: Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum
UCLA Film & Television Archive is hosting a free screening of Wanda along with a Q&A and book signing with Elena Gorfinkel, author of “BFI Classics: Wanda,” moderated by Archive Research and Study Center Officer Maya Montañez Smukler.
In 1970, Wanda screened at the Venice Film Festival as the sole U.S. entry winning the International Critics Prize. Actor-turned-filmmaker, Barbara Loden, directed, produced and co-starred in the production of Wanda, also being her directorial debut. The film follows Loden in a quiet and captivating portrayal of an apathetic young woman on a journey through a bleak and rural Pennsylvanian landscape. On her filmmaking approach, Loden said, “I’ve got more movies in me, but they will have to be done my way. I’m not interested in entertaining people. I only want to do things that mean something to me, that I can say about a human being on film and then communicate that feeling to others.”
In her new book, Elena Gorfinkel draws on archival sources to trace the film’s feminist legacies, and its lasting influence on contemporary filmmakers, artists and writers.—Archive Research and Study Center Officer Maya Montañez Smukler
Cosponsored by: Center for the Study of Women

Embryonic and Fetal Rights? What it Would Mean for Pregnant People and Reproductive Rights, Health, and Research
2025-11-13 10:00 - 11:00
When: November 13, 10- 11 am PST
Where: Virtual. RSVP to attend.
Join a discussion featuring:
Professor Mary Ziegler
Panelist
UC Davis School of Law
Author, Personhood: The New Civil War Over Reproduction
Heather Shumaker
Panelist
Senior Director State Abortion Policy, National Women’s Law Center
Dr. Amander Clark
Panelist
Founding Director UCLA Center for Reproductive Science, Health, and Education
Diana Kasdan
Moderator
Legal and Policy Director, UCLA Law Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy
RSVP here
Cosponsors: CSW|Streisand Center, UCLA Network for Reproductive Health & Gender Equity, the Center for Reproductive Science, Health and Education (CRSHE), the Bixby Center, and the Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy at UCLA Law.

Noura Erakat on Revisiting Zionism as a Form of Racism and Racial Discrimination
2025-11-13 17:30 - 18:30
When: Thursday, November 13 at 5:30 pm
Where: On the UCLA campus
RSVP for the address.
On November 10, 1975, the UN General Assembly passed Resolution 3379 declaring Zionism as a Form of Racism and Racial Discrimination. A coalition of states introduced the resolution at the start of the 30th session of the General Assembly as an amendment to the Decade Against Racism in the context of Third World Revolt against imperialism; Palestinian liberation was central to this agenda. This lecture will explore the historical context that led to the introduction of this resolution, its drafting history, including racial theories of Zionism that were introduced during the deliberations as well as the intense procedural maneuvers that aimed to subvert it all together. Though a hard won victory, the PLO rescinded the resolution in 1991 as a precondition for entering the Oslo Accords. This discussion will both mark the 50th year anniversary of the resolution as well as its contemporary relevance.
Professor Erakat’s talk will be followed by a panel discussion with Professor Nour Joudah (Asian American Studies) and Professor Robin D.G. Kelley (History).
Bio:
Noura Erakat is Professor of Africana Studies and Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019), which received the Palestine Book Award and the Bronze Medal for the Independent Publishers Book Award in Current Events/Foreign Affairs. In 2023, Noura co-chaired an Independent Task Force on the Application of National Security Memorandum-20 to Israel, a report documenting how U.S. arms to Israel have been used in violation of U.S. and international law and which was submitted to the White House. She is co-founding editor of Jadaliyya and an editorial board member of the Journal of Palestine Studies as well as Human Geography. She is a co-founding board member of the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival. She has served as Legal Counsel for a Congressional Subcommittee in the US House of Representatives, as Legal Advocate for the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Refugee and Residency Rights, and as National Organizer and Legal Advocate of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. Noura has also produced video documentaries, including “Gaza In Context” and “Black Palestinian Solidarity.” Noura completed a non-resident fellowship of the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School as well as a Mahmoud Darwish Visiting Professorship at Brown University. In 2022, she was selected as a Freedom Fellow by the Marguerite Casey Foundation. In 2025, the University of Ghent awarded the Amnesty International Chair in recognition of her contribution to human rights and scholarship.

Faculty Writing Retreat - November 2025
2025-11-14 10:00 - 16:00 | Hershey Salon
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Join CSW|Streisand Center for a day-long retreat where you can concentrate on your own work alongside like-minded colleagues.

Friday, November 14
10 am – 4 pm Hershey Hall Salon (Room 158)
Do you want to block out a day for writing and contemplation? The 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 tends to be cool.
We also offer a parallel virtual retreat with brief introductions and check-ins.
During lunch, there will be an optional conversation about the writing process..
If you register to attend in person and your plans change, please let us know immediately so that we may offer your spot to the long 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 Herb Alpert School of Music, the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture, the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research & Creative Activities (ORCA), UCLA Humanities, UCLA Social Sciences, UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television
Save the date for future Faculty Writing Retreats:
Registration will be available the week following the most recent retreat.
Friday December 5
Friday February 20
Friday March 6
Friday May 15

Beyond Sanctuary: UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy
2025-11-14 10:00 - 16:30
When: Friday, November 14th from 10am to 4:30pm
Where: 2355 Public Affairs Building, UCLA
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UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy presents “Beyond Sanctuary”, a series of dialogues intended to restituate the imperial vest in the global histories — and posssibilites — of decolonization and abolition.

Women's Daily Life in Exile Lecture
2025-11-17 18:00 - 20:00
Where: UCLA Bunche Hall, Rm 10383
When: Monday, November 17, 2025 / 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Pacific Time)
After being deported from their homes, Armenian women experienced vastly different fates depending on where they were sent within the Arab-speaking provinces of the Ottoman Empire. Those on the eastern deportation route faced famine and disease but largely avoided mass killings, while those sent north were confined in desert tent camps and many were massacred in 1916. This lecture, led by Dr. Anna Aleksanyan and Dr. Taner Akçam of UCLA’s Promise Armenian Institute, will explore the varied experiences of these women and the gendered dimensions of the Armenian Genocide. This event is organized by The Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA.
Join the Zoom Webinar here.

Lynn Hershman Leeson: Private I
2025-11-18 19:30 - 21:30
When: Tuesday, November 18, 2025, at 7:30 PM
Where: Hammer Museum
Pioneering conceptual artist Lynn Hershman Leeson, known for her six-decade exploration of technology, identity, and surveillance, joins Margot Norton, Chief Curator at BAMPFA, for an evening of video screenings and discussion. Leeson will reflect on her visionary works including the Roberta Breitmore series to her innovative interactive installations and her new book Private I, which examines the intersections of art, technology, and selfhood in today’s hyper-connected world.
No registration required. Seat is first come.

Surrealism & Antifascism: A Symposium
2025-12-06 14:00 - 18:00
Where: 3910 Los Feliz Boulevard
When: Dec 6th, 2pm-6pm PST
This unique gathering brings together artists, scholars, UCLA students and the public to explore the power of surrealist methods—past and present—as tools for resisting systems of domination and imagining new possibilities for being. From spiritual resistance to cultural subversion, surrealism has long offered a way to sidestep the normative, the colonial, and the fascistic in pursuit of radical freedom. Together, we will examine the contradictions and complexities within the Surrealist tradition and its entanglements with institutional power, gender, and race. This symposium is a call to those who believe that art, performance, spirituality, and speculation can resist the flattening forces of fascism and imagine other worlds.
Get tickets here! Tickets are free to UCLA students & PRS members with code UCLAstudent11 / $10 general admission

Cozy Book Swap + Books to Jails Drive
2025-12-08 - 2025-12-11
Join us for the CSW|Streisand Center Cozy Book Swap! Bring a wrapped book, add a hint note, and swap with others! Additionally, donate a popular book to LA County Jails in partnership with LA County Library as a part of our Books to Jails Drive.
Come and enjoy a free book, apple cider, fall treats and cozy vibes!
When: Monday, December 8th – Thursday, December 11th
10 am- 2pm
Where: CSW|Streisand Center Office
1500 Public Affairs
