Don Mee Choi’s Hardly War

Dodd Room 175 UCLA

Please join the UCLA Center for Korean Studies as Don Mee Choi reads from her latest collection of poetry entitled Hardly War (2016). Using visual artifacts from her father’s archive, a photographer during the Korean and Viet Nam wars, Choi combines imagery with poetry, opera, and memoir to examine the devastating impact of the unfinished […]

Dreaming in Filipino: Languages and Literatures Beyond English:

10383 Bunche Hall UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Part of The Philippines and its Elsewheres A series organized by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies Featuring: Maria Josephine Barrios-LeBlanc, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley Nenita Domingo, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA Kie Zuraw, Department of Linguistics. UCLA This interdisciplinary panel of speakers discusses what it means […]

Ula Taylor, “The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam”

Bunche 6275 UCLA Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Organized by the UC Consortium for Black Studies in California Ula Y. Taylor discusses her recently published book, The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam (UNC Press, 2017). The patriarchal structure of the Nation of Islam (NOI) promised black women the prospect of finding a provider and a protector among the organization’s […]

The Crescent Moon Symposium

Faculty Center, California Room

Organized by the UCLA Department of English Date: May 4, 2018 Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Location: California Room, UCLA Faculty Center The one-day Crescent Moon Symposium (May 4, 2018) explores the lives of philosopher Hu Shih 胡适 (1891-1962), poet Xu Zhimo 徐志摩 (1897-1931), scholar/Shakespearean Liang Shiqiu 梁实秋, writer/painter Ling Shuhua 凌淑华 (1900-1990), and […]

Kristine Gunnell, “Grantmaking for Systemic Change: Daughters of Charity, Seton Institute, and Alleviating Poverty in the Global South, 1985-2010”

Rolfe 2125

CSW Research Affiliate Brown Bag Talk A talk by Kristine Gunnell, Research Affiliate, UCLA Center for the Study of Women Committed to easing suffering wherever they find it, Daughters of Charity in the western United States founded Seton Institute for International Development in 1985. Through its fundraising and in-kind distribution programs, the institute offered targeted […]

Representing the Sex Industries

UCLA School of Law, Room 3467 UCLA

Representing the Sex Industries With Dr. Beth Ribet, Co-Director of Repair Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 Time: 4:00 - 6:00 PM Location: UCLA School of Law, Room 3467 In this lecture and dialogue, Dr. Beth Ribet, who will be introduced by Professor Claudia Peña, will address the framing and representation of people in systems of […]

Area Impossible: Sexuality and Geopolitics Symposium

Royce 314

Organized by the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature DATE: May 25, 2018 TIME: 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM LOCATION: 314 Royce Hall RSVP: http://complit.ucla.edu/event/area-impossible-sexuality-geopolitics/ Within queer studies, the geopolitical has posed a much-needed challenge to the spatial and temporal logics of the field (logics that often mire the field in the US), especially in the […]

The Musical and Its Others, Then and Now

UCLA

Song, Stage, and Screen XIII: The Musical and Its Others, Then and Now Organized by the UCLA Center for Musical Humanities Dates: May 31-June 3, 2018 Locations: Royce Hall, Schoenberg Music Building, and Kerckhoff Hall Program, Schedule, and Registration Information: https://cmh.schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/sss-conference-2018/ Keynote Speakers: Stacy Wolf, Theatre, Princeton University Shana Redmond, Musicology and African American Studies, […]

Awards and Benefit Luncheon 2018

UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

This event is now past. Photo highlights of the 2018 Awards Luncheon can be viewed HERE. Join the UCLA Center for the Study of Women for a special end of the year event to honor the Center’s accomplishments, student award recipients, and this year's Distinguished Leader in Feminism Award honorees! FEATURING THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS 40 Years in […]

“Hope” — Part of Transformation: Lectures, Conversations and Storytelling about Healing and Social Action

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

Part of the series Transformation: Lectures, Conversations, and Stories About Healing and Social Action, sponsored by Repair. Stories by Kandee Rochelle Lewis, Anam Ella Durrani, Shawna Charles Welcome and Introductions by Rachel Lee, Director, UCLA Center for the Study of Women Opening lecture by Beth Ribet Hope is the second event in the Transformation storytelling series. The series […]

Hannah Kosstrin, “Honest Bodies: Methods for Transnational Dance Analysis”

230 Kaufman Hall

Honest Bodies: Methods for Transnational Dance Analysis Book talk by Hannah Kosstrin, Ohio State University Organized by the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance Date: October 9, 2018 Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Location: 230 Kaufman Hall Anna Sokolow’s choreography circulated American modernist and communist ideologies through predominantly Jewish channels of the international […]

Fall Welcome Reception

Rolfe Courtyard

Join CSW and the UCLA Department of Gender Studies as we celebrate the start of a new academic year! Join us for an opportunity to meet and network with faculty, students, and staff, and to learn about CSW’s and Gender Studies’ upcoming projects, research, and events. Refreshments will be served. RSVP: To RSVP, please fill […]