Sexual Violence and Hookup Culture

Fowler Museum UCLA

  This consciousness raising event includes a film screening of the Netflix documentary Liberated and a panel discussion with subject matter experts and filmmakers. The film examines disturbing trends related to sexuality and gender during Florida's annual spring break celebration. The panel discussion will discuss the film's relevancy to rape culture on college campuses, drawing […]

Nicole George, “Women, Peace, and Security through a Vernacular Frame: Global/local frictions in Solomon Islands and Bougainville”

Rolfe 2125

Organized by the UCLA Department of Asian American Studies Since the early 2000s, United Nations Security Council Resolutions on Women Peace and Security, and particularly UNSCR 1325, have become a key focus of policy making and gender advocacy for those aiming to promote women’s roles in conflict resolution and conflict transition in the western Pacific […]

Maria Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, “Indian Given: Racial Geographies Across Mexico and the United States”

Charles E Young Research Library Conference Room

Indian Given: Racial Geographies Across Mexico and the United States A Book Talk by Maria Josefina Saldaña-Portillo María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU and Visiting Professor of English at UC Berkeley. She is the author of The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development (Duke University […]

A Dialogue on the Challenges of Minoritized Academic Fields at this Time

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: Neferti Tadiar, Professor and Chair of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Barnard College Allan Punzalan Isaac, Chair of American Studies and Associate Professor of American Studies and English, Rutgers University Respondent: Steven Nelson, Director, UCLA Center for […]

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, […]