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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 […]

Lesbian and Bisexual Women’s Health in Los Angeles County: Advocacy, Communication, Policy, and Healthcare Delivery

The California Endowment 1000 North Alameda Sreet, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Organized by the Iris Cantor-UCLA Women's Health Education & Research Center and the Los Angeles County Lesbian and Bisexual Women's Health Collaborative The Lesbian and Bisexual Women's Health Collaborative, or LBWHC, was created by individuals concerned about health disparities for lesbian and bisexual women in Los Angeles County and is made up of individuals and […]

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Saidiya Hartman in Conversation

Perloff Hall DeCafe

Hosted by the UCLA Department of Gender Studies Saidiya Hartman will discuss her book, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, which explores the ways young black women created forms of intimacy and kinship indifferent to the dictates of respectability, and outside the bounds of law. They refused to labor like slaves or to accept degrading conditions of […]

LA Women: Female Voices in Audio

Moore Hall Reading Room UCLA

Organized by the Student Chapter of ARSC at UCLA. The Student Chapter of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) at UCLA welcomes current graduate students, faculty, and staff to benefit from the perspectives of four professionals from the field of music librarianship, audio archiving, and sound preservation for a panel discussion about being female […]

Aretha’s Amazing Grace: From Watts to Detroit

California Nanosystems Institute UCLA

Organized by the UCLA Department of African American Studies This symposium will celebrate the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin's ground breaking and historic Album, Amazing Grace. Topics will include: How Sweet the Sound: Blues Ministry and Black Power Soul Print: Music, Place and Albums The People's Queen: Queering Aretha's sound Speakers will include: Marcus Anthony […]

Women as Writers of Heroic Poetry in Renaissance Italy: An Epic Micro-tradition?

306 and 314 Royce Hall UCLA

Organized by the UCLA Department of Italian "Women as Writers of Heroic Poetry in Renaissance Italy: An Epic Micro-tradition?" explores all facets of heroic poetry as written by Italian Renaissance women. Moreover, this conference aims to spotlight their heroic poems and place them in an tradition that has for the most part ignored their work. We […]

Faculty Writing Retreat

Royce 306

Date: April 19, 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 […]