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 […]

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 […]

Bodyminds Reimagined: Disability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction Book Talk with Dr. Sami Schalk, Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison Date: Wednesday, October 17 Time: 2:30 - 4:00 PM Location: UCLA Powell Library, East Rotunda This event is wheelchair accessible and will have an ASL Interpreter In Bodyminds […]

Korean Adoptees, Deportation, and Statelessness A Talk by Tammy Ko Robinson, Associate Professor of Art, Hanyang University, Seoul Organized by the Department of Asian American Studies Date: October 18, 2018 Time: 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Location: Due to space limitations, location will be provided upon RSVP. RSVP: Email Grace Hong at gracehongucla@gmail.com Tammy Ko […]

Beauty Bites Beast: The Missing Conversation About Ending Violence Organized by the Department of World Arts and Culture/Dance Featuring Director Ellen Snortland Date: October 24, 2018 Time: 5:00 - 8:00 PM Location: 208 Kaufman Hall Beauty Bites Beast is a documentary film that tracks women's empowerment self-defense training in three national locations, the US, Mexico, […]

#masshysteria. Hysteria, Politics, and Performance Strategies A conference organized by the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies and the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies Date: November 1, 2018 Time: 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM Location: 306 Royce Hall RSVP: https://french.ucla.edu/event/masshysteria-hysteria-politics-and-performance-strategies-conference/ In Europe, especially in Vienna and Paris, around 1900, the hysterical girl […]

Screening and Conversation with Director Paul Cronin   Organized by Susan Slyomovics, UCLA Department of Anthropology Date: November 4, 2018 Time: 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM Location: James Bridges Theater A screening of the seven-hour-long documentary film, with discussion with director Paul Cronin.     Co-Sponsored by: Center for the Study of Women Department of […]

Guest Lecture by Jack Halberstam Professor of English, Comparative Literature and Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Columbia 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: Monday, November 5, 2018 Time: 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm Location: 10383 […]

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 […]