Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead | Book Talk and Signing with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
2026-05-12 14:30 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | James West Alumni Center, 325 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
When: Tuesday, May 12th at 2:30pm
Where: Founder’s Room, James West Alumni Center
Join Leanne Betasamosake Simpson for a book talk and signing for her newest work, Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead. Leanne
Betasamosake Simpson is a renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg musician, writer, and academic. She is the author of eight books, including As We Have Always Done (winner of the NAISA subsequent book prize) and the novel Noopiming which was short listed for the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Dublin Literary Prize. Leanne’s new work, Theory of Water is a national best seller and won the Writer’s Trust Hilary Weston Prize for non-fiction. Leanne has lectured and taught extensively at universities across Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Europe and has over twenty years experience with Indigenous land based education.

Memory, Madness, Messianism: Thinking with My Father, the Messiah
2026-05-21 17:00 | Rolfe Hall 2125
Date: May 21st
Time: 5 P.M.
Location: 2125 Rolfe Hall (UCLA)
Featured Speaker: Gil Hochberg, Ransford Professor of Hebrew, Comparative Literature, and Middle East Studies at Columbia University, discussing her new memoir, My Father, the Messiah.
UCLA Panel:

Hannah Jakobsen (Comparative Literature)
Rachel Lee (English/Gender Studies/Institute of Society & Genetics)
Michael Rothberg (English/Comparative Literature)

Presented by: The Working Group in Memory Studies and the Abolition Medicine & Disability Justice (AM&DJ) Project.
Co-sponsored by: UCLA Center for the Study of Women/Barbra Streisand Center; UCLA Departments of Gender Studies, Comparative Literature, and English; UCLA Division of Humanities; and the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies.
Parking: Pay-by-space available in Lot Five (Level Six) and Lot Three.

"Legacy": Free Screening by UCLA Film & Television Archive
2026-06-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Billy Wilder Theater, 10899 Wilshire Blvd.,, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
When: Sunday, June 28th at 7:00pm
Where: Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum
Join UCLA Film & Television Archive for a free screening of “Legacy”!
Directed by Karen Arthur, a first-time filmmaker, and independently produced, “Legacy” confounds 1970s Hollywood’s expectations with the introduction of a new kind of cinematic woman. Bissie (played by Joan Hotchkis) is a woman unraveling under the pressures of a vapid and materialistic society. She stuns audiences with her honesty that is confrontational, yet heartfelt, and her vulnerability.
