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CSW Research Affiliate Brown Bag: “Polar Environmental Discourses: Film, Politics, and Oil in the Anthropocene,” Lisa Bloom

Rolfe 2125

Polar Environmental Discourses:  Film, Politics, and Oil in the Anthropocene Bring your lunch and join CSW Research Affiliates for a brown bag research presentation! RSVP ONLINE Taken from a book project titled Polar Aesthetics in the Anthropocene: Imagining Climate, Lisa Bloom brings together issues in critical climate change scholarship to examine aspects of feminist and […]

Dissident Friendships: Feminism, Imperialism, and Transnational Solidarity

Rolfe 2125

This talk focuses on the ways that feminist scholars have negotiated the complicated, conflicted, and contradictory terrain of friendship. It offers fresh perspectives on feminists' invested, reluctant, and selective uses of the nation; reflects on how the arts contribute to conversations about feminism, dissent, resistance, and solidarity; and unpacks the details of transnational dissident friendships. […]

Southeast Asian Cinemas Research Network (SEACRN): Promoting Dialogue Across Critical and Creative Practice

Darren Starr Screening Room UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television, Los Angeles, 90095

A two day symposium featuring screenings of short films and roundtable discussion. Featured filmmakers: Thi Nguyen Trinh (Hanoi Doclab, Vietnam), Anocha Suwichakornpong (Thailand), Nia Dinata (Kalyana Shira Films, Indonesia), Shireen Seno (Philippines) Featured scholars: Brian Bernards, Peter Bloom, Arnika Fuhrmann, Gaik Cheng Khoo, Mariam Lam, Philippa Lovatt, Cheng-Sim Lim, Bliss Cua Lim, Sudarat Musikawong, and […]

Chemical Entanglements: Gender and Exposure

UCLA 330 De Neve Dr., Los Angeles, CA, United States

May 4-5, 2017 UCLA FREE and OPEN to the public! REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! This symposium will convene a group of scholars, scientists and community based researchers, artists, documentarians, and policy makers to assess the gendered impacts of (primarily endocrine-disrupting) chemicals on human populations. By marshaling a variety of perspectives—laboratory, ethnographic, epidemiological, and narrative, this transdisciplinary […]

Bloodless: A VR Documentary Film by Gina Kim

Darren Starr Screening Room UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television, Los Angeles, 90095

"Bloodless" is a ten-minute VR film that deals with camp town comfort women for US army stationed in South Korea since the 1950s. The film traces the last living moments of a real-life sex worker who was brutally murdered by a US soldier at the Dongducheond Camptown in South Korea in 1992. Portraying the last […]

Afterland: Poetry of Mai Der Vang

Public Affairs 2270 UCLA

Mai Der Vang is the author of Afterland (Graywolf, 2017) which received the Walt Whitman Award winner from the Academy of American Poets. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, Virginia Quarterly Review, New Republic, and elsewhere. Her essays have been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the San […]

Forms of Power and the Power of Forms: Annual Comparative Literature Grad Student Conference

Royce 306

This year’s UCLA Comparative Literature Graduate Conference will explore the many ways in which form colludes and contends with, is created by and creates, power. From epic poetry to the English sonnet to the novel, literary forms have conspired with power to produce political identities and practices of domination. Indeed, one might argue that certain […]

CSW Awards Luncheon & Keynote Address

Sequoia Room, Faculty Center UCLA, Los Angeles

This event is now past. Photo highlights of the 2017 Awards Luncheon are available HERE.   Join the UCLA Center for the Study of Women for a special end of the year event to honor our student award recipients and the Center’s accomplishments over the past year! FEATURING A KEYNOTE ADDRESS Rise Up! Feminism in […]

$20

Reproductive Health and the Environment in Los Angeles County: Best Practices for Los Angeles County

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

Free Symposium organized by the Iris Cantor-UCLA Women's Health Center Plenary Session Environmental Policies of the New Administration that Impact Women’s Health and California’s Response Symposium Topics Addressing the Impact of Poor Air, Soil, and Water Quality on Preconception, Prenatal, and Children’s Health in Relation to: Grassroots Advocacy Applying Research into Action Policy and Legislative […]

CSW Open House

Center for the Study of Women 1500 Public Affairs

Welcome, new Bruins; and welcome back, continuing UCLA Students!  Drop by CSW during True Bruin Welcome Week Departmental Open House Day!  Come learn about our student award opportunities, student research projects, upcoming events, and other opportunities for students! Meet our staff, and find out more about what CSW offers to all members of our campus […]

Weaving Generations Together: Opening Reception

Powell Library Main and East Rotundas UCLA

Please join us at Powell Library for the opening reception to Weaving Generations Together: Evolving Creativity in the Maya of Chiapas. This exhibition explores cultural transmission and learning through children’s play weaving and apprenticeship in the Maya Highland community of Zincantán, Chiapas, Mexico. The exhibition sho ws over one hundred textiles from Zincantán drawn from […]

Disability Awareness Week

October 9-13 is Disability Awareness Week at UCLA! The week’s events include: Center for Accessible Education Open House Learn about accessibility resources available through CAE and CAPS DATE: Monday, October 9 TIME: 11 AM - 1 PM LOCATION: A255 Murphy Hall UCLA Committee on Disability Open Meeting Meet the committee and discuss your accessibility concerns […]