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 […]
Democratizing Research Access: Overcoming Exclusion from Well-Resourced University Research Libraries CSW Research Affiliate Brown Bag Wednesday, October 11, 2-3:30 p.m., Rolfe 2125 RSVP Here: https://uclacsw.submittable.com/submit/93276/free-registration-democratizing-research-access Stay afterwards for the CSW/Gender Studies Fall Reception in the Rolfe Courtyard at 4pm! Reception Details: https://csw.ucla.edu/event/fall-welcome-reception/ For a growing number of scholars, gaining access to adequate library resources--both […]
Through performance and conversation with Distinguished Professor Sherene Razack, award-winning poet, novelist and dramatist Merlinda Bobis reflects on Philippine indigenous values of kinship and the intertwined journey of writer-and-characters in her novels Locust Girl. A Lovesong (2016 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction) and Fish-Hair Woman (2014 Philippine National Book Award), and in her new poetry […]
In recent years, both the left and the right have raised concerns about free speech, censorship, and academic freedom on college campuses. And media outlets—from the Atlantic to the New York Times to the Chronicle of Higher Education—have weighed in, offering a range of views on whether academic institutions are failing their core mission to […]
Kathleen Sheldon will discuss her recently published book, African Women: Early History to the 21st Century, a comprehensive study of this expansive story from before the time of records to the present day. Her book provides a rich background on descent systems and the roles of women in matrilineal and patrilineal systems. She profiles elite […]
Queens of Syria tells the story of sixty women from Syria, all forced into exile in Jordan, who came together in Autumn 2013 to create and perform their own version of the Trojan Women, Euripides's tragedy about the plight of women in war. What followed was an extraordinary moment of cross-cultural contact across millennia, in […]
What are the risks and rewards of hooking up? Who hooks up, and when and why? How does hookup culture shape attitudes towards sex and desire? How ubiquitous is hookup culture on campus--and how does it shape the lives of UCLA students? CSW invites students, faculty, and staff to explore these kinds of questions […]
Kathryn Dudley's research focuses on embodied knowledge and social trauma under regimes of labor that are marginalized by transformations in global capitalism. Her books The End of the Line: Lost Jobs, New Lives in Postindustrial America and Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in America’s Heartland are community studies, respectively, of deindustrialization and the demise of […]
UCLA’s QGrad is the oldest, interdisciplinary queer research conference in the United States. In celebration of the 20th anniversary of LGBTQ Studies at UCLA, the 2017 QGrad Conference will focus on how LGBTQ Studies and trans and queer art and activism have transformed the world in the last 20 years. How have undocumented, Black and […]
This filmed stage play highlights the perspectives of women activists of Gerwani (Indonesian Women’s Movement) who were political prisoners from 1965, suffered sexual violence, and were stigmatized for decades as immoral women in Indonesia. During that time hundreds of thousands of members of the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) or those considered close to the […]
A reading by Caribbean feminist and author Tiphanie Yanique. Yanique will read from her novel Land of Love and Drowning which deals with U.S. imperialism through the lives of three generations of women on St. Thomas. Land of Love and Drowning won the 2014 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Award from the Center for Fiction, the Phillis […]
A talk by Ranjani Mazumdar Professor, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Dehli, India Organized by the UCLA Center for India and South Asia This paper looks at the role of media and communication technologies in the sensorial imagination of urban spaces in contemporary Bombay cinema. If surveillance practices and their resultant […]
