Center for the Study of Women

Oral Histories of Environmental Illness (OHEI) Symposium
2023-11-17 - 2023-11-18 | Hershey Hall Grand Salon Rm. 158, 612 Charles E Young Dr East, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Canary Knowledge: Chronic Fatigue, Chemical Sensitivities and the Limits of Medicine
Presented by the CSW|Streisand Center.

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When: Friday, November 17 – Saturday, November 18, 2023
Where: Hershey Hall Salon (158), 612 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA 90095 (Parking structure 2 is closest)
Hybrid event. The event will be in-person and live-streamed on CSW|Streisand Center’s YouTube channel @UCLACSW.

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Watch the Saturday, November 18 livestream.

With the surge in numbers of “unrecovered” from the Co-V2 pandemic, the public’s interest has turned to disability and caregiver activism, ongoing remissions protocols, and patient-led research networks established by those living with chronic fatigue, multiple chemical sensitivity, tick-borne illnesses, and autoimmune conditions (e.g. HIV, lupus, Crohn’s). This conference bridges the immediate before and after of Co-V2’s effects on this growing population of the chronically ill, and often medically abandoned, to ask how they—like the proverbial canaries in the coal mine—have defined and laid the groundwork for disability justice, art, and activism.
This event is part of a three-year multi-campus research grant at the University of California focusing on “Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice: Mapping Inequity and Renewing the Social Project.”
Fragrance-free:
Please avoid wearing scented products such as perfumes/colognes, scented lotions, clothing with strong detergent scents, etc. while attending this event as they can trigger serious health issues for those with fragrance allergies. We aim to maintain a welcoming and accessible environment for all faculty, staff, students, and visitors. Thank you for your consideration for all members of our community. For more information.
Event Details:

Panel details to come. RSVP to stay up to date on symposium information.
Masking is strongly encouraged.
The symposium panels are being filmed. By entering the space, you will be giving us permission to film you. If you object to being filmed, please let us know and we can seat you in a section not visible on the camera.
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Co-sponsors:

Disability Studies
Division of Social Sciences
Vice Chancellor for Research & Creative Activities Roger Wakimoto
Division of Humanities
UC Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives

Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America Book Talk
2023-12-07 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Where: Bunche 6275 (Lunch included)
When: Thursday, December 7, 12 – 1:30 pm
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Margot Canaday, Princeton University Dodge Professor of History, is an award-winning historian who studies gender and sexuality in modern America. She is the author of The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Century America (Princeton, 2009) and co-editor of Intimate States: Gender, Sexuality, and Governance in Modern U.S. History (Chicago, 2021). Her book, Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America (Princeton, 2023), explores the ways that the workplace has mattered for queer people over time, both as a site of vulnerability and exploitation but sometimes also of deep meaning.
Co-sponsored by the UCLA History of Gender & Sexuality Working Group, History Department, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Center for the Study of Women, Luskin Center for History and Policy, Gender Studies Department, LGBTQ Studies, Labor Studies, and the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute

Film Screening of "Maria Schneider, 1983" and Q & A with Elisabeth Subrin
2023-12-07 18:00 - 19:00
When: Thursday, December 7, 2023
Where: TBD
Researching the life and career of Maria Schneider (The Passenger, Last Tango in Paris) for a larger project, filmmaker Elisabeth Subrin discovered a brief interview the actress gave in 1983 for the French TV show Cinéma Cinéma. It’s a conversation alternately defiant and mournful, with Schneider reflecting with real critical awareness upon the gendered power structures of the film industry as well as the violations she experienced living and working within it — including, in one painful section, on the set of Last Tango in Paris.
Elisabeth Subrin is a New York based award-winning director and artist. Her critically acclaimed films and video installations have been featured in numerous festivals and exhibitions internationally, including solo shows at The Museum of Modern Art, NY, Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Vienna Viennale. Subrin’s 2016 award-winning feature narrative, A Woman, A Part, had its world premiere in competition at The Rotterdam International Film Festival and traveled to festivals throughout Europe, US and Asia. It was released theatrically in 2017. Her 2022 award-winning short film, Maria Schneider, 1983, starring Manal Issa, Aissa Maiga and Isabel Sandoval, had its world premiere at the 2022 Cannes International Film Festival in Director’s Fortnight and North American premiere at The 60th New York Film Festival in 2022 and was awarded a 2023 César (French Oscars). A commissioned multi-channel video, sound and sculptural version, The Listening Takes, was on view at David Winton Bell Gallery through June 4th, 2023. She is currently developing her feature-length bio-pic about Maria Schneider.
Event questions? Contact Kristy Guevara-Flanagan (kgflanagan@tft.ucla.edu).

Film Screening: Food and Country Screening and Q&A
2023-12-07 19:00
Where: James Bridges Theater
When: December 7, 7 pm
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Attend a film screening, Food and Country. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director, Laura Gabbert, and Chef Minh Phan.
About the film: Documentarian Laura Gabbert (City of Gold) and chef/writer/editor Ruth Reichl chronicle the plight of the American food industry in the wake of greedy conglomerates and the COVID-19 pandemic, talking to independent farmers, ranchers, and restaurant owners alike.
Director Laura Gabbert and Los Angeles Chef Minh Phan (Phenakite) will join us for a post-screening discussion moderated by UCLA Ph.D. candidate Elizabeth Schiffler (Performance Studies & Food Studies).
This event is generously sponsored by: The Rothman Family Institute for Food Studies, Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Eatwell, the Center for Performance Studies, and the Center for the Study of Women|Barbra Streisand Center.

Talk and Reception: Professor Salamishah Tillet
2024-01-10 16:00 - 17:00
When: January 10, 4 pm
Where: UCLA Royce Hall 314
Professor Salamishah Tillet Pulitzer Prize-winning contributing critic-at-large at The New York Times:
“‘Rather Than Her Biography’: Listening to Nina Simone’s Diary”
“If we can draw out the emphasis on the female vocalist’s art, rather than her biographies” critic Hortense Spillers once wrote. “Then we gather from the singer that power and control maintain an ontological edge. Whatever luck or misfortune the Player has dealt her, she is, in the moment of performance, the primary subject of her own invention” Considering Spillers’s provocative claim, Professor Salamishah Tillet will look at Civil Rights musician Nina Simone’s diary (and her friendship with the writer Lorraine Hansberry) and discuss the tensions and possibilities that arise as she writes about Simone’s inner life, while also exploring Simone’s ongoing intellectual influence on American culture.
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About
Salamishah Tillet is the Henry Rutgers Professor of Africana Studies and Creative Writing at Rutgers University, Newark, and the 2022 Pulitzer Prize-winning contributing critic-at-large at The New York Times. She is the director of Express Newark, a center for socially engaged art and design art at Rutgers, and the author of Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination and, most recently, In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece.
Cosponsors
This event is co-sponsored by Center for the Study of Women|Streisand Center, the divisions of Humanities, Social Sciences, The Herb Alpert School of Music, The Center for Musical Humanities, and The UCLA Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health.

Faculty Writing Retreat
2024-01-19 10:00 - 16:00 | Hershey Hall Grand Salon Rm. 158, 612 Charles E Young Dr East, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
When: Friday, January 19, 2024
10 am – 4 pm
Where: Hershey Hall Salon (Room 158)
(In-person Waitlist Only. Virtual Spots Available)

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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 world at bay for you. Breakfast and lunch will be provided in the beautiful setting of Hershey Hall Salon
The writing retreat provides a peaceful place to write as well as meals; please bring your computer and any other materials you may need to work. If you have an extension cord, please bring it, as power outlets are limited. Also bring some extra clothes for layers, as the space sometimes tend to be cool.
We will have a conversation about the writing process over lunch. This conversation is entirely optional.
On-site space is limited. Virtual option available.
RSVP is required.
If you register to attend in person and your plans change, please let us know right away so that we may offer your spot to the waitlist. Due to the popularity of the retreat, no-shows cannot be granted an in-person spot at the following writing retreat.
If you are no longer able to attend, please e-mail csw@csw.ucla.edu to let us know.

Welcome Reception for 2024 UCLA Activists-in-Residence
2024-01-24 16:00 - 18:00 | Perloff Hall DeCafe
Where: UCLA Perloff Hall, DeCafe 365 Portola Plaza Room 1302 Los Angeles, CA 90095
When: Wednesday, January 24, 2024 · 4 – 6 pm PST
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With a shared commitment to “turn the university inside out” and invite artists, community organizers, and movement leaders to undertake power-shifting scholarship and pedagogy focused on social change, the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy, the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, cityLAB-UCLA, and the UCLA Center for the Study of Women|Barbra Streisand Center are pleased to announce Ron Collins II, Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia, Shengxiao “Sole” Yu, Robert Clarke, and Narges Zagub as the 2024 UCLA Activists-in-Residence.
Learn more about each of the UCLA Activists-in-Residence here and please join us in warmly welcoming our activists to the UCLA community at this year’s welcome reception.
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Parking information: The nearest parking lot is Parking Structure 5 (340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90095). Pay by space parking is available on level 6 of Parking Structure 5. Use Parking Structure 3 as an alternate, located on the corner of Sunset Blvd. and Hilgard Avenue. Pay by space parking is located on level 1 of Parking Structure 3.
Only cash and credit cards may be used at campus payment stations/kiosks. Pay stations accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover, and American Express for your convenience. Pay stations only accept $1, $5, and $10 bills and do not give change in the form of cash or credit. Park in an unmarked space and place permit on your car dashboard so it is visible.

Reconsidering Music, Technology, and Gender: A Symposium
2024-01-27 08:00 - 17:00 | Schoenberg Music Building, 445 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, 90095, United States
Sponsored by UCLA Center for Musical Humanities and Center for the Study of Women|Barbara Streisand Center.
When: January 27, 2024
Where: Lani Hall, Schoenberg Music Building, UCLA
Conference Description
The ways sounding technologies contribute to the articulation of musical lives and social selves has been a growing area of scholarly interest over the past several decades. Considerations of music technologies’ and tools’ material affordances, attendant social practices, cultural codings, and political ecologies have been taken up by scholars in musicology, gender studies, media studies, science and technology studies, and beyond. Reconsidering Music, Technology, and Gender is a one-day symposium that seeks to revisit the many ways in which musicians and listeners utilize technology (through various plug-ins and softwares, the internet, hardwares, instruments, and platforms) to create, challenge, subvert, and affirm. This symposium calls for renewed and new perspectives on the intersections of music, technology, and gender, enlivened attention to contemporary contexts and practices of music making, and un- or under-told counter-histories of celebrations and governances of gender in musical life. We welcome proposals that engage the three terms, but need not otherwise be limited vis-à-vis genre, geography, sound, social milieu, or disciplinary methodology. Scholars and practitioners are invited to present in a variety of formats, including but not limited to: conference-style papers, panels, musical performances, and production demonstrations.
Call for Papers: Submission Guidelines
Please submit an abstract (no more than 250 words) of your proposal using the google form linked below.
Presentations will each be 15 minutes. Panels/roundtables should incorporate 3-4 presenters and last 45
minutes. The deadline for submissions is November 1, 2023. Participants will be notified by November 15,
2023. If you have questions, please email Catherine Provenzano or Lily Shababi.
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Contact
Catherine Provenzano (cprovenzano@schoolofmusic.ucla.edu)
Lily Shababi (lilyshababi@ucla.edu)
This symposium is presented by the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music in collaboration with the Center for the Musical Humanities and co-organizers Catherine Provenzano and Lily Shababi.

Unsettling Landscape: Experimental Films by Southeast Asian Women Filmmakers
2024-01-27 19:30 - 21:00 | Billy Wilder Theater, 10899 Wilshire Blvd.,, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
When: January 27, 2024, 7:30 pm
Where: Billy Wilder Theater
In-person: Q&A with filmmakers and UCLA Associate Professor Jasmine Nadua Trice.
Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis. The box office opens one hour before the event.
Showcasing a collection of recent experimental works by Southeast Asian women filmmakers, Unsettling Landscape focuses on short films and videos that critically engage with questions of land, landscape and the myriad forms of mediation that have been used to capture their image. Like painting and the diorama, the camera has been a tool of colonial authority, historical narrative, and scientific knowledge production, laying the groundwork for unfettered development projects and extractive capitalism. Capturing an image of land through mediation can be an act of complicity, binding it and rendering it legible as scenery, property and territory. Reflexively engaging with such practices of mediation, these works suggest that the moving image also allows space for refusal. Unearthing the deep time of tectonic shifts and Animist belief systems, unraveling statist development narratives and unlearning colonial ways of knowing, these films unsettle the complex relations between lens and land, offering new possibilities for spatial transformation on screen.
Series programmed by CSWAC member and Associate Professor Jasmine Nadua Trice, UCLA Cinema and Media Studies.
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Read Jasmine Trice’s blog post “Unsettling Landscape: Exploring Southeast Asian Women Filmmakers’ Visionary Perspectives.“

Film Screening: Fenomenal, Rompeforma 1989-1996
2024-01-29 14:30 - 17:00
Presented by the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Where: Kaufman 200, 120 Westwood Plaza
When: Monday, January 29, 2024, 2:30-5 pm
Free and open to the public.
Join the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance for a film screening of Fenomenal, Rompeforma 1989-1996, followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers Merián Soto and Viveca Vázquez.
Fenomenal, Rompeforma 1989-1996 is a documentary about Rompeforma:Marató n de Baile, Performance & Visuales, the experimental Latinx dance andperformance festival that took place in Puerto Rico from 1989-1996.
Fenomenal, Rompeforma 1989-1996 features dozens of performances and commentary by many current leaders of the field, and some who have sadly passed. The film intends to inspire younger generations of Latinx artists and cultural activists by providing evidence of the rich creative and artistic contributions of Latinx to the American avant-garde.
Fenomenal preserves, and makes available, the repertoire of a generation ofLatinx experimental dance, performance, and curation often overlooked and/or forgotten by historians, scholars, and practitioners in the field, to confront the elusive amnesia and appropriation by mainstream players, with respect to the(unexpected) work of Latinx experimental dance and performance artists.
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Anne LeBaron: Portrait Concert of a Trailblazing Composer
2024-02-07 19:00 - 20:30
Where: Lani Hall – Schoenberg Music Building 445 Charles E. Young Drive East Los Angeles, 90095
When: Wednesday, February 7, 7-8:30 pm PST
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Internationally acclaimed composer and harpist Anne LeBaron marks her illustrious tenure at CalArts with a retrospective concert at UCLA’s Lani Hall, on Wednesday, February 7, at 7 PM. The program, encapsulating four decades of pioneering music, will be followed by an enlightening talkback and reception.
The evening unfolds around LeBaron’s lifelong passions, weaving a tapestry of music with drama, environmental advocacy, sounds and stories from around the world, the recognition of women’s achievements, and the spirit of artistic collaboration. This much-anticipated event will feature world premieres alongside rarely performed works.
“The Heroine with a Thousand Faces,” a prodigious new multi-year endeavor aiming to create one thousand musical portraits, launches with five original solos honoring women whose momentous contributions have reshaped our history. The prestigious Davise Fund facilitates these tributes by commissioning musical homages to figures such as Australian Saint Mary Helen Mackillop, Nobel Laureate Leymah Gbowee, and the indomitable Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Extraordinary saxophonist Jan Berry Baker will present world premieres of five such portraits, composed expressly for her.
Showcasing an array of LeBaron’s vocal compositions from her operatic oeuvre, the program includes chamber pieces that echo her deep commitment to environmental causes. Additionally, her improvisational prowess on the harp will be on display as she guides an ensemble through a graphic score, drawing inspiration from Marcel Duchamp’s concept of ‘the infrathin.’
This event is co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Musicology, the Department of Music, the Center for Musical Humanities, the Center for the Study of Women/Streisand Center, and the UCLA Music Library Davise Fund.

Survivors + Allies Report Launch: Webinar
2024-02-09 12:00 - 13:00
Where: Virtual (Zoom)
When: Friday, February 9, 2024. 12 pm – 1 pm PST
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Survivors and Allies (S+A) is a community and student-led collective organization that advocates for and with survivors of Sexual Violence in the UC System. S+A would like to welcome you to join us February 9th, 2024 at 12 pm PST to view our webinar discussing the release of our report “From Surviving to Healing: Results and Demands from a Study with Survivors of Sexual Violence on University of California Campuses.”
After you register, we will follow up with links to the zoom webinar, youtube live (overflow), and the release of our report.
Co-sponsors
This event is co-sponsored by the Diversity, Disparities, and Difference (D3) Initiative at UCLA Luskin.

Book Talk: Feng-Mei Heberer
2024-02-14 14:00 - 16:00
Where: Darren Star Theater (Melnitz 1422A)
When: Wednesday, February 14, 2 pm-3:50 pm
Join CSW|Streisand Center and the School of Theater, Film and Television for a book talk with author Feng-Mei Heberer, discussing, “Undoing Documentation as Racialized State Surveillance: the Moving Image Undocument.”
This talk examines visual documentation and the documentary form in their intimate connection with racialized state surveillance and border control in the United States. It discusses the ways that visual documents such as the photograph have been wielded on behalf of U.S. immigration policy to contain border crossings since the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882), and highlights the underexamined linkage between official documentation and historical processes of Asian racialization.
Against this backdrop, Herberer turns to the work of Miko Revereza, a Philippine-born artist and self-ascribed “undocumented-documentary filmmaker”, exploring how Revereza advances an aesthetic of the fugitive and ephemeral undocument that both attunes us to documentation’s violent history and mobilizes moving image practices beyond the demand to capture and report.

Racializing Reproduction: Maternal Mortality, Asian American Women and COVID-19
2024-02-26 13:00 - 15:00 | Rolfe 2125
Where: UCLA Rolfe Hall room 2125
When: February 26, 2024, Monday, 1:00 – 3:00 pm
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Join us for a Visiting Scholar public lecture by Lalaie Ameeriar (Associate Professor, Anthropology, York University) in collaboration with UCLA Institute of American Cultures – Asian American Studies Center. This talk is part of a larger ethnographic study of medical racism that centers the experiences of pregnant Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 has only further exacerbated pre-existing health disparities, which has led to increasing maternal and infant death. Lalaie Ameeriar is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at York University. During the 2023–24 academic year, she was a fellow in the Asian American Studies Center with the Institute of American Cultures at UCLA.

Pitch Workshop with LARB Founding Editor Tom Lutz
2024-02-28 12:00 - 13:30
When: Wednesday Feb 28th, 2024, 12-1:30pm, lunch will be served. Office Hours 1:30-2:30pm to follow with chance for individual consultation.
Deadline to apply: February 22nd, 2024
In conjunction with The Editor-in-Residence (Public Scholarship) panel, we have a unique opportunity that gives members of the UCLA community to take part in a Pitch Workshop and get direct project feedback on projects from an editor.
Application Eligibility: The program is available for ladder faculty, adjuncts and lecturers, postdocs, and advanced graduate students (ATC). 2023-24 applicants must be a member of the Center for the Study of Women | Streisand Center, Divisions of Humanities & Social Sciences, Herb Alpert School of Music, or the Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health, the co-sponsoring units.
To apply and further information: https://humanities.ucla.edu/events/editor-in-residence/apply
Any questions, email Barbara Van Nostrand: bvannost@humnet.ucla.edu

Panel: How to Translate Your Work for a General Audience
2024-02-28 15:00 - 16:00
When: Wednesday, February 28, 3 pm
Where: Lani Hall (Schoenberg Music Building, UCLA)
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Please join us for a panel on public scholarship, specifically on how to write for non-academic audiences. The 2023-24 UCLA Editor in Residence, Public Scholarship Fellow, Tom Lutz (Los Angeles Review of Books, Founding Editor) will be joined by Josh Kun (USC Vice Provost for the Arts), Leigh-Michil George and Summer Kim Lee (UCLA) to talk about their experiences as editors and authors.
Cosponsors
This event is co-sponsored by Center for the Study of Women|Streisand Center, the divisions of Humanities and Social Sciences, The Herb Alpert School of Music, The Center for Musical Humanities, and The UCLA Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health.
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UCLA Center for Reproductive Science, Health and Education (CRSHE) Distinguished Speaker Series
2024-02-29 15:00 - 17:00
Where: California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), UCLA Campus
When: Thursday, February 29, 2024 3:00 p.m. Reception to follow.
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UCLA Center for Reproductive Science, Health and Education (CRSHE) Distinguished Speaker Series featuring L.A. County Supervisor Holly Mitchell.
Join us for a conversation with L.A. County Supervisor Holly Mitchell and CRSHE Director Amander Clark about Black maternal health and care in Los Angeles. We are delighted to announce that Elaine Batchlor, M.D., M.P.H., will be providing the opening remarks. Dr. Batchlor serves as the CEO of MLK Community Healthcare and has devoted her career to reducing health disparities and expanding health care quality and access for the most vulnerable.
Registration is required. Seating is first come first served and is not guaranteed.
About the event: The UCLA Center for Reproductive Science, Health and Education (CRSHE) is delighted to host L.A. County Supervisor Holly Mitchell as the inaugural distinguished speaker to discuss her work supporting healthy families and communities. As a county supervisor for the 2nd District of Los Angeles, Supervisor Mitchell champions care and support for women, girls and expecting mothers, working to ensure that their reproductive health needs are met through expanding doula care, protecting Black lives during childbirth, supporting measures for paid family leave and expanding access to abortion rights and reproductive care. Supervisor Mitchell’s work is centered in reproductive equity and justice, key topics that the Center is keen to highlight given our vision for a future in which reproductive policies are based on rigorous science, and access to this care is more equitable. Please join us to learn from Supervisor Mitchell about her work in supporting the lives of children and families in Los Angeles County and the state of California, and what she envisages for the future of reproductive health and care in our communities.

Thinking Gender 2024: “Dystopian Realities, Feminist Utopias”
2024-03-01 08:30 - 18:00
When: Friday, March 1, 2024 (In Person)
Where: James West Alumni Center, The Collins Conference Room, 325 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Join us for the 34th Annual Thinking Gender Graduate Student Research Conference “Dystopian Realities, Feminist Utopias.” Thinking Gender 2024’s conference theme considers what it means to live in the cataclysmic wake of racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and neoliberalism. At the same time, the theme celebrates how feminist, queer, and BIPOC scholarship, activism, and art enact utopias by imagining alternatives to hegemonic structures.
The theme seeks to explore how dystopianism serves as an apt metaphor to explore and critique social and political issues related to gender, race, class, and sexuality and how utopianism is an ethical mandate to imagine a better present and future.
Our in-person program on Friday, March 1, 2024, will be open to the public. Guests who have not pre-registered may be admitted if space permits.

Cosponsors
African American Studies
Anthropology
Asian American Studies Center
Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health
Chicana/o and Central American Studies
Comparative Literature
Disability Studies
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Gender Studies
Graduate Division
Humanities Division
Institute for Research on Labor & Employment
Institute of American Cultures
International Institute
Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, David Geffen School of Medicine
LGBTQ Campus Resource Center
Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies
Theater, Film, & Television
UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy
Social Welfare

Department of English Presents: One Million Experiments Film Screening & Discussion
2024-03-07 16:00 - 17:00
When: Thursday, March 7 at 4:00 pm
Where:
Royce Hall 314
10745 Dickson Ct.
Los Angeles, CA 90095
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Join us for a screening of the short documentary One Million Experiments, followed by a conversation with Damon A. Williams, Daniel Kisslinger, and Los Angeles-based organizers. One Million Experiments is a multimodal project that explores how we define and create safety in the world without the use of prisons or police. The point of One Million Experiments is not to find permanent solutions to ever-changing problems, but to gather more ideas, tools, and skills so that we don’t have to start from scratch every time. Learn more about the event here.
This event is co-sponsored by UCLA’s Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, the UCLA Law School’s Criminal Justice Program, and the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy.

The Manicurist's Daughter: Memoir Reading with Susan Lieu
2024-04-04 17:00 - 19:00
Where: Math Sciences, Rm 5200
When: April 4, 2024, 5:00 PM – 6:15 PM (Pacific Time)
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Please join us in welcoming writer and performance artist Susan Lieu, who will read from her new book, The Manicurist’s Daughter, an emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who searches for answers after her mother dies during plastic surgery. The Manicurist’s Daughter is much more than a memoir about grief, trauma, and body image. It is a story of fierce determination, strength in shared culture, and finding your place in the world.
Susan Lieu is a Vietnamese-American author, playwright, and performer who tells stories that refuse to be forgotten. A daughter of nail salon workers, she took her autobiographical solo theatre show 140 LBS: How Beauty Killed My Mother on a 10-city national tour with sold out premieres and accolades from L.A. Times, NPR, and American Theatre. Eight months pregnant, she premiered her sequel OVER 140 LBS as the headliner for ACT Theatre’s SoloFest. The Manicurist’s Daughter is her first book.

Faculty Writing Retreat
2024-04-05 10:00 - 16:00 | Hershey Hall Grand Salon Rm. 158, 612 Charles E Young Dr East, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
When: Friday, April 5, 2024
10 am – 4 pm
Where: Hershey Hall Salon (Room 158)
Post Retreat Social: All virtual and in-person attendees are invited to a social time after the retreat, an informal and pay for yourself happy hour. All attendees are welcome to join us from 4:30-6 pm at Plateia.

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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 world at bay for you. Breakfast and lunch will be provided in the beautiful setting of Hershey Hall Salon
The writing retreat provides a peaceful place to write as well as meals; please bring your computer and any other materials you may need to work. If you have an extension cord, please bring it, as power outlets are limited. Also bring some extra clothes for layers, as the space sometimes tend to be cool.
We will have a conversation about the writing process over lunch. This conversation is entirely optional.
On-site space is limited. Virtual option available.
If you register to attend in person and your plans change, please let us know right away so that we may offer your spot to the waitlist. Due to the popularity of the retreat, no-shows cannot be granted an in-person spot at the following writing retreat.
If you are no longer able to attend, please e-mail csw@csw.ucla.edu to let us know.

The Methuen Drama Handbook of Gender and Theatre Book Launch
2024-04-11 16:00 - 17:30 | Center for the Study of Women, 1500 Public Affairs
When: April 11, 2024 4-5:30 pm
Where: Center for the Study of Women|Barbra Streisand Center
Located at 1500 Public Affairs, across from Jimmy’s Coffee House.
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Celebrate the publication of The Methuen Drama Handbook of Gender and Theatre with co-editors Sean Metzger and Roberta Mock and several contributors to this 550-page volume of new scholarship. The confluence of gender and theatre has long created intense debate about representation, identification, desire, embodiment, and lived experience. As this handbook demonstrates—with case studies from Roman antiquity to early modern English, Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish theatres to recent North American, African, Asian, Caribbean and European productions—the matter of gender has consistently taken centre stage.
Cosponsored by:
The UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television and the Center for the Study of Women|Barbra Streisand Center.

Workshop: How to Pitch and Write for Non-Academic Outlets
2024-04-19 08:00 - 17:00
Editor-in-Residence: Public Scholarship
When: Monday, May 6, 2024
Workshop 10 am-12 pm
Where: Royce Hall, Room 314
Open to all campus members.
Submit a pitch for review or for an individual consultation. Deadline: April 29.
RSVP Here for Attendance at the Workshop.
In this workshop-taught by The Los Angeles Review of Books Editor-in-Chief, Medaya Ocher-you can receive individualized feedback on your writing pitch, or, learn to write your first pitch.
The UCLA Humanities Editor-in-Residence series, the brainchild of Professor Nina Eidsheim working closely with Barbara Van Nostrand, is designed to offer an opportunity for graduate students and faculty to gain familiarity and practical insights into the publishing process, writ large. The program has expanded to include Public Scholarship in addition to the Academic Press. The invited distinguished fellow will give a presentation/ panel open to the UCLA community before individual consultations with faculty and students from the divisions of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Center for the Study of Women | Streisand Center, the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, the UCLA Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health.
The UCLA Humanities Editor-in-Residence series is created to facilitate long-term relationships between UCLA and editors in the academic press arena and the general public, thus setting graduate students and faculty up for early publication successes. The UCLA Humanities-in-Residence recognizes that, to quote OUP editor Norman Hirschy, “authors and presses alike share a common goal and purpose: publish new scholarship well and with as broad of distribution as possible.”

UCLA Law Menstrual Equity in the Carceral System
2024-04-19 17:00 - 18:00 | UCLA Law School, 385 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA 90095
When: Friday, April 19th, 5:00-6:00 PM; Reception to follow 6:00-6:30 PM
Where: UCLA School of Law, Room 1347, 385 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA 90095 Room 1347
Register here.
Register for the April 19th UCLA Law Menstrual Equity in the Carceral System, with Asm. Isaac G. Bryan, Professor Jody Heymann, and Ilka Rosales. Join the in-person conversation about menstrual equity in the carceral system with Assembly member Bryan, Professor Jody Heymann, and Ilka Rosales. We will be discussing the history of reproductive health access in California prisons and jails, recent legislative advocacy seeking to expand menstrual product access, and the public health implications of menstrual health access.
Co-sponsors
This event will be moderated by UCLA Criminal Justice Program’s Alicia Virani, and cosponsored by the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health, UCLA Criminal Justice Program, UCLA Center for the Study of Women Streisand Center, Preserve Abortion Access California Taskforce, What We Deserve, and UCLA Fielding Reproductive Health Interest Group.
Contact Winnie Xu, winnieexu@ucla.edu for questions with registration.

Spring 2024 Black Health Seminar Series: Building Bridges, Connecting Community
2024-04-24 12:00 - 13:30
Date: Wednesday, April 24
Panel Discussion: 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Networking: 1:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Location: UCLA Health Equity Hub CHS 71-242B
Lunch will be served.
The Collaborative Research on African American Wellness & Longevity (C.R.A.A.W.L.) Lab, in collaboration with the FSPH Office of Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion, is thrilled to invite you to the second event of our Spring 2024 Black Health Seminar Series:

“Building Bridges, Connecting Communities: Creative Approaches to Public Health Communication in Black Communities.”
This dynamic event promises to explore innovative approaches in public health, health risk communications, research translation, and authentic engagement with Black communities. Our interdisciplinary panel discussion will tackle practical and ethical challenges while highlighting the benefits of thinking outside the box to improve health outcomes and foster community empowerment.

Panelists:
Monica Ponder, PhD, MS, MSPH, Assistant Professor, Howard University Communication, Culture & Media Studies
Jaih Craddock, PhD, ACSW, Founder & Lead Researcher, Callea LLC, Research Marketing & Design + Black Girls Mental Health Collective
Kia Skrine Jeffers, PhD, RN, PHN, Assistant Professor, UCLA School of Nursing
Sonya Brooks, MS, UCLA Urban Schooling PhD Student + Community Health Sciences MPH Student

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Please RSVP for lunch and a great conversation by visiting https://tinyurl.com/BHSSSpring2024

We look forward to welcoming you to this enriching dialogue on public health communication in Black communities.

Walking Away from the Headscarf: Analyzing the Online Platform, "You Will Not Walk Alone"
2024-04-29 16:00 - 17:00
When: Monday, April 29, 2024, 4:00 pm
Where: Webinar
View the event recording.
Semiha Topal will discuss the changing dynamics between the Islamist and secularist regimes of power in Turkey within the last decade. Since 2018, an online platform with the name “You Will Not Walk Alone,” has been publishing anonymous letters from Turkish Muslims, the majority of whom are young women socialized into wearing the headscarf during the AKP era. By questioning what these young women are walking away from and what they are walking towards with their desire to remove their hijab, this virtual lecture offers a rethinking of the current role of the headscarf as a maker and/or marker of Islamic piety and political subjectivity.
The event is part of the MESA Global Academy Initiative.
Semiha Topal, recieved her Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Arizona State University in 2012, with her dissertation on “Building a Pious Self in Secular Settings: Muslim Women in Modern Turkey.” She holds an M.A. in Gender Studies and Religion from SOAS, University of London in the UK. Before her current role as the Program Manager of the Tuohy Center for Interreligious Understanding at John Carroll University in Cleveland, OH, Dr. Topal worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Colgate University in Hamilton, NY, and at William & Mary in Williamsburg, VA, teaching courses on gender, secularism, and Islam, in Turkey and the Middle East.
Organized by:
Center for Near Eastern Studies
Cosponsored by:
Department of Gender Studies, UCLA Center for the Study of Women|Barbra Streisand Center

STARRY FIELD: A Memoir of Lost History
2024-05-02 17:00 - 18:30
This is event has been cancelled and will be rescheduled.
When: Thursday, May 2, 2024 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Where: Rolfe 2125
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Join us in a conversation with journalist Margaret Juhae Lee as she discusses her poignant memoir,Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History. In Starry Field, Lee sets out on a search for her family’s history lost to the darkness of Korea’s colonial decades, and contends with the shockwaves of violence that followed them over four generations and across continents.
Combining investigative journalism, oral history, and archival research, Margaret reveals the truth about the grandfather she never knew. What she found is that Lee Chul Ha, her grandfather who left her grandmother and two young sons in 1936, was not a source of shame; he was a student revolutionary imprisoned in 1929for protesting the Japanese government’s colonization of Korea. He was a hero—and eventually honored as aPatriot of South Korea almost 60 years after his death. But reclaiming her grandfather’s legacy, in the end, isn’twhat Margaret finds the most valuable. It is through the series of three long-form interviews with her grandmother that Margaret finally finds a sense of recognition she’s been missing her entire life. A story of healing old wounds and the reputation of an extraordinary young man, Starry Field bridges the tales of two women, generations and oceans apart, who share the desire to build family in someplace called home.

Postponed: Workshop: How to Pitch and Write for Non-academic Outlets
2024-05-06
This event will be postponed to fall 2024.

Members of the UCLA community are invited to take part in a Pitch Workshop. In the Pitch Workshop The Los Angeles Review of Books Editor-in-Chief, Medaya Ocher, will offer general guidance as well as direct feedback on pitches. You can participate in two different ways: (1) Apply with a pitch for the possibility to be selected to receive feedback as part of the workshop and with the possibility to sign up for short follow up “office hours,” or, (2) RSVP to sit in on the workshop without a pitch.
When: Monday, May 6
Workshop: 10-12 noon
Lunch: 1-2pm
Office hours: 2-4pm
Application Eligibility: The program is available for UCLA ladder faculty, adjuncts and lecturers, postdocs, and graduate students.
To apply and further information: https://humanities.ucla.edu/events/editor-in-residence/apply
Deadline to apply: Wednesday May 1, 2024
Any questions, email Barbara Van Nostrand: bvannost@humnet.ucla.edu
Co-sponsors:
We thank the co-sponsors: the Center for the Study of Women | Streisand Center, Divisions of Humanities & Social Sciences, Herb Alpert School of Music, or the Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health.

Virtual Symposium on Questing Excellence in Academia
2024-05-09 09:00 - 20:30
When: Thursday, May 9, 2024
9:00-11:30 AM (PST)
12:00-2:30 PM (EST)
6:00-8:30 PM (CET)
We invite you to attend the first event of the Questing Excellence in Academia Virtual Symposium.
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Opening Remarks
Safiya U. Noble, Professor of Gender Studies, African American Studies, and Information Studies, Interim Director of UCLA DataX Initiative, Director of Center on Race and Digital Justice, Co-Director of Minderoo Initiative on Tech & Power at Center for Critical Internet and Inquiry, University of California, Los Angeles
A Conversation with Co-Authors of Questing Excellence in Academia: A Tale of Two Universities
Moderator: Kim Fortun, Professor of Anthropology, Director of EcoGovLab & PECE Labs, University of California, Irvine
Knut H. Sørensen, Professor Emeritus of Science and Technology Studies,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
Sharon Traweek, Assoc. Prof., Gender Studies, History, & Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Scholars Engaging with Questing Excellence in Academia
Mike Fortun, Professor of Anthropology, Director of PECE Labs, University of California, Irvine
Maria do Mar Pereira, Associate Professor of Sociology,
Co-Director of the Study of Women and Gender, University of Warwick, UK
Martin Oliver, Professor of Education & Technology, University College London
Questing Excellence in Academia Virtual Symposium Organizing Committee
Nashra Mahmood, UCLA, Kyriaki Papageorgiou, Knut H. Sørensen, NTNU, Nadine Tanio, UC Irvine/UCLA, and Sharon Traweek, UCLA
Co-sponsored by
UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry
UCLA Data X
UCLA Disability Studies Inclusion Labs
UCLA Gender Studies Department
UCLA History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
UCLA Barbra Streisand Center for the Study of Women
UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies

Postponed: C2i2 2024 Spring Symposium
2024-05-10 08:00 - 17:30 | UCLA Faculty Club, 480 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
This event is postponed.
Date: Friday, May 10, 2024
Time: 8:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. PT
Venue: UCLA Faculty Club, Morrison Room, UCLA Campus
Program and schedule.
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The C2i2 2024 Spring Symposium will delve into the critical issues surrounding the internet’s evolution over the past two decades, its implications on society, and the challenges we face in ensuring equity, autonomy, and social justice in the digital age.
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Kate Starbird, Associate Professor in Human Centered Design & Engineering, Director of the Emerging Capacities of Mass Participation (emCOMP) Laboratory, Co-Founder of the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public.
About the Organizer:
The Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2) is a critical internet studies community committed to reimagining technology, championing social justice, and strengthening human rights through research, culture, and public policy. C2i2 initiatives include the Minderoo Initiative on Technology and Power, the Critical Internet Studies Program, Digital Civil Rights, and the Data, Power, and Racial Justice Initiative.
