Date: Friday, November 3, 2023 Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Location: Royce 306 and 314. On-site space is limited. Virtual option available. RSVP Here. 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 […]
When: Thursday, November 9, 2-4 pm Where: UCLA Rolfe Courtyard Scultpure Garden RSVP Here. About Join us for a book talk featuring Professor Zeynep Korkman in discussion Professor Purnima Mankekar. In Gendered Fortunes (Duke University Press), Zeynep K. Korkman examines Turkey’s commercial fortunetelling cafés where secular Muslim women and LGBTIQ individuals navigate the precarities of twenty-first-century life. Criminalized […]
Where: Royce Hall 308 When: November 13-14, 2023 Join the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies' 3rd Annual Graduate Student Conference: "Speculative Futurities, Past and Present." Register Here View the program (PDF). The graduate students of the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles are inviting submissions […]
When: Wednesday, November 15, 2023 10:00 am - 12:00 pm (Pacific Time) Where: Virtual RSVP for the event. Virtual book talk by Professor Elyse Semerdjian, Robert Aram and Marianne Kaloosdian and Stephen and Marian Mugar Chair of Armenian Genocide Studies at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. Foremost among the images […]
Canary Knowledge: Chronic Fatigue, Chemical Sensitivities and the Limits of Medicine Presented by the CSW|Streisand Center. RSVP to the symposium. View the program and schedule. View the accessibility copies. 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 […]
Where: Bunche 6275 (Lunch included) When: Thursday, December 7, 12 - 1:30 pm View event flyer (PDF). 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 […]
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 […]
Where: James Bridges Theater When: December 7, 7 pm Register here. 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 […]
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 […]
When: Friday, January 19, 2024 10 am – 4 pm Where: Hershey Hall Salon (Room 158) (In-person Waitlist Only. Virtual Spots Available) RSVP Here. 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 […]
Where: UCLA Perloff Hall, DeCafe 365 Portola Plaza Room 1302 Los Angeles, CA 90095 When: Wednesday, January 24, 2024 · 4 - 6 pm PST RSVP Here 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, […]
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 […]
