Françoise Girard
UCLA Law School, Room 1457Sex in the time of Zika: Reproductive Rights and Women’s Health in a World in Turmoil A public lecture in honor of International Women’s Day Françoise Girard is a longtime advocate […]
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Urgent Issues Forum/Foro Urgente: The Assassination of Berta Cáceres and the Future of Indigenous and Afrodescendant Environmental and Land Rights in Honduras
Charles E. Young Research Library, Presentation RoomOn March 2, 2016, award-winning Lenca environmental and indigenous rights activist Berta Cáceres was assassinated in her home in Honduras. She had received multiple threats from military and paramilitary groups […]
Masen Davis
Royce 314The Movement of Our Time: Transgender Equality at the Crossroads A talk by the 2015-2016 Regents' Lecturer Mason Davis, Executive Director, Transgender Law Center Masen Davis has more than two decades of […]
Climate Change: a Department-Wide Conversation About the Shared Impact of Gender Inequity and Discrimination
Women in History, a group which seeks to foster discussion about the unique challenges faced by women in academia, invites you to its Spring 2016 Roundtable on April 14th from […]
How Societies and States Count
Royce 306Censuses in Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom A Discussion with the authors of Antecedents of Censuses From Medieval to Nation States: How Societies and States Count (Volume […]
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Humanities Room 135Jeanne Theoharis is the biographer of Civil Rights organizer, Rosa Parks. She will be speaking about her landmark, paradigm-shifting biography, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, which won the […]
Racializing Normative Markets: Whiteness, Masculinity, and the “Efficiency” of Networks
Haines 352A talk by Karen Ho, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. While critical scholarship has made important contributions to the understandings of markets and difference, many of these approaches have […]
Ungrid-able Ecologies: Cultivating the Arts of Attention in a 10,000 Year-Old Happening
Royce 306In "Ungrid-able Ecologies," Natasha Myers will explore what can a queer, feminist, decolonized ecology can reveal about the relationships that develop between species. Ecology is not just an object […]
Black Feminism, The Carceral State, and Abolition
Royce 314A Book Talk by Sarah Haley with responses by Mariame Kaba and Dayo Gore Drawing upon black feminist criticism and a diverse array of archival materials, Sarah Haley’s No Mercy […]
Racialized State Violence in Global Perspective
Royce 306 & 314 and Harry and Yvonne Lenart Auditorium of the Fowler MuseumRSVP! eventsrsvp.ucla.edu/RacializedViolence Conference schedule now available! Download here or view online! Questions? Email: rsv@csw.ucla.edu The conference brings together scholars who work on racialized police violence in North America with others […]
Chinyere Oparah
Charles E. Young Research Library, Presentation RoomBirth Matters: Research Justice and Black Life African American women are 3 to 4 times as likely as white women to die of childbirth related causes, our infants are twice […]
Women’s Reproductive Health and the Environment
The California Endowment 1000 North Alameda Sreet, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesAdvocacy Through Education Women's Reproductive Health and the Environment: Best Practices for Los Angeles County A free symposium that will bring together health professionals, community activists, researchers, academicians, civic and […]
