On 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 […]
The 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 […]
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 […]
Censuses 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 […]
Jeanne 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 […]
A 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 […]
In "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 […]
A 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 […]
RSVP! 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 […]
Birth 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 […]
Advocacy 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 […]
Christina Sharpe is Associate Professor of English at Tufts University and the author of Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subject. Her research interests are in black visual culture, black diaspora studies, […]
