Disability Awareness Week
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 […]
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Democratizing Research Access: Overcoming Exclusion from Well-Resourced University Research Libraries
Rolfe 2125Democratizing 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 […]
For those walking to the border for dear life, and for those seeking a place of kinship in resistance: A performance and conversation with Merlinda Bobis
Humanities 193 UCLAThrough 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 […]
CrossCheck Live: “Campus Speech: A Right to Speak? A Duty to Listen? An Obligation to Learn?”
Pauley Pavillion Club UCLAIn 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 […]
Kathleen Sheldon, “African Women: Early History to the 21st Century”
Bunche 6275 UCLA Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesKathleen 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 […]
Film Screening: Queens of Syria
Northwest Campus Auditoriium UCLAQueens 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 […]
Breaking the Silence on Hooking Up: A Facilitated Discussion
Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon UCLA, Los AngelesWhat 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 […]
Kathryn Dudley, “Trusting Mustangs: Feral Ontologies, Trans-Species Affects”
352 Haines HallKathryn 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 […]
QGrad 2017, Radical Imaginaries: Scholar-Activism Dismantling the Politics of Hate
Bruin Reception Room Ackerman Union, UCLAUCLA’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 […]
Film Screening and Discussion: Silent Song of the Genjer Flowers
10383 Bunche Hall UCLA, Los Angeles, CAThis 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 […]
Tiphanie Yanique, “Belonging: Immigrating into Our Own Country”
Humanities 193 UCLAA 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 […]
Ranjani Mazumdar, “Technological Networks and Obsolescence in Contemporary Bombay Cinema”
Charles E. Young Research Library, Presentation RoomA 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 […]
