BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Center for the Study of Women - ECPv6.15.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Center for the Study of Women X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://csw.ucla.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Center for the Study of Women REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20150308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20151101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170223T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170223T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T112813 CREATED:20160624T170528Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170321T213937Z UID:3613-1487865600-1487872800@csw.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Sharra Vostral\, "Testing Tampons: Toxic Shock Syndrome\, Feminist Advocates\, and Absorbency Standards" DESCRIPTION:Part of CSW’s Feminism + the Senses Lecture Series\nRSVP ONLINE: HTTP://WWW.CSW.UCLA.EDU/VOSTRAL\nDuring the 1980s in the aftermath of Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSS)\, the Centers for Disease Control recommended that women use the least absorbent tampons possible\, yet manufacturers did not label boxes with reliable information.  This talk examines the establishment of the Tampon Task Force\, the contested “syngina” synthetic vagina lab apparatus to test tampon absorbency\, and the regulation of  female-specific tampon technologies.   The legacy of these efforts is the standardization of absorbency ratings as well as product labeling\, and evidence of the importance of feminist health activists’ involvement within policy negotiations. \nSharra Vostral is an Associate Professor of History in the College of Liberal Arts at Purdue University\, where she is affiliated with both Women’s\, Gender & Sexuality Studies\, and American Studies. Her research centers upon the history of technology\, specifically gender\, and histories of medical devices and health. Her book\, Under Wraps: A History of Menstrual Hygiene Technology examines the social and technological history of sanitary napkins and tampons\, and the effects of technology upon women’s experiences of menstruation. Her current research explores the 1980 health crisis of Toxic Shock Syndrome and its relationship to tampon technologies. \nShe received her Ph.D. in History at Washington University in St. Louis. She completed her M.A. in American Studies at St. Louis University\, and earned honors in Comparative Religion at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. Before coming to Purdue\, she was an Associate Professor in Gender & Women’s Studies and History at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. \n  \nSupported by the Estrin Family Lecture Series Fund\n\nCO-SPONSORS:\nThe Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health\nThe Institute for Society and Genetics\nUCLA Department of History\nUCLA Center for Social Medicine and the Humanities URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/sharra-vostral/ LOCATION:Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon\, UCLA\, Los Angeles CATEGORIES:CSW originated ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://csw.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Under-Wraps-Tampon.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170209T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170210T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T112813 CREATED:20160623T192220Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221026T191506Z UID:3584-1486638000-1486751400@csw.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Thinking Gender 2017: "Imagining Reparations" DESCRIPTION:Thinking Gender\, Imagining Reparations\n27th Annual Thinking Gender Graduate Student Research Conference\nFebruary 9-10\, 2017\nUCLA Faculty Center\n\nFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! \nREGISTRATION INFORMATION\n \n\nFeaturing:\n“For the Texas Bama Femme: A Black Fem(me)inist Reading of Beyonce’s ‘Sorry’”\n12:00 PM\, February 9\nCalifornia Room\nPlenary address by  Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley \nProfessor of African and African Diaspora Studies\, University of Texas at Austin \nRespondent: Shana Redmond\, UCLA \n\n“Re-writing the World”\n10:45 AM\, February 10\nCalifornia Room\nPlenary workshop with Nalo Hopkinson \nProfessor of Creative Writing\, UC Riverside \nAward-winning author of Brown Girl in the Ring \n\nFULL CONFERENCE PROGRAM AVAILABLE HERE\nThis year’s conference theme\, Imagining Reparations\, engages contemporary social\, scholarly\, and literary movements that push to reimagine and retheorize what freedom\, justice\, health\, and care can look like. Historically\, reparations have taken financial form with governments recognizing victims of perceived injustice by awarding them money. Such practices have depended on and have defined the law and dominant ideas of justice within states and empires. By contrast\, marginalized groups today are reframing reparations as capable of addressing historical and ongoing abuses\, evident in law itself and manifest in biological\, environmental\, educational\, technological\, institutionalized\, political\, and diplomatic violence. The daring to imagine new forms of reparative justice emerges from raced\, gendered\, and sexualized subjectivities\, which inform movements that devastate the binary between theory and practice in their struggle to be whole. A broad and intersectional investment in reparations challenges the assigning of rights and privileges in the past\, and it is an important tool in recasting the structures that impact our daily lives. \nThinking Gender 2017\, Imagining Reparations\, takes a cue from movements that conceive of violence and reparative justice intersectionally with consequences that shape and are shaped by gender\, sexuality\, race\, class\, ability\, etc. We invite presentations of work from across disciplines that embodies this intersectional ethos and\, in particular\, envision reparations through the lens of gender and sexuality. Conference sessions will include ample time for discussion of work\, emphasizing dialogue discussion\, writing as important modes of conference participation\, and exploring their potential as feminist\, decolonial tools for learning and action. Imagining Reparations aims to create cohesion among a broad range of disciplinary engagements\, theoretical stances\, and practical applications by providing space for thinking together about the role of the academy in theorizing tools for collective liberation from gendered and racialized violence. \nThank you to our Event Co-Sponsors:\nDivision of Social Sciences \nOffice of Equity\, Diversity\, and Inclusion \nDivision of Humanities \nCritical Race Studies Program \nDepartment of African American Studies \nDisability Studies Program \nInstitute of American Cultures \nLatin American Institute Program on Caribbean Studies \nDepartment of English \nDepartment of World Arts and Cultures/Dance \nDepartment of Comparative Literature \nRalph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies \nLGBT Resource Center \n  URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/thinking-gender-2/ LOCATION:UCLA Faculty Center\, Los Angeles\, CA CATEGORIES:CSW originated ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://csw.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/TG-Event-Feature-Image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170130T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170130T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T112813 CREATED:20170105T193256Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170105T193256Z UID:4680-1485777600-1485784800@csw.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Native Healing and Justice from California to Hawai'i: A Public Dialogue DESCRIPTION:Featured speakers:\nKatherine Irwin\, Professor\, Department of Sociology\, University of Hawai’i at Manoa\nWayde Lee\, Director\, Kahua Ola Hou\nKaren Umemoto\, Professor\, Department of Urban and Regional Planning\, University of Hawai’i at Manoa \nwith an introduction by Randall Akee (Assistant Professor\, Department of Public Policy and American Indian Studies\, UCLA) and a response by Jessica Schwartz (Assistant Professor\, Department of Musicology\, UCLA) \nThis event will feature a discussion of Katherine Irwin and Karen Umemoto’s new book\, Jacked Up and Unjust: Pacific Islander Teens Confront Violent Legacies (University of California Press\, 2016). Along with Wayde Lee\, a Hawaiian practitioner of restorative justice practices\, Irwin and Umemoto will explore schooling and poverty\, gender socialization and trauma in K-12\, and community responsibility and state policing in Hawai’i and elsewhere. \n  URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/native-healing-justice-california-hawaii-public-dialogue/ LOCATION:5391 Public Affairs\, UCLA\, Los Angeles\, CA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170126T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170126T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T112813 CREATED:20170123T210143Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170123T210143Z UID:4797-1485446400-1485453600@csw.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Insurgency at the Crossroads: A Book Talk by Aisha Finch DESCRIPTION:Professor Aisha Finch\, discuss her new prize-winning book\, RETHINKING SLAVE REBELLION IN CUBA\, with Lisa Brock\, George Lipsitz and Ula Taylor—three incredibly dynamic speakers and brilliant historians who have spent much of their lives unearthing and making sense of social movements. \nIn Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba: La Escalera and the Insurgencies of 1841-1844\, Aisha Finch traces the emergence of a dynamic resistance movement of slaves and free people of color in nineteenth-century Cuba. Drawing from the largely unexplored testimonies in the Cuban National Archive\, this book focuses attention on the hundreds of enslaved people who forged a radical\, alternative vision of freedom in Cuba’s plantation countryside. Demonstrating that black slave women and non-elite slaves were critical to shaping and organizing this movement\, Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba offers new ways to think about slave mobilizations\, black political struggles\, and histories of rebellion. \nLisa Brock is the founding director of the Praxis Center at Kalamazoo College and scholar of Black internationalism and editor of and contributor to the groundbreaking book\, Between Race and Empire: African-Americans and Cubans Before the Cuban Revolution. \nGeorge Lipsitz teaches Black Studies and Sociology at UC Santa Barbara and author of a dozen books on race\, social movements\, urban culture\, and inequality\, including A Rainbow at Midnight\, Footsteps in the Dark\, The Possessive Investment in Whiteness\, A Life in the Struggle\, Time Passages\, and How Racism Takes Place.  He is the chairman of the board of directors of the African American Policy Forum and a member of the board of directors of the National Fair Housing Alliance. \nUla Taylor teaches at UC Berkeley in African American Studies\, has produced groundbreaking scholarship on the history of Black women\, Black feminist praxis\, and nationalism.  Her books include the highly acclaimed The Veiled Garvey: The Life and Times of Amy Jacques Garvey; (with J. Tarika Lewis and Mario Van Pebbles) Panther: A Pictorial History of the Black Panthers and the Story Behind the Film; and her forthcoming\, Making a New Woman: Women and the Nation of Islam\, 1930-1975.\nCo-sponsored by: The Departments of African American Studies and Gender Studies URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/insurgency-crossroads-book-talk-aisha-finch/ LOCATION:Anderson School Collins A201\, UCLA\, Los Angeles END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161130T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161130T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T112813 CREATED:20161123T204156Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161123T204351Z UID:4520-1480525200-1480532400@csw.ucla.edu SUMMARY:RAVE Teach-In: Resisting Violence Through Education DESCRIPTION:Hate won. Now what? Come to the first-ever Teaching Rave organized by a group of UCLA faculty\, who are committed to fighting the hate and violence of a Trump regime through a collaborative counter-movement between students\, faculty\, and staff on campus. \nFEATURING A KEYNOTE PRESENTATION BY CHERRIE MORAGA! \n  \nProgram:\nPanel presentation: Professor Sarah Haley (Gender Studies) and Professor Cheryl Harris (Law School)\nKeynote presentation: Cherrie Moraga\, Artist in Residence\, Stanford University\nOpen discussion with students facilitated by Professor Alicia Gaspar de Alba\n \nMAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD\n\nWednesday\, November 30\, 2016\n5pm-7pm\n100 Moore Hall URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/rave-teach-resisting-violence-education/ LOCATION:100 Moore Hall\, UCLA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://csw.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/rave-e1479933772124.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161130T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161130T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T112813 CREATED:20161104T212913Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161104T213248Z UID:4370-1480505400-1480510800@csw.ucla.edu SUMMARY:CSW Research Affiliate Brown Bag: Gisèle Maynard-Tucker\, "Women's Power\, Sexuality\, and Aging: A Multicultural View" DESCRIPTION:  \nBring your lunch and join CSW’s Research Affiliates for a brown bag research presentation! \nWomen’s Power\, Sexuality\, and Aging: A Multicultural View\nby Gisèle Maynard-Tucker\nIn her research on rural Peru and urban Los Angeles\, Gisèle Maynard-Tucker assesses the impact of the environment\, culture\, economics\, and gender inequalities on the treatment of women as they age. Based on literary data\, observations and other research\, it seems that women acquire more respect in ethnic societies with age\, while in Los Angeles aging becomes a curse because of the cult of youthfulness. \nGisèle Maynard-Tucker is a medical and applied anthropologist affiliated with the Center for the Study of Women (CSW) at UCLA since 1989. She holds a Ph. D. in anthropology from UCLA (1988) and has worked as an international consultant since the 1990s for development agencies such as WHO\, USAID\, World Bank\, European Union\, POPTECH\, Development Associates\, Academy for Educational Development and many others. She has conducted research and evaluation of health programs regarding family planning\, reproductive health\, maternal and child survival and HIV/AIDS prevention in Africa\, India\, South America\, Asia\, and the Caribbean. Her recent book examines women’s health in developing countries and is titled “Rural Women’s Sexuality\, Reproductive Health and Illiteracy: A Critical Perspective on Development (Lexington Books\, 2015). \nPlease RSVP online. URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/womens-power-sexuality-aging-multicultural-view/ LOCATION:1221 D Bunche Hall\, UCLA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161129T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161129T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T112813 CREATED:20160624T005213Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170808T174740Z UID:3609-1480435200-1480442400@csw.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Delicious: A History of Monosodium Glutamate and the Fifth Taste Sensation\, Umami DESCRIPTION:Part of Dishing: Food\, Feminism\, and the Way We Eat. Video now available on YouTube!\n \nA talk by Sarah Tracy\, Adjunct Assistant Professor at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics\n \nRSVP online! \nIn this talk\, Sarah Tracy will discuss the material and immaterial dimensions of pleasure\, pain\, guilt\, and regret around eating processed and prepared foods. She does so through the case study of self-identified MSG sensitivity – as archived in official FDA reporting channels and in online community forums\, e.g. blogs\, consumer advocacy groups\, Reddit. These questions are in reference to broader discussions of the gendered moral economies of food provision and preparation\, and that casual privilege called eating/dining out. Who’s worrying about what to eat –  and how “good” it is? Going down? Going through? Coming out? These and other abiding concerns are a kind of emotional labor that has\, historically\, been feminized in the U.S. \nSarah Tracy is an historian of the recent past\, and of the United States in the world. Her work draws on feminist science and technology studies (STS)\, food studies\, post-colonial theory\, sensory history\, and critical histories of capitalism. \nTracy’s dissertation is called\, “Delicious: A History of Monosodium Glutamate and Umami\, the Fifth Taste Sensation\,” and it examines two interrelated objects: the global commodity and flavour enhancer monosodium glutamate (MSG)\, and umami (roughly translated from the Japanese as “delicious”)\, the fifth basic taste that MSG is understood to confer. This project situates umami within translations of the life sciences between Japan and the United States\, and shows how the metabolics of taste are inseparable from global capitalisms. It brings feminist STS into conversation with sensory history\, cultural history\, and post-colonial studies to foster cross-disciplinary insight into how foods mediate value\, health\, class\, race\, happiness\, and violation. \nTracy maps how MSG explodes our categories of food\, drug\, and toxin. She trace the additive’s journey from Japan and across the globe and analyzes how it has been fetishized\, racialized\, and vilified. Tracy considers MSG as a focus point for connecting questions of authenticity and risk in foods; for connecting the state of knowledge in sensory science\, neuroscience\, and food design and marketing; and for thinking about how our food systems organize not only ways of being human (class\, ethnicity\, region)\, but the ways of being of creatures large and small (e.g. the laboratory mice in safety and cancer testing\, the farmed bacteria who produce the glutamic acid we eat when we eat MSG). \nTracy’s research has been published in Global Food History\, and is forthcoming in Radical History Review. URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/delicious-history-monosodium-glutamate-fifth-taste-sensation-umami/ LOCATION:Royce 314 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://csw.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Delicious-Feature-Image-Border-e1478048606675.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161115T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161115T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T112813 CREATED:20160607T184023Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160915T000927Z UID:3475-1479225600-1479232800@csw.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Specters of the Past: M. NourbeSe Philip Reading "Zong! As Told to the Author by Sataey Adumu Boateng" DESCRIPTION:M. NourbeSe Philip is a poet and writer and lawyer who was born in Tobago and lives in Toronto. She has published novels\, essays\, and poetry\, and was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry and a Rebels for a Cause award from the Elizabeth Fry Society of Toronto. Zong! is NourbeSe Philip’s most recent book of poetry. This extended poetry cycle is based on a legal decision\, at the end of the eighteenth century\, related to the murder of Africans on board a slave ship. \nIn November\, 1781\, the captain of the slave ship Zong ordered that some 150 Africans be murdered by drowning so that the ship’s owners could collect insurance monies. Relying entirely on the words of the legal decision Gregson vs Gilbert—the only extant public document related to the massacre of these African slaves—Zong! tells the story that cannot be told yet must be told. Equal parts song\, moan\, shout\, oath\, ululation\, curse\, and chant\, Zong! excavates the legal text. Memory\, history\, and law collide and metamorphose into the poetics of the fragment. Through the innovative use of fugal and counterpointed repetition\, Zong! becomes an anti-narrative lament that stretches the boundaries of the poetic form\, haunting the spaces of forgetting and mourning the forgotten. URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/specters-past-m-nourbese-philip-reading-zong-told-author-sataey-adumu-boateng/ LOCATION:Royce 306 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://csw.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/zong-e1465510459231.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161107T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161107T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T112813 CREATED:20160910T001205Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161104T173905Z UID:4097-1478534400-1478541600@csw.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Aurora Levins Morales\, "Justice is Our Medicine: Ecology\, Disability and Health" DESCRIPTION:Aurora Levins Morales describes herself as “a writer\, an artist\, a historian\, a teacher and a mentor. I’m also an activist\, a healer\, a revolutionary.  I tell stories with medicinal powers. Herbalists who collect wild  plants to make medicine call it wildcrafting.   I wildcraft the details of the world\, of history\, of people’s lives\, and concentrate them through art in order to shift consciousness\, to change how we think about ourselves\, each other and the world. ” \nShe is the author of numerous books and essays\, including a chapter in the foundational volume This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color\, and\, most recently Kindling: New Writings on the Body and Cosecha and Other Stories  (co-authored with her mother\, Rosario Morales). \nIn response to chronic illness and disability\, Morales designed the Vehicle for Change\, an ecological\, sustainable\, non-toxic home\, built inside a 32 foot aluminum gooseneck trailer.  She says: “My traveling studio home is more than transportation and shelter.  It also embodies possibility and innovation.  It’s a manifestation of hope\, a solid\, three-dimensional expression of what I write about.  As I move around the country and beyond\, the fact of this vehicle\, and the need for it\, will underline and expand my words\, to help me talk about what we’re facing as a planet\, and how to face it.” \nJoin us for a talk by Aurora Levins Morales\, with discussion led by Robin Kelley. \nThis talk is part of “In the Interests of Justice: Bringing Theory into Practice.” Each of the six speakers in this series is engaged in producing vital knowledge about the relationships between health\, social inequity\, race\, gender\, and power. Featured scholars will share their recent or ongoing work\, and comment on the implications for changing and improving practice\, in the fields of law\, healthcare\, or social services\, in order to meet the needs of populations facing complex social\, health\, or disabling challenges. This series is a collaboration between Rapair\, a Los-Angeles based health and disability justice organization\, The UCLA American Indian Studies Center\, the UCLA Program in Disability Studies\, and the UCLA Department of Gender Studies. Funding and support are provided by NetCE. URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/aurora-levins-morales-justice-medicine-ecology-disability-health/ LOCATION:Cypress Room\, Faculty Center ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://csw.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/REPAIR_speaker_AURORAnov7_headshot_0.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161027T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161027T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T112813 CREATED:20161017T191236Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161017T191236Z UID:4253-1477569600-1477576800@csw.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Ruha Benjamin: "The Emperor's New Genes: Science\, Race\, Justice\, and the Allure of Objectivity DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Ruha Benjamin discusses advances in genomic science and explores questions of racial difference\, scientific objectivity\, medical trustworthiness\, and social justice. Drawing upon developments in Mexico\, South Africa\, India\, and the United States\, she illustrates how political and scientific claims are connected in the day to day struggle of groups demanding rights and redress. Finally\, she argues for a shift in focus away from individuals’ “trust” in biomedical research to the relative “trustworthiness” of institutions\, as a starting point for developing science for the public good. \nThis talk is part of “In the Interests of Justice: Bringing Theory into Practice.” Each of the six speakers in this series is engaged in producing vital knowledge about the relationships between health\, social inequity\, race\, gender\, and power. Featured scholars will share their recent or ongoing work\, and comment on the implications for changing and improving practice\, in the fields of law\, healthcare\, or social services\, in order to meet the needs of populations facing complex social\, health\, or disabling challenges. This series is a collaboration between Repair\, a Los-Angeles based health and disability justice organization\, The UCLA American Indian Studies Center\, the UCLA Program in Disability Studies\, and the The UCLA Department of Gender Studies. Funding and support are provided by NetCE. \n  URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/ruha-benjamin-emperors-new-genes-science-race-justice-allure-objectivity/ LOCATION:Charles E. Young Research Library\, Presentation Room ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://csw.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/ruha_benjamin.png ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Disability Studies Program":MAILTO:dsconference@college.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161027T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161027T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T112813 CREATED:20161018T164649Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161018T164649Z UID:4273-1477569600-1477573200@csw.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Andrea C. Gore\, "Environmental Endocrine Disruption of Reproduction\, the Brain\, and Behavior" DESCRIPTION:The chemical revolution that began during World War II transformed our world. While our lives are undoubtedly improved in many ways\, we now know that a subset of chemicals\, called environmental endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs)\, have detrimental effects on the health of humans and wildlife. EDCs include some pesticides\, industrial chemicals\, and components of plastics and food contact containers\, and we come into contact with EDCs every day. Higher body burdens of EDCs in humans are associated with greater risk for endocrine and neurological disorders. Andrea Gore’s laboratory is using a rat model of low-dose EDC exposure\, and ascertaining the consequences on neuroendocrine and reproductive functions and behaviors. They have discovered that prenatal EDCs “reprogram” genes and proteins in the developing neuroendocrine system\, and that these molecular and cellular changes are associated with an impaired neurobehavioral phenotype. Importantly\, the effects of EDCs are manifested very differently in males and females\, a result that is consistent with sex differences in hormone actions in the nervous system. Current EDC research is beginning to identify vulnerable neuroendocrine targets\, with the potential for future therapeutic interventions. \n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Andrea Gore is Professor and Vacek Chair in Pharmacology at UT-Austin. Her NIH- funded research projects are investigating how environmental endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) perturb the developing brain\, and effects of estrogen on the aging brain as a model for menopause in women. Dr. Gore has published 4 books and 140 scientific papers. She is Chair of UT-Austin’s Faculty Council\, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Endocrine Society’s flagship basic science journal\, Endocrinology. Dr. Gore was lead author of the Society’s two Scientific Statements on EDCs\, and organized and chaired the Gordon Research Conference on EDCs in 2012. In 2016\, she was a recipient of the Endocrine Society’s Outstanding Public Service Award. \nAndrea Gore and David Crews: Living in a Contaminated World URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/andrea-c-gore-environmental-endocrine-disruption-reproduction-brain-behavior/ LOCATION:Community Health Sciences 43-105\, UCLA\, Los Angeles END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161026T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161026T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T112813 CREATED:20160624T003300Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170808T174042Z UID:3604-1477485000-1477494000@csw.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Talking Trash: Oral Histories of Food In/Security from the Margins of a Dumpster DESCRIPTION:Part of Dishing: A Lecture Series on Food\, Feminism\, and the Way We Eat. Video now available on YouTube!\n \nA talk by Rachel Vaughn\, Adjunct Assistant Professor at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and the UCLA Department of Gender Studies\n\nJoin us after the talk for the Fighting Hunger Fair — your chance to meet UCLA and community groups and researchers working to eliminate hunger and waste. \nRachel Vaughn holds a PhD in American Studies from the University of Kansas. From 2011- 2012\, she was a Fellow in Gender Studies at Oklahoma State University; and was then Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Kansas in the Department of Women\, Gender & Sexuality Studies. Her research engages the intersections of food politics\, food sovereignty\, and feminist environmental theory. By way of her oral history research with scavengers\, foragers\, and dumpster divers of varying food security levels and socio-economic backgrounds\, she explores how the space of the dumpster and the act of diving work as alternative forms of cultural knowledge about food. Her work asks how the labels ‘real\,’ or by default ‘un-real’\, ‘edible’ or ‘inedible’ effect people of varying food (in)securities within the current food systems we consume. Vaughn is the author of a book in progress Talking Trash: Oral Histories of Food In/Security from the Margins of a Dumpster (under review with University of Nebraska Press). \nRSVP HERE! \nCo-sponsored by UCLA Division of Social Sciences\, UCLA Healthy Campus Initiative\, UCLA Department of History\, and UCLA Food Studies Graduate Certificate Program URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/talking-trash-oral-histories-food-insecurity-margins-dumpster/ LOCATION:Ackerman Grand Ballroom\, UCLA\, Los Angeles CATEGORIES:CSW originated ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://csw.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Talking-Trash-Feature-Image-e1477099075867.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161020T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161021T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T112813 CREATED:20160705T192603Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161014T235628Z UID:3688-1476979200-1477071000@csw.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Black Feminist Vision: A Symposium on Possibility and Practice DESCRIPTION:A two-day symposium on Thursday\, October 20 and Friday\, October 21 presented by the UC Consortium for Black Studies in California. Featuring some of the most important established and rising stars working in the field of Black feminism\, this symposium is centrally organized around questions of feminism and race. \nPlease register HERE for each day you plan to attend.  \nDay 1: Thursday\, October 20\, 2016\, 4pm         \nOpening Keynote: Barbara Ransby\nBarbara Ransby\, Professor of African American Studies\, Gender & Women’s Studies\, and History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is author of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Struggle: A Radical Democratic Vision and Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson. Keynote Introduction by Dayo F. Gore\, Associate Professor of Critical Gender Studies & Ethnic Studies\, UC San Diego. \n\nDay 2: Friday\, October 21\, 2016\, 10am-4pm    \nConversations on Black Feminist Vision\nKimberly Juanita Brown\, English\, Mount Holyoke College \nSimone Browne\, Sociology/African and African Diaspora Studies\, University of Texas-Austin \nMarcia Chatelain\, History\, Georgetown University \nErica Edwards\, English\, UC Riverside \nTanisha Ford\, Black American Studies and History\, University of Delaware \nKara Keeling\, Cinematic Studies/American Studies & Ethnicity\, University of Southern California  \nC. Riley Snorton\, Africana Studies\, Cornell University \nUla Taylor\, African American Studies\, UC Berkeley \nLisa Ze Winters\, English/African American Studies\, Wayne State University \nDay 2: Friday\, October 21\, 2016\, 4pm                \nClosing Keynote: Katherine McKittrick\nKatherine McKittrick is Associate Professor in Gender Studies and the Graduate Program in Cultural Studies at Queens University and author of Demonic Grounds: Black Women and Cartographies of Struggle.  She is editor of Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis and co-editor (with Clyde Woods) of Black Geographies and the Politics of Place.  Keynote Introduction by Arlene Keizer\, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature\, English\, and African American Studies\, UC Irvine. \nREGISTER ONLINE! \n  URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/black-feminist-vision-symposium-possibility-practice/ LOCATION:Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon\, UCLA\, Los Angeles ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://csw.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/BFV-Flyer-768x994.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161020T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161021T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T112813 CREATED:20160907T222731Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160913T225825Z UID:4091-1476950400-1477069200@csw.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Fear: UCLA French and Francophone Studies 2016 Graduate Conference DESCRIPTION:Discourses of fear dominate our contemporary moment. In this so-called “Age of Terrorism\,” fear knows no borders\, spreads quickly\, and provokes the fearful to react in unpredictable ways. Politicians lash out and make shows of strength; citizens march en masse while immigrant families take flight; journalists proclaim “même pas peur!” while young people turn to newer forms of media to express their disillusionment and reshape pervasive stereotypes. At the same time\, the causes—or perceived causes—of fear can be as varied as these reactions. Though opinion polls might define fear in terms of “terrorism\,” “immigration\,” or “globalization\,” these kinds of categories often obfuscate and conflate more than they clarify. \nIn the face of repressive regimes from Indochina to Vichy France\, from Haiti to Cameroon\, dissidents could face severe\, or even lethal\, punishment. How does the fear of denunciation give rise to coded writings that criticize and subvert the status quo? In and beyond these contexts\, how does fear cloud reason or induce clarity? Can it also have  positive\, not simply negative\, effects? When is fear “natural” and when is it not? Who plays a role in shaping these perceptions? How and by whom is it incited and manipulated\, diverted and channeled\, coped with\, suppressed and overcome? To what end? The 21st Annual Graduate Student Conference of the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies\, seeks to explore the reverberations of fear in French and Francophone literatures\, languages\, arts\, cultures\, and histories across time periods and disciplines. We understand fear to include empirical and conceptual engagements with the notions of terror\, horror\,  panic\, and phobia. We are interested in how these may be connected to creative endeavor\, literary and artistic movements\, political and economic gain\, and aesthetic and cultural transformations. Our aim is to address concerns of importance to scholars in literature\, history\, film and media studies\, art history\, sociology\, anthropology\, gender studies\, and philosophy. \nKeynote speaker: Tracy D. Sharpling-Whiting\, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of Humanities (African American Diaspora Studies and French)\, Vanderbilt University \nSharpley-Whiting has published 14 scholarly books; her most recent\, Bricktop’s Paris: African American Women in Paris Between the Two World Wars and The Autobiography of Ada “Bricktop” Smith\, or Miss Baker Regrets (SUNY Press\, February 2015)\, consists of two-parts\, a nonfiction multi-life history followed by a noirmystery. The book was an American Library in Paris Book Award Long List selection and a Choice 2015 Outstanding Academic Title. She is currently at-work on a scholarly volume\, A Quartet in Four French Movements: A Voodoo Queen\, A French Romantic\, a Poet\, and an African Ethnologist\, as well as a family history. She is on the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association (2014-2018) and is the editor of Palimpsest: A Journal on Women\, Gender\, and the Black International. URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/fear-ucla-french-francophone-studies-2016-graduate-conference/ LOCATION:306 and 314 Royce Hall\, UCLA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161019T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161019T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T112813 CREATED:20160628T171507Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161017T191543Z UID:3653-1476901800-1476910800@csw.ucla.edu SUMMARY:The Poetics of Fragility: a Film Screening and Discussion with Lata Mani DESCRIPTION:A film screening and conversation. \nLata Mani is a feminist historian\, cultural critic\, contemplative writer and filmmaker. She has published on a broad range of issues\, from feminism and colonialism\, to illness\, spiritual philosophy and contemporary politics. She is most recently the author of The Integral Nature of Things: Critical Reflections on the Present (2013). \nNicolás Grandi is a Buenos Aires based filmmaker\, interdisciplinary artist and educator. He has taught film direction and the history of world cinema at the Universidad del Cine\, Buenos Aires\, and in the Film Department at the Srishti School of Art\, Design and Technology\, Bangalore. \nThe Poetics of Fragility explores the texture\, vitality and aesthetics of fragility. It interweaves stories of bodily frailty with optical vignettes of nature’s delicacy to reclaim fragility as intrinsic to existence\, not something to be bemoaned or overcome. \nShot in the San Francisco Bay Area in September 2015\, the film features internationally renowned scholar-activist Angela Davis\, the acclaimed playwright and critic Cherrie Moraga\, Nora Cortiñas\, the inspiring founding member of Madres de Plaza de Mayo Linea Fundadora\, actor-dancer Greg Manalo\, feminist performance artists Thao P. Nguyen and Martha Rynberg\, theater scholar Jisha Menon\, healer Christopher Miles\, creative writer Xochitl M. Perales and the young trombone talent\, Jasim Perales. \nThe Poetics of Fragility is conceived as a “videocontemplation;” a form that Nicolás Grandi and Lata Mani have been developing to explore how the audiovisual medium with its sensuous possibilities can become a tool for social inquiry with a philosophical impulse. The visually arresting and formally plural film unfolds through stories that build on and amplify each other. Moments of emotional intensity alternate with speculative calm\, dramatic narration with poetry and critical inquiry into prevailing understandings of fragility. \n  URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/poetics-fragility-film-screening-discussion-lata-mani/ LOCATION:Charles E Young Research Library Conference Room ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://csw.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/cropped-Poster-Poetics-of-Fragility-final.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161013T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161013T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T112813 CREATED:20160914T180328Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161007T001335Z UID:4116-1476374400-1476381600@csw.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Christina Sharpe\, "In the Wake: On Blackness and Being" DESCRIPTION: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\, and feminist epistemologies\, with a particular emphasis on black female subjectivity and black women artists. \nThis talk will draw from In the Wake: On Blackness and Being\, forthcoming from Duke University Press. \nIn this original and trenchant work\, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary\, visual\, cinematic\, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the “orthography of the wake.” Activating multiple registers of “wake”—the path behind a ship\, keeping watch with the dead\, coming to consciousness—Sharpe illustrates how Black lives are swept up and animated by the afterlives of slavery\, and she delineates what survives despite such insistent violence and negation. Initiating and describing a theory and method of reading the metaphors and materiality of “the wake\,” “the ship\,” “the hold\,” and “the weather\,” Sharpe shows how the sign of the slave ship marks and haunts contemporary Black life in the diaspora and how the specter of the hold produces conditions of containment\, regulation\, and punishment\, but also something in excess of them. In the weather\, Sharpe situates anti-Blackness and white supremacy as the total climate that produces premature Black death as normative. Formulating the wake and “wake work” as sites of artistic production\, resistance\, consciousness\, and possibility for living in diaspora\, In the Wake offers a way forward. URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/christina-sharpe-wake-blackness/ LOCATION:Humanities 193\, UCLA CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://csw.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/sharpe.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160621T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160621T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T112813 CREATED:20160422T012438Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160615T195743Z UID:3249-1466496000-1466517600@csw.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Women's Reproductive Health and the Environment DESCRIPTION:Advocacy Through Education \nWomen’s Reproductive Health and the Environment: Best Practices for Los Angeles County \nA free symposium that will bring together health professionals\, community activists\, researchers\, academicians\, civic and business leaders\, politicians\, and government officials to learn about best practices related to research\, policy\, and community advocacy. \nPlenary Session \nUpdate on the Hidden Reproductive Health Hazards of Environmental Toxins \nSymposium Topics \n\n\n\n\nWhat’s New in Policy for 2016? \nGrassroots Advocacy: Community-Based Preconception Program: Planning for a Healthy Home\, Body\, and Baby \nApplying Research into Action: Using Data to Investigate Health Effects of Environmental Toxins URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/reproductive_health LOCATION:The California Endowment\, 1000 North Alameda Sreet\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90012\, United States CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://csw.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/WomensHealth_RHE_Flyer_V2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160525T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160525T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T112813 CREATED:20160308T173846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160310T213713Z UID:2923-1464183000-1464188400@csw.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Chinyere Oparah DESCRIPTION:Birth Matters: Research Justice and Black Life\nAfrican American women are 3 to 4 times as likely as white women to die of childbirth related causes\, our infants are twice as likely not to survive their first year. “Birthing while black” is a site of struggle\, which for too many leads to disabling\, trauma or even death. Birth matters in conversations about black life and death\, yet the reproductive autonomy of black women and trans/gender nonconforming pregnant and birthing individuals has only recently gained recognition with the #BlackLivesMatter and #SayHerName movements. Research justice is a strategic framework within which those directly affected by structural violence and discrimination use research tools in order to achieve self determination and lasting social change. Using a research justice approach\, Oparah worked alongside members of Oakland-based collective Black Women Birthing Justice to document black women’s experiences of childbirth\, and to  publish an anthology of critical essays and activist and personal testimonies on black bodies and birth justice. In this talk\, she explores the role of activist scholars in the movement to #LiberateBlackBirth. \nChinyere Oparah is an activist scholar\, social justice educator and experienced community organizer\, who is dedicated to producing critical scholarship in the service of progressive social movements.  Oparah is an African diaspora specialist\, whose interests span a number of different social concerns\, including activism by women of color\, violence against women\, women and the prison-industrial complex\, restorative justice\, queer and transgender liberation\, race and adoption\, research justice and birth activism. Her work is informed by personal experiences of crossing racial\, gendered and national boundaries as a biracial\, transracial/ transnational adoptee\, survivor of intimate violence and queer parent with ties to Britain\, Nigeria and the U.S. \nOparah is Associate Provost and professor and department chair of Ethnic Studies at Mills College. She played a leading role in the establishment of Mills’ Queer Studies Program and sits on the Advisory Committee for that program. She recently led the College’s Gender Expression and Identity initiative\, leading to the production of an important report on improving the experiences of transgender and gender-fluid students at Mills. \nOparah was awarded the Rockefeller Fellowship in Sex\, Race and Globalization in 2002\, and held the prestigious Canada Research Chair in Social Justice and Diversity at the University of Toronto from 2004-6. Educated at Cambridge University and Warwick University\, she has graduate degrees in Sociology and Ethnic Studies. In addition\, Oparah trained in community development. Prior to entering academia\, she coordinated a black women’s center in the UK\, and was executive director of a national development agency for non-profits serving communities of color. \nOparah is author of Other Kinds of Dreams: Black Women’s Organizations and the Politics of Organization\, the only comprehensive history of the black women’s movement on Britain. She is editor of Global Lockdown: Race\, Gender and the Prison-Industrial Complex\, a seminal work that mapped the connections between globalization\, gender and mass incarceration. She is also co-editor of 3 books: Activist Scholarship: Antiracism\, Feminism and Social Change\, Color of Violence: the Incite! Anthology. and Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption. \nShe is working with the grassroots community organization Black Women Birthing Justice on a participatory action research project about black women’s experiences of pregnancy and childbirth\, and editing an anthology on black women in the birth justice movement. In her spare time she practices mindfulness meditation and vinyasa yoga\, sings along to gospel music\, hangs out with toddlers and is learning horse-riding. Oparah has Nigerian (Igbo) and British origins\, and immigrated to the US in 1995. She lives in East Oakland with her partner and daughter. \nEach of the six speakers in this series\, “In the Interests of Justice: Bringing Theory into Practice\,” is engaged in producing vital knowledge about the relationships between health. social inequity. race. gender. and power. Featured scholars will share their recent or ongoing work. and comment on the implications for changing and improving practice. in the fields of law. healthcare. or social services. in order to meet the needs of populations facing complex social. health. or disabling challenges. This series is a collaboration between Repair\, a Los-Angeles based health and disability justice organization and the UCLA American Indian Studies Center\, the UCLA Program in Disability Studies. and the UCLA Department of Gender Studies. Funding and support are provided by NetCE. \nOrganized by: UCLA Department of Gender Studies \nCosponsored by: UCLA Center for the Study of Women\, UCLA Program in Disability Studies\, and UCLA American Indian Studies Center URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/julia-chinyere-oparah/ LOCATION:Charles E. Young Research Library\, Presentation Room CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://csw.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/JCO-promo-pic-crop.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160525 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160527 DTSTAMP:20260403T112813 CREATED:20160309T173005Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160523T181006Z UID:2948-1464134400-1464307199@csw.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Racialized State Violence in Global Perspective DESCRIPTION:RSVP! eventsrsvp.ucla.edu/RacializedViolence \nConference schedule now available! Download here or view online! \nQuestions? Email: rsv@csw.ucla.edu \n\nThe conference brings together scholars who work on racialized police violence in North America with others who work in Brazil\, Central America\, the UK\, the Caribbean\, and elsewhere to consider questions of pressing global importance including economic inequality\, state power\, racism and indigeneity\, legacies of imperialism and colonialism\, and gendered violence. Featuring intellectuals in the social sciences\, humanities\, and arts\, the symposium not only analyzes racialized state violence but also engages possibilities for justice. \n \n“Living With Certain Uncertainty: Violence\, Exile\, and Black Life”\nKEYNOTE by EDWIDGE DANTICAT\n \nMay 25\, 6 pm\, Lenart Auditorium\, Fowler Museum \nThe extraordinary novelist and public intellectual Edwidge Danticat (left) will deliver the conference’s keynote lecture on Wednesday evening May 25th\, with Kelly Lytle Hernandez\, associate professor\, Department of History\, UCLA\,  as respondent. Danticat is an award-winning author of short stories and novels that often engage with the history of her native Haiti. She also writes about the immigrant experience—what she calls “dyaspora”—and the reality of life in Haiti today. Her works include Breath\, Eyes\, Memory (1994); Krik? Krak! (1996); Claire of the Sea Light (2013); Mama’s Nightingale (2015); and Untwine (2015). She wrote and narrated the film Girl Rising (Haiti) in 2013. In 2007\, she received a National Book Award nomination for Brother\, I’m Dying. She was shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for Claire of the Sea Light in 2014. \nPANELS and ROUNDTABLE: May 26\, 9 am to 5:30. Royce 314 \nOn Thursday\, May 26th\, we will hold two panels of speakers and a lunch scholar-activist roundtable on policing in Los Angeles. \n  \nSPEAKERS \nMelina Abdullah\, Professor and Chair\, Pan-African Studies\, California State University\, Los Angeles\, is a womanist scholar-activist – recognizing that the role that she plays in the academy is intrinsically linked to broader struggles for the liberation of oppressed people. Her research interests include activism and movement building and Critical Race Theory. Abdullah was appointed to the Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission in 2014 and is a member of the California State University Chancellor’s Taskforce for the Advancement of Ethnic Studies. She is currently writing a book manuscript that examines Hip Hop and political mobilization. \nMohan Ambikaipaker\, Assistant Professor\, Communications\, Tulane University School of Liberal Arts\, is a social anthropologist and cultural studies scholar who studies the dynamics of multiracial societies. His research aims to examine the shifting configurations of racism and racial structures that go beyond bipolar frameworks of analysis. He is the co-author (with Robert Berkeley and Omar Khan) of What’s New about New Immigrants in 21st Century Britain? (Runnymede Trust/Joseph Rowntree\, 2006). \nAisha Beliso-de Jesus\, Associate Professor\, African American Religions\, Harvard Divinity School\, is a cultural and social anthropologist. She has conducted ethnographic research with Santería practitioners in Cuba and the United States since 2003. Her book\, Electric Santería: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion (Columbia University Press\, 2015) details the transnational experience of Santería\, in which racialized and gendered spirits\, deities\, priests\, and religious travelers remake local\, national\, and political boundaries and actively reconfigure notions of technology and transnationalism. Her current research\, “Policing African Diaspora Religions\,” draws on ethnographic research with police and religious practitioners in the United States exploring questions of race\, religion\, and policing. \nMaurice Magaña\, Lecturer\, Chicano/a Studies\, UCLA\, researches youth activism and social movements in Mexico and the United States. He received his Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology from the University of Oregon in 2013 and was the Institute of American Cultures Visiting Researcher in Chicano Studies in 2013-14. His dissertation\, Youth in Movement: the Cultural Politics of Autonomous Youth Activism in Southern Mexico\, was named as one of the “50 Best Dissertations in Cultural Anthropology of 2013”. \nAna Muñiz\, Criminology\, Law\, and Society\, UC Irvine\, does research on gang injunctions\, social control\, state violence and surveillance\, militarization\, and race. She is the author of Police\, Power\, and the Production of Racial Boundaries (Rutgers University Press\, 2015) which examines how the LAPD\, city prosecutors\, and business owners struggled to control who should be considered “dangerous” and how they should be policed in Los Angeles. \nLaurence Ralph\, Associate Professor\, African & African American Studies and Anthropology\, Harvard University\, researches how the historical circumstances of police abuse\, mass incarceration\, and the drug trade naturalize disease\, disability\, and premature death for urban residents\, who are often seen as expendable. He is the author of Renegade Dreams: Living Through Injury in Gangland Chicago (University of Chicago Press\, 2014). \nAudra Simpson\, Associate Professor\, Anthropology\, Columbia University\, is energized by the problem of recognition\, by its passage beyond (and below) the aegis of the state into the grounded field of political self-designation\, self-description\, and subjectivity. Her work is motivated by the struggle of Kahnawake Mohawks to find the proper way to afford political recognition to each other\, their struggle to do this\, and the challenges of formulating membership against a history of colonial impositions. She is the author of Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States (Duke University Press\, 2014) and co-editor with Andrea Smith of Theorizing Native Studies (Duke University Press\, 2014). \nChristen Smith\, Assistant Professor\, Anthropology; African & African Diaspora Studies\, University of Texas at Austin\, does research in the areas of performance\, race\, gender\, violence and the black body in the Americas with a particular emphasis on transnational black liberation struggles and racial formation. Her book\, Afro-Paradise: Blackness\, Violence and Performance in Brazil (University of Illinois Press\, 2016) explores the visual and performatic economies of the Black body in pain as an ironic transfer point for the production of Brazil’s racial state. \nShannon Speed is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma. She is Director of American Indian Studies and Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Anthropology at UCLA. Dr. Speed has worked for the last two decades in Mexico\, and her research and teaching interests include indigenous politics\, legal anthropology\, human rights\, neoliberalism\, gender and feminist theory\, indigenous migration\, and activist research. She has published five books and edited volumes\, including Rights in Rebellion: Human Rights and Indigenous Struggle in Chiapas\, Human Rights in the Maya Region: Global Politics\, Moral Engagements\, and Cultural Contentions\, and Dissident Women: Gender and Cultural Politics in Chiapas. She serves on the Council of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) and as co-chair of the Otros Saberes/Other Knowledges section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA)\, and on the editorial board of AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples. In 2013\, she was awarded the Chickasaw Nation’s Dynamic Woman of the Year\, and in 2014 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the State Bar of Texas Indian Law Section. \n \nRinaldo Walcott\, is Professor and Director of the Women & Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. As an interdisciplinary scholar Rinaldo has published on music\, literature\, film and theater and policy among other topics. All of Rinaldo’s research is founded in a philosophical orientation that is concerned with the ways in which coloniality shapes human relations across social and cultural time. Rinaldo is the author of Black Like Who: Writing Black Canada (Insomniac Press\, 1997 with a second revised edition in 2003); he is also the editor of Rude: Contemporary Black Canadian Cultural Criticism (Insomniac\, 2000); and the Co-editor with Roy Moodley of Counseling Across and Beyond Cultures: Exploring the Work of Clemment Vontress in Clinical Practice (University of Toronto Press\, 2010). In all of Rinaldo’s research and publication he focuses on Black cultural politics; histories of colonialism in the Americas\, multiculturalism\, citizenship\, and diaspora; gender and sexuality; and social\, cultural and public policy \n  \nRESPONDENTS \nKelly Lytle Hernandez\, Associate Professor\, Department of History\, UCLA\, does research on twentieth-century U.S. history with a concentration on race\, migration\, and police and prison systems in the American West and U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Her book\, MIGRA! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol (University of California Press\, 2010) is the first book to tell the story of how and why the U.S. Border Patrol concentrates its resources upon policing unsanctioned Mexican immigration despite the many possible targets and strategies of U.S. migration control. Her current research explores the social world of incarceration in Los Angeles between 1876 and 1965. \nSaree Makdisi\, Professor\, Department of English\, UCLA\, does research at the crossroads of several different fields\, including British Romanticism\, imperial culture\, colonial and postcolonial theory and criticism\, and the cultures of urban modernity\, particularly the revision and contestation of charged urban spaces\, including London\, Beirut and Jerusalem. His recent books include Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation (WW Norton\, 2008; revised and updated\, with a new foreword by Alice Walker\, 2010) and Making England Western: Occidentalism\, Race and Imperial Culture (University of Chicago Press\, 2014). \nSarah Haley\, Assistant Professor\, Gender Studies\, UCLA\, does research on African American history\, critical prison studies\, social movements and labor studies. She received her Ph.D. in African American Studies and American Studies from Yale University in 2010 and was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University’s Center for African American Studies from 2010-2011. She is author of the book No Mercy Here: Gender\, Punishment\, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity (University of North Carolina Press\, 2016).\n__ \nOrganized by Hannah Appel\, Jessica Cattelino\, Norma Mendoza-Denton\, and Jemima Pierre \nCosponsored by Alessandro Duranti\, Dean\, UCLA Division of Social Sciences; David Schaberg\, Dean\, UCLA Division of Humanities; UCLA Center for the Study of Women; Institute on Inequality and Democracy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs; Robin D.G. Kelley\, Distinguished Professor of History & Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in United States History; Eric Avila\, Associate Dean\, UCLA Office of Equity\, Diversity and Inclusion; UCLA African Studies Center; UCLA American Indian Studies Center; Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA; UCLA Department of Gender Studies; Disability Studies at UCLA;  UCLA International Institute; and UCLA Postcolonial Theory & Literary Studies. \nPhoto credits: Black Lives Matter march\, Minneapolis\, Minneapolis\, Minnesota\, July 31\, 2015\, Fibonacci Blue\, https://www.flickr.com/photos/fibonacciblue/; Photo of E. Dandicat courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/racialized-state-violence-global-perspective/ LOCATION:Royce 306 & 314 and Harry and Yvonne Lenart Auditorium of the Fowler Museum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://csw.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Slider.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160519T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160519T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T112813 CREATED:20151005T190836Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160429T220722Z UID:1228-1463673600-1463680800@csw.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Black Feminism\, The Carceral State\, and Abolition DESCRIPTION:A Book Talk by Sarah Haley with responses by Mariame Kaba and Dayo Gore \nDrawing upon black feminist criticism and a diverse array of archival materials\, Sarah Haley’s No Mercy Here: Gender\, Punishment\, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity illuminates black women’s experiences of imprisonment in the South to uncover how gendered regimes of incarceration were crucial to the making of Jim Crow modernity. No Mercy Here examines the brutalization of imprisoned women in local\, county\, and state convict labor systems\, while also situating them within the black radical tradition by illuminating practices of resistance\, refusal\, and sabotage that challenged ideologies of racial capitalism and patriarchy\, offering alternative conceptions of social and political life and envisioning a world beyond prisons. \nSarah Haley is Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and African American Studies. \nMariame Kaba is a public scholar and organizer\, and the founder and director of Project NIA\, a grassroots organization with a long-term vision of ending youth incarceration. \nDayo F. Gore is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at UC San Diego and the founder and co-director of the Black Studies Project (BSP@UCSD). She is the author of Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War. \nCosponsored by Center for the Study of Women URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/gender-of-punishment-from-jim-crow-modernity-to-the-present/ LOCATION:Royce 314 CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://csw.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/nomercyimage.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160517T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160517T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T112813 CREATED:20151005T201205Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160506T194359Z UID:1242-1463500800-1463508000@csw.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Ungrid-able Ecologies: Cultivating the Arts of Attention in a 10\,000 Year-Old Happening DESCRIPTION:  \nIn “Ungrid-able Ecologies\,” Natasha Myers will explore what can a queer\, feminist\, decolonized ecology can reveal about the relationships that develop between species. \nEcology is not just an object of study. It is also a mode of attention to worldly relations. Where the sciences of ecology have traditionally been grounded in teleological\, militarized and economizing logics\, and bound to heteronormative reproductive imperatives\, this talk insists that ecology could be otherwise. It describes my efforts to cultivate a queer\, feminist\, decolonized ecology within an ancient oak savannah in Toronto’s High Park\, a site 10\,000 years in-the-making. For millennia these lands were shaped by Aboriginal peoples who used fire to keep the woodlands open for hunting and farming. Today\, it is a site of massive ecological restoration efforts in the midst of a bustling city. The aim is to bring back the oak savannah through the use of controlled burns\, and the planting of native grasses and wildflowers. But today the oldest oaks are falling and the next generation is just 15 years old. \nKinesthetic images by Ayelen Liberona with Natasha Myers \nWhat modes of attention can help us learn how to pay attention to this remarkable naturalcultural happening which is both in-the-making and coming undone? Working at the cusp of anthropology\, art\, and ecology\, this project interrogates the self-evidence of approaches to conservation ecology and environmental monitoring by throwing open the very question of what it means to pay attention. It proposes an “ungrid-able ecology” to disrupt conventional ecology’s normative\, moralizing\, and economizing discourses. This ecological practice reconfigures the naturalist’s notebook by innovating techniques for tuning in to the “affective ecologies” and the “involutionary momentum” that propel plants\, insects\, animals\, and people to get involved in one another’s lives (see Hustak and Myers 2012). Through an ongoing collaboration with filmmaker and dancer Ayelen Liberona\, this research-creation project experiments with sensory practices that can document the growth\, decay\, combustion and decomposition that are essential to the life of this remarkable land. In the process\, we explore new forms of collaboration to cultivate plant/people relations that are fit for earthly survival. \n\nNatasha Myers is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at York University\, the convenor of the Politics of Evidence Working Group\, director of the Plant Studies Collaboratory\, a member of Sensorium\, and on the editorial board of Catalyst. She works alongside Michelle Murphy as co-organizer of Toronto’s Technoscience Salon\, and is co-founder of the Write2Know Project with Max Liboiron. Her ethnographic research examines forms of life in the contemporary arts\, sciences and ecologies. Her book\, Rendering Life Molecular: Models\, Modelers\, and Excitable Matter (Duke University Press\, 2015) is an ethnography of an interdisciplinary group of scientists who make living substance come to matter at the molecular scale. In her new work\, she is experimenting with ways to document the affective ecologies that take shape between plants and people\, and among plants and their remarkably multi-species affinities. \nSupport provided by Estrin Family Lecture Series Fund \nCosponsored by the Institute for Society and Genetics \nRSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/natasha-myers-tickets-23195678900 URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/ungrid-able-ecologies-cultivating-the-arts-of-attention-in-a-10000-year-old-happening/ LOCATION:Royce 306 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://csw.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/FemSense1030x433zzz.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160512T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160512T133000 DTSTAMP:20260403T112813 CREATED:20160328T214914Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160429T215619Z UID:3113-1463054400-1463059800@csw.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Racializing Normative Markets: Whiteness\, Masculinity\, and the "Efficiency" of Networks DESCRIPTION:A talk by Karen Ho\, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. \nWhile critical scholarship has made important contributions to the understandings of markets and difference\, many of these approaches have focused on how dominant markets have actively depended upon\, as well as excluded groups based on\, hierarchies of raced\, gendered\, classed\, sexualized\, and national differences. That we better understand how capitalism depended on enslavement\, how US real estate markets segregated and excluded African Americans\, and how productive labor cannot be jettisoned from reproductive labor are due to this crucial research. However\, we need to go further. Even as dominant\, capitalist markets are depicted as exclusionary and exploitative of differences\, they themselves are often held stable\, and not directly analyzed as composed of particular bodies\, assumptions\, actions\, and values. This presentation\, inspired by critical race theory\, cultural histories of risk and the construction of the risk-bearing individual\, as well as ethnographic accounts of financial markets\, examines both the underbelly of what makes financial markets possible as well as the whiteness and classed masculinity of financial markets themselves. I will explore how the very underpinnings of what makes markets and market exchange possible are arrangements of exchangeability\, commensurability\, and liquidity made possible\, in part\, through the instruments and assumptions of racial fraternity and exclusion. \nKaren Ho is the author of Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (Duke University Press\, 2009). Her research areas include cultural studies of finance capital; finance\, globalization\, and capitalism; ethnography; feminist studies; political economy; and comparative race and ethnicity. \nOrganized by UCLA Anthropology – Culture\, Power\, and Social Change. Cosponsored by the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and the UCLA Center for the Study of Women \nCulture\, Power\, and Social Change is open to students\, faculty\, and invited guests only. If you would like to be added to the mailing list\, email Hannah Appel at happel@ucla.edu. \n  URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/karen-ho/ LOCATION:Haines 352 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160427T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160427T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T112813 CREATED:20160330T215609Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160422T164835Z UID:3139-1461774600-1461776400@csw.ucla.edu SUMMARY:The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks DESCRIPTION: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 NAACP Image Award for outstanding biography and the Leticia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians. Theoharis contributes invaluable insight into Parks’s significance to the gendered history of social movements\, and Civil Rights specifically\, revealing how misconceptions regarding Parks’s politics and legacy shape understandings of the movement writ large. In contesting Parks’s image as a quiet seamstress known only for a single political act\, and instead excavating her long and radical political career\, Theoharis illuminates the role of ideas about gender in shaping ideas about radicalism\, social movement participation\, and popular representation. \nCosponsored by Robin Kelley\, Gary B. Nash Chair in History\, and Center for the Study of Women URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/rebellious-life-mrs-rosa-parks/ LOCATION:Humanities Room 135 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://csw.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/MTE1ODA0OTcxNzQ5Mzc3NTQ5.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160421T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160421T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T112813 CREATED:20160126T174404Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160315T195134Z UID:2554-1461254400-1461261600@csw.ucla.edu SUMMARY:How Societies and States Count DESCRIPTION:Censuses in Italy\, the United States\, and the United Kingdom \nA Discussion with the authors of Antecedents of Censuses From Medieval to Nation States: How Societies and States Count (Volume 1) and Changes in Censuses from Imperialist to Welfare States: How Societies and States Count (Volume 2)\, Palgrave Macmillan\, 2016. \nFeaturing Rebecca Jean Emigh\, UCLA\, Sociology; Dylan Riley\, UC Berkeley\, Sociology; and Patricia Ahmed\, South Dakota State\, Sociology. \nThese two volumes are a comprehensive survey of censuses (and before censuses\, census-like information gathering) starting in the early medieval period to the present in England/UK\, the US\, and Italy. They develop a new theory of information gathering to explain the social and state forces that shape how and when information gathering is undertaken. Central to this process of information gathering is classification\, that is\, how people are put into socially relevant groups\, such as men and women\, and how social and demographic characteristics are attached to these groups. For most of history\, until very recently\, much more information was collected about men than about women\, as early censuses were generally collected to assess resources and distribute political benefits\, which were more often attached to men\, not to women. However\, as the purpose of censuses shifted towards collecting population information\, which then became construed socially as knowledge\, information collection about men and women became more symmetrical. The books trace this shift from resource collection to knowledge collection over time and region\, and thus\, contribute to understanding how our knowledge of women and men shifted over time and place. \nOrganized by: UCLA Department of Sociology \nCosponsored by: UCLA CAPPP\, UCLA Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies\, and UCLA Center for the Study of Women URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/societies-states-count-volumes-1-2/ LOCATION:Royce 306 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160414T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160414T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T112813 CREATED:20160412T192343Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160412T192416Z UID:3214-1460637000-1460642400@csw.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Climate Change: a Department-Wide Conversation About the Shared Impact of Gender Inequity and Discrimination DESCRIPTION: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 12:30-2pm in the History Department Conference Room (Bunche 6265). \nA co-ed panel of faculty guests\, including Soraya de Chadarevian\, Toby Higbie\, Eric Avila\, and Ghislaine Lydon will address the theme of the event:”Climate Change\,” a department-wide conversation about the shared impact of gender inequity and discrimination and strategies for changing the culture of the UCLA History Department and the academy at large. This event\, geared toward both men and women in UCLA History\, aims to explore the ways in which inequities affect everyone\, and it hopes to encourage all colleagues\, regardless of gender\, to work together to affect change. URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/climate-change-department-wide-conversation-shared-impact-gender-inequity-discrimination/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160412T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160412T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T112813 CREATED:20160201T183139Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160330T150006Z UID:2643-1460476800-1460484000@csw.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Masen Davis DESCRIPTION:The Movement of Our Time: Transgender Equality at the Crossroads\nA talk by the 2015-2016 Regents’ Lecturer \nMason Davis\, Executive Director\, Transgender Law Center \nMasen Davis has more than two decades of leadership and activism in the LGBT movement. Under his direction\, TLC’s impact litigation secured groundbreaking federal protections in 2012 against employment discrimination for transgender and gender non-conforming people under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. From securing $1M in public funds for transgender employment programs\, to sweeping changes to California law under the 2011 Gender Nondiscrimination Act\, to unprecedented healthcare access initiatives for transgender people within the state – Masen’s leadership has had a tremendous and positive impact on countless constituents. Masen works tirelessly as a preeminent voice in local\, state\, and national forums\, and is increasingly identified as an international leader in the trans equality movement. \nHe received his B.A. from Northwestern University\, M.S.W. from UCLA\, and completed the Program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. \nCosponsored by: Center for the Study of Women and Williams Institute \n  URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/masen-davis/ LOCATION:Royce 314 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://csw.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/MDavis-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160408T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160408T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T112813 CREATED:20160404T175206Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160404T175348Z UID:3168-1460106000-1460124000@csw.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Urgent Issues Forum/Foro Urgente: The Assassination of Berta Cáceres and the Future of Indigenous and Afrodescendant Environmental and Land Rights in Honduras DESCRIPTION: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 linked to the mining and dams interests that she opposed. Gustavo Castro\, a Mexican activist who was in Berta’s home and was injured in the attack\, is now being held illegally in Honduras and there are international concerns that he is being framed for the attack. This urgent forum explores the issues of resource extraction and state violence and their impact on the future of indigenous and environmental rights activism in Honduras. \nParticipants include: \n\nOlivia Cáceres (Lenca)\nActivist and daughter of Berta Cáceres\nRony Castillo (Garifuna)\nPhD student UT Austin\, Advisor on Education Issues OFRANEH\, President of the Garifuna Education Council and Co-founder of the Garifuna Intercultural University\nSuyapa Portillo\nPitzer College\nChris Loperena\nUniversity of San Francisco\nJoseph Berra\nUCLA Law School\n\nHosted by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center\, UCLA Center of Study for Women\, UCLA Chicano Research Studies Center\, UCLA Institute of American Cultures\, and Grassroots International. URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/urgent-issues-forumforo-urgente-assassination-berta-caceres-future-indigenous-afrodescendant-environmental-land-rights-honduras/ LOCATION:Charles E. Young Research Library\, Presentation Room CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://csw.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/berta-caceres.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160407T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160407T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T112813 CREATED:20160308T201032Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160315T163344Z UID:2938-1460044800-1460052000@csw.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Françoise Girard DESCRIPTION:Sex in the time of Zika: Reproductive Rights and Women’s Health in a World in Turmoil\nA public lecture in honor of International Women’s Day  \nFrançoise Girard is a longtime advocate and expert on women’s health\, human rights\, sexuality\, and HIV and AIDS. Prior to becoming President of the IWHC\, she served as Director of the Public Health Program at Open Society Foundations\, where she was also a Regional Director for Central and Eastern Europe and Haiti. From 1999 to 2003\, she was Senior Program Officer for International Policy at IWHC\, and thereafter a consultant for IWHC\, the International Planned Parenthood Federation\, and DAWN\, a network of women’s rights ac-tivists from the global South. She has played a key role in advocacy on reproductive health and women’s rights with UN agencies and at UN Conferences\, and was the Chair of the Leadership Programme Com-mittee of the 2010 International AIDS Conference. Françoise Girard serves on the Civil Society External Advisory Panel of the UN Popula-tion Fund\, and on the Advisory Committee of the Health and Human Rights Division of Human Rights Watch. \nRSVP: Sanderson@international.ucla.edu \nCosponsored by: International Institute\, Center for World Health\, Luskin School of Public Affairs\, Iris Cantor/UCLA Women’s Health Center\, International and Comparative Law Program/School of Law\, and UCLA Center for the Study of Women URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/francoise-girard/ LOCATION:UCLA Law School\, Room 1457 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://csw.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/francoise-1033test.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA International Institute":MAILTO:gkligman@international.ucla.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160407T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160408T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T112813 CREATED:20151005T200509Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170417T183606Z UID:1234-1460028600-1460138400@csw.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Thinking Gender 2016 DESCRIPTION:VIDEOS NOW ONLINE! \nThinking Gender is a public conference highlighting graduate student research on women\, sexuality and gender across all disciplines and historical periods. This year’s theme is “Spatial Awareness\, Representation\, and Gendered Spaces.” \nPRELIMINARY PROGRAM! Download now! Or view on online! \nREGISTRATION INFORMATION \nGeneral Registration (FREE) includes access to the keynote speech\, paper and film panels\, and poster session: https://uclacsw.submittable.com/submit/54090\nPrime Registration ($20) provides access to conference workshops\, networking lunch\, and keynote cocktail reception. You will also receive a souvenir mug. [Prime Registration is now closed. If you are still interested in Prime Registration\, check in at the “General/Prime Registration” tables at the Conference. Availability is first-come\, first-serve.] \nKEYNOTE SPEAKER \nOur keynote speaker is Aili Mari Tripp. Her address is titled “Unexpected Consequences: Women and Power in Postconflict Africa” and is based on her recently published book\, which looks at gender-related consequences of the decline of major conflict in 17 countries in Africa over the past 20 years. It explains why postconflict countries in Africa have significantly higher rates of women’s political representation compared with countries that have not undergone major conflict. It also looks at why these countries tend to have been more open to passing legislation and making constitutional changes relating to women’s rights. It shows how and why the postconflict countries have adopted a distinct trajectory compared with non-postconflict countries\, recognizing that from the point of view of activists\, this trajectory is still too slow and fraught. The talk is based on comparative research across Africa as well as fieldwork in Uganda\, Liberia\, and Angola. \nAili Mari Tripp is a professor of Political Science and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is currently a visiting Fulbright Scholar at the Hillary Rodham Clinton Center for Women’s Empowerment at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane\, Morocco. She is conducting research on women and legal reform in North Africa. Her past research has focused on women and politics in Africa\, women’s movements in Africa\, transnational feminism\, African politics (with particular reference to Uganda and Tanzania)\, and on the informal economy in Africa. For more information: https://ailitripp.wordpress.com \nPROGRAM\n \nClick here for the full program — including panelists and paper titles! \nThursday\, April 7\, 2016 \n11:30 am to 1 pm\nRegistration \n1 to 1:30 pm\nPOSTER PRESENTATIONS \n1:30 to 3 pm\nWELCOME by Jessica Cattelino\, CSW Associate Director \nSCREENINGS\nFor the first time\, Thinking Gender will feature film\, video\, and mixed-media shorts followed by a moderated discussion. \n3 to 3:30 pm\nPOSTER PRESENTATIONS\, continued \n3:45 to 4:45 pm\nKEYNOTE: UNEXPECTED CONSEQUENCES: WOMEN AND POWER IN POSTCONFLICT AFRICA\nfeaturing Aili Mari Tripp\, University of Wisconsin-Madison \nCopies of Professor Tripp’s new book\, Women and Power in Postconflict Africa\, will be available for sale. \n5 to 7 pm RECEPTION \n5:30 pm AWARDS PRESENTATION by Rachel C. Lee\, CSW Director \nFriday\, April 8\, 2016 \n8 to 8:45 am\nRegistration \n9 am to 6 pm\nSESSIONS will take place from 9 am to 12:15 pm and from 2:45 to 6 pm \n12:20 to 1:20 pm\nNetworking lunch \n1:30 to 2:30 pm\nWORKSHOPS \nIntersection of Gender\, Justice\, and the Environment\, featuring Martha Dina Argüello\, Executive Director\, Physicians for Social Responsibility – Los Angeles\nAt this workshop\, participants will learn techniques to reduce their contact with harmful toxins and about issues of reproductive justice and environmental racism. \nMindfulness…Self Care and Beyond\, featuring Giselle Jones\, MSW\, CMF (trained at UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior)\nThis workshop will explore the applications of mindfulness from stress reduction to increasing sensuality and relational awareness. \nCOSPONSORED BY: Graduate Division\, Division of Social Sciences\, International Institute\, Equity\, Diversity\, and Inclusion Office\, Center for European and Russian Studies\, Center for Chinese Studies\, Department of Political Science\, Department of History\, African Studies Center\, Department of Musicology\, Center for Near Eastern Studies\, Department of Asian American Studies\, and Department of African American Studies. \nTHINKING GENDER COORDINATOR \nAmanda Domingues is a second-year MA student in the Department of African Studies. Her current academic focus is on twentieth-century social and political movements of women in East Africa. More specifically she is examining the effectiveness of constitutional gender quotas as a means to increase both descriptive and substantive representation for women. She is also interested in measuring women’s ability to direct public goods and policies towards women’s issues (both at the national and local level). In her free time Amanda enjoys German-style board games\, eating delicious food\, and spending time outdoors. \nLOCATION AND PARKING INFORMATION \nParking spots for conference attendees are held in Structure 7\, located just southeast of the conference location. Passes are $12.00 each (CASH AND EXACT CHANGE ONLY) and are valid for all-day use. Attendants will be selling passes at the lot from 1:30-3:30pm on Thursday and 7:30-9:30am on Friday. We highly advise that you arrive during these time slots (also conveniently during registration times); if you arrive outside of these time slots\, you need to find a pay-by-space in the visitor parking area (see below) or go to the parking kiosk in Structure 4 (adjacent to Structure 7 and closes at 12pm on Friday). Please allow a few minutes to walk west to Covel Commons after parking. \nFor guests with disabilities:\n \nPlease proceed to the Sunset Village (SV) Lot. Attendants will be selling passes at the lot between 11am and 2pm on Thursday and between 7:30 and 9:30am on Friday. If you arrive outside of this time\, please enter the Sunset Village visitor parking area and purchase a daily (discounted rate) pass from the pay-by-space kiosk. The fee is $5 for those with any state-issued handicapped plate or placard. \nUnreserved “Pay-by-Space” Visitor Parking Areas \nIf you arrive outside of the reserved parking times\, you can find parking at a self-service station. The closest and recommended lots are Sunset Village (SV\, right beside the conference location) and Recreation Center (RC\, just north of Covel). All-day passes are $12.00 each (cards or exact change accepted) and hourly passes range in amount. Please be aware that spaces are limited and allow yourself time to walk to the event if you do not park at the SV lot. \nSee http://www.transportation.ucla.edu/portal/pdf/paystationmap.pdf for all locations. \nFor additional info or questions\, please contact UCLA Transportation: 310-825-3169 \nFor info about Thinking Gender\, you can email: thinking gender@csw.ucla.edu \nCall for Submissions \nSubmission Guidelines \nPanel Cover Sheet \nDescription of this year’s themes URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/thinking-gender/ LOCATION:Grand Horizon Ballroom\, Covel Commons\, UCLA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://csw.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Template1030x433_TG2016.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160405T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160405T140000 DTSTAMP:20260403T112813 CREATED:20160309T160345Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160315T163609Z UID:2945-1459857600-1459864800@csw.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Lee Ann S. Wang DESCRIPTION:Asian American Feminisms and the Re-writing of the Legal Voice: Immigration Law\, Criminal Enforcement\, and “Cooperation”\nA talk by the UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow\, UC Berkeley \nThis talk will discuss the U Visa\, a new form of legal protection designed to rescue undocumented immigrants from gender and sexual violence – but only if they willingly agree to cooperate with the police state. She argues that the visa’s requirement for “cooperation” binds any future for Asian immigrant women to the criminality of blackness and the whiteness of universal innocence. Visas such as these have been overlooked within contemporary immigration and policing debates that largely focus on moments when the law fails as evidence of racial violence. Instead\, this talk takes the law’s proclaimed successful protection over legal innocence as the very site from which the violent constitution of legal personhood unfolds. Drawing from ethnographic interpretations of legal advocates who assist Asian immigrant women with visa applications\, she interrogates the law’s evidentiary relationship between lived experience\, humanness\, and “voice” that make legible the legal subject of the crime victim. The 2001 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) created the U Visa alongside a host of other immigrant provisions that were not originally included in the first iteration of VAWA in the early 1990s when it passes as part of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act. I argue that the U Visa’s requirement for legal cooperation is a form of coercion that cannot be fully understood outside its elemental arrangement within criminalization and security regimes. This talk is part of her manuscript\, “Of Law’s Protection and Punishment: Gender Violence\, Asian Immigrant Woman\, and the Enforced Safety of the Security State\,” a legal ethnography of Asian American citizenship and the making of legal personhood at the intersections of immigration law\, criminal enforcement\, and American humanitarianism. \nRSVP: http://leeannwang-aasc.eventbrite.com \nOrganized by: Asian American Studies Center \nCosponsored by: Department of Gender Studies; Department of Asian American Studies; Center for the Study of Women; School of Law; and UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/lee-ann-wang/ LOCATION:Rolfe 2125 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR