Center for the Study of Women

Aurora Levins Morales, "Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals"
2019-05-14 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Hacienda Room, Faculty Center
Organized by the Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair
Aurora Levins Morales is an internationally known Puerto Rican Jewish feminist writer and lifelong arts-based organizer. She is the author of six books, including Kindling: Writings on the Body, Getting Home Alive, Remedios: Stories of Earth and Iron from the History of Puertorriquenas, and Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios. She has been active in many social justice movements and she is a historian who turns history into stories with the intention of changing people and changing the world. She is active in Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, Jewish Voice for Peace, Sins Invalid, and other organizations.
At this event, Morales will read from and discuss her book Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals.
Date: Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Time: 5:00 – 7:00 PM
Location: Hacienda Room, UCLA Faculty Center

Co-sponsors:

Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair
UCLA Center for the Study of Women
UCLA LGBTQ Resource Center
UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy

Marathon Reading of The Handmaid’s Tale and Earthseed
2019-05-09 12:00 - 2019-05-10 12:00 | Powell Courtyard
The UCLA Marathon Reading is a cultural initiative that promotes literacy and community building by presenting a novel or novels aloud in their entirety. The event is free and open to the public beyond campus. Audience members come and go throughout the two-day event, and there are booths with tie-in activities. This year, we have chosen a women in sci-fi theme: Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale and Octavia Butler’s Earthseed series, Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents. This theme promotes not only woman authors, but books that will spark conversation around women’s issues, including sexism, sexual violence, and reproductive rights.

CSW Research Affiliate Brown Bag: "On Sarah Dorsey: A Nineteenth-century Southern Woman’s Rediscovered Lecture on the Philosophy of the University of France"
2019-05-03 12:00 - 13:30 | Rolfe 2125
Philosopher Sarah Dorsey
On Sarah Dorsey: A Nineteenth-century Southern Woman’s Rediscovered Lecture on the Philosophy of the University of France
A talk by Carol Bensick, PhD
Sarah Dorsey (1829-1879) is the earliest woman from the U.S. South to devote herself to philosophy. Besides the later Anna Julia Cooper, she is only the second Southern woman philosopher to be discovered by feminist historians–the first from the “Deep” South. She is the first American to make a study of contemporary French philosophy, and also the first American to make a study of Hindu philosophy. Dorsey was the first woman to made a study of the biological debate over the original of species. Hidden till now in periodicals and pamphlets, her work stands to change the shape of the canon of American women philosophers –possibly even that of American philosophy itself.
Carol Bensick completed her Ph.D. at Cornell University in American Literary and Intellectual History, specializing in Puritanism and Transcendentalism. She was an assistant professor at the University of Denver, the University of Oregon, and UC Riverside and gained tenure at University of Oregon. She taught summer school at Cornell and UCLA and Extension at UCR. Her revised dissertation was published as La Nouvelle Beatrice: Renaissance and Romance in ‘Rappaccini’s Daughter.” She edited and wrote the headnote for Jonathan Edwards for the first Heath Anthology of American Literature. In her earlier career she presented papers at local, regional, and national meetings and published essays and reviews for reference works, collections, and journals focusing on philosophical writers and literary writers on philosophical themes. As research affiliate of the CSW she roams the nineteenth-century archives turning up women philosophers wherever she goes.
Attendees are invited to bring their lunch to this brown bag talk.

I Am Not My Trauma: Word On Wednesday Spoken Word and Poetry Night
2019-04-24 19:00 - 21:00 | Kerckhoff Hall Art Gallery, UCLA
Part of the UCLA CARE Program‘s Sexual Assault Awareness Month
A special edition of the UCLA Cultural Affairs Comission’s Word on Wednesday poetry and spoken word series, recognizing Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Time: 7:00 – 9:00 PM
Location: Kerckhoff Art Gallery
Don’t miss the other Sexual Assault Awareness Month events! Download a PDF of the calendar here.

Faculty Writing Retreat
2019-04-19 10:00 - 17:00 | Royce 306
Date: April 19, 2019
Time: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: Royce 306
RSVP: http://humanities.ucla.edu/events/writing-retreats/
Do you want to block out a day for writing and contemplation? The quarterly Faculty Writing Retreat is your solution. Join us for a day-long retreat where you can concentrate on your own work alongside like-minded colleagues—we will hold the world at bay for you. Breakfast, lunch and coffee/tea will be provided in the beautiful setting of Royce Hall.
The writing retreat provides a peaceful place to write as well as meals; please bring your computer and any other materials you may need to work. If you have an extension cord, please bring it, as power outlets are limited. Also bring some extra clothes for layers, as the space sometimes tend to be cool.
For those who wishes, we will have a conversation about the writing process over lunch. This conversation is entirely optional and there will also be a non-work space to enjoy lunch.
Space is limited – RSVP is required. If at any point you need to cancel part or all of your RSVP, please email Barbara Van Nostrand: bvannost@humnet.ucla.edu
Co-sponsored by:

The Division of Humanities
The Herb Alpert School of Music
The Fielding School of Public Health
The Center for the Study of Women

Women as Writers of Heroic Poetry in Renaissance Italy: An Epic Micro-tradition?
2019-04-05 09:00 - 17:00 | 306 and 314 Royce Hall, UCLA
Organized by the UCLA Department of Italian
“Women as Writers of Heroic Poetry in Renaissance Italy: An Epic Micro-tradition?” explores all facets of heroic poetry as written by Italian Renaissance women. Moreover, this conference aims to spotlight their heroic poems and place them in an tradition that has for the most part ignored their work. We are also interested in the ways these women authors handle specific conventions of the genre such as the difference between the romance and epic modes, the engagement with literary predecessors, and the representation of traditional female characters like the woman-warrior or the enchantress.
Date: Friday, April 5, 2019
Time: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Location: Royce Hall 314 and 306
Speakers include: Julia Hairston (UCEAP Rome), Julia Kisacky (Baylor University), Laura Lazzari (Catholic University of America), Serena Pezzini (Scuola normale superiore di Pisa), Meredith Ray (University of Delaware) , Maria Galli Stampino (University of Miami), Christine Ristaino (Emory University), and Gerry Milligan (CUNY- Stanton Island).
Co-sponsored by:

Center for the Study of Women
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Aretha's Amazing Grace: From Watts to Detroit
2019-03-25 10:00 - 17:00 | California Nanosystems Institute, UCLA
Organized by the UCLA Department of African American Studies
This symposium will celebrate the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin’s ground breaking and historic Album, Amazing Grace.
Topics will include:
How Sweet the Sound: Blues Ministry and Black Power
Soul Print: Music, Place and Albums
The People’s Queen: Queering Aretha’s sound
Speakers will include:
Marcus Anthony Hunter, UCLA
Lynee Denise, Music Scholar, DJ, CSULA
Bishop Kenneth Ulmer, Faithful Central Bible Church
Scot Brown, UCLA
Zandria Robinson, Rhodes College
Salamishah Tillet, Rutgers University
Kyle Mays, UCLA
Joi Gilliam, Musician and Singer
Mark Anthony Neal, Duke University
Fredara Hadley, Oberlin College and Conservatory
Co-sponsored by:

UCLA Department of History
UCLA Ralph Bunche Center for African American Studies
Robin D.G. Kelley, Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Chair in American History
Pedro Noguera, Distinguished Professor of Education, UCLA
NCBW (National Congress of Black Women) San Gabriel Chapter

LA Women: Female Voices in Audio
2019-03-14 19:00 - 21:30 | Moore Hall Reading Room, UCLA
Organized by the Student Chapter of ARSC at UCLA.
The Student Chapter of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) at UCLA welcomes current graduate students, faculty, and staff to benefit from the perspectives of four professionals from the field of music librarianship, audio archiving, and sound preservation for a panel discussion about being female in a traditionally male-dominated profession. Each woman will share the path to her current position, the challenges they have faced, and details from situations they have experienced during preservation projects, providing services to library users, or digitizing culturally relevant musical recordings. The Student Chapter of ARSC is hosting this panel discussion for students, faculty, and staff of every gender identity hear each woman’s story, to learn how to develop strategies for challenges they may face as they enter their respective
professional fields, and to network with this array of practicing librarian-archivists and preservation engineers.
Panelists:

Elizabeth Kirkscey (Head, Paramount Music Library)
Julie Bill (Head, Musician’s Institute Library)
Lenise Bent (audio engineer for Blondie, the Knack, Suzi Quatro)
Siri Luk (Archive Engineer, United Recording Studios, UCLA MLIS 2018)

Date: March 14, 2019
Time: 7:00 – 9:30 PM
Location: Moore Hall Reading Room, UCLA

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Saidiya Hartman in Conversation
2019-03-13 16:00 - 18:00 | Perloff Hall DeCafe
Hosted by the UCLA Department of Gender Studies
Saidiya Hartman will discuss her book, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, which explores the ways young black women created forms of intimacy and kinship indifferent to the dictates of respectability, and outside the bounds of law. They refused to labor like slaves or to accept degrading conditions of work. Hartman narrates the story of this radical transformation of black intimate and social life, crediting young black women with shaping a cultural movement that transformed the urban landscape. Combining historical analysis and literary imagination, Hartman recovers radical aspirations and resurgent desires. She will read from the book and will also be in conversation with UCLA faculty, to be followed by an open discussion.
About the Speaker
Saidiya Hartman – Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University. Saidiya Hartman is a professor at Columbia University specializing in African-American literature and history. She grew up in Brooklyn and received her B.A. from Wesleyan University and Ph.D. from Yale University.
Date: Wednesday, March 13, 2019
Time: 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Location: Perloff Hall DeCafe
RSVP Required: https://waywardlivesucla.eventbrite.com/
Co-sponsored by:

UCLA Bunche Center
UCLA Department of African American Studies
UCLA Department of English
UCLA Social Sciences Division

Lesbian and Bisexual Women’s Health in Los Angeles County: Advocacy, Communication, Policy, and Healthcare Delivery
2019-03-12 07:30 - 14:00 | The California Endowment, 1000 North Alameda Sreet, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Organized by the Iris Cantor-UCLA Women’s Health Education & Research Center and the Los Angeles County Lesbian and Bisexual Women’s Health Collaborative
The Lesbian and Bisexual Women’s Health Collaborative, or LBWHC, was created by individuals concerned about health disparities for lesbian and bisexual women in Los Angeles County and is made up of individuals and organizations with experience advocating for the health and well-being of lesbians and bisexual women. Members represent health care facilities, government agencies, community organizations, and academic institutions.
This conference will feature a plenary session followed by three workshops. The workshops will focus on “Addressing Legal, Regulatory, Compliance and Policy Issues in Caring for Lesbian & Bisexual Women,” “Social Service Support & Community Based Agencies,” and “Trans Health: The Intersection with Traditional Women’s Health Services.” The conference will conclude with a luncheon panel discussing “Caring for Lesbian & Bisexual Women.”
Date: Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Time: 7:30 am – 2:00 pm
Location: California Endowment, 1000 N Alameda St., Los Angeles, CA
Registration: Register for the event on EventBrite
Speakers:

Janet Pregler, MD- Director, Iris Cantor-UCLA Women’s Health Center
Kiera Pollock, MSW- Director of Senior Services, LA LGBT Center
Dannie Cesena, MPH- Program Coordinator, CA LGBTQ Health and Human Services Network
Angie Magana, NP- Program Manager, LA LGBT Center

Co-sponsored by:

UCLA Center for the Study of Women
City of West Hollywood
LA County Department of Public Health
Human Rights Campaign Foundation
LA LGBT Center

Workshop: Navigating Gender in Academia
2019-03-08 12:00 - 14:00 | Royce 314
Organized by the UCLA Career Center
Panel discussion and scenario practice to help graduate students learn how to navigate gender-based issues in academia, including unwanted, inappropriate behavior from faculty, staff, and peers; exclusionary behavior and practices; and gender-specific concerns like breast-feeding.
Date: Friday, March 8, 2019
Time: 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Location: Royce 314
Register online
Panelists:

Ifeoma Amah, Associate Director, Academic and Research Programs, Academic Advancement Program
Jessica Holmes, Postdoctoral Scholar of Musicology
Andrea Kasko, Associate Professor, Bioengineering
Marissa Lopez, Associate Professor of English
Muriel McClendon, Associate Professor of History
Portia Mira, Postdoctoral Scholar, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Co-sponsored by:

UCLA Career Center
UCLA Graduate Division
UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
UCLA Division of Social Sciences
UCLA Division of the Humanities

Pallabi Chakravorty, "This Is How We Dance Now"
2019-02-25 16:00 - 17:30 | 108 Kaufman Hall
A talk by Pallabi Chakravorty, Professor at Swarthmore College
Organized by the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Date: Monday, February 25, 2019
Time: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Location: Kaufman Hall 108
Registration
Pallabi Chakravorty is a leading scholar of South Asian performance and has recently published her second monograph, This Is How We Dance Now, an ethnography about the media industry, competition shows, and reality TV dance in India. It’s the first contemporary ethnography of screendance in India and an important contribution to the fields of visual and performance studies. She will present a lecture related to this book and her ongoing research in the area, which includes addressing gender and class representations and stratifications.
Co-sponsored by:

Center for the Study of Women
Center for India and South Asia

Thinking Gender 2019: Feminists Confronting the Carceral State
2019-02-22
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2019
UCLA LUSKIN CONFERENCE CENTER

REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT IS NOW CLOSED.
CONFERENCE OVERVIEW
DETAILED SCHEDULE
Thinking Gender 2019 will focus on gendered regimes of incarceration, and feminist, queer, abolitionist, and intersectional interventions.
The US justice system is a site of widespread gendered and race-based violence. The U.S. currently incarcerates nearly a third of all female prisoners in the world, and between 1977 and 2004, the number of women in U.S. prisons increased by an unprecedented 757%. As a 2015 CSW co-sponsored report revealed, women suffering from mental illness in LA County jails are routinely denied treatment, medication, and reproductive hygiene products, and are disproportionately punished with solitary confinement. LGBTQ women are also disproportionately impacted: nearly 40% of incarcerated girls identify as LGBTQ, while nearly one in six transgender Americans, and one in two black transgender people, have been to prison.
Emerging student scholars and activists will reckon with these issues through feminist and queer perspectives.

KEYNOTE PANEL

ABOLITIONIST FEMINIST FUTURES
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2019, 3:45 PM
UCLA Luskin Conference Center, Centennial Ballroom A & B
Thinking Gender: Feminists Confronting the Carceral State will feature a keynote panel of distinguished scholar-activists.
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BETH RICHIE, Department Head, Criminology, Law and Justice and Professor of African American Studies & Criminology, University of Illinois at Chicago; Author of Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence and America’s Prison Nation

ALISA BIERRIA, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies, UC Riverside; Co-founder of Survived & Punished

COLBY LENZ, PhD Candidate, American Studies and Ethnicity, USC; Co-founder of Survived & Punished

ROMARILYN RALSTON, Program Coordinator, Project Rebound, CSU-Fullerton; Organizer, California Coalition for Women Prisoners

MODERATOR: GRACE HONG, Chair, CSW Advisory Committee; Professor, Gender Studies and Asian American Studies

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
The conference schedule is available online.
Check back regularly and join our email list for updates!

PRE-CONFERENCE SEMINAR WITH BETH RICHIE
CSW is pleased to offer an opportunity to participate in a 1-time, 2-hour seminar with Keynote Panelist Beth Richie, author of Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation and Professor of African American Studies and Criminology, University of Illinois at Chicago. The seminar will take place on Thursday, February 21, 2019. UCLA Graduate Students from all disciplines and UCLA Undergraduate Students in their senior year who are completing a Senior Thesis, Capstone, or Honors Project are eligible to apply.
Application Deadline EXTENDED! NEW DEADLINE: January 11, 2019
Application Details: https://csw.ucla.edu/tg19-seminar

ACCESSIBILITY
THIS IS A FRAGRANCE-FREE EVENT. For the health and safety of all attendees, please refrain from wearing products that contain fragrances when attending CSW events. Such products include: perfumes, hair products, deodorants, detergents, etc. For more information on fragrance and accessibility, visit https://sharetheair.ucla.edu.
If you require accommodations in order for this event to be accessible to you (e.g., sign language interpretation, large print materials, etc.), please contact CSW at csw@csw.ucla.edu at least two weeks prior to the event. For more information, visit our Events Accessibility Page.
Sign language interpretation will be provided at the Keynote Panel.

ACCOMMODATIONS AND PARKING
Thinking Gender 2019: Feminists Confronting the Carceral State will take place at the UCLA Luskin Conference Center, which is centrally-located on the UCLA Campus.
Parking and Accommodation information.

THINKING GENDER RECEIVES GRANT FROM THE LUSKIN ENDOWMENT FOR THOUGHT LEADERSHIP!
The Center for the Study of Women is proud to announce that we have been awarded a grant from the UCLA Luskin Endowment for Thought Leadership in support of Thinking Gender 2019!

CO-SPONSORED BY:

Backed by Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
UCLA Luskin Endowment for Thought Leadership
UCLA Interdisciplinary & Cross Campus Affairs (ICCA)
UCLA Graduate Division
UCLA Division of Humanities
Political Theology Network
UCLA Department of African American Studies
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
UCLA American Indian Studies Center
UCLA Black Male Institute
Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin
UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
UCLA Department of Philosophy
UCLA Department of Social Welfare
UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies
UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies
UCLA Department of Asian American Studies
UCLA Department of Sociology
UCLA Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics
UCLA Department of History
UCLA Department of Public Policy
The Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law
UCLA Department of Anthropology
UCLA LGBT Campus Resource Center
UCLA Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health
Criminal Justice Program at UCLA School of Law
UCLA Division of Social Sciences

Alternative Narratives in Israeli Art: Gender, Identity and Belonging
2019-02-19 14:30 | Royce 314
Image: New Victims by Zoya Cherkassky
Organized by the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies
The tremendous diversity of Israeli society, comprised of Jews from around the world, Palestinian Arabs and Druze (among others) with differing national ties, religious beliefs and cultural mores, leads to a complex nexus of overlapping and often conflicting affiliations and identities.
In this symposium, art scholars and artists will examine various works of contemporary Israeli art to understand the multiple identities and varieties of experience – Jewish, Palestinian, immigrant, female, male, LGBTQ – which are unique to Israel and also, in many ways, universal. The artists will discuss how their artwork reflects personal narratives regarding national, ethnic and gender identity, and dynamics of inclusion-exclusion.
About the Speakers
Raida Adon – Born in Akko in northern Israel to a Jewish father and a Muslim mother, Adon’s artworks emerge from her complex biography, addressing conflicted nations and the relationship between two interrelated societies. The image of the woman is a recurring motif in her work, as a metaphor for the post-1948 geographic space of Israel/Palestine and reflecting the artist’s own quest for rootedness, while alluding to many refugee crises. Adon is a graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. She has shown work and performances at museums as well as theatre festivals around the world.
Gannit Ankori – Prof. Ankori of Brandeis University is an internationally-recognized art historian who has published widely on contemporary art from a global perspective, with emphasis on issues pertaining to gender, national identity, religion, trauma, exile, hybridity and their manifestations in the creative arts. She is the author of Palestinian Art (Reaktion Books, London, 2006) and has curated numerous exhibitions on Israeli and Palestinian art. She is also internationally renowned for her books, articles, and exhibitions on the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.
Zoya Cherkassky – Acclaimed Israeli artist Zoya Cherkassky was born in Kiev in 1976 and immigrated with her family to Israel in 1991. Her paintings address her personal experiences and the collective experience the million-strong Russian immigrant influx to Israel – often marked by unflattering stereotypes – and her conflicted Jewish identity. Cherkassky’s work has been shown at major museums and institutions worldwide, including the Israel Museum; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin; and MARS Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow.
Roey Victoria Heifetz – Heifetz is an artist from Jerusalem currently living in Berlin. Her most recent work includes videos and drawings of transgender women (primarily) in communities in Berlin, Israel and Los Angeles, including self-portraits. The pieces examine the transgender body and the body in general, and raise issues such as gender change, anxieties, old age, regret, femininity, motherhood, pain, and fear of yourself and of society. Her work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions around the world. Heifetz studied at the Bezalel Academy for Arts and Design in Jerusalem (BFA, MFA) and the School of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston. She is the recipient of the 2018 Ann and Ari Rosenblatt Prize in Visual Art.
Sagi Refael – Refael is an Israeli art historian and curator whose writing and curating focuses on gender issues and particularly representations of masculinity in art and visual culture. He has curated and/or published on contemporary art exhibitions at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Museum of Israeli Art (Ramat Gan) and galleries in Israel, Berlin, and Los Angeles.
Date: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Time: 2:30 pm
Location: Royce Hall 314
Co-sponsored by:

UCLA Department of Art
UCLA Department of Art History
UCLA Department of Gender Studies
Center for Jewish Studies
UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Center for Near Eastern Studies
LGBTQ Studies Program
Center for the Study of Women
UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

17th Annual Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies
2019-02-15 10:00 - 18:00 | Royce 314
The Annual Colloquia in Armenian Studies are a forum for graduate and undergraduate students from various disciplines whose research bears on Armenian Studies to present scholarly papers in the humanities and social sciences, within disciplines as wide-ranging as Anthropology, Archaeology, Art history, Comparative Literature, Gender Studies, History, and Political Science.

Lara K. Schubert, "Workshopping Postsecular Feminist Subjectivity: An Alternative Inspired by Cambodian Women"
2019-01-18 12:00 - 13:30 | Rolfe 2125
CSW Research Affiliate Brown Bag
DATE: Friday, January 18
TIME: 12-1:30 PM
LOCATION: Rolfe 2125
Participants are welcome to bring a snack or lunch.
Cambodian women religious provide insights into rethinking subjectivity. These women experience empowerment while they subscribe to the restrictive rules of their communities, including gender-specific stipulations. In Schubert’s research in Cambodia, her interlocutors demonstrate subjectivity that is not based on freedom and liberation, which are prioritized in many women’s organizations. Her larger project, “Retheorizing Women’s Empowerment with Insights from Cambodian Women,” aims to enhance the concepts of empowerment employed by many women’s organizations and in the realm of development in general. In this talk, Schubert will present one alternative to this historically feminist liberationist subjectivity—postsecular feminist subjectivity. This will include a presentation of various ways of defining postsecular feminism, considering resources from thinkers who seek inspiration from different traditions—both Judith Butler and Rosi Braidotti. This is a workshopping session to think with all participants and together to explore possibilities.
Lara K. Schubert received her PhD in Religion in 2016 from Claremont Graduate University and is currently a Research Affiliate at UCLA’s Center for the Study of Women. She is also a Lecturer in Liberal Studies and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at California State University, Los Angeles. She taught courses in Religious Studies at Pomona College and the Ethnic and Women’s Studies department at Cal Poly Pomona. She was awarded a Fulbright Grant for her field work in Cambodia.

Faculty Writing Retreat
2019-01-18 | Royce 306
Date: January 18, 2019
Time: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: Royce 306
RSVP: http://humanities.ucla.edu/events/writing-retreats/
Do you want to block out a day for writing and contemplation? The quarterly Faculty Writing Retreat is your solution. Join us for a day-long retreat where you can concentrate on your own work alongside like-minded colleagues—we will hold the world at bay for you. Breakfast, lunch and coffee/tea will be provided in the beautiful setting of Royce Hall.
The writing retreat provides a peaceful place to write as well as meals; please bring your computer and any other materials you may need to work. If you have an extension cord, please bring it, as power outlets are limited. Also bring some extra clothes for layers, as the space sometimes tend to be cool.
For those who wishes, we will have a conversation about the writing process over lunch. This conversation is entirely optional and there will also be a non-work space to enjoy lunch.
Space is limited – RSVP is required. If at any point you need to cancel part or all of your RSVP, please email Barbara Van Nostrand: bvannost@humnet.ucla.edu
Co-sponsored by:

The Division of Humanities
The Herb Alpert School of Music
The Fielding School of Public Health
The Center for the Study of Women

Raquel Medina, "Gendering Alzheimer's Disease: Mothers, Daughters, and Sisters"
2019-01-16 15:00 - 17:00 | Rolfe 2125
A talk by Raquel Medina, Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Director of CinemAGEnder International Research Network, Aston University
Organized by the UCLA Department of Gender Studies
Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Time: 3:00 – 5:00 PM
Location: 2125 Rolfe Hall
This presentation will provide a comparative and cross-cultural analysis of cinematic representations of Alzheimer’s disease in several non-mainstream films that employ it as a trope to explore age and gender. Contrary to mainstream productions, films such as Pandora’s Box (Turkey 2008), the Good Herbs (Mexico 2010), Old Cats (Chile 2010), Poetry (Korea 2010), and A Separation (Iran (2011) offer important counter-narratives to the feminization of Alzheimer’s disease as decay. This talk aims to shed light on how these counter-narratives offer feminist/intersectional perspectives on Alzheimer’s disease. Concepts of womanhood, sisterhood, mothering, and matrophobia in these films will be linked in this discussion to crucial issues such as solidarity, empathy, assisted suicide, suicide, and violence against women.
Co-Sponsored by:

Center for the Study of Women

Until and Unless, Film Screening and Discussion with Dr. Soma Roy, Sintu Bagui and Nitai Giri
2018-11-30 14:00 - 15:30 | 208 Kaufman Hall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNXjLvouD2A
This event will entail the screening of Until and Unless, a short documentary film addressing the queer and trans rights movement in India.
Set in West Bengal a year before the historic decision to repeal India’s anti-sodomy law Penal Code 377, “Until and Unless”, follows the story of four individuals and the impact of systemic oppression via India’s legislative system on their lives. The film features Sintu, a transwoman community leader raised in the Sheoraphuli red-light district; Nitu, a transwoman sex worker who lives a dual identity as a man named Nitai; Lovely, a Koti person who lives a closeted life while working in an office environment, and Pratap, a trans teen still navigating her identity. Through juxtaposing their stories with interviews from lawyers and activists working to oppose these laws, the film shows the lived consequences of state and social violence on community self-representations.
The documentary was shot a year ago before the recent landmark Supreme Court decision to repeal of the colonial law, IPC 377, thereby decriminalizing homosexuality. The event will also feature a Q&A session with the Bengali sex-worker and trans activist co-creators of the film.
Speakers:
Dr. Soma Roy, Sintu Bagui and Nitai Giri from Anandam, the organization for transgender sex workers in West Bengal, India
Co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for India and South Asia

Faculty Writing Retreat
2018-11-30 10:00 - 17:00 | Young Research Library, Conference Room, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
DATE: Friday, November 30, 2018
TIME: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
LOCATION: Charles E. Young Research Library Main Conference Room
RSVP: http://humanities.ucla.edu/events/writing-retreats/
Do you want to block out a day for writing and contemplation? The quarterly Faculty Writing Retreat is your solution. Join us for a day-long retreat where you can concentrate on your own work alongside like-minded colleagues—we will hold the world at bay for you. Breakfast, lunch and coffee/tea will be provided.
The writing retreat provides a peaceful place to write as well as meals; please bring your computer and any other materials you may need to work. If you have an extension cord, please bring it, as power outlets are limited. Also bring some extra clothes for layers, as the space sometimes tend to be cool.
For those who wishes, we will have a conversation about the writing process over lunch. This conversation is entirely optional and there will also be a non-work space to enjoy lunch.
Space is limited – RSVP is required. If at any point you need to cancel part or all of your RSVP, please email Barbara Van Nostrand: bvannost@humnet.ucla.edu
Co-sponsored by:

The Division of Humanities
The Herb Alpert School of Music
The Fielding School of Public Health
The Center for the Study of Women

#masshysteria. Hysteria, Race, and Masculinity
2018-11-16 14:00 - 15:00 | 10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Guest lecture by Sander L. Gilman, Emory University
This guest lecture is part of the UCLA event series #masshysteria. Hysteria, Politics, and Performance Strategies organized by the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies.
Date: Friday, November 16, 2018
Time: 2:00 – 3:00 PM
Location: UCLA Bunche Hall 10383
Free admission. RSVP Here.
Sander L. Gilman has extensively researched and published on the intersection of Hysteria, Race, Sexuality and Gender. In this guest lecture Gilman will discuss his influential work and how the term hysteria has been useful until the present day to understand sexist and racist representations of people in protest. The term hysteria is still today very much associate with fin-de-siècle fantasies about ill, hyperventilating women. Gilman addresses in his lecture, however, that the debates about hysteria at the close of the nineteenth century are rooted as much in stereotypes about race and mental illness as they are in the pseudo-scientific claims of its origin in the ‘wandering womb’. What race and hysteria come to mean, moreover, changes its valence when European concepts are re-read in the United States. Who is hysteretic and why they have become hysteric comes to be a medical puzzle with a surprising twist in the course of the twentieth century.
The talk will be followed by an open conversation with Sander L. Gilman and moderated by Johanna Braun.
Co-sponsored by:

Center for the Study of Women
Center for European and Russian Studies
Department of English
Department of Germanic Languages
Department of Theater
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
Center for Performance Studies

Black Feminism and the Practice of Care
2018-11-16 09:00 - 16:30 | Sequoia Room, Faculty Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, 90024
A one-day symposium on black women’s care, wellness, and healing presented by the UC Consortium for Black Studies in California. This event explores the relationship between individual practices of care and care as an investment in communities (particularly those haunted by precarity and disposability), and reimagines care (and harm and depletion) as emerging not just from late capitalist phenomena like stress and work burn-out, but also from racist institutions, historical violence, structural neglect, and familial wounds.
Closing Reception will be held from 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Keynote Speakers:

Honor Ford-Smith, York University
Beverly Hanson, Sistren Theater Collective

Panelists:
Judith Casselberry (Bowdoin College), Stephanie Hicks (University of Michigan), Jessica Johnson (Johns Hopkins University), Courtney Marshall (Phillips Exeter Academy), Jessica Millward (UC Irvine), LaKisha Simmons (University of Michigan), Jasmine Syedullah (Vassar College), SA Smythe (UC Irvine), Terrion Williamson (University of Minnesota), Tiffany Willoughby-Herard (UC Irvine)
Moderators:
Erica Ball (Occidental College), Marne Campbell (Loyola Marymount University), Imani Johnson (UC Riverside)
Co-Sponsored by:

UCLA Division of Social Sciences
UCLA Department of Gender Studies
Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies

#masshysteria. Trans*: Hystories, Bodies and the Unbuilding of Worlds
2018-11-05 14:30 - 15:30 | 10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Guest Lecture by Jack Halberstam
Professor of English, Comparative Literature and Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Columbia University.
This guest lecture is part of the UCLA event series #masshysteria. Hysteria, Politics, and Performance Strategies organized by the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies.
Date: Monday, November 5, 2018
Time: 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Location: 10383 Bunche Hall
FREE ADMISSION
While transgender has mostly been discussed in the last decade in terms of making bodies and selves, Jack Halberstam will discuss the work of unmaking that is performed by the appellation of trans*. With this shift in focus, the wrong body, an appellation used mostly for people who have felt themselves to be out of place, out of time, comes not to claim right but to dismantle the system that metes out rightness and wrongness. This talk will offer examples of protest performances drawn from the 1970’s to argue for anarchic trans* feminisms oriented towards unbuilding and unmaking worlds, and will therefore, re-contextualize the agency of restless, transitive, hysterical bodies of the present.
The talk will be followed by an open conversation with Jack Halberstam and moderated by Johanna Braun.
Co-sponsored by:

Center for the Study of Women
Department of English
Department of Germanic Languages
Department of Theater
Center for European and Russian Studies
Center for Performance Studies
LGBTQ Studies Program

A Time to Stir: The 1968 Columbia Student Uprising
2018-11-04 10:00 - 20:00 | Melnitz 1409: James Bridges Theater
Screening and Conversation with Director Paul Cronin

Organized by Susan Slyomovics, UCLA Department of Anthropology
Date: November 4, 2018
Time: 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM
Location: James Bridges Theater
A screening of the seven-hour-long documentary film, with discussion with director Paul Cronin.

Co-Sponsored by:

Center for the Study of Women
Department of French and Francophone Studies
Division of Social Sciences
Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences
Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Department of English
School of Theatre, Film and Television
Department of Anthropology
Promise Institute of Human Rights
Department of History
Dean of Humanities Division Fund

#masshysteria. Hysteria, Politics, and Performance Strategies
2018-11-01 09:30 - 17:30 | Royce 306
#masshysteria. Hysteria, Politics, and Performance Strategies
A conference organized by the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies and the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies
Date: November 1, 2018
Time: 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM
Location: 306 Royce Hall
RSVP: https://french.ucla.edu/event/masshysteria-hysteria-politics-and-performance-strategies-conference/

In Europe, especially in Vienna and Paris, around 1900, the hysterical girl was a well-studied object in arts and sciences; she re-appeared, a hundred years later, in countless manifestations in US mainstream horror films. In addition, key words describing women in protest as “hysterical”, “nasty”, “possessed”, or “monstrous” dominate contemporary public discourse. The female hysteric in these current narratives references strikingly established representations of the hysteric as (public) performer that extend well beyond the European studies of the nineteenth century. For example, although the medical term hysteria was struck from the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 1994, it simultaneously reappeared as Histrionic Personality Disorder (Latin: histrio, actor/actress). This rebranding further underlines the point of this investigation: the female hysteric is diagnosed as performer. Given this reintroduction, and the re-appearance of the hysteric in current discourses, one may assume that the self-reflective media figure of the female hysteric will continue to gain ground in its cultural impact. The aim of this project is to show the ways in which a historical European phenomenon enjoys an active legacy in the United States one hundred years later and, in turn, resonates around the world.
Although the history and evolution of the representation of hysteria have been extensively researched, the study of how these discourses have been transferred to twenty-first-century US popular culture remains uncharted territory. This conference’s main focus is the way in which the hysteric is involved in and performs on the pressing intersection of hysteria, cultural, (horror) film and performance studies.
Furthermore, as a result of performance studies being a paradigm-driven field, this conference (and the subsequent publication) will be divided into two sections: In the beginning, we will follow the hysteric’s performance as object of inquiry, which will enable us to put the current phenomenon in its (historical) context. Thereafter, we will expand the scope and focus on performance studies as a primary analytical concept, which will enable us to uncover the potentiality of agency in the hysteric’s performance. We welcome scholarship and practice-based research in relation to hysteria and performance from all disciplines and backgrounds. As this event is designed to bring together a diverse group of scholars and artists, we value traditional paper submissions as well as encourage experimental forms of presentations, such as (new) media-, video-, performance and performance-lecture.
Co-sponsored by:

Department of French and Francophone Studies
Center for European and Russian Studies
Center for Performance Studies

New Directions in Black Atlantic Religion
2018-10-27 09:00 - 17:00 | 10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Organized by the African Studies Center and presented by UC Multi-campus Research Group on New Approaches to Black Atlantic Religions and University of California Office of the President Multi-campus Research Programs & Initiative Funding (MRPI)
Date: Saturday, October 27, 2018
Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: 10383 Bunche Hall
Program: http://www.international.ucla.edu/asc/event/13430
The conference is free and open to the public; RSVP requested by emailing Sheila Breeding, African Studies Center, at sbreeding@international.ucla.edu.
Free and open to the public!
This multidisciplinary group composed of faculty from multiple UC campuses will critically assess the current state of scholarship on Black Atlantic belief systems and theorize new methodologies and analytic orientations for comparative and regional studies. Our objective is to expand UC’s historical role as a hub for the study of Black Atlantic religions by fostering dialogue and collaboration amongst a new generation of scholars. We will explore where new research is needed, ways to develop new methods, what new theoretical paradigms are available, and carefully consider how we as scholars can contribute to the anti-racist struggles of the peoples of the Black Atlantic world.
Participants include Jeffrey Kahn (UC Davis), Rachel O’Toole (UC Irvine), Roberto Strongman, Elizabeth Pérez and Claudine Michel (UC Santa Barbara), Jeroen Dewulf (UC Berkeley), and Patrick A. Polk, Lauren Derby, Katherine Smith and Andrew Apter (UCLA).
Outside speakers include Brendan Jamal Thornton from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill whose book on Pentecostalism and masculinity in the Dominican Republic won the Caribbean Studies award for best book in the humanities.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS by YANIQUE HUME

“Dancing for the Dead and the Living: Embodiment and Invocation in Caribbean Mortuary Praxis”
Yanique Hume is a Professor, professional dancer, choreographer, and writer based at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Barbados.
Co-sponsored by:

Center for the Study of Women
Patricia Turner, Dean and Vice Provost, Division of Undergraduate Education
Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies
Center for the Study of Religion
Robin D.G. Kelley, Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History
Fowler Museum
Atlantic History Cluster
UCL

Beauty Bites Beast: The Missing Conversation About Ending Violence
2018-10-24 17:00 | 208 Kaufman Hall
Beauty Bites Beast: The Missing Conversation About Ending Violence
Organized by the Department of World Arts and Culture/Dance
Featuring Director Ellen Snortland
Date: October 24, 2018
Time: 5:00 – 8:00 PM
Location: 208 Kaufman Hall
Beauty Bites Beast is a documentary film that tracks women’s empowerment self-defense training in three national locations, the US, Mexico, and Israel. The film treats violence against women as a tool of social control and examines the ways in which women have been systematically denied the right to self-defense and the skills to exercise that right. The film investigates the process through which gender is lived and embodied and how this embodiment can shift through physical practice. It is also dedicated to altering the social structures through which women and non-binary people are oppressed by advocating for options for women who face violence and harassment.

Eli Clare, "Cautionary Tales: Environmental Injustice, Disability, and Chronic Illness"
2018-10-18 16:00 - 18:00 | Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon, UCLA, Los Angeles
CSW is delighted to welcome Eli Clare to UCLA to give a talk as part of our Chemical Entanglements research initiative.
RSVPs for this event are NOW CLOSED. Standby seats may be available; we encourage you to arrive early if you would like a standby seat.
About Eli Clare

Photo description: Eli sits on driftwood log, smiling in the sun.
White, disabled, and genderqueer, Eli Clare lives near Lake Champlain in occupied Abenaki territory (currently known as Vermont) where he writes and proudly claims a penchant for rabble-rousing. He has written two books of creative non-fiction, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure and Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation, and a collection of poetry, The Marrow’s Telling: Words in Motion, and has been published in many periodicals and anthologies.
Eli speaks, teaches, and facilitates all over the United States and Canada at conferences, community events, and colleges about disability, queer and trans identities, and social justice. Among other pursuits, he has walked across the United States for peace, coordinated a rape prevention program, and helped organize the first ever Queerness and Disability Conference.
When he’s not writing or on the road, you can find him reading, hiking, camping, riding his recumbent trike, or otherwise having fun adventures.

About the Talk
Eli Clare’s talk is entitled “Cautionary Tales: Environmental Injustice, Disability, and Chronic Illness”
Date: Thursday, October 18, 2018
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon
RSVPs for this event are NOW CLOSED. Standby seats may be available; we encourage you to arrive early if you would like a standby seat.
Free and Open to the Public

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Co-sponsored by:

UCLA Disability Studies Program
UCLA Department of English
UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics
UCLA Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS)
UCLA Department of Gender Studies
UCLA Division of Social Sciences

Tammy Ko Robinson, "Korean Adoptees, Deportation, and Statelessness"
2018-10-18 11:00 - 12:15
Korean Adoptees, Deportation, and Statelessness
A Talk by Tammy Ko Robinson, Associate Professor of Art, Hanyang University, Seoul
Organized by the Department of Asian American Studies
Date: October 18, 2018
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM
Location: Due to space limitations, location will be provided upon RSVP.
RSVP: Email Grace Hong at gracehongucla@gmail.com
Tammy Ko Robinson will discuss loopholes in US law that created a situation in which several thousand adoptees, many of whom are from Korea, were never naturalized for citizenship, and are thus undocumented and eligible for deportation, theorizing the contradictions between kinship and family, on the one hand, and statelessness on the other.
Co-Sponsored by:

Department of Asian American Studies
Center for Korean Studies

Sami Schalk, "Bodyminds Reimagined: Disability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction"
2018-10-17 14:30 - 16:00 | UCLA Powell Library, East Rotunda
Bodyminds Reimagined: Disability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction
Book Talk with Dr. Sami Schalk, Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Date: Wednesday, October 17
Time: 2:30 – 4:00 PM
Location: UCLA Powell Library, East Rotunda
This event is wheelchair accessible and will have an ASL Interpreter
In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how black women’s speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds—the intertwinement of the mental and the physical—in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability. Bridging black feminist theory with disability studies, Schalk demonstrates that this genre’s political potential lies in the authors’ creation of bodyminds that transcend reality’s limitations. She reads (dis)ability in neo-slave narratives by Octavia Butler (Kindred) and Phyllis Alesia Perry (Stigmata) not only as representing the literal injuries suffered under slavery, but also as a metaphor for the legacy of racial violence. The fantasy worlds in works by N. K. Jemisin, Shawntelle Madison, and Nalo Hopkinson—where werewolves have obsessive-compulsive-disorder and blind demons can see magic—destabilize social categories and definitions of the human, calling into question the very nature of identity. In these texts, as well as in Butler’s Parable series, able-mindedness and able-bodiedness are socially constructed and upheld through racial and gendered norms. Outlining (dis)ability’s centrality to speculative fiction, Schalk shows how these works open new social possibilities while changing conceptualizations of identity and oppression through nonrealist contexts.
This event is sponsored by UCLA African-American Studies, the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, UCLA Disability Studies, UCLA Department of English, and UCLA Department of Gender Studies.
