Words About Women Matter: Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word Contest

Kerckhoff Hall Art Gallery UCLA

25 selected contestants will each have up to 5 minutes to perform original poetry or spoken word, tell a personal story, do a comedy routine, or sing an original song that relates to the theme of “women of the world — learning, laughing, resisting, renewing.” Competition open to all UCLA Students, Staff, and Faculty. This […]

Kathryn Everly, “The Modern Woman Soldier and Gender Crisis during the Spanish Civil War”

Lydeen Library 4302 Rolfe Hall, UCLA

Kathryn Everly is Professor of Spanish Literature and Culture at Syracuse University. She published Catalan Women Writers and Artists: Revisionist Views from a Feminist Space with Bucknell University Press in 2003 and History, Violence, and the Hyperreal: Representing Culture in the Contemporary Spanish Novel with Purdue University Press in 2010. She received the Florence Howe […]

Black Milk: Colonial Foodways and Intimate Imperialism

Charles E Young Research Library Conference Room

  All CSW events are Fragrance-Free. Learn more about our event accessibility policy.   Part of Dishing: Food, Feminism, and the Way We Eat. Video now available on YouTube! A talk by Diana Garvin, PhD in Italian Studies, Cornell University This talk will use original Italian and Ethiopian sources to examine breastfeeding in the colonial […]

Scope Lab Workshops

3261A Broad Art Center, UCLA UCLA, Los Angeles

Scope Lab is a workshop series focused on exploring code as a creative medium with which to understand and represent diverse perspectives. These studies are framed by the questions: “Whose perspectives are represented?”, “Who has access to the tools to learn and express themselves?”, and “How do we design tools and projects that are more […]

Disability as Spectacle

Luskin Conference Center

Keynote Addresses: ROSEMARIE GARLAND-THOMSON, Professor of English & Bioethics at Emory University DJ KURS, Artistic Director for Deaf West Theatre KAREN NAKAMURA, Robert and Colleen Haas Distinguished Chair in Disability Studies and Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley UCLA’s Disability Studies program announces a two-day conference on Disability as Spectacle (April 13-14, […]

CSW Research Affiliate Brown Bag: “Polar Environmental Discourses: Film, Politics, and Oil in the Anthropocene,” Lisa Bloom

Rolfe 2125

Polar Environmental Discourses:  Film, Politics, and Oil in the Anthropocene Bring your lunch and join CSW Research Affiliates for a brown bag research presentation! RSVP ONLINE Taken from a book project titled Polar Aesthetics in the Anthropocene: Imagining Climate, Lisa Bloom brings together issues in critical climate change scholarship to examine aspects of feminist and […]

Dissident Friendships: Feminism, Imperialism, and Transnational Solidarity

Rolfe 2125

This talk focuses on the ways that feminist scholars have negotiated the complicated, conflicted, and contradictory terrain of friendship. It offers fresh perspectives on feminists' invested, reluctant, and selective uses of the nation; reflects on how the arts contribute to conversations about feminism, dissent, resistance, and solidarity; and unpacks the details of transnational dissident friendships. […]

Southeast Asian Cinemas Research Network (SEACRN): Promoting Dialogue Across Critical and Creative Practice

Darren Starr Screening Room UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television, Los Angeles, 90095

A two day symposium featuring screenings of short films and roundtable discussion. Featured filmmakers: Thi Nguyen Trinh (Hanoi Doclab, Vietnam), Anocha Suwichakornpong (Thailand), Nia Dinata (Kalyana Shira Films, Indonesia), Shireen Seno (Philippines) Featured scholars: Brian Bernards, Peter Bloom, Arnika Fuhrmann, Gaik Cheng Khoo, Mariam Lam, Philippa Lovatt, Cheng-Sim Lim, Bliss Cua Lim, Sudarat Musikawong, and […]

Chemical Entanglements: Gender and Exposure

UCLA 330 De Neve Dr., Los Angeles, CA, United States

May 4-5, 2017 UCLA FREE and OPEN to the public! REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! This symposium will convene a group of scholars, scientists and community based researchers, artists, documentarians, and policy makers to assess the gendered impacts of (primarily endocrine-disrupting) chemicals on human populations. By marshaling a variety of perspectives—laboratory, ethnographic, epidemiological, and narrative, this transdisciplinary […]

Bloodless: A VR Documentary Film by Gina Kim

Darren Starr Screening Room UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television, Los Angeles, 90095

"Bloodless" is a ten-minute VR film that deals with camp town comfort women for US army stationed in South Korea since the 1950s. The film traces the last living moments of a real-life sex worker who was brutally murdered by a US soldier at the Dongducheond Camptown in South Korea in 1992. Portraying the last […]

Afterland: Poetry of Mai Der Vang

Public Affairs 2270 UCLA

Mai Der Vang is the author of Afterland (Graywolf, 2017) which received the Walt Whitman Award winner from the Academy of American Poets. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, Virginia Quarterly Review, New Republic, and elsewhere. Her essays have been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the San […]