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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 […]

Forms of Power and the Power of Forms: Annual Comparative Literature Grad Student Conference

Royce 306

This year’s UCLA Comparative Literature Graduate Conference will explore the many ways in which form colludes and contends with, is created by and creates, power. From epic poetry to the English sonnet to the novel, literary forms have conspired with power to produce political identities and practices of domination. Indeed, one might argue that certain […]

CSW Awards Luncheon & Keynote Address

Sequoia Room, Faculty Center UCLA, Los Angeles

This event is now past. Photo highlights of the 2017 Awards Luncheon are available HERE.   Join the UCLA Center for the Study of Women for a special end of the year event to honor our student award recipients and the Center’s accomplishments over the past year! FEATURING A KEYNOTE ADDRESS Rise Up! Feminism in […]

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Reproductive Health and the Environment in Los Angeles County: Best Practices for Los Angeles County

The California Endowment 1000 North Alameda Sreet, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Free Symposium organized by the Iris Cantor-UCLA Women's Health Center Plenary Session Environmental Policies of the New Administration that Impact Women’s Health and California’s Response Symposium Topics Addressing the Impact of Poor Air, Soil, and Water Quality on Preconception, Prenatal, and Children’s Health in Relation to: Grassroots Advocacy Applying Research into Action Policy and Legislative […]

CSW Open House

Center for the Study of Women 1500 Public Affairs

Welcome, new Bruins; and welcome back, continuing UCLA Students!  Drop by CSW during True Bruin Welcome Week Departmental Open House Day!  Come learn about our student award opportunities, student research projects, upcoming events, and other opportunities for students! Meet our staff, and find out more about what CSW offers to all members of our campus […]

Weaving Generations Together: Opening Reception

Powell Library Main and East Rotundas UCLA

Please join us at Powell Library for the opening reception to Weaving Generations Together: Evolving Creativity in the Maya of Chiapas. This exhibition explores cultural transmission and learning through children’s play weaving and apprenticeship in the Maya Highland community of Zincantán, Chiapas, Mexico. The exhibition sho ws over one hundred textiles from Zincantán drawn from […]

Disability Awareness Week

October 9-13 is Disability Awareness Week at UCLA! The week’s events include: Center for Accessible Education Open House Learn about accessibility resources available through CAE and CAPS DATE: Monday, October 9 TIME: 11 AM - 1 PM LOCATION: A255 Murphy Hall UCLA Committee on Disability Open Meeting Meet the committee and discuss your accessibility concerns […]

Democratizing Research Access: Overcoming Exclusion from Well-Resourced University Research Libraries

Rolfe 2125

Democratizing Research Access: Overcoming Exclusion from Well-Resourced University Research Libraries CSW Research Affiliate Brown Bag Wednesday, October 11, 2-3:30 p.m., Rolfe 2125 RSVP Here: https://uclacsw.submittable.com/submit/93276/free-registration-democratizing-research-access   Stay afterwards for the CSW/Gender Studies Fall Reception in the Rolfe Courtyard at 4pm! Reception Details: https://csw.ucla.edu/event/fall-welcome-reception/ For a growing number of scholars, gaining access to adequate library resources--both […]

For those walking to the border for dear life, and for those seeking a place of kinship in resistance: A performance and conversation with Merlinda Bobis

Humanities 193 UCLA

Through performance and conversation with Distinguished Professor Sherene Razack, award-winning poet, novelist and dramatist Merlinda Bobis reflects on Philippine indigenous values of kinship and the intertwined journey of writer-and-characters in her novels Locust Girl. A Lovesong (2016 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction) and Fish-Hair Woman (2014 Philippine National Book Award), and in her new poetry […]

CrossCheck Live: “Campus Speech: A Right to Speak? A Duty to Listen? An Obligation to Learn?”

Pauley Pavillion Club UCLA

In recent years, both the left and the right have raised concerns about free speech, censorship, and academic freedom on college campuses. And media outlets—from the Atlantic to the New York Times to the Chronicle of Higher Education—have weighed in, offering a range of  views on whether academic institutions are failing their core mission to […]