The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

Humanities Room 135

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 […]

Racializing Normative Markets: Whiteness, Masculinity, and the “Efficiency” of Networks

Haines 352

A talk by Karen Ho, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. While 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. […]

Ungrid-able Ecologies: Cultivating the Arts of Attention in a 10,000 Year-Old Happening

Royce 306

  In "Ungrid-able Ecologies," Natasha Myers will explore what can a queer, feminist, decolonized ecology can reveal about the relationships that develop between species. Ecology 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 […]

Black Feminism, The Carceral State, and Abolition

Royce 314

A Book Talk by Sarah Haley with responses by Mariame Kaba and Dayo Gore Drawing 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 […]

Racialized State Violence in Global Perspective

Royce 306 & 314 and Harry and Yvonne Lenart Auditorium of the Fowler Museum

RSVP! eventsrsvp.ucla.edu/RacializedViolence Conference schedule now available! Download here or view online! Questions? Email: rsv@csw.ucla.edu The 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 […]

Chinyere Oparah

Charles E. Young Research Library, Presentation Room

Birth Matters: Research Justice and Black Life African 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 […]

Women’s Reproductive Health and the Environment

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

Advocacy Through Education Women's Reproductive Health and the Environment: Best Practices for Los Angeles County A 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. Plenary Session Update on the Hidden Reproductive […]

Christina Sharpe, “In the Wake: On Blackness and Being”

Humanities 193 UCLA

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. This talk will draw from In the Wake: On Blackness […]

The Poetics of Fragility: a Film Screening and Discussion with Lata Mani

Charles E Young Research Library Conference Room

A film screening and conversation. Lata 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). […]

Fear: UCLA French and Francophone Studies 2016 Graduate Conference

306 and 314 Royce Hall UCLA

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 […]

Black Feminist Vision: A Symposium on Possibility and Practice

Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon UCLA, Los Angeles

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. Please register HERE for each day […]

Talking Trash: Oral Histories of Food In/Security from the Margins of a Dumpster

Ackerman Grand Ballroom UCLA, Los Angeles

Part of Dishing: A Lecture Series on Food, Feminism, and the Way We Eat. Video now available on YouTube! A talk by Rachel Vaughn, Adjunct Assistant Professor at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and the UCLA Department of Gender Studies Join us after the talk for the Fighting Hunger Fair -- your […]