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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 […]

Andrea C. Gore, “Environmental Endocrine Disruption of Reproduction, the Brain, and Behavior”

Community Health Sciences 43-105 UCLA, Los Angeles

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 […]

Ruha Benjamin: “The Emperor’s New Genes: Science, Race, Justice, and the Allure of Objectivity

Charles E. Young Research Library, Presentation Room

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 […]

Aurora Levins Morales, “Justice is Our Medicine: Ecology, Disability and Health”

Cypress Room, Faculty Center

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, […]