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Native Healing and Justice from California to Hawai’i: A Public Dialogue

5391 Public Affairs UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Featured speakers: Katherine Irwin, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Wayde Lee, Director, Kahua Ola Hou Karen Umemoto, Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Hawai'i at Manoa with an introduction by Randall Akee (Assistant Professor, Department of Public Policy and American Indian Studies, UCLA) and a response by Jessica […]

Thinking Gender 2017: “Imagining Reparations”

UCLA Faculty Center Los Angeles, CA

Thinking Gender, Imagining Reparations 27th Annual Thinking Gender Graduate Student Research Conference February 9-10, 2017 UCLA Faculty Center FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! REGISTRATION INFORMATION Featuring: “For the Texas Bama Femme: A Black Fem(me)inist Reading of Beyonce’s ‘Sorry’" 12:00 PM, February 9 California Room Plenary address by  Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley Professor of African and […]

Sharra Vostral, “Testing Tampons: Toxic Shock Syndrome, Feminist Advocates, and Absorbency Standards”

Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon UCLA, Los Angeles

Part of CSW's Feminism + the Senses Lecture Series RSVP ONLINE: HTTP://WWW.CSW.UCLA.EDU/VOSTRAL During the 1980s in the aftermath of Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSS), the Centers for Disease Control recommended that women use the least absorbent tampons possible, yet manufacturers did not label boxes with reliable information.  This talk examines the establishment of the Tampon Task […]

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 […]