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Own Your Voice: Assertive Communication and Negotiation

CNSI Auditorium

Advancing Women in Science and Engineering presents Emilie Aries, the Founder and CEO of Bossed Up and award-winning women’s development coach, for a two-part interactive workshop on Monday, March 7th from 1 to 5:30pm at the CNSI Auditorium. "Own Your Voice" helps participants cultivate a leadership identity, navigate fear and uncertainty, and practice strategies for assertive communication and negotiation. These two sessions […]

‘If You Should Lose Me’ The Archive, the Critic, the Record Shop and the Blues Woman

Charles E. Young Research Library, Presentation Room

This talk examines the problem of iconic blues women who’ve been “lost” to history, Geeshie Wiley and Elvie Thomas, as well as the critics who’ve loved and chased after them.  By placing the politics of queer archival studies and black performance theory in conversation with canonical blues historiographies, the talk will explore the aesthetics and […]

Lee Ann S. Wang

Rolfe 2125

Asian American Feminisms and the Re-writing of the Legal Voice: Immigration Law, Criminal Enforcement, and “Cooperation” A talk by the UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley This talk will discuss the U Visa, a new form of legal protection designed to rescue undocumented immigrants from gender and sexual violence – but only if they willingly agree […]

Thinking Gender 2016

Grand Horizon Ballroom, Covel Commons, UCLA

VIDEOS NOW ONLINE! Thinking Gender is a public conference highlighting graduate student research on women, sexuality and gender across all disciplines and historical periods. This year’s theme is “Spatial Awareness, Representation, and Gendered Spaces.” PRELIMINARY PROGRAM! Download now! Or view on online! REGISTRATION INFORMATION General Registration (FREE) includes access to the keynote speech, paper and […]

Françoise Girard

UCLA Law School, Room 1457

Sex in the time of Zika: Reproductive Rights and Women’s Health in a World in Turmoil A public lecture in honor of International Women’s Day  Françoise Girard is a longtime advocate and expert on women’s health, human rights, sexuality, and HIV and AIDS. Prior to becoming President of the IWHC, she served as Director of the […]

Urgent Issues Forum/Foro Urgente: The Assassination of Berta Cáceres and the Future of Indigenous and Afrodescendant Environmental and Land Rights in Honduras

Charles E. Young Research Library, Presentation Room

On March 2, 2016, award-winning Lenca environmental and indigenous rights activist Berta Cáceres was assassinated in her home in Honduras. She had received multiple threats from military and paramilitary groups linked to the mining and dams interests that she opposed. Gustavo Castro, a Mexican activist who was in Berta's home and was injured in the […]

Masen Davis

Royce 314

The Movement of Our Time: Transgender Equality at the Crossroads A talk by the 2015-2016 Regents' Lecturer Mason Davis, Executive Director, Transgender Law Center Masen Davis has more than two decades of leadership and activism in the LGBT movement. Under his direction, TLC’s impact litigation secured groundbreaking federal protections in 2012 against employment discrimination for transgender and […]

How Societies and States Count

Royce 306

Censuses in Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom A Discussion with the authors of Antecedents of Censuses From Medieval to Nation States: How Societies and States Count (Volume 1) and Changes in Censuses from Imperialist to Welfare States: How Societies and States Count (Volume 2), Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Featuring Rebecca Jean Emigh, UCLA, Sociology; Dylan […]

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 […]