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SUMMARY:CSW Awards Luncheon & Keynote Address
DESCRIPTION:This event is now past. Photo highlights of the 2017 Awards Luncheon are available HERE. \n  \n\nJoin 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!\nFEATURING A KEYNOTE ADDRESS\nRise Up! Feminism in the Age of Trump\nBy Katherine Spillar\nExecutive Director\, Feminist Majority Foundation\nExecutive Editor\, Ms. Magazine\n \nWe’ve marched. We’ve rallied. We’ve gone on strike. And we must keep on fighting to protect and advance our rights at this critical political moment.\nKatherine Spillar\, who leads one of the feminist movement’s most influential organizations\, will share lessons and strategies from the field to inform and inspire us as we move forward. \n\nSequoia Room\, UCLA Faculty Center\nCampus Map\nTickets are $20 and non-refundable\nREGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED\nDeadline to purchase tickets: Friday\, May 19\, 2017\nSelf-pay parking available in Structure 2\n\nAll CSW Events are Fragrance-Free! Learn more information HERE.\nIf you have questions or have RSVP’d but can no longer can attend\, please contact CSW Manager Kristina Magpayo Nyden at kristina@women.ucla.edu. \n\nKatherine Spillar is the Executive Director of the Feminist Majority Foundation and the Feminist Majority\, national organizations working for women’s equality\, empowerment\, and non-violence. One of the founders\, Spillar has been a driving force in executing the organizations’ diverse programs securing women’s rights both domestically and globally since its inception in 1987.  She has played a leading role in national and state level campaigns to win women’s rights legislation\, and leads the organization’s efforts to counter the effects of extremist anti-abortion groups that target women’s reproductive health clinics.  She has been key in the Feminist Majority Foundation’s Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan to counter the Taliban’s abuse of women; for this work\, the organization was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. \n \nSpillar is the Executive Editor of Ms. magazine\, which the Feminist Majority Foundation took over publishing in 2001. Under her oversight\, Ms. has increased its investigative reporting\, winning the prestigious “Maggie Award” for best feature article for its investigation into the network of extremists connected to Scott Roeder\, who murdered Dr. George Tiller. \nSpillar is a trained economist and researcher and a specialist in community organizing.  She speaks to diverse audiences nationwide on a broad range of domestic and international feminist topics and appears frequently on television and radio.  She has appeared on NPR’s Morning Edition\, 60 Minutes\, the Rachel Maddow Show\, NPR’s Fresh Air with Terri Gross and Tell Me More with Michel Martin\, the O’Reilly Factor\, CNN\, ABC Nightly News\, CBS News\, NBC\, FOX\, the Tavis Smiley Show\, Politically Incorrect\, and Hannity & Colmes. \n 
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/csw-awards-luncheon-2017
LOCATION:Sequoia Room\, Faculty Center\, UCLA\, Los Angeles\, 90024
CATEGORIES:CSW originated
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170526
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170527
DTSTAMP:20260403T124231
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SUMMARY:Forms of Power and the Power of Forms: Annual Comparative Literature Grad Student Conference
DESCRIPTION: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 forms were produced by and in the service of power in the first instance. Likewise\, writers and artists have mobilized (literary) form as a site for remix and resistance. Representation—literary\, visual\, or aural—necessarily involves structures of reading\, seeing\, and hearing that hyperlink to powerful modes of knowing and their rebellious detractors.\n\nKeynote speaker: Michelle M. Wright\, Professor of African American Studies and Comparative Literary Studies\, Northwestern University
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/forms-power-power-forms-annual-comparative-literature-grad-student-conference/
LOCATION:Royce 306
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170525T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170525T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T124231
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SUMMARY:Afterland: Poetry of Mai Der Vang
DESCRIPTION: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 Francisco Chronicle\, among others. Mai Der’s work has also been anthologized in Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora. As an editorial member of the Hmong American Writers’ Circle\, she is co-editor of How Do I Begin: A Hmong American Literary Anthology. Mai Der has received residencies from Hedgebrook and is a Kundiman fellow. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of California\, Berkeley\, along with a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing/Poetry from Columbia University. She lives in Fresno\, California. \nDATE: May 25\nTIME: 4:00 PM\nLOCATION: Public Affairs 2270 \nCo-sponsors: Southeast Asian Campus Learning Education and Retention\, UCLA Department of English\, Center for Southeast Asian Studies\, Asian American Studies Center\, Department of Asian American Studies\, Department of Community Programs Office & Writing Success Program\, Center for the Study of Women
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/afterland-poetry-mai-der-vang/
LOCATION:Public Affairs 2270\, UCLA
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:Bloodless: A VR Documentary Film by Gina Kim
DESCRIPTION:“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 hours of her life in the camp town\, the VR film transposes a historical and political issue into a personal and concrete experience. This film was shot on location where the crime took place\, bringing to light ongoing experiences at the 96 camp towns near or around the US military bases.\nA Crayon Film production\, Written and Directed by Gina Kim\, Produced by Jiyoung Kang and Seonah Kim \nArtist Talk: 5-7PM on Wednesday\, May 24th\, 2017 at Darren Star Screening Room \nVR Viewing Experience (RSVP Only): 3:45-5PM on Wednesday\, May 24th\, 2017 at Melnitz Hall TV3 \nPlease RSVP to Sharon Choi (shasung.choi@gmail.com) for VR viewing experience. \nThis project was sponsored by Dankook University Graduate School of Cinematic Content (BK 21 Plus)\, Venta VR\, UCLA Center for the Study of Women\, UCLA The Center for Korean Studies\, UCLA Institute of American Cultures\, UCLA Asian American Studies Center
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/bloodless-vr-documentary-film-gina-kim/
LOCATION:Darren Starr Screening Room\, UCLA School of Theater\, Film\, and Television\, Los Angeles\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170506
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SUMMARY:Chemical Entanglements: Gender and Exposure
DESCRIPTION:May 4-5\, 2017\nUCLA\nFREE and OPEN to the public!\nREGISTRATION NOW OPEN!\nThis 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 collaboration will seek to explore how gender has made a difference in the public’s knowledge with regard to the cumulative effects of environmental toxins. Speakers will use methods from across scholarly disciplines to assess the way gendered patterns of exposure contribute to illnesses. Attendees will have the opportunity to meet researchers\, community organizers\, artists\, and innovators who are changing the way we approach: \n\nReproductive justice\, maternal health\, and endocrine disruption\nUrban oil drilling in Los Angeles\nIncome inequality\, environmental health\, and environmental justice\nExposure to indoor air pollution in homes and workplaces\nPesticides\, flame retardants\, and birth defects\nMultiple Chemical Sensitivity\, Toxicant-Induced Loss of Tolerance\, and exposure illness\nToxic personal care and cleaning products\nTraining the next generation of environmental innovators and advocates\n\nTravel Grants are available for non-UCLA graduate students and independent scholars to attend the Symposium! If you would like to apply\, please visit our Travel Grants page. \nAll CSW Events are Fragrance-Free! CSW is dedicated to creating a safe and accessible space for everyone who participates in our events and programs. For information on our fragrance-free initiative and details on requesting accessibility accommodations\, please visit our Event Accessibility page. \nSign-language interpretation will be available at Florence Williams’s keynote address on May 4 at 4pm in the Charles E. Young Research Library Main Conference Room. \nVideo of conference presentations will be made available on CSW’s YouTube channel following the event\, and we will also be live-tweeting the proceedings for those unable to attend — follow the hashtag #CECSW to stay connected! \nSCHEDULE OF EVENTS AVAILABLE HERE\nWe are thrilled to be welcoming Keynote Speaker Florence Williams!\n\n\nFlorence Williams is a contributing editor at Outside Magazine and a freelance writer for the New York Times\, New York Times Magazine\, The New York Review of Books\, Slate\, Mother Jones\, High Country News\, O-Oprah\, W.\, Bicycling\, and numerous other publications. She is also the writer and host of the new Audible Original series\, Breasts Unbound. \nA fellow at the Center for Humans and Nature and a visiting scholar at George Washington University\, her work focuses on the environment\, health\, and science. In 2007-2008\, she was a Scripps Fellow at the Center of Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado. \nHer first book\, BREASTS: A Natural and Unnatural History  (W.W. Norton 2012)\, received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in science and technology and the 2013 Audie in general nonfiction. It was also named a notable book of 2012 by the New York Times. \n\nWe are excited to welcome our Panel Session Speakers:\nKarim Ahmed (National Council for Science and the Environment) \nJesse Cohen (Canaries) \nMartha Dina Arguello (Physicians for Social Responsibility) \nDavid Crews (University of Texas at Austin) \nNourbese Flint (Black Women for Wellness) \nKim Fortun (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) \nAndrea Gore (University of Texas at Austin) \nLiza Grandia (UC Davis) \nTyrone Hayes (UC Berkeley) \nmark! Lopez (East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice) \nShahir Masri (UC Irvine) \nTeresa Montoya (New York University) \nPeggy Munson (Artist\, Writer\, Activist) \nAna Soto (Tufts University School of Medicine) \nFor a compiled list of the Speaker Biographies and Abstracts\, please visit the CE Speaker Bios and Abstracts page. \nREGISTER TODAY! \n\nCo-sponsored by:\n\nUCLA Luskin Endowment for Thought Leadership\nUCLA Council on Research Trans-Disciplinary Seed Grant\nUCLA Office of Interdisciplinary & Cross Campus Affairs\nUCLA Social Sciences Dean’s Faculty Opportunity Fund\nEnvironmental Health Sciences\nCenter for Occupational & Environmental Health\nInstitute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE)\nInstitute for Society and Genetics\nIris Cantor-UCLA Women’s Health Center\nLaboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS)\nLabor Occupational Safety and Health Program (LOSH)\nMuriel C. McClendon\, Social Sciences Equity Advisor (Equity\, Diversity\, and Inclusion Office)\nPaul Barber\, Life Sciences Equity Advisor (Equity\, Diversity\, and Inclusion Office)\nSchool of Nursing\nUCLA Division of Social Sciences\nCharles E. Young Research Library\nLGBT Campus Resource Center\nBacked by Equity\, Diversity\, and Inclusion\n\nGet Involved:\nJOIN OUR WORKING GROUP: Faculty and graduate students from across disciplines meet quarterly to discuss issues related to gender and exposure. Learn how to join here. \nJOIN OUR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT GROUP: Undergraduate students can volunteer or receive research credit to conduct original research\, participate in awareness campaigns\, shape policy recommendations\, and contribute to educational videos. Learn how to join here.  \nREAD OUR BLOG: The Chemical Entanglements blog features reports from the field\, interviews\, film reviews\, and more! Read our latest updates here.\n \nWRITE FOR THE BLOG: We want your contributions to the Chemical Entanglements blog! Find out more here. \nSHARE THE AIR: One simple way that you can reduce your exposure to toxic chemicals–and help safeguard the health of those around you–is by using fewer fragranced products in your everyday life. Learn more about CSW’s Share the Air initiative.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/chemical-entanglements-gender-exposure/
LOCATION:UCLA\, 330 De Neve Dr.\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CSW originated
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170430
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SUMMARY:Southeast Asian Cinemas Research Network (SEACRN): Promoting Dialogue Across Critical and Creative Practice
DESCRIPTION:A two day symposium featuring screenings of short films and roundtable discussion. \nFeatured filmmakers:\nThi Nguyen Trinh (Hanoi Doclab\, Vietnam)\, Anocha Suwichakornpong (Thailand)\, Nia Dinata (Kalyana Shira Films\, Indonesia)\, Shireen Seno (Philippines) \nFeatured scholars:\nBrian Bernards\, Peter Bloom\, Arnika Fuhrmann\, Gaik Cheng Khoo\, Mariam Lam\, Philippa Lovatt\, Cheng-Sim Lim\, Bliss Cua Lim\, Sudarat Musikawong\, and Fatimah Tobing Rony
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/southeast-asian-cinemas-research-network-seacrn-promoting-dialogue-across-critical-creative-practice/
LOCATION:Darren Starr Screening Room\, UCLA School of Theater\, Film\, and Television\, Los Angeles\, 90095
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170426T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170426T180000
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SUMMARY:Dissident Friendships: Feminism\, Imperialism\, and Transnational Solidarity
DESCRIPTION: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. \nFeaturing the editors of Dissident Friendships: Feminism\, Imperialism\, and Transnational Solidarity \nElora Halim Chowdhury \nUniversity of Massachusetts\, Boston\nAssociate Professor and Chair of Women’s and Gender Studies Department\, College of Liberal Arts Affiliate faculty\, Asian Studies Department; Asian American Studies Program\nAffiliated Researcher\, Consortium on Gender\, Security and Human Rights \nLiz Philipose \nIndependent Scholar\nLiz Philipose is an educator whose research focuses on consciousness\, the human condition in modernity\, and potential catalysts for social transformation. Her interests have taken her into academic work and a tenured professorship in the fields of feminist philosophy\, international politics\, and cultural studies.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/dissident-friendships-feminism-imperialism-transnational-solidarity/
LOCATION:Rolfe 2125
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170421T120000
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SUMMARY:CSW Research Affiliate Brown Bag: "Polar Environmental Discourses: Film\, Politics\, and Oil in the Anthropocene\," Lisa Bloom
DESCRIPTION:Polar Environmental Discourses:  Film\, Politics\, and Oil in the Anthropocene \nBring your lunch and join CSW Research Affiliates for a brown bag research presentation! \nRSVP ONLINE \nTaken 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 environmentalist polar art in the work of Brenda Longfellow. Focusing on oil drilling in the Alaskan Arctic\, this paper invites us to think about how conventional narratives about oil production and consumption\, science\, gender\, and race\, as well as attitudes towards nature\, technology\, and the wilderness are being reimagined through interactive documentaries in the early 21st century. \nLisa Bloom is the author of Gender on Ice: American Ideologies of Polar Expeditions (University of Minnesota Press\, 1993)\, the first critical book on the Arctic and Antarctic in the US written from a feminist and postcolonial perspective. Her other books include an edited anthology titled With Other Eyes: Looking at Race and Gender in Visual Culture (University of Minnesota Press\,1999) and Jewish Identities in U.S. Feminist Art: Ghosts of Ethnicity. (Routledge\, London\, 2006). She is currently a Research Affiliate at the Center for the Study of Women at UCLA. Her forthcoming book is titled: Imagining Climate: Art and Visual Culture of the Polar Regions in the Anthropocene.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/csw-research-affiliate-brown-bag-polar-environmental-discourses-film-politics-oil-anthropocene-lisa-bloom/
LOCATION:Rolfe 2125
CATEGORIES:CSW originated
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170414
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170415
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SUMMARY:"Contexts of Crisis: Danger\, Opportunity\, and the Unknown\," History Graduate Students Association Conference
DESCRIPTION:Keynote Speaker: Robin D.G. Kelley\, Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History\, Department of History\, UCLA
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/contexts-crisis-danger-opportunity-unknown-history-graduate-students-association-conference/
LOCATION:Young Research Library\, UCLA
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170413
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170415
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SUMMARY:Disability as Spectacle
DESCRIPTION:Keynote Addresses:\nROSEMARIE GARLAND-THOMSON\, Professor of English & Bioethics at Emory University \n\nDJ KURS\, Artistic Director for Deaf West Theatre \n\nKAREN NAKAMURA\, Robert and Colleen Haas Distinguished Chair in Disability Studies and\nProfessor of Anthropology at the University of California\, Berkeley\n \n\nUCLA’s Disability Studies program announces a two-day conference on Disability as Spectacle (April 13-14\, 2017).  Disability’s representation in current popular culture\, academic discourse\, and political rhetoric raises important questions about how disability is depicted and which disabilities are excluded or rendered invisible in this new cultural landscape.  How does our current moment’s heightened awareness of disability produce benefits and/or disadvantages in other social\, political\, or economic spheres? The conference theme encourages scholars\, practitioners\, artists\, and activists to think critically about disability’s representations and invites them to share ideas about the future of disability rights and Disability Studies as this historically marginalized community continues to make advances in mainstream culture. \nThis conference aims to stimulate a discussion around how society constructs\, reacts\, and embraces or rejects visible and invisible disabilities in the public sphere.  As representations change in popular and political culture\, scholars\, practitioners\, artists\, and activists will need to confront a changing milieu in which (some) disabilities are de-stigmatized while others are prevented from participation. \nThe film and television industry’s role in disability’s changing status makes Los Angeles an ideal location to reflect upon disability as spectacle.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/disability-as-spectacle/
LOCATION:Luskin Conference Center
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:Scope Lab Workshops
DESCRIPTION: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 inclusive?”. Each workshop will consist of hands-on programming exercises\, a lecture and discussion\, and projects developed collaboratively. We will be using a software platform called p5.js\, which is an open source JavaScript framework that makes creating visual media with code on the web accessible to artists\, designers\, educators\, and beginners. For questions or to sign up\, please write to scopelab@p5js.org.\n\nWHO IS SCOPE LAB?\nScope lab workshops are free and open for all UCLA students. Workshops may be attended on a drop-in basis\, but we do encourage students to come to the entire series. No prior coding knowledge is necessary\, all levels of experience are welcomed and encouraged. \nScope Lab is led by Lauren McCarthy\, Assistant Professor in the Design Media Arts Department and Miriam Posner\, Director of the Digital Humanities Program\, with Graduate Researchers Stalgia Grigg and Christina Yglesias. Collaborating groups and departments include UCLA Computer Science\, VoidLab (a feminist student collective in the Design Media Arts Department)\, UCLA Arts Software Studio\, and the NYU Ability Project. \n\n\nThe workshops will occur biweekly on Monday evenings\, from 5:30-7:30pm at the Broad Art Center\, room 3261A (New Mars). \nApril 10 | Uncertainty and Experimental Data Visualisation\nMiriam Posner (Digital Humanities) and Lauren McCarthy (Design Media Arts) \nApril 24 | Experimental Language Design\nAlessandro Warth (Computer Science) \nMay 8 | Feminist Artistic Strategies in Online Spaces\nVoidLab \nMay 22 | Multiperspectival Experimental Data Visualisation\nMiriam Posner (Digital Humanities) and Lauren McCarthy (Design Media Arts) \nJune 5 | Designing for Accessibility and Disability \nClaire Kearney-Volpe (NYU Ability Project) \n\n\nFURTHER READING\nCatherine D’Ignazio\, Lauren Klein\, Feminist Data Visualization\nShaka McGlotten\, Black Data\nJohanna Drucker\, 3DH Visualizations\nJohanna Drucker\, Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display\nMimi Onuoha\, Missing Data Sets\nMushon Zer-Aviv\, If Everything is a Network\, Nothing is a Network\nMelissa Gregg\, Inside the Data Spectacle\nKim Gallon\, Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities  \n\n\nScope Lab is supported by a grant from the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture and the UCLA Center for the Study of Women.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/scope-lab-workshop-uncertainty-experimental-data-visualisation/
LOCATION:3261A Broad Art Center\, UCLA\, UCLA\, Los Angeles
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:Black Milk: Colonial Foodways and Intimate Imperialism
DESCRIPTION:  \nAll CSW events are Fragrance-Free. Learn more about our event accessibility policy. \n  \nPart of Dishing: Food\, Feminism\, and the Way We Eat. Video now available on YouTube!\n \nA talk by Diana Garvin\, PhD in Italian Studies\, Cornell University \nThis talk will use original Italian and Ethiopian sources to examine breastfeeding in the colonial marketplace as a key plank in the social construction of race and racism in the colonies.  Specifically\, I will examine the Italian Fascist regime’s propagandistic newsreels and unpublished photographs of Ethiopian markets in Addis Ababa\, Harrar\, Quórum\, and Asmara in relation with postcolonial oral histories and architectural studies of these spaces. \nWhile breastfeeding represented a significant arena of political struggle over the care and nourishment of future generations in the colonies\, contemporary historical studies rarely examine this practice as a primary component of imperial foodways. This stance builds on Kyla Wazana Tompkins’ assertion that food confuses physical borders between the self and racial others.  My talk contributes an intersectional approach to the discipline by using breastfeeding in the marketplace to investigate the Fascist regime’s twinned seizure of food and women’s bodies\, a mode of cultural erasure that bell hooks refers to as “eating the other.” \nInterweaving the voices of vendors\, customers\, architects\, and government officials in this image-based study of Ethiopian marketplaces not only helps to untangle the filmic decisions and techniques that directors used to construct race and racism through mass media\, but also offers a more cohesive portrait of women’s daily lives in Italian East Africa under Fascism.  Ultimately\, I contend that the marketplace provided a powerful symbolic arena for forming\, shaping\, and perpetuating the racial thinking that defined Ethiopian and Italian people\, markets\, and foodways in terms of black and white. \nDiana Garvin holds a PhD in Italian Studies from Cornell University. Her dissertation\, “Feeding Fascism: Tabletop Politics in Italy and Italian East Africa\, 1922-1945\,” draws on Gender Studies\, Colonial Studies\, and Material Culture Studies and analyzes food as the physical evidence of power negotiations between individual women and the State in Italy and in former Italian East Africa (modern-day Ethiopia\, Eritrea\, and Somalia). Garvin conducted her research at over 25 museums and archives\, including the Archivio Diaristico Nazionale\, the Biblioteca Gastronomica\, the Archivio Barilla\, and the Archivio Centrale dello Stato. Garvin’s work has been supported by the AAUW American Fellowship (2015)\, the Julia Child Foundation Scholarship (2014) and the AFS Sue Samuelson Award for Foodways Scholarship (2013). Thanks to the support of the CLIR Mellon Fellowship\, she spent the 2015-2016 academic year conducting research in Italy for her second project on colonial foodways and East African women’s domestic work in Italian homesteads. \nGarvin’s research has been published in Critical Inquiry and the edited volumes\, Doing Research To Improve Teaching And Learning\, Representing Italy through Food\, Communicating Italian Food\, and Food and Material Culture: Proceedings of the 2013 Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery. In addition to her publications\, Garvin directed the conference\, “The Language of Food: Exploring Representations of the Culinary in Culture\,” at Cornell in 2012. Prior to her graduate work at Cornell\, Garvin taught at the Johns Hopkins SAIS Associazione Italo-Americana in Bologna\, Italy\, and at the Université François Rabelais in Tours\, France. In 2006\, she received her A.B. in Romance Studies (Italian\, French\, Spanish) from Harvard University. \nHer favorite Italian proverb is “O mangi questa minestra o salti dalla finestra\,” – “Eat this soup or jump out the window.” \n  \nCo-sponsored by:\n\nUCLA Division of Social Sciences\nUCLA Healthy Campus Initiative\nUCLA Department of History\nUCLA Food Studies Graduate Certificate Program\nUCLA Center for European and Russian Studies\nIris Cantor—UCLA Women’s Health Center\nUCLA Department of Italian
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/black-milk-colonial-foodways-intimate-imperialism/
LOCATION:Charles E Young Research Library Conference Room
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170406T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170406T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T124231
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SUMMARY:Kathryn Everly\, "The Modern Woman Soldier and Gender Crisis during the Spanish Civil War"
DESCRIPTION: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 Award for feminist scholarship in a foreign language field awarded by the Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages Association\, as well as a research grant from the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States Universities.  She has published several book chapters and articles in various journals including Letras peninsulares\,  Hispanic Journal\, and Catalan Review.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/kathryn-everly-female-militarization-revolution-spanish-civil-war-photography-film/
LOCATION:Lydeen Library\, 4302 Rolfe Hall\, UCLA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170308T060000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170308T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T124231
CREATED:20170225T013058Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170225T013058Z
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SUMMARY:Words About Women Matter: Poetry\, Performance\, and Spoken Word Contest
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis event is open to the UCLA Community\, as well as family and friends. Suggested entrance fee is $10\, which includes dinner and entertainment. The audience will select the winners. \nAwards: Cash prizes! First place: $75. Second and Third places: $50. All contestants will also designate an international women’s organization to share in the door proceeds. \nDeadline: to enter\, submit the attached for by email to Chiao-Wen Lan (chiaowen@ucla.edu) by March 2 at 11:59 PM. Contestants selected to participate will be notified by March 6 at 6 PM. Only submission per person \nSponsored by: Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health\, Center for the Study of Women\, UCLA International Institute\, Reproductive Health Interest Group\, Art & Global Health Center\, and the Word on Wednesday
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/words-women-matter-poetry-performance-spoken-word-contest/
LOCATION:Kerckhoff Hall Art Gallery\, UCLA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170223T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170223T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T124231
CREATED:20160624T170528Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170321T213937Z
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SUMMARY:Sharra Vostral\, "Testing Tampons: Toxic Shock Syndrome\, Feminist Advocates\, and Absorbency Standards"
DESCRIPTION:Part of CSW’s Feminism + the Senses Lecture Series\nRSVP ONLINE: HTTP://WWW.CSW.UCLA.EDU/VOSTRAL\nDuring 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 Force\, the contested “syngina” synthetic vagina lab apparatus to test tampon absorbency\, and the regulation of  female-specific tampon technologies.   The legacy of these efforts is the standardization of absorbency ratings as well as product labeling\, and evidence of the importance of feminist health activists’ involvement within policy negotiations. \nSharra Vostral is an Associate Professor of History in the College of Liberal Arts at Purdue University\, where she is affiliated with both Women’s\, Gender & Sexuality Studies\, and American Studies. Her research centers upon the history of technology\, specifically gender\, and histories of medical devices and health. Her book\, Under Wraps: A History of Menstrual Hygiene Technology examines the social and technological history of sanitary napkins and tampons\, and the effects of technology upon women’s experiences of menstruation. Her current research explores the 1980 health crisis of Toxic Shock Syndrome and its relationship to tampon technologies. \nShe received her Ph.D. in History at Washington University in St. Louis. She completed her M.A. in American Studies at St. Louis University\, and earned honors in Comparative Religion at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. Before coming to Purdue\, she was an Associate Professor in Gender & Women’s Studies and History at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. \n  \nSupported by the Estrin Family Lecture Series Fund\n\nCO-SPONSORS:\nThe Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health\nThe Institute for Society and Genetics\nUCLA Department of History\nUCLA Center for Social Medicine and the Humanities
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/sharra-vostral/
LOCATION:Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon\, UCLA\, Los Angeles
CATEGORIES:CSW originated
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170209T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170210T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T124231
CREATED:20160623T192220Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221026T191506Z
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SUMMARY:Thinking Gender 2017: "Imagining Reparations"
DESCRIPTION:Thinking Gender\, Imagining Reparations\n27th Annual Thinking Gender Graduate Student Research Conference\nFebruary 9-10\, 2017\nUCLA Faculty Center\n\nFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! \nREGISTRATION INFORMATION\n \n\nFeaturing:\n“For the Texas Bama Femme: A Black Fem(me)inist Reading of Beyonce’s ‘Sorry’”\n12:00 PM\, February 9\nCalifornia Room\nPlenary address by  Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley \nProfessor of African and African Diaspora Studies\, University of Texas at Austin \nRespondent: Shana Redmond\, UCLA \n\n“Re-writing the World”\n10:45 AM\, February 10\nCalifornia Room\nPlenary workshop with Nalo Hopkinson \nProfessor of Creative Writing\, UC Riverside \nAward-winning author of Brown Girl in the Ring \n\nFULL CONFERENCE PROGRAM AVAILABLE HERE\nThis year’s conference theme\, Imagining Reparations\, engages contemporary social\, scholarly\, and literary movements that push to reimagine and retheorize what freedom\, justice\, health\, and care can look like. Historically\, reparations have taken financial form with governments recognizing victims of perceived injustice by awarding them money. Such practices have depended on and have defined the law and dominant ideas of justice within states and empires. By contrast\, marginalized groups today are reframing reparations as capable of addressing historical and ongoing abuses\, evident in law itself and manifest in biological\, environmental\, educational\, technological\, institutionalized\, political\, and diplomatic violence. The daring to imagine new forms of reparative justice emerges from raced\, gendered\, and sexualized subjectivities\, which inform movements that devastate the binary between theory and practice in their struggle to be whole. A broad and intersectional investment in reparations challenges the assigning of rights and privileges in the past\, and it is an important tool in recasting the structures that impact our daily lives. \nThinking Gender 2017\, Imagining Reparations\, takes a cue from movements that conceive of violence and reparative justice intersectionally with consequences that shape and are shaped by gender\, sexuality\, race\, class\, ability\, etc. We invite presentations of work from across disciplines that embodies this intersectional ethos and\, in particular\, envision reparations through the lens of gender and sexuality. Conference sessions will include ample time for discussion of work\, emphasizing dialogue discussion\, writing as important modes of conference participation\, and exploring their potential as feminist\, decolonial tools for learning and action. Imagining Reparations aims to create cohesion among a broad range of disciplinary engagements\, theoretical stances\, and practical applications by providing space for thinking together about the role of the academy in theorizing tools for collective liberation from gendered and racialized violence. \nThank you to our Event Co-Sponsors:\nDivision of Social Sciences \nOffice of Equity\, Diversity\, and Inclusion \nDivision of Humanities \nCritical Race Studies Program \nDepartment of African American Studies \nDisability Studies Program \nInstitute of American Cultures \nLatin American Institute Program on Caribbean Studies \nDepartment of English \nDepartment of World Arts and Cultures/Dance \nDepartment of Comparative Literature \nRalph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies \nLGBT Resource Center \n 
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/thinking-gender-2/
LOCATION:UCLA Faculty Center\, Los Angeles\, CA
CATEGORIES:CSW originated
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170130T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170130T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T124231
CREATED:20170105T193256Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170105T193256Z
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SUMMARY:Native Healing and Justice from California to Hawai'i: A Public Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:Featured speakers:\nKatherine Irwin\, Professor\, Department of Sociology\, University of Hawai’i at Manoa\nWayde Lee\, Director\, Kahua Ola Hou\nKaren Umemoto\, Professor\, Department of Urban and Regional Planning\, University of Hawai’i at Manoa \nwith an introduction by Randall Akee (Assistant Professor\, Department of Public Policy and American Indian Studies\, UCLA) and a response by Jessica Schwartz (Assistant Professor\, Department of Musicology\, UCLA) \nThis event will feature a discussion of Katherine Irwin and Karen Umemoto’s new book\, Jacked Up and Unjust: Pacific Islander Teens Confront Violent Legacies (University of California Press\, 2016). Along with Wayde Lee\, a Hawaiian practitioner of restorative justice practices\, Irwin and Umemoto will explore schooling and poverty\, gender socialization and trauma in K-12\, and community responsibility and state policing in Hawai’i and elsewhere. \n 
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/native-healing-justice-california-hawaii-public-dialogue/
LOCATION:5391 Public Affairs\, UCLA\, Los Angeles\, CA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170126T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170126T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T124231
CREATED:20170123T210143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170123T210143Z
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SUMMARY:Insurgency at the Crossroads: A Book Talk by Aisha Finch
DESCRIPTION:Professor Aisha Finch\, discuss her new prize-winning book\, RETHINKING SLAVE REBELLION IN CUBA\, with Lisa Brock\, George Lipsitz and Ula Taylor—three incredibly dynamic speakers and brilliant historians who have spent much of their lives unearthing and making sense of social movements. \nIn Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba: La Escalera and the Insurgencies of 1841-1844\, Aisha Finch traces the emergence of a dynamic resistance movement of slaves and free people of color in nineteenth-century Cuba. Drawing from the largely unexplored testimonies in the Cuban National Archive\, this book focuses attention on the hundreds of enslaved people who forged a radical\, alternative vision of freedom in Cuba’s plantation countryside. Demonstrating that black slave women and non-elite slaves were critical to shaping and organizing this movement\, Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba offers new ways to think about slave mobilizations\, black political struggles\, and histories of rebellion. \nLisa Brock is the founding director of the Praxis Center at Kalamazoo College and scholar of Black internationalism and editor of and contributor to the groundbreaking book\, Between Race and Empire: African-Americans and Cubans Before the Cuban Revolution. \nGeorge Lipsitz teaches Black Studies and Sociology at UC Santa Barbara and author of a dozen books on race\, social movements\, urban culture\, and inequality\, including A Rainbow at Midnight\, Footsteps in the Dark\, The Possessive Investment in Whiteness\, A Life in the Struggle\, Time Passages\, and How Racism Takes Place.  He is the chairman of the board of directors of the African American Policy Forum and a member of the board of directors of the National Fair Housing Alliance. \nUla Taylor teaches at UC Berkeley in African American Studies\, has produced groundbreaking scholarship on the history of Black women\, Black feminist praxis\, and nationalism.  Her books include the highly acclaimed The Veiled Garvey: The Life and Times of Amy Jacques Garvey; (with J. Tarika Lewis and Mario Van Pebbles) Panther: A Pictorial History of the Black Panthers and the Story Behind the Film; and her forthcoming\, Making a New Woman: Women and the Nation of Islam\, 1930-1975.\nCo-sponsored by: The Departments of African American Studies and Gender Studies
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/insurgency-crossroads-book-talk-aisha-finch/
LOCATION:Anderson School Collins A201\, UCLA\, Los Angeles
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161130T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161130T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T124231
CREATED:20161123T204156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161123T204351Z
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SUMMARY:RAVE Teach-In: Resisting Violence Through Education
DESCRIPTION:Hate won. Now what? Come to the first-ever Teaching Rave organized by a group of UCLA faculty\, who are committed to fighting the hate and violence of a Trump regime through a collaborative counter-movement between students\, faculty\, and staff on campus. \nFEATURING A KEYNOTE PRESENTATION BY CHERRIE MORAGA! \n  \nProgram:\nPanel presentation: Professor Sarah Haley (Gender Studies) and Professor Cheryl Harris (Law School)\nKeynote presentation: Cherrie Moraga\, Artist in Residence\, Stanford University\nOpen discussion with students facilitated by Professor Alicia Gaspar de Alba\n \nMAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD\n\nWednesday\, November 30\, 2016\n5pm-7pm\n100 Moore Hall
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/rave-teach-resisting-violence-education/
LOCATION:100 Moore Hall\, UCLA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161130T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161130T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T124232
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LAST-MODIFIED:20161104T213248Z
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SUMMARY:CSW Research Affiliate Brown Bag: Gisèle Maynard-Tucker\, "Women's Power\, Sexuality\, and Aging: A Multicultural View"
DESCRIPTION:  \nBring your lunch and join CSW’s Research Affiliates for a brown bag research presentation! \nWomen’s Power\, Sexuality\, and Aging: A Multicultural View\nby Gisèle Maynard-Tucker\nIn her research on rural Peru and urban Los Angeles\, Gisèle Maynard-Tucker assesses the impact of the environment\, culture\, economics\, and gender inequalities on the treatment of women as they age. Based on literary data\, observations and other research\, it seems that women acquire more respect in ethnic societies with age\, while in Los Angeles aging becomes a curse because of the cult of youthfulness. \nGisèle Maynard-Tucker is a medical and applied anthropologist affiliated with the Center for the Study of Women (CSW) at UCLA since 1989. She holds a Ph. D. in anthropology from UCLA (1988) and has worked as an international consultant since the 1990s for development agencies such as WHO\, USAID\, World Bank\, European Union\, POPTECH\, Development Associates\, Academy for Educational Development and many others. She has conducted research and evaluation of health programs regarding family planning\, reproductive health\, maternal and child survival and HIV/AIDS prevention in Africa\, India\, South America\, Asia\, and the Caribbean. Her recent book examines women’s health in developing countries and is titled “Rural Women’s Sexuality\, Reproductive Health and Illiteracy: A Critical Perspective on Development (Lexington Books\, 2015). \nPlease RSVP online.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/womens-power-sexuality-aging-multicultural-view/
LOCATION:1221 D Bunche Hall\, UCLA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161129T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161129T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T124232
CREATED:20160624T005213Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170808T174740Z
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SUMMARY:Delicious: A History of Monosodium Glutamate and the Fifth Taste Sensation\, Umami
DESCRIPTION:Part of Dishing: Food\, Feminism\, and the Way We Eat. Video now available on YouTube!\n \nA talk by Sarah Tracy\, Adjunct Assistant Professor at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics\n \nRSVP online! \nIn this talk\, Sarah Tracy will discuss the material and immaterial dimensions of pleasure\, pain\, guilt\, and regret around eating processed and prepared foods. She does so through the case study of self-identified MSG sensitivity – as archived in official FDA reporting channels and in online community forums\, e.g. blogs\, consumer advocacy groups\, Reddit. These questions are in reference to broader discussions of the gendered moral economies of food provision and preparation\, and that casual privilege called eating/dining out. Who’s worrying about what to eat –  and how “good” it is? Going down? Going through? Coming out? These and other abiding concerns are a kind of emotional labor that has\, historically\, been feminized in the U.S. \nSarah Tracy is an historian of the recent past\, and of the United States in the world. Her work draws on feminist science and technology studies (STS)\, food studies\, post-colonial theory\, sensory history\, and critical histories of capitalism. \nTracy’s dissertation is called\, “Delicious: A History of Monosodium Glutamate and Umami\, the Fifth Taste Sensation\,” and it examines two interrelated objects: the global commodity and flavour enhancer monosodium glutamate (MSG)\, and umami (roughly translated from the Japanese as “delicious”)\, the fifth basic taste that MSG is understood to confer. This project situates umami within translations of the life sciences between Japan and the United States\, and shows how the metabolics of taste are inseparable from global capitalisms. It brings feminist STS into conversation with sensory history\, cultural history\, and post-colonial studies to foster cross-disciplinary insight into how foods mediate value\, health\, class\, race\, happiness\, and violation. \nTracy maps how MSG explodes our categories of food\, drug\, and toxin. She trace the additive’s journey from Japan and across the globe and analyzes how it has been fetishized\, racialized\, and vilified. Tracy considers MSG as a focus point for connecting questions of authenticity and risk in foods; for connecting the state of knowledge in sensory science\, neuroscience\, and food design and marketing; and for thinking about how our food systems organize not only ways of being human (class\, ethnicity\, region)\, but the ways of being of creatures large and small (e.g. the laboratory mice in safety and cancer testing\, the farmed bacteria who produce the glutamic acid we eat when we eat MSG). \nTracy’s research has been published in Global Food History\, and is forthcoming in Radical History Review.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/delicious-history-monosodium-glutamate-fifth-taste-sensation-umami/
LOCATION:Royce 314
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161115T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161115T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T124232
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SUMMARY:Specters of the Past: M. NourbeSe Philip Reading "Zong! As Told to the Author by Sataey Adumu Boateng"
DESCRIPTION:M. NourbeSe Philip is a poet and writer and lawyer who was born in Tobago and lives in Toronto. She has published novels\, essays\, and poetry\, and was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry and a Rebels for a Cause award from the Elizabeth Fry Society of Toronto. Zong! is NourbeSe Philip’s most recent book of poetry. This extended poetry cycle is based on a legal decision\, at the end of the eighteenth century\, related to the murder of Africans on board a slave ship. \nIn November\, 1781\, the captain of the slave ship Zong ordered that some 150 Africans be murdered by drowning so that the ship’s owners could collect insurance monies. Relying entirely on the words of the legal decision Gregson vs Gilbert—the only extant public document related to the massacre of these African slaves—Zong! tells the story that cannot be told yet must be told. Equal parts song\, moan\, shout\, oath\, ululation\, curse\, and chant\, Zong! excavates the legal text. Memory\, history\, and law collide and metamorphose into the poetics of the fragment. Through the innovative use of fugal and counterpointed repetition\, Zong! becomes an anti-narrative lament that stretches the boundaries of the poetic form\, haunting the spaces of forgetting and mourning the forgotten.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/specters-past-m-nourbese-philip-reading-zong-told-author-sataey-adumu-boateng/
LOCATION:Royce 306
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161107T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161107T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T124232
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SUMMARY:Aurora Levins Morales\, "Justice is Our Medicine: Ecology\, Disability and Health"
DESCRIPTION: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\, and concentrate them through art in order to shift consciousness\, to change how we think about ourselves\, each other and the world. ” \nShe is the author of numerous books and essays\, including a chapter in the foundational volume This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color\, and\, most recently Kindling: New Writings on the Body and Cosecha and Other Stories  (co-authored with her mother\, Rosario Morales). \nIn response to chronic illness and disability\, Morales designed the Vehicle for Change\, an ecological\, sustainable\, non-toxic home\, built inside a 32 foot aluminum gooseneck trailer.  She says: “My traveling studio home is more than transportation and shelter.  It also embodies possibility and innovation.  It’s a manifestation of hope\, a solid\, three-dimensional expression of what I write about.  As I move around the country and beyond\, the fact of this vehicle\, and the need for it\, will underline and expand my words\, to help me talk about what we’re facing as a planet\, and how to face it.” \nJoin us for a talk by Aurora Levins Morales\, with discussion led by Robin Kelley. \nThis talk is part of “In the Interests of Justice: Bringing Theory into Practice.” Each of the six speakers in this series is engaged in producing vital knowledge about the relationships between health\, social inequity\, race\, gender\, and power. Featured scholars will share their recent or ongoing work\, and comment on the implications for changing and improving practice\, in the fields of law\, healthcare\, or social services\, in order to meet the needs of populations facing complex social\, health\, or disabling challenges. This series is a collaboration between Rapair\, a Los-Angeles based health and disability justice organization\, The UCLA American Indian Studies Center\, the UCLA Program in Disability Studies\, and the UCLA Department of Gender Studies. Funding and support are provided by NetCE.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/aurora-levins-morales-justice-medicine-ecology-disability-health/
LOCATION:Cypress Room\, Faculty Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161027T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161027T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T124232
CREATED:20161017T191236Z
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SUMMARY:Ruha Benjamin: "The Emperor's New Genes: Science\, Race\, Justice\, and the Allure of Objectivity
DESCRIPTION: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 redress. Finally\, she argues for a shift in focus away from individuals’ “trust” in biomedical research to the relative “trustworthiness” of institutions\, as a starting point for developing science for the public good. \nThis talk is part of “In the Interests of Justice: Bringing Theory into Practice.” Each of the six speakers in this series is engaged in producing vital knowledge about the relationships between health\, social inequity\, race\, gender\, and power. Featured scholars will share their recent or ongoing work\, and comment on the implications for changing and improving practice\, in the fields of law\, healthcare\, or social services\, in order to meet the needs of populations facing complex social\, health\, or disabling challenges. This series is a collaboration between Repair\, a Los-Angeles based health and disability justice organization\, The UCLA American Indian Studies Center\, the UCLA Program in Disability Studies\, and the The UCLA Department of Gender Studies. Funding and support are provided by NetCE. \n 
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/ruha-benjamin-emperors-new-genes-science-race-justice-allure-objectivity/
LOCATION:Charles E. Young Research Library\, Presentation Room
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161027T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161027T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T124232
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SUMMARY:Andrea C. Gore\, "Environmental Endocrine Disruption of Reproduction\, the Brain\, and Behavior"
DESCRIPTION: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 food contact containers\, and we come into contact with EDCs every day. Higher body burdens of EDCs in humans are associated with greater risk for endocrine and neurological disorders. Andrea Gore’s laboratory is using a rat model of low-dose EDC exposure\, and ascertaining the consequences on neuroendocrine and reproductive functions and behaviors. They have discovered that prenatal EDCs “reprogram” genes and proteins in the developing neuroendocrine system\, and that these molecular and cellular changes are associated with an impaired neurobehavioral phenotype. Importantly\, the effects of EDCs are manifested very differently in males and females\, a result that is consistent with sex differences in hormone actions in the nervous system. Current EDC research is beginning to identify vulnerable neuroendocrine targets\, with the potential for future therapeutic interventions. \n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Andrea Gore is Professor and Vacek Chair in Pharmacology at UT-Austin. Her NIH- funded research projects are investigating how environmental endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) perturb the developing brain\, and effects of estrogen on the aging brain as a model for menopause in women. Dr. Gore has published 4 books and 140 scientific papers. She is Chair of UT-Austin’s Faculty Council\, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Endocrine Society’s flagship basic science journal\, Endocrinology. Dr. Gore was lead author of the Society’s two Scientific Statements on EDCs\, and organized and chaired the Gordon Research Conference on EDCs in 2012. In 2016\, she was a recipient of the Endocrine Society’s Outstanding Public Service Award. \nAndrea Gore and David Crews: Living in a Contaminated World
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/andrea-c-gore-environmental-endocrine-disruption-reproduction-brain-behavior/
LOCATION:Community Health Sciences 43-105\, UCLA\, Los Angeles
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161026T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161026T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T124232
CREATED:20160624T003300Z
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SUMMARY:Talking Trash: Oral Histories of Food In/Security from the Margins of a Dumpster
DESCRIPTION:Part of Dishing: A Lecture Series on Food\, Feminism\, and the Way We Eat. Video now available on YouTube!\n \nA talk by Rachel Vaughn\, Adjunct Assistant Professor at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and the UCLA Department of Gender Studies\n\nJoin us after the talk for the Fighting Hunger Fair — your chance to meet UCLA and community groups and researchers working to eliminate hunger and waste. \nRachel Vaughn holds a PhD in American Studies from the University of Kansas. From 2011- 2012\, she was a Fellow in Gender Studies at Oklahoma State University; and was then Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Kansas in the Department of Women\, Gender & Sexuality Studies. Her research engages the intersections of food politics\, food sovereignty\, and feminist environmental theory. By way of her oral history research with scavengers\, foragers\, and dumpster divers of varying food security levels and socio-economic backgrounds\, she explores how the space of the dumpster and the act of diving work as alternative forms of cultural knowledge about food. Her work asks how the labels ‘real\,’ or by default ‘un-real’\, ‘edible’ or ‘inedible’ effect people of varying food (in)securities within the current food systems we consume. Vaughn is the author of a book in progress Talking Trash: Oral Histories of Food In/Security from the Margins of a Dumpster (under review with University of Nebraska Press). \nRSVP HERE! \nCo-sponsored by UCLA Division of Social Sciences\, UCLA Healthy Campus Initiative\, UCLA Department of History\, and UCLA Food Studies Graduate Certificate Program
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/talking-trash-oral-histories-food-insecurity-margins-dumpster/
LOCATION:Ackerman Grand Ballroom\, UCLA\, Los Angeles
CATEGORIES:CSW originated
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161020T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161021T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T124232
CREATED:20160705T192603Z
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SUMMARY:Black Feminist Vision: A Symposium on Possibility and Practice
DESCRIPTION: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. \nPlease register HERE for each day you plan to attend.  \nDay 1: Thursday\, October 20\, 2016\, 4pm         \nOpening Keynote: Barbara Ransby\nBarbara Ransby\, Professor of African American Studies\, Gender & Women’s Studies\, and History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is author of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Struggle: A Radical Democratic Vision and Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson. Keynote Introduction by Dayo F. Gore\, Associate Professor of Critical Gender Studies & Ethnic Studies\, UC San Diego. \n\nDay 2: Friday\, October 21\, 2016\, 10am-4pm    \nConversations on Black Feminist Vision\nKimberly Juanita Brown\, English\, Mount Holyoke College \nSimone Browne\, Sociology/African and African Diaspora Studies\, University of Texas-Austin  \nMarcia Chatelain\, History\, Georgetown University  \nErica Edwards\, English\, UC Riverside  \nTanisha Ford\, Black American Studies and History\, University of Delaware  \nKara Keeling\, Cinematic Studies/American Studies & Ethnicity\, University of Southern California   \nC. Riley Snorton\, Africana Studies\, Cornell University  \nUla Taylor\, African American Studies\, UC Berkeley  \nLisa Ze Winters\, English/African American Studies\, Wayne State University \nDay 2: Friday\, October 21\, 2016\, 4pm                \nClosing Keynote: Katherine McKittrick\nKatherine McKittrick is Associate Professor in Gender Studies and the Graduate Program in Cultural Studies at Queens University and author of Demonic Grounds: Black Women and Cartographies of Struggle.  She is editor of Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis and co-editor (with Clyde Woods) of Black Geographies and the Politics of Place.  Keynote Introduction by Arlene Keizer\, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature\, English\, and African American Studies\, UC Irvine. \nREGISTER ONLINE! \n 
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/black-feminist-vision-symposium-possibility-practice/
LOCATION:Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon\, UCLA\, Los Angeles
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161020T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161021T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T124232
CREATED:20160907T222731Z
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SUMMARY:Fear: UCLA French and Francophone Studies 2016 Graduate Conference
DESCRIPTION: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 newer forms of media to express their disillusionment and reshape pervasive stereotypes. At the same time\, the causes—or perceived causes—of fear can be as varied as these reactions. Though opinion polls might define fear in terms of “terrorism\,” “immigration\,” or “globalization\,” these kinds of categories often obfuscate and conflate more than they clarify. \nIn the face of repressive regimes from Indochina to Vichy France\, from Haiti to Cameroon\, dissidents could face severe\, or even lethal\, punishment. How does the fear of denunciation give rise to coded writings that criticize and subvert the status quo? In and beyond these contexts\, how does fear cloud reason or induce clarity? Can it also have  positive\, not simply negative\, effects? When is fear “natural” and when is it not? Who plays a role in shaping these perceptions? How and by whom is it incited and manipulated\, diverted and channeled\, coped with\, suppressed and overcome? To what end? The 21st Annual Graduate Student Conference of the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies\, seeks to explore the reverberations of fear in French and Francophone literatures\, languages\, arts\, cultures\, and histories across time periods and disciplines. We understand fear to include empirical and conceptual engagements with the notions of terror\, horror\,  panic\, and phobia. We are interested in how these may be connected to creative endeavor\, literary and artistic movements\, political and economic gain\, and aesthetic and cultural transformations. Our aim is to address concerns of importance to scholars in literature\, history\, film and media studies\, art history\, sociology\, anthropology\, gender studies\, and philosophy. \nKeynote speaker: Tracy D. Sharpling-Whiting\, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of Humanities (African American Diaspora Studies and French)\, Vanderbilt University \nSharpley-Whiting has published 14 scholarly books; her most recent\, Bricktop’s Paris: African American Women in Paris Between the Two World Wars and The Autobiography of Ada “Bricktop” Smith\, or Miss Baker Regrets (SUNY Press\, February 2015)\, consists of two-parts\, a nonfiction multi-life history followed by a noirmystery. The book was an American Library in Paris Book Award Long List selection and a Choice 2015 Outstanding Academic Title. She is currently at-work on a scholarly volume\, A Quartet in Four French Movements: A Voodoo Queen\, A French Romantic\, a Poet\, and an African Ethnologist\, as well as a family history. She is on the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association (2014-2018) and is the editor of Palimpsest: A Journal on Women\, Gender\, and the Black International.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/fear-ucla-french-francophone-studies-2016-graduate-conference/
LOCATION:306 and 314 Royce Hall\, UCLA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161019T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161019T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T124232
CREATED:20160628T171507Z
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SUMMARY:The Poetics of Fragility: a Film Screening and Discussion with Lata Mani
DESCRIPTION:A film screening and conversation. \nLata 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). \nNicolás Grandi is a Buenos Aires based filmmaker\, interdisciplinary artist and educator. He has taught film direction and the history of world cinema at the Universidad del Cine\, Buenos Aires\, and in the Film Department at the Srishti School of Art\, Design and Technology\, Bangalore. \nThe Poetics of Fragility explores the texture\, vitality and aesthetics of fragility. It interweaves stories of bodily frailty with optical vignettes of nature’s delicacy to reclaim fragility as intrinsic to existence\, not something to be bemoaned or overcome. \nShot in the San Francisco Bay Area in September 2015\, the film features internationally renowned scholar-activist Angela Davis\, the acclaimed playwright and critic Cherrie Moraga\, Nora Cortiñas\, the inspiring founding member of Madres de Plaza de Mayo Linea Fundadora\, actor-dancer Greg Manalo\, feminist performance artists Thao P. Nguyen and Martha Rynberg\, theater scholar Jisha Menon\, healer Christopher Miles\, creative writer Xochitl M. Perales and the young trombone talent\, Jasim Perales. \nThe Poetics of Fragility is conceived as a “videocontemplation;” a form that Nicolás Grandi and Lata Mani have been developing to explore how the audiovisual medium with its sensuous possibilities can become a tool for social inquiry with a philosophical impulse. The visually arresting and formally plural film unfolds through stories that build on and amplify each other. Moments of emotional intensity alternate with speculative calm\, dramatic narration with poetry and critical inquiry into prevailing understandings of fragility. \n 
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/poetics-fragility-film-screening-discussion-lata-mani/
LOCATION:Charles E Young Research Library Conference Room
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161013T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161013T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T124232
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SUMMARY:Christina Sharpe\, "In the Wake: On Blackness and Being"
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis talk will draw from In the Wake: On Blackness and Being\, forthcoming from Duke University Press. \nIn this original and trenchant work\, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary\, visual\, cinematic\, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the “orthography of the wake.” Activating multiple registers of “wake”—the path behind a ship\, keeping watch with the dead\, coming to consciousness—Sharpe illustrates how Black lives are swept up and animated by the afterlives of slavery\, and she delineates what survives despite such insistent violence and negation. Initiating and describing a theory and method of reading the metaphors and materiality of “the wake\,” “the ship\,” “the hold\,” and “the weather\,” Sharpe shows how the sign of the slave ship marks and haunts contemporary Black life in the diaspora and how the specter of the hold produces conditions of containment\, regulation\, and punishment\, but also something in excess of them. In the weather\, Sharpe situates anti-Blackness and white supremacy as the total climate that produces premature Black death as normative. Formulating the wake and “wake work” as sites of artistic production\, resistance\, consciousness\, and possibility for living in diaspora\, In the Wake offers a way forward.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/christina-sharpe-wake-blackness/
LOCATION:Humanities 193\, UCLA
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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