Fall Reception
Rolfe CourtyardUCLA Center for the Study of Women and the UCLA Department of Gender Studies invite you to join us as we celebrate the start of a new academic year. All are welcome. Refreshments provided.
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Personal Safety and Conflict Resolution: An Empowerment Self-Defense Workshop
Kaufman 208This workshop will introduce participants to Empowerment Self-Defense training methodologies, a feminist, anti-racist, gender-inclusive approach to eradicating violence and fostering equality. Empowerment self-defense is based on the premise that, although only an aggressor is responsible for an assault, a defender has options when reacting to violence. ESD provides training for expanding these options. ESD focuses […]
Ely Guerra
Schoenberg Hall and Royce Hall 314A Concert by the UC Regents Lecturer Ely Guerra is a composer, lyricist, and musician acclaimed for her artistic activism on behalf of women's freedom, rights of indigenous people, and environmental issues of communities along the U.S.–Mexico border. She is an artist whose musical compositions celebrate the popular and folkloric traditions of Mexico with contemporary […]
A Critical Moment: Sex/Gender Research at the Intersection of Culture, Brain, & Behavior
UCLA 330 De Neve Dr., Los Angeles, CA, United StatesBe there when many of the world’s leading scholars from the Humanities and Sciences discuss and debate issues at the intersection of sex/gender, culture, brain, and behavior. Great minds. Thrilling discussions. New connections. SOME OF OUR TALKS KEYNOTE: Anne Fausto-Sterling, Brown University Recent Discoveries and Opportunities for Improved Understanding of Sex-Biasing Biological Factors * Art Arnold, UCLA A Life […]
Refusing to Eat: Sensations, Solidarities and the Crises of Detainee Hunger Strikes
Charles E Young Research Library Conference RoomNayan Shah, American Studies, USC Why, when and how does the refusal to eat while in detention become a viscerally potent and politically volatile protest that challenges the legitimacy and conditions of incarceration. The presentation examines mass hunger strikes of political prisoners in South Africa, Israel, Guantanamo and refugees in the U.S., Australia and […]
Dying From Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody
Law School Room 1314A book talk by Sherene Razack, Professor of Social Justice Education, University of Toronto What do inquests and inquiries reveal about how and why Indigenous people die in custody? What is said about a sixty-seven-year -old man who dies in a hospital in police custody with a large, visible, purple boot print on his chest, a mark […]
Precarious Lives: Gendered Engagement with Neoliberal Development and the Contemporary Academy –CANCELLED
352 Haines HallThis talk is an engagement with the conditions of precarity that characterize the current moment. Linking my ethnographic research on offshore banking in the US-owned Virgin Islands to scholarship detailing the troubling neoliberal turn made by the American academy, this lecture is an engagement with neoliberalism and its effects. Building on black feminist scholarship, I […]
