This 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 […]

A 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 […]

Be 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 […]

Nayan 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 […]

This 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 […]

Ann Cvetkovich Ellen Clayton Garwood Centennial Professor of English and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin Ordinary Lesbians and Special Collections: The June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives at UCLA Wednesday, February 3rd Cypress Room, Faculty Center 4 to 5:30pm Reception to Follow What happens when a grassroots lesbian feminist […]

This film screening and panel discussion will feature: Robin Hauser Reynolds, Producer; Jane Margolis, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies This event will explore the systemic factors and barriers that prevent women and minorities from advancing in technology. This would facilitate a productive, scholarly partnership between the acclaimed producers of this award-winning film, garnering allies with […]

A colloquium on how the phrase “coming out” has expanded, migrated, and been re-purposed by various marginalized groups, such as transgender individuals, undocumented immigrants, or the plural marriage rights movement. SPEAKERS: Abigail Saguy, UCLA, and Kristen Schilt, U of Chicago, Laura Enriquez, UC Irvine, and Nicole Iturriaga, UCLA. RESPONDENT: James Schultz, UCLA DATE: February 8, 2016 […]

In 2011, 36 year old Cindy Gladue, a Cree woman, bled to death in a hotel bathtub in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada after having sex with Brad Barton, a trucker and a white man who had purchased her sexual services.  Barton was charged with murder and the Crown argued that the 11 centimetre wound visible in […]

This colloquium will feature Erin Marie Pinon (Southern Methodist University) Gohar Grigoryan (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) Ari Sekeryan (University of Oxford, UK) Piruza Hayrapetyan (Central European University, Hungary) David Leupold (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany) Elli Ponomareva(European University at St. Petersburg, Russia) Gary D. Glass Jr. (University of Missouri) Lusine Sargsyan (Yerevan State University, Armenia) Anna […]