Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America Book Talk

Where: Bunche 6275 (Lunch included) When: Thursday, December 7, 12 - 1:30 pm View event flyer (PDF). Margot Canaday, Princeton University Dodge Professor of History, is an award-winning historian who studies gender and sexuality in modern America. She is the author of The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Century America (Princeton, 2009) and […]

Film Screening of “Maria Schneider, 1983” and Q & A with Elisabeth Subrin

When: Thursday, December 7, 2023 Where: TBD Researching the life and career of Maria Schneider (The Passenger, Last Tango in Paris) for a larger project, filmmaker Elisabeth Subrin discovered a brief interview the actress gave in 1983 for the French TV show Cinéma Cinéma. It’s a conversation alternately defiant and mournful, with Schneider reflecting with […]

Film Screening: Food and Country Screening and Q&A

Where: James Bridges Theater When: December 7, 7 pm Register here. Attend a film screening, Food and Country. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director, Laura Gabbert, and Chef Minh Phan. About the film: Documentarian Laura Gabbert (City of Gold) and chef/writer/editor Ruth Reichl chronicle the plight of the American food industry […]

Talk and Reception: Professor Salamishah Tillet

When: January 10, 4 pm Where: UCLA Royce Hall 314 Professor Salamishah Tillet Pulitzer Prize-winning contributing critic-at-large at The New York Times: "'Rather Than Her Biography': Listening to Nina Simone's Diary" "If we can draw out the emphasis on the female vocalist's art, rather than her biographies" critic Hortense Spillers once wrote. "Then we gather […]

Faculty Writing Retreat

Hershey Hall Grand Salon Rm. 158 612 Charles E Young Dr East, Los Angeles, CA, United States

When: Friday, January 19, 2024 10 am – 4 pm Where: Hershey Hall Salon (Room 158) (In-person Waitlist Only. Virtual Spots Available) RSVP Here.  Do you want to block out a day for writing and contemplation? The quarterly Faculty Writing Retreat is your solution. Join us for a day-long retreat where you can concentrate on […]

Welcome Reception for 2024 UCLA Activists-in-Residence

Perloff Hall DeCafe

Where: UCLA Perloff Hall, DeCafe 365 Portola Plaza Room 1302 Los Angeles, CA 90095 When: Wednesday, January 24, 2024 · 4 - 6 pm PST RSVP Here With a shared commitment to “turn the university inside out” and invite artists, community organizers, and movement leaders to undertake power-shifting scholarship and pedagogy focused on social change, […]

Reconsidering Music, Technology, and Gender: A Symposium

Schoenberg Music Building 445 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, United States

Sponsored by UCLA Center for Musical Humanities and Center for the Study of Women|Barbara Streisand Center. When: January 27, 2024 Where: Lani Hall, Schoenberg Music Building, UCLA Conference Description The ways sounding technologies contribute to the articulation of musical lives and social selves has been a growing area of scholarly interest over the past several […]

Unsettling Landscape: Experimental Films by Southeast Asian Women Filmmakers

Billy Wilder Theater 10899 Wilshire Blvd.,, Los Angeles, CA, United States

When: January 27, 2024, 7:30 pm Where: Billy Wilder Theater In-person: Q&A with filmmakers and UCLA Associate Professor Jasmine Nadua Trice. Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis. The […]

Film Screening: Fenomenal, Rompeforma 1989-1996

Presented by the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance Where: Kaufman 200, 120 Westwood Plaza When: Monday, January 29, 2024, 2:30-5 pm Free and open to the public. Join the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance for a film screening of Fenomenal, Rompeforma 1989-1996, followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers Merián Soto […]

Anne LeBaron: Portrait Concert of a Trailblazing Composer

Where: Lani Hall - Schoenberg Music Building 445 Charles E. Young Drive East Los Angeles, 90095 When: Wednesday, February 7, 7-8:30 pm PST RSVP Internationally acclaimed composer and harpist Anne LeBaron marks her illustrious tenure at CalArts with a retrospective concert at UCLA’s Lani Hall, on Wednesday, February 7, at 7 PM. The program, encapsulating […]

Survivors + Allies Report Launch: Webinar

Where: Virtual (Zoom) When: Friday, February 9, 2024. 12 pm - 1 pm PST RSVP Here. Survivors and Allies (S+A) is a community and student-led collective organization that advocates for and with survivors of Sexual Violence in the UC System. S+A would like to welcome you to join us February 9th, 2024 at 12 pm […]

Book Talk: Feng-Mei Heberer

Where: Darren Star Theater (Melnitz 1422A) When: Wednesday, February 14, 2 pm-3:50 pm Join CSW|Streisand Center and the School of Theater, Film and Television for a book talk with author Feng-Mei Heberer, discussing, "Undoing Documentation as Racialized State Surveillance: the Moving Image Undocument." This talk examines visual documentation and the documentary form in their intimate […]