Awards and Benefit Reception 2019
2019-05-30 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, Centennial Ballroom A/B, 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
This event is now past. Photo highlights of the 2019 Awards and Benefit Reception can be viewed HERE.
Join the UCLA Center for the Study of Women for a special end of the year event to honor the Center’s accomplishments, student award recipients, and this year’s Distinguished Leader in Feminism Award honoree!
FEATURING THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Organizing in a Time of Hate: Leading with Love
By Ai-Jen Poo

Founder & Executive Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA)
Co-Director, Caring Across Generations
This year, CSW has selected Ai-jen Poo as the recipient of the Center for the Study of Women’s 2019 Distinguished Leader in Feminism Award. She is an award-winning organizer, author, and social innovator, and will discuss our current political climate and the importance of multi-racial, multi-generational movements that center the most vulnerable among us. Ai-jen will explore the enormous potential for change in this moment and how women are leading the way.
Read our blog post to learn more about Ai-jen Poo here.

Event Details and Registration
Thursday, May 30, 2019
6:00 – 8:00 PM
(Doors open at 5:45 PM)
UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, Centennial Ballroom A/B
Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres will be served.
Tickets are $25 and non-refundable.

REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED
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Location and Parking
The 2019 CSW Awards and Benefit Reception will take place at the UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center (425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095) located in Westwood Plaza on the corner of Strathmore and Westwood Boulevard (left map).
Within the Luskin Conference Center, the Reception will take place in the Centennial Ballroom A/B, located on the 1st floor (right map). Enter through the last two doors on the right at the end of the Centennial Ballroom Prefunction Area (do not enter through the first two doors leading to Ballroom C/D, as a different event will be taking place in those rooms).

For a full UCLA map, please visit http://maps.ucla.edu/downloads.
DIRECTIONS TO UCLA MEYER AND RENEE LUSKIN CONFERENCE CENTER
From I-405 North:

Take Exit 55B-C towards Wilshire Blvd. Follow signs for Westwood Blvd E/Westwood.
Use the left two lanes to turn onto Westwood Blvd.
Continue onto Westwood Plaza.
Parking is available in Parking Structure 8 to the left (see top left map).

From I-405 South:

Take Exit 57 toward Sunset Blvd.
Turn left onto N Church Ln.
Turn left onto Montana Ave and continue on to Gayley Ave.
Turn left onto Strathmore Pl. The conference center will be to the left, and Parking Structure 8 will be to the right.
Turn right onto Westwood Plaza to access the Structure 8 driveway.

PARKING
The closest parking area to the Luskin Conference Center is Parking Structure #8 (see map above-left). There are two ways to purchase parking in Structure #8:

Purchase Pay-by-License Plate parking on the 4th level (top floor) in the designated Visitor Parking area. Go to a self-service Daily Visitor Pay Station and follow posted instructions to purchase parking (remember license plate number). The self-service station will dispense a parking pass based on your license plate number. Please read posted instructions at each pay station carefully. Parking rates vary from $1 for 20 minutes to $12 for All-Day parking. Pay stations accept exact cash and credit cards. For more information, please visit the Transportation website.
Purchase All-Day parking for $12/day at the Parking Information Kiosk located in Westwood Plaza (designated by the “i” on the map above). Only cash is accepted at this kiosk (no bills higher than $20 accepted). Transportation Services representatives are also present at this kiosk to answer your questions.

A bridge is located on the 3rd floor of Structure #8 that leads directly to the Luskin Conference Center.

About the Keynote Speaker
Ai-jen Poo is the Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and the Co-Director of Caring Across Generations. She is an award-winning organizer, author, and social innovator, and a leading voice in work and family care solutions. Ai-jen is a 2014 MacArthur “genius” Fellow, TIME 100 alumna, and recently featured speaker at TEDWomen. She has been an influential voice in the #MeToo movement and joined Times Up at the 2018 Golden Globes. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, TIME, and CNN. She is the author of The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America. Follow her at @aijenpoo.
Read more about Ai-jen Poo’s transformative feminism in our blog post here.

Daughters of Whitman
2019-06-02 17:00 - 20:00 | Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd, Venice, CA, 90201, United States
Organized by UCLA Writing Programs
Part of Whitmania! Songs of Ourselves: Celebrating the Radical Optimism of Walt Whitman and UCLA
Womxn literary and performing artists explore the legacy of the father of American Poetry. This free performance will include poetry, puppetry, music and more, followed by a reception with cake in honor of Walt’s 200th birthday.
Participants will include: bridgette bianca, Audrey Densmore, Dominiqua Dickey, Susannah Rodríguez Drissi, Cecelia Fairchild,Heather Nagami,Vickie Vertiz, Amber West

Date: June 2, 2019
Time: 5:00 – 8:00 PM
Location: Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291

Co-Sponsors:

UCLA Writing Programs
Center for the Art of Performance
Dean of Humanities
UCLA Arts Initiative
Department of English
Latin American Studies Institute
TEDxUCLA
UCLA Alumni Affairs
Beyond Baroque
The Getty Museum

Sharing Knowledge, Taking Action at UCLA
2019-06-07 08:30 - 11:30 | Covel Commons, UCLA
Organized by the Health Equity Network of the Americas
This event will explore pathways to improve policies related to Violence Against Women, Immigrant Health, and Primary Care.
Date: June 7, 2019
Time: 8:30 AM – 11:30 AM, registration begins at 8:00 AM
Location: Covel Commons, UCLA
RSVP online
For more information, contact Tanya Honey.
Speakers:
Eve Sheedy, Executive Director, Domestic Violence Council, LA County Department of Public Health
Steven Wallace, Professor, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
James Macinko, Professor, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
Facilitator: Michael Rodriguez, Professor and Vice Chair, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine

Co-sponsors:

UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
David Geffen School of Medicine
UCLA Residential Life Global Health Community

True Bruin Welcome Week - CSW Open House
2019-09-25 11:00 - 15:00 | Center for the Study of Women, 1500 Public Affairs
Welcome back, UCLA Bruins!
Want to learn opportunities for students interested in gender and sexuality studies? Drop by the CSW open house, meet the staff, and find out about our funding and research opportunities for students!
Diddy Reise cookies will be available on a first-come, first-served basis!

Date: September 25, 2019
Time: 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Location: Center for the Study of Women Offices, 1500 Public Affairs Building

Symposium: “On the Matter of Blackness in Europe: Transnational Perspectives”
2019-10-10 - 2019-10-11 | Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon, UCLA, Los Angeles
Organized by the UCLA Department of African American Studies
A Symposium featuring Keynote Speaker Gloria Wekker, Professor Emerita at Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Key Symposium questions will include: How do marginalized experiences of Blackness within Europe, especially the interventions of Black Muslims, LGBTQI*, and/or those rendered non-citizen (e.g., refugees or asylum seekers), challenge one-dimensional conceptualizations of Blackness? How have contemporary contributions to the transnational continuations of the Black Radical and Black feminist traditions been brought to bear in various European contexts? How do various Black struggles unfold in the face of genocidal border regimes, urban policing and surveillance, neoliberal austerity policies and the current rise of right-wing extremism, gender violence, and Islamophobia?
Keynote speaker Gloria Wekker is a renowned scholar of Black feminism, Dutch anticolonialism, and diaspora.
Date: October 10 and 11, 2019
Time: 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM (Day 1), 9:00 AM – 6:30 PM (Day 2)
Location: UCLA Charles E. Young Grand Salon (Kerckhoff Hall)
Event Website

CSW and Gender Studies Fall Reception
2019-10-10 16:00 - 18:00 | Rolfe Courtyard
Join CSW and the UCLA Department of Gender Studies as we celebrate the start of a new academic year!
Join us for an opportunity to meet and network with faculty, students, and staff, and to learn about CSW’s and Gender Studies’ upcoming projects, research, and events. Refreshments will be served.
RSVP online by October 1, 2019
Date: Thursday, October 10, 2019
Time: 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Location: Rolfe Hall Courtyard, UCLA
RSVP ONLINE

"Porosity and Reciprocity," European Languages and Transcultural Studies Graduate Conference
2019-10-25 09:00 - 2019-10-26 17:15 | Royce 306
Porosity and Reciprocity
1st Annual European Languages and Transcultural Studies Graduate Student Conference
Organized by the UCLA Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies
Date: October25, 2019
Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: 306 Royce Hall
This conference explores issues of cultural borders and exchange and will feature a roundtable discussion featuring scholars who specialize in gender and women’s studies.
An ever-growing body of scholarship across disciplines and concentrations has underscored the long history of cultural exchange that challenges conventional notions of national and cultural sovereignty. Recent events, however, have challenged scholars to problematize, redefine, and expand upon prior attempts to register the ways in which national and cultural identity, and especially the perennial question of borders, are increasingly shaped by a protean political and social landscape. Bringing together graduate students and scholars from French, German, Italian, and Scandinavian studies, this conference aims to explore the notions of reciprocity and porosity as they are found within and/or between these cultures throughout history and in the present. Questions of interest include: How are the literary and artistic traditions of these cultures shaped by internal diversity? How have the encounter and exchange with other cultures contributed to the formation of these traditions? How do these cultures conceive of and represent their borders? How do they conceive of and represent the other? Mindful not only of the diversity that exists between these cultures, but also of the diversity that exists within them, how do each of these cultures belong to and shape historical and contemporary ideas of Europe?

CSW Research Affiliate Brown Bag: Down with Bridewealth! The Organization of Mozambican Women Debates Women's Issues
2019-10-29 12:00 - 13:30 | Rolfe 2125
Down with Bridewealth! The Organization of Mozambican Women Debates Women’s Issues
A talk by Kathleen Sheldon, PhD
In the early 1980s, Mozambique was in its first decade of independence under a socialist government that supported women’s issues. This talk will report on a single provincial-level meeting of the women’s organization in 1983 that included extended discussion about policy issues that affected women. The official approach of Frelimo, the ruling party, called for an end to “traditional” practices such as polygyny and bridewealth, while local women activists continued to see value in such practices and pushed back against the government perspective.
Participants are welcome to bring a snack or lunch.
Kathleen Sheldon is a Research Affiliate at the Center for the Study of Women whose work focuses on African women’s history and on Mozambique. Her most recent book is African Women: Early History to the 21st Century.

Planning for a Healthy Home, Body, and Baby
2019-11-14 09:00 - 12:30 | The California Endowment, 1000 North Alameda Sreet, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Free Hands-On Workshop Organized by the Iris Cantor – UCLA Women’s Health and Education Center
Come join your colleagues and community activists to engage in a “hands-on” workshop to learn how you can help the women you serve in reducing and eliminating toxins before, during and after pregnancy.
The workshop is from 9:00 – 11:00 am. It will be followed by a facilitator training from 11:00am – 12:30pm to learn how to conduct the “Planning for a Healthy Home, Body, and Baby” program for community groups, individuals, staff, and others that are interested in helping themselves and others avoid exposure to hidden environmental toxins. Spanish interpretation will be provided for the workshop and training.
Date: Thursday, November 14, 2019
Time: 9:00-11:00 AM (Workshop), 11:00 AM-12:30 PM (Facilitator Training)
Location: The California Endowment, 1000 Alameda St. CA 90012 (free parking)
View flyer. Breakfast will be provided.
Registration will be limited to 100 people. Sign up in ENGLISH or SPANISH.

America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today
2019-12-03 16:00 - 18:00 | Royce 314
Organized by the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies
Date: December 3, 2019
Time: 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Location: 314 Royce Hall
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In this groundbreaking history, Pamela Nadell asks what does it mean to be a Jewish woman in America? Weaving together stories from the colonial era’s matriarch Grace Nathan and her great-granddaughter poet Emma Lazarus to union organizer Bessie Hillman and the great justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Nadell shows two threads binding the nation’s Jewish women: a strong sense of self and a resolute commitment to making the world a better place. Informed by the shared values of America’s founding and Jewish identity, America’s Jewish women—the well-known and the scores of activists, workers, wives, and mothers whose names linger on among their communities and families—left deep footprints in the history of the nation they call home.

Library services to people who are incarcerated: Attempting anti-racism through LIS
2019-12-05 15:00 - 16:00 | 111 GSEIS Building, 290 Charles E. Young Drive N, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Organized by the Department of Information Studies
Date: December 5, 2019
Time: 3:00 pm
Location: 111 GSEIS Building
A talk featuring Dr. Jeanie Austin, Librarian, Jail & Reentry Services Program, San Francisco Public Library. Part of the Information Studies Colloquium.
All events are fragrance-free and open to the public.

Feminist Approaches to Understanding Global Anti-Muslim Racism
2019-12-05 17:00 - 2019-12-06 14:00 | Charles E. Young Research Library and Rolfe Hall
Featuring Nadine Naber (University of Illinois) and Nadera Shalhoub Kevorkian (Hebrew University)
Book Launch and Workshop
DATE: December 5, 2019
TIME: 5:00-8:00 PM
LOCATION: Young Research Library
Keynote Address
DATE: December 6, 2019
TIME: 12:00-2:00 PM
LOCATION: Rolfe Hall 314
Co-sponsored by:

UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies
Islamic Studies Program
Promise Institute for Human Rights

“The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw” by Shelley Niro
2020-01-16 19:30 - 21:30 | Melnitz 1409: James Bridges Theater
Film Screening: The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw (2019)
The UCLA American Indian Studies Center will be hosting the Los Angeles premiere of award-winning visual artist and filmmaker Shelley Niro’s new feature film, The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw. A Q&A will follow with Director Shelley Niro.
Please RSVP by Thursday, January 9, 2020
Date: Thursday, January 16, 2020
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: James Bridges Theater
Co-sponsored by:

Melnitz Movies (UCLA Graduate Students Association and the ASUCLA Student Interaction Fund)
Bruin Film Society
Department of Gender Studies
American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program
Department of World Arts and Culture/Dance
Center for the Advancement of Teaching
Center for the Study of Women
Canadian Studies Program
Institute of American Cultures
Division of Social Sciences

Black Feminism, Care, and Reproductive Justice in Urgent Times: A Conversation with Kimberly Durdin
2020-02-10 16:00 - 18:00 | 306 Royce Hall
Followed by a discussion with Ariel Hart
This event focuses on the innovative historical and ongoing care practices and visions for justice that Black women have developed to confront institutionalized reproductive racial violence. Kimberly Durdin will be joined in discussion by UCLA doctoral student Ariel Hart. Q&A to follow.
Kimberly Durdin is a leading figure in the reproductive justice movement. A lactation consultant, childbirth educator and doula, in 2018 she and business partner Allegra Hill, opened Kindred Space LA, a birth, lactation and education space. They are co-founders of the Birthing People Foundation, a non-profit established to train birth workers of color.
Ariel Hart is a graduate student in the joint MD/Sociology doctoral program at UCLA. Her areas of expertise include medical Sociology, race and ethnicity, social movements; critical race theory, gender and sexuality, and Black Feminist Thought.
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Date: Monday, February 10, 2020
Time: 4 PM
Location: 306 Royce Hall
This is the first event in the Black Feminism Initiative Public Program Series, a series of public talks and events on subjects of pressing political and social concern.

Kanner Lecture Series: Hazel Carby
2020-03-03 12:00 - 14:00 | Kaplan 193
Organized by the Department of English and Co-sponsored by the CSW Black Feminism Initiative
This lecture is part of the Kanner Lecture Series.
More details.
DATE: Tuesday, March 3, 2020
TIME: 12:00-2:00 PM
LOCATION: Royce Hall 314

[POSTPONED] IMAGE MOVERS: Asian American Studies Center 50th Anniversary Film Festival
2020-03-06 - 2020-03-21 | Billy Wilder Theater, James Bridges Theater
This event has been postponed. Please see the event website for more details.
Organized by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center
Date: POSTPONED
Time: POSTPONED
Location: Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammar Museum and UCLA James Bridges Theater
Tickets for the event
Image Movers is a three-weekend film festival featuring powerful imagery and poignant commentary about some of the most meaningful issues facing our AAPI communities. Each program features films organized around central themes. After each screening, audiences will hear from Asian American and Pacific Islander filmmakers and actors speaking to their creative journeys, as well as from scholars, artists, and community leaders on the meaning of these themes in today’s world.

Thinking Gender 2020: Sexual Violence as Structural Violence: Feminist Visions of Transformative Justice
2020-03-06 08:00 - 18:30 | Carnesale Commons, UCLA, 350 De Neve Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
This event has passed. View Photo Highlights from Thinking Gender 2020.
This year marks Thinking Gender’s 30th anniversary!
FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 2020
CARNESALE COMMONS, UCLA
PRE-REGISTRATION IS CLOSED
In-person registration will be available on the day of. First come, first serve. Please visit the registration table in the Palisades Lobby on the 3rd floor.
DETAILED SCHEDULE
Thinking Gender 2020 will focus on feminist, queer, trans, anti-carceral, transnational, and intersectional approaches to sexual violence.
Recent #MeToo mobilizations against high-profile predatory sexual abusers including Harvey Weinstein, R. Kelly, and Jeffrey Epstein have heightened public conversation around sexual violence. While important contributions have challenged dominant approaches to sexual violence, much of it has remained caught in legalistic, carceral, or criminal justice discourses that emphasize the punishment of individual actors to the exclusion of envisioning alternative definitions of repair and justice. Such dominant approaches center evidence and proof, and offer only the punishment of individual perpetrators as remedy, often in ways that exacerbate existing structural inequalities. Decades of scholarship and activism have demonstrated the inefficacy of such punitive models to curb sexual violence as well as the ways in which they exacerbate the policing of already marginalized communities.

KEYNOTE PANEL
Transformational Justice: Refusing Criminalization and Sexual Violence
Friday, March 6, 2020, 3:15 PM
Thinking Gender 2020: Sexual Violence as Structural Violence: Feminist Visions of Transformative Justice will feature a keynote panel of scholars and activists, headlined by Mariame Kaba. The panel will follow an opening presentation by Tongva artist, Weshoyot Alvitre.
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Keynote Panelists:
Mariame Kaba
Founder and Director, Project NIA; Researcher-in-Residence, Social Justice Institute, Barnard Center for Research on Women

Mimi Kim
Assistant Professor of Social Work, California State University, Long Beach

Emily Thuma
Assistant Professor of American Politics and Public Law, University of Washington Tacoma

Sarah Haley (Moderator)
Chair, CSW Advisory Committee; Director, UCLA Black Feminism Initiative; Professor, Gender Studies and African American Studies

Keynote Opener:
Weshoyot Alvitre
Illustrator and Comic Book Artist, Tongva (Los Angeles Basin)

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
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ACCESSIBILITY
THIS IS A FRAGRANCE-FREE EVENT. For the health and safety of all attendees, please refrain from wearing products that contain fragrances when attending CSW events. Such products include: perfumes, hair products, deodorants, detergents, etc. For more information on fragrance and accessibility, read about CSW’s Share the Air campaign.
If you require accommodations in order for this event to be accessible to you (e.g., sign language interpretation, large print materials, etc.), please contact thinkinggender@women.ucla.edu by Friday, February 14, 2020. For more information, visit our Events Accessibility Page.

PARKING AND ACCOMMODATIONS
Thinking Gender 2020 will take place at Carnesale Commons which is located in UCLA’s residential community known as the Hill.
Parking and Accommodations Information

NOTICE OF PHOTOGRAPHIC AND MEDIA RECORDING
Photography, audio, and video recording may occur at this event. By entering the event premises, you consent to interviews, photography, audio recording, video recording, and their release, publication, exhibition, or reproduction to be used for news, webcasts, promotional purposes, telecasts, advertising, inclusion on websites, or any other purpose by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women.

CO-SPONSORED BY:

Backed by Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
African American Studies Department
African Studies Center
American Indian Studies Center
American Indian Studies Program
Anthropology Department
Asian American Studies Department
Asian American Studies Center
Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health
Black Male Institute and Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families
Bruin Consent Coalition
Campus Assault Resources and Education (CARE)
Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity
Center for Health Policy Research
Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice, & Health
Center X
Chicana/o Studies Department
Chicano Studies Research Center
Community Health Sciences Department
Comparative Literature Department
Criminal Justice Program, UCLA School of Law
Disabilities Studies Program
Education Department
English Department
Fielding School of Public Health
Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History
Gender Studies Department
Healthy Campus Initiative
Humanities Division
Information Studies Department
Institute for Research on Labor & Employment
Institute of American Cultures
Institute of Transportation Studies
Institute on Inequality and Democracy
International Development and Policy Outreach
International Institute
Iris Cantor-UCLA Women’s Health Center
Labor Center
Latin American Institute
Latino Policy and Politics Initiative
Office of Residential Life
Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies
Promise Institute for Human Rights
Ralph and Goldy Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies
School of Medicine-Office of Diversity Affairs
School of Nursing
School of Theater, Film, and Television
Social Sciences Division
Social Welfare Department
Sociology Department
UC Speaks Up
UC Global Health Institute’s Center of Expertise on Women’s Health, Gender and Empowerment
Veterans Legal Clinic
Urban Planning Department
World Arts and Cultures/Dance Department

The Right to Vote Then and Now: A Symposium on the 100th Anniversary of the Ratification of the Woman Suffrage Amendment
2020-03-08 13:00 - 16:00 | Royce 314
Organized by the Luskin Center for History and Policy
Date: March 8, 2020
Time: 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Location: 314 Royce Hall
Devoted to the hundredth anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment, the symposium will be held on International Women’s Day, March 8, 2020. The Luskin Center for History and Policy seeks to bring together scholars and activists, historians and political figures, in a rich conversation about the link between past and present. The event will host two panels, one on the historical legacy of the 19th Amendment with Professors Ellen Dubois, Brenda Stevenson, Katherine Marino, and Adam Winkler; and a second on the contemporary political issues related to the still unrealized dream of voting rights for all, with City Council President Nury Martinez and Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl.

InterActions LA 2020
2020-04-03 09:30 - 12:00 | Virtual
Organized by the Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
InterActions LA is now a free virtual event. Registration still required.
Date: Friday, April 3, 2020
Time: 9:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Virtual Event
Event Details
This year’s event will discuss the opportunities to improve safety for women, girls, and other vulnerable populations as they travel throughout the Los Angeles region. Too often, people in these groups feel unsafe in public and this inhibits their freedom, independence and quality of life. Fear shouldn’t be the status quo for anyone. LA Metro’s recent “Understanding How Women Travel” report highlighted a litany of problems but what are the solutions? How can solutions benefit everyone?
We will explore the most pressing problems and opportunities in crime prevention through environmental design, bystander programs, and the possibility of other non-policing strategies. Safety improvements should buoy all people and not introduce fear for others with concerns around racial profiling or other biases.
This spring, InterActionsLA will pair results from recent academic work on public transit safety from LA and around the world with real-world examples and thoughts for advancing safety for everyone. Participants will have an opportunity to exchange their best ideas with each other and engage deeply on solutions to advance mobility justice for women, girls, and everyone.

Digital Dance Criticism: Screens as Choreographic Apparatus
2020-04-14 18:30 - 20:00
Organized by the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance
An online lecture by Kate Mattingly, University of Utah
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Time: 6:30pm-7:50pm
Location: Zoom
Prior to the introduction of websites and social media, professional dance criticism circulated through print publications: newspapers, magazines, and journals. This presentation examines the current proliferation of screens as platforms for criticism and how they-mobile devices, laptops, televisions, and computers-shift the frameworks that writers and readerships use to engage with dance. I use the concept of a choreographic apparatus to show how digital technologies generate symbiotic relationships between online contexts and contemporary performance. By focusing on three sites-thlNKingDANCE, On the Boards TV, and Amara Tabor-Smith’s House/Full of Black Women-I analyze how these platforms challenge widespread assumptions about the disappearance of dance critics.
Kate Mattingly is an Assistant Professor in the School of Dance at the University of Utah. She received her doctoral degree in Performance Studies with a Designated Emphasis in New Media from the University of California, Berkeley. She currently teaches courses in dance histories, theory, and criticism.

Explore "The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization" and talk with author Sean Metzger
2020-05-28 12:00 - 13:00
Organized by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center
Zoom talk with author Sean Metzger and CSW Director Rachel Lee
In The Chinese Atlantic, Sean Metzger charts processes of global circulation across and beyond the Atlantic, exploring how seascapes generate new understandings of Chinese migration, financial networks and artistic production. Moving across film, painting, performance, and installation art, Metzger traces flows of money, culture, and aesthetics to reveal the ways in which routes of commerce stretching back to the Dutch Golden Age have molded and continue to influence the social reproduction of Chineseness. With a particular focus on the Caribbean, Metzger investigates the expressive culture of Chinese migrants and the communities that received these waves of people. He interrogates central issues in the study of similar case studies from South Africa and England to demonstrate how Chinese Atlantic seascapes frame globalization as we experience it today. Frequently focusing on art that interacts directly with the sites in which it is located, Metzger explores how Chinese migrant laborers and entrepreneurs did the same to shape— both physically and culturally—the new spaces in which they found themselves. In this manner, Metzger encourages us to see how artistic imagination and practice interact with migration to produce a new way of framing the global.
DATE: Thursday, May 28, 2020
TIME: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
LOCATION: Webinar (RSVP through EventBrite for webinar link)
Sean Metzger is the Vice Chair, Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Theater. He is a scholar who works at the intersections of several fields: visual culture (art, fashion, film, theater) as well as Asian American, Caribbean, Chinese, film, performance and sexuality studies. His new book is titled: The Chinese Atlantic: Seascapes and the Theatricality of Globalization (Indiana University Press, 2020) the text complicates discourses of globalization and reimagines geographies through an examination of aesthetic objects and practices situated in cities from Shanghai to Cape Town.
Rachel Lee is Director of the Center for the Study of Women and Professor of Gender Studies, English, and the Institute of Society and Genetics at UCLA. She is the author of The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies (NYU, 2014) and editor of a newly published special issue of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience (May 2020) on Chemical Entanglements: Gender and Exposure, the introduction of which highlights the work of Hong Kong and Brooklyn-based glassmaker and artist, Jes Fan.
Co-sponsored by:

Department of Theater
Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media
Asia Pacific Center
Asian American Studies Department

CSW Open House 2020
2020-09-30 12:00 - 14:00 | Online/Zoom
Come learn about the UCLA Center for the Study of Women! Stop by our open Zoom room between 12 and 2pm to find out about our research streams, upcoming events (Alicia Garza on 10/16!), funding opportunities (for both grad students and undergrads), and job opportunities. When you visit, sign up for our mailing list to automatically enter our raffle. Winners will receive CSW swag!

CSW Information Session for Graduate Students
2020-09-30 14:00 - 14:30
This 30-minute session will offer an overview of the Center for the Study of Women with a short video and a Q&A on the center’s funding and job opportunities for UCLA Graduate students.

Once More, With Feeling... (New Wight Biennial 2020)
2020-10-01 09:00 - 2020-10-31 23:30 | Online
Organized by the UCLA Department of Art
Date: Tuesday, October 1, 2020
Time: 9:00 AM
Location: Online Exhibition, on display Oct 1.-Oct. 31
Gallery Website
The exhibition focuses on the contemporary resonances of the Non-Aligned Movement. We were interested in asking how Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Empire throughout the third world impact contemporary art globally by engaging with how the political project of Non-Alignment finds itself articulated in the aesthetic, formal, social, economic, and political articulations of contemporary art today. The question that arises is, why deal with this movement today, or better, why have the ideas and concepts of this movement seen such a resurgence, and with such prominence in art in the past few years?
The exhibition will “open” (the website will become live & accessible) on October 1st. The website will display the work (sculpture, video, performance, painting) of the 24 participating artists and will be complemented by programming. There will be 4 different panel discussions each centered around a different theme related to Non-Alignment. There will also be a feminist manifesto writing workshop that will meet 3 times throughout October in order to bring together a manifesto for the exhibition.

Beyond Innocence
2020-10-08 12:15 - 13:45
Talk by Professor Miriam Ticktin, the New School for Social Research
Date: Thursday, October 8, 2020
Time: 12:15 PM – 1:45 PM
Location: Zoom
Professor Ticktin’s talk on Racial Innocence will launch our year-long speakers’ series on Structural Violence. Culture, Power, and Social Change is a colloquium series in the Department of Anthropology that is aimed at an interdisciplinary audience of graduate students from a range of departments including anthropology, gender studies, sociology, ethnic studies departments, world arts and cultures/dance, ethnomusicology, urban planning and public policy, and the School of Medicine.
This talk addresses the relationship between innocence and politics; even as innocence is defined against politics, as freedom from the worldly and unworldly – my argument is that innocence is deployed in politically potent ways . Indeed, I suggest it has moved to the center of political life today. The larger book of which this is a part investigates how discourses and images of innocence get assembled and weaponized across the fields of immigration, gender politics, racial politics and environmentalism. It is a flexible concept that intimately shapes why and how we should care, for whom, and whose lives matter. I will focus on innocence as a racialized tool that is central to border regimes—I will discuss both European and American borders — producing the difference between deserving and undeserving, refugee and economic migrant, and ultimately functioning to redraw understandings of “humanity” and its constituent outsides.
Professor Miriam Ticktin has served as Director of Gender Studies, Chair of Anthropology, and Co-Director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at the New School. Her work sits at the intersection of the race and immigration studies, anthropology of medicine, and transnational and postcolonial feminist theory.
Co-Sponsored by

Center for the Study of Women
Center for European and Russian Studies

2020 Awards Celebration
2020-10-16 13:00 - 15:00 | Online
This event has passed. Watch Alicia Garza’s keynote address and Q&A on CSW’s YouTube channel!

CELEBRATE 35 YEARS OF THE UCLA CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF WOMEN
Join the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) for a special virtual event on Friday, October 16th to honor the Center’s accomplishments, student award recipients, and this year’s Distinguished Leader in Feminism Award honoree!
FEATURING THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS
The Purpose of Power: Building Movements in A Time of Pandemic
by
Alicia Garza

Co-Creator, #BlackLivesMatter
Co-Founder, Supermajority
Founder, Black Futures Lab
This year, CSW has selected Alicia Garza as the recipient of the Center for the Study of Women’s 2020 Distinguished Leader in Feminism Award. She is an innovator, strategist, and organizer, and the co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter and the Black Lives Matter Global Network, an international organizing project to end state violence and oppression against Black people.
Building on the insights in her soon-to-be-released book The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart, Alicia Garza addresses some of the most pressing and important questions around movement building and brutal anti-Black state violence in a time of global pandemic. How do we build relations of care and solidarity amongst people and groups with different investments and interests? What lessons can we learn from decades of Black feminist theorizing and organizing around coalition? How do the specificities of today’s conditions, including the challenges of organizing remotely and the contemporary manifestation of state white supremacy, call for new strategies?
Event Flyer (PDF)
The keynote will be followed by a Q&A with Brittnee Meitzenheimer and Zama Dube of the Black Feminism Initiative.

EVENT DETAILS & REGISTRATION
Date: Friday, October 16th
Time: 1:00 – 3:00 PM (PST)
Location: Zoom Webinar
Registrants will receive a Zoom link a few days prior to the event. If the Zoom room is at capacity, attendees will be able to view the event on YouTube live stream.
This event has now passed. Please watch Alicia Garza’s keynote address, The Purpose of Power: Building Movements in a Time of Pandemic, followed by a Q&A with the Black Feminism Initiative at our YouTube channel.
For questions, please contact CSW at csw@csw.ucla.edu.

ABOUT THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Alicia Garza founded the Black Futures Lab to make Black communities powerful in politics. In 2018, the Black Futures Lab conducted the largest survey of Black communities in over 150 years.
Alicia believes that Black communities deserve what all communities deserve — to be powerful in every aspect of their lives. An innovator, strategist, organizer, and cheeseburger enthusiast, she is the co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter and the Black Lives Matter Global Network, an international organizing project to end state violence and oppression against Black people. The Black Lives Matter Global Network now has 40 chapters in 4 countries.
Alicia serves as the Strategy & Partnerships Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance, the nation’s premier voice for millions of domestic workers in the United States. She is also the co-founder of Supermajority, a new home for women’s activism. She shares her thoughts on the women transforming power in Marie Claire magazine every month.
Her forthcoming book, The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart, will be released on October 20, 2020, and she warns you — hashtags don’t start movements. People do.

Co-sponsored by:

UCLA International Institute

Whose Streets? Building Safe Communities for All
2020-10-19 12:15 - 2020-11-02 13:30
Organized by the UCLA Law Criminal Justice Law Review
Date: Monday, October 19, 2020
Time: 12:15 – 1:30 PM
Location: Online/Zoom, occurring every Monday for 3 weeks (Oct. 19, Oct. 26, and Nov. 2)
Event Details: Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3
Free and open to the public, this symposium will invite scholars, policymakers, and activists together to discuss community-centered alternatives to traditional policing. A major focus of the symposium is to elevate new modes of public safety that better protect vulnerable populations, including women, and especially women of color. While this theme will run throughout, we are focusing a day (10/26) on policing inside the home, with a special emphasis on discussing interventions for domestic abuse that do not result in greater danger to victims or systemic and unjustified separation of families.
Speakers include:
Ronda Goldfein, Safehouse
Mariah Monsanto, BYP100 (She Safe, We Safe campaign)
Assemblymember Sydney Kamlager-Dove, California State Assembly
Farhang Heydari, Policing Project at NYU Law

(still) Missing in Action: The International Crime of the Slave Trade
2020-10-23 09:00 - 10:00
Organized by the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA Law
Date: Friday, October 23, 2020
Time: 9:00 AM
Location: Online/Zoom
Event Details
Please join us for the next talk in the Promise Institute for Human Rights’ High-Level Speaker Series on Women, Gender and the Law. Patricia Viseur Sellers will speak on the missing international crime of the slave trade, incorporating jurisprudence from the Yugoslavia tribunal and International Criminal Court as well as evidence of the Yazidi and the Libyan situation of Slave Markets. With a particular focus on gender, she will examine how this trajectory ties into current issues of reparations for slavery and colonialism.

Planning for a Feminist Future: Building back differently
2020-10-26 09:00 - 10:30
Organized by the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA Law
Date: Monday, October 26, 2020
Time: 9:00 AM
Location: Online/Zoom
Event Details
Promise Institute for Human Rights High-Level Speaker Series on Human Rights Around the World
Leymah Gbowee, 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, is a peace activist, trained social worker, and women’s rights advocate. She currently serves as Executive Director of the Women, Peace, and Security Program at the Earth Institute at Columbia University. She is the founder and current President of the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa, the founding head of the Liberia Reconciliation Initiative, and the co-founder and former Executive Director of Women Peace and Security Network Africa (WIPSEN-A).

Indigenous Insights about Policing
2020-10-27 16:00 - 18:00
Organized by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center
The discussion is free and open to the public, but registration is still required.
Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Time: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Location: Virtual Event
Event Details
This virtual panel discussion features Sarah Deer (Muscogee (Creek) Nation), Dian Million (Tanana Athabascan), Stephanie Lumsden (Hupa), and Sandi Pierce (Seneca) speaking on the subject of policing in the United States. The session will be moderated by Christine Stark (Anishinaabe & Cherokee).
The event is co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center, Repair, the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, and Innovations Human Trafficking Collaborative
This event is open to the public. Free tickets are available on demand. Optional sliding-scale donations are also welcome and help offset event costs.
