Connecting Art and Law for Liberation: Art and Law Festival
2023-04-14 - 2023-04-15 | Fowler Museum, UCLA
When: April 14-15, 2023
Where: Fowler Museum, UCLA Campus
Connecting Art and Law for Liberation (CALL) is an art and law festival hosted by UCLA School of Law’s Prison Law and Policy Program, Criminal Justice Program, and the Prison Education Program at UCLA.
This year’s conference is a CALL to action to imagine abolitionist futures. The festival will bring together visionary artists, activists, attorneys, advocates, legal scholars, and community members to share innovative, cutting-edge collaborations at the intersection of ART and LAW – aimed at imagining a world without prisons, policing, and surveillance.
Free and open to the public.
Sign up for CALL workshops.
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CSW|Streisand Center Research Affiliates Brown Bag with Carol Bensick
2023-04-21 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
“Practical Uses of Philosophy”: Julia Ward Howe as Public Philosopher
by Carol M. Bensick
When: Friday, April 21, 2023, 12–1 p.m.
Where: On Zoom.
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The American Philosophical Association maintains a Committee on Public Philosophy inspired by “the belief that the broader presence of philosophy in public life is important both to our society and to our profession.” It aims “to find and create opportunities to demonstrate the personal value and social usefulness of philosophy.” Julia Ward Howe was not intent on receiving recognition or admiration as a philosopher herself. In an undated late-life poem called “To Philosophy,” she is quick and apparently proud to assert “With thy holy robes of state I my meanness did not mate.” But if she eschewed making a name as a philosopher herself, she was highly intent, to “demonstrate the personal value and social usefulness of philosophy.” In promoting public philosophy, she exemplified public philosophy herself.
Carol M. Bensick completed her PhD at Cornell University in American literary and intellectual history, specializing in puritanism and transcendentalism. She was an assistant professor at the University of Denver, the University of Oregon, and UC Riverside and gained tenure at University of Oregon. She taught summer school at Cornell and UCLA and Extension at UCR. Her revised dissertation was published as La Nouvelle Beatrice: Renaissance and Romance in “Rappaccini’s Daughter.” She edited and wrote the headnote for Jonathan Edwards for the first Heath Anthology of American Literature. As research affiliate at CSW|Streisand Center, she roams the nineteenth-century archives turning up women philosophers wherever she goes.

Coming to You Film Screening
2023-05-01 - 2023-05-06
When: May 1-6, 2023
Where: Various Locations
Coming to You (2021) is coming to Southern California in May 2023! It is a powerful, groundbreaking documentary film about two women confronting bigotry and redefining their relationship with their queer and transgender (adult) children, made by a filmmaker working with the acclaimed queer feminist film collective, PINKS (연분홍치마). The film thoughtfully presents the work of PFLAG Korea (성소수자 부모모임 Parents and Families of LGBTAIQ People in Korea), a critical part of LGBTQ activism in South Korea and beyond.
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Coming to You has fostered critical conversations through international film festivals and community screenings in South Korea, though it has not yet been widely screened in the U.S. The film makes an important contribution to equity, diversity, and social justice, and it will resonate with queer and trans youth, families and allies, students, activists, and community builders and advocates throughout Southern California. For more information, see:

“I love as you are,” a short video from 2016 Korea Queer Culture Festival.
“A letter from a Korean mother to all the mothers with LGBT children” (2017)
“Parents fight for their LGBTQ children’s rights” (2020)

Screening and panel discussion with director Byun Gyu-ri
and cast members Jeong Eun-ae (Nabi) and Kang Sun-hwa (Vivian) in person
All screenings are free and open to the public.
Schedule
Monday, May 1
University of California, Irvine (UCI)
5pm McCormick Screening Room, UC Irvine
Tuesday, May 2
California State University, Northridge (CSUN)
4pm University Library 25
Wednesday, May 3
Pasadena City College
5pm R102
Friday, May 5
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
5pm James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall, UCLA
Saturday, May 6
Los Angeles community screening + panel discussion
1-4pm NAVEL 1611 S. Hope Street, Los Angeles
RSVP requested.
For more information, please contact feministpoliticskorea@gmail.com.
Co-presented with GYOPO, KYCC Koreatown Storytelling Program, San Gabriel Valley API PFLAG, and the UCLA community.

Survivor Teach In: From Surviving to Healing
2023-05-09 12:30 - 13:30 | Luskin Room 2355, 337 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
When: May 9th from 12:30-1:30pm
Where: Luskin School of Public Affairs Room 2355
Join Survivors and Allies for a community teach-in.
Survivors + Allies research collective will share their findings from a UC-wide survey of students on their experiences with campus-based and off-campus resources for survivors of sexual violence. We will also launch a website where you can easily access the data from our survey. This event is a collaboration with the Center for the Study of Women | Streisand Center. Lunch will be served! Please note that this event registration will be capped at 50 people.
Survivors + Allies is a student organization that advocates for, and with, survivors of sexual violence at the UCs. Our work spans research, advocacy, and policy to create change and shift how society thinks about sexual violence.
Contact: UCLASurvivorsAndAllies[at]gmail.com
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Barbra Streisand Center Annual Lecture
2023-09-12 16:30 - 18:00 | UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
The UCLA Barbra Streisand Center invites you to the inaugural public lecture on the topic of Truth in the Public Sphere.
When: Tuesday, September 12, 2023.
4:30 p.m. Doors Open
5:00 p.m. Lecture
Where: UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, The Centennial Terrace
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Featuring
André Brock
André Brock is an associate professor of media studies at Georgia Tech. He writes on Western technoculture and Black cybercultures; his scholarship examines race in social media, video games, blogs and other digital media. His book, Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures, the 2021 winner of the Harry Shaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for Outstanding Work in African-American Popular Culture Studies and the Nancy Baym Book Award, theorizes Black everyday lives mediated by networked technologies.
Frances Haugen
Born in Iowa City, Iowa, Frances Haugen is the daughter of two professors and grew up attending the Iowa caucuses with her parents, instilling a strong sense of pride in democracy and responsibility for civic participation. She holds a degree in electrical and computer engineering from Olin College and an MBA from Harvard. She is a specialist in algorithmic product management, having worked on ranking algorithms at Google, Pinterest, Yelp and Facebook. She was recruited to Facebook to be the lead product manager on the civic misinformation team, which dealt with issues related to democracy and misinformation, and later also worked on counter-espionage. During her time at Facebook, Haugen became increasingly alarmed by the choices the company made prioritizing their own profits over public safety and putting people’s lives at risk. As a last resort and at great personal risk, she made the courageous decision to blow the whistle on Facebook. Haugen fundamentally believes that the problems we are facing today with social media are solvable – we can have social media that brings out the best in humanity.
Stuart Stevens
Stuart Stevens is a senior advisor to the Lincoln Project. He is the author of eight books, including The New York Times bestseller It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Esquire and Outside, among other publications. His ninth book, The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party is Driving Democracy to Autocracy, will be published in October. He has written extensively for television shows, including Northern Exposure, Commander in Chief and K Street. For 25 years, he was the lead strategist and media consultant for some of the nation’s toughest political campaigns. He attended Colorado College; Pembroke College, Oxford; Middlebury College and UCLA. He is a former fellow of the American Film Institute.
Moderated by
Safiya Noble
Safiya Noble is an internet studies scholar and professor of gender studies and African American studies at UCLA where she serves as the interim director of the UCLA DataX Initiative and founder and director of the UCLA Center on Race and Digital Justice. She is the author of the best-selling book, Algorithms of Oppression, and a research associate at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford where she is a chartering member of the International Panel on the Information Environment. In 2021, she was recognized as a MacArthur Foundation Fellow (also known as the “Genius Award”) for her groundbreaking work on algorithmic discrimination. In 2022, she was recognized as the inaugural NAACP-Archewell Digital Civil Rights Award recipient.
About the future Barbra Streisand Institute at UCLA
The Barbra Streisand Center was established in 2021 and made possible by the vision and generosity of Barbra Streisand. The Streisand Center will become the future Barbra Streisand Institute at UCLA , a forward-thinking institute dedicated to finding solutions to the most vital social issues.
The Center for Truth in the Public Sphere will be the first area of study and advocacy and will focus on truth in the public sphere, reflecting Streisand’s passionate interest in the topic. Speakers and research will delve into urgent and existential threats to democracy, and examine how lies and the proliferation of disinformation can destroy a civic sense of decency, as well as entire countries.
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My Name is Andrea
2023-09-20 19:30 - 21:00 | UCLA Hammer Museum – Galleries, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Co-presented by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women|Streisand Center and Hammer Museum.
My Name is Andrea is a hybrid feature documentary about one of the most controversial figures of the 20th century. Andrea Dworkin offered a revolutionary analysis of male supremacy with a singular urgency and iconoclastic flair. Decades before #MeToo, Dworkin called out the pervasiveness of sexism and rape culture, and the ways it impacts every woman’s daily life.
Shaped by the values of justice and equality learned in the civil rights movement, the film focuses on key moments from the life of this fearless fighter who demanded that women be seen as fully human. The film features performances by Ashley Judd, Soko, Amandla Stenberg, Andrea Riseborough, and Christine Lahti, woven in with rare, electrifying archival footage of Dworkin.
Followed by a conversation with director Pratibha Parmar and Karen Tongsen, Chair of USC’s Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies.
2022, dir: Pratibha Parmar, DCP, color, 90 minutes
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Ticketing: Admission is free. 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. One ticket per guest. Box office opens one hour before the event.
Hammer Museum Member Benefit: Subject to availability, Hammer Members can choose their preferred seats. Members receive priority ticketing until 15 minutes before the program. Members can pickup a ticket for themselves and a guest. Learn more about membership.
Parking: Valet parking is available on Lindbrook Drive for $10 cash only. Self-parking is available under the museum. Rates are $8 for the first three hours with museum validation, and $3 for each additional 20 minutes, with a $22 daily maximum. There is an $8 flat rate after 6 p.m. on weekdays, and all day on weekends.

Decarceral Visions Conference
2023-09-22 - 2023-09-23 | UCLA Law School, 385 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Organized by the UCLA School of Law
Date: September 22-September 23, 2023
Location: UCLA School of Law, 385 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA 90095
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This conference is for people and organizations committed to the fight to end mass incarceration and immigration detention. Specifically, this conference is designed to address important questions that come up in the work to close or prevent the construction of jails, prisons, and immigration detention centers:

What will happen to the facilities and spaces themselves, and when should we repurpose them for community use? How can we meaningfully repurpose carceral facilities?
What will happen to people held in these facilities?
How can we intervene in plans for jail construction or expansion in ways that can direct government spending outside of the criminal legal system, work with planners and architects for community-led repurposing, and further just transitions?
How do we address job loss and the community economic impact upon closure? How do we critically analyze the claims that new facilities will be an economic boon?
How can government funds used for incarceration be redirected to just transitions and economic development?
What can we learn from the labor and environmental movements’ just transitions framework as we move to close or prevent new carceral facilities?

Who should come?
Community organizers and advocates involved in campaigns to close, repurpose, and/or prevent construction of jails, prison and immigrant detention centers; students, scholars, and practitioners in architecture, urban planning, economic redevelopment, environmental sustainability, law, public health, social work, municipal budgeting, labor, and ESG financing who are supporting or want to support decarceral and just transition efforts in this critical and strategic conference.
Topics Covered:

Participatory and community-based planning and architecture processes in campaigns to repurpose jails, prisons, and detention centers;
Lessons learned from campaigns to close, repurpose, and/or prevent the construction of jails, prisons, and detention centers;
Understanding public and private financing, data analysis, and budget interventions when proposing carceral facility closure or opposing new construction;
The role of public officials in carceral closure and just transitions;
Just transitions for incarcerated and detained people, workers, and communities directly impacted by facility closure;
Lessons on just transition from the environmental justice movement and consideration of the role of public officials; intersections with the environmental justice movement;
Building and implementing a just transition framework for and with incarcerated and detained people, workers, and communities directly impacted by facility closure;
Public health and social work perspectives on carceral closure and just transitions;
Gender dynamics of carceral closure and just transitions;
And more!

Conference Planning Committee:
Eunice Cho, ACLU National Prison Project; Jasmine Heiss, Vera Institute of Justice; Marcela Hernandez, Detention Watch Network; Nicole Porter, Sentencing Project; Judah Schept, Professor, Eastern Kentucky University; Alicia Virani, UCLA School of Law; Kyle Virgien, ACLU National Prison Project; Samantha Weaver, ACLU National Prison Project; Maurice BP-Weeks, Interrupting Criminalization.

CSW|Streisand Center / Gender Studies / LGBTQ Studies 2023 Fall Reception
2023-10-04 16:00 - 18:00 | Rolfe Courtyard
Join CSW|Streisand Center, the UCLA Department of Gender Studies, and LGBTQ 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 our upcoming projects, research, and events. Refreshments will be served.
Event Date: Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Event Time: 4:00–6:00 PM
Event Location: Rolfe Hall Courtyard, UCLA (outdoors)
Please fill out the registration form below in order to assist us in planning this event.
Registration is FREE.
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Please note that we may take photos of guests at the reception for CSW|Streisand Center’s website and publications.
If you are no longer able to attend, please e-mail csw@csw.ucla.edu to let us know.

Aribada Film Screening
2023-10-12 18:30 - 20:00 | Billy Wilder Theater, James Bridges Theater
When: October 12, 2023, 6:30 PM
Where: UCLA James Bridges Theater
In the middle of the Colombian coffee region, Aribada, the resurrected monster, meets Las Traviesas, a group of indigenous trans women from the Emberá tribes. The magical, the dreamlike and the performative coexist in their unique world – an aesthetic and spiritual universe in which documentary and fiction merge into a transcultural narrative. Enchanted by the beauty and power of their jais (spirits), Aribada decides to join Las Traviesas in creating their own trans*futurist community.
Natalia Escobar is a Colombian interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker who explores themes of intersectional feminism, Andean phenomenology, identity, and memory in her work. She earned a degree in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins College in London and creates moving images, soundscapes, and installations that immerse her audience in new and thought-provoking experiences.
In recent years, Escobar has been collaborating with a community of trans Indigenous women from the Embera people called Las Traviesas. Together, they are working on a project that aims to promote social transformation through artistic and design processes. Through creating spaces for free expression and the exchange of knowledge, the project seeks to strengthen the community and empower its participants.
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New Books in Filipinx Studies
2023-10-13 13:00 - 14:00
When: Friday, October 13, 2023, 1 p.m.
Where: YRL Presentation Room
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Hear, meet, and celebrate authors Josen Diaz and Genevieve Clutario.
Two scholars will speak about their recently published books in the Filipinx Studies. Speakers are Josen Diaz, author of Postcolonial Configurations: Dictatorship, the Racial Cold War, and Filipino America(Duke University Press) and Genevieve Clutario, author of Beauty Regimes: a History of Power and Modern Empire in the Philippines, 1898-1941 (Duke University Press). Diaz is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of San Diego and Clutario is Associate Professor of American Studies at Wellesley College.
This event received support from the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Asian American Studies Department, Center for the Study of Women, Asian American Studies Center, and the Office of Instructional Development.
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"Manufacturing Freedom": Elena Shih Book Talk
2023-10-19 12:15 - 13:45 | 352 Haines Hall
Date: Thursday, October 19, 2023
Time: 12:15 – 1:45 pm PDT
Location: Haines Hall 352, Portola Plaza Los Angeles, CA 90095
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Elena Shih Book Talk
About the event
The UCLA Transnational Gender and Labor Working Group, IRLE, and CSW|Streisand Center invite you to join Professor Elena Shih to discuss her new book, Manufacturing Freedom: Sex Work, Anti-Trafficking Rehab, and the Racial Wages of Rescue (UC Press, 2023).
About the book
Sex worker rescue programs have become a core focus of the global movement to combat human trafficking. While these rehabilitation programs promise freedom from enslavement and redemptive wages for former sex workers, such organizations actually propagate a moral economy of low‑wage women’s work that obfuscates relations of race, gender, national power, and inequality. Manufacturing Freedom is an ethnographic exploration of two American organizations that offer vocational training in jewelry production to women migrants in China and Thailand as a path out of sex work. In this innovative study, Elena Shih argues that anti‑trafficking rescue and rehabilitation projects profit off persistent labor abuse of women workers and imagined but savvily marketed narratives of redemption.
About the author
Elena Shih is Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University, where she directs a human trafficking research cluster through the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. Shih is the author of two books: Manufacturing Freedom: Sex Work, Anti-Trafficking Rehab, and the Racial Wages of Rescue (University of California Press), and White Supremacy, Colonialism, and the Racism of Anti-Trafficking (Routledge). Shih serves on the editorial boards for The Anti-Trafficking Review, a peer-reviewed journal of the Global Alliance to Combat Traffic in Women, and openDemocracy’s Beyond Trafficking and Slavery op-ed platform. In 2018 Shih was appointed to the Rhode Island State Advisory Committee to the US Commission on Civil Rights. Recent op-eds about her research and organizing as a core collective member of Red Canary Song appear in the New York Times and Providence Journal. She earned a PhD in Sociology from UCLA, and a BA in Asian Studies from Pomona College.
*Please RVSP for the room number and to secure lunch.
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Fly in Power Film Screening and Q&A
2023-10-20 17:00 - 20:00 | Darren Starr Screening Room, UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television, Los Angeles, 90095
Date: Friday, October 20, 2023
Time: 5 – 8 pm PDT
Where: Darren Star Screening Room
235 Charles E Young Dr N Melnitz Hall 1422 Los Angeles, CA 90095

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About the Event

The UCLA Transnational Gender and Labor Working Group, IRLE, and CSW|Streisand Center in collaboration with Red Canary Song and SWOP LA invite you to join the film screening of Fly in Power, followed by a Q&A with Elena Shih and a SWOP LA speaker.
Fly in Power follows Charlotte, a Korean massage worker and core organizer of Red Canary Song (RCS), a social justice collective of Asian diasporic massage workers, sex workers and allies who basebuild through mutual aid. Through her history, we learn how the incarceral system is pitted against Asian migrant women and their survival. The documentary is a glimpse into the intimate spaces that not only connect these women and non-binary queers, but is also a testament to the global advocacy of women’s rights to work and thrive. The documentary is directed by Yin Q, a Queer, Chinese American parent, writer, and sex worker rights advocate, and Yoon Grace Ra, a cultural organizer working with audio/visual media.
This film has been produced entirely by women, non-binary, trans and queers of the Asian diaspora—more than half of the production team are former/current sex workers. Each story centers the narrative of an Asian massage worker in her own words, enabling us to witness the trust built between the film team and the participants with their own agency of storytelling and editing. Fly in Power premiered in March this year in Flushing, Queens. Since then it has been shown at various universities and film festivals including the San Francisco Sex Worker Film Festival, the Los Angeles Asian and Pacific Islander Film Festival where it won Grand Jury Prize Best Documentary, and the 46th Asian American International Film Festival.
A catered reception will follow after screening and Q&A.
*The Darren Star Screening Room is located in Melnitz Hall and situated on the northeast corner of the UCLA campus in Westwood, next to the Broad Art Center and the Murphy Sculpture Garden.*
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CinEskwela: Modern Queer Cinema Double Feature
2023-10-28 20:00 | Billy Wilder Theater, James Bridges Theater
Where: James Bridges Theater, 235 Charles E Young Drive East Los Angeles, CA 90095
When: Saturday, October 28, 1-8:00 pm
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In celebration of Filipino American History Month, Cinema Sala and UCLA’s Center for the Study of Women | Streisand Center present a double feature screening of award-winning queer auteur, Jun Robles Lana’s BWAKAW and BIG NIGHT!
Through the juxtaposition of BWAKAW and BIG NIGHT!, attendees will gain a deeper understanding of the diverse narratives and artistic approaches employed by Filipinx filmmakers in showcasing LGBTQ+ experiences.
After the double feature, we will have a panel, “Bakla and Beyond: A Dialogue on the State of Filipinx Queer Media” to be moderated by Dino-Ray Ramos, featuring writer-director Jun Robles Lana, his cinematographer Carlo Canlas Mendoza, as well as special guests, GLAAD Award winner, Rain Valdez, and actor/comedian Jiavani.
As part of tradition in Cinema Sala events, admission is free, so please bring something to share for our potluck! Please bring an appetizer, side dish, dessert, or beverage (non-alcoholic).
Parking is available in Parking Structure 3 under visitor parking. Do NOT park where there is an “x” or has blue signs. We recommend putting the James Bridges Theater into Google Maps when navigating.
Doors open at 1 pm and event ends at 8:00 pm.

"Backlash: Misogyny in the Digital Age" Screening & Panel Discussion
2023-11-02 19:00 - 21:00
When: Thursday, November 2, 2023
7:00 p.m. Panel & Discussion
Reception to follow
Where: California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)
UCLA Campus
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Warning: This video contains adult content and graphic language, and is not suitable for children.
UCLA Division of Social Sciences and UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television invite you to attend a special screening of Backlash: Misogyny in the Digital Age followed by a panel discussion featuring:
Guylaine Maroist
President, Producer, Screenwriter, and Director, La Ruelle Films
Kiah Morris
Former Vermont State Representative
Sarah Roberts
Faculty Director, UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry
Associate Professor, UCLA Department of Gender Studies
Moderated by
Kristy Guevara-Flanagan
Professor of Documentary Film, UCLA Department of Film, Television and Digital Media
With a panel introduction by
Safiya Noble
Interim Director, UCLA DataX Initiative
Founder and Director, UCLA Center on Race and Digital Justice
Film Synopsis: In fall 2017, the MeToo hashtag shook the planet, sparking an unprecedented wave of sexual assault accusations in the Western world. Today, the storm of virulent misogyny is raging on, flooding our screens with harassment, defamation, lynching, sextortion, the sharing of intimate photographs, rape and death threats. According to the UN, 73% of women are abused online.
This feature-length documentary follows four women and one man whose lives have been ransacked by online violence: Laura Boldrini, the most harassed female politician in Italy; Kiah Morris, an African-American politician in the state of Vermont who resigned following severe harassment and threats from rightwing extremists; Marion Séclin, a French YouTuber who received more than 40,000 sexist messages, including rape and death threats; Laurence Gratton, a young teacher in Quebec who was harassed for more than five years by a former colleague; and Glen Canning, the father of Rehtaeh Parsons, a young girl who took her own life after photos of her rape were spread online.
What is it like to live with this so-called virtual violence? That’s what this opus aims to show by closely following the victims in their daily lives. As in a horror movie, we witness in real time the waves of hate that assail them, the fear that invades their private lives, and the loss of their sense of security in public spaces. Their lives are marred by a loss of confidence, and by shame.
Backlash: Misogyny in the Digital Age also shows how each of these women, and this man speaking in his late daughter’s name, are waging the same battle. They share a common cause: refusing to be silenced. Their journeys intertwine. They demand widespread accountability from those who allow the propagation of such hatred, whether it be the tech giants, the state, or the perpetrators themselves. Why this unrelenting and systematic discrimination against women? Can we leave the screen now and shift the age-old paradigm?

Beyond The Bars LA Conference
2023-11-03 - 2023-11-04 | UCLA, 330 De Neve Dr., Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
The Center for Justice at UCLA presents a collaboration between the Bruin Underground Scholars (BUS) and the UCLA Prison Education Program (PEP).
BEYOND THE BARS LA — our third biannual national conference — will take place on Friday and Saturday, November 3-4, 2023 at UCLA. The BTB LA team is an inspired group of system-impacted students, scholars, advocates, and activists involved in the international decarceration movement. This conference will center interdisciplinary approaches to prison education, abolition, and decarceration as decolonization. The conference will include a series of dynamic presentations from justice-centered organizations, artists, activists, advocates and academics from across the country.
This event is free and open to all those who RSVP. Join us for food, fellowship, empowerment and more!
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Faculty Writing Retreat
2023-11-03 10:00 - 16:00 | 306 and 314 Royce Hall, UCLA
Date: Friday, November 3, 2023
Time: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Location: Royce 306 and 314.
On-site space is limited. Virtual option available.
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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 your own work alongside like-minded colleagues—we will hold the world at bay for you. Breakfast, lunch and coffee/tea will be provided in the beautiful setting of Royce Hall.
The writing retreat provides a peaceful place to write as well as meals; please bring your computer and any other materials you may need to work. If you have an extension cord, please bring it, as power outlets are limited. Also bring some extra clothes for layers, as the space sometimes tend to be cool.
We will have a conversation about the writing process over lunch. This conversation is entirely optional and there will also be a non-work space to enjoy lunch.
On-site space is limited. Virtual option available.
RSVP is required.
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If you are no longer able to attend, please e-mail csw@csw.ucla.edu to let us know.

Gendered Fortunes Book Talk
2023-11-09 14:00 - 16:00 | Rolfe Courtyard
When: Thursday, November 9, 2-4 pm
Where: UCLA Rolfe Courtyard Scultpure Garden
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Join us for a book talk featuring Professor Zeynep Korkman in discussion Professor Purnima Mankekar.
In Gendered Fortunes (Duke University Press), Zeynep K. Korkman examines Turkey’s commercial fortunetelling cafés where secular Muslim women and LGBTIQ individuals navigate the precarities of twenty-first-century life. Criminalized by long-standing secularist laws and disdained by contemporary Islamist government, fortunetelling cafés proliferate in part because they offer shelter from the conservative secularist, Islamist, neoliberal, and gender pressures of the public sphere. Korkman shows how fortunetelling is a form of affective labor through which its participants build intimate feminized publics in which they share and address their hopes and fears. Korkman uses feeling—which is how her interlocutors describe the divination process—as an analytic to view the shifting landscape of gendered vulnerability in Turkey. In so doing, Korkman foregrounds “feeling” as a feminist lens to explore how those who are pushed to the margins feel their way through oppressive landscapes to create new futures.
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ELTS 3rd Annual Graduate Student Conference
2023-11-13 - 2023-11-14 | 308 Royce Hall
Where: Royce Hall 308
When: November 13-14, 2023
Join the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies’ 3rd Annual Graduate Student Conference: “Speculative Futurities, Past and Present.”
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The graduate students of the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles are inviting submissions to the third annual ELTS Graduate Student Conference. Our keynote speakers will be Prof. Lydie Moudileno (University of Southern California) and Prof. David Bates (University of California, Berkeley).
Amir Eshel’s Futurity suggests that literary representations of the past are not only key to understanding our present, but they also allow us to set the stage for the future, to improve our understanding of its stakes. Our conference expands on this mode of thinking by reconsidering the ways in which time and space have been and are currently imagined in connection to the European continent and its transnational legacies. What does it mean to speculate on and envision “futurity,” or the lack thereof? Who holds the keys to imagining, conceptualizing, and identifying the future, and who is seen as even having one?

Mariam's Tattoos: The Afterlives of a Humanitarian Photograph
2023-11-15 10:00 - 12:00
When: Wednesday, November 15, 2023
10:00 am – 12:00 pm (Pacific Time)
Where: Virtual
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Virtual book talk by Professor Elyse Semerdjian, Robert Aram and Marianne Kaloosdian and Stephen and Marian Mugar Chair of Armenian Genocide Studies at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University.
Foremost among the images of the Armenian Genocide is the communal memory of tattooed Islamized Armenian women. Blue tribal tattoos that covered face and body signified assimilation into Muslim Bedouin and Kurdish households. Dr. Elyse Semerdjian will discuss her book Remnants wherein tattooed and scar-bearing bodies reveal the larger history of gender and genocide. However, she will focus her discussion on contextualizing a single 1919 humanitarian portrait of a young woman named Mariam Azarian. While collecting and accessioning process left the genocide victim’s name in oblivion, Semerdjian will showcase her methodological approach to the subject of tattooed Armenian women and the possibilities for recovering information from a mutilated post-genocide archive.
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This event is organized by the Armenian Genocide Research Program of the Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA and co-sponsored by the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research, the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, the Ararat-Eskijian Museum, and the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies.

Oral Histories of Environmental Illness (OHEI) Symposium
2023-11-17 - 2023-11-18 | Hershey Hall Grand Salon Rm. 158, 612 Charles E Young Dr East, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Canary Knowledge: Chronic Fatigue, Chemical Sensitivities and the Limits of Medicine
Presented by the CSW|Streisand Center.

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When: Friday, November 17 – Saturday, November 18, 2023
Where: Hershey Hall Salon (158), 612 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA 90095 (Parking structure 2 is closest)
Hybrid event. The event will be in-person and live-streamed on CSW|Streisand Center’s YouTube channel @UCLACSW.

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With the surge in numbers of “unrecovered” from the Co-V2 pandemic, the public’s interest has turned to disability and caregiver activism, ongoing remissions protocols, and patient-led research networks established by those living with chronic fatigue, multiple chemical sensitivity, tick-borne illnesses, and autoimmune conditions (e.g. HIV, lupus, Crohn’s). This conference bridges the immediate before and after of Co-V2’s effects on this growing population of the chronically ill, and often medically abandoned, to ask how they—like the proverbial canaries in the coal mine—have defined and laid the groundwork for disability justice, art, and activism.
This event is part of a three-year multi-campus research grant at the University of California focusing on “Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice: Mapping Inequity and Renewing the Social Project.”
Fragrance-free:
Please avoid wearing scented products such as perfumes/colognes, scented lotions, clothing with strong detergent scents, etc. while attending this event as they can trigger serious health issues for those with fragrance allergies. We aim to maintain a welcoming and accessible environment for all faculty, staff, students, and visitors. Thank you for your consideration for all members of our community. For more information.
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Masking is strongly encouraged.
The symposium panels are being filmed. By entering the space, you will be giving us permission to film you. If you object to being filmed, please let us know and we can seat you in a section not visible on the camera.
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Co-sponsors:

Disability Studies
Division of Social Sciences
Vice Chancellor for Research & Creative Activities Roger Wakimoto
Division of Humanities
UC Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives

Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America Book Talk
2023-12-07 12:00 - 13:30
Where: Bunche 6275 (Lunch included)
When: Thursday, December 7, 12 – 1:30 pm
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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 co-editor of Intimate States: Gender, Sexuality, and Governance in Modern U.S. History (Chicago, 2021). Her book, Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America (Princeton, 2023), explores the ways that the workplace has mattered for queer people over time, both as a site of vulnerability and exploitation but sometimes also of deep meaning.
Co-sponsored by the UCLA History of Gender & Sexuality Working Group, History Department, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Center for the Study of Women, Luskin Center for History and Policy, Gender Studies Department, LGBTQ Studies, Labor Studies, and the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute

Film Screening of "Maria Schneider, 1983" and Q & A with Elisabeth Subrin
2023-12-07 18:00 - 19:00
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 real critical awareness upon the gendered power structures of the film industry as well as the violations she experienced living and working within it — including, in one painful section, on the set of Last Tango in Paris.
Elisabeth Subrin is a New York based award-winning director and artist. Her critically acclaimed films and video installations have been featured in numerous festivals and exhibitions internationally, including solo shows at The Museum of Modern Art, NY, Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Vienna Viennale. Subrin’s 2016 award-winning feature narrative, A Woman, A Part, had its world premiere in competition at The Rotterdam International Film Festival and traveled to festivals throughout Europe, US and Asia. It was released theatrically in 2017. Her 2022 award-winning short film, Maria Schneider, 1983, starring Manal Issa, Aissa Maiga and Isabel Sandoval, had its world premiere at the 2022 Cannes International Film Festival in Director’s Fortnight and North American premiere at The 60th New York Film Festival in 2022 and was awarded a 2023 César (French Oscars). A commissioned multi-channel video, sound and sculptural version, The Listening Takes, was on view at David Winton Bell Gallery through June 4th, 2023. She is currently developing her feature-length bio-pic about Maria Schneider.
Event questions? Contact Kristy Guevara-Flanagan (kgflanagan@tft.ucla.edu).

Film Screening: Food and Country Screening and Q&A
2023-12-07 19:00
Where: James Bridges Theater
When: December 7, 7 pm
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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 in the wake of greedy conglomerates and the COVID-19 pandemic, talking to independent farmers, ranchers, and restaurant owners alike.
Director Laura Gabbert and Los Angeles Chef Minh Phan (Phenakite) will join us for a post-screening discussion moderated by UCLA Ph.D. candidate Elizabeth Schiffler (Performance Studies & Food Studies).
This event is generously sponsored by: The Rothman Family Institute for Food Studies, Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Eatwell, the Center for Performance Studies, and the Center for the Study of Women|Barbra Streisand Center.

Talk and Reception: Professor Salamishah Tillet
2024-01-10 16:00 - 17:00
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 from the singer that power and control maintain an ontological edge. Whatever luck or misfortune the Player has dealt her, she is, in the moment of performance, the primary subject of her own invention” Considering Spillers’s provocative claim, Professor Salamishah Tillet will look at Civil Rights musician Nina Simone’s diary (and her friendship with the writer Lorraine Hansberry) and discuss the tensions and possibilities that arise as she writes about Simone’s inner life, while also exploring Simone’s ongoing intellectual influence on American culture.
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About
Salamishah Tillet is the Henry Rutgers Professor of Africana Studies and Creative Writing at Rutgers University, Newark, and the 2022 Pulitzer Prize-winning contributing critic-at-large at The New York Times. She is the director of Express Newark, a center for socially engaged art and design art at Rutgers, and the author of Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination and, most recently, In Search of the Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece.
Cosponsors
This event is co-sponsored by Center for the Study of Women|Streisand Center, the divisions of Humanities, Social Sciences, The Herb Alpert School of Music, The Center for Musical Humanities, and The UCLA Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health.

Faculty Writing Retreat
2024-01-19 10:00 - 16:00 | Hershey Hall Grand Salon Rm. 158, 612 Charles E Young Dr East, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
When: Friday, January 19, 2024
10 am – 4 pm
Where: Hershey Hall Salon (Room 158)
(In-person Waitlist Only. Virtual Spots Available)

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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 your own work alongside like-minded colleagues—we will hold the world at bay for you. Breakfast and lunch will be provided in the beautiful setting of Hershey Hall Salon
The writing retreat provides a peaceful place to write as well as meals; please bring your computer and any other materials you may need to work. If you have an extension cord, please bring it, as power outlets are limited. Also bring some extra clothes for layers, as the space sometimes tend to be cool.
We will have a conversation about the writing process over lunch. This conversation is entirely optional.
On-site space is limited. Virtual option available.
RSVP is required.
If you register to attend in person and your plans change, please let us know right away so that we may offer your spot to the waitlist. Due to the popularity of the retreat, no-shows cannot be granted an in-person spot at the following writing retreat.
If you are no longer able to attend, please e-mail csw@csw.ucla.edu to let us know.

Welcome Reception for 2024 UCLA Activists-in-Residence
2024-01-24 16:00 - 18:00 | 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
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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, the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy, the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, cityLAB-UCLA, and the UCLA Center for the Study of Women|Barbra Streisand Center are pleased to announce Ron Collins II, Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia, Shengxiao “Sole” Yu, Robert Clarke, and Narges Zagub as the 2024 UCLA Activists-in-Residence.
Learn more about each of the UCLA Activists-in-Residence here and please join us in warmly welcoming our activists to the UCLA community at this year’s welcome reception.
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Parking information: The nearest parking lot is Parking Structure 5 (340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90095). Pay by space parking is available on level 6 of Parking Structure 5. Use Parking Structure 3 as an alternate, located on the corner of Sunset Blvd. and Hilgard Avenue. Pay by space parking is located on level 1 of Parking Structure 3.
Only cash and credit cards may be used at campus payment stations/kiosks. Pay stations accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover, and American Express for your convenience. Pay stations only accept $1, $5, and $10 bills and do not give change in the form of cash or credit. Park in an unmarked space and place permit on your car dashboard so it is visible.

Reconsidering Music, Technology, and Gender: A Symposium
2024-01-27 08:00 - 17:00 | Schoenberg Music Building, 445 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, 90095, 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 decades. Considerations of music technologies’ and tools’ material affordances, attendant social practices, cultural codings, and political ecologies have been taken up by scholars in musicology, gender studies, media studies, science and technology studies, and beyond. Reconsidering Music, Technology, and Gender is a one-day symposium that seeks to revisit the many ways in which musicians and listeners utilize technology (through various plug-ins and softwares, the internet, hardwares, instruments, and platforms) to create, challenge, subvert, and affirm. This symposium calls for renewed and new perspectives on the intersections of music, technology, and gender, enlivened attention to contemporary contexts and practices of music making, and un- or under-told counter-histories of celebrations and governances of gender in musical life. We welcome proposals that engage the three terms, but need not otherwise be limited vis-à-vis genre, geography, sound, social milieu, or disciplinary methodology. Scholars and practitioners are invited to present in a variety of formats, including but not limited to: conference-style papers, panels, musical performances, and production demonstrations.
Call for Papers: Submission Guidelines
Please submit an abstract (no more than 250 words) of your proposal using the google form linked below.
Presentations will each be 15 minutes. Panels/roundtables should incorporate 3-4 presenters and last 45
minutes. The deadline for submissions is November 1, 2023. Participants will be notified by November 15,
2023. If you have questions, please email Catherine Provenzano or Lily Shababi.
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Contact
Catherine Provenzano (cprovenzano@schoolofmusic.ucla.edu)
Lily Shababi (lilyshababi@ucla.edu)
This symposium is presented by the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music in collaboration with the Center for the Musical Humanities and co-organizers Catherine Provenzano and Lily Shababi.

Unsettling Landscape: Experimental Films by Southeast Asian Women Filmmakers
2024-01-27 19:30 - 21:00 | Billy Wilder Theater, 10899 Wilshire Blvd.,, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, 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 box office opens one hour before the event.
Showcasing a collection of recent experimental works by Southeast Asian women filmmakers, Unsettling Landscape focuses on short films and videos that critically engage with questions of land, landscape and the myriad forms of mediation that have been used to capture their image. Like painting and the diorama, the camera has been a tool of colonial authority, historical narrative, and scientific knowledge production, laying the groundwork for unfettered development projects and extractive capitalism. Capturing an image of land through mediation can be an act of complicity, binding it and rendering it legible as scenery, property and territory. Reflexively engaging with such practices of mediation, these works suggest that the moving image also allows space for refusal. Unearthing the deep time of tectonic shifts and Animist belief systems, unraveling statist development narratives and unlearning colonial ways of knowing, these films unsettle the complex relations between lens and land, offering new possibilities for spatial transformation on screen.
Series programmed by CSWAC member and Associate Professor Jasmine Nadua Trice, UCLA Cinema and Media Studies.
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Read Jasmine Trice’s blog post “Unsettling Landscape: Exploring Southeast Asian Women Filmmakers’ Visionary Perspectives.“

Film Screening: Fenomenal, Rompeforma 1989-1996
2024-01-29 14:30 - 17:00
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 and Viveca Vázquez.
Fenomenal, Rompeforma 1989-1996 is a documentary about Rompeforma:Marató n de Baile, Performance & Visuales, the experimental Latinx dance andperformance festival that took place in Puerto Rico from 1989-1996.
Fenomenal, Rompeforma 1989-1996 features dozens of performances and commentary by many current leaders of the field, and some who have sadly passed. The film intends to inspire younger generations of Latinx artists and cultural activists by providing evidence of the rich creative and artistic contributions of Latinx to the American avant-garde.
Fenomenal preserves, and makes available, the repertoire of a generation ofLatinx experimental dance, performance, and curation often overlooked and/or forgotten by historians, scholars, and practitioners in the field, to confront the elusive amnesia and appropriation by mainstream players, with respect to the(unexpected) work of Latinx experimental dance and performance artists.
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Anne LeBaron: Portrait Concert of a Trailblazing Composer
2024-02-07 19:00 - 20:30
Where: Lani Hall – Schoenberg Music Building 445 Charles E. Young Drive East Los Angeles, 90095
When: Wednesday, February 7, 7-8:30 pm PST
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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 four decades of pioneering music, will be followed by an enlightening talkback and reception.
The evening unfolds around LeBaron’s lifelong passions, weaving a tapestry of music with drama, environmental advocacy, sounds and stories from around the world, the recognition of women’s achievements, and the spirit of artistic collaboration. This much-anticipated event will feature world premieres alongside rarely performed works.
“The Heroine with a Thousand Faces,” a prodigious new multi-year endeavor aiming to create one thousand musical portraits, launches with five original solos honoring women whose momentous contributions have reshaped our history. The prestigious Davise Fund facilitates these tributes by commissioning musical homages to figures such as Australian Saint Mary Helen Mackillop, Nobel Laureate Leymah Gbowee, and the indomitable Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Extraordinary saxophonist Jan Berry Baker will present world premieres of five such portraits, composed expressly for her.
Showcasing an array of LeBaron’s vocal compositions from her operatic oeuvre, the program includes chamber pieces that echo her deep commitment to environmental causes. Additionally, her improvisational prowess on the harp will be on display as she guides an ensemble through a graphic score, drawing inspiration from Marcel Duchamp’s concept of ‘the infrathin.’
This event is co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Musicology, the Department of Music, the Center for Musical Humanities, the Center for the Study of Women/Streisand Center, and the UCLA Music Library Davise Fund.
