Center for the Study of Women

Faculty Writing Retreat
2019-01-18 | Royce 306
Date: January 18, 2019
Time: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: Royce 306
RSVP: http://humanities.ucla.edu/events/writing-retreats/
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.
For those who wishes, 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.
Space is limited – RSVP is required. If at any point you need to cancel part or all of your RSVP, please email Barbara Van Nostrand: bvannost@humnet.ucla.edu
Co-sponsored by:

The Division of Humanities
The Herb Alpert School of Music
The Fielding School of Public Health
The Center for the Study of Women

Raquel Medina, "Gendering Alzheimer's Disease: Mothers, Daughters, and Sisters"
2019-01-16 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Rolfe 2125
A talk by Raquel Medina, Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Director of CinemAGEnder International Research Network, Aston University
Organized by the UCLA Department of Gender Studies
Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Time: 3:00 – 5:00 PM
Location: 2125 Rolfe Hall
This presentation will provide a comparative and cross-cultural analysis of cinematic representations of Alzheimer’s disease in several non-mainstream films that employ it as a trope to explore age and gender. Contrary to mainstream productions, films such as Pandora’s Box (Turkey 2008), the Good Herbs (Mexico 2010), Old Cats (Chile 2010), Poetry (Korea 2010), and A Separation (Iran (2011) offer important counter-narratives to the feminization of Alzheimer’s disease as decay. This talk aims to shed light on how these counter-narratives offer feminist/intersectional perspectives on Alzheimer’s disease. Concepts of womanhood, sisterhood, mothering, and matrophobia in these films will be linked in this discussion to crucial issues such as solidarity, empathy, assisted suicide, suicide, and violence against women.
Co-Sponsored by:

Center for the Study of Women

Until and Unless, Film Screening and Discussion with Dr. Soma Roy, Sintu Bagui and Nitai Giri
2018-11-30 14:00 - 15:30 | 208 Kaufman Hall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNXjLvouD2A
This event will entail the screening of Until and Unless, a short documentary film addressing the queer and trans rights movement in India.
Set in West Bengal a year before the historic decision to repeal India’s anti-sodomy law Penal Code 377, “Until and Unless”, follows the story of four individuals and the impact of systemic oppression via India’s legislative system on their lives. The film features Sintu, a transwoman community leader raised in the Sheoraphuli red-light district; Nitu, a transwoman sex worker who lives a dual identity as a man named Nitai; Lovely, a Koti person who lives a closeted life while working in an office environment, and Pratap, a trans teen still navigating her identity. Through juxtaposing their stories with interviews from lawyers and activists working to oppose these laws, the film shows the lived consequences of state and social violence on community self-representations.
The documentary was shot a year ago before the recent landmark Supreme Court decision to repeal of the colonial law, IPC 377, thereby decriminalizing homosexuality. The event will also feature a Q&A session with the Bengali sex-worker and trans activist co-creators of the film.
Speakers:
Dr. Soma Roy, Sintu Bagui and Nitai Giri from Anandam, the organization for transgender sex workers in West Bengal, India
Co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for India and South Asia

Faculty Writing Retreat
2018-11-30 10:00 - 17:00 | Young Research Library, Conference Room, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
DATE: Friday, November 30, 2018
TIME: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
LOCATION: Charles E. Young Research Library Main Conference Room
RSVP: http://humanities.ucla.edu/events/writing-retreats/
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.
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.
For those who wishes, 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.
Space is limited – RSVP is required. If at any point you need to cancel part or all of your RSVP, please email Barbara Van Nostrand: bvannost@humnet.ucla.edu
Co-sponsored by:

The Division of Humanities
The Herb Alpert School of Music
The Fielding School of Public Health
The Center for the Study of Women

#masshysteria. Hysteria, Race, and Masculinity
2018-11-16 14:00 - 15:00 | 10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Guest lecture by Sander L. Gilman, Emory University
This guest lecture is part of the UCLA event series #masshysteria. Hysteria, Politics, and Performance Strategies organized by the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies.
Date: Friday, November 16, 2018
Time: 2:00 – 3:00 PM
Location: UCLA Bunche Hall 10383
Free admission. RSVP Here.
Sander L. Gilman has extensively researched and published on the intersection of Hysteria, Race, Sexuality and Gender. In this guest lecture Gilman will discuss his influential work and how the term hysteria has been useful until the present day to understand sexist and racist representations of people in protest. The term hysteria is still today very much associate with fin-de-siècle fantasies about ill, hyperventilating women. Gilman addresses in his lecture, however, that the debates about hysteria at the close of the nineteenth century are rooted as much in stereotypes about race and mental illness as they are in the pseudo-scientific claims of its origin in the ‘wandering womb’. What race and hysteria come to mean, moreover, changes its valence when European concepts are re-read in the United States. Who is hysteretic and why they have become hysteric comes to be a medical puzzle with a surprising twist in the course of the twentieth century.
The talk will be followed by an open conversation with Sander L. Gilman and moderated by Johanna Braun.
Co-sponsored by:

Center for the Study of Women
Center for European and Russian Studies
Department of English
Department of Germanic Languages
Department of Theater
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
Center for Performance Studies

Black Feminism and the Practice of Care
2018-11-16 09:00 - 16:30 | Sequoia Room, Faculty Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, 90024
A one-day symposium on black women’s care, wellness, and healing presented by the UC Consortium for Black Studies in California. This event explores the relationship between individual practices of care and care as an investment in communities (particularly those haunted by precarity and disposability), and reimagines care (and harm and depletion) as emerging not just from late capitalist phenomena like stress and work burn-out, but also from racist institutions, historical violence, structural neglect, and familial wounds.
Closing Reception will be held from 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Keynote Speakers:

Honor Ford-Smith, York University
Beverly Hanson, Sistren Theater Collective

Panelists:
Judith Casselberry (Bowdoin College), Stephanie Hicks (University of Michigan), Jessica Johnson (Johns Hopkins University), Courtney Marshall (Phillips Exeter Academy), Jessica Millward (UC Irvine), LaKisha Simmons (University of Michigan), Jasmine Syedullah (Vassar College), SA Smythe (UC Irvine), Terrion Williamson (University of Minnesota), Tiffany Willoughby-Herard (UC Irvine)
Moderators:
Erica Ball (Occidental College), Marne Campbell (Loyola Marymount University), Imani Johnson (UC Riverside)
Co-Sponsored by:

UCLA Division of Social Sciences
UCLA Department of Gender Studies
Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies

#masshysteria. Trans*: Hystories, Bodies and the Unbuilding of Worlds
2018-11-05 14:30 - 15:30 | 10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Guest Lecture by Jack Halberstam
Professor of English, Comparative Literature and Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Columbia University.
This guest lecture is part of the UCLA event series #masshysteria. Hysteria, Politics, and Performance Strategies organized by the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies.
Date: Monday, November 5, 2018
Time: 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Location: 10383 Bunche Hall
FREE ADMISSION
While transgender has mostly been discussed in the last decade in terms of making bodies and selves, Jack Halberstam will discuss the work of unmaking that is performed by the appellation of trans*. With this shift in focus, the wrong body, an appellation used mostly for people who have felt themselves to be out of place, out of time, comes not to claim right but to dismantle the system that metes out rightness and wrongness. This talk will offer examples of protest performances drawn from the 1970’s to argue for anarchic trans* feminisms oriented towards unbuilding and unmaking worlds, and will therefore, re-contextualize the agency of restless, transitive, hysterical bodies of the present.
The talk will be followed by an open conversation with Jack Halberstam and moderated by Johanna Braun.
Co-sponsored by:

Center for the Study of Women
Department of English
Department of Germanic Languages
Department of Theater
Center for European and Russian Studies
Center for Performance Studies
LGBTQ Studies Program

A Time to Stir: The 1968 Columbia Student Uprising
2018-11-04 10:00 - 20:00 | Melnitz 1409: James Bridges Theater
Screening and Conversation with Director Paul Cronin

Organized by Susan Slyomovics, UCLA Department of Anthropology
Date: November 4, 2018
Time: 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM
Location: James Bridges Theater
A screening of the seven-hour-long documentary film, with discussion with director Paul Cronin.

Co-Sponsored by:

Center for the Study of Women
Department of French and Francophone Studies
Division of Social Sciences
Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences
Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Department of English
School of Theatre, Film and Television
Department of Anthropology
Promise Institute of Human Rights
Department of History
Dean of Humanities Division Fund

#masshysteria. Hysteria, Politics, and Performance Strategies
2018-11-01 09:30 - 17:30 | Royce 306
#masshysteria. Hysteria, Politics, and Performance Strategies
A conference organized by the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies and the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies
Date: November 1, 2018
Time: 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM
Location: 306 Royce Hall
RSVP: https://french.ucla.edu/event/masshysteria-hysteria-politics-and-performance-strategies-conference/

In Europe, especially in Vienna and Paris, around 1900, the hysterical girl was a well-studied object in arts and sciences; she re-appeared, a hundred years later, in countless manifestations in US mainstream horror films. In addition, key words describing women in protest as “hysterical”, “nasty”, “possessed”, or “monstrous” dominate contemporary public discourse. The female hysteric in these current narratives references strikingly established representations of the hysteric as (public) performer that extend well beyond the European studies of the nineteenth century. For example, although the medical term hysteria was struck from the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 1994, it simultaneously reappeared as Histrionic Personality Disorder (Latin: histrio, actor/actress). This rebranding further underlines the point of this investigation: the female hysteric is diagnosed as performer. Given this reintroduction, and the re-appearance of the hysteric in current discourses, one may assume that the self-reflective media figure of the female hysteric will continue to gain ground in its cultural impact. The aim of this project is to show the ways in which a historical European phenomenon enjoys an active legacy in the United States one hundred years later and, in turn, resonates around the world.
Although the history and evolution of the representation of hysteria have been extensively researched, the study of how these discourses have been transferred to twenty-first-century US popular culture remains uncharted territory. This conference’s main focus is the way in which the hysteric is involved in and performs on the pressing intersection of hysteria, cultural, (horror) film and performance studies.
Furthermore, as a result of performance studies being a paradigm-driven field, this conference (and the subsequent publication) will be divided into two sections: In the beginning, we will follow the hysteric’s performance as object of inquiry, which will enable us to put the current phenomenon in its (historical) context. Thereafter, we will expand the scope and focus on performance studies as a primary analytical concept, which will enable us to uncover the potentiality of agency in the hysteric’s performance. We welcome scholarship and practice-based research in relation to hysteria and performance from all disciplines and backgrounds. As this event is designed to bring together a diverse group of scholars and artists, we value traditional paper submissions as well as encourage experimental forms of presentations, such as (new) media-, video-, performance and performance-lecture.
Co-sponsored by:

Department of French and Francophone Studies
Center for European and Russian Studies
Center for Performance Studies

New Directions in Black Atlantic Religion
2018-10-27 09:00 - 17:00 | 10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Organized by the African Studies Center and presented by UC Multi-campus Research Group on New Approaches to Black Atlantic Religions and University of California Office of the President Multi-campus Research Programs & Initiative Funding (MRPI)
Date: Saturday, October 27, 2018
Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: 10383 Bunche Hall
Program: http://www.international.ucla.edu/asc/event/13430
The conference is free and open to the public; RSVP requested by emailing Sheila Breeding, African Studies Center, at sbreeding@international.ucla.edu.
Free and open to the public!
This multidisciplinary group composed of faculty from multiple UC campuses will critically assess the current state of scholarship on Black Atlantic belief systems and theorize new methodologies and analytic orientations for comparative and regional studies. Our objective is to expand UC’s historical role as a hub for the study of Black Atlantic religions by fostering dialogue and collaboration amongst a new generation of scholars. We will explore where new research is needed, ways to develop new methods, what new theoretical paradigms are available, and carefully consider how we as scholars can contribute to the anti-racist struggles of the peoples of the Black Atlantic world.
Participants include Jeffrey Kahn (UC Davis), Rachel O’Toole (UC Irvine), Roberto Strongman, Elizabeth Pérez and Claudine Michel (UC Santa Barbara), Jeroen Dewulf (UC Berkeley), and Patrick A. Polk, Lauren Derby, Katherine Smith and Andrew Apter (UCLA).
Outside speakers include Brendan Jamal Thornton from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill whose book on Pentecostalism and masculinity in the Dominican Republic won the Caribbean Studies award for best book in the humanities.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS by YANIQUE HUME

“Dancing for the Dead and the Living: Embodiment and Invocation in Caribbean Mortuary Praxis”
Yanique Hume is a Professor, professional dancer, choreographer, and writer based at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Barbados.
Co-sponsored by:

Center for the Study of Women
Patricia Turner, Dean and Vice Provost, Division of Undergraduate Education
Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies
Center for the Study of Religion
Robin D.G. Kelley, Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History
Fowler Museum
Atlantic History Cluster
UCL

Beauty Bites Beast: The Missing Conversation About Ending Violence
2018-10-24 17:00 | 208 Kaufman Hall
Beauty Bites Beast: The Missing Conversation About Ending Violence
Organized by the Department of World Arts and Culture/Dance
Featuring Director Ellen Snortland
Date: October 24, 2018
Time: 5:00 – 8:00 PM
Location: 208 Kaufman Hall
Beauty Bites Beast is a documentary film that tracks women’s empowerment self-defense training in three national locations, the US, Mexico, and Israel. The film treats violence against women as a tool of social control and examines the ways in which women have been systematically denied the right to self-defense and the skills to exercise that right. The film investigates the process through which gender is lived and embodied and how this embodiment can shift through physical practice. It is also dedicated to altering the social structures through which women and non-binary people are oppressed by advocating for options for women who face violence and harassment.

Eli Clare, "Cautionary Tales: Environmental Injustice, Disability, and Chronic Illness"
2018-10-18 16:00 - 18:00 | Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon, UCLA, Los Angeles
CSW is delighted to welcome Eli Clare to UCLA to give a talk as part of our Chemical Entanglements research initiative.
RSVPs for this event are NOW CLOSED. Standby seats may be available; we encourage you to arrive early if you would like a standby seat.
About Eli Clare

Photo description: Eli sits on driftwood log, smiling in the sun.
White, disabled, and genderqueer, Eli Clare lives near Lake Champlain in occupied Abenaki territory (currently known as Vermont) where he writes and proudly claims a penchant for rabble-rousing. He has written two books of creative non-fiction, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure and Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation, and a collection of poetry, The Marrow’s Telling: Words in Motion, and has been published in many periodicals and anthologies.
Eli speaks, teaches, and facilitates all over the United States and Canada at conferences, community events, and colleges about disability, queer and trans identities, and social justice. Among other pursuits, he has walked across the United States for peace, coordinated a rape prevention program, and helped organize the first ever Queerness and Disability Conference.
When he’s not writing or on the road, you can find him reading, hiking, camping, riding his recumbent trike, or otherwise having fun adventures.

About the Talk
Eli Clare’s talk is entitled “Cautionary Tales: Environmental Injustice, Disability, and Chronic Illness”
Date: Thursday, October 18, 2018
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon
RSVPs for this event are NOW CLOSED. Standby seats may be available; we encourage you to arrive early if you would like a standby seat.
Free and Open to the Public

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Co-sponsored by:

UCLA Disability Studies Program
UCLA Department of English
UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics
UCLA Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS)
UCLA Department of Gender Studies
UCLA Division of Social Sciences

Tammy Ko Robinson, "Korean Adoptees, Deportation, and Statelessness"
2018-10-18 11:00 - 12:15
Korean Adoptees, Deportation, and Statelessness
A Talk by Tammy Ko Robinson, Associate Professor of Art, Hanyang University, Seoul
Organized by the Department of Asian American Studies
Date: October 18, 2018
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM
Location: Due to space limitations, location will be provided upon RSVP.
RSVP: Email Grace Hong at gracehongucla@gmail.com
Tammy Ko Robinson will discuss loopholes in US law that created a situation in which several thousand adoptees, many of whom are from Korea, were never naturalized for citizenship, and are thus undocumented and eligible for deportation, theorizing the contradictions between kinship and family, on the one hand, and statelessness on the other.
Co-Sponsored by:

Department of Asian American Studies
Center for Korean Studies

Sami Schalk, "Bodyminds Reimagined: Disability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction"
2018-10-17 14:30 - 16:00 | UCLA Powell Library, East Rotunda
Bodyminds Reimagined: Disability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction
Book Talk with Dr. Sami Schalk, Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Date: Wednesday, October 17
Time: 2:30 – 4:00 PM
Location: UCLA Powell Library, East Rotunda
This event is wheelchair accessible and will have an ASL Interpreter
In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how black women’s speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds—the intertwinement of the mental and the physical—in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability. Bridging black feminist theory with disability studies, Schalk demonstrates that this genre’s political potential lies in the authors’ creation of bodyminds that transcend reality’s limitations. She reads (dis)ability in neo-slave narratives by Octavia Butler (Kindred) and Phyllis Alesia Perry (Stigmata) not only as representing the literal injuries suffered under slavery, but also as a metaphor for the legacy of racial violence. The fantasy worlds in works by N. K. Jemisin, Shawntelle Madison, and Nalo Hopkinson—where werewolves have obsessive-compulsive-disorder and blind demons can see magic—destabilize social categories and definitions of the human, calling into question the very nature of identity. In these texts, as well as in Butler’s Parable series, able-mindedness and able-bodiedness are socially constructed and upheld through racial and gendered norms. Outlining (dis)ability’s centrality to speculative fiction, Schalk shows how these works open new social possibilities while changing conceptualizations of identity and oppression through nonrealist contexts.
This event is sponsored by UCLA African-American Studies, the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, UCLA Disability Studies, UCLA Department of English, and UCLA Department of Gender Studies.

Fall Welcome Reception
2018-10-10 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: To RSVP, please fill out the online registration form.
Date: Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Time: 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Location: Rolfe Hall Courtyard, UCLA

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Hannah Kosstrin, "Honest Bodies: Methods for Transnational Dance Analysis"
2018-10-09 10:00 - 12:00 | 230 Kaufman Hall
Honest Bodies: Methods for Transnational Dance Analysis
Book talk by Hannah Kosstrin, Ohio State University
Organized by the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Date: October 9, 2018
Time: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: 230 Kaufman Hall
Anna Sokolow’s choreography circulated American modernist and communist ideologies through predominantly Jewish channels of the international Left between the 1930s and 1960s. In this talk, Kosstrin highlights how Sokolow’s body as a Jewish, gendered site determined her relationship to social politics in the dance landscapes of New York, Mexico City, and Tel Aviv in which she and her dance companies participated. Kosstrin introduces her framework for transnational dance analysis, “honest bodies,” and how it exposes cultural- and dance-based kinesthetic influences that implicated Sokolow and her movement practices in global dance modernism and its choreographic discourses.
Dr. Hannah Kosstrin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Dance at The Ohio State University and affiliated with the Melton Center for Jewish Studies and Center for Slavic and East European Studies. She is author of Honest Bodies: Revolutionary Modernism in the Dances of Anna Sokolow (Oxford UP, 2017).
Co-sponsors:

Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies
Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies
Center for Near Eastern Studies

"Hope" -- Part of Transformation: Lectures, Conversations and Storytelling about Healing and Social Action
2018-09-27 18:30 - 20:30 | Young Research Library, Conference Room, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90095
Part of the series Transformation: Lectures, Conversations, and Stories About Healing and Social Action, sponsored by Repair.
Stories by Kandee Rochelle Lewis, Anam Ella Durrani, Shawna Charles
Welcome and Introductions by Rachel Lee, Director, UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Opening lecture by Beth Ribet
Hope is the second event in the Transformation storytelling series. The series features community organizers, advocates, healers, survivors, theorists, and artists, in the role of “storyteller”. Storytellers will draw from their life experiences and personal and communal narratives and histories in order to speak to the seven event themes included in the series. The events in the Transformation series are intended to speak to our collective desire for deep social change, and to support us in finding the energy, strength, connection, and knowledge that we need in order to repair our world, and to heal ourselves and our communities.
View the full schedule and learn more about the Transformation Storytelling Series.
Co-sponsors:

UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Positive Results Corporation

Awards and Benefit Luncheon 2018
2018-05-31 12:00 - 14:30 | UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
This event is now past. Photo highlights of the 2018 Awards Luncheon 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 honorees!
FEATURING THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS
40 Years in Corporate Culture: A Successful Woman’s Strategies for Surviving and Thriving
By Paula Williams Madison
Chairman and CEO, Madison Media Management, LLC
Former CEO, Los Angeles Sparks
Former Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer, NBCUniversal

This year, CSW has selected Paula Williams Madison and LA Sparks Player Nneka Ogwumike as the recipients of the Center for the Study of Women’s 2018 Distinguished Leader in Feminism Award.
Learn more about Paula Williams Madison’s work on diversity in the media

Event Details
Thursday, May 31, 2018
12:00 – 2:30 PM
UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, Optimist Room
Tickets are $30 and non-refundable
REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED
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If you have questions or have registered and can no longer attend, please contact CSW Management Services Officer Kristina Magpayo Nyden.

Location & Parking
The 2018 CSW Awards and Benefit Luncheon will take place at the UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center located in Westwood Plaza on the corner of Strathmore and Westwood Boulevard (left map).
Within the Luskin Conference Center, the Luncheon will take place in the Optimist Room, located on the 2nd floor (right map).

For a full UCLA map, please visit http://maps.ucla.edu/downloads.
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 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

Paula Williams Madison is Chairman and CEO of Madison Media Management LLC, a Los Angeles-based media consultancy company with global reach. She also serves as a Founding Partner with The Group LLC, a high-level strategy, marketing, and communications consultancy also headquartered in Los Angeles.
In 2011, Madison retired from NBCUniversal where she was President and General Manager of NBC4 Los Angeles. She was also Los Angeles Regional General Manager for NBCU’s Telemundo TV stations, and Vice President and News Director of NBC4 New York. Under Madison’s watch, WNBC4 Los Angeles earned numerous Emmy, Golden Mike, and Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards.
Her concurrent career as a writer and journalist also led to a 1996 Peabody Award for NBC4 New York’s investigation, “A License to Kill.”
Madison is executive producer, and subject of Finding Samuel Lowe: From Harlem to China, a compelling documentary that chronicles her journey to her maternal grandfather’s homeland in China and the reconnection of her family with his 300 descendants. HarperCollins published a memoir of the journey, Finding Samuel Lowe: China, Jamaica, Harlem, in April 2015 and Shenzhen Publishing (Shenzhen, China) reissued the book in 2016 in Chinese.

A highly sought-after public speaker, Madison received numerous honors and awards: named one of the “75 Most Powerful African Americans in Corporate America” by Black Enterprise Magazine in 2005, and included in the Hollywood Reporter’s “Power 100.” In 2013, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti appointed Madison to the Los Angeles Police Commission, where she served as Vice President until 2015.

Madison is the former Owner/CEO of the Los Angeles Sparks WNBA basketball team. She also serves on the Boards of the Los Angeles Chinese American Museum, the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, Cardinal Spellman High School, the Greater Los Angeles United Way, the California Science
Center Foundation, as well as Chair of The Nell Williams Family Foundation, and National CineMedia, the largest cinema advertising network in the U.S., where she chairs the Nominating and the Governance Committee(s).
She is also an honorary member of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., a predominantly African-American sorority whose members boast more than 250,000 college-educated women.
Madison graduated from Vassar College and has served 10 years as a Vassar Trustee (to the College); and two years as President of the Board of Directors of the Alumnae/I Association of Vassar College.

The Musical and Its Others, Then and Now
2018-05-31 - 2018-06-03 | UCLA
Song, Stage, and Screen XIII: The Musical and Its Others, Then and Now
Organized by the UCLA Center for Musical Humanities
Dates: May 31-June 3, 2018
Locations: Royce Hall, Schoenberg Music Building, and Kerckhoff Hall
Program, Schedule, and Registration Information: https://cmh.schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/sss-conference-2018/
Keynote Speakers:
Stacy Wolf, Theatre, Princeton University
Shana Redmond, Musicology and African American Studies, UCLA
Robynn Stilwell, Media Studies and Musicology, Georgetown University

Area Impossible: Sexuality and Geopolitics Symposium
2018-05-25 09:30 - 17:00 | Royce 314
Organized by the UCLA Department of Comparative Literature
DATE: May 25, 2018
TIME: 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM
LOCATION: 314 Royce Hall
RSVP: http://complit.ucla.edu/event/area-impossible-sexuality-geopolitics/
Within queer studies, the geopolitical has posed a much-needed challenge to the spatial and temporal logics of the field (logics that often mire the field in the US), especially in the aftermath of the turn to transnationalism. Comparative literature has historically fashioned its domains outside US borders, but despite its range has remained somewhat tied to nationalist coagulations/formations. This symposium brings together speakers who engage comparative analytical forms towards a more disruptive and capacious queer geopolitics.
Program
9:30-10:00am
Introductory remarks
Anjali Arondekar, Visiting Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, UCLA and Associate Professor, Feminist Studies, UCSC
Welcome address
David Schaberg, Dean of Humanities, UCLA
10:00-10:45am
Queer Coolitude/ An Indo-Caribbean Reading
Rajiv Mohabir, Assistant Professor of English, Auburn University.
11:00am-12:30pm
Freud in Translation/ Three Essays, a Survey, and a Group
Omnia El Shakry, Professor of History, UCD
Respondent: Gil Hochberg, Ransford Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, and Middle East Studies, Columbia University
12:30-1:30pm
Lunch for participants
1:30-3:15pm
Trespassing Queer Kindship/ Temporality and the Geopolitics of Attachment
Sima Shakhsari, Assistant Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota
Respondent: Ananya Roy, Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare and Geography, UCLA
3:15-3.30pm
Coffee break
3:30 -5:00 p.m.
None Like Us/ Black Exception Black Exemption
Stephen M. Best, Associate Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley
Respondent: Shana Redmond, Associate Professor, Musicology and African-American Studies, UCLA
5:00-6:30pm
Reception

Representing the Sex Industries
2018-05-15 16:00 - 18:00 | UCLA School of Law, Room 3467, UCLA
Representing the Sex Industries
With Dr. Beth Ribet, Co-Director of Repair
Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Time: 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Location: UCLA School of Law, Room 3467
In this lecture and dialogue, Dr. Beth Ribet, who will be introduced by Professor Claudia Peña, will address the framing and representation of people in systems of prostitution in popular media, academic theory, political discourse, and in the criminal justice system. Within this discussion, Dr. Ribet will explore the contemporary politics of sex trafficking rhetoric, and will specifically introduce analysis of the recent framing, in right-wing media, of Donald Trump as an anti-trafficking hero supposedly responsible for the rescue of trafficked children and women. She will also delve into the history and ramifications of the dichotomy between the terms “sex work” and “sex trafficking”, and will identify the need for feminist, race-conscious analysis and interventions to address the relationship between whiteness, white women, and pimping in the United States. Dr. Ribet’s lecture will conclude with discussion of the hyper-vulnerability of sexually exploited youth and adults, and the prospects for advancing survivor-driven approaches to comprehending and naming the sex industries. Discussion and commentary will follow by Jyoti Nanda, Binder Clinical Teaching Fellow at UCLA School of Law.
Organized by Repair. Co-sponsored by CSW, UCLA Department of Gender Studies, and the UCLA Law Youth and Justice Clinic.

Kristine Gunnell, "Grantmaking for Systemic Change: Daughters of Charity, Seton Institute, and Alleviating Poverty in the Global South, 1985-2010"
2018-05-10 12:00 - 13:30 | Rolfe 2125
CSW Research Affiliate Brown Bag Talk
A talk by Kristine Gunnell, Research Affiliate, UCLA Center for the Study of Women
Committed to easing suffering wherever they find it, Daughters of Charity in the western United States founded Seton Institute for International Development in 1985. Through its fundraising and in-kind distribution programs, the institute offered targeted support for Catholic sisters engaged in primary health care activities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. A case study of faith-based non-profits, the institute’s history illustrates Catholic efforts to strengthen transnational ties among sisters, while also promoting practices to spur systemic change to reduce poverty in local communities throughout the Global South.
Kristine Gunnell is a research affiliate at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. Gunnell’s book, Daughters of Charity: Women, Religious Mission, and Hospital Care in Los Angeles, 1856-1927 (DePaul University Vincentian Studies Institute, 2013) illustrates the innovative ways that these Catholic sisters adapted to the changing demands of the emerging hospital industry while maintaining their religious mission to care for the sick and poor. While her previous work focused on the Daughters’ early history in Los Angeles, Gunnell has recently turned her attention to the sisters’ activities in the late twentieth century. Her current book project focuses on the efforts of the Daughters of Charity Foundation to promote systemic change as it seeks to combat poverty in California and elsewhere in the world.
DATE: Thursday, May 10
TIME: 12-1:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Rolfe 2125
Bring your lunch!
RSVP online: https://uclacsw.submittable.com/submit/107912/free-registration-grantmaking-for-systemic-change-by-kristine-gunnell

The Crescent Moon Symposium
2018-05-04 09:00 - 17:00 | Faculty Center, California Room
Organized by the UCLA Department of English
Date: May 4, 2018
Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: California Room, UCLA Faculty Center
The one-day Crescent Moon Symposium (May 4, 2018) explores the lives of philosopher Hu Shih 胡适 (1891-1962), poet Xu Zhimo 徐志摩 (1897-1931), scholar/Shakespearean Liang Shiqiu 梁实秋, writer/painter Ling Shuhua 凌淑华 (1900-1990), and their literary communities. The quartet of bilingual intellectuals epitomized the vibrant East-West exchanges in the wake of the May Fourth movement. All four were members of the Crescent Moon Society 新月社, established by Xu Zhimo and Hu Shi and designed as a counterpart of the Bloomsbury Group of England. Three also happened to be prolific epistolary writers. A cosmopolitan friendly with Katherine Mansfield, Roger Fry, and Rabindranath Tagore, Xu was most famous for his Chinese poetry and love letters. Hu Shi corresponded with Bertrand Russell, Arthur Waley, and a number of American literary luminaries. Ling Shuhua corresponded with Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, and Julian Bell.
Two of the four keynote speakers are descendants of Xu Zhimo and Ling Shuhua, respectively: Tony S. Hsu 徐善曾, Xu Zhimo’s only grandson and author of Chasing the Modern《志在摩登》(2017); Sasha Su-Ling Welland 魏淑凌 (U of Washington), grandniece of Ling Shuhua and author of A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters (2007). The other two keynoters are Susan Chan Egan 陈毓贤, co-author of A Pragmatist and His Free Spirit: The Half-Century Romance of Hu Shi and Edith Clifford Williams (2009), and Michelle Yeh (UC Davis), author of Modern Chinese Poetry: Theory and Practice since 1917 (1991). The symposium will also feature a round table discussion of the Crescent Moon Society (a literary society named after a volume of prose poems by Rabindranath Tagore) and its Bloomsbury connection, and a literary salon with bilingual readings, songs, slides, and documentaries about Xu, Hu, and Ling. Round table participants include the four keynoters, visiting scholar Liu Cong 刘聪 (Liang Shiqiu 梁实秋 scholar), and three UCLA faculty members (Michael Berry 白睿文, King-Kok Cheung 张敬珏, Louise Hornby). Admission is free and open to the community.
Speakers:
Susan Chan Egan 陈毓贤, retired securities analyst, author of A Latterday Confucian and A Pragmatist and His Free Spirit: The Half-Century Romance of Hu Shi and Edith Clifford Williams
Louise Hornby, Assistant Professor of English at UCLA; author of Still Modernism: Photography, Literature, Film
Liu Cong 刘聪, Visiting scholar at UCLA and Liang Shiqiu specialist
Tony S. Hsu徐善曾, physicist, entrepreneur turned writer; author of Chasing the Modern: The Twentieth-Century Life of Poet Xu Zhimo
Sasha Su-Ling Welland 魏淑凌, Associate Professor of Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies, U of Washington; author of A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters and Experimental Beijing: Gender and Globalization in Chinese Contemporary Art
Michelle Yeh, Distinguished Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Davis and Director of the Confucius Institute at UC Davis; author of Modern Chinese Poetry: Theory and Practice since 1917
Co-sponsors:
Center for the Study of Women
Department of Asian American Studies
Asian American Studies Center
Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
Confucius Institute
Institute of International Exchange

Ula Taylor, "The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam"
2018-04-30 16:00 - 18:00 | Bunche 6275, UCLA Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Organized by the UC Consortium for Black Studies in California
Ula Y. Taylor discusses her recently published book, The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam (UNC Press, 2017). The patriarchal structure of the Nation of Islam (NOI) promised black women the prospect of finding a provider and a protector among the organization’s men, who were fiercely committed to these masculine roles. Black women’s experience in the NOI, however, has largely remained on the periphery of scholarship. Here, Ula Taylor documents their struggle to escape the devaluation of black womanhood while also clinging to the empowering promises of patriarchy. Taylor shows how, despite being relegated to a lifestyle that did not encourage working outside of the home, NOI women found freedom in being able to bypass the degrading experiences connected to labor performed largely by working-class black women and in raising and educating their children in racially affirming environments. Telling the stories of women like Clara Poole (wife of Elijah Muhammad) and Burnsteen Sharrieff (secretary to W. D. Fard, founder of the Allah Temple of Islam), Taylor offers a compelling narrative that explains how their decision to join a homegrown, male-controlled Islamic movement was a complicated act of selfpreservation and self-love in Jim Crow America.
Ula Taylor is a leading feminist historian. She is Professor and H. Michael and Jeanne Williams Department Chair in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
DATE: April 30, 2018
TIME: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
LOCATION: Room 6275, Bunche Hall

Dreaming in Filipino: Languages and Literatures Beyond English:
2018-04-30 12:00 - 14:00 | 10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Part of The Philippines and its Elsewheres
A series organized by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Featuring:
Maria Josephine Barrios-LeBlanc, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley
Nenita Domingo, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA
Kie Zuraw, Department of Linguistics. UCLA
This interdisciplinary panel of speakers discusses what it means to speak, write, and
dream in languages other than English at this time of increasingly shrinking borders and
yet widening gap of inequality.
“The Philippines and its Elsewhere” explores the politics of knowledge production, university education, and global citizenship with Filipino Studies as its launching point. It is concerned with what interconnectivity across borders enables and demands, as forms and politics of the global continually shifts.
Date: Monday, April 30
Time: 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Location: Room 10383, Bunche Hall

Don Mee Choi's Hardly War
2018-04-26 16:00 - 17:30 | Dodd Room 175, UCLA
Please join the UCLA Center for Korean Studies as Don Mee Choi reads from her latest collection of poetry entitled Hardly War (2016). Using visual artifacts from her father’s archive, a photographer during the Korean and Viet Nam wars, Choi combines imagery with poetry, opera, and memoir to examine the devastating impact of the unfinished Korean War.
Don Mee Choi is a poet and translator. Choi’s other poetry collections include The Morning News is Exciting (Action Books, 2010), a chapbook, Petite Manifesto (Vagabond, 2014), and a pamphlet, Freely Frayed. She has received a Whiting Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, and the 2012 Lucien Stryk Translation Prize.
Organized by the UCLA Center for Korean Studies.
DATE: Thursday, April 26, 2018
TIME: 4:00-5:30 PM
LOCATION: Dodd Room 175
RSVP: Contact Jenny Yoo, yoo@international.ucla.edu

A Dialogue on the Challenges of Minoritized Academic Fields at this Time
2018-04-13 12:00 - 14:00 | 10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Part of The Philippines and its Elsewheres
A series organized by the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Featuring:
Neferti Tadiar, Professor and Chair of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Barnard College
Allan Punzalan Isaac, Chair of American Studies and Associate Professor of American Studies and English, Rutgers University
Respondent: Steven Nelson, Director, UCLA Center for African Studies
The theme of the conversation orbits around the challenges minoritized fields–including Gender/Women/Feminist Studies as a field–must take up at this time. “At this time” is broadly and vaguely, yet pointedly invoked. “At this time” could be: Trumpudo time, Duterte, Modi, thinly veiled dictatorship, resurgence of populism/neopopulism, #metoo…. Or, with fires, floodings, drought, landslides, and bomb cyclones in our immediate surroundings, “At this time” could also be the end of times, Z apocalypse, a time toward Extinction Level Event.
“The Philippines and its Elsewhere” explores the politics of knowledge production, university education, and global citizenship with Filipino Studies as its launching point. It is concerned with what interconnectivity across borders enables and demands, as forms and politics of the global continually shifts.
DATE: April 13, 2018
TIME: 12:00 PM
LOCATION: 10383 Bunche Hall
RSVP: http://www.international.ucla.edu/cseas/event/13134

Maria Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, "Indian Given: Racial Geographies Across Mexico and the United States"
2018-04-12 15:00 | Charles E Young Research Library Conference Room
Indian Given: Racial Geographies Across Mexico and the United States
A Book Talk by Maria Josefina Saldaña-Portillo
María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU and Visiting Professor of English at UC Berkeley. She is the author of The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development (Duke University Press, 2003) and Indian Given: Racial Geographies Across Mexico and the United States (Duke University Press, 2016). Indian Given was awarded the Best Book Award from the National Association for Chicano and Chicana Studies (NACCS) in 2017
In Indian Given María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo addresses current racialized violence and resistance in Mexico and the United States with a genealogy that reaches back to the sixteenth century. Saldaña-Portillo formulates the central place of indigenous peoples in the construction of national spaces and racialized notions of citizenship, showing, for instance, how Chicanos/as in the U.S./Mexico borderlands might affirm or reject their indigenous background based on their location. In this and other ways, she demonstrates how the legacies of colonial Spain’s and Britain’s differing approaches to encountering indigenous peoples continue to shape perceptions of the natural, racial, and cultural landscapes of the United States and Mexico. Drawing on a mix of archival, historical, literary, and legal texts, Saldaña-Portillo shows how los indios/Indians provided the condition of possibility for the emergence of Mexico and the United States.

Professor Saldaña’s presentation addresses the imbrication of NAFTA, narcos, and the legacy of the indio bárbaro.

Date: Thursday April 12th 2018
Time: 3:00pm
Location: Charles E. Young Research Library, Main Conference Room 11360
Organized by the Department of Gender Studies
Co-Sponsored by The Center for the Study of Women, American Indian Studies Center, American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program, Department of English and The Latin American Institute

Nicole George, "Women, Peace, and Security through a Vernacular Frame: Global/local frictions in Solomon Islands and Bougainville"
2018-04-09 15:00 - 17:00 | Rolfe 2125
Organized by the UCLA Department of Asian American Studies
Since the early 2000s, United Nations Security Council Resolutions on Women Peace and Security, and particularly UNSCR 1325, have become a key focus of policy making and gender advocacy for those aiming to promote women’s roles in conflict resolution and conflict transition in the western Pacific Islands region. But in these contexts, arguments about the rights of women to be recognized as those who bear specific sorts of burdens in times of instability, or those who bring particular types of skills or insights to the processes of post-conflict governance also come into friction with vernacular notions of security and localized sentiments about the foundations for the safe ordering of community. In this presentation Nicole George reflects on recent academic development of the concept of vernacular security and the insights this work might offer into the challenges surrounding promotion of women peace and security principles in this region. George then draws upon lessons learned from research with everyday communities of women impacted by the long process of conflict transition. George examines where and how frictions occur between conceptualizations of gendered security that uphold women’s rights to safety and participation, and those which equate gendered security with respect for, and adherence to, gendered codes of responsibility to family and community.
Nicole George is a leading feminist in Oceania and the author of Situating Women: Gender Politics and Circumstance in Fiji (Australian National University Press, 2012).
DATE: April 9, 2018
TIME: 3:00 PM
LOCATION: Rolfe 2125

Sexual Violence and Hookup Culture
2018-04-03 18:00 - 20:30 | Fowler Museum, UCLA
This consciousness raising event includes a film screening of the Netflix documentary Liberated and a panel discussion with subject matter experts and filmmakers. The film examines disturbing trends related to sexuality and gender during Florida’s annual spring break celebration. The panel discussion will discuss the film’s relevancy to rape culture on college campuses, drawing connections specific to Los Angeles.
The objective is to activate college communities to create safe spaces focused on discussing and dismantling sexual violence and gender-based violence in an effort to move closer to gender equity.
Panelists:
Kim Biddle, Founder and Executive Director of Saving Innocence
Morgan Perry, Producer of Liberated
Shay, documentary film participant
Sarah Godoy, UCLA Department of Social Welfare

DATE: April 3, 2018
TIME: 6:00 PM
LOCATION: Fowler Museum, UCLA
