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SUMMARY:"Wanda": Free Screening by UCLA Film & Television Archive
DESCRIPTION:Date: Sunday\, November 2nd \nTime: 7pm \nLocation: Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum \nUCLA Film & Television Archive is hosting a free screening of Wanda along with a Q&A and book signing with Elena Gorfinkel\, author of “BFI Classics: Wanda\,” moderated by Archive Research and Study Center Officer Maya Montañez Smukler. \nIn 1970\, Wanda screened at the Venice Film Festival as the sole U.S. entry winning the International Critics Prize. Actor-turned-filmmaker\, Barbara Loden\, directed\, produced and co-starred in the production of Wanda\, also being her directorial debut. The film follows Loden in a quiet and captivating portrayal of an apathetic young woman on a journey through a bleak and rural Pennsylvanian landscape. On her filmmaking approach\, Loden said\, “I’ve got more movies in me\, but they will have to be done my way. I’m not interested in entertaining people. I only want to do things that mean something to me\, that I can say about a human being on film and then communicate that feeling to others.” \nIn her new book\, Elena Gorfinkel draws on archival sources to trace the film’s feminist legacies\, and its lasting influence on contemporary filmmakers\, artists and writers.—Archive Research and Study Center Officer Maya Montañez Smukler \nCosponsored by: Center for the Study of Women
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/wanda-free-screening-by-ucla-film-television-archive/
LOCATION:Billy Wilder Theater\, James Bridges Theater
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:Embryonic and Fetal Rights? What it Would Mean for Pregnant People and Reproductive Rights\, Health\, and Research
DESCRIPTION:When: November 13\, 10- 11 am PST \nWhere: Virtual. RSVP to attend. \nJoin a discussion featuring: \nProfessor Mary Ziegler\nPanelist\nUC Davis School of Law\nAuthor\, Personhood: The New Civil War Over Reproduction \nHeather Shumaker\nPanelist\nSenior Director State Abortion Policy\, National Women’s Law Center \nDr. Amander Clark\nPanelist\nFounding Director UCLA Center for Reproductive Science\, Health\, and Education \nDiana Kasdan\nModerator\nLegal and Policy Director\, UCLA Law Center on Reproductive Health\, Law\, and Policy \nRSVP here\nCosponsors: CSW|Streisand Center\, UCLA Network for Reproductive Health & Gender Equity\, the Center for Reproductive Science\, Health and Education (CRSHE)\, the Bixby Center\, and the Center on Reproductive Health\, Law\, and Policy at UCLA Law.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/embryonic-and-fetal-rights-what-it-would-mean-for-pregnant-people-and-reproductive-rights-health-and-research/
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:Noura Erakat on Revisiting Zionism as a Form of Racism and Racial Discrimination
DESCRIPTION:When: Thursday\, November 13 at 5:30 pm\nWhere: On the UCLA campus\nRSVP for the address.\nOn November 10\, 1975\, the UN General Assembly passed Resolution 3379 declaring Zionism as a Form of Racism and Racial Discrimination. A coalition of states introduced the resolution at the start of the 30th session of the General Assembly as an amendment to the Decade Against Racism in the context of Third World Revolt against imperialism; Palestinian liberation was central to this agenda. This lecture will explore the historical context that led to the introduction of this resolution\, its drafting history\, including racial theories of Zionism that were introduced during the deliberations as well as the intense procedural maneuvers that aimed to subvert it all together. Though a hard won victory\, the PLO rescinded the resolution in 1991 as a precondition for entering the Oslo Accords. This discussion will both mark the 50th year anniversary of the resolution as well as its contemporary relevance. \nProfessor Erakat’s talk will be followed by a panel discussion with Professor Nour Joudah (Asian American Studies) and Professor Robin D.G. Kelley (History). \nBio:\nNoura Erakat is Professor of Africana Studies and Criminal Justice at Rutgers University\, New Brunswick. She is the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press\, 2019)\, which received the Palestine Book Award and the Bronze Medal for the Independent Publishers Book Award in Current Events/Foreign Affairs. In 2023\, Noura co-chaired an Independent Task Force on the Application of National Security Memorandum-20 to Israel\, a report documenting how U.S. arms to Israel have been used in violation of U.S. and international law and which was submitted to the White House. She is co-founding editor of Jadaliyya and an editorial board member of the Journal of Palestine Studies as well as Human Geography. She is a co-founding board member of the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival. She has served as Legal Counsel for a Congressional Subcommittee in the US House of Representatives\, as Legal Advocate for the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Refugee and Residency Rights\, and as National Organizer and Legal Advocate of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. Noura has also produced video documentaries\, including “Gaza In Context” and “Black Palestinian Solidarity.” Noura completed a non-resident fellowship of the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School as well as a Mahmoud Darwish Visiting Professorship at Brown University. In 2022\, she was selected as a Freedom Fellow by the Marguerite Casey Foundation. In 2025\, the University of Ghent awarded the Amnesty International Chair in recognition of her contribution to human rights and scholarship.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/noura-erakat-on-revisiting-zionism-as-a-form-of-racism-and-racial-discrimination/
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:Faculty Writing Retreat - November 2025
DESCRIPTION:RSVP Here\n\nJoin CSW|Streisand Center for a day-long retreat where you can concentrate on your own work alongside like-minded colleagues.\n\n\n\nFriday\, November 14 \n10 am – 4 pm Hershey Hall Salon (Room 158) \nDo you want to block out a day for writing and contemplation? The 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. \nThe 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 tends to be cool. \nWe also offer a parallel virtual retreat with brief introductions and check-ins. \nDuring lunch\, there will be an optional conversation about the writing process.. \nIf you register to attend in person and your plans change\, please let us know immediately so that we may offer your spot to the long waitlist. No-shows will not be granted an in-person spot at future writing retreats. \nIf you are no longer able to attend in person\, please e-mail csw@csw.ucla.edu to let us know. \nCosponsored by: CSW|Streisand Center\, the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music\, the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture\, the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research & Creative Activities (ORCA)\, UCLA Humanities\, UCLA Social Sciences\, UCLA School of Theater\, Film\, and Television \nSave the date for future Faculty Writing Retreats:\nRegistration will be available the week following the most recent retreat. \nFriday December 5 \nFriday February 20 \nFriday March 6 \nFriday May 15
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/writing-retreat-november-2025/
LOCATION:Hershey Salon
CATEGORIES:CSW originated
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SUMMARY:Beyond Sanctuary: UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy
DESCRIPTION:When: Friday\, November 14th from 10am to 4:30pm \nWhere: 2355 Public Affairs Building\, UCLA \nRSVP Here \nUCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy presents “Beyond Sanctuary”\, a series of dialogues intended to restituate the imperial vest in the global histories — and posssibilites — of decolonization and abolition.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/beyond-sanctuary-ucla-luskin-institute-on-inequality-and-democracy/
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SUMMARY:Women's Daily Life in Exile Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Where: UCLA Bunche Hall\, Rm 10383 \nWhen: Monday\, November 17\, 2025 / 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Pacific Time) \nAfter being deported from their homes\, Armenian women experienced vastly different fates depending on where they were sent within the Arab-speaking provinces of the Ottoman Empire. Those on the eastern deportation route faced famine and disease but largely avoided mass killings\, while those sent north were confined in desert tent camps and many were massacred in 1916. This lecture\, led by Dr. Anna Aleksanyan and Dr. Taner Akçam of UCLA’s Promise Armenian Institute\, will explore the varied experiences of these women and the gendered dimensions of the Armenian Genocide. This event is organized by The Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA. \nJoin the Zoom Webinar here.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/womens-daily-life-in-exile-lecture/
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251118T160000
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SUMMARY:Fiebre de carnaval: una conversación con Yuliana Ortiz Ruano
DESCRIPTION:The Spanish & Portuguese Department would like to invite you to a conversation with Ecuadorian novelist and poet Yuliana Ortiz Ruano. In this conversation\, Ortiz Ruano will discuss her recently translated novel Carnival Fever (Fiebre de Carnaval)\, her practice as a writer\, and the intersections of decolonial thought and Black and Caribbean intellectual traditions in Latin America. \nWhen: November 18\, 2025\, 4:00 PM \nWhere: Lydeen Library\, Rolfe Hall 4302 \nThis event will be in Spanish. Light refreshments will be served. \nYuliana Ortiz Ruano is an Afro-Ecuadorian writer\, poet\, and teacher\, as well as a DJ of Afro-Caribbean music. She has published several books of poetry and prose\, including the multi award-winning Fiebre de carnaval (Carnaval Fever)\, which was chosen as one of the 50 best books of 2022 by El País. She is also the author of the poetry books Sovoz\, Canciones del fin del mundo\, y Cuaderno del imposible retorno a Pangea\, and the book of short stories Litorales. She was selected by the International Writers in Residence program in Granada\, Spain in 2023\, and was chosen for the Translator Choice II award at the LATINALE Latin America Literature Festival in Berlin. Her first novel\, Carnaval Fever\, won the Joaquín Gallegos Lara Award (Ecuador)\, the Primo Romanzo Latinoamericano Award (Italy)\, and the PEN Translation Award (UK).
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/fiebre-de-carnaval-una-conversacion-con-yuliana-ortiz-ruano/
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:Lynn Hershman Leeson: Private I
DESCRIPTION:When: Tuesday\, November 18\, 2025\, at 7:30 PM \nWhere: Hammer Museum \nPioneering conceptual artist Lynn Hershman Leeson\, known for her six-decade exploration of technology\, identity\, and surveillance\, joins Margot Norton\, Chief Curator at BAMPFA\, for an evening of video screenings and discussion. Leeson will reflect on her visionary works including the Roberta Breitmore series to her innovative interactive installations and her new book Private I\, which examines the intersections of art\, technology\, and selfhood in today’s hyper-connected world. \nNo registration required. Seat is first come. 
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/lynn-hershman-leeson-private-i/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251205T100000
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SUMMARY:Faculty Writing Retreat - December 2025
DESCRIPTION:Join CSW|Streisand Center for a day-long retreat where you can concentrate on your own work alongside like-minded colleagues!\n\n\n\nFriday\, December 5th \n10 am – 4 pm Hershey Hall Salon (Room 158) \nDo you want to block out a day for writing and contemplation? The 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. \nThe 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 tends to be cool. \nWe also offer a parallel virtual retreat with brief introductions and check-ins. \nDuring lunch\, there will be an optional conversation about the writing process. \nIf you register to attend in person and your plans change\, please let us know immediately so that we may offer your spot to the long waitlist. No-shows will not be granted an in-person spot at future writing retreats. \nIf you are no longer able to attend in person\, please e-mail csw@csw.ucla.edu to let us know. \nCosponsored by: CSW|Streisand Center\, the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music\, the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture\, the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research & Creative Activities (ORCA)\, UCLA Humanities\, UCLA Social Sciences\, UCLA School of Theater\, Film\, and Television \nSave the date for future Faculty Writing Retreats:\nRegistration will be available the week following the most recent retreat. \nFriday February 20 \nFriday March 6 \nFriday May 15
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/faculty-writing-retreat-december-2025/
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship,Streisand Center
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SUMMARY:Surrealism & Antifascism: A Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Where: 3910 Los Feliz Boulevard \nWhen: Dec 6th\, 2pm-6pm PST \nThis unique gathering brings together artists\, scholars\, UCLA students and the public to explore the power of surrealist methods—past and present—as tools for resisting systems of domination and imagining new possibilities for being. From spiritual resistance to cultural subversion\, surrealism has long offered a way to sidestep the normative\, the colonial\, and the fascistic in pursuit of radical freedom. Together\, we will examine the contradictions and complexities within the Surrealist tradition and its entanglements with institutional power\, gender\, and race. This symposium is a call to those who believe that art\, performance\, spirituality\, and speculation can resist the flattening forces of fascism and imagine other worlds. \nGet tickets here! Tickets are free to UCLA students & PRS members with code UCLAstudent11 / $10 general admission
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/surrealism-antifascism-a-symposium/
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:Cozy Book Swap + Books to Jails Drive
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the CSW|Streisand Center Cozy Book Swap! Bring a wrapped book\, add a hint note\, and swap with others! \nAdditionally\, donate a popular book to LA County Jails in partnership with LA County Library as a part of our Books to Jails Drive. \n\n\nWhat kinds of books to donate to the Books to Jails Drive (per LA County Library Guidelines)\n\nFantasy novels\nAdventure novels\nMystery novels\nSci-Fi and Fantasy novels\nSpiritual books\nPoetry\nSelf-help books\nBooks in Spanish\n\n\n\n\n\nDonation guidelines\n\nNO hardcovers – ONLY paperback books\nNO textbooks or academic books\nNO depictions or descriptions on how to commit crimes\nMUST be in good condition / shape\n\n\n\nLearn more about our mini library and the books to jails partnership. \nWhen: Monday\, December 8th – Thursday\, December 11th\, 10 am- 2 pm\nWhere: CSW|Streisand Center Office\, 1500 Public Affairs (Located across from Jimmy’s Coffee House)
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/cozy-book-swap-books-to-jails-drive/
CATEGORIES:CSW originated
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SUMMARY:Cinema's First Nasty Women: Breaking Plates and Smashing the Patriarchy
DESCRIPTION:When: January 23\, 2026 7:30 pm\nWhere: Billy Wilder Theater\nAdmission: Free; no registration required. \nCinema’s First Nasty Women returns to the Billy Wilder Theater! Its name a riff on the feminist cri de cœur that arose during the 2016 presidential election\, Cinema’s First Nasty Women is an ongoing\, curated project to rediscover and revel in the anarchic spirit of women comedians who brought a rebellious energy to the early silent screen. Organized by an international team of film archivists and scholars\, Maggie Hennefeld\, Laura Horak and Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi\, this new travelling program of restored titles from the project comes with a special twist. Archival collections can inspire new research which in turn helps grow new audiences\, but they can also inspire new films. Based in Australia\, with The Physical TV Company\, filmmaker and author Karen Pearlman has built a feminist film practice that puts cinema’s past and present in dialogue in brilliantly constructed\, canon-busting short film essays. For “Cinema’s First Nasty Women: Breaking Plates and Smashing the Patriarchy\,” Pearlman drew on the project’s images and energy for her latest short\, Breaking Plates. The Archive is thrilled to have Pearlman as our guest at the Billy Wilder Theater with a selection of her work along with the Los Angeles premiere of Breaking Plates and the silent slapstick female performers that inspired it. \nProgrammed by Paul Malcolm with Maggie Hennefeld\, Laura Horak\, Karen Pearlman and Richard James Allen. Notes written by Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm. \nPresented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. \nTotal runtime: 103 min.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/cinemas-first-nasty-women-breaking-plates-and-smashing-the-patriarchy/
LOCATION:Billy Wilder Theater\, 10899 Wilshire Blvd.\,\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:From Pitch to Publish in the Public Humanities
DESCRIPTION:Join award-winning writers and journalists Lauren Markham and Chris Feliciano Arnold for two days of panels and workshops.\n\n\n\nFrom Pitch to Publish in the Public Humanities\nWhen: February 2–3\, 2026\nLocation: Royce 314\nFree and open to the public. \n\nToday\, it is vital that scholars’ work is made widely available and accessible to the public. Is your research part of the public discourse? Do you have stories the public at large would benefit from knowing? Do you want to reach a broader audience\, an audience beyond the peer-reviewed academic outlets? Do you want to learn how to pitch your specific story and research to non-academic publications? We have invited two writers and journalists\, Lauren Markham and Chris Feliciano Arnold\, to offer insights on the public humanities writing\, pitching\, and publication process in a series of panels\, workshops\, and individual feedback sessions. \nPublic Events\nMonday\, February 2\, 10:30AM–12:00 PM (Royce 314)\nWorkshop: “Enliven Your Prose with Research Details: Public Workshop with Chris Feliciano Arnold and Lauren Markham.” \nDiscover how vivid storytelling and well-chosen details can transform scholarly work into engaging\, resonant prose. This hands-on workshop explores how to integrate research into narrative writing—making complex ideas accessible without sacrificing depth or rigor. Through interactive exercises\, close reading\, and discussion\, participants will learn strategies for bringing their data\, fieldwork\, and analysis to life on the page. \nMonday\, February 2\, 4:00–5:00 PM (Royce 314)\nConversation: “Pitching and Working with Opinion Editors with Chris Feliciano Arnold and New York Times Opinion Staff Editor Isvett Verde.” \nExplore strategies and best practices for effectively pitching and collaborating with newspaper editors on op-eds and opinion pieces. Gain insight into the editorial process\, from crafting compelling and concise pitches that capture an editor’s attention to understanding the nuances of tone\, timing\, and topic relevance. This session will cover how to balance academic rigor with public accessibility\, navigate editorial feedback\, and establish long-term relationships with editors to amplify scholarly perspectives in the media. \nTuesday February 3\, 4:00–6:00 PM (Royce 314)\nPanel: “Writing for the Public in Times of Peril\, a panel with Chris Feliciano Arnold\, Lauren Markham\, The Atlantic Senior Editor Honor Jones and VQR Editor Paul Reyes.” \nThis panel of authors and editors will address the crucial role of academics in bridging the gap between scholarly research and public discourse during times of crisis\, uncertainty\, and societal upheaval\, including the ethical\, intellectual\, and practical challenges that scholars face when translating complex ideas into accessible language for broader audiences. Refreshments will be provided. \nPanelist & Writer Bios\n \nChris Feliciano Arnold is the author of The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First-Century Amazon (Picador 2018). He directs the MFA in Creative Writing program at Saint Mary’s College of California. \n \nLauren Markham is an award-winning writer and journalist based in California whose work regularly appears in outlets such as Harper’s\, The New York Review of Books\, The New York Times Magazine and VQR\, where she is a contributing editor. She is the author of the award-winning The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life\, the California Book Award shortlisted A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging (2024) and the recently-released Immemorial. \n \nIsvett Verde is a staff editor in the Opinion section of The New York Times\, where she helps shape conversations on immigration\, culture and identity. She is also an adjunct professor of Latinx Media studies at The City College of New York. She earned a B.A. in French from Florida International University\, and an M.A. in Spanish-language Journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. Her writing has been featured in the anthology titled\, “Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness.” \n \nHonor Jones is a senior editor at The Atlantic\, and previously at The New York Times Opinion section\, where she edited cover stories and special issues for the Sunday Review. She is also the author of a novel\, Sleep. \n \nPaul Reyes is the editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review\, where he develops a variety of content\, including investigative reporting\, essays\, photography portfolios\, poetry\, criticism\, and fiction. Before joining VQR\, he was a senior editor with The Oxford American. His work as an editor has led to two National Magazine Awards (as well as several nominations)\, the Overseas Press Club Award\, inclusion in the Pushcart Prize anthology along with regular appearances in the Best American anthologies. His book\, Exiles in Eden\, an investigative narrative of the 2008 housing crisis\, was praised as “a wrenching chronicle of our new hard times” (Publishers Weekly) and “an engrossing memoir of American dreaming and financial devastation” (Mother Jones). His essays and reporting have appeared in VQR\, The Oxford American\, Harper’s\, The New York Times\, Literary Hub\, Mother Jones\, and elsewhere. His writing has earned him a Literature Fellowship in Nonfiction from the National Endowment for the Arts\, a nomination for the Harry Chapin Media Award\, and a nomination for the National Magazine Award in Feature Writing. \n  \nCosponsored by: \nCenter for the Study of Women|Streisand Center\, Division of Social Sciences\, Division of Humanities\, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Creative Activities\, School of Music\, School of Arts and Architecture\, and School of Theater\, Film\, and Television.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/from-pitch-to-publish-in-the-public-humanities/
LOCATION:Royce 314
CATEGORIES:CSW originated
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260210T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260210T131500
DTSTAMP:20260403T113231
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SUMMARY:Fire Tender Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, February 10\, 2026\n12:15–1:15 PM\nCenter for the Study of Women|Streisand Center (Google Maps)  \nJoin us for a screening of Fire Tender\, directed by Roni Jo Draper (Yurok) and Marissa Lila\, followed by a discussion. \nFire Tender tells the story of Yurok tribal members returning to traditional fire practices as an essential form of land stewardship. The film centers on Margo Robbins—grandmother\, cultural educator\, healer\, and Indigenous fire practitioner—who is leading efforts to restore Yurok fire sovereignty: the right to use fire for tribal land care\, a practice outlawed under settler colonial policies. Through her work\, Robbins challenges more than a century of environmentally destructive anti-fire policies that have endangered Yurok lands and restricted access to the natural resources necessary for clean water\, food\, and traditional lifeways. \nSeating is first come\, first served. No registration required.\nAttendees are welcome to bring their lunch for the 30-minute screening and discussion to follow. \nThis event is part of programming for Thinking Gender 2026: “Feminist & Queer Ecologies.” Register for the conference. \nAbout the Filmmakers\nDirector: Roni Jo Draper\, PhD (Yurok\, she/they)\, is an emerita professor in the Department of Teacher Education at the David O. McKay School of Education\, Brigham Young University\, where she taught courses in multicultural education\, women’s studies\, and literacy. Dr. Draper began her work as a scholar investigating disciplinary literacies and seeking to uncover the texts and literacies needed to participate and learn in disciplinary settings such as mathematics\, science\, and the arts. Her work has appeared in various journals for researchers and teachers including the Harvard Educational Review\, the American Educational Research Journal\, the Journal of Teacher Education\, the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy\, and the Mathematics Teacher. Currently\, her research interest has focused on the challenge to prepare teachers to create classrooms that allow our most minoritized children to thrive. She is a former high school mathematics teacher and is proud of her work serving students at risk of not completing high school. In her recent work\, she has turned to Indigenous storytelling to share stories that center the lives of Indigenous peoples. She has produced the film Scenes from the Glittering World\, about the lives of three Navajo young people attending a remote high school on the Navajo Nation. Draper is also the writer\, producer\, and director of the documentary Fire Tender\, which centers on the lives of Yurok fire practitioners.  \nCo-director: Marissa Lila (she/they) is a Thai-American documentarian who grew up in Hong Kong and Thailand and is now based in Salt Lake City. As a multicultural filmmaker\, she directs and produces projects with characters who cross boundaries set by dominant cultures or identities. Lila’s projects have been selected to play at international film festivals (DOC NYC\, Camden\, IFF\, Big Sky Documentary FF\, and MountainFilm). Two projects she produced\, Transmormon and Oxygen to Fly\, went viral with over 160 million total views. These projects were featured in The Huffington Post\, New York Times\, The Atlantic\, People Magazine\, and Dazed. Lila is co-founder of OHO Media\, a creative content agency for which Lila creates documentaries and documentary-based branded content. Lila directed\, produced\, and wrote for the docu-reality television series The Generations Project\, for which one of the episodes she produced won a Regional Emmy. Lila also spent six years creating educational content to increase equitable outcomes for students inclusive of race\, ethnicity\, language\, cultural\, sexual orientation\, or ability. \nProducer: Jenn Lee is an immigrant from Taiwan who grew up in Utah and has worked over 20 years in social impact. Besides Fire Tender\, she has produced and supported award-winning narrative and documentary films such as “The Dating Game” (2025)\, “Home Court” (2024)\, “Mija” (2022)\, “The Dilemma of Desire” (2020)\, “Jane and Emma” (2018)\, and LGBTQ+ films “Pray Away” (2021) and “Faithful” (2017). Prior to film work\, she was a UCLA graduate student studying gender (sex-ratio) imbalance in China and attending Thinking Gender conferences.\nLearn more about the film.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/fire-tender-film-screening/
LOCATION:Center for the Study of Women\, 1500 Public Affairs
CATEGORIES:CSW originated
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260210T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260210T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T113231
CREATED:20260206T215915Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260206T220727Z
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SUMMARY:Calling In: Navigating Challenging Conversations with Dr. Loretta Ross
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Hammer Museum.  \nCopresented with the Center for the Study of Women|Streisand Center at UCLA and the UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute \n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin renowned activist\, professor\, and 2022 MacArthur Fellow Loretta J. Ross to explore the powerful practice of “Calling In.” With five decades in the human rights movement\, Ross offers a transformative approach to move from conflict to constructive dialogue. In her new book\, Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You’d Rather Cancel\, Ross addresses the challenge of building coalitions and community in a polarized world\, and offers a compassionate alternative through accountability\, empathy\, and connection. \nATTENDING THIS PROGRAM?\nTicketing: 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\, limit one per visitor. Box office opens one hour before the event.\nMember Benefit: Subject to availability\, Hammer Members can choose their preferred seats and pick up tickets for one additional guest. Members receive priority ticketing until 15 minutes before the program. Learn more about membership.\nParking: 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.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/calling-in-navigating-challenging-conversations-with-dr-loretta-ross/
LOCATION:UCLA Hammer Museum – Galleries\, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90024\, United States
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260212T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260212T163000
DTSTAMP:20260403T113231
CREATED:20260120T184123Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260120T184123Z
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SUMMARY:Bibliotactics: Libraries and the Colonial Public in Vietnam Book talk with Cindy Anh Nguyen (UCLA)
DESCRIPTION:When: Thursday\, February 12\, 2026 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM (Pacific Time) \nWhere: DataX Impact Forum Murphy Hall\, Rm 3312 \nBibliotactics examines the Hanoi and Saigon state libraries in colonial and postcolonial Vietnam\, uncovering the emergence of a colonial public who reimagined the political meaning and social space of the library through public critique and day-to-day practice. \nRSVP here.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/bibliotactics-libraries-and-the-colonial-public-in-vietnam-book-talk-with-cindy-anh-nguyen-ucla/
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260213T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260213T123000
DTSTAMP:20260403T113231
CREATED:20260128T000209Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260128T000310Z
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: The Homosexual and the Oligarch: Perverse Figurations and Social Reproduction
DESCRIPTION:When: Friday\, February 13\, 11 am-12:30 pm \nWhere: Hybrid | UCLA Center for the Study of Women| Barbra Streisand Center\, 1500 Public Affairs Building \nBased on Dr. Tamar Shirinian’s recent book\, Survival of a Perverse Nation: Morality and Queer Possibility in Armenia (Duke University Press\, 2024)\, this talk will introduce the audience to two perverse figures: the homosexual and the oligarch. \nBoth figured prominently in national anxieties in the 2010s in Armenia as dangerous to the nation and its survival\, and formed particular rhetorics of the nation’s perversion toward annihilation. Focusing on these two figures\, the talk reflects upon neoliberalization’s threats against social reproduction by examining the moralization of political-economic processes and asks what a queer theory of political economy offers to the critique of late capitalism.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/book-talk-the-homosexual-and-the-oligarch-perverse-figurations-and-social-reproduction/
LOCATION:Hybrid
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260225T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260225T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T113231
CREATED:20260224T173006Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T173006Z
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SUMMARY:Graduate Lecture & Mixer: War\, Migration\, and Asymmetrical Gender Transformations in Ukrainian Households
DESCRIPTION:Where:  Bunche Hall\, Rm 10383 \nWhen: Wednesday\, February 25\, 2026 from 4:15 PM – 5:45 PM \nRSVP Here \n\n\n\n\n\nJoin the Center for European and Russian Studies for their quarterly Graduate Student Lecture by Natasha Bluth (PhD candidate in Sociology Department) and Mixer\, open to all UCLA students\, staff and faculty. The lecture by Natasha Bluth (Department of Sociology) is entitled “War\, Migration\, and Asymmetrical Gender Transformations in Ukrainian Households” and will include a presentation\, time for Q&A\, culminating in an informal mixer for students of all disciplines with an interest in Europe and/or Russia. This event is cosponsored by the UCLA Department of Sociology and UCLA Center for the Study of Women | Streisand Center and will be held in Bunche Hall Room 10383 on Wednesday\, February 25\, 2026 at 4:15 pm. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRussia’s ongoing war in Ukraine has generated profound demographic shifts in Ukrainian society and the largest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II. These dynamics are also deeply gendered: international protection policies and Ukrainian mobilization laws have facilitated the mass displacement of Ukrainian women and children while restricting the mobility of men. Drawing on fieldwork with Ukrainian families in Krakow\, Poland\, and Ukraine\, between 2022 and 2025\, this talk explores how these gendered processes are shaping three dimensions of household life: wartime migratory decision-making\, marital relations\, and coming-of-age experiences for young adults. I show that while war and displacement tighten traditional gender norms\, they also create new opportunities for women to transcend these norms—at the same time that horizons narrow for men. These results carry important implications for Ukrainian families and for the future of Ukraine\, where gender politics have become a key terrain of differentiation from Russia. In response\, The Center for European and Russian Studies hosts a quarterly graduate student lecture and mixer.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/graduate-lecture-mixer-war-migration-and-asymmetrical-gender-transformations-in-ukrainian-households/
LOCATION:10383 Bunche Hall\, UCLA\, Los Angeles\, CA
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260226
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260227
DTSTAMP:20260403T113231
CREATED:20260116T182437Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260116T182545Z
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SUMMARY:Otro Corazón 3: Queering Sor Juana: A Symposium
DESCRIPTION:“Sor Juana the Younger and the Elder\,” digital photograph by Alma Lopez @2019(models: Alicia Gaspar de Alba as the Elder\, and Alicia Billalobos\, UCLA Chicana/o Studies alumna\, as the Younger) \nWhen: February 26\, 2026 \nWhere: Northwest Campus Auditorium\, UCLA \n\n  \nOrganized by the UCLA Center for Musical Humanities in partnership with the Dean of Social Sciences and the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies \nCo-sponsored by The Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies\, the Chicano Studies Research Center\, and the Center for the Study of Women/Barbara Streisand Center \nFree and open to the public\, but all attendees\, including participants and audience members\, must register online. Lunch and reception will be provided for registered guests only. \n“Otro Corazón 3: Queering Sor Juana” builds on past symposia organized by Alicia Gaspar de Alba in her “Corazón” series\,1 and is offered as part of a year-long celebration of her 32-year academic career at UCLA\, focusing on her lifetime of research and creative engagement with Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz\, the 17th-century Mexican nun/poet/scholar who is hailed all over the world as the “first feminist of the Americas” and the Mexican “Tenth Muse.” \nOTRO CORAZON 3: QUEERING SOR JUANA\nSYMPOSIUM PROGRAM\n9 am: Registration \n9:30 am: Welcome and Introductory Remarks by Professor Raymond Knapp and Dean Abel Valenzuela \n10:30-12 noon: Panel 1. La Décima Musa: Classic Sor Juana \nSpeaker: Cesar Favila\, UCLA \nSpeaker: Charlene Villaseñor Black\, Oxford University \nSpeaker: Emilie Bergman\, UC Berkeley \nModerator: Gabriela Rodriguez Gomez (UCLA Chicana/o Studies PhD) \n12-1 pm: Boxed Lunch \n1:30-3 pm: Panel 2. “La Peor de Todas”: Sapphic Sor Juana \nSpeaker: Emma Perez\, University of Arizona \nSpeaker: Alma López\, UCLA \nSpeaker: Carla Lucero\, Independent Opera Composer \nModerator: Ariel Hernandez (UCLA Chicana/o Studies grad student) \nCoffee Break \n4-5:30 pm: Performances \n4 Arias from “JUANA”– A Spanish-language chamber opera based on the historical novel\, Sor Juana’s Second Dream3 by Alicia Gaspar de Alba. Music by Carla Lucero. \nLibretto by Carla Lucero and Alicia Gaspar de Alba \nShowcase Program \n“Fili”\, performed by Meagan Martin (Mezzo-Soprano) as Sor Juana\n“Hombres necios” performed by Meagan Martin and Maria Valdes-Gomez (Soprano) as la Condesa\n“Sin vos” (abbreviated version) performed by Maria Valdes-Gomez\n“Amor eterno” performed by Meagan Martin and Maria Valdes-Gomez\nAccompanied by pianist\, Peter Walsh\nScreening of “Sin Vos” video (opera on film\, recorded at the Ebell of Los Angeles\, sung by Michelle Allie Drever as la Condesa. María Dominique Lopez portrays Sor Juana. Film created by Carson Gilmore of Vox Visceralis. Music recorded in Prague with BNO Chamber Orchestra through PARMA Recordings and is available on Navona Records) \nQ&A: Carla Lucero and Alicia Gaspar de Alba \n6 pm: Reception
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/otro-corazon-3-queering-sor-juana-a-symposium/
LOCATION:Northwest Campus Auditorium
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260226T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260226T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T113231
CREATED:20260224T175702Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Intersectional Environmental Justice with Amelia Moore\, Cornell University
DESCRIPTION:Where: 353 Haines Hall \nWhen: Thursday\, February 26th\, 2026 from 12:15pm-1:45pm \nIn this talk\, Professor Moore will share her ideas about how engaged scholars can utilize intersectional environmental justice theory and praxis to combat our era of political polarization\, ecological precarity\, generational social inequity\, and planetary uncertainty. Drawing examples from two decades of inter and anti-disciplinary island-based research\, she describes both problematic and promising forms of socioecological knowledge production\, the frameworks that can inform our methodologies\, and the implications of this work for the future.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/lecture-intersectional-environmental-justice-with-amelia-moore-cornell-university/
LOCATION:352 Haines Hall
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260312T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260312T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T113231
CREATED:20260224T174450Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260310T192431Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Kinship as Method: Rethinking Ethics\, Collaboration\, and Knowledge Production in Anthropology
DESCRIPTION:Where: 353 Haines Hall \nWhen: Thursday\, March 12th\, 2026 from 1 pm-2:30 pm \nLunch provided.  \nThis lecture examines how long-term Indigenous collaboration in Papua New Guinea unsettles conventional anthropological approaches to ethics\, method\, and authorship. Grounded in kinship\, reciprocity\, and relational accountability\, the work challenges extractive research models\, short-term field engagements\, and institutionalized ethics frameworks that separate knowledge production from moral obligation and social life. By treating kinship not as metaphor but as a methodological and ethical infrastructure\, the lecture proposes alternative forms of collaboration\, co-authorship\, consent\, and responsibility. These practices extend anthropology’s commitments to decolonial scholarship by reconfiguring what counts as evidence\, expertise\, and accountability in engaged environmental research.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/lecture-kinship-as-method-rethinking-ethics-collaboration-and-knowledge-production-in-anthropology/
LOCATION:Haines 352
CATEGORIES:CSW originated
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260317
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260319
DTSTAMP:20260403T113231
CREATED:20260203T185259Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260304T174659Z
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SUMMARY:Spring Book Swap + Books to Jails Drive
DESCRIPTION:When: Tuesday March 17 – Wednesday\, March 18\, 10 am- 2 pm\nWhere: CSW|Streisand Center Office\, 1500 Public Affairs (Located across from Jimmy’s Coffee House) \nJoin us for the CSW|Streisand Center Spring Book Swap! Bring a wrapped book\, add a hint note\, and swap with others! \n\nAdditionally\, donate a popular book to LA County Jails in partnership with LA County Library as a part of our Books to Jails Drive. \n\n\nWhat kinds of books to donate to the Books to Jails Drive (per LA County Library Guidelines)\n\nFantasy novels\nAdventure novels\nMystery novels\nSci-Fi and Fantasy novels\nSpiritual books\nPoetry\nSelf-help books\nBooks in Spanish\n\n\n\n\n\nDonation guidelines\n\nNO hardcovers – ONLY paperback books\nNO textbooks or academic books\nNO depictions or descriptions on how to commit crimes\nMUST be in good condition / shape\n\n\n\nLearn more about our mini library and the books to jails partnership. \n\n 
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/spring-book-swap-books-to-jails-drive/
CATEGORIES:CSW originated
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260402T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260402T134500
DTSTAMP:20260403T113231
CREATED:20260318T201145Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260318T205736Z
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SUMMARY:"Nakba as Wounding Ecology" with Dr. Sherena Razek
DESCRIPTION:Culture\, Power\, Social Change presents “Nakba as Wounding Ecology” with Dr. Sherena Razek\, President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow\, UCLA\, Gender Studies. \nWhen: Thursday\, April 2 \nLunch: 12 pm. Talk: 12:15 – 1:45 pm \nWhere: Haines Hall 352 \nNo registration required. First come\, first served for lunch. \nJoin a talk by Dr. Sherena Razek\, Nakba as Wounding Ecology\, with lunch provided. \nIn this talk\, Sherena reflects on how the Palestinian condition can reshape the way we understand the climate crisis\, approaching the Nakba as a form of “wounding ecology.” Moving across land and body\, symbol and materiality\, she brings together questions of settler colonialism\, indigenous resistance\, and environmental catastrophe in ways that highlight their deep interconnectedness and urgency. \nDr. Sherena Razek is a diasporic Palestinian feminist educator\, scholar\, activist\, and labor organizer. She is currently a President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender Studies at UCLA and earned her PhD in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University. Her research engages Palestinian visual culture\, anti-imperialist struggle\, and decolonial feminist ecologies\, and her writing has appeared in The Journal of Palestine Studies\, Women & Performance\, InVisible Culture\, and Social Text.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/nakba-as-wounding-ecology-with-dr-sherena-razek/
LOCATION:Haines 352
CATEGORIES:CSW originated
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260406T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260406T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T113231
CREATED:20260331T185526Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260331T185526Z
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SUMMARY:Conversation with Sara Porkalob
DESCRIPTION:When: Monday\, April 6\, 3:30 – 5 pm\nWhere: East Melnitz Hall 302\n\nJoin us for a causal conversation with playwright and performer Sara Porkalob\, whose work explores Filipina-American identity\, family history\, and intergenerational storytelling. The discussion will focus on Dragon Mama\, the second installment of The Dragon Cycle\, following students’ viewing at the Geffen Playhouse.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/conversation-with-sara-porkalob/
LOCATION:East Melnitz Hall\, UCLA School of Theater\, Film and Television\, 235 Charles E Young Dr N\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260408T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260408T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T113231
CREATED:20260310T163237Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260324T190318Z
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SUMMARY:UCLA Center for Reproductive Science\, Health and Education Distinguished Speaker Series ft. Teresa K. Woodruff
DESCRIPTION:Where: California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)\, UCLA Campus\n \nWhen: Wednesday\, April 8th at 4pm PT \nTeresa K. Woodruff\, Ph.D. is a leader in higher education and an internationally recognized biologist specializing in reproductive science. Woodruff is president emerita of Michigan StateUniversity (MSU) and MSU Research Foundation Distinguished Professor in the Department of Obstetrics\,Gynecology\, and Reproductive Biology as well as in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at MSU. In 2006\, she coined the term “oncofertility” to describe the merging of two fields: oncology and fertility preservation. Working at the national level\, Woodruff championed a new National Institutes of Health Policy mandating the inclusion of both male and female biological variables in fundamental research. As a leading research scientist\, teacher and mentor\, Woodruff was awarded the National Medal of Science byPresident Joe Biden in 2025 and the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science \nRSVP Here
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/ucla-center-for-reproductive-science-health-and-education-distinguished-speaker-series-ft-teresa-k-woodruff/
LOCATION:CNSI Auditorium
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260410T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260410T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T113231
CREATED:20260311T183645Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260324T194019Z
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SUMMARY:Dreaming Together: California Student Survivors Reimagining Campus Responses to Sexual Violence
DESCRIPTION:Where: Royce 314 + Zoom \nWhen: Friday\, April 10th from 10:00 AM-12:00 PM PT \nSurvivors + Allies is a UCLA-student organization within the CSW|Barbra Streisand Center dedicated to advocating with and for survivors of sexual violence and sexual harassment (SVSH). Over the past year\, we conducted a mixed-methods research study across California college campuses\, including the University of California (UC)\, California State University (CSU)\, and community college systems\, to better understand the conditions that enable or prevent student-survivor healing. \nWe invite you to join us for the official launch of our 2025-2026 research report. We are excited to present our findings and recommendations with you. 
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/dreaming-together-california-student-survivors-reimagining-campus-responses-to-sexual-violence/
LOCATION:Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:CSW originated
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SUMMARY:Beyond the Concrete: A Conversation About the Lost Art of Letter Writing with John Rodriguez
DESCRIPTION:When: April 14\, 2026 at 4 pm PST \nWhere: Virtual  \nJohn Rodriguez is a UCLA alumnus whose sentence was commuted by the California Governor in 2017 after he discovered a life-changing passion for education while incarcerated. Today\, he serves as the Education and Communications Manager at Root & Rebound\, leveraging storytelling to bring visibility to overlooked narratives. John dreams of returning to prison someday—not as an inmate\, but as a teacher with the power to help others find their way out through education.  \nThe event is part of a Fiat Lux Seminar “Law\, Justice\, Literary Production\, and Education Behind Bar” in the Department of English. This talk is co-sponsored by the CSW|Streisand Center. \nAll all welcome to attend via zoom.  \nMeeting ID: 927 8244 7447 \nPasscode: 464541
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/beyond-the-concrete-a-conversation-about-the-lost-art-of-letter-writing-with-john-rodriguez/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:Thinking Gender 2026: Feminist and Queer Ecologies
DESCRIPTION:Thinking Gender 2026\n36th Annual Graduate Student Research Conference\n“Feminist and Queer Ecologies”\nFriday\, April 17\, 2026\nJames West Alumni Center\, UCLA Campus\nFree registration here\n \nJoin us for a day of graduate student presentations highlighting innovative research at the intersections of gender\, sexuality\, environment\, and justice. The conference will feature keynote speaker Cutcha Risling Baldy (Cal Poly Humboldt; NAS Rou Dalagurr Food Sovereignty Lab & Traditional Ecological Knowledges Institute)\, whose work centers Indigenous feminisms\, land relations\, and food sovereignty. \n“Feminist and Queer Ecologies\,” explores how environments and ecologies are shaped\, understood\, and contested through relations of sex\, gender\, and sexuality. The theme also considers how feminist and queer theorists\, artists\, and organizers have drawn on ecological processes and environmental knowledge to build new insights\, movements\, and practices. \nGendered and colonial ideas of wilderness\, domesticity\, and reproduction have historically shaped landscapes and environmental policy. At the same time\, feminist and queer methodologies—from place-based storytelling to multimodal practice—offer critical tools for climate resilience\, environmental justice\, and community well-being. Around the world\, social movements resisting environmental injustice—from Standing Rock to Flint\, from the Everglades to rural India—have been led by women and gender-expansive people. Climate change and climate justice continue to affect communities differentially along lines of gender\, sexuality\, race\, and class\, revealing how struggles for ecological flourishing are inseparable from feminist and queer justice. \nFeminist and queer ecologies demand multidisciplinary collaboration. This year’s theme invites environmental scientists\, humanists\, social scientists\, artists\, organizers\, and practitioners to come together across methods\, disciplines\, temporalities\, species\, and geographies. It encourages experimentation with scientific inquiry\, ethnography\, storytelling\, political theory\, environmental history\, modeling\, and other forms of knowledge-making and truth-telling. \n\nConference Keynote:\n“Indigenous Women Know How to Save the World: Framing a California Indigenous Ecofeminist Ethic.”\n \nThis talk builds a California Indigenous ecofeminist ethic grounded in place\, fugitivity\, resistance\, and humor. It asks what it means to rethink how we talk about climate change and to recognize how land\, water\, and more than human relatives model resilience\, refusal\, and justice. By examining examples from California such as the damming\, diversion\, and even paving over of rivers\, this talk argues that environmental devastation is not a future fear but an ongoing history that Indigenous peoples have survived and theorized for generations. Green colonialism\, conservation land grabs\, and the expectation that Indigenous communities must solve climate change while contributing the least to it exposes the absurdity and gaslighting in contemporary environmental discourse and policy. At the same time\, Indigenous women who have long been leaders in ecological knowledge and restoration are kept busy navigating patriarchal structures rather than being supported as the scientific and cultural leaders they already are. Ultimately\, this talk explores how the world around us is already feminist\, already resistant\, and already offering models for collective thriving beyond capitalism\, patriarchy\, and extraction. Indigenous peoples carry structures and methodologies that are sustainable\, relational\, and deeply grounded in place. We have lived them. And we are still building these futures now. \nCutcha Risling Baldy\, Associate Professor of Native American Studies at Cal Poly Humboldt researches Indigenous feminisms\, California Indians\, Environmental Justice\, Traditional Ecological Knowledge and decolonization. She is also the Co-Director of the NAS Rou Dalagurr Food Sovereignty Lab & Traditional Ecological Knowledges Institute. \nIn 2025 Dr. Risling Baldy along with Co-Director Dr. Kaitlin Reed were awarded the James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award for their work with the lab. Her book: We Are Dancing For You: Native feminisms and the revitalization of women’s coming-of-age ceremonies received “Best First Book in Native American and Indigenous Studies” at the 2019 Native American Indigenous Studies Association Conference. She received her Ph.D. in Native American Studies at UC Davis; her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from San Diego State University; and her B.A. in Psychology with a Specialization in Health and Development from Stanford University. She is also the volunteer Executive Director for the Native Women’s Collective\, a nonprofit organization that focuses on the continued revitalization of Native American arts and culture. She is Hupa\, Karuk\, and Yurok and enrolled in the Hoopa Valley Tribe. \nThinking Gender Blog Posts\n\n\nFire Tender Film Screening\nTuesday\, February 10\, 2026\n12:15–1:15 PM | CSW|Streisand Center\nJoin us for a screening of Fire Tender\, directed by Roni Jo Draper (Yurok)\, followed by a discussion. \nFire Tender tells the story of Yurok tribal members returning to traditional fire practices as an essential form of land stewardship. The film centers on Margo Robbins—grandmother\, cultural educator\, healer\, and Indigenous fire practitioner—who is leading efforts to restore Yurok fire sovereignty: the right to use fire for tribal land care\, a practice outlawed under settler colonial policies. \n\nCosponsors\nAfrican American Studies Department\nAmerican Indian Studies Center\nAmerican Indian Studies Department\nAnthropology Department\nAsian American Studies Center\nAsian American Studies Department\nBixby Center to Advance Sexual and Reproductive Health Equity\nCenter for Community Engagement\nCenter for the Study of Racism\, Social Justice & Health\nChicana/o and Central American Studies Department\nChicano Studies Research Center\nCritical Race Studies Program (Law)\nDepartment of Geography\nDisability Studies\nEnglish Department\nGender Studies Department\nGraduate Division\nHumanities Division\nInformation Studies Department\nInstitute of American Cultures\nInstitute of Society and Genetics\nInstitute of the Environment and Sustainability\nInstitute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin\nInternational Institute\nIris Cantor Women’s Health Center\nLabor Center\nLaboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies\nLGBTQ Campus Resource Center\nLGBTQ Studies Program\nLuskin Center for Innovation\nRalph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies\nSchool of Engineering\nSchool of the Arts and Architecture\nSchool of Theater\, Film and Television\nSocial Welfare Department\nSociology Department\nWater Resources Group \nFriendly Reminder: Seating is first-come\, first-served. Due to frequent no-shows\, we overbook our events; a reservation does not guarantee a seat. Please arrive early. We appreciate your understanding.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/tg26
LOCATION:James West Alumni Center\, 325 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:CSW originated
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SUMMARY:Dean’s Lecture in Humanistic Inquiry: Kate Manne on Sensitivity and Survival
DESCRIPTION:The Inaugural Dean’s Lecture in Humanistic Inquiry\nThursday\, April 30\n4 p.m. – 6 p.m.\nRoyce Hall Room 314 \nFree admission. Reception with light refreshments to follow lecture. Advance registration strongly recommended. \nPresented by the UCLA College Division of Humanities\nThe Dean’s Lecture in Humanistic Inquiry is a biennial lecture dedicated to exploring cross-cutting topics and ideas in humanistic research and examining how humanistic inquiry connects to the most pressing questions of the day. \nAbout our inaugural speaker\nKate Manne is a professor at the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University. She specializes in moral\, social and feminist philosophy\, and has written three books: DOWN GIRL: The Logic of Misogyny (Oxford University Press\, 2018)\, ENTITLED: How Male Privilege Hurts Women (Crown\, 2020) and UNSHRINKING: How to Face Fatphobia (Crown\, 2024). In addition to her academic work\, she regularly writes opinion pieces and essays for a wider audience\, including in outlets such as The New York Times\, The Cut\, The Washington Post\, The Atlantic\, The Nation and Time. She writes a Substack newsletter\, More to Hate\, exploring misogyny\, fatphobia and their intersection. \nAbout Professor Manne’s lecture\nSensitivity and Survival\nAccusations of oversensitivity are nowadays very common. Are they typically warranted? Is there in fact a scourge of snowflakes? \nIn this lecture\, Kate Manne will distinguish three things that are commonly meant by “oversensitivity”: over-identification of instances\, over-extension of the relevant concepts and over-reactions to the relevant harms or forms of injustice\, such as sexism\, misogyny and racism. Her talk will draw on two rich humanistic traditions: feminist epistemology and non-ideal theory. \nWhile acknowledging that oversensitivity of all three kinds can and does occur\, Manne will highlight and explore the comparatively under-emphasized converse dangers: the under-identification of instances\, the under-extension of concepts\, and under-reactions or the undermining of warranted reactions\, respectively. In view of this\, she concludes that what is called oversensitivity is often simply sensitivity: a normatively valuable and justified way of reacting to harms and injustices that often go under the radar in society as we know it. \nPlease visit this page to register. \nEvent cosponsors\nThank you to our cosponsors: UCLA Department of Philosophy\, UCLA Department of Gender Studies\, UCLA Center for the Study of Women | Streisand Center\, and UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/deans-lecture-in-humanistic-inquiry-kate-manne-on-sensitivity-and-survival/
LOCATION:Royce 314
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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