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SUMMARY:Ordinary Lesbians and Special Collections: The June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives at UCLA
DESCRIPTION:Ann Cvetkovich\nEllen Clayton Garwood Centennial Professor of English and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin \nOrdinary Lesbians and Special Collections: The June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives at UCLA \nWednesday\, February 3rd\nCypress Room\, Faculty Center\n4 to 5:30pm\nReception to Follow \nWhat happens when a grassroots lesbian feminist archive finds its way to the special collections of a major university research library?  Does it lose its counterarchival aura\, or can it carry its powers of critical intervention into new spaces?  This talk explores these questions through the case of the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives\, which have recently been housed and catalogued at UCLA.  It will focus in particular on how the self-archiving practices of “ordinary lesbians” make available the lives of those who may not be publicly recognized but whom the archive can make valuable.  And it will explore this case history within the broader context of her research on queer archival politics\, which includes the models provided by artists whose creative approaches to the archives are simultaneously critical and transformative. \nAnn Cvetkovich is Ellen Clayton Garwood Centennial Professor of English and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.  She is the author of Mixed Feelings:  Feminism\, Mass Culture\, and Victorian Sensationalism (Rutgers\, 1992); An Archive of Feelings:  Trauma\, Sexuality\, and Lesbian Public Cultures (Duke\, 2003); and Depression:  A Public Feeling (Duke\, 2012). She is writing a book about the current state of LGBTQ archives and the creative use of them by artists to produce counterarchives and interventions in public history.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/ordinary-lesbians-special-collections-june-l-mazer-lesbian-archives-ucla/
LOCATION:Cypress Room\, Faculty Center
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SUMMARY:CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap
DESCRIPTION:This film screening and panel discussion will feature: \nRobin Hauser Reynolds\, Producer; Jane Margolis\, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies \nThis event will explore the systemic factors and barriers that prevent women and minorities from advancing in technology. This would facilitate a productive\, scholarly partnership between the acclaimed producers of this award-winning film\, garnering allies with much momentum and publicity behind their project. \nOrganized by the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation and cosponsored by UCLA Center for the Study of Women\, UCLA Office of Instructional Technology\, Department of Film\, Television\, and Digital Media at UCLA\, and Creative Artists Associates. \nDOWNLOAD FLYER \nRSVP: www.regonline.com/CODEscreening
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/code-debugging-the-gender-gap/
LOCATION:Melnitz 1409: James Bridges Theater
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SUMMARY:Coming Out As...
DESCRIPTION:A colloquium on how the phrase “coming out” has expanded\, migrated\, and been re-purposed by various marginalized groups\, such as transgender individuals\, undocumented immigrants\, or the plural marriage rights movement.\nSPEAKERS: Abigail Saguy\, UCLA\, and Kristen Schilt\, U of Chicago\, Laura Enriquez\, UC Irvine\, and Nicole Iturriaga\, UCLA. \nRESPONDENT: James Schultz\, UCLA \nDATE: February 8\, 2016 \nTIME: 2 to 5 pm \nPLACE: Charles E Young Research Library \nRSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coming-out-as-tickets-2919920561 \nJOINTLY HOSTED BY: UCLA Center for the Study of Women and the Williams Institute \nCOSPONSORED BY: César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies\, Chicano Studies Research Center\, UCLA Library\, LGBT Studies\, LBGT Resource Center\,  and the UCLA Sociology Gender Working Group \nThis event is part of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women’s Research and Equity Committee initiative\, which is supported by the Office of Interdisciplinary and Cross Campus Affairs. \nAbigail C. Saguy is Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at UCLA. She is the author of What’s Wrong with Fat? (2013\, Oxford University Press) and What is Sexual Harassment? From Capitol Hill to the Sorbonne (2003\, University of California Press). Her teaching and research interests include gender\, culture\, the body\, politics\, law and public health. Here is her description of her presentation: \nWhat does it mean to “come out” as a particular type of person? How and why are people using this specific term to resist various sorts of stigma and demand rights? What does the cultural schema of coming out make possible? How does the history of the term\, and its close association with coming out as lesbian or gay\, color other usages of this term? Finally\, how\, in turn\, are new usages changing the term’s very meaning? In collaboration with several current or former UCLA graduate students\, I have been examining these questions over the past several years. I will discuss some of the central questions of the broader project before two of my collaborators—Laura Enriquez and Nicole Iturriaga—discuss two of the case studies in greater depth. \nKristen Schilt is Associate Professor\, University of Chicago. Her research interests center on sociology of gender and sexualities\, the sociology of culture\, and the sociology of work and occupations. A central focus of her work is finding new ways to make visible the taken-for-granted cultural assumptions about gender and sexuality that serve to naturalize and reproduce social inequality. In 2010\, she published the monograph\, Just One of the Guys? Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality (University of Chicago Press). In this book\, she illustrates how the workplace experiences of transgender men can help to illuminate the organizational and interactional processes that contribute to the persistence of gender\, race\, and sexuality-based inequalities in the workplace. Here is her description of her planned presentation\, titled “Coming Out or Becoming? The Cultural Logics of Major Life Change”: \n“Coming out the closet” has  been a political strategy in the gay rights movement since the early days of gay liberation in the 1960s. Yet\, while “coming out” can be a strategic decision to embrace\, and to some degree\, reclaim a stigmatized identity\, it can also be a claim about essentialism – about making public an innate aspect of identity and/or embodiment that cannot be acted upon or regulated by informal social control or state regulation – a logic often encapsulated in the 2010s LGBTQ activist slogan “born this way.”  I explore the idea of “born this way” as a political strategy for addressing stigma and marginalization through the lens of my book project\, Before and After\, that centers on the experiences of people who make major changes to their embodiment and identity. Drawing on a preliminary analysis of my interview and ethnographic data\, I explore two competing frames people use to make sense of such changes: coming out as your true self or becoming a new you.  \nREAD BLOG POST ABOUT KRISTEN SCHILT \nLaura Enriquez is Assistant Professor at UC Irvine. She earned undergraduate degrees in Sociology and History from Pomona College. During her time there she began working closely with undocumented immigrant students and researching issues related to undocumented immigrant communities. Earning her Master’s and Doctoral degrees at the University of California\, Los Angeles\, she has researched\, presented\, and published on a range of issues related to the educational\, economic\, political\, and social experiences of undocumented young adults who immigrated to the United States as children. Putting her research into practice\, she works directly with colleges and community organizations to help them better serve undocumented immigrants. Additionally\, she is a contributing blogger at the Huffington Post and participates in community-based workshops and panels to raise awareness about undocumented immigrant issues. READ BLOG POST \nNicole Iturriaga is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at UCLA. Her project\, “Finding the Lost: Forensics\, DNA\, and Transnational Advocacy Networks of Human Rights Workers\,” looks at how human rights workers use forensic and genetic technologies to resist repression and challenge dominant narratives of past political violence while also fighting for the goals of transitional justice\, memory\, and identity restitution of the disappeared. This project employs a multi-methodology approach including ethnographic\, comparative historical\, and content analysis to look at the rise and spread of forensic and genetic technologies in the field of human rights\, as well as how these technologies are used by activist groups. Here is her description of her planned presentation: \nMy talk will be on the tactics used by “plural marriage” activists to cast members of such marriages as an oppressed minority and portray polygamy as empowering to women. Drawing on in-depth interviews with Mormon fundamentalists—34 polygamist women and men—involved in the plural marriage rights movement\, she will explain how they not only distanced themselves from Mormon fundamentalist groups known to force underage girls into marriage but also rhetorically liken themselves to two populations with whom they have moral objections: Blacks and sexual minorities. Moreover\, movement leaders reinforce the analogy with gay men and lesbians by strategically and self-consciously employing a language of “coming out of the closet” to talk about revealing and affirming their polygamist status. This talk will argue that they are drawn to this particular language not merely because it is culturally ubiquitous but also because of how same-sex marriage and polygamy have been connected via discursive networks. Additionally\, this talk will consider the respondents’ claims that polygyny offers women advantages over monogamy\, while also examining how post-feminist discourse about choice can reinforce patriarchal structures. \nREAD BLOG POST ABOUT NICOLE’S WORK \nJames A. Schultz is Professor of German and former Chair of LGBT Studies at UCLA. He is the author of three previous books\, including\, most recently\, The Knowledge of Childhood in the German Middle Ages\, 1100–1350. 
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LOCATION:Charles E. Young Research Library\, Presentation Room
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SUMMARY:Gendering Disposability with Sherene H. Razack
DESCRIPTION:In 2011\, 36 year old Cindy Gladue\, a Cree woman\, bled to death in a hotel bathtub in Edmonton\, Alberta\, Canada after having sex with Brad Barton\, a trucker and a white man who had purchased her sexual services.  Barton was charged with murder and the Crown argued that the 11 centimetre wound visible in her vagina had been caused by a knife. In a bid to demonstrate its theory about the knife\, and on the advice of the senior pathologist on the case\, the Crown introduced as evidence Cindy Gladue’s vagina\, apparently severed from the rest of her body\, into the courtroom. Evoking as it did a history of both the sexualizing and dehumanizing of colonized women\, the presence of Gladue’s vagina in the courtroom caused a public furor and it emphasized the gendered locus of the contemporary colonial relation: Indigenous women’s sex. In this presentation\, I explore the intensity of sexual violence directed at Indigenous women such as Gladue\, proposing that we understand this violence as colonial terror. \nA professor in the Department of Social Justice at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education\, University of Toronto\, SHERENE H. RAZACK is a noted postcolonial feminist scholar whose  books include Dying from Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody (2015)\, Looking White People in The Eye: Gender\, Race\, and Culture in Courtrooms and Classrooms (1998)\,  and Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims from Western Law and Politics (2008).
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/gendering-disposability/
LOCATION:Hacienda Room\, Faculty Center
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies
DESCRIPTION:This colloquium will feature \nErin Marie Pinon (Southern Methodist University)\nGohar Grigoryan (University of Fribourg\, Switzerland)\nAri Sekeryan (University of Oxford\, UK)\nPiruza Hayrapetyan (Central European University\, Hungary)\nDavid Leupold (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin\, Germany)\nElli Ponomareva(European University at St. Petersburg\, Russia)\nGary D. Glass Jr. (University of Missouri)\nLusine Sargsyan (Yerevan State University\, Armenia)\nAnna Gevorgyan (Yerevan State University)\nBabken Der Grigorian (London School of Economics\, UK)\nMari Mamyan (Yerevan State University\, Armenia)\nMarieta Bazinyan (Yerevan State University\, Armenia)\nLevon Aghikyan (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Armenia\, Armenia)\nNarine Jallatyan (UCLA) \nCosponsored by: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies\, Center for European and Russian Studies\, Center for Religious Studies\, Gustav E. Von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies\, Department of Linguistics\, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures\, and Center for the Study of Women
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/graduate-student-colloquium-armenian-studies/
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SUMMARY:Theory Traveling
DESCRIPTION:Chela Sandoval’s meditation is on Third World liberation\, “US Third World Feminism\,” Chicana Lesbian and Indigenous feminisms\, the decolonization of “identity\,” and the methodology of the oppressed. \n“There were the sixties movements\, fueled by earlier anticolonial movements all over the world\, climaxing in Vietnam\, Algeria and elsewhere\, all such humanly emancipatory struggles\, all then so fiercely fought for. You bring them together\, and the world system began to question itself.” – Sylvia Wynter\, 2015  \nWe are living in an epochal shift where the very idea of what counts as “human” is being challenged. We can say that the anti-colonial and social movements of the 1960’s have gotten us to this point\, yet these remain unfinished revolutions. Where do we go from here? Every academic discipline is reaching toward what being-human means during this transition to other forms of becoming. The new intellectual “decolonial turn” represents a major challenge to these institutions of knowledge and power. It asks every discipline\, from Biology to English\, to understand how knowledges are organized around a dominant notion of what a human being is. Doing so means recognizing that the white male European can no longer be used as the standard of what is “human” against which all other forms of life are to be measured. The “decoloniality of power” expressed in writings by Franz Fanon\, Paula Gunn Allen\, Gloria Anzaldúa and many others provides us epochally new mutational options for being human. \nThe Nahual-Witness Ceremony and the SWAPA technology (Story-Wor(l)d-Art-Performance-as-Activism) represent one option for accomplishing what black feminist theorist bell hooks calls “de-self-actualizing\,” undoing what we have become\, to instead become “human-as-process” (what Sylvia Wynter names “being-human-as-praxis.”) For Anzaldúa\, such practitioners are nepantleras who can be understood\, in part\, as beings-who-bridge. \nChela Sandoval is Associate Professor and former chair of the Department of Chicana/o Studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her book Methodology of the Oppressed (University of Minnesota Press\, 2000) is one of the most influential contemporary theoretical texts worldwide. She has published a variety of articles and chapters on social movement\, third space feminism and critical media theory. Her current book project is on spoken-wor(l)d-art- performance-as-activism (SWAPA) and the shaman-nahual/witness ceremony. She is co-editor of the Chicano Studies Reader and Performing the U.S. Latina and Latino Borderlands. Her most recent book\, published by UNAM last month\, is Metodologia de Emancipación\, a trans-interpretation of Methodology of the Oppressed. Sandoval teaches courses on decolonial feminism\, liberation philosophy and radical semiotics. She received a PhD in the History of Consciousness from the University of California\, Santa Cruz.
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