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SUMMARY:Christina Sharpe\, "In the Wake: On Blackness and Being"
DESCRIPTION:Christina Sharpe is Associate Professor of English at Tufts University and the author of Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subject. Her research interests are in black visual culture\, black diaspora studies\, and feminist epistemologies\, with a particular emphasis on black female subjectivity and black women artists. \nThis talk will draw from In the Wake: On Blackness and Being\, forthcoming from Duke University Press. \nIn this original and trenchant work\, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary\, visual\, cinematic\, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the “orthography of the wake.” Activating multiple registers of “wake”—the path behind a ship\, keeping watch with the dead\, coming to consciousness—Sharpe illustrates how Black lives are swept up and animated by the afterlives of slavery\, and she delineates what survives despite such insistent violence and negation. Initiating and describing a theory and method of reading the metaphors and materiality of “the wake\,” “the ship\,” “the hold\,” and “the weather\,” Sharpe shows how the sign of the slave ship marks and haunts contemporary Black life in the diaspora and how the specter of the hold produces conditions of containment\, regulation\, and punishment\, but also something in excess of them. In the weather\, Sharpe situates anti-Blackness and white supremacy as the total climate that produces premature Black death as normative. Formulating the wake and “wake work” as sites of artistic production\, resistance\, consciousness\, and possibility for living in diaspora\, In the Wake offers a way forward.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/christina-sharpe-wake-blackness/
LOCATION:Humanities 193\, UCLA
CATEGORIES:Cosponsorship
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SUMMARY:The Poetics of Fragility: a Film Screening and Discussion with Lata Mani
DESCRIPTION:A film screening and conversation. \nLata Mani is a feminist historian\, cultural critic\, contemplative writer and filmmaker. She has published on a broad range of issues\, from feminism and colonialism\, to illness\, spiritual philosophy and contemporary politics. She is most recently the author of The Integral Nature of Things: Critical Reflections on the Present (2013). \nNicolás Grandi is a Buenos Aires based filmmaker\, interdisciplinary artist and educator. He has taught film direction and the history of world cinema at the Universidad del Cine\, Buenos Aires\, and in the Film Department at the Srishti School of Art\, Design and Technology\, Bangalore. \nThe Poetics of Fragility explores the texture\, vitality and aesthetics of fragility. It interweaves stories of bodily frailty with optical vignettes of nature’s delicacy to reclaim fragility as intrinsic to existence\, not something to be bemoaned or overcome. \nShot in the San Francisco Bay Area in September 2015\, the film features internationally renowned scholar-activist Angela Davis\, the acclaimed playwright and critic Cherrie Moraga\, Nora Cortiñas\, the inspiring founding member of Madres de Plaza de Mayo Linea Fundadora\, actor-dancer Greg Manalo\, feminist performance artists Thao P. Nguyen and Martha Rynberg\, theater scholar Jisha Menon\, healer Christopher Miles\, creative writer Xochitl M. Perales and the young trombone talent\, Jasim Perales. \nThe Poetics of Fragility is conceived as a “videocontemplation;” a form that Nicolás Grandi and Lata Mani have been developing to explore how the audiovisual medium with its sensuous possibilities can become a tool for social inquiry with a philosophical impulse. The visually arresting and formally plural film unfolds through stories that build on and amplify each other. Moments of emotional intensity alternate with speculative calm\, dramatic narration with poetry and critical inquiry into prevailing understandings of fragility. \n 
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/poetics-fragility-film-screening-discussion-lata-mani/
LOCATION:Charles E Young Research Library Conference Room
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161020T080000
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SUMMARY:Fear: UCLA French and Francophone Studies 2016 Graduate Conference
DESCRIPTION:Discourses of fear dominate our contemporary moment. In this so-called “Age of Terrorism\,” fear knows no borders\, spreads quickly\, and provokes the fearful to react in unpredictable ways. Politicians lash out and make shows of strength; citizens march en masse while immigrant families take flight; journalists proclaim “même pas peur!” while young people turn to newer forms of media to express their disillusionment and reshape pervasive stereotypes. At the same time\, the causes—or perceived causes—of fear can be as varied as these reactions. Though opinion polls might define fear in terms of “terrorism\,” “immigration\,” or “globalization\,” these kinds of categories often obfuscate and conflate more than they clarify. \nIn the face of repressive regimes from Indochina to Vichy France\, from Haiti to Cameroon\, dissidents could face severe\, or even lethal\, punishment. How does the fear of denunciation give rise to coded writings that criticize and subvert the status quo? In and beyond these contexts\, how does fear cloud reason or induce clarity? Can it also have  positive\, not simply negative\, effects? When is fear “natural” and when is it not? Who plays a role in shaping these perceptions? How and by whom is it incited and manipulated\, diverted and channeled\, coped with\, suppressed and overcome? To what end? The 21st Annual Graduate Student Conference of the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies\, seeks to explore the reverberations of fear in French and Francophone literatures\, languages\, arts\, cultures\, and histories across time periods and disciplines. We understand fear to include empirical and conceptual engagements with the notions of terror\, horror\,  panic\, and phobia. We are interested in how these may be connected to creative endeavor\, literary and artistic movements\, political and economic gain\, and aesthetic and cultural transformations. Our aim is to address concerns of importance to scholars in literature\, history\, film and media studies\, art history\, sociology\, anthropology\, gender studies\, and philosophy. \nKeynote speaker: Tracy D. Sharpling-Whiting\, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of Humanities (African American Diaspora Studies and French)\, Vanderbilt University \nSharpley-Whiting has published 14 scholarly books; her most recent\, Bricktop’s Paris: African American Women in Paris Between the Two World Wars and The Autobiography of Ada “Bricktop” Smith\, or Miss Baker Regrets (SUNY Press\, February 2015)\, consists of two-parts\, a nonfiction multi-life history followed by a noirmystery. The book was an American Library in Paris Book Award Long List selection and a Choice 2015 Outstanding Academic Title. She is currently at-work on a scholarly volume\, A Quartet in Four French Movements: A Voodoo Queen\, A French Romantic\, a Poet\, and an African Ethnologist\, as well as a family history. She is on the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association (2014-2018) and is the editor of Palimpsest: A Journal on Women\, Gender\, and the Black International.
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/fear-ucla-french-francophone-studies-2016-graduate-conference/
LOCATION:306 and 314 Royce Hall\, UCLA
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SUMMARY:Black Feminist Vision: A Symposium on Possibility and Practice
DESCRIPTION:A two-day symposium on Thursday\, October 20 and Friday\, October 21 presented by the UC Consortium for Black Studies in California. Featuring some of the most important established and rising stars working in the field of Black feminism\, this symposium is centrally organized around questions of feminism and race. \nPlease register HERE for each day you plan to attend.  \nDay 1: Thursday\, October 20\, 2016\, 4pm         \nOpening Keynote: Barbara Ransby\nBarbara Ransby\, Professor of African American Studies\, Gender & Women’s Studies\, and History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is author of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Struggle: A Radical Democratic Vision and Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson. Keynote Introduction by Dayo F. Gore\, Associate Professor of Critical Gender Studies & Ethnic Studies\, UC San Diego. \n\nDay 2: Friday\, October 21\, 2016\, 10am-4pm    \nConversations on Black Feminist Vision\nKimberly Juanita Brown\, English\, Mount Holyoke College \nSimone Browne\, Sociology/African and African Diaspora Studies\, University of Texas-Austin  \nMarcia Chatelain\, History\, Georgetown University  \nErica Edwards\, English\, UC Riverside  \nTanisha Ford\, Black American Studies and History\, University of Delaware  \nKara Keeling\, Cinematic Studies/American Studies & Ethnicity\, University of Southern California   \nC. Riley Snorton\, Africana Studies\, Cornell University  \nUla Taylor\, African American Studies\, UC Berkeley  \nLisa Ze Winters\, English/African American Studies\, Wayne State University \nDay 2: Friday\, October 21\, 2016\, 4pm                \nClosing Keynote: Katherine McKittrick\nKatherine McKittrick is Associate Professor in Gender Studies and the Graduate Program in Cultural Studies at Queens University and author of Demonic Grounds: Black Women and Cartographies of Struggle.  She is editor of Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis and co-editor (with Clyde Woods) of Black Geographies and the Politics of Place.  Keynote Introduction by Arlene Keizer\, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature\, English\, and African American Studies\, UC Irvine. \nREGISTER ONLINE! \n 
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/black-feminist-vision-symposium-possibility-practice/
LOCATION:Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon\, UCLA\, Los Angeles
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SUMMARY:Talking Trash: Oral Histories of Food In/Security from the Margins of a Dumpster
DESCRIPTION:Part of Dishing: A Lecture Series on Food\, Feminism\, and the Way We Eat. Video now available on YouTube!\n \nA talk by Rachel Vaughn\, Adjunct Assistant Professor at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and the UCLA Department of Gender Studies\n\nJoin us after the talk for the Fighting Hunger Fair — your chance to meet UCLA and community groups and researchers working to eliminate hunger and waste. \nRachel Vaughn holds a PhD in American Studies from the University of Kansas. From 2011- 2012\, she was a Fellow in Gender Studies at Oklahoma State University; and was then Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Kansas in the Department of Women\, Gender & Sexuality Studies. Her research engages the intersections of food politics\, food sovereignty\, and feminist environmental theory. By way of her oral history research with scavengers\, foragers\, and dumpster divers of varying food security levels and socio-economic backgrounds\, she explores how the space of the dumpster and the act of diving work as alternative forms of cultural knowledge about food. Her work asks how the labels ‘real\,’ or by default ‘un-real’\, ‘edible’ or ‘inedible’ effect people of varying food (in)securities within the current food systems we consume. Vaughn is the author of a book in progress Talking Trash: Oral Histories of Food In/Security from the Margins of a Dumpster (under review with University of Nebraska Press). \nRSVP HERE! \nCo-sponsored by UCLA Division of Social Sciences\, UCLA Healthy Campus Initiative\, UCLA Department of History\, and UCLA Food Studies Graduate Certificate Program
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/talking-trash-oral-histories-food-insecurity-margins-dumpster/
LOCATION:Ackerman Grand Ballroom\, UCLA\, Los Angeles
CATEGORIES:CSW originated
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SUMMARY:Andrea C. Gore\, "Environmental Endocrine Disruption of Reproduction\, the Brain\, and Behavior"
DESCRIPTION:The chemical revolution that began during World War II transformed our world. While our lives are undoubtedly improved in many ways\, we now know that a subset of chemicals\, called environmental endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs)\, have detrimental effects on the health of humans and wildlife. EDCs include some pesticides\, industrial chemicals\, and components of plastics and food contact containers\, and we come into contact with EDCs every day. Higher body burdens of EDCs in humans are associated with greater risk for endocrine and neurological disorders. Andrea Gore’s laboratory is using a rat model of low-dose EDC exposure\, and ascertaining the consequences on neuroendocrine and reproductive functions and behaviors. They have discovered that prenatal EDCs “reprogram” genes and proteins in the developing neuroendocrine system\, and that these molecular and cellular changes are associated with an impaired neurobehavioral phenotype. Importantly\, the effects of EDCs are manifested very differently in males and females\, a result that is consistent with sex differences in hormone actions in the nervous system. Current EDC research is beginning to identify vulnerable neuroendocrine targets\, with the potential for future therapeutic interventions. \n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Andrea Gore is Professor and Vacek Chair in Pharmacology at UT-Austin. Her NIH- funded research projects are investigating how environmental endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) perturb the developing brain\, and effects of estrogen on the aging brain as a model for menopause in women. Dr. Gore has published 4 books and 140 scientific papers. She is Chair of UT-Austin’s Faculty Council\, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Endocrine Society’s flagship basic science journal\, Endocrinology. Dr. Gore was lead author of the Society’s two Scientific Statements on EDCs\, and organized and chaired the Gordon Research Conference on EDCs in 2012. In 2016\, she was a recipient of the Endocrine Society’s Outstanding Public Service Award. \nAndrea Gore and David Crews: Living in a Contaminated World
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/andrea-c-gore-environmental-endocrine-disruption-reproduction-brain-behavior/
LOCATION:Community Health Sciences 43-105\, UCLA\, Los Angeles
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SUMMARY:Ruha Benjamin: "The Emperor's New Genes: Science\, Race\, Justice\, and the Allure of Objectivity
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Ruha Benjamin discusses advances in genomic science and explores questions of racial difference\, scientific objectivity\, medical trustworthiness\, and social justice. Drawing upon developments in Mexico\, South Africa\, India\, and the United States\, she illustrates how political and scientific claims are connected in the day to day struggle of groups demanding rights and redress. Finally\, she argues for a shift in focus away from individuals’ “trust” in biomedical research to the relative “trustworthiness” of institutions\, as a starting point for developing science for the public good. \nThis talk is part of “In the Interests of Justice: Bringing Theory into Practice.” Each of the six speakers in this series is engaged in producing vital knowledge about the relationships between health\, social inequity\, race\, gender\, and power. Featured scholars will share their recent or ongoing work\, and comment on the implications for changing and improving practice\, in the fields of law\, healthcare\, or social services\, in order to meet the needs of populations facing complex social\, health\, or disabling challenges. This series is a collaboration between Repair\, a Los-Angeles based health and disability justice organization\, The UCLA American Indian Studies Center\, the UCLA Program in Disability Studies\, and the The UCLA Department of Gender Studies. Funding and support are provided by NetCE. \n 
URL:https://csw.ucla.edu/event/ruha-benjamin-emperors-new-genes-science-race-justice-allure-objectivity/
LOCATION:Charles E. Young Research Library\, Presentation Room
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