Latest Past Events

Thinking Gender 2016

Grand Horizon Ballroom, Covel Commons, UCLA

VIDEOS NOW ONLINE! Thinking Gender is a public conference highlighting graduate student research on women, sexuality and gender across all disciplines and historical periods. This year’s theme is “Spatial Awareness, Representation, and Gendered Spaces.” PRELIMINARY PROGRAM! Download now! Or view on online! REGISTRATION INFORMATION General Registration (FREE) includes access to the keynote speech, paper and […]

Lee Ann S. Wang

Rolfe 2125

Asian American Feminisms and the Re-writing of the Legal Voice: Immigration Law, Criminal Enforcement, and “Cooperation” A talk by the UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley This talk will discuss the U Visa, a new form of legal protection designed to rescue undocumented immigrants from gender and sexual violence – but only if they willingly agree […]

‘If You Should Lose Me’ The Archive, the Critic, the Record Shop and the Blues Woman

Charles E. Young Research Library, Presentation Room

This talk examines the problem of iconic blues women who’ve been “lost” to history, Geeshie Wiley and Elvie Thomas, as well as the critics who’ve loved and chased after them.  By placing the politics of queer archival studies and black performance theory in conversation with canonical blues historiographies, the talk will explore the aesthetics and […]