Thinking Gender 2020 Conference Overview

Thinking Gender, Sexual Violence as Structural Violence: Feminist Visions of Transformative Justice

30th Annual Graduate Student Research Conference

Friday, March 6, 2020

UCLA Carnesale Commons

PRE-REGISTRATION IS CLOSED

In-person registration will be available on the day of. First come, first serve. Please visit the registration table in the Palisades Lobby on the 3rd floor.

DETAILED SCHEDULE

Thursday, March 5, 2020

2:00 PM – 5:00 PMPRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
By invitation only for faculty, staff, and students

Friday, March 6, 2020

ALL DAYEXHIBIT
8:00 AM – 9:00 AMREGISTRATION

Registration will be open throughout the conference, but we encourage attendees to register during this time to make the most of the conference. Please check in at the Registration Table prior to attending conference sessions.

9:00 AM – 10:30 AMSESSION I

Panel I: Extractive Economies and Sexual Violence

Roundtable I: The Violence of Method: Ethnographic Approaches to Sexual Violence

10:30 AM – 10:45 AMBREAK
10:45 AM – 12:15 PMSESSION II

Panel II: Intersections and Institutions: Policies, Programs, and Their Limits

Panel III: Legacies of Empire and Settler Colonialism

12:15 PM – 1:15 PMNETWORKING LUNCH (for presenters and invited guests only)
12:45 PM – 1:30 PMPOSTER SESSION
1:30 PM – 3:00 PMSESSION III

Panel IV: Conceptualizing Sexual Violence and the Politics of Knowledge

Roundtable II: Carcerality and Abolition: Security, Struggle, and Strategies for Safety

3:00 PM – 3:15 PMBREAK
3:15 PM – 5:30 PMKEYNOTE OPENING
“Toypurina: Bloodlines of Resistance” by WESHOYOT ALVITRE, Artist, Tongva: Los Angeles Basin

KEYNOTE PANEL
“Transformational Justice: Refusing Criminalization and Sexual Violence” featuring:

MARIAME KABA, Founder and Director of Project NIA; Researcher-in-Residence, Social Justice Institute, Barnard Center for Research on Women

MIMI KIM, Assistant Professor of Social Work, California State University, Long Beach

EMILY THUMA, Assistant Professor of American Politics and Public Law, University of Washington Tacoma

Moderated by: SARAH HALEY, Chair, CSW Advisory Committee; Director, UCLA Black Feminism Initiative; Professor, Gender Studies and African American Studies

5:30 PM – 6:30 PMCONFERENCE RECEPTION AND POSTER SESSION

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CO-SPONSORED BY

  • Backed by Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
  • African American Studies Department
  • African Studies Center
  • American Indian Studies Center
  • American Indian Studies Program
  • Anthropology Department
  • Asian American Studies Department
  • Asian American Studies Center
  • Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health
  • Black Male Institute and Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families
  • Bruin Consent Coalition
  • Campus Assault Resources and Education (CARE)
  • Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity
  • Center for Health Policy Research
  • Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice, & Health
  • Center X
  • Chicana/o Studies Department
  • Chicano Studies Research Center
  • Community Health Sciences Department
  • Comparative Literature Department
  • Criminal Justice Program, UCLA School of Law
  • Disabilities Studies Program
  • Education Department
  • English Department
  • Fielding School of Public Health
  • Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History
  • Gender Studies Department
  • Healthy Campus Initiative
  • Humanities Division
  • Information Studies Department
  • Institute for Research on Labor & Employment
  • Institute of American Cultures
  • Institute of Transportation Studies
  • Institute on Inequality and Democracy
  • International Development and Policy Outreach
  • International Institute
  • Iris Cantor-UCLA Women’s Health Center
  • Labor Center
  • Latin American Institute
  • Latino Policy and Politics Initiative
  • Office of Residential Life
  • Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies
  • Promise Institute for Human Rights
  • Ralph and Goldy Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
  • Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies
  • School of Medicine-Office of Diversity Affairs
  • School of Nursing
  • School of Theater, Film, and Television
  • Social Sciences Division
  • Social Welfare Department
  • Sociology Department
  • UC Speaks Up
  • UC Global Health Institute’s Center of Expertise on Women’s Health, Gender and Empowerment
  • Veterans Legal Clinic
  • Urban Planning Department
  • World Arts and Cultures/Dance Department