Gender Studies

Thinking Gender 2024: Dystopian Realities, Feminist Utopias
2024-03-01 08:30 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | James West Alumni Center, Collins Room

Lalaie Ameeriar, Racializing Reproduction: Maternal Mortality, Asian American Women and Covid-19
2024-02-26 13:00 - 15:00 | Rolfe Hall, 2125

Jazz, Race and Revolution: John Coltrane's Alabama by Professor Bruce Baum
2024-02-22 15:00 - 17:00 | YRL Presentation Room, 11348

Looking for a Place to Happen, A Talk by Minelle Mahtani
2024-02-21 15:00 - 16:30 | Bunche Hall 1261

Professor Barbara Ransby: Scholar-Activism in the Era of the New McCarthyism
2024-02-08 18:00 - 20:00 | Kerckhoff Hall, Grand Salon

Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey; Book Talk by Professor Zeynep Korkman
2023-11-09 14:00 - 16:00 | Rolfe Hall Courtyard, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Paula Gunn Allen Chair Installation of Professor Shannon Speed
2023-10-19 17:00 - 19:00 | James West Alumni Center, Collins Room
Paula Gunn Allen Chair Invite

2023 Fall Reception
2023-10-04 16:00 - 18:00 | Rolfe Hall Courtyard, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable, Book Talk by Dr. Eric A. Stanley
2023-05-17 15:30 - 17:00 | YRL Presentation Room, 11348

Coming to You, Film Screening and Discussion with Film Makers and Cast
2023-05-05 17:00 - 20:00 | UCLA James Bridges Theater
Join us for a screening of the film, followed by a Q&A discussion with guests Byun Gyu-ri, director; Nabi (Jeong Eun-ae); Vivian (Kang Sun-hwa); moderated by Professor Ju Hui Judy Han, UCLA Gender Studies.

Don’t miss this chance to watch Coming to You (2021, trailer) on their tour of Southern California! The film is a powerful, groundbreaking documentary about two women confronting bigotry and redefining their relationship with their gay and transgender (adult) children, made by a filmmaker working with the acclaimed queer feminist film collective, PINKS (연분홍치마). The film thoughtfully presents the work of PFLAG Korea (Parents and Families of LGBTAIQ People in Korea), an important chapter in LGBTQ activism in South Korea and beyond. It won the Best Documentary Film prize at the Jeonju International Film Festival and the Brave New Docs Award at the DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, both in 2021.
Coming to You has already fostered critical conversations through international film festivals and over a hundred community screenings in South Korea, though it has not yet been widely screened in the U.S. The film will resonate with queer and trans youth, families and allies, students, activists, and community builders and advocates committed to social justice whether in public policy, in political discourse, and in the intimate spaces of their personal lives.

Jack Caraves, Trans*Formative Spirituality in Trans LatinX Lives: Cultivating Spirituality, Resistance, and Hope on the Path of Becoming
2023-03-13 15:30 - 17:00 | YRL Presentation Room, 11348

Keynote Marion Buller on "The Future of Justice and Reparations for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls"
2023-03-08 16:45 - 18:15 | UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, Laureate Room, 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
This event is co-sponsored by the Racial Violence Hub of the Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Gender Studies, UCLA’s American Indian Studies Center, the Center for the Study of Women, UCLA Law’s Native Nations Law & Policy Center, Climate Rights International, UCLA’s Luskin Endowment for Thought Leadership and the Luskin Center for History and Policy.
Judge Buller will speak on the future of justice and reparations for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls following the National Inquiry. Julissa Mantilla, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Commissioner will follow her remarks with a perspective from the IACHR.
Marion Buller is a judge and human rights advocate who helped form the First Nations Courts in British Columbia and is the first woman Indigenous judge in Canada. She was the Chief Commissioner for the Canadian National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. She is currently Chancellor of the University of Victoria, BC.
Please register HERE to attend the event.

Book Talk with Erin L. Durban, The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti
2023-02-24 14:30 - 16:00 | Bunche Hall 2209A

Alex Algaze González, Vulgar Vernaculars: Sex, Queer Pleasure, and Latinidad
2023-02-13 15:30 - 17:00 | YRL Presentation Room, 11348

Dan Bustillo: Trans Latinx Counter-Security Media: The "Wild Tongue" of Prison Letter Writing Activism
2023-02-06 15:30 - 17:00 | YRL Presentation Room, 11348

Cinthya Martinez, ICE on Fire: Incinerating Prison/Border Violence Through Feminist Abolition Geographies
2023-01-31 15:30 - 17:00 | YRL Presentation Room, 11348
The Department of Gender Studies and Chicano Studies Research Center Present
CINTHYA MARTINEZ
ICE on Fire: Incinerating Prison/Border Violence through Feminist Abolition Geographies
Tuesday, January 31st
3:30-5pm
YRL Presentation Room, 11348

Talk Description: How are ghosts subjects that continue to speak after death? What do they say about the violence that has occurred? “ICE on Fire: Incinerating Prison/Border Violence through Feminist Abolition Geographies” investigates how women and queer migrants inside ICE immigrant detention use “haunted-ness” and testimony to unsettle detention. The locus of analysis for this dissertation is the Adelanto ICE Processing Center. Located in San Bernardino County, two hours away from Los Angeles, Adelanto is the largest immigrant detention center in the nation and has the third-highest number of reported cases of sexual assault. Martinez contextualizes queer migrants and women’s refusals within the state’s active destruction of the recent, living historical archive of gendered carceral state violence in forgotten prison towns like Adelanto. This research offers a critical contribution to scholarship on the U.S.-Mexico border and contemporary immigration by conceptualizing detention centers as prison-borders imbued in gendered violence. It further pushes the boundaries of border and immigration studies by centering migrant women as authors of abolitionist theory.
Bio: Dr. Cinthya Martinez is a UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Latin American and Latino Studies Department at UC Santa Cruz. She organizes with Adelanto Visitation Network to support people in ICE detention and to end migrant detention. She earned her doctorate from the University of California, Riverside in Ethnic Studies. Her research investigates how women and queer migrants who are incarcerated in ICE detention centers use place-making to unsettle their conditions of captivity. In her book project, ICE on Fire: Incinerating Prison/Border Violence through Feminist Abolition Geographies, she reads correspondence and hunger strike demands from incarcerated women as a form of embodied feminist abolitionist praxis that counters state sexual violence and carceral violence.

Kadji Amin
2022-11-08 10:30 - 18:00

2022 Fall Reception
2022-10-05 16:00 - 18:00
Join us for the 2022 Fall Reception on Wednesday October 5th at 4pm, Rolfe Hall Courtyard

Feeling Genocide: Matrifocality and Black Church Arson
2022-05-06 13:00 - 15:00
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Disability, Decarceration, & Decoloniality
2022-04-20 15:00 - 16:30
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After Taiwan's Same-Sex Marriage: Gay Rights Development in East Asia
2022-04-13 17:00 - 18:00
After Taiwan’s Same-Sex Marriage: Gay Rights Development in East Asia
A Roundtable Discussion
UCLA Taiwan in the World Lecture
Dr. Minwoo Jung (Loyola University Chicago), Dr. Ying-Chao Kao (Virginia Commonwealth University), and Jennifer Lu (Taiwan Equality Campaign)
Organized by Dr. Shih-chan Dai (UCLA)
Moderated by Dr. Ju Hui Judy Han (UCLA)
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Pacific Time)
To register: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_K8XQT8AKQKKLBWuFWdsDfA
The UCLA Taiwan in the World lecture series aims to promote Taiwan studies and disseminate knowledge about Taiwan in a global context and shed light on Taiwan’s political economy, international relations, and US-Taiwan-China relations, as well as Taiwan’s society, political system, social structure, and institutions. This series is organized by Taiwan in the World postdoctoral fellow Shih-chan Dai.
With the passage of the Act for Implementation of J.Y. Interpretation No. 748 in May 2019, Taiwan has become the first Asian country to legalize same-sex spousal rights. Many activists in other parts of East Asia have considered this legal breakthrough a sign of hope that their countries might soon follow suit. After nearly three years since the legalization of same-sex marriage in Taiwan, the UCLA Asia Pacific Center will convene a panel of scholars and gay rights activists to review the recent development of gay rights in East Asia. The discussants will share their insights into the opportunities and challenges local activists face when advocating for gay rights. Furthermore, they will discuss how Taiwan’s experience may have changed the way gay rights activism works in other East Asian societies.
https://www.international.ucla.edu/apc/event/15490

Land, Climate Change, and Genocidal Violence in North America and South Asia
2022-04-01 13:00 - 15:00
In this series, we discuss the genocidal violence of everyday life. On the first Friday of each month from November to April (six sessions), in the spirit of collaboration, feminist scholars will gather to present virtually on works in progress on the theme of genocidal violence.

Genocidal Violence in the Americas
2022-03-04 13:00 - 15:00
Welcome to the Series Event of the 5th Annual Racial Violence Hub Workshop: Feminist Approaches to Theorizing Genocidal Violence, Wars and Occupations, a series of The Racial Violence Hub and Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Gender Studies.
In this series, we discuss the genocidal violence of everyday life. On the first Friday of each month from November to April (six sessions), in the spirit of collaboration, feminist scholars will gather to present virtually on works in progress on the theme of genocidal violence.

The Auntie Sewing Squad: Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice
2022-02-28 12:30 - 13:45
Join us for this event celebrating the Auntie Sewing Squad, a massive mutual-aid network of volunteers who have been providing free masks in the wake of US government failures during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Featuring:
Asian American Studies MA and Gender Studies PhD alum Preeti Sharma and co-editors Mai-Linh Hong and Chrissy Lau, discussing their recently released book The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask-Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice (UC Press).
Screening of “Auntie Kristina,” a short film about the Auntie Sewing Squad and a discussion with the filmmaker, Asian American Studies MA alum Hannah Joo.

"Stories of Dreadful Iniquities and Unutterable Suffering:" Feminist Voices on Violence, Memory, and Displacement
2022-02-04 13:00 - 15:00

Imaginaries of Dissent: South Asia
2022-01-07 13:00 - 15:00

Genocide Management: Carceral Reformism, Policing, Sexual Violence & The Role of Law in North America
2021-12-03 13:00 - 15:00
“Genocide Management: Carceral Reformism, Policing, Sexual Violence and the Role of Law”
Welcome to the Series Event of the 5th Annual Racial Violence Hub Workshop: Feminist Approaches to Theorizing Genocidal Violence, Wars and Occupations, a series of The Racial Violence Hub and Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Gender Studies.
In this series, we discuss the genocidal violence of everyday life. On the first Friday of each month from November to April (six sessions), in the spirit of collaboration, feminist scholars will gather to present virtually on works in progress on the theme of genocidal violence.

American Indian Studies Speakers for November Native American Heritage Month: Dr. Juliann Anesi Gender Studies
2021-11-05 14:00 - 15:00
Please join us (virtually) each Friday in November (and one in December) to celebrate Native American Heritage Month for a talk with four UCLA Native/Indigenous Scholars. Each speaker will give a brief overview of some of their most current research pursuits and interests and then there will be an interactive discussion from the moderator and audience members. Come and learn more about some of the new and innovative contemporary research pursued by our UCLA Native / Indigenous faculty members.
Our speaker on Friday, November 5th will be Dr. Juliann Anesi, please join us at 2 pm PST. The Zoom link is below.
Co-Sponsors: American Indian Studies Center, American Indian Science and Engineering Society, Pacific Island Students Association, UCLA Health
Zoom Link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/6306054053

5th Annual Racial Violence Hub Workshop: Feminist Approaches to Theorizing Genocidal Violence, Wars and Occupations
2021-11-05 13:00 - 15:00
5th Annual Racial Violence Hub Workshop: Feminist Approaches to Theorizing Genocidal Violence, Wars and Occupations, a series of The Racial Violence Hub and Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Gender Studies.

In this series, we discuss the genocidal violence of everyday life. On the first Friday of each month from November to April (six sessions), in the spirit of collaboration, feminist scholars will gather to present virtually on works in progress on the theme of genocidal violence.

Friday, November 5th 1-3pm
Speakers:
Shaira Vadasaria (University of Edinburgh) and Nadera Shalhoub Kevorkian (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Commentator: Lana Tatour (University of New South Wales, Sydney)

10 Questions: How Do We Fail? with Gender Studies Professor Safiya Noble
2021-11-01 19:00 - 20:00
10 Questions returns for its fourth iteration to bring students, faculty, alumni, and community members together to reflect and consider how best to chart a path forward.
Last year’s series, 10 Questions: Reckoning, grappled with the profound inequities of our time, set against the context of a global pandemic, a presidential election, a racial justice movement, and the ongoing threat of climate change. This year, 10 Questions: If not now, when? will once again bring together some of the most compelling thinkers from UCLA and beyond in an effort to consider the actions we can take to address the kinds of personal, familial, communal, and global healing that is called for in this moment.
This week oncology chaplain, LGBTQ educator/activist, and inspirational speaker Michael Eselun; scholar of society and technology policy Safiya Noble; and artist Anna Sew Hoy will join Victoria Marks, professor in the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, to explore the question “How do we fail?”
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