Gender Studies

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

Imaginaries of Dissent: South Asia
2022-01-07 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.

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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Dr. Laura Kang "Traffic in Asian Women: Categorical Violence & Innumerable Loss"
2021-10-19 11:00 - 13:00
Join us for our first lecture in the 2021 RVHub Workshop Series: Feminist Approaches to Theorizing Genocidal Violence, Wars and Occupations. A series of the Racial Violence Hub and Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Gender Studies, Professor Kang’s lecture also marks the first event in a Transnational Feminist Series of the Department of Gender Studies at UCLA.

Fall 2021 Instruction Begins
2021-09-23

Gender Studies Commencement Saturday June 12th 12:00pm
2021-06-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Los Angeles, CA, United States
UCLA Department of Gender Studies Commencement 2021
Distinguished Professor Angela Y. Davis, Keynote Address
Saturday, June 12th – 12pm
Link to virtual ceremony:
StageClip | Gender Studies

Gender Studies Commencement Program Booklet 2021

A Practice of Decolonial Thinking: Feminism, Antiracism, and the Life Work of Ochy Curiel
2021-05-10 12:00 - 14:00 | Los Angeles, CA, United States

Conversations in Black Feminist Practice: Black Queer Radicalisms with Charlene Carruthers and C. Riley Snorton
2021-05-07 13:00 - 14:30

Thinking Gender 2021: Care, Mutual Aid, and Reproductive Labor in a Time of Crisis
2021-04-30 12:00 - 13:30 | Los Angeles, CA, United States

Paging Through Photos and Songs: Hayganush Mark and Koharig Ghazarosian's Friendship in Post-Genocide Istanbul
2021-04-20 12:00 - 13:30 | Los Angeles, CA, United States

Envisioning Next Generation Radiation Governance Symposium
2021-03-22 17:00 - 2021-03-29 19:00 | Los Angeles, CA, United States
Japan’s ongoing experiences with radiation from Hiroshima and Nagasaki to Fukushima provide powerful examples of the importance of radiation governance. The tenth anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear reactor failure calls for reflection on past and future radiation governance, recognized as a transnational, transdisciplinary, and transgenerational challenge and responsibility.
The Envisioning Next Generation Radiation Governance Symposium held Mondays in March, 2021 will include an introductory lecture and four panel discussions exploring the archiving, regulation and education needed to support radiation governance in the future, in a wide array of places. One goal is to bring together people involved in different aspects of radiation governance, connecting efforts related to uranium mining and processing, weapons testing, nuclear power generation, food safety, radiation medicine, and so on. Another goal is to foreground diverse approaches to radiation governance stemming from diverse histories, foregrounding initiatives in Japan and the United States. Each panel will be a moderated discussion among differently situated experts, with time for questions from the audience.
This symposium extends from and supports the on-going work of the Radiation Governance Working Group in the Disaster STS Network. The Radiation Governance Working Group is building a transnational community-of-practice, body of research, and teaching materials focused on radiation governance. We investigate how those with different kinds of expertise about radiation (nuclear scientists and engineers, policy makers, affected community members, regulators, facility administrators, clinicians, social science researchers, educators, et al.) can construct among themselves ways of sharing their knowledge and working together to build effective governance.
We also want to help build new capacity for radiation governance through educational programming and inclusive networking.

International Human Rights Law and Domestic Violence: Progress or Retreat?
2021-03-05 09:00 - 10:15 | Los Angeles, CA, United States
In honor of International Women’s Day, please join this talk with Dr. Dubravka Šimonović, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women.”

Termination's Creeds: Race, Health, Science, and Spatial Matters in US Colonialism
2021-02-22 14:30 - 16:30 | Los Angeles, CA, United States

Crafting Cartographies - Mapping LA
2021-01-22 16:00 - 17:30 | Los Angeles, CA, United States
UCLA has several pioneering digital projects that map Los Angeles and enable people to visualize and interact with the city’s layered histories of humanity, from sacred burial sites to beloved corner delis. This panel brings together for the first time contributors to Mapping Jewish Los Angeles, Mapping Indigenous LA, and the Fowler’s Vermont Avenue project. The goal is to share the results of these digital projects; to better understand the city’s cultural and spiritual geographies; and ultimately to explore how this knowledge might inform museum practices.
Panelists include Todd Presner, Chair of UCLA’s Digital Humanities program and the Michael and Irene Ross Professor of Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature; Caroline Luce, Associate Director, UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies; Patrick Polk, Senior Curator of Caribbean and Latin American Popular Arts, Fowler Museum at UCLA, and lecturer in the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance; Christopher Greene, former Curatorial Assistant and Geographic Information Systems Specialist, Fowler Museum at UCLA; Professor Mishuana Goeman (Tonawanda Band of Seneca), Special Advisor to the Chancellor on Native American and Indigenous Affairs at UCLA; Craig Torres, Tongva Educator, contributor to UCLA’s Mapping Indigenous LA; and Juliann Anesi, Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at UCLA. Panel will be moderated by Genevieve Carpio, Assistant Professor in the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies at UCLA.
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Gender, Alterity and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fishbowl
2020-11-13 09:00 - 10:00 | Los Angeles, CA, United States

Feminist Scholars On Policing and Empire
2020-11-05 15:00 - 17:00 | Los Angeles, CA, United States

Planning For a Feminist Future: Building Back Differently
2020-10-26 09:00 - 10:00 | Los Angeles, CA, United States

(still) Missing in Action: The International Crime of the Slave Trade
2020-10-23 09:00 - 10:00 | Los Angeles, CA, United States

UCLA Center for the Study of Women Presents Thinking Gender 30th Annual Graduate Student Research Conference
2020-03-06 08:00 - 18:30 | UCLA Carnesale Commons, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Ellen Dubois: Women Voting: Past, Present, and Future
2020-02-18 12:00 - 14:00 | Bunche Hall 6275, Los Angeles, CA, United States

The UCLA Black Feminism Initiative Presents: Black Feminism, Care, Reproductive Justice In Urgent Times: A Public Talk by Kimberly Durdin
2020-02-10 16:00 - 18:00 | Royce Hall 306, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Jaimie D. Crumley: Freedom Feelings: Womanism, Black Feminism, and The Politics of Black Women's Liberation
2019-10-18 12:00 - 14:00 | Bunche Hall 6275, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Annual Fall Reception
2019-10-10 16:00 - 18:00 | Rolfe Hall Courtyard, CA, United States

Brokering the Sacred: A Panel on the Ethics of Collecting Native Art
2019-05-15 17:00 - 19:00 | Lenart Auditorium, UCLA Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: A Reading With Saidiya Hartman
2019-03-13 16:00 - 18:00 | Los Angeles, CA, United States

Not yet, not now, maybe later: Queer futurity and feminist politics in South Korea, Professor Ju Hui Judy Han
2019-02-11 14:30 - 16:30 | Los Angeles, CA, United States

A Talk by Raquel Medina, Gendering Alzheimer's Disease: Mothers, Daughters and Sisters
2019-01-16 15:00 - 17:00 | Los Angeles, CA, United States
