THE DEPARTMENT OF GENDER STUDIES PRESENTSUnveiling the Veiled in Marjane Satrapi's Two-Volume Graphic Memoir Persepolis and Rajaa Alsanea's Girls of Riyadh: a Revolutionary Perspective Dr. Engy Ashour TorkyAssistant Professor of English Literature, Sadat Academy of Management Sciences, EgyptFulbright Visiting Scholar, UC BerkeleyTuesday, February 7th, 2017 3-4:30 pm2125 Rolfe Hall This talk will unveil and highlight the different […]
The Departments of Gender Studies and English present Joshua Javier GuzmánAssistant Professor, Department of English, University of Colorado, Boulder Latinidad and Form Wednesday, February 15th2:30-4:00pmCharles E. Young Research Library, Presentation Room 11348 The late Cuban-born American artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres is most noted for his minimal and conceptual installation pieces responding, however subtly, to the AIDS crisis. His work withheld normative visual […]
The Department of Gender Studies presents Juliann AnesiUC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley, Gender and Women’s Studies Department Reframing Tautua: Disabled Women, Service, and Education in Samoa Monday, March 6th2:30-4:00pm2125 Rolfe Hall In the 1970s, allies, educators, parents and women with disabilities established Aoga Fiamalamalama and Loto Taumafai, two schools for students with intellectual and physical disabilities in the […]
Queering Geopolitics: The Unruly Spaces of Homophobia in South KoreaJu Hui Judy HanAssistant Professor, Department of Geography and PlanningUniversity of Toronto Monday, March 13thCharles E. Young Research Library, Presentation Room3:00pm-4:30pm Whether referred to as “LGBTI” in coalitional terms of identity politics or as “sexual minority” to emphasize relations of power and marginalization, queer formations in contemporary South Korea urge expression of non-normative gender and […]
Laura E. GómezInterim Dean of Social SciencesandElizabeth MarchantChair of UCLA Department of Gender Studies cordially invite you to attendthe installation celebration of Distinguished Professor Sherene Razackas the chairholder of thePenny Kanner Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies speaking on the topic ofA Site/Sight We Cannot Bear: The Racial/Spatial Politics of Banning the Muslim Woman's Hijab and NiqabWednesday, March 15, 20176:00 […]
The UCLA Gender Working Group is pleased to present ~Zeynep Korkman~Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Gender StudiesUCLA "Gendered Fortunes: Feelings, Labors, and Publics of Divination in Turkey" Tuesday, April 18th, 20173:00pm-4:30pm in Haines 279 The Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture Series is made possible by a gift from Ray Ross in memory of his wife. Gender and sexual minorities seek their fortunes in divination […]
