UPCOMING EVENTS
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PREVIOUS EVENT RECORDINGS
Institute at 10Recognizing the 10th anniversary of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and DemocracyMarch 12 – 13, 2026
Fascism or Eco-populism - Our Stark ChoicePart of the Institute’s Distinguished Lecture in Ideas and Organizing Series (features video)May 7, 2025
Tents and Tenants: After Echo Park Lake - Tenants in the Streets, A Panel DiscussionIn partnership with the Skid Row History Museum & Archive (features video)February 21, 2025
Tents and Tenants: After Echo Park Lake - OpeningIn partnership with the Skid Row History Museum & Archive (features video)February 1, 2025
Freedom School 2024Insurgent Ground: Land, Housing, PropertyJuly 2024
Unsettling & Unselling Mama Earth: Sweeping Stolen StreetsUCLA Activist-in-Residence program with Tiny Gray-Garcia (features video)March 14, 2024
Scholar-Activism in the Era of the New McCarthyism by Professor Barbara RansbyPart of the Institute’s Distinguished Lecture in Ideas and Organizing & the UCLA Luskin Lecture Series (features video)February 8, 2024
2024 UCLA Activists-in-Residence Welcome ReceptionJoint reception with UCLA Asian American Studies Center, cityLAB-UCLA, and UCLA Center for the Study of Women|Barbra Streisand CenterJanuary 24, 2024
Honoring Mike DavisOrganized by UCLA Urban Planning (features video)March 2, 2023
A Conversation with Professor Keeanga-Yamahtta TaylorPart of the Institute’s Inaugural Distinguished Lecture in Ideas and Organizing & the UCLA Luskin Lecture Series (features video)February 15, 2023
2023 UCLA Activists-in-Residence Welcome ReceptionJoint reception with UCLA Asian American Studies Center and cityLAB-UCLAJanuary 31, 2023
Right to HousingPart of the Institute’s four-year National Science Foundation-funded research project (features video)January 12, 2023
Antipode’s 8th Institute for the Geographies of Justice: Housing Justice in Unequal CitiesPart of the Institute’s four-year National Science Foundation-funded research projectJune 13 – 17, 2022
The Failure of American Housing and the Rise of Tenant Power: A Conversation with Andrew Ross and Theo HendersonBook talk with Andrew Ross and Theo Henderson (features video)January 21, 2022
From Homelessness to Social Housing: Policy in a Time of PlentyPanel at the 2022 Luskin Summit: Research in Action (features video)January 19, 2022
Virgin Capital: Race, Gender, and Financialization in the US Virgin IslandsCo-sponsored by UCLA International Institute and UCLA Center for the Study of Women (features video)November 16, 2021
Property, Personhood, and Police: Counter-Mapping Nuisance from Louisville to Los AngelesCo-organized with Root Cause Research Center (features video)November 9, 2021
Freedom and Fugitivity with Saidiya HartmanPart of the Sawyer Seminar Sanctuary Spaces: Reworlding Humanism (features video)June 11, 2021
Queer Migrant Futures: Joy, Kinship, and Soul-Based ConnectionPart of the Sawyer Seminar Sanctuary Spaces: Reworlding Humanism (features video)May 21, 2021
CODESWITCH: The Transborder Immigrant ToolPart of the Sawyer Seminar Sanctuary Spaces: Reworlding Humanism (features video)April 23, 2021
trans/BORDER/ing: The Aesthetics of Disturbance and Undocumentary FlightPart of the Sawyer Seminar Sanctuary Spaces: Reworlding Humanism (features video)February 19, 2021
From Ethnography to Ethno-Graphic: Representing Work of the PolicePart of the Sawyer Seminar Sanctuary Spaces: Reworlding Humanism (features audio)January 29, 2021
Futures of Social HousingPart of the Institute’s four-year National Science Foundation-funded research project (features video)January 15, 2021
Abolitionist Praxis: Bringing Our Imagination to LifePart of the Sawyer Seminar Sanctuary Spaces: Reworlding Humanism (features video)December 1, 2020
Abolition on Stolen Land with Ruth Wilson GilmorePart of the Sawyer Seminar Sanctuary Spaces: Reworlding Humanism (features video)October 9, 2020
Sanctuary & Solidarity: Resisting the U.S. War on Refugees and MigrantsPart of the Sawyer Seminar Sanctuary Spaces: Reworlding Humanism (features video)August 28, 2020
Refusing Austerity in Higher Education: A How-To WebinarIn partnership with the UCI School of Social Sciences (features video)May 22, 2020
The Right to Remain: Learning from the Housing Justice Praxis in VancouverIn partnership with Global Public Affairs at UCLA Luskin and UCLA Geography (features audio)February 27, 2020
Financial Futures: Higher Education and Reparative Public GoodsPart of the Institute’s #FutureofFinance series with Stephanie Kelton & Barbara Ransby (features video)February 7, 2020
2020 UCLA Activists-in-Residence Welcome ReceptionJoint reception with the UCLA Asian American Studies Center
January 21, 2020
Housing Justice LA SummitIn partnership with the Durfee Foundation, United Way of Greater Los Angeles, LA Voice, and Liberty Hill Foundation (features videos)January 9, 2020
How the Olympics Kill the Poor: Organizing Against Criminalization from Skid Row to TokyoIn partnership with Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA CAN) and NOlympics LANovember 18, 2019
Worlds of HomelessnessIn partnership with the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles, Los Angeles Poverty Department, the Thomas Mann House, SCI-Arc, and NAVELOctober 22 – 27, 2019
Methodologies for Housing Justice: A Summer Institute for Movement-Based and University-Based ScholarsPart of the Institute’s four-year National Science Foundation-funded research projectAugust 5 – 9, 2019
Urban Warfare Book Launch with Raquel RolnikJoint reception with the Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA CAN)August 7, 2019
Housing Justice in #UnequalCities Launch ConferencePart of the Institute’s four-year National Science Foundation-funded research projectJanuary 31 – February 1, 2019
2019 UCLA Activists-In-Residence Welcome ReceptionJoint reception with the UCLA Asian American Studies Center
January 23, 2019
Black, Brown, and Powerful: Freedom Dreams in Unequal CitiesPart of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy’s ON RACE Series (features video)April 26 – 27, 2018
2018 UCLA Activists-in-Residence Welcome ReceptionJoint reception with UCLA Asian American Studies CenterJanuary 16, 2018
INDIVISIBLE and the ResistancePart of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy’s ON RACE Series (features video)November 7, 2017
Race and Capitalism: Global Territories, Transnational HistoriesPart of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy’s ON RACE SeriesOctober 20, 2017
Gente Sí, Gentrify No: Resisting Displacement in Boyle HeightsPart of the UCLA Housing and Activism Series (features video)May 9, 2017
The Making of a Movement: The Origins of #BlackLivesMatterUCLA Activist-in-Residence Seminar with Funmilola Fagbamila (features video)March 15, 2017
Day of Remembrance 75th Anniversary: Executive Orders Disrupting LivesDiscussion moderated by UCLA Activist-in-Residence Lisa HasegawaMarch 1, 2017
This is What Resistance Looks LikeUCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy Distinguished Lecture Series with Judith Butler (features video)February 15, 2017
Jordan Downs and South LAPart of the UCLA Housing and Activism SeriesJanuary 26, 2017
#J18 – From the Frontlines of JusticeTeach.Organize.Resist. (features video)January 18, 2017
2017 UCLA Activists-in-Residence Welcome ReceptionJoint reception with UCLA Asian American Studies CenterJanuary 4, 2017
70 Acres in ChicagoPart of the UCLA Housing and Activism SeriesNovember 16, 2016
The Ruse of Reason: Poverty, Inequality and Personal Freedoms in the People’s Republic of China 1950-2015UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy Distinguished Lecture Series with John Friedmann (features video)April 26, 2016
The Audacity of Despair with David SimonPart of the Meyer and Renee Luskin Lecture Series (features video)February 5, 2016
Urban Color-LinesInaugurating the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy (features video)February 4, 2016
PREVIOUS CONFERENCES
- Institute at 10Recognizing the 10th anniversary of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy
March 12 – 13, 2026
- Freedom School 2024Insurgent Ground: Land, Housing, Property
July 2024
- Antipode’s 8th Institute for the Geographies of Justice: Housing Justice in Unequal CitiesPart of the Institute’s four-year National Science Foundation-funded research project
June 13 – 17, 2022
- Financial Futures: Higher Education and Reparative Public GoodsPart of the Institute’s #FutureofFinance series with Stephanie Kelton & Barbara Ransby (features video)
February 7, 2020
- Methodologies for Housing Justice: A Summer Institute for Movement-Based and University-Based ScholarsPart of the Institute’s four-year National Science Foundation-funded research project
August 5 – 9, 2019
- Housing Justice in #UnequalCities Launch ConferencePart of the Institute’s four-year National Science Foundation-funded research project
January 31 – February 1, 2019
- Black, Brown, and Powerful: Freedom Dreams in Unequal CitiesPart of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy’s ON RACE Series (features video)
April 26 – 27, 2018
- Race and Capitalism: Global Territories, Transnational HistoriesPart of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy’s ON RACE Series
October 20, 2017
- Urban Color-LinesInaugurating the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy (features video)
February 4, 2016
