Challenge Inequality

Documentary Screening: "Sunset and Alvarado"
2016-05-22 14:00 - 16:00 UTC | Bootleg Theater, 2220 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90057, United States
The film is titled “Sunset and Alvarado”, a documentary produced by young filmmakers from Echo Park and neighboring areas that re-visits their neighborhoods amidst increasing gentrification.
In its early years (14 years ago) the Echo Park Film Center produced a documentary, Sunset & Alvarado about its direct surroundings. Looking back at this 2002 VHS rip, it goes without saying that the landscape has changed.
This Spring 2016 semester the EPFC Youth Class has revisited this intersection the Film Center calls home. The youth students set out to talk to people, businesses, the community and each other to discover the many histories that collide at this intersection and how people happen to find themselves on this particular corner in LA. As the class progressed, we learned of more long-standing businesses suddenly closing, moving and the new developments soon to be taking their place. The grief of seeing these business leave gets mixed with fun and rediscovery of the neighborhood as the students run through the aisles of Hit Bargain on its last days of business and their voices as they meditate on the meaning of change.
More information:
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/events/sunset-alvarado-epfc-spring-youth-class-screening/
https://www.facebook.com/events/749768015160405/
The documentary film is a product of a film production workshop with young filmmakers sponsored by the Echo Park Film Center, a non-profit organization that has been curating regular screenings and organizing production classes for low income communities.

CPSC – Jennie Chio – All Together Now: Ethnic Crowds and Vernacular Media in 'Minority' China
2016-05-19 12:00 - 13:30 | Haines Hall 279 Room, 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Jennie Chio (Emory)
Co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Chinese Studies
Culture, Power, and Social Change (CPSC)
CPSC is concerned with a broad range of issues in sociocultural anthropology. As the name of the group suggests, they are particularly interested in how the workings of culture, and of different forms of power and inequality, play out in the contemporary world. And behind these two issues are questions of social change, that is, of the ways in which the rapidly changing world of today impacts people’s lives, and in turn, how people in different circumstances seek to bring about change in the world. CPSC I hosts talks by both in-house faculty members and visiting post-doctoral and faculty level scholars; CPSC II hosts talks by advanced graduate students. All CPSC events are open only to UCLA faculty, students, and invited guests. If you would like to be added to the mailing list, email Hannah Appel at happel@ucla.edu.

Housing 2.0: Reimagining the Housing System in Silicon Valley
2016-05-19 11:00 - 20:00 | San Jose City Hall, Rotunda + Plaza, 200 East Santa Clara Street , San Jose, 95113, United States
CREATIVE THINKERS, DOERS & DISRUPTORS, WELCOME TO HOUSING 2.0!
For too long, Silicon Valley has been the most expensive place in the country to live. Yet, the problem has never been worse. Everyone is struggling with the stratospheric cost of housing, from our teachers, baristas, chefs, social workers, cashiers, and artists to small business owners, startups, and engineers. In other words, everyone who helps make Silicon Valley the Global Center of Innovation.
At Housing 2.0, we’re having a much-needed conversation: how to disrupt the housing system. Because the existing system isn’t working.
We’re incredibly excited to have Kim-Mai Cutler (TechCrunch), Nate Donato-Weinstein (Silicon Valley Business Journal), and Rachael Myrow (KQED) moderate the “disruption huddles,” and Ananya Roy (UCLA) as the “disruption” keynote. Housing 2.0 also includes interactive features for participants to curate their own experience.
Join the movement May 19, 2016 @ Housing 2.0 to Reimagine the Housing System in Silicon Valley! Sign-in and lunch at food trucks (free with registration) begin at 11:00am. Official program starts at 1pm.
Learn more and/or RSVP.

CPSC – Karen Ho – Racializing Normative Markets: Whiteness, Masculinity, and the "Efficiency" of Networks
2016-05-12 12:00 - 13:30 | Haines Hall 352 Reading Room, 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Karen Ho (University of Minnesota)
Co-sponsored by the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

Culture, Power, and Social Change
CPSC is concerned with a broad range of issues in sociocultural anthropology. As the name of the group suggests, they are particularly interested in how the workings of culture, and of different forms of power and inequality, play out in the contemporary world. And behind these two issues are questions of social change, that is, of the ways in which the rapidly changing world of today impacts people’s lives, and in turn, how people in different circumstances seek to bring about change in the world. CPSC I hosts talks by both in-house faculty members and visiting post-doctoral and faculty level scholars; CPSC II hosts talks by advanced graduate students. All CPSC events are open only to UCLA faculty, students, and invited guests. If you would like to be added to the mailing list, email Hannah Appel at happel@ucla.edu.

Contemplating the Rise of Asian Cities: Workshop and Plenary Session
2016-05-09 16:30 - 19:00 | Maurice R. Greenberg Conference Center, 391 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT, 06511, United States
This session invites workshop participants and interested Yale scholars and affiliates to come together for an open conversation about new directions in the study of Asian cities at Yale. The evening will include two plenary talks by distinguished scholars of Asian and global urbanism, as well as ample time for conversation and discussion over dinner.
Plenary speakers:

Ananya Roy (University of California, Los Angeles)
Neil Brenner (Harvard Graduate School of Design)

moderated by Helen Siu, K. Sivaramakrishnan, and Erik Harms
Learn more and/or RSVP.

Women for a New Los Angeles Luncheon
2016-05-06 12:00 - 14:00 | Beverly Hilton Hotel, 9876 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90210, United States
Join us at LAANE’s Women for a New Los Angeles Luncheon, the largest women’s event of its kind in Los Angeles, as we celebrate women’s leadership and forge a common vision for equality and justice in Los Angeles.
Held each spring for over ten years, the Women for a New Los Angeles Luncheon brings together more than 700 progressive women (and men) from across Southern California. Previous honorees and speakers at the Women for a New Los Angeles Luncheon have included SHOWTIME’s Masters of Sex, HBO’s Getting On, Jane Fonda, Arianna Huffington, civil rights attorney Connie Rice, Ramona Ripston of the ACLU of Southern California, Labor Commissioner of California Julie Su and best-selling authors Barbara Ehrenreich, Peggy Orenstein and Lisa See, as well as activist Katherine Spillar and historian Dr. Joyce Appleby, among others.
The Women for a New Los Angeles Luncheon also showcases brilliant young leaders who have attended the Beth and Julia Meltzer Internship Program at LAANE.
Join us for the 2016 Luncheon on Friday, May 6th, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

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The First Annual Distinguished Lecture–John Friedmann
2016-04-26 18:00 - 21:00 | UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs/ CSW Faculty Center, 337 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles , CA, 90024, United States
The Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin presents
The First Annual Distinguished Lecture
JOHN FRIEDMANN
“The Ruse of Reason: Poverty, Inequality and Personal Freedoms in the People’s Republic of China 1950–2015”
Dr. John Friedmann is Professor Emeritus in the School of Public Affairs at UCLA and Honorary Professor in the School of Community and Regional Planning at UBC. He was founding professor of the Program for Urban Planning in the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning at UCLA, and at various times between 1969 and 1996 served as its head for a total of 14 years.

John Friedmann’s Lecture Speech: “The Ruse of Reason: Poverty, Inequality, and Personal Freedoms in the People’s Republic of China 1950-2015”
