Challenge Inequality

Race + Justice = An Atlantic Summit
2016-09-15 10:00 - 17:00 UTC | Hudson Loft, 1200 South Hope Street, Fourth Floor, Los Angeles , CA, 90015, United States
Los Angeles is one of the most diverse cities in the country. How does that affect how Angelenos perceive race and experience justice?
In this second annual event exploring what race and justice mean today, The Atlantic will convene educators, artists, activists, civic leaders, policy makers and journalists to explore how racial disparities in criminal justice, neighborhood change, movie portrayals and more relate to each other in Los Angeles. How does race shape the city and the prospects of its people? As a snapshot of the new majority minority America, what does Los Angeles have to say today about the country’s future?
#RaceJusticeLA
Registration has closed for the morning session of Race + Justice.
RSVP below or contact Carly Spraggins at cspraggins@theatlantic.com to register for our afternoon session to begin at 2:00 pm PT.

Real Talk/ Real Action: Restorative Dialogue
2016-09-01 17:30 - 19:00 | UCLA School of Law, Room 1457, 385 Charles E Young Dr East, Los Angeles , CA, 90095, United States
UCLA Law’s Student Bar Association, Office of Student Affairs, Learning Environment and Diversity Committee, and David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy present “Real Talk/ Real Action: Restorative Dialogue”
Come together to discuss recent challenging events that generated a range of emotions and raise many questions. What can we do to support members of our community who are healing? How can we engage in meaningful conversation? What is your part to do?

Interactive discussion
Light reception to follow

Black Politics and the Neoliberal Racial Order
2016-06-02 16:00 - 17:30 | Humanities 135, Los Angeles , 90095, United States
Professor Michael C. Dawson will be speaking about Black Politics and Neoliberal Racial Order.

Racialized State Violence in Global Perspective 5/25–5/26
2016-05-26 09:00 - 17:30 | Royce Hall 314, 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles , 90095, United States
Conference schedule now available! Download here or view online!
Organized by Hannah Appel, Jessica Cattelino, Norma Mendoza-Denton, and Jemima Pierre, this two-day conference will feature:

SPEAKERS: Thursday, May 26, 9 a.m.–5:30 p.m., Royce 314
Melina Abdullah, professor and chair, Pan-African Studies, California State University, Los Angeles, is a womanist scholar-activist – recognizing that the role that she plays in the academy is intrinsically linked to broader struggles for the liberation of oppressed people. Her research interests include activism and movement building and Critical Race Theory.
Mohan Ambikaipaker, assistant professor, Communications, Tulane University School of Liberal Arts, is a social anthropologist and cultural studies scholar who studies the dynamics of multiracial societies.
Aisha Beliso-de Jesus, associate professor, African American Religions, Harvard Divinity School, is a cultural and social anthropologist. She has conducted ethnographic research with Santería practitioners in Cuba and the United States since 2003.
Maurice Magaña, lecturer, Chicano/a Studies, UCLA, researches youth activism and social movements in Mexico and the United States.
Ana Muñiz, Criminology, Law, and Society, UC Irvine
Hector Perla, assistant professor, Latin American & Latino Studies, UC Santa Cruz, does research on revolutionary movements, social movements, and US public support/opposition to military intervention.
Christen Smith, assistant professor, Anthropology; African & African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas at Austin, does research in the areas of performance, race, gender, violence and the black body in the Americas with a particular emphasis on transnational black liberation struggles and racial formation.
Laurence Ralph, associate professor, African & African American Studies and Anthropology, Harvard University, is the author of Renegade Dreams: Living Through Injury in Gangland Chicago (University of Chicago Press).
Rinaldo Walcott, associate professor, Sociology & Equity Studies, University of Toronto, conducts research Black Diaspora Cultural Studies with an emphasis on queer sexualities, masculinity, and cultural politics, as well as multicultural and transnational debates with an emphasis on nation, citizenship and coloniality.
Audra Simpson is associate professor, Anthropology, Columbia University. Her research is energized by the problem of recognition, by its passage beyond (and below) the aegis of the state into the grounded field of political self-designation, self-description, and subjectivity.
RESPONDENTS
Kelly Lytle Hernandez, assistant professor, Department of Chicana/o Studies, UCLA,
Saree Makdisi, professor, Department of English, UCLA, does research at the crossroads of several different fields, including British Romanticism, imperial culture, colonial and postcolonial theory and criticism, and the cultures of urban modernity, particularly the revision and contestation of charged urban spaces, including London, Beirut and Jerusalem
Sarah Haley, assistant professor Gender Studies, UCLA
Cosponsored by Alessandro Duranti, Dean, UCLA Division of Social Sciences; David Schaberg, Dean, UCLA Division of Humanities; UCLA Center for the Study of Women; Institute on Inequality and Democracy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs; Robin D.G. Kelley, Distinguished Professor of History & Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in United States History; Eric Avila, Associate Dean, UCLA Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion; UCLA African Studies Center; UCLA American Indian Studies Center; Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA; UCLA Department of Gender Studies; Disability Studies at UCLA; UCLA International Institute; and UCLA Postcolonial Theory & Literary Studies.
Photo credits: Black Lives Matter march, Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 31, 2015, Fibonacci Blue, https://www.flickr.com/photos/fibonacciblue/; Photo of E. Dandicat courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
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Racialized State Violence in Global Perspective 5/25–5/26
2016-05-25 18:00 - 20:00 | UCLA Harry and Yvonne Lenart Auditorium, Fowler Museum, 308 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles , 90024, United States
Conference schedule now available! Download here or view online!
Organized by Hannah Appel, Jessica Cattelino, Norma Mendoza-Denton, and Jemima Pierre, this two-day conference will feature:
KEYNOTE: Wednesday, May 25, 6 p.m., Lenart Auditorium, Fowler Museum
Edwidge Danticat (left) is an award-winning author of short stories and novels that often engage with the history of her native Haiti in. She also writes about the immigrant experience—what she calls “dyaspora”—and the reality of life in Haiti today. Her works include Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994); Krik? Krak! (1996); Claire of the Sea Light (2013);Mama’s Nightingale (2015); and Untwine (2015). She wrote and narrated the film Girl Rising (Haiti) in 2013. In 2007, she received a National Book Award nomination for Brother, I’m Dying. She was shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for Claire of the Sea Light in 2014.
SPEAKERS: Thursday, May 26, 9 a.m.–5:30 p.m., Royce 314
Melina Abdullah, professor and chair, Pan-African Studies, California State University, Los Angeles, is a womanist scholar-activist – recognizing that the role that she plays in the academy is intrinsically linked to broader struggles for the liberation of oppressed people. Her research interests include activism and movement building and Critical Race Theory.
Mohan Ambikaipaker, assistant professor, Communications, Tulane University School of Liberal Arts, is a social anthropologist and cultural studies scholar who studies the dynamics of multiracial societies.
Aisha Beliso-de Jesus, associate professor, African American Religions, Harvard Divinity School, is a cultural and social anthropologist. She has conducted ethnographic research with Santería practitioners in Cuba and the United States since 2003.
Maurice Magaña, lecturer, Chicano/a Studies, UCLA, researches youth activism and social movements in Mexico and the United States.
Ana Muñiz, Criminology, Law, and Society, UC Irvine
Hector Perla, assistant professor, Latin American & Latino Studies, UC Santa Cruz, does research on revolutionary movements, social movements, and US public support/opposition to military intervention.
Christen Smith, assistant professor, Anthropology; African & African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas at Austin, does research in the areas of performance, race, gender, violence and the black body in the Americas with a particular emphasis on transnational black liberation struggles and racial formation.
Laurence Ralph, associate professor, African & African American Studies and Anthropology, Harvard University, is the author of Renegade Dreams: Living Through Injury in Gangland Chicago (University of Chicago Press).
Rinaldo Walcott, associate professor, Sociology & Equity Studies, University of Toronto, conducts research Black Diaspora Cultural Studies with an emphasis on queer sexualities, masculinity, and cultural politics, as well as multicultural and transnational debates with an emphasis on nation, citizenship and coloniality.
Audra Simpson is associate professor, Anthropology, Columbia University. Her research is energized by the problem of recognition, by its passage beyond (and below) the aegis of the state into the grounded field of political self-designation, self-description, and subjectivity.
RESPONDENTS
Kelly Lytle Hernandez, assistant professor, Department of Chicana/o Studies, UCLA,
Saree Makdisi, professor, Department of English, UCLA, does research at the crossroads of several different fields, including British Romanticism, imperial culture, colonial and postcolonial theory and criticism, and the cultures of urban modernity, particularly the revision and contestation of charged urban spaces, including London, Beirut and Jerusalem
Sarah Haley, assistant professor Gender Studies, UCLA
Cosponsored by Alessandro Duranti, Dean, UCLA Division of Social Sciences; David Schaberg, Dean, UCLA Division of Humanities; UCLA Center for the Study of Women; Institute on Inequality and Democracy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs; Robin D.G. Kelley, Distinguished Professor of History & Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in United States History; Eric Avila, Associate Dean, UCLA Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion; UCLA African Studies Center; UCLA American Indian Studies Center; Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA; UCLA Department of Gender Studies; Disability Studies at UCLA; UCLA International Institute; and UCLA Postcolonial Theory & Literary Studies.
Photo credits: Black Lives Matter march, Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 31, 2015, Fibonacci Blue, https://www.flickr.com/photos/fibonacciblue/; Photo of E. Dandicat courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
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Documentary Screening: "Sunset and Alvarado"
2016-05-22 14:00 - 16:00 | 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”
