This public forum at the Royce Hall is focused on creating space for learning, organizing, and taking action under the new administration. “Show up, dive in, stay at it” —Barack Obama, January 10, 2017 Jessica Yellin, former chief White House correspondent for CNN, moderates a panel of organization and community leaders who will share their respective […]
During her lecture at Skirball Cultural Center on Feb. 7, Jo Ann Jenkins will talk about AARP's dedication to enhancing the quality of life for people as they age. In her national bestselling book, Disrupt Aging, Jo Ann Jenkins suggests it’s time to redefine what it means to get older. She encourages us to re-think the negative stories […]
Star cluster image courtesy of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Thinking Gender, Imagining Reparations 27th Annual Thinking Gender Graduate Student Research Conference This year’s conference theme, Imagining Reparations, engages contemporary social, scholarly, and literary movements that push to reimagine and retheorize what freedom, justice, health, and care can look like. Historically, reparations have taken financial form […]
Monthly panel discussions about the future of design in Los Angeles, intended to kindle debate. All Lab Talks are free and open to the public. At a time of pronounced political and cultural divisions, how do we design a public sphere that brings the diverse, sometimes insular, communities of LA together? Host: Madeline Brand, Press […]
We invite you to join us at This Is What Resistance Looks Like on February 15, 2017 at 2355 Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA, 4:00 p.m. Guest lecture featuring: JUDITH BUTLER Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley We hope to […]
This event is in protest of President Trump's executive order temporarily banning travelers from seven Muslim countries from entering the United States. The march will begin at Pershing Square and will end at the Edward Roybal Federal Building. More event details will be released soon on its Facebook page. "We must stand with those who are afraid […]
Join us to mark the passage of 75 years since the signing of executive order 9066, the action by President Roosevelt that led to the incarceration of over 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.
A teach-in on protecting data on race and affordable housing with Chancela Al-Mansour, Executive Director of the Housing Rights Center. Sponsored by Planners of Color for Social Equity (PCSE), Urban Planning PhD program, the Institute on Inequality and Democracy, Department of Urban Planning, and UCLA Luskin Dean’s Office. Printable Flyer
Critical Race Studies Ninth Annual Symposium From Colorblindness to White Nationalism?: Emerging Racial Formations in the Trump Era Friday March 3rd, 2017 at the California NanoSystems Institute, UCLA Campus Donald Trump’s political rise has been marked, and fueled, by a resurgent and explicit white nationalism. This would have been significant even had he merely been […]
"Full of creativity and rich in detail...the story is a classic of its kind." —El Mercurio Mass dismissals following a mine shaft collapse force a young miner to head for the Chiflón del Diablo mine—the most deadly pit of all. As he toils in danger deep underground, his family faces a day-to-day struggle of uncertainty […]
