Events for May 10, 2017 - March 2, 2017

Star cluster image courtesy of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Call for Submissions: The UCLA Center for the Study of Women invites submissions of paper, poetry, spoken word, film, photography, performance, and poster proposals for their 27th Annual Thinking Gender Graduate Student Research Conference. This year’s conference theme, Imagining Reparations,engages contemporary social, scholarly, and literary movements […]

We, the UCLA Political Sociology and the Global South Working Group, are an intellectual community of graduate students and scholars who share interests on the intersecting issues of Global South socioeconomic development and underdevelopment, political and social movements, labor, and state-society relations. Focusing on the developing world is a central element for us. We worry that much of the claims made […]

The Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) presents the 7th annual Festival for All Skid Row Artists on Saturday and Sunday, October 22 and 23, from 1–5pm each day. The Festival for All Skid Row Artists is a two-day festival of performing and visual art with plenty of music, showcasing the diverse range of talents among Skid Row […]

The Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) presents the 7th annual Festival for All Skid Row Artists on Saturday and Sunday, October 22 and 23, from 1–5pm each day. The Festival for All Skid Row Artists is a two-day festival of performing and visual art with plenty of music, showcasing the diverse range of talents among Skid Row […]

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We, the UCLA Political Sociology and the Global South Working Group, are an intellectual community of graduate students and scholars who share interests on the intersecting issues of Global South socioeconomic development and underdevelopment, political and social movements, labor, and state-society relations. Focusing on the developing world is a central element for us. We worry that much of the claims made […]

https://youtu.be/jjGdZIPgrL4 To recognize those who have sacrificed so selflessly to defend our lives and our country, please join UCLA's annual Veterans Day ceremony and information fair in Wilson Plaza at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, November 10, 2016. On the 10th, Chancellor Block will join with campus ROTC units to recognize United States veterans and to hear […]

UCLA's Second Annual Warrior Games — (Following the UCLA Veterans Day Ceremony, Wilson Plaza.) The Warrior Games is a way for the student veteran population at UCLA to give thanks to the Bruin Community for the many benefits of being a UCLA Bruin. Parking is $6 at pay-by-space for two hours or $12 all day in Structure […]

For 70 years, there stood a Chicago public housing community known as Cabrini Green. Home to thousands, misunderstood by millions, Cabrini Green once towered over Chicago’s most valuable neighborhoods. A looming reminder of inequality and poverty, Cabrini’s high-rises were demolished and an African-American community cleared to make room for another social experiment: mixed-income neighborhoods. Shot […]

For 70 years, there stood a Chicago public housing community known as Cabrini Green. Home to thousands, misunderstood by millions, Cabrini Green once towered over Chicago’s most valuable neighborhoods. A looming reminder of inequality and poverty, Cabrini’s high-rises were demolished and an African-American community cleared to make room for another social experiment: mixed-income neighborhoods. Shot […]