Challenge Inequality

The UCLA Political Sociology and the Global South Working Group Meeting
2016-11-18 14:00 - 15:30 UTC | Haines Hall 279 Room, 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
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 in the name of ‘general sociology’ reflect instead the rather local experiences of the Western developed world. This group has been conceived upon the conviction that studying the multiple realities of the developing world can bring new insights into different areas of sociology. The meanings, dynamics and analysis of “politics,” “development” or “collective agency” in the Global South require us to rethink many taken for granted paradigms and concepts.
This working group is open to all regardless of enrollment status.
Our meetings take place every other Friday in Haines 279, between 14:00-15:30 –unless otherwise specified.
November 18th: Steven McKay, Professor of Sociology UCSC

"70 Acres in Chicago" Lecture
2016-11-16 12:30 - 14:00 | UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Room 2355, 337 Charles E. Young Drive East,, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1656, United States
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 over the course of 20-years, 70 Acres in Chicago documents this upheaval, from the razing of the first buildings in 1995, to the clashes in the mixed-income neighborhoods a decade later.
70 Acres in Chicago tells the volatile story of this hotly contested patch of land, while looking unflinchingly at race, class, and who has the right to live in the city.

“70 Acres in Chicago” Info Sheet

During the lecture, we will hear from the following:
Filmmaker: Ronit Bezalel
Featured Resident & Producer: Mark Pratt
Featured Resident: Raymond J McDonald

"70 Acres in Chicago" Screening
2016-11-15 18:00 - 19:30 | UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Room 2355, 337 Charles E. Young Drive East,, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1656, United States
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 over the course of 20 years, 70 Acres in Chicago documents this upheaval, from the razing of the first buildings in 1995, to the clashes in the mixed-income neighborhoods a decade later.
70 Acres in Chicago tells the volatile story of this hotly contested patch of land, while looking unflinchingly at race, class, and who has the right to live in the city.

Filmmaker: Ronit Bezalel
Featured Resident & Producer: Mark Pratt
Featured Resident: Raymond J McDonald
will be present during the screening.

UCLA's Second Annual Warrior Games
2016-11-10 11:30 - 13:30 | Wilson Plaza, 220 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1656, United States
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 4. For more information, contact Veteran’s Resource Office 310.206.6915.

UCLA's Veterans Day Ceremony
2016-11-10 10:30 - 11:30 | UCLA Wilson Plaza, 220 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1656, United States
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 remarks from Johnnie Ashe, the brother of Arthur Ashe, who so bravely went to war in place of his brother to enable him to pursue his tennis career. We will also hear from Army veteran and UCLA MFA graduate student Mitchell LaFortune. Please RSVP for the ceremony by emailing uclarsvp@support.ucla.edu or calling (310) 794-6241.
Following the ceremony, you can take part in the Warrior Games. This series of social and recreational activities, organized by the Veterans Resource Office, is an opportunity to meet student veterans in a casual setting.
The UCLA Veterans Day ceremony organized by ROTC and the activities led by our Veterans Resource Office are just a couple examples of the time, effort, and resources UCLA puts into honoring and caring for our veterans. For more information on UCLA’s commitment to veterans and a recent agreement that will strengthen UCLA’s academic affiliation with the West LA VA campus, please visit www.veterans.ucla.edu

The UCLA Political Sociology and the Global South Working Group Meeting
2016-11-04 14:00 - 15:30 | Haines Hall 279 Room, 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
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 in the name of ‘general sociology’ reflect instead the rather local experiences of the Western developed world. This group has been conceived upon the conviction that studying the multiple realities of the developing world can bring new insights into different areas of sociology. The meanings, dynamics and analysis of “politics,” “development” or “collective agency” in the Global South require us to rethink many taken for granted paradigms and concepts.
This working group is open to all regardless of enrollment status.
Our meetings take place every other Friday in Haines 279, between 14:00-15:30 –unless otherwise specified.
November 4th: William Robinson, Professor of Sociology UCSB

A Celebration of Volunteers in Prisons and Jails
2016-11-03 17:00 - 19:00 | Room 5391, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, 337 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles , 90024, United States
The Voluntary Sector in Prisons- Print PDF Flyer

7th Annual Festival For All Skid Row Artists
2016-10-23 13:00 - 17:00, 2016-10-22 13:00 - 17:00 | Gladys Park, 808 E 6th St, Los Angeles , CA, 90021, United States
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 residents. Taking place in Gladys Park (corner of 6th Street and Gladys Avenue) in L.A.’s Skid Row, the festival has become one of the most anticipated grassroots cultural events in the area. At last year’s festival over 100 Skid Row Artists performed or displayed their artwork to enthusiastic audiences. Many will be back and are preparing their acts and works of art and a select number of artists from outside Skid Row will perform and lead workshops again as well.
Festival attendees are invited to participate in the workshops and creativity stations facilitated by the artists. There will be creative stations for writing and painting, a Paper Mache bowl making workshop, guided meditation and sitting yoga workshops. Poet Jen Hofer will write letters and poems on demand and visual artist Clayton Campbell will invite the people to participate in his exhibit ‘Words we learned after 9/11’ which is currently on view at the Skid Row History Museum & Archive on 440 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90013. LAPD’s Festival for All Skid Row Artists gives audiences a chance to hear what you usually don’t hear about Skid Row: that it is a community rich with talent!
Performers, Poets, Musicians, Visual Artists – sign up now to participate with: Austin Hines: austin@lapovertydept.org / 213-361-4644
Volunteers are needed!
For more information please write to Henriëtte Brouwers: info@lapovertydept.org
Los Angeles Poverty Department celebrates and preserves the rich artistic heritage of Skid Row and since 2009 has kept a registry of Skid Row artists, which now numbers more than 500. LAPD is a theater company comprised primarily of low income and homeless people living in Los Angeles’ Skid Row. Founded in 1985, LAPD creates performances and multidisciplinary artworks that connect the experience of people living in poverty to the social forces that shape their lives and communities. LAPD’s works express the realities, hopes, dreams and rights of people who live and work in L.A.’s Skid Row.
Festival for All Skid Row Artists is produced by Los Angeles Poverty Department with partners United Coalition East Prevention Project (UCEPP) and Lamp Community’s Arts Program. This year’s festival is made possible with the support of the Department of Cultural Affairs of the City Los Angeles, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, The California Arts Council’s Local Impact grant, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council and the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks.

Festival For All Skid Row Artists, 2015 – Garry Brown performing in the shirt he designed, picture by Austin Hines.

The UCLA Political Sociology and the Global South Working Group Meeting
2016-10-21 14:00 - 15:30 | Haines Hall 279 Room, 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
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 in the name of ‘general sociology’ reflect instead the rather local experiences of the Western developed world. This group has been conceived upon the conviction that studying the multiple realities of the developing world can bring new insights into different areas of sociology. The meanings, dynamics and analysis of “politics,” “development” or “collective agency” in the Global South require us to rethink many taken for granted paradigms and concepts.
This working group is open to all regardless of enrollment status.
Our meetings take place every other Friday in Haines 279, between 14:00-15:30 –unless otherwise specified.
October 21st: Student Paper Presentation:
Leydy Diossa (UCLA, Sociology)
Emma Colven (UCLA, Geography)

Deadline Extended! The UCLA Center for the Study of Women invites proposals for Thinking Gender 2017
2016-10-17 | CA
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 that push to reimagine and retheorize what freedom, justice, health, and care can look like. Historically, reparations have taken financial form with governments recognizing victims of perceived injustice by awarding them money. Such practices have depended on and have defined the law and dominant ideas of justice within states and empires. By contrast, marginalized groups today are reframing reparations as capable of addressing historical and ongoing abuses, evident in law itself and manifest in biological, environmental, educational, technological, institutionalized, political, and diplomatic violence. The daring to imagine new forms of reparative justice emerges from raced, gendered, and sexualized subjectivities, which inform movements that devastate the binary between theory and practice in their struggle to be whole. A broad and intersectional investment in reparations challenges the assigning of rights and privileges in the past, and it is an important tool in recasting the structures that impact our daily lives.
Thinking Gender 2017, Imagining Reparations, takes a cue from movements that conceive of violence and reparative justice intersectionally with consequences that shape and are shaped by gender, sexuality, race, class, ability, etc. We invite presentations of work from across disciplines that embody this intersectional ethos and envision reparations through the lens of gender and sexuality. Conference sessions will include ample time for discussion of work, emphasizing dialogue discussion, writing as important modes of conference participation, and exploring their potential as feminist, decolonial tools for learning and action. Imagining Reparations aims to create cohesion among a broad range of disciplinary engagements, theoretical stances, and practical applications by providing space for thinking together about the role of the academy in theorizing tools for collective liberation from gendered and racialized violence.
Registered graduate students from any institution are eligible to submit presentation proposals for all Thinking Gender sessions, including the panels, plenary session, multimedia salon, and poster session. Registered undergraduate students from any institution are eligible to submit proposals for poster presentations and participation in the multimedia salon only.
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
Panel Presentations
Panels will consist of graduate student paper presenters and a UCLA faculty moderator who will read and provide detailed feedback and questions on each paper.
To apply, submit:

Paper proposal
Works cited
CV

Plenary Session
A number of exceptional papers will be selected from among those submitted for Panel Presen-tations and awarded the Think-ing Gender Plenary Prize. Those selected will present their papers on the Plenary Session, and their work will be responded to by a distinguished guest scholar.
To apply:

Complete Panel Presentation application requirements by October 10th deadline
Submit a draft of your paper by Monday, December 12.

Performance and Poetry
We invite submissions of poetry, spoken word, short film, photography, musical, and other kinds of performance for a multimedia salon.
To apply, submit:

Description of your work and its relationship to the conference theme
CV or Resume
A short work sample
Description of any technology needs

Posters
Graduate students, undergraduate students, activists, and community organizations will present visually compelling re-search posters, the presentation of which will be integrated into the Multimedia Salon. Posters will remain on display through-out the conference.
To apply, submit:

Poster proposal
CV or Resume

CSW Call for Submissions
Deadline Extemded: October 17, 2016
Submit online: www.csw.ucla.edu/TG2017

Student Debt and Nonprofit Workforce Forum
2016-10-07 08:30 - 13:00 | The California Endowment, Los Angeles, 1000 N. Alameda Street, Los Angeles , CA, 90012, United States
The Forum on Student Debt and the Nonprofit Workforce is hosted in partnership with StudentDebtCrisis.org. The Forum will be a blend of practical trainings and tools that can be used by nonprofit employers and employees to manage student debt. It will also be a call to action, offering an opportunity to discuss what’s happening nationally and locally on this issue and how the nonprofit sector can engage in the debate. Join us for a day of learning, discussion and action on a crucial issue. Register now!
SCHEDULE
8:30 AM: Registration & Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM: The View From D.C. and the California Perspective
Student debt is a personal issue and a national crisis. So what are our representatives in Washington, D.C. doing about it? Congressman Eric Swalwell (CA-15) is a national champion on the issue. We are fortunate to have him with us to share what it feels like to be a Congressman with student debt, how it informs his position, and what he thinks Congress will do to alleviate the student debt crisis in the future. He will also discuss his recently introduced legislation (“Know Your Repayment Options Act” and “Strengthening Forgiveness for Public Servants Act“), and ways we can work to get better debt relief programs implemented quickly.
Following Congressman Swalwell’s national overview, CalNonprofits Program Director Diana Dunker will discuss the California perspective. This year CalNonprofits conducted a detailed survey of nonprofit employees and employers – and got nearly 1,000 responses! What did we learn about student debt from employees? What solutions did we find in the data? Diana will briefly discuss the results of our survey, including a look at how California’s nonprofit sector both converges and diverges from national trends in student debt.
10:30 AM: WORKSHOPS (Choose One)

Debt Relief Options Workshop for Nonprofit Employees
Public Service Loan Forgiveness is the best loan forgiveness program available to anyone working for a nonprofit. Natalia Abrams, Executive Director of Student Debt Crisis, will present this workshop full of useful tools for individuals with student loans. Learn about the different types of student loans, the available debt repayment plans, ways to avoid default, and how to take advantage of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.
Nonprofit Employer Toolkit for Combating Student Debt
In this workshop, CalNonprofits Program Director Diana Dunker will unveil the newly developed employer toolkit full of useful, free and low-cost opportunities for nonprofits as employers to support employees with student debt. Learn how to attract and retain talented employees using the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, simple steps for improving employee loyalty, and why the economics of student debt are driving staff turnover. This workshop is designed for Executive Directors, Human Resources staff, and supervisors.
12:00 PM: Nonprofit Student Debt Task Force Meeting (invitation only)
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM: One-on-one consultations with Student Debt Crisis staff members Natalia Abrams and Cody Hounanian (limit 22)

FREE for Members / $30 for not-yet-members
Note: Continental breakfast included, lunch is not provided

Co-Sponsors
This Forum and the Nonprofit Student Debt Project are made possible by the Trustees’ Philanthropy Fund at Fidelity Charitable, foundations who provide unrestricted support to CalNonprofits including the California Wellness Foundation, the David & Lucile Packard Foundation and the Weingart Foundation, and the thousands of nonprofit organizations that are members of CalNonprofits.

The Forum is co-sponsored by the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network-LA, the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin, San Francisco Human Services Network, Community Partners, Valley Nonprofit Resources, the Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs at Cal State LA, the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, and Antioch University Los Angeles Master of Arts in Nonprofit Management Program.

Sixth Annual UCLA Luskin Open House
2016-09-22 18:00 - 20:30 | Dickson Court North (just south of Perloff Hall), 365 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles , CA, 90095, United States
Connect with UCLA Luskin at the 2016 Open House

http://gallery.kikibooth.com/UCLA-Luskin-Event/
5:30 pm Registration Begins
6:00 pm Open House

Please help us welcome the incoming students from all departments and reconnect with faculty and alumni at a reception in the scenic Dickson Court North (just south of Perloff Hall).
You can:

Meet new UCLA Luskin students and alumni
Trade ideas with faculty and research scholars
Learn about exciting developments at UCLA Luskin
Enjoy the flavors of LA with a variety of food booths and stations
Get connected to opportunities, organizations, and events through UCLA Luskin

Food and beverages will be provided. Complimentary parking will be available for UCLA Luskin alumni with RSVP by Monday 9/19.
We hope to see you there!
*One registration per attendee. All duplicates will be deleted.

Race, Racism, and American Law: Re-visioning for the 21st Century
2016-09-22 18:00 - 20:00 | UCLA School of Law, Room 1457, 385 Charles E Young Dr East, Los Angeles , CA, 90095, United States
Derrick Bell’s seminal textbook, Race, Racism, and American Law, first issued in 1972 was a groundbreaking intervention that challenged the dominant view of legal pedagogy as a race-neutral process and product. The co-authors of the seventh edition, Professors Cheryl Harris and Justin Hansford, will lead a panel discussion on the significance and legacy of Bell’s text, and will be joined by experts in the field of race, racism, and American Law who are a part of the project of revisioning the text for the 21st Century.
Organized by Critical Race Studies and Institute of American Cultures. AASC co-sponsored with Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, Office of the Special Assistant for Diversity, St. Louis University, St. Louis University School of Law.

UCLA Luskin New Student Orientation
2016-09-20 08:30 - 17:00 | UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs/ CSW Faculty Center, 337 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles , CA, 90024, United States
Incoming students from the departments of Public Policy, Social Welfare and Urban Planning get to know all about the resources at Luskin and throughout campus.

Southern California Grantmakers: 2016 Annual Conference
2016-09-19 08:00 - 17:00 | Loews Hollywood Hotel, 1755 Highland Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90028, United States
How can we as philanthropists “be the change” we wish to see in the world? By acting locally and having a global impact on the issues we care about most passionately.
As a sector, region, and global community, we are facing major inequities around People (health, gender, social, racial inequities), Planet (climate change and the environment), and Prosperity (economics and education).
SCG members are eager to take the next step toward solving these complex challenges, many of which, until recently, have been considered “too big” to take on by any one sector. We know that these interconnected issues require a combination of deep community knowledge and engagement. They also require an understanding of global context and impact, such as the framework provided by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
At this year’s Annual Conference, join hundreds of SCG members who are committed and energized, eager to create positive change in communities here in Southern California and far beyond our borders.

Conference Highlights

Interactive Breakout Sessions on taking local action with global impacts
Special Spoken Word/Musical Performance by Bryonn Bain, Artist and Activist, UCLA Department of African American Studies
Sneak preview of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA presented by the Getty Foundation

AGENDA

8:00 a.m.

8:30 – 9:45 a.m. Check-in Opens

9:45 – 10:00 a.m. Breakfast Breakout Sessions
Social Innovation to Catalyze Impact
How Data Can Influence Your Grantmaking
The Millennials Are Here: Engaging a New Generation
Placing Equity at the Center of Education Reform
Real Costs + Real Relationships: Learnings from the Full Cost Pilot

10:00 – 10:15 a.m. Networking Break

10:15 – 11:30 a.m.Welcoming Remarks
Christine Essel, President and CEO, SCG and
Wendy Garen, Chair, SCG Board of Directors and President and CEO, The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation

11:30 – 12:00 p.m. Morning Plenary: Champions of Change

12:00 – 1:45 p.m. Morning Keynote: Building Bridges to Prosperity in Southern California
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti

1:45 – 2:00 p.m. Lunchtime Breakout Sessions
Please eat lunch in the room of the breakout you plan to attend. Presentations begin promptly at 12:30.
From Transactional to Transformational: Prioritizing Grantee Inclusion
Grantmaking with an Equity Lens: The Nuts and Bolts
Health, Social Equity, and Climate Change
The Impact of Building Grassroots Movements
Outcomes-Oriented Funding: Breaking Down the Myths and Opportunities

2:00 – 2:30 p.m. Networking Break

2:30 – 3:00 p.m. State of SCG and Members Meeting
Christine Essel, President and CEO, SCG and
Wendy Garen, Chair, SCG Board of Directors and President and CEO, The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation

3:00 – 3:45 p.m. Afternoon Keynote: Peace, Justice, and Inclusive Societies
Forest Whitaker, Artist, Social Activist, Philanthropist, and UNESCO Special Envoy for Peace and Reconciliation

3:45 – 4:00 p.m. Afternoon Plenary: Improving Prosperity for Our Families: The Case for Gender Equity
Surina Khan, Chief Executive Officer, Women’s Foundation of California; Ananya Roy, Director, The Institute on Inequality & Democracy, Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA; Carmen Rojas, Chief Executive Officer,The Workers Lab; and Jordan Brooks, Deputy Executive Director, White House Council on Women and Girls
Women are often the agents of change in their communities, homes, and schools. But most low-income women who balance jobs and families face many obstacles that restrict their path to prosperity: limited education and job training opportunities, minimal access to well-paid, stable employment with benefits, and a lack of affordable, quality child care. The case for change is clear and momentum is building to address these issues through a gender equity lens. For example, in 2015, California instituted the California Fair Pay Act, mandating that employees cannot be paid less than those of the opposite sex for “substantially similar work,” even if their titles are different or they work at different sites. In this session, panelists will share the latest on cross-sector collaborations and opportunities, research, and the possibilities for foundations, government agencies, and corporations to lift up women and girls, and in turn, their entire communities.

4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Sneak Preview of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA presented by the Getty Foundation

Closing Reception

Box of Hope
2016-09-17 20:00 - 22:00 | Ford Theatres, 2580 Cahuenga Blvd. East, Hollywood, CA, 90068, United States
Versa-Style Dance Company

Versa-Style Dance Company will present a multidisciplinary exploration of the social and political climate of today through LA street dance culture, spoken word and live music. By choosing to perform to Motown music, in addition to hip-hop and R&B, this 15-member ensemble made up of dancers from all over LA, will fuse vintage sounds with contemporary hip-hop moves.

Race + Justice = An Atlantic Summit
2016-09-15 10:00 - 17:00 | 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.
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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
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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”
