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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Professor Michael C. Dawson will be speaking about Black Politics and Neoliberal Racial Order.
