Events and Highlights
Other UCLA Events
May 18, 2024 | 8:00 AM PDT
CISA Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference on South Asia
CISA invites abstracts for presentation at the Annual Graduate Conference on South Asia to be held at UCLA on May 18, 2024. The conference is a unique opportunity for graduate students and faculty to come together and engage in cross-disciplinary conversations about research on South Asia. This one-day conference aims to create a forum for presenting and discussing current research on South Asia from a wide range of disciplines, including the social sciences, humanities, science and technology studies, public policy, and business programs. Program allowing, we also invite presentations in audio-visual and other creative media formats. We welcome submissions from graduate students at all stages of their careers, including early-career researchers, and encourage presentations that are accessible to an interdisciplinary audience and that foster dialogue across fields. The keynote address for this conference will be given by Sunila S. Kale & Christian Lee Novetzke. Sponsored by the Center for India and South Asia.
May 21, 2024 | 4:00 PM PDT
A Canadian Affair: Pierre Trudeau, Fidel Castro, and the Cold War
A Lecture by Yvon Grenier, Professor, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada. Sponsored by the Program on Caribbean Studies, Latin American Institute, Canadian Studies Program, and the Department of Spanish & Portuguese.
May 28, 2024 | 4:00 PM PDT
Crimes, Not Just Tragedies: Reporting War Against Ukraine
Since the first days of the full-scale Russian invasion, The Public Intereste Journalism Lab co-founded The Reckoning Project, an initiative of Ukrainian and international reporters, lawyers, and analysts to document alleged war crimes in all the regions of Ukraine. Since then they have collected evidence of the shelling of civilians during evacuation, abduction and execution, electrocutions and torture, deliberate attacks on the hospitals and maternity wards, indiscriminate attacks on train stations and residential areas. Russia's strategy is to outdo their previous crimes with even bigger tragedies so that the previous wrongdoings are erased from people’s memories. How to document every story of every tragedy, family, street, and city in a way that nobody can deny it? How do we reunite truth with justice? Speaker: Nataliya Gumenyuk, Ukrainian journalist and author. The talk will be followed by a discussion with Professor Daniel Tresiman, UCLA Department of Political Science, and Audience Q&A. Sponsored by the Center for European and Russian Studies.
May 31, 2024 | 1:00 PM PDT
Feminism in China After 2013: Social Movements, Media, and the State
In 2013, Xi Jinping noted that “attention should be paid to the unique role of women in promoting the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation's families and establishing good family values.” In the decade since, the Chinese state has grown increasingly vigilant against the mobilization capacity of feminist movements. However, during the same period, China enacted laws against domestic violence and, at the urging of NGOs and activists, strengthened policies and legal frameworks against sexual assault. On the one hand, feminist and broader civil rights movements have become targets of suppression; on the other hand, the MeToo movement and the A4 protests demonstrate that the feminist community is a key player in China's current and future changes. Speaker Li Sipan, a visiting scholar at Stanford University and a participant in and chronicler of post-reform era feminist movements in China, will analyze the relationship between the state, the media, and movements, and compare the strategies and efficacy of Chinese feminist activism under shifting political opportunity structures. Sponsored by the Center for Chinese Studies.
June 3, 2024 | 2:30 PM PDT (Hybrid)
Migration, Street Vending and Social Protection: Insights and Ongoing Reflections from Argentina, Spain, and the United States
Street vending represents a hyper-visible and challenging phenomenon in many global cities, underpinning urban conflict and public debates around its criminalization, tolerance, and legalization. Facing different forms of discrimination, migrant street vendors self-organize to access social and legal protection, with their movements gaining growing political influence. This presentation builds on an ongoing reflection on representations, policies, and practices shaping street vending by confronting different ethnographic fieldwork conducted since 2015 in Argentina, Spain, and the United States with Haitian, Senegalese, and Latin American vendors. The presentation underlines the multiple strategies migrant street vendors use to mobilize, obtain support from local community organizations, and adapt narratives and repertoires of action. Speaker: Félicien De Heusch, LAI Visiting Scholar, Fulbright Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Sponsored by the Latin American Institute and International Migration Studies.
June 5, 2024 | 12:00 PM PDT (Virtual)
Análisis De Los Resultados De Las Elecciones Del 2 De Junio En México
Luis Hernández Navarro, escritor y periodista mexicano, coordinador de la sección de Opinión del diario La Jornada. Dirige el programa de TV show “Cruce de Palabras”en el canal Telesur. Recibió el premio nacional Carlos Montemayor en 2023, como un reconocimiento a su aportación a la lucha democrática de México. Entre sus libros se encuentran: Chiapas: la guerra y la paz (1995), Siembra de concreto, cosecha de ira (2011) y No habrá recreo. Contrarreforma constitucional y desobediencia magisterial (2013). Sponsored by the Center for Mexican Studies and the Latin American Institute.