This year marks Thinking Gender’s 30th anniversary!
FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 2020
CARNESALE COMMONS, UCLA
GENERAL REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN
Pre-Register by Friday, February 28, 2020. In-person registration will also be available on the day of the event.
Thinking Gender 2020 will focus on feminist, queer, trans, anti-carceral, transnational, and intersectional approaches to sexual violence.
Recent #MeToo mobilizations against high-profile predatory sexual abusers including Harvey Weinstein, R. Kelly, and Jeffrey Epstein have heightened public conversation around sexual violence. While important contributions have challenged dominant approaches to sexual violence, much of it has remained caught in legalistic, carceral, or criminal justice discourses that emphasize the punishment of individual actors to the exclusion of envisioning alternative definitions of repair and justice. Such dominant approaches center evidence and proof, and offer only the punishment of individual perpetrators as remedy, often in ways that exacerbate existing structural inequalities. Decades of scholarship and activism have demonstrated the inefficacy of such punitive models to curb sexual violence as well as the ways in which they exacerbate the policing of already marginalized communities.
KEYNOTE PANEL
Transformational Justice: Refusing Criminalization and Sexual Violence
Friday, March 6, 2020, 3:15 PM
Thinking Gender 2020: Sexual Violence as Structural Violence: Feminist Visions of Transformative Justice will feature a keynote panel of scholars and activists, headlined by Mariame Kaba. The panel will follow an opening presentation by Tongva artist, Weshoyot Alvitre.
Keynote Panelists:
Mariame Kaba
Founder and Director, Project NIA; Researcher-in-Residence, Social Justice Institute, Barnard Center for Research on Women
Mimi Kim
Assistant Professor of Social Work, California State University, Long Beach
Emily Thuma
Assistant Professor of American Politics and Public Law, University of Washington Tacoma
Sarah Haley (Moderator)
Chair, CSW Advisory Committee; Director, UCLA Black Feminism Initiative; Professor, Gender Studies and African American Studies
Keynote Opener:
Weshoyot Alvitre
Illustrator and Comic Book Artist, Tongva (Los Angeles Basin)
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
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ACCESSIBILITY
THIS IS A FRAGRANCE-FREE EVENT. For the health and safety of all attendees, please refrain from wearing products that contain fragrances when attending CSW events. Such products include: perfumes, hair products, deodorants, detergents, etc. For more information on fragrance and accessibility, read about CSW’s Share the Air campaign.
If you require accommodations in order for this event to be accessible to you (e.g., sign language interpretation, large print materials, etc.), please contact thinkinggender@women.ucla.edu by Friday, February 14, 2020. For more information, visit our Events Accessibility Page.
PARKING AND ACCOMMODATIONS
Thinking Gender 2020 will take place at Carnesale Commons which is located in UCLA’s residential community known as the Hill.
Parking and Accommodations Information
CO-SPONSORED BY:
- Backed by Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
- African American Studies Department
- African Studies Center
- American Indian Studies Center
- American Indian Studies Program
- Anthropology Department
- Asian American Studies Department
- Asian American Studies Center
- Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health
- Black Male Institute and Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families
- Bruin Consent Coalition
- Campus Assault Resources and Education (CARE)
- Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity
- Center for Health Policy Research
- Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice, & Health
- Center X
- Chicana/o Studies Department
- Chicano Studies Research Center
- Community Health Sciences Department
- Comparative Literature Department
- Criminal Justice Program, UCLA School of Law
- Disabilities Studies Program
- Education Department
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- Fielding School of Public Health
- Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History
- Gender Studies Department
- Healthy Campus Initiative
- Humanities Division
- Information Studies Department
- Institute for Research on Labor & Employment
- Institute of American Cultures
- Institute of Transportation Studies
- Institute on Inequality and Democracy
- International Development and Policy Outreach
- International Institute
- Iris Cantor-UCLA Women’s Health Center
- Labor Center
- Latin American Institute
- Latino Policy and Politics Initiative
- Office of Residential Life
- Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies
- Promise Institute for Human Rights
- Ralph and Goldy Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
- Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies
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- Social Sciences Division
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- UC Speaks Up
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