CSW is pleased to offer registered UCLA Graduate Students from all departments the opportunity to participate in a 1-time, 2-hour graduate seminar with Sara Ahmed, on the topic of “Complaint as Diversity Work.” The number of spots available in the seminar are very limited, and admission to the seminar will be by competitive application process. Interested students from all fields are invited to apply to participate.
In addition to the seminar, Sara Ahmed will give a talk on “Complaint as Diversity Work” at 3:00 PM on Tuesday, February 13 in the Ackerman Grand Ballroom. The talk is free and open to all. Details: http://csw.ucla.edu/ahmed
SEMINAR DATE: Tuesday, February 13, 2018
SEMINAR TIME: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location will be provided to accepted applicants
Seminar participants will be required to read Chapters 4, 5, and 6 of Sara Ahmed’s Living and Feminist Life. Copies of the assigned reading will be made available to participants in advance of the seminar. Participants are also expected to attend Dr. Ahmed’s public talk, “Complaint as Diversity Work,” at 3:00 PM on Tuesday, February 13, in the Ackerman Grand Ballroom.
For talk details, and to register, visit: http://csw.ucla.edu/ahmed
SEMINAR APPLICATION PROCEDURE
Please complete the online application form:
https://uclacsw.submittable.com/submit/ad6ab305-dbfd-43af-8f63-c84c3484c871/application-graduate-seminar-with-sara-ahmed
You will be asked to upload the following documents:
Current CV
A brief statement (250 words MAXIMUM) describing your research and/or activist interests and how you see this seminar contributing to them.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Monday, January 15, 2018
We will only consider COMPLETE applications submitted by the deadline. Late applications will not be accepted.
About Sara Ahmed
Sara Ahmed is an independent feminist scholar and writer. She has held academic appointments at Lancaster University and Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work is concerned with how power is experienced and challenged in everyday life and institutional cultures. She has recently completed a book What’s the Use? On the Uses of Use and has begun a new research project on complaint. Her previous publications include Living a Feminist Life (2017), Willful Subjects (2014), On Being Included (2012), The Promise of Happiness (2010), Queer Phenomenology (2006), The Cultural Politics of Emotion (2014, 2004), Strange Encounters (2000) and Differences that Matter (1998). She also blogs at www.feministkilljoys.com.
In 2016, Ahmed resigned in protest from her post as Professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldmiths in response to the institution’s failure to deal with students’ sexual harassment and assault complaints against staff and faculty members. She continues to work to make the problem of sexual harassment at universities more visible through her involvement with organizations like The 1752 Group.
About the talk
Ahmed will speak about her new research project on “Complaint.”
The lecture explores how complaint can be understood as a form of diversity work: the work you do to transform an institution, or the work you do when you do not quite inhabit the norm of an institution. If doing diversity work is heard as complaint, making a complaint often requires becoming a diversity worker. This is not to say that those who make complaints always think of themselves as diversity workers in the sense of trying to transform the institution in which the complaint is lodged. But in order to proceed with a complaint you often have to become a diversity worker because making a complaint within an institution brings you up against it. The lecture explores how we learn about the institutional (as usual) from those who are trying to transform institutions. The lecture will discuss how complaint is a sensational intervention into institutional life.
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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 CSW at csw@csw.ucla.edu at least two weeks prior to the event.
Co-sponsored by:
Backed by Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Department of Comparative Literature
Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health
International Institute
Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
Department of English
Department of Philosophy
Department of Anthropology
Department of Gender Studies
LGBTQ Studies Program
Division of Social Sciences
