This year marks Thinking Gender’s 30th anniversary!FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 2020CARNESALE COMMONS, UCLAGENERAL REGISTRATION IS NOW OPENPre-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 PANELKeynote Panelist, Mariame Kaba 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, founder of Project NIA, Chicago Freedom School, the Chicago Taskforce on Violence against Girls and Young Women, the Chicago Alliance to Free Marissa Alexander, and other groundbreaking community-based organizations. Keynote Panelists:Mariame KabaFounder and Director, Project NIA; Researcher-in-Residence, Social Justice Institute, Barnard Center for Research on Women Mimi KimAssistant Professor of Social Work, California State University, Long Beach Emily ThumaAssistant Professor of American Politics and Public Law, University of Washington Tacoma MODERATOR: Sarah HaleyChair, CSW Advisory Committee; Director, UCLA Black Feminism Initiative; Professor, Gender Studies and African American Studies CONFERENCE SCHEDULEView Conference Overview Check back regularly and join our email list for updates. ACCESSIBILITYTHIS 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 CSW at csw@csw.ucla.edu at least two weeks prior to the event. For more information, visit our Events Accessibility Page. PARKING AND ACCOMMODATIONSThinking 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:Department of African American StudiesAfrican Studies CenterAmerican Indian Studies CenterAmerican Indian Studies ProgramDepartment of AnthropologyDepartment of Asian American StudiesAsian American Studies CenterBixby Center on Population and Reproductive HealthBlack Male InstituteBruin Consent CoalitionCampus Assault Resources and Education (CARE)Kaiser Permanente Center for Health EquityCenter for Health Policy ResearchCenter for the Study of Racism, Social Justice, & HealthCenter XDepartment of Chicana/o StudiesChicano Studies Research CenterDepartment of Community Health SciencesDepartment of Comparative LiteratureCriminal Justice Program, UCLA School of LawDisabilities Studies ProgramDepartment of EducationDepartment of EnglishFielding School of Public healthGary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. HistoryDepartment of Gender StudiesHealthy Campus InitiativeDivision of HumanitiesDepartment of Information StudiesInstitute of American CulturesInstitute of American CulturesInstitute of Transportation StudiesInstitute on Inequality and DemocracyInternational Development and Policy OutreachInternational InstituteIris Cantor-UCLA Women’s Health CenterLabor CenterLatin American InstituteLatino Policy and Politics InitiativeOffice of Residential LifePenny Kanner Endowed Chair in Women’s StudiesPromise Institute for Human RightsRalph and Goldy Lewis Center for Regional Policy StudiesSchool of Medicine-Office of Diversity AffairsSchool of NursingSchool of Theater, Film, and TelevisionDepartment of Social WelfareDepartment of SociologyUC Speaks UpVeterans Legal ClinicDepartment of Urban PlanningDepartment of World Arts and Cultures/Dance
