Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
EDI Upcoming Events
A Community Healing Space for UCLA AAPI Students
Presented by Residential Life, CAPS, RISE, The Transfer Center, Dashew Center for International Studies, USAC Internal Vice President
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Zoom Event
6:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m. PST
ucla.zoom.us/j/91268864382
I'm Not a Virus
A Teach-in on Anti-Asian & Asian American Racism
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Zoom Event
1:00 p.m. PT/4:00 p.m. ET
Live link on March 30
Facebook Livestream/Center for the Humanities in an Urban Environment
Presented by the Center for Humanities in an Urban Environment and Asian Studies Program at Florida International University
SPEAKERS
Joy Lidu Yi, Florida International University: "Holding Noble Mindfulness, A Buddhist Teaching" (opening statement)
Margaret Cho, actor, comedian and advocate, "No Minority is a #Model"
Sean Metzger, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television: “Queering Asian American Violence”
Jack Tchen, Rutgers University: “Yellow Peril Today & the Deep Ecology of Anglo Protestant Possessive Colonialist Ideologies”
Cyra Chouchury, Florida International University: "The Shared Stories and Different Experiences of South Asian and Asian Americans"
Mia White, New School: "Understanding AAPI Racism Through a Freedom Framework"
Mitzi Uehara Carter, Florida International University: “Nappy Routes & Tangled Tales: A Personal Reflection on Anti-Asian Violence and White Supremacy”
Joanne Li, Florida International University: "A Community of Love and Care Must Be Built on our Diverse Thoughts and Experiences" (closing statement)
EDI Past Events
Dr. Maga Jackson-Triche, MD, MSHS, University of California, San Francisco
"Strategies for Coping with COVID in these Extraordinary Times"
Friday, Feb. 5, 2021
Zoom Event
12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. PT
RSVP by Monday, Feb. 1
In her presentation, Dr. Jackson-Triche will describe UCSF’s much-heralded Employee Coping and Resilience Program, which addresses work, family, and personal difficulties stemming from the current pandemic, economic upheavals, political turmoil, and racial reckoning. Many of the program’s components are accessible by the general public.
Dr. Jackson-Triche is the outgoing Vice Chair of Psychiatry and Vice President, Adult Behavioral Health Services, at the UCSF and a member of the UCOP Faculty Well-being Committee. Jackson-Triche played a key role in addressing the extraordinary mental health demands in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. She has an impressive track record of clinical and administrative success at UCSF, within the Veterans Health Administration network (and its affiliated academic institutions) across the nation, Tulane University, UC Davis, and UCLA. She is participating in systemwide efforts related to antiracism, and to diversity, equity and inclusion. A question and answer session will follow.
Black Caribbean Waters: Decolonizing the Archive
Friday, Feb. 5, 2021
Zoom Event
3:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m. CST
Registration link
More information: https://bac.northwestern.edu/sawyer-seminar
Please join the Black Arts Consortium at Northwestern University for a symposium on “Black Caribbean Waters: Decolonizing the Archive.” This is the second symposium in Northwestern’s yearlong Sawyer Seminar on “The Black Arts Archive: The Challenge of Translation,” which explores the problems and possibilities posed by disciplinary, politico-economic, and geographical contexts in documenting a history of Black art production. In this and other Sawyer Seminar events, we seek to create models redressing concerns around archival access and translation for and by Black communities. This particular symposium on “Black Caribbean Waters” will engage the various histories of cohabitation between African American and Caribbean communities and the tensions that animate this rich archive, which includes English-, Spanish-, and French-speaking Black and brown artists, constituting yet another component of translation.
Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Northwestern's 2020-2021 Sawyer Seminar will include a series of symposiums, graduate courses, and a summer institute focusing on various archives of Black arts across the African Diaspora. The project emphasizes three regions: Chicago, the Caribbean (Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and Haiti) and South Africa. With the goal of generating a sustained conversation over the course of the year, the Black Arts Archive Sawyer Seminar is featuring a series of visiting artists and scholars from the three regions whose work engages the theme of translation and the archive.
Intimacy Training Workshops
*POSTPONED* Monday, March 9, 2020
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.: Consent and Boundaries (maximum participants 28)
Students: M.F.A. theater actors and directors
1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.: Introduction to Basic Intimacy (maximum participants 16) Faculty and Staff
6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. Consent and Boundaries (maximum participants 28) Students: Undergraduate theater majors
Consent and Boundaries
This is a comprehensive workshop covering the concept of consensual touch between actors and establishing the difference between permission and consent. This workshop allows students to safely discover and recognize their own physical boundaries while giving them the tools to communicate these boundaries effectively to their co-actors and directors. "Boundary work" helps the actors to distinguish the difference between being "safe and uncomfortable" vs. "dangerous and uncomfortable" and can thus prepare them to safely push comfort levels in an educational setting.
Introduction to Basic Intimacy
This workshop is designed to introduce participants to the Pillars of Intimacy — a method designed by Tonia Sina and is the basis of all Intimacy Directors International's philosophy. These pillars focus on consent, context, communication, choreography and closure of intimate work. We also include an introduction to the Intensity Scale, which underpins the creation of dynamic intimacy for the stage and screen. The concept of power dynamics will also be discussed in the context of choreographing intimacy within an educational and professional setting.
Facilitator
Lizzy Talbot (she/her) is the founder of Intimacy Directors International UK and one of the first to research the role of Intimacy in the arts industry in the UK. She is an intimacy director and intimacy coordinator with IDI UK and works in London and Connecticut. She holds a master’s degree in theatre direction from the University of East Anglia and is a certified teacher with the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat. Talbot has a rich history in movement, dance and stage combat both professionally and in academia. She is currently training the next generation of intimacy directors and coordinators along with her team at Intimacy Directors International UK. She has been featured in both The Stage Magazine (2017) and The Guardian (2019) regarding her work as an intimacy director and coordinator. Talbot has taught intimacy direction in drama schools, universities and colleges internationally to both faculty and students. She has experience working across many different styles of intimacy but specializes in both historical and fantasy intimacy. Talbot’s intimacy coordination credits include television series for HBO and Netflix amongst others that are currently in production.
For more information, please email the UCLA TFT Office of EDI at: edioffice@tft.ucla.edu
Establishing Equity and Inclusion Strategies, Resources and Best Practices
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Macgowan Hall
12:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
An interactive workshop providing essential tools for recognizing bias, preventing discrimination, and creating an equitable environment.
For more information, please email the UCLA TFT Office of EDI at: edioffice@tft.ucla.edu
Reinvigorating the Masses
UCLA's Afrikan Student Union (ASU) will be hosting its annual Commemoration for two murdered UCLA students, John Huggins, Jr. and Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter on Thursday, Jan 16th. This marks the 51th anniversary of this tragic event.
Please join ASU, AAP, the Bunche Center, the Carter and Huggins Families, Black Panther Nation, and many campus and community supporters for this opportunity to highlight UCLA's radical past.
Thursday, Jan. 16
10:00 a.m.
Reception w Chancellor Block
Campbell Hall Learning Pavilion
41st and Central film screening with Q&A (Light refreshments will be served)
Thursday, Jan. 16
6:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m.
Special Guest: Ericka Huggins, Black Panther Party, L.A. Chapter
Panel Discussion with Bruin Community and Student Activists
Spoken Word & Candlelight Vigil
Campbell Hall Learning Pavilion (Dinner will be served)
DID YOU KNOW?
On January 17, 1969, two UCLA High Potential Program students — Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins, Jr. — were assassinated in 1201 Campbell Hall. The assassination took place after a student meeting to decide qualifications for the selection of the first director of the newly-formed Afro-American Studies Center. The assassinations were characterized in the press as being the result of an ongoing feud between two militant Black organizations — the Black Panther Party and the US organization, which supported different candidates for the director position. Three members of US were convicted of the murders.
Both Huggins and Carter were leaders of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Black Panther Party. Many speculate, however, that the assassination was instigated by the FBI's COINTELPRO which, at the time, was engaged in a clandestine campaign to eliminate the Black Panther Party. Note: COINTELPRO is an acronym for a series of FBI counterintelligence programs designed to neutralize political "dissidents." From 1956 to 1971, COINTELPRO broadly targeted radical political organizations.
Co-Sponsored by UCLA’s Afrikan Student Union (ASU), the Academic Advancement Program (AAP) and the Ralph Bunche Center.
Intergroup Dialogue 101 for Faculty & Staff
Learn how to go beneath the surface to best support students — and each other.
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
1:30 p.m.– 4:30 p.m.
Sac Room 3
Embracing Diversity Week
November 17-23, 2019
Anderson School of Business
CrossCheck Live: “Freedom to Protest & Freedom to Speak: The Challenges and Opportunities for University Governance”
In collaboration with PEN America, The Office of EDI will host its free signature event, CrossCheck Live: “Freedom to Protest & Freedom to Speak: The Challenges and Opportunities for University Governance” on Tuesday, April 23.
A panel of student moderators will press UCLA administrators about what we must do, as a campus and a community, to protect the protestor’s right to protest and the speaker’s right to speak. Additional information is available on the main event website.
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
Pauley Pavilion Club
IGR 101 for Faculty and Staff
(and grad students serving as TAs or interns in UCLA departments)
The goal of the training is to help practice and use IGR skills when working with student staff, co-workers, and other individuals with whom one works closely, to improve campus climate and make one's job easier.
Wednesday March 27, 2019
9:30 a.m.– 12:30 p.m.
Moore Hall Reading Room (#3340)