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Hear from Armenian American cinematic artist Roger Kupelian as he explores how historical narratives are brought to life through graphic novels, digital art, and film. Kupelian will discuss his creative process and how passion projects like his Warrior Saints web series evolve from concept to screen. This program is offered as part of the UCLA Library Opening the Doors to Contemporary Literature series and in celebration of Armenian History Month. Location: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_a0ejDo0rTW6wb06XiJIvhw#/registration

Some of America’s most effective reformers did not just refer to the Bible, but fused their own struggles with its narratives, seeing themselves as part of a cosmic divine battle within history. Claudia Setzer will have us consider how abolitionist Frederick Douglass, Civil Rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer and others used multiple methods of biblical interpretation to make sense of their struggles and to reject despair. We will also consider contemporary activist groups that root themselves in the Bible and religious traditions. Location: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/IsDrn5NIQvuTUBSaIcYIJw#/registration

Fostering Research Productivity (Facilitators: Beth Lazazzera, JoAnn Roberts) Dive into essential topics that empower mentors and mentees to enhance communication and support in time management, prioritization, organization, and work-life integration. Equip your laboratory team with skills that support research productivity in manageable ways. Location: Hershey Hall Salon 158

Is this the future we dreamed of? Wasn’t technology supposed to serve the many, not enrich the few? Wasn't AI supposed to bring about a life of collective prosperity and security? Cyberpunk and sci-fi tales were warnings, not blueprints for the future. How did unchecked tech and corporate greed lead to this devastation? Is dystopia already here? Neo-robber baron billionaires, like their 19th-century predecessors, amassed obscene wealth by dismantling public institutions and infrastructures, exploiting labor, nature, our attention and privatizing everything from space to public health to communication, all while paying little to no taxes. Bezos and Musk aren’t just taking joyrides into space for fun; they’re breaking democracy, shredding safety nets for marginalized communities worldwide and extracting even more wealth and power. But recent record-breaking turnouts for Bernie Sanders, AOC and Jasmine Crockett and the anti-oligarchy movement that’s sweeping the U.S. mean that millions of people are ready to not only fight back and resist, but also to reimagine what’s possible. Join UCLA Professor Ramesh Srinivasan and acclaimed science fiction author, activist and journalist Cory Doctorow for a talk and conversation rooted in technology, urgency and possibility. Or maybe it’s a strategy session on how to build a sustained, collective movement that channels our dissatisfaction into change and actions we can take toward a pro-planet, pro-people future. Location: 3312 Murphy Hall

There’s more to the US Census than meets the eye. Want to learn how you can access and use census data in your research? Join librarians Maggie Tarmey and Kelsey Brown to explore reports, data profiles, and datasets on data.census.gov. This lecture-based workshop is designed for researchers of any experience level and will not be recorded. This workshop will be offered via Zoom. If you're registered, you'll receive the Zoom invitation information the day before the workshop Location: https://www.library.ucla.edu/visit/events-exhibitions/utilizing-census-data-in-your-research-05-08-25/

CAPS Drop-In Hours provide free, confidential, brief consultations for UCLA undergraduate and graduate students that identify as undocumented or come from mixed-status families. During the visit, a specialized counselor can help you to explore resources, assess your mental health, and when needed, connect you to ongoing CAPS counseling, and other services. Location: Undocumented Student Program office - Student Activities Center B52

The Career Center is excited to announce our “Transfer Pop-Ins” at the Transfer Student Center (TSC). These are your golden 15-minute slots to get personalized, one-on-one career advice that caters specifically to your unique journey as a transfer student from UCLA Career Counselors. Location: Transfer Student Center (Kerckhoff 128)

Feel free to drop by and chat with RISE Health and Wellbeing Coordinator! Whether you want to discuss campus mental health resources, get connected to CAPS, manage academic stress, or just need someone to talk to, we're here for you. Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

Join us in person at Powell Library 190 to consult with the Graduate Student Postdoctoral Scholar Enagagement team on teaching-related professional development topics over light snacks and refreshments. Topics include: course design, instructional technology, strategizing for the academic job market, and support with ongoing teaching commitments (TAships, etc.). This event is open to TAs and postdocs. Location: Powell 190

Co-sponsored by the UCLA Library, the Undergraduate Writing Center and the Undergraduate Research Center–Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Keep your stress levels down while pursuing your research interest! You'll learn how to create a timeline for your project and manage challenges while staying on track toward your goal. For more information about the Cornerstone Research Workshop series, visit the Undergraduate Research Workshops Center. This event will be offered both in person and over Zoom. If you would like to attend this workshop in person, the event will be held in Powell Library Classroom C, Room 320C. Please register in advance to attend in person, virtually or join via Zoom. Want to take this workshop now online? The workshop is also available asynchronously on our Writing Instruction + Research Education (WI+RE) website. Location: Powell Library Classroom C, Room 320C - https://www.library.ucla.edu/visit/events-exhibitions/developing-your-research-plan-05-08-25/

Join the UCLA Career Center and Undocumented Student Program (USP) for a networking workshop designed specifically for undocumented students looking to build connections and grow professionally. The purpose of this workshop is to help students learn how to confidently share their story, build meaningful relationships, and create an elevator pitch. This workshop is open to undergraduate and graduate students. Snacks will be provided! RSVP for location: https://bit.ly/TellingYourStory-Networking Location: RSVP for Location

Are you interested in learning more about psychiatry as a career? Interested to hear how psychiatry services work at UCLA? Join us for this Q&A workshop! Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

Join us for Twenties Talk, a weekly space to navigate friendships, dating, mental well-being, and life’s transitions in your twenties. Engage in meaningful discussions, hear from guest experts, and connect with a supportive community—plus, enjoy free pizza and refreshments! Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis. The box office opens one hour before the event. One Night in Miami U.S., 2020 Regina King’s feature directorial debut, adapted by Kemp Powers from his play of the same name, imagines a pivotal night on Feb. 25, 1964, between Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, Sam Cooke and Malcolm X. Kingsley Ben-Adir’s Malcolm X in particular “exerts a gravitational pull(opens in a new tab)” in this poignant chamber piece. Featuring a Terrance Blanchard score, the film elegantly reveals these icons beyond public persona, exposing their fears, hopes and the weight of their influence on — and responsibilities to — the Black community.—Public Programmer Beandrea July DCP, color, 114 min. Director: Regina King. Screenwriter: Kemp Powers. With: Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge, Leslie Odom Jr. Location: Billy Wilder Theater

This event will feature a panel discussion followed by a Q&A with various local elected officials and their offices. The goal is to build stronger connections between the UCLA community and its elected representatives, while also educating students on the division of responsibilities across different levels of government and how officials work together to address critical issues. In addition to connecting with engaged student voters, we hope this panel will provide elected representatives with an opportunity to highlight their policies, showcase current initiatives, and build meaningful relationships with a younger generation eager to learn and participate. Free food and drinks will be provided. Location: Pauley Pavilion - Pavilion Club

Feel free to drop by and chat with RISE Health and Wellbeing Coordinator! Whether you want to discuss campus mental health resources, get connected to CAPS, manage academic stress, or just need someone to talk to, we're here for you. Nadine is a RISE Health and Wellbeing Coordinator Specialist who supports neurodivergent students across UCLA. If you would like to have a chat with her, are seeking support, and/or would like to be connected to resources, please come visit in person or on Zoom. Whatever feels most comfortable for you! Meeting ID: 918 3367 1204 Passcode: 051779 Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level - https://ucla-hipaa.zoom.us/j/91833671204?pwd=ZGQADrjzt6JBLhR43FWyallrXU5HsG.1

The mindful writing retreat will integrate simple techniques from mindfulness to support the writing process and cultivate an approach to writing that fosters balance, self-care, and well-being. Please bring a current writing project because much of the retreat time will be allocated for writing. All sessions will be conducted remotely via Zoom. There are four total sessions this Spring Quarter: April 23, April 30, May 9, and May 16. You are welcome to attend one, two, three, or all sessions.

This spring, UCLA’s QCSA and Caltech’s IQIM launched a new monthly collaboration: EntangleTalks LA! As Los Angeles becomes a global quantum hub, make sure to stay well connected - and well nourished. After a spotlight research talk enjoy a casual get-together for networking, sharing ideas, building collaborations and digging into the pizzas. Join us for a slice of LA’s quantum future! This month, we are thrilled to host Dr. William Munizzi. William is a postdoctoral researcher at the Narang Lab and an affiliate researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research lies at the intersection of quantum information, high energy physics and quantum gravity while being actively involved in control theory and physics influenced machine learning. At EntangleTalks William will present his recent work on Entanglement & Magic in Holography. We are thrilled to learn from and engage with one of the rising voices in quantum research. Location: 3312 Murphy Hall, DataX Impact Forum

Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hammer Museum In-person: chef and restaurateur Alice Waters. Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis. The box office opens one hour before the event We Are What We Eat Japan, 2025 In this edition of Food and Film we turn the focus onto chef and restaurateur Alice Waters herself and her globally focused, locally driven campaign to change the way we farm, eat and educate. In 2023, Waters visited Japan to mark the first anniversary of the publication there of her book We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto. With its own strong tradition of seasonal cuisine, Japan has been particularly receptive to Waters’ farm-to-table philosophy and the mutual respect between Waters and the chefs and farmers she meets is evident in every exchange. At the heart of this loving documentary, however, is the work of Japanese food activists to bring that philosophy into Japanese classrooms, an effort modeled after Waters’ Edible Schoolyard program. DCP, color, in Japanese and English with English subtitles, 66 min. Director: Junya Tanaka. Location: Billy Wilder Theater

Exclusively for newly admitted transfer students and their families. Take advantage of the opportunity to explore academic programs, student clubs and organizations, campus and housing tours, financial aid resources, and undergraduate research opportunities. Experience life on campus at UCLA Your Future Is Bruin Visit bruinday.ucla.edu to learn more.

UCLA's Global Medical Brigades chapter has teamed up with AlgoEd, a company that provides platforms for middle school and high school students to participate in large-scale competitions. This event will include medical and science related questions that will further students in their academic journeys through rounds of testing that will culminate to a final round in front of a judging panel to determine the winners of each event.

Attending Transfer Bruin Day? Come check out our open house & see all that the Transfer Student Center has to offer. Location: Kerckhoff 128

Admitted Transfers, we can't wait to meet you at Bruin Day! Find out everything you need to know about life at UCLA as an UndocuBruin. Presentation: 12:00pm - 12:30pm #UCLABOUND Location: Visit the Student Activities Center, Room B44

Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and made possible by the John H. Mitchell Television Programming Endowment In-person: Q&A with producer and distributor Annouchka de Andrade, daughter of Maldoror, and UCLA Associate Professor Ellen C. Scott. Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis. The box office opens one hour before the event. On April 13, 2020, 90-year-old filmmaker, theater artist and mother Sarah Maldoror passed away due to complications from the coronavirus. The African diasporic film director has been remembered in various posthumous celebrations of her life, and her creative force has become a singular subject of collective rediscovery thanks to the front-running curatorial sense of feminist film publication Another Gaze coupled with the efforts of Maldoror’s daughter Annouchka de Andrade, who has tirelessly labored to preserve and share her mother’s legacy. Born Sarah Durados in rural, southwestern France to parents of West Indian and French descent, the multidimensional maker was initially drawn to the Parisian theater scene where, in 1956, she co-founded one of France’s first Black theater troupes in collaboration with other artists of the African diaspora. Half a decade later she pivoted her creative focus to cinema, first studying filmmaking under Soviet director Mark Donskoy in 1961 before working as assistant director to Gillo Pontecorvo on The Battle of Algiers (1966), a milestone of revolutionary cinema. Claiming that Black artists “are the only ones who should tell our history,” Maldoror — who changed her last name after an inspirational encounter with the 19th century poem, Les Chants de Maldoror — would forge her own visual transmissions of African culture by directing over two dozen films, including documentaries, fiction shorts, and feature-length narrative and television films. The Archive is honored to screen three of Sarah Maldoror’s markedly distinct works created for cinema and broadcast television. Presented in dialogue with each other, the three works construct a nuanced portrait of Maldoror’s unique formal, social and political concerns. Et les chiens se taisaient And the Dogs Kept Silent, France, 1978 Sarah Maldoror directs Aimé Césaire's tragic poem, in which she stars alongside Gabriel Glissant. Filmed in the storerooms of the Musée de l'Homme in Paris that brim with African art plundered by colonists, Maldoror’s expressionistic drama finds a mother attempting to save her rebellious son from enslavement. Restored version. DCP, color, in French with English subtitles, 13 min. Production: CNRS and les films de l’Homme. Director: Sarah Maldoror. Writer: Aimé Césaire. With: Gabriel Glissant, Sarah Maldoror. Un dessert pour Constance Dessert for Constance, France, 1981 This subversive comedy follows a 19th century cookbook from a stuffy Parisian auction house to a trash bin, where it is discovered by waste workers and taken home to the living space they share with several other Senegalese émigrés. When their friend falls ill and wishes to return to Senegal, the contents of the book become an opportunity to win the fee for his passage on a television game show. The brilliant telefilm finds Maldoror expertly utilizing comedy as a means to challenge racist stereotypes and outdated nationalist ideas. DCP, color, in French with English subtitles, 52 min. Production: Top Film. Director: Sarah Maldoror. Screenwriter: Maurice Pons. Based on a story by: Daniel Boulanger. With: Sidiki Bakaba, Cheik Doukouré, Elias Sherif. Carnaval dans le Sahel Carnival in Sahel, Cape Verde, 1979 Maldoror captures the preparations for the Carnival festival and parade in Mindelo. Without commentary, the viewer is carried away by the power of images and the pride of the Cape Verdeans. With her piercing lens, Maldoror illuminates culture as a way of reappropriating history, a foundation of national liberation and a means of resisting colonial domination. Restored version. DCP, color, 15 min. Director: Sarah Maldoror. —adapted from notes by K.J. Relth-Miller Location: Billy Wilder Theater

Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hammer Museum All Family Flicks screenings are free admission. Seating is first come, first served. The Billy Wilder Theater opens 15 minutes before each Family Flicks program. Zootopia U.S., 2016 “No one tells me what I can or can’t be.” The simple message of perseverance in the face of obstacles — personal, social, cultural, political — that animates Zootopia in concert with its clever, gentle sense of humor feels more timely than ever. A plucky rabbit (Ginnifer Goodwin) earns a spot on the police force of a teeming animal metropolis just as the delicate social contract between predators and prey is threatened by a string of mysterious mammal abductions. Teaming up with a sly fox (Jason Bateman), she more than proves her mettle with inspiration to spare. DCP, color, 108 min. Directors: Byron Howard, Rich Moore, Jared Bush. Screenwriter: Jared Bush. With: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba. Recommend for ages 8+ Location: Billy Wilder Theater

Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis. The box office opens one hour before the event. Cabaret U.S., 1972 Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey’s iconic performance of “Money, Money (Makes the World Go Round)” has been dropped onto social media countless times over the past few years. Watching it in context of the film’s narrative is to marvel not only at the performances of the stars and the direction and choreography of Bob Fosse, but to appreciate the biting commentary embedded in it all. With Christopher Isherwood’s 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin as its root material, Cabaret looks at the decadence and darkness of Nazism’s rise in Germany through glitzy-framed glasses that are far from rose-tinted.—guest programmer Ernest Hardy DCP, color, 124 min. Director: Bob Fosse. Screenwriter: Jay Presson Allen. With: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem. Location: Billy Wilder Theater

During this drop-in, CAE Housing Accommodations staff are happy to meet with students to answer any questions or concerns you may have about accommodated housing at UCLA. Location: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/3826085082

Get ready to Ride & Thrive during UCLA Bike Month with a tune-up or other repairs provided by the UCLA Bike Shop and Velofix. Location: Medical Plaza

This in-person drop-in group is designed to be an as-needed support group for undocumented students. Students do not need a referral, be in treatment at CAPS, or commit to every session. This support group will provide students the opportunity to gain support, connect with community, and gain additional resources. Location: Bruin Resource Center - Student Activities Center B44

Feel free to drop by and chat with RISE Health and Wellbeing Coordinator! Whether you want to discuss campus mental health resources, get connected to CAPS, manage academic stress, or just need someone to talk to, we're here for you. Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

How Social Media Shapes Us and Our Enjoyment of the Mundane—And How to Reclaim It Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

Grab life by the handlebars this May as we celebrate UCLA Bike Month! Come by our pit stop for refreshments and giveaways, and learn all about biking to campus as a healthier commute option that's greener for the environment. Location: NE Corner Westwood/Le Conte

During Disability Specialist Check-Ins, a Disability Specialist will be available to answer quick questions about accommodations, registration with the CAE, accessibility of courses, and any non-confidential questions you would like addressed. To join these sessions, you can use the Zoom link included here or use the Zoom Meeting ID 966 7564 1305. Location: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/96675641305

Come to the RISE Center for a moment of stillness. Grab a cup of tea, meeting community members, and practice mindfulness, spirituality, thoughtfulness, and stillness. Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

Get ready to Ride & Thrive during UCLA Bike Month with a tune-up or other repairs provided by the UCLA Bike Shop and Velofix. Location: LuValle Commons

Who is the human? What is legitimate religion? Who is left out of these discourses? Questions of power, humanity, and alterity animate religious discourse and responses to oppression. Leveraging the Rastafari movement and interrogating religious racism this talk will allow us to grapple with 20th century Black religious discourses and their continued relevance for thinking about how to protect religious freedom in the contemporary moment. Location: Kaplan Hall, 365 - https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/XWs-v3EpTCCkPkxDfieXoA#/registration

Sessions can cover resume/cover letter development and review, help with job/internship search, or interview preparation. Location: Bruin Resource Center

Feel free to drop by and chat with RISE Health and Wellbeing Coordinator! Whether you want to discuss campus mental health resources, get connected to CAPS, manage academic stress, or just need someone to talk to, we're here for you. Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

Take some time to relax, stretch, and breathe through movement and meditation. Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

Facing the harrowing task of rebuilding a life in the wake of the Holocaust, many Jewish survivors, community and religious leaders, and Allied soldiers viewed marriage between Jews and military personnel as a way to move forward after unspeakable loss. Proponents believed that these unions were more than a ticket out of war-torn Europe: they would help the Jewish people repopulate after their attempted annihilation. Historian Robin Judd, whose grandmother survived the Holocaust and married an American soldier after liberation, introduces us to the survivors who lived through genocide and went on to wed military personnel after the war. She offers an intimate portrait of how these unions emerged and developed—from meeting and courtship to marriage and immigration to life in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom—and shows how they helped shape the postwar world. The stories Judd tells capture how the exhilaration of the early romances coexisted with survivor's guilt, grief, and apprehension at the challenges of starting a new life in a new land. Robin Judd is a professor of History at The Ohio State University where she teaches courses in Holocaust studies, the history of antisemitism, and the history of leadership, and directs the Hoffman Leaders and Leadership in History program. She is the author of Contested Rituals: Circumcision, Kosher Butchering, and German-Jewish Political Life in Germany, 1843-1933) and Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust, which garnered two National Jewish Book Awards and was named a finalist for the 2024 Ohioana non-fiction award. In recognition of her work in Holocaust studies, Governor Dewine appointed her to Ohio’s Holocaust and Genocide Memorial and Education Commission in 2021. Professor Judd is the Vice Chair of the Leo Baeck Institute’s Faculty Advisory Board and past President of the Association for Jewish Studies. Moderated by Jared McBride (UCLA) Location: 314 Royce Hall

Explore stress-management and burnout prevention strategies. Learn how to restore & repair after burnout with self-care Location: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/3487584784

This workshop introduces students to research in the sciences, how to find a faculty research mentor, and opportunities for student researchers after joining a lab. Download a copy of our slide deck and learn more about our workshops on our website. Location: https://ucla.in/4jX79hU

Looking for an opportunity to polish your URW presentation? Join us for a DataX Presentation Feedback Session! This is a great chance to dry run your presentation before the official showcase and get helpful, constructive feedback from fellow students and faculty in a supportive environment. We can offer advice and suggestions on content clarity, visual design, public speaking, pacing, and more. Whether you’re looking to polish your slides, make your presentation more cohesive, or just get more comfortable with presenting to an audience, we’re here to help. Light refreshments will be provided as well! Location: 3312 Murphy Hall, DataX Impact Forum

UCLA F-1 visa students, do you want to know more about off-campus employment authorization? Join us on one of our weekly CPT webinars hosted by the Dashew Center staff to learn more! Location: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/95322790676

Making the Most of Active Learning: Why Teaching Expertise Matters and How it Develops This interactive seminar will consider this question: What teaching expertise do faculty need and how do they cultivate it? Though most systems in higher education are built on the underlying assumption that disciplinary expertise is sufficient for effective teaching, considerable evidence refutes this assumption. As faculty take up the call to use active learning and other evidence-based strategies, what teaching expertise supports their success? This seminar will share findings from a suite of studies about the specialized teaching knowledge that college faculty rely on as they design and implement active-learning instruction in large classes. It will also share insights from a longitudinal study of teaching expertise development among early-career faculty. Faculty built some types of specialized teaching knowledge by seeking and valuing evidence of their students’ thinking. Other knowledge, such as knowledge of how people learn, proved harder to develop, even for instructors highly involved in teaching professional development. The seminar will include time to consider implications of these findings for faculty, departments, and institutions. Bio: Tessa Andrews, PhD, is a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor of Genetics and the Director of the Scientists Engaged in Education Research (SEER) center at the University of Georgia. She earned a PhD in Biological Sciences at Montana State University, with a focus on conservation genetics and education research. Her research group investigates questions aimed at increasing the use of evidence-based teaching in undergraduate STEM education, including questions about faculty thinking, faculty practices, and departmental culture and practices. Dr. Andrews’ work has been funded by multiple grants, including an NSF CAREER award. She is a Monitoring Editor for CBE-Life Sciences Education and a Working Group Leader for the Accelerating Systemic Change Network. Location: Young Research Library Conference Room 11360

Want to start your business but don't know where to start? This info session is your chance to get the inside scoop on our upcoming one-day entrepreneurship program designed specifically for undocumented students, alumni, and recent grads at UCLA. We’ll talk about what to expect, how to sign up, and how you could win a share of $525 in prizes at the pitch competition! Zoom link will be provided after signing up. RSVP now: https://tinyurl.com/UCLAINFO1 Location: https://lu.ma/7fvgb4mg

Please join us when Inés Valdez, professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University, presents her book Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism (Cambridge University Press, 2023). This event is cosponsored by the Latina Futures 2050 Lab. Location: CSRC Library, 144 Haines Hall

Get ready to Ride & Thrive during UCLA Bike Month with a tune-up or other repairs provided by the UCLA Bike Shop and Velofix. Location: Court of Sciences (North End)

Are you looking for a safe and supportive space to practice your English conversation skills? Check out Dashew Center's English Language Circle (ELC)! Here you will have an opportunity to practice your English with other language learners. The circle is led by a native English speaker, who will help you become more confident in your speaking skills and who can answer your language and grammar questions. All of our ELC sessions will take place on Zoom this spring 2025. Space is limited to 20 participants per session. Participants are welcome to enjoy their lunch during these sessions.

Grey Literature is frequently defined by what it is not – “grey literature is anything that is not a journal and not a book.” That leaves a great deal of room for ambiguity when looking for grey literature sources. Do I need to check government documents and advocacy white papers and industry reports and trial registries? More than that? UCLA science librarians will help mitigate that confusion and focus your search! This workshop will be offered via Zoom. If you're registered, you'll receive the Zoom invitation information the day of the workshop. Instructors: Hannah Sutherland, Open Science and Collections Librarian Robert Johnson, Clinical and Research Support Librarian Location: https://www.library.ucla.edu/visit/events-exhibitions/the-grey-area-exploring-grey-literature-05-14-25/

Feel free to drop by and chat with RISE Health and Wellbeing Coordinator! Whether you want to discuss campus mental health resources, get connected to CAPS, manage academic stress, or just need someone to talk to, we're here for you. Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

Take a break with Wellness Wednesday! Join us in RISE to relax, recharge, and get creative with easy, self-guided activities like essential oils, journal prompts, and art projects. Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

Join the RISE Center for Books and Bonding every Wednesday. RISE will be providing the books and there will be no assigned readings, so please stop by if you are interested. Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

Professor William Gow (CSU Sacramento) will have a discussion with filmmaker and professor Renee Tajima-Peña about his new book, Performing Chinatown (Stanford University Press, 2024), which “retells the long-overlooked history of the ways that Los Angeles Chinatown shaped Hollywood and how Hollywood, in turn, shaped perceptions of Asian American identity.” Location: Charles E. Young Research Library, Level A, Distinctive Collections Classroom

In her conversation with George Dutton, professor in the UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Quê Mai will share the moments that defined her as a writer, what compelled her to document the impact of the war, how she found healing via storytelling, and her mission to present Viet Nam as a country with more than 4000 years of history and culture. Location: 10383 Bunche Hall

Don’t miss our annual concert under the stars in the Fowler amphitheater with Mariachi de Uclatlán—the first mariachi ensemble to be established at an academic university. Under the tutelage of Grammy-winning musical director Jesús “Chuy” Guzmán, the ensemble is celebrated around the world for its exceptional legacy of passionate musical excellence. Join us in this great cultural tradition as the group presents the music of influential Mexican composers. Fowler Out Loud is an evening concert series that invites UCLA students from various disciplines to perform at the museum. Location: The Fowler Museum at UCLA - Fowler Outdoor Amphitheater

The UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies and Luskin Center for Innovation invite you to a screening of A Decent Home, a feature­length documentary addressing class and economic inequity that features the lives and challenges of mobile home park residents in securing affordable housing. Discussion and Q&A with Director Sara Terry, California Director Miguel Miguel of the Sierra Club, and Assistant Professor Jose Loya will touch upon the film and Miguel and Loya's research on equitable home financing, mortgage disparities, and barriers to homeownership for communities of color. 2355 Public Affairs Building, Food provided Location: 2355 Public Affairs Building