How Should Culture Industry Workers Respond to Artificial Intelligence?

Royce 362 & Zoom

How Should Culture Industry Workers Respond to Artificial Intelligence? Join Us for a Roundtable Discussion Discover how SAG-AFTRA members are tackling the challenges posed by AI in the culture industry. Learn about: Negotiating the first contract regulating AI use in film and television. Organizing strikes against video game makers over AI technology misuse. Advocating for […]

Data Economies and Futures: An In-Depth Dialogue

3312 Murphy Hall

Join UCLA Data X for a discussion on how data and digital ecosystems have reshaped our world, intertwining technology with entrepreneurial and economic outcomes, and changing the way people live and think on Wednesday, Feb. 12 at 3312 Murphy Hall, 12 pm panel and Q&A, 1 pm lunch.  What ethical and practical questions does this […]

Book Talk: Post/Revolutionary Conditions: Renewed Visions of the Iranian Freedom Struggle with author Alborz Ghandehari

2125 Rolfe Hall

Join the UCLA IRLE and CSW|Streisand Center’s Transnational Gender and Labor Working Group for a book talk on Post/Revolutionary Conditions: Renewed Visions of the Iranian Freedom Struggle with author Alborz Ghandehari on February 27, 2025 at 3 pm at 2125 Rolfe Hall.  The discussion will offer an intersectional analysis of how radical and progressive movement […]

Visualizing Oral History

Los Angeles-based artist Phung Huynh, whose work centers on Southeast Asian refugee experiences, will discuss labor issues through an immigrant/refugee lens. She’ll share insights on her Metro public art commission, the 1990 Century City janitor strike, and Professor Virginia Espino’s oral history work on No Más Bebés. Together, they’ll explore how oral history and visual […]

The UCLA CSW|Barbra Streisand Center presents Thinking Gender 2025: “Gendered Labors and Transnational Solidarities”

Collins Alumni Conference Room at UCLA James West Alumni Center

Join the UCLA Center for the Study of Women|Barbra Streisand Center for their 35th annual graduate research "Thinking Gender" conference. The event will feature engaging student presentations and a keynote address by labor rights organizer Adriana Paz Ramirez (International Domestic Workers Federation). The UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment is a proud cosponsor […]

A Labor Studies Book Talk with Professor Eric Blanc

Online – Zoom

The UCLA Labor Studies program and Department of History will co-host a Labor Studies Book Talk with Eric Blanc, assistant professor of labor studies at Rutgers University. He is the author of We are the Union (UC Press, 2025) and will be joined by Alex Caputo-Pearl, UCLA Labor Movement Fellow and former UTLA president, and […]

A Labor Studies Book Talk with Professor Cedric de Leon

UCLA Bunche Hall 6275

Join us for a Labor Studies Book Talk with Cedric de Leon, professor of Sociology and Labor Studies at UMass Amherst, as he discusses his latest book, Freedom Train:Black Politics & the Story of Interracial Labor Solidarity. This special event is in collaboration with the UCLA History Department and Sociology Department.  Drawing on a rich […]

Creating & Optimizing Your LinkedIn Account

Join the UCLA Labor Studies program for a Spring Quarter Week 7 Career Development Presentation focused on "Creating & Optimizing Your LinkedIn Account." This virtual workshop will be hosted and presented by the UCLA Career Center and will take place on Wednesday, May 14, from 11:00am–12:00pm via Zoom. (The Zoom link will be emailed to […]

2025 Labor@UCLA Research Showcase

UCLA Labor Studies Faculty and Staff are excited to invite you to our third annual Labor@UCLA Research Showcase, taking place on Friday, May 23, 2025, from 12:00–2:00 PM. This event is part of Undergraduate Research Week—UCLA’s largest undergraduate conference—celebrating student research and creative work across campus. Now in its tenth year, Undergraduate Research Week will […]

UCLA Coding Camp for Union Research

The UCLA Strategic Research Lab will hold a five-day intensive training in using the power of Python coding to simplify tasks for union research. The training is designed by expert coder and prominent labor researcher Mellissa Chang, of Rank and File Research. Participants will learn how to: Key Training Topics: Dynamically combine files and fuzzy […]

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