Founded in 2001, the UCLA-Utrecht Exchange Program promotes cooperation in teaching and research, the international exchange of ideas, and the scholarly efforts of participating faculty and students at the partner institutions. A recent participant in the program, Evelien Geerts, chatted with us recently about her work and her experiences at UCLA. With a Master’s degree in Philosophy at the University of Antwerp in Belgium, Geerts is currently enrolled in the Gender and Ethnicity program at Utrecht Uni- versity in The Netherlands. Her main areas of interest are Continental philosophy and feminist philosophy (critiques on psychoanalysis and pornography, and care ethics), Anglo-American political philosophy, and sexual difference philosophy. For her Research Master’s thesis, she will focus on a diffractive reread- ing of the philosophies of Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray.

Hannah Landecker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at UCLA and a member of CSW's Life (Un)Ltd working group. She is a historian and sociologist of biology and biotechnology whose work on cell culture, microcinematography, and metabolish draws on and contributes to issues central to feminist science studies.

To celebrate International Women’s Day, CSW is hosting a lecture by the world-renowned philosopher, environmental activist, ecofeminist, and academic researcher on agricultural and women’s empowerment issues.

A summary of UCLA professor Dr. Sung-Deuk Oak's new publication. This volume is a collection of primary and secondary sources about the history of Nursing in Korea from 1886-1911.

The daughter of immigrants, Rachel C. Lee grew up in suburban New Jersey and attended a small high school with only about five hundred students. Of those, she “was one of three Asian Americans, maybe ten people of color in my high school.” Looking for a larger, more diverse environment, she enrolled at Cornell University, where she majored in English. After graduating, she received a George W. Woodruff Fellowship at Emory University, where she studied with Hortense J. Spillers. In 1991, she arrived at UCLA to pursue a Ph.D. in English Literature. After holding a post-doc at UC Berkeley, she joined the faculty at UCLA in 1995. An Associate Professor in English and Women’s Studies, she was appointed CSW Associate Director in September of 2011. Her year-long project is “Life (Un) Ltd.,” which will address the impact of recent developments in the biosciences and biotechnology on feminist studies. Recently, she kindly sat downand chatted with CSW Update about her history and the development of her project.

“From Protest to Policy: Women’s Social Movement Activities in Los Angeles, 1960-1999,” a multi-year research project by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, examined the how grassroots advocacy has shaped gender-related public policy in the arts, employment, healthcare, and higher education through an analysis of local women’s groups in Los Angeles between 1960 and 1999. During this period, women’s community groups organized around gender-based problems their members encountered in their lives, their families, and their neighborhoods. The following timeline represents the key events surrounding this community activism and advocacy in the area of women’s labor and worker’s rights in Los Angeles and the surrounding areas. This timeline also includes key events in federal legislation regarding labor and worker’s rights in the United States.

“From Protest to Policy: Women’s Social Movement Activities in Los Angeles, 1960-1999,” a multi-year research project by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women examined the how grassroots advocacy has shaped gender-related public policy in the arts, employment, healthcare, and higher education through an analysis of local women’s groups in Los Angeles between 1960 and 1999. During this period, women’s community groups organized around gender-based problems their members encountered in their lives, their families, and their neighborhoods. The following timeline represents the key events in state and federal legislation regarding women’s health initiatives as well as the development of grassroots organizations in Los Angeles that advocate for women’s reproductive health, environmental health, drug and alcohol abuse education and treatment in women and minority populations.