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Upcoming Events

November 2026

November 2 - Gaza XR - Opening Night Event at EDM 1250, Broad Art Center. Please RSVP HERE.

November 3 & 4 Gaza XR Exhibit at EDM 1250, Broad Art Center, 11 am to 3 pm. Please reserve your 30 minute slot HERE.

October 2026

October 22 Dr. Paul Kohlbry at Haines Hall 352 (Lunch at 12 pm; Event start at 12:15 - 1:45 pm)

Past Events

May 2026

May 7 - Palestine 36 - Free film screening at Kinsey Pavilion 1220B. Doors open at 4:00 pm. Screening begins at 4:30 pm

May 5 - The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State - Book talk with Emmaia Gelman at Kaplan Hall 193 at 5 pm.

April 2026

April 2 - Dr. Sherena Razek at Haines Hall 352 (Lunch at 12 pm; Event start at 12:15 - 1:45 pm)

April 15 - Dr. Samah Saleh at Royce Hall 306 (12:00 pm)

March 2026

March 5 - Dr. Omar Zahzah at Rolfe 2125 (4:00 pm)

March 9 - Dr. Areej Sabbagh-Khouri at Rolfe 2125 (12 pm)

February 2026

February 4 - Dr. Lana Tatour at Charles E. Young Research Library Room 11360 (2:00 pm)

February 26 - If I Must Die: Public Health, Power, and Palestine (5:30 pm)

January 2026

January 20 - Dr. Lara Sheehi at Royce 306 (5:30 pm)

November 2025

November 13 - Revisiting Zionism as a Form of Racism and Racial Discrimination with Noura Erakat at Ackerman Grand Ballroom (5:30 pm)

October 2025

October 14 - Sahq, Dirt, Shaheed: Queer Poetics and Palestinian Resistance with Dr. Mejdulene Bernard Shomali at 1500 Public Affairs (12:30 pm)

October 16 - Dabke Workshop with El-Funoun Popular Dance Troupe at Legacy Room, John Wooden Center (3 pm)

October 24 - Rememberment: Palestine in Real Time with Jasbir Puar and Dima Srouji at Lani Hall (4 pm)

July 2025

July 19 - Bye Bye Tiberias at the Billy Wilder Theater (7:30pm) hosted by the UCLA Film and Television Archive

May 2025

May 1 - Maura Finkelstein Talk in Haines Hall, Room 352 (12:00pm - 1:30pm) hosted by Anthropology
May 7 - Distinguished Lecture in Ideas and Organizing: Naomi Klein (6:30pm - 8:00pm) hosted by the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy
May 8 - Lara Deeb Talk in Haines Hall, Room 352 (12:00pm - 1:30pm) hosted by Anthropology
May 9 - From Ground Zero in Kinsey Pavillion, Room 1220B (2:00pm) hosted by the Center for the Study of Women May 15 - Jennifer Mogannam Talk in Haines Hall, Room 352 (12:00pm - 1:30pm) hosted by Anthropology

April 2025

April 2 - Jewish Critiques of Zionism and the Weaponization of Antisemitism (6:30pm) hosted by Critical Race Studies at the Law School
April 3 - State-building, Genocide, and Plans: Researching Israel’s Distribution of Stability and Violence with Dr. Kareem Rabie in Haines Hall, Room 352 (12:00pm - 1:30pm) hosted by Anthropology
CANCELLED - The Politics of “Race, Ethnicity and Politics” with Yasmeen Abu-Laban hosted by Political Science
April 10 - Munira Khayyat - After the End of the World: Another Season of War in South Lebanon in Haines Hall, Room 352 (12:00pm - 1:30pm) hosted by Anthropology
CANCELLED - Sahq, Dirt, Shaheed: Queer Poetics and Palestinian Resistance with Mejdulene Bernard Shomali hosted by the Center for the Study of Women April 17 - Maya Wind Talk in Haines Hall, Room 352 (12:00pm - 1:30pm) hosted by Anthropology
April 24 - Hadeel Assali Talk in Haines Hall, Room 352 (12:00pm - 1:30pm) hosted by Anthropology
April 26 - Palestine Blues at the Billy Wilder Theater (7:30pm) hosted by the UCLA Film and Television Archive
April 28 - Ussama Makdisi - Gaza, Genocide, and the Palestine Exception in Royce Hall, Room 314 (12:00pm - 1:30pm) hosted by History
POSTPONED - Jasbir Puar and Dima Khalidi Talk hosted by English

March 2025

March 4 - Listening to the Dead: Methods of Studying Genocide in Kaufman Hall, Room 200 (12:00pm - 1:30pm) hosted by the Center for the Study of Woman POSTPONED - Diana Greenwald Talk hosted by Political Science

February 2025

February 8 - Our Oracle-Ruin: The Arabic Poetic Tradition in Light of Gaza in Royce Hall, Room 306 (3:00pm – 5:00pm) hoted by English, Comparative Literature, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and the Edward Said Chair in Comparative Literature
February 10 - Karam Dana on ‘To Stand With Palestine: Transnational Resistance and Political Evolution in the United States’ in Bunche Hall, Room 4357 (12:15pm - 1:30pm) hosted by Political Science

December 2024

December 13 - Poetics in Refusal of Settler Life: Mahmoud Darwish and the Question of Palestine (12:30pm) hosted by English

November 2024

November 12 - Invited to Witness Book Talk with Jennifer Lynn Kelly on Zoom (3:30pm - 5:00pm) hosted by Gender Studies

October 2024

October 1 - Out of Place: A Marathon Reading at the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden (Oct 1, 9am – Oct 2, 9am)
October 11 - Dawayer with Huda Asfour at Lani Hall (6:30pm - 8:00pm)