2019 UCLA Luskin Commencement

UCLA Royce Hall 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles, CA, United States

UCLA Luskin faculty, staff and alumni will join family members in celebrating the Class of 2019 at the ceremony in Royce Hall.

Minor Geographies & the Activist Mode of Existence

Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin invites you to join Michele Lancione to explore how or if it is even it possible to be an 'activist' and a 'researcher' at the same time.

ITS Fall Lecture Series: California High-Speed Rail

Room 2343 Public Affairs Building 337 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA, United States

The California High-Speed Rail program is an ambitious, controversial, and troubled project. It could shape the future of transportation in California and it could fail.

Book Talk: Rethinking How Democratic Systems Work

Authors Nicolas Berggruen and Nathan Gardels will discuss their ideas for an alternative framework for governance during "Renovating Democracy: Governing in the Age of Globalization and Digital Capitalism."

ITS Fall Lecture Series: Where to Put the Port?

UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Room 5391 337 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Los Angeles lacks a natural harbor and yet San Pedro Bay grew into one of the world’s great ports.

ITS Fall Lecture Series: Drive to Precarity

Room 2343 Public Affairs Building 337 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Since 1909, chauffeur corporations—from the Taxicab Company to Uber—underwent formative re-organizations to shift the liabilities and responsibilities of business onto workers.

Olympics and the Poor

Los Angeles Community Action Network 838 East 6th Street, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Organizers from Japan and Los Angeles will speak about policing and the rights of the unhoused, highlighting how the Olympics have impacted the poor in cities around the world.

10 Questions: What Is Community?

Kaufman Hall 120 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States

The UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture presents "10 Questions," with Jennifer Ferro, Kevin Kane and Ananya Roy, who will join Victoria Marks to explore the question "What is Community?"

Tobacco and LGBTQ Communities

LA LGBT Center, Hollywood 1125 N McCadden Place, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Ian Holloway, director of the Hub for Health Intervention, Policy and Practice at UCLA, joins experts and advocates focusing on tobacco use in LGBTQ communities.