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.
Events for Jun 16 - Nov 14
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ITS Fall Lecture Series: California High-Speed Rail
Room 2343 Public Affairs Building 337 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesThe 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 StatesLos 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 StatesSince 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 StatesOrganizers 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 StatesThe 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 StatesIan Holloway, director of the Hub for Health Intervention, Policy and Practice at UCLA, joins experts and advocates focusing on tobacco use in LGBTQ communities.
ITS Fall Lecture Series: Scootershare, Carshare, Bikeshare, and the Role of Public Policy
Room 2343 Public Affairs Building 337 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesCities have learned a lot from pilot projects in search of more effective tools to manage new private-sector transportation providers.
ITS Fall Lecture Series: How to Make Money Moving People Around Cities
Room 2343 Public Affairs Building 337 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesWhile private-mobility providers struggle to survive financially, they have nonetheless introduced many new innovations to improve mobility, reduce emissions, and even improve transportation equity.
