Past Events

  • Release of 2026 Berggruen Governance Index: The Four Worlds of Governance

    UCLA Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles

    Overview   Join us for the release of the 2026 Berggruen Governance Index at UCLA. The 2026 Berggruen Governance Index measures the relationship between quality of democracy, quality of government, and quality of life across 140+ countries from 2000 to 2023. Its central finding: governance performance is strikingly persistent. The world divides into four distinct… Continue Reading Release of 2026 Berggruen Governance Index: The Four Worlds of Governance

  • LGBTQ+ Equality and the 2025 Landscape

    UCLA Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles

    Join us on May 20th for a Luskin Lecture featuring LGBTQ+ rights leader Tony Hoang, who will share the high points of the fight for full lived equality and identify how to defend against efforts to dismantle the progress.

  • Luskin Lecture by Historian and Activist Barbara Ransby

    UCLA Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles

    Noted writer and historian will explore inter-institutional ideas and organizing in the Institute on Inequality and Democracy's 2nd annual Distinguished Lecture in Ideas and Organizing.

  • Exhibition of Photos by Former Foster Youth

    UCLA Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles

    RSVP-only opening reception will launch weeklong gallery showing in Kerckhoff Art Gallery.

  • Journey for Water, Climate and Environmental Justice

    UCLA Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles

    This Luskin Lecture features MacArthur "genius" activist Catherine Coleman Flowers and her community-driven work on inadequate water and sanitation infrastructure in rural communities in the U.S.

  • Art Exhibit and Panel Discussion on Sexual Violence Awareness

    UCLA Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles

    Student-led team from UCLA will host an event and art exhibition in response to growing discrimination against Asian communities and the mental health challenges in the aftermath of COVID-19.

  • Shifting Focus: Organizing for an EcoSocialist Future

    UCLA Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles

    Join the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs at a UC Regents' Lecture by Kali Akuno, organizer, educator, writer, and advocate for human rights, social justice and economic democracy.

  • Cultural Reparation: The Last-Mile Solution to Our Climate Crisis

    UCLA Kerckhoff Hall Grand Salon 308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles

    In this UC Regents' Lecture, sustainable development practitioner Denise Fairchild will introduce her new Climate Breakthrough project aimed at advancing transformative solutions to the climate crisis.