Out and About

Astrophysicist and author Jeffrey Bennett, winner of the American Institute of Physics Science Communication Award, will discuss the science and consequences of global warming Tuesday, Feb. 21, at 7 p.m. in UCLA’s Physics and Astronomy Building, room 1-425.

The UCLA Film and Television Archive will highlight the significance of women in film in the 1970s and 1980s at the Billy Wilder Theater.

UCLA’s own Josephine Leah, student, musician, actress and model, is known her sultry, dark pop songs fused with undertones of soul. She'll be performing new original material as well.

Nonny de la Peña, founder of Emblematic Group, will speak Wednesday, Feb. 15, at the Billy Wilder Theater on the use of digital reality technologies in journalism and story-telling.

The V-Day Coalition at UCLA will be staging "Lips" at Northwest Campus Auditorium. Doors for the show will open at 7 p.m. and the show will start at 7:30 p.m.

Nathan Call, a psychologist and researcher of severe behavior disorders and director of the Behavior Treatment Clinics at Marcus Autism Center at Emory University, will speak Wednesday, Feb. 22, on dealing with common problem behaviors in childhood.

“MAESTRA” is a 33-minute documentary that explores the experience of nine women in Havana, Cuba, who, as young girls, taught in the Cuban Literacy Campaign of 1961, a movement that changed the nation.

Catherine Opie, fine arts photographer and photography professor at UCLA, discusses her life and work at Annenberg Space for Photography’s Skylight Studios.

Inspired by experimental performances of the 1960s, “TELETHON” is a participatory performance staged in front of a live audience, who will hear the sounds of dial tones, ringing, voicemail and voices asking about feminism.

UCLA law professors Carole Goldberg and Angela Riley will discuss tribal sovereignty and Indian rights at the Hammer Museum, 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 1.

UCLA Recreation FITWELL and Staff Assembly want to support your "new year, new you" resolutions with a fun and energizing “learn-at-lunch” event.

Join UCLA historian Benjamin Madley for a conversation on his book "An American Genocide" that chronicles the decline of the Californian indigenous population throughout the 1800s.

Athletes will start in regular intervals and compete against the clock to compare their times against those of some of the top collegiate triathletes in California.

For the past ten years, cityLAB - UCLA has been at the center of city architecture innovation, particularly in Los Angeles. The cityLAb Times Ten exhibition will showcase the lab’s research on some of the critical challenges facing the 21st century.

Are we facing a constitutional crisis? Or is the president simply exercising the robust power of his position, which was conferred by the people? A CrossCheck Live panel of UCLA law faculty will take up these questions and others.

“At the Center of the World” features nearly 200 works, dating from 1970 to the present, presented for the first time in North America.

Join Marc Lynch, professor of political science at George Washington University, for a lecture on Syria and the new Arab wars on Thursday, Feb. 2, at 2 p.m. in Bunche Hall.

Don’t miss your chance to engage with the next generation of cultural leaders.

The Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA is hosting a series of events held in honor of Black History Month.

Join Dr. Anne Schuchat, acting director for the Centers for Disease Control for a discussion on the inevitability of health threats and the preventability of global health catastrophes.

CEO of AARP Jo Ann Jenkins seeks to "disrupt aging" with a fresh outlook on the nation's increasingly older population — and how society will change as a result.

A 45-minute set of original music written by the members of the ensemble from the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance at UCLA will be followed by an open jam session.

The first American exhibition on pantsula, "Pantsula 4 LYF: Popular Dance and Fashion in Johannesburg," will open at the UCLA Fowler Museum  and feature a series of photographs and videos taken by South African photographer Chris Saunders that examine ...

This year's Alden-Berg Lecture will feature Benjamin Madley, UCLA associate professor of history and American Indian studies. He is the author of "An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe."

Founded in 2008, the Israeli Chamber Project brings together some of today’s most distinguished musicians for chamber music concerts and educational and outreach programs both in Israel and abroad.