Out and About

The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television welcomes a stellar group of international costume designers, among them this year’s Academy Award nominees, to discuss their craft.

Voters in Los Angeles City Council District 14 will be able to attend two candidate forums sponsored by UCLA Government and Community Relations to hear from those running for a seat on the city council.

District Attorney Jackie Lacey will speak on the Criminal Justice Mental Health Project for the third annual Winston C. Doby Distinguished Lecture.

The UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations welcomes best-selling author James Mann to discuss his latest book.

'Fragments of Extinction: An Environmental Sound-Art Project on the Acoustic Biodiversity of Rainforests' will be presented on Thursday, Feb. 26, 5:30 p.m. at the California NanoSystems Institute.

As a part of its series on the films of DeMille, the UCLA Film and Television Archive screens “Union Pacific” Feb. 20, 7:30 p.m. at the Billy Wilder Theater.

Join fellow Bruins, family and friends on Sunday, March 8, for the 2nd Annual UCLA True Bruin Move and Groove 5K.

Professor Alicia Gaspar de Alba of the UCLA Cesar E. Chavez Department of Chicana/o Studies will discuss her new book on Jan. 28, 3-5 p.m. in the Chicano Studies Research Center Library, 144 Haines Hall.

Advance tickets are just $2 for UCLA Women’s Basketball's 9th Annual Play 4 Kay Breast Cancer Awareness game versus Arizona State on Friday, Feb 20, 7 p.m., at Pauley Pavilion.

UCLA Musicology will open the floodgates of Bruin faculty and student musical talent Thursday, Jan. 29 with “UCLA Sings!” The free concert launches a two-day conference.

Join the UCLA Department of History for a panel discussion on World War I in the Fowler Museum's Lenart Auditorium on January 27 at 7 p.m. UCLA's James Gelvin, Ivan T. Berend and Geoffrey Symcox will be speaking.

Author and investigative journalist James Bramford, best known for his writing about the National Security Agency (NSA), will give two talks at UCLA as part of Data Privacy Month.

Law professor Cheryl Harris will moderate a faculty discussion on race and social inequality Wednesday, Jan. 14, at 5:30 p.m. in Royce Hall 314. The event is free and open to the public.

Victoria Dailey discusses the history and cultural impacts of Los Angeles' most iconic tree in "Piety and Perversity: the Palms of Los Angeles." The Clark Quarterly Lecture takes place on Jan. 15 at 4 p.m. at UCLA's William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

'Rocks in my Pockets,' the new animated film by Latvian-born artist and filmmaker Signe Baumane, at a free screening on Monday, Jan. 12, 7 p.m. at Melnitz Hall.

UCLA Fowler Museum guest curator David Herlihy will describe the lives and adventures of 19th Century bicycle pioneers William L. Sachtleben and Thomas G. Allen Jr. on Sunday, Jan. 11 at 3 p.m.

The Hammer presents the ‘The Contenders,’ the Museum of Modern Art’s renowned exhibition of films representing the best of the past year’s mainstream movies, independents, foreign-language films, documentaries and art-house sensations.

UC Berkeley scholar Robert Alter visits UCLA to present 'The Challenge of Translating the Bible' on Jan. 8, 7:30 p.m., and 'The Story of David and Bathsheba' on Jan. 10, 10:30 a.m.

On Jan. 25, the Fowler Museum at UCLA will open its doors to children and birds alike with its event “Kids in the Courtyard: Purdy Birdy.”

Daniel Blumstein, professor and chair of the UCLA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, will do a talk at Nerd Night L.A. on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 7:45 p.m. at The Mint, 6010 Pico Blvd., Los Angeles.

The UCLA Film and Television Archive will be closing out its series, “Through Indian Eyes: Native American Cinema,” with the screening of “California Indian” on Monday, Dec. 15, at 7:30 p.m. at the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum.

Meet and learn from tech experts from all across campus at UCLA's Bruin Tech-a-Thon, a free mini-conference on Thursday, Dec. 11, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. in the Math Sciences building.   A wide range of topics will be discussed in 30-minute presentations

UCLA Film and Television Archive will showcase the Australian film, "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert," as part of the Outfest UCLA Legacy Project on Thursday, Dec. 12, 7:30 pm. at the Hammer Museum's Billy Wilder Theater.

Learn about the complex interrelatedness of Judaism, Christianity and Islam in a presentation at UCLA on Thursday, Dec. 11, 4-6 p.m. at Charles E. Young Research Library, Room 11360.

Marvel Comics luminaries Stan Lee and Roy Thomas will join director Kevin Smith on Saturday, Dec. 6, 2 p.m., at the Hammer Museum for a discussion of the venerable publisher’s long history.