UCLA School of Education & Information Studies

Exploring Critical Media Literacy and the Climate Crisis with Jeff Share, Ph.D.
2025-08-10 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum, 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, California, 90230, United States
In this session we will explore the role of media in shaping our ideas and policies related to the environment and the climate crisis. From climate disinformation to corporate greenwashing and from Indigenous rights to global youth activism, media are promoting positive and negative messages about the natural world and the environmental challenges. During this interactive workshop we will discuss how different worldviews have influenced our relationships with nature from the past and into the present. We will also address the importance of biophilia (the love of nature) as it relates to the global legal movement for the Rights of Nature and engage in an activity of media production.

The event is free and open to the public.

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UC|CSU Collaborative for Neuroscience, Diversity, and Learning Summer 2025 Webinar Series: Rethinking School Phone Policies: Supporting Student Learning and Health through Developmental Science
2025-08-07 15:00 - 16:00
With a wave of new cell phone bans sweeping across California schools, educators, education leaders, and families are navigating big questions about how digital habits shape students’ development. This session explores the intersection of digital habits and self-regulation, with a focus on how constant connectivity can impact students’ ability to manage attention, emotions, and social interactions. Grounded in the neuroscience of adolescent development, Dr. Kathy Do will share research on how cell phone use affects students’ self-regulation and well-being. Dr. Joe Bishop will then highlight policies and practices that support healthier digital habits in and out of the classroom.

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EcoRise Summer Teacher Ambassador Program
2025-07-20 00:00 - 2025-07-23 23:59 | UCLA Moore Hall, 457 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, California, 90095
Ed&IS is co-hosting a Teacher and Admin Summer Ambassador Program. This program brings teachers and administrators from all over the US together each summer. EcoRise Ambassadors are experienced educators who have demonstrated a strong interest in and commitment to eco-justice work at their school sites.

Integrating AI: The Future of Math Education (Grades 4-12)
2025-07-08 08:00 - 2025-07-09 08:00 | Da Vinci Schools, 201 N Douglas St., El Segundo, California, 90245, United States
July 8 & 9, 2025

8:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Da Vinci Schools201 N Douglas St, El Segundo, CA 90245

Participants will discover how AI can personalize learning, enhance problem-solving, and foster student engagement. Through hands-on activities and discussions, teachers will learn to use AI-driven platforms, adapt lesson plans for modern technologies, and prepare students for a data-driven future.

Fee: $395

UC|CSU Collaborative for Neuroscience, Diversity, and Learning Summer 2025 Webinar Series: The Science of Self-Regulation: Understanding Development and Supporting Growth
2025-06-26 15:30 - 16:30
Join Dr. Jennie Grammer for an engaging session on the science of self-regulation—how we manage thoughts, emotions, and behaviors across childhood and adolescence. Drawing on research from neuroscience, education, and developmental psychology, this talk will unpack the building blocks of self-regulation, including executive functions, emotion regulation, and behavior. Dr. Grammer will explore how these skills develop over time, how they’re shaped by context and individual differences, and why they matter for learning, behavior, and well-being. Participants will leave with practical insights into how to support self-regulation through developmentally informed, evidence-based strategies.

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Writing Project Summer Invitational 2025
2025-06-23 09:00 - 2025-07-17 09:00
Become a member of our Writing Project Community!

JUNE 23 – JULY 17, 2025Monday – Thursday, 9AM – 3:30PM at UCLATwo Pre-Institute meetings, dates TBA

Refine, elevate, and celebrate how you teach writing. Join other educators in the greater Los Angeles area who put students center stage. The UCLA Writing Project invites you to apply for our Summer Invitational Institute where you’ll be immersed in the teaching of writing. You will demonstrate your own prized practices, learn from a wonderful group of colleagues, and develop your own writing craft. Issues of social justice will be both the backdrop and foreground of our endeavors. We’ll point to the intersection of race and language. We’ll cultivate a space for educational dialogue centered on anti-racism and anti-racist teaching of writing. We’ll take advantage of curated resources, spend the summer with kindred spirits who choose joy over cynicism. English, social studies, mathematics, world language teachers, and all teachers of multi-lingual learners—this Project is for all of us!

What We’ll Do During the Invitational

Experience workshops centered on what really works in our teaching of writing.

Write—in a variety of genres—and engage in a small writing group for attention, appreciation and suggestions for the next draft.

Participate in a small-group Professional Literature Circle.

Curate a collection of teaching strategies to reach ALL of our students.

Explore what affirming our students’ gender identities means.

Engage in critical conversations about combating anti-black racism in the classroom and in the teaching of writing.

We’ll make lifelong professional connections.

Learn from colleagues who teach the full span of grade levels.

UCLA Writing Project Fellowship

Ed&IS Commencement
2025-06-14 12:30 - 18:30 | Wilson Plaza, 221 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States
12:30 PM (Undergraduate) & 4:30 PM (Graduate)

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Spring Quarter Instruction Ends
2025-06-13 00:00 - 23:59

UCLA Ed&IS Alumni Reception 2025
2025-06-10 16:00 - 18:00 | UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, Courtyard South, 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States
You are cordially invited to the UCLA School of Education & Information Studies Spring Alumni Reception. Don’t miss the opportunity to network with fellow alumni and faculty!

Hosted by Dr. Tina Christie, UCLA Wasserman Dean of Education and Information Studies

Early-Career Scholar Series Presenter: Jin Wang Ph.D. and Advanced-Career Scholar Facilitator Maryanne Wolf Ph.D.
2025-06-06 10:00 - 11:00 | UCLA Moore Hall, Room 3320
In this talk, we will introduce a new study we are planning to conduct in regard to the longitudinal relationship between the neural basis of semantic processing and word reading skills in monolingual English-speaking children aged from 5 to 7 to 9 years old using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). This study will be an extension of Dr. Wang’s dissertation work where she primarily focused on the longitudinal relationship between the neural basis of phonological awareness and word reading skills. This dissertation work provided systematic neural evidence clarifying the mechanism of why phonetic training facilitates word reading. She hopes that this new neural study can address whether semantic knowledge is crucial in the early stage of word reading and if so, what the mechanism could be. Dr. Wang is currently working on a pre-registration for this paper and has not yet looked at the data, she welcomes any suggestions/critics about the idea formation, hypotheses, and data analyses plan. This study is based on an existing Open Dataset on monolingual English-speaking children. In the next years after her Ph.D. students on board, she is interested in collecting pilots and exploring the longitudinal interaction between language skills (e.g., phonology and semantics) and reading skills in multilingual populations. Any collaborations are also welcome.

Jin Wang is an assistant professor in the department of education at UCLA started July 2024. She earned her Ph.D. in the Department of Psychology and Human Development at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College in 2022 and did her post doc at Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research focuses on language development in children from infancy to early elementary years and its relations to reading skills using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

Please direct questions to Dr. Deborah Southern, desouth@ucla.edu

Pride Talk: Strengthening Support Networks for LGBTQ+ Youth
2025-06-05 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
Join us for a transformative talk dedicated to enhancing support systems for LGBTQ+ youth. This event will bring together campus and community leaders to explore effective strategies and share resources aimed at fostering a nurturing and inclusive environment for young people. Whether you are a professional working with youth or a community member committed to inclusivity, your participation can make a meaningful difference in shaping a more accepting and supportive future for LGBTQ+ youth. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, learn, and empower!

Spring Cleaning Social
2025-06-04 12:00 - 13:00 | UCLA Moore Hall Reading Room, 457 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
OJEDI invites all Ed&IS faculty, staff, and students to celebrate the end of the year with food, music, and books! Bring a book you would like to swap.

Viet Storytelling Festival: Celebrating 50 Years of the Diaspora and Our Oral Traditions
2025-05-31 14:00 - 17:00 | Echo Park Branch Library, 1410 West Temple Street, Los Angeles, California, 90026
Join us for an afternoon of storytelling events, featuring Viet language and culture. This is a free bilingual, intergenerational, community event with bilingual children’s storytimes, arts and crafts, a workshop for caregivers and preschool/kindergarten teachers, an oral history booth, and storytelling by older community members. There will also be a resource and book fair, and free snacks. Participate for a chance to win amazing raffle prizes, such as books about Chú Cuội, puzzles featuring the Viet zodiac, and more! All participants will receive goodie bags (while supplies last), and parents and caregivers who participate in the focus group will also receive gift cards. All ages are welcome to attend!

This event is made possible through the UCLA Center for Community Engagement’s Social Impact Collaborative Exploratory grant awarded to PI Thuy Vo Dang (Information Studies) and Co-PI Thu-Huong Nguyen-vo (Asian Languages and Cultures). It is the culminating event of a yearlong partnership between UCLA, Viet Storytime Club (VSC), the Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL), and the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA).

Black LGBT Los Angeles Oral History Panel with Community Leaders
2025-05-29 14:00 - 16:00 | Young Research Library, West Electronic Classroom, 280 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States
Join UCLA Library Special Collections as participants in the Black Los Angeles LGBT Oral History Project speak about their work establishing organizations that address the needs of Black LGBT communities in Los Angeles.

The Black LGBT Los Angeles Oral History Project was conducted to document Black LGBT history in Los Angeles via oral testimony. Participants Byron Johns, Yolanda Whittington and Phill Wilson will share their experiences establishing community organizations in support of Black LGBT folks who faced unique experiences in Los Angeles during the 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s. Interviewer Byron Johns will discuss his role in the project and possibilities for future projects.

Light refreshments will be served.

A Public Gathering: Reparative Memories - Communities in Crisis & Archival Care
2025-05-22 13:00 - 16:30 | UCLA Botanical Gardens, La Kretz Garden Pavilion & Herbert Plaza, 707 Tiverton Dr, Los Angeles, California, 90024, United States
Please join us for an afternoon of conversation and deep listening as Memory Workers across six University of California campuses share their collaborative work.

Convened by Co-PIs Crystal Mun-hye Baik (UCR) and Thuy Vo Dang (UCLA), this public event is the culmination of a yearlong initiative funded by the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI). Reparative Memories: Communities in Crisis is an interdisciplinary working group of humanities scholars, archivists, librarians, seed stewards, and cultural memory workers. We are committed to working with communities whose histories, memories, and cultural heritage are threatened by systemic violence including war, militarism, and carceral violence.

Light Refreshments will be served.

OJEDI Academic Symposia
2025-05-22 09:00 - 11:30 | Zoom
Please join the Office of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion for its annual research symposium. This year’s presenters will be the 2024-25 recipients of the Scholarship for Research on Black Life. This scholarship is open for all Ed&IS undergraduate and graduate students and highlights individuals whose demonstrated service and research is related to Black life. The 2024-25 Scholars will have a research presentation and Q&A, and we will also announce the 2025-2026 scholarship recipients.

Inaugural UCLA LPPI Latino Policy Day 2025
2025-05-15 12:00 - 17:30 | UCLA Hershey Hall, Hershey Salon, 801 Hilgard Ave, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States
Join us at UCLA LPPI’s inaugural Latino Policy Day to introduce the UCLA community (students, faculty, staff, and alumni) to groundbreaking work that LPPI has supported in the areas of housing and homeownership, education, and immigration and health. Panels will feature our faculty experts and issue-specific leaders.

Program Agenda:

12:00 PM Lunch and Alumni Panel

Moderator: Estrella Torres, policy fellow, UCLA LPPI

Panelist: Jose Alvarez, senior associate, Estolano Advisors

Panelist: Heidy Melchor, district office liaison, LA City Council Office of Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez

Panelist: Lupe Renteria Salome, data analyst, USC Equity Research Institute

1:00 PM Welcome Remarks

Dr. Arturo Vargas Bustamante, faculty director of research, UCLA LPPI

1:15 PM Latinos in California’s Community College Bachelor’s Degree Programs: What We Know So Far (45 min.)

Presentation by Dr. Cecilia Rios-Aguilar, professor and associate dean of equity, diversity, and Inclusion, UCLA School of Education and Information Studies

Panel Discussion:

Moderator: Dr. Silvia González, director of research, UCLA Latino Policy and Politics

Panelist: Dr. Cecilia Rios-Aguilar, professor and associate dean of equity, diversity, and inclusion, UCLA School of Education and Information Studies

Panelist: Dr. Patricia Ramos, dean of academic affairs, Santa Monica College

Panelist: Dr. Elizabeth Gonzalez, chief program & strategy officer, College Futures Foundation

2:00 PM Break (15 min.)

2:15 PM House Rich, Access Poor: Refinancing Challenges for Latino and Black Homeowners in Los Angeles County (45 min.)

Presentation by Dr. Jose Loya, assistant professor, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, featuring Gabriella Carmona, senior research analyst, UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Panel Discussion:

Moderator/Panelist: Gabriella Carmona, senior research analyst, UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Panelist: Dr. Jose Loya, assistant professor, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs

Panelist: Jonathan Sanabria, program officer, Conrad Hilton Foundation

Panelist: Noerena Limon, chief executive pfficer, Casita Coalition

3:00 PM Break (15 min.)

3:15 PM Expanding Insurance to all Immigrants: Lessons from Illinois’ HBIA/HBIS (45 min.)

Presentation by Dr. Aresha Martinez, assistant professor, University of Chicago Department of Public Health Sciences

Panel Discussion:

Moderator: Dr. Arturo Bustamante, faculty director of research, UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

Panelist: Dr. Aresha Martinez, assistant professor, University of Chicago Department of Public Health Sciences

Panelist: Dr. Joaquin Arambula (D-Fresno), assemblymember, California State Legislature

Panelist: Mar Velez, director, Latino Coalition for Healthy California

4:00 PM Closing Remarks

Dr. Amada Armenta, faculty director, UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute

4:15 PM Reception

5:30 PM End

Early-Career Scholar Series Presenter: Deborah Southern Ph.D. and Advanced-Career Scholar Facilitator Ananda Marin Ph.D.
2025-05-09 10:00 - 11:00 | UCLA Moore Hall, Room 3320
In this session, Dr. Southern will workshop a critical examination of whiteness (CEW) methodological framework which can be used to identify empirical evidence of whiteness via qualitative research. Combining critical concepts of whiteness with qualitative methods, the CEW methodological framework informs critical research design and sensitizes researchers to identify and examine whiteness throughout the data collection and data analysis process, even when participants are unaware of whiteness or its manifestations within their organization. Dr. Southern welcomes feedback, questions, and reflections on the clarity and use of the methodological framework.

Dr. Deborah E. Southern (she/her) is a University of California Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Education and Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies. As a higher education scholar and qualitative researcher, Dr. Southern examines organizations and change, and how organizational transformation is possibly facilitated or restrained by mechanisms, culture, and leaders. One important contribution of Dr. Southern’s research examines how power like whiteness in institutions via areas like organizational structures, practices, and leaders’ comfort works to obstruct transformative change.

Refreshments will be served. Please direct questions to Dr. Deborah Southern, desouth@ucla.edu

Information Studies Colloquium: The Art History of the Storage Unit: Processing the AIDS-Related Stewardship of Family and Friends with Alex Fialho
2025-05-08 14:00 - 16:00 | UCLA Moore Hall, Reading Room, 3340, 457 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States
Abstract:

My dissertation Apertures onto AIDS: African American Photography and the Art History of the Storage Unit narrates the intimate stories and archival efforts of families and friends who have cared for AIDS-related artworks, stewarding them in storage units, under beds, and in basements over several decades. In relation to these personal provenances amidst AIDS-related loss, my research develops an analytic I term “the art history of the storage unit.” I want to consider together the stakes of why and how these artworks by African American artists have been stewarded and cared for in personal and familial collections, outside the purview of museums and other archival institutions that due to erasure and white supremacy have often overlooked these objects.

Bio:

Alex Fialho is a PhD candidate in Yale University’s Combined PhD program in the History of Art and African American Studies. As an art historian and curator, Fialho focuses on modern and contemporary art, Black queer and feminist thought, and AIDS cultural studies. His dissertation “Apertures Onto AIDS: African American Photography and the Art History of the Storage Unit” animates AIDS-related histories through the lens of artists Lola Flash, Darrel Ellis, Lyle Ashton Harris, and Kia LaBeija. He was a 2023–2024 Helena Rubinstein Critical Studies Fellow in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. Based in Los Angeles, Fialho is a 2024–2025 Predoctoral Fellow at the Getty Research Institute and the 2025–2026 Luce/ACSL Ellen Holtzman Dissertation Fellow in American Art.

*Fialho worked as Programs Director of the New York-based arts non-profit Visual AIDS from 2014–2019, facilitating projects around the history and immediacy of the ongoing AIDS pandemic, while intervening against the widespread whitewashing of HIV/AIDS cultural narratives. As an Oral Historian for the Smithsonian Archives of American Art’s Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project, he conducted in-depth oral histories with fifteen cultural producers including Ron Athey, Douglas Crimp, Nan Goldin, Lyle Ashton Harris, and Julie Tolentino.

Ed&IS Faculty and Staff Appreciation Event
2025-05-06 11:30 - 13:30
We’re looking forward to celebrating you with a special afternoon featuring:

🍽️ Delicious food

🎶 Music

🎖️Raffles

💬 Great company

💙 Heartfelt recognition and appreciation

If you haven’t had a chance to RSVP, please do so by April 15th at 11:59 PM so we can finalize our preparations.

📅 Tuesday, May 6, 2025🕦 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM📍 Founders’ Room & Patio | James West Alumni Center

🔹 RSVP Here: https://forms.office.com/r/8FXtQUmDTT

POSTPONED: Breslauer Lecture: Indigenous Knowledge and the Limits of Translation: Mexican Manuscripts in Early Modern Collections
2025-05-01 17:00 - 19:00 | UCLA Moore Hall, Reading Room, 3340, 457 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States
Abstract:

This talk discusses the circulation and reception of Indigenous manuscripts in Mexico and Europe from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Indigenous authors in pre-contact and early colonial Mexico created pictorial manuscripts that record Native knowledge in image and word. Collectively, these documents constitute an incomparable Indigenous archive. They entered private and institutional collections on both sides of the Atlantic, provoking a great deal of interest. However, their reception in early modern Europe almost without exception reached interpretive dead ends. Poised at the intersection of Indigenous studies, the history of books and libraries, and the history of knowledge production, this talk discusses the trajectories of several Mexican manuscripts to address questions of materiality, mobility, and the possibilities and limits of translation and interpretation. It follows Indigenous manuscripts in movement and stasis, as knowledge inscriptions and as potential sources for knowledge production, to consider the flow and friction of Mesoamerican Indigenous objects and practices in the early modern world.

Speaker: Daniela Bleichmar

Professor of Art History and History; Founding Director, Levan Institute for the Humanities; Director, USC Society of Fellows in the Humanities; University of Southern California

Speaker Bio:

Daniela Bleichmar is Professor of Art History and History at the University of Southern California. Her research and teaching address the history of images, objects, and texts in colonial Latin America and early modern Europe, focusing on the histories of visual and material culture; science and knowledge production; circulation, encounters, and exchanges; collections; and books. Her publications include the books Visible Empire: Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment (2012) and Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin (2017).

Design-Based Learning Info Session
2025-04-29 16:30 - 17:30
Free online information session to learn about the Design-Based Learning methodology. Teachers, administrators, and specialists are welcome! Hear from David Cameron, a high school science teacher, who uses DBL in his classroom. Learn about how Design-Based Learning supports student engagement, MTSS, expanded learning opportunities, English language learners across the curriculum, and all grade-levels.

AERA Reception 2025
2025-04-25 17:30 - 19:30 | West Saloon and Kitchen, 501 16th St, Denver, Colorado, 80202, United States
Don’t miss the perfect opportunity to connect and network with fellow UCLA Alumni, Faculty, Students, and Staff

Hosted by Cecilia Rios-Aguilar, Ph.D., Chair, UCLA Department of Education

Information Studies Colloquium: The Weight of Small Things: Everyday Archiving and the Making of Belonging in Chinese American Families with Jiarui Sun
2025-04-24 14:00 - 16:00 | UCLA Moore Hall, Reading Room, 3340, 457 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States
Abstract:

This talk explores the everyday archiving practices of Chinese American families, with particular attention to their transnational and intergenerational dimensions. Drawing on interviews, ethnographic observations, and personal narratives, it examines how family members across different generations and geographies engage with documents, photographs, digital records, and heirlooms—not only as sources of information, but also as emotionally charged objects that carry meaning, memory, and identity. The analysis focuses on how these materials are preserved, interpreted, and at times contested across borders and generations, situating such practices within complex negotiations of belonging, displacement, and cultural continuity. Family archives are framed as sites of emotional labor and diasporic care, highlighting their affective, relational, and infrastructural dimensions. Rather than being solely about safeguarding the past, the talk positions family archiving as a practice through which diasporic futures are imagined, constructed, and sustained.

Bio:

Jiarui Sun is a Ph.D. candidate in Information Studies and a graduate student researcher at the Asia Pacific Center at UCLA. His research interests include archives and migration, personal archiving, and digital recordkeeping. His work has been published in both English- and Chinese-language journals, including Archival Science, and has received support from the Society of American Archivists, the Society of California Archivists, the Beta Phi Mu International Honor Society for Library and Information Science, and the UCLA Asian American Studies Center.

Structuring College Access: The Market Segment Model and College Board Geomarkets
2025-04-21 16:00 - 17:30 | UCLA Murphy Hall Room 3312
The Structure of College Choice (Zemsky & Oedel, 1983) created “Geomarkets” and the “Market Segment Model.” Geomarkets carve states and metropolitan areas into smaller geographic units, meant to define local recruiting markets. The Market Segment Model predicts how student demand for a particular college varies by Geomarket, based on the socioeconomic characteristics of households. Geomarkets became an input for two College Board products that help colleges recruit students. First, the Enrollment Planning Service (EPS) software recommends specific Geo-markets and high schools from which colleges should recruit. Second, the Student Search Service sells the contact information of prospective students – referred to as “student lists” – and colleges can filter by Geomarket to determine which prospect profiles they purchase. We draw from scholarship on quantification, particularly the discussions of correlation and homophily by Chun (2021), to conceptualize how recruiting products incorporate Geomarkets.

We address two research questions: What is the socioeconomic and racial variation between Geomarkets and how does this variation change over time? How does the socioeconomic and racial composition of included versus excluded prospects vary when student list purchases filter on particular Geomarkets? We answer RQ1 by analyzing Census data from 1980, 2000, and 2020. We answer RQ2 using data on student lists purchased by public universities, which we collected by issuing public records requests. We utilize a quantitative case study design. Metropolitan areas are cases. Analyses consist of descriptive statistics and interactive maps.

"New Wave" Documentary Screening, Book Signing, and Panel Discussion
2025-04-19 18:30 - 22:00 | Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024, Los Angeles, California, 90024
Q&A with filmmaker Elizabeth Ai, moderated by UCLA Assistant Professor Thuy Vo Dang. Book signing with Ai for the film’s companion publication, “New Wave: Rebellion and Reinvention in the Vietnamese Diaspora,” will begin at 6:30 p.m.

For a group of young, rebellious Vietnamese Americans in the 1970s and 1980s, the struggle to find identity took root in a community of musicians with big hair, vibrant fashion and synthesized beats. A culture clash was born, playing out in the careers and lives of New Wave musicians, documented in Elizabeth Ai’s kinetic film that skillfully weaves together the challenges of intergenerational understanding in the search for the American dream. The anchor of this mesmerizing film is its use of archival materials, a portal into a changing community grappling with transformation. Ai’s role as filmmaker and subject reveals raw personal questions from the aftermath of the Vietnam War, joining a growing artistic and archival response to retelling a community’s experiences and histories.

Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis. The box office opens one hour before the event.

6:30 PM Book Signing

7:30 PM Screening

9:00 PM Panel

Info Session – National Board Certification Support
2025-04-19 10:00 - 11:30
A free information session for educators interested in pursuing National Board Certification in 2025-2026. Find out if National Board Certification is right for you and if UCLA can help to support you on your journey, with our online support cohorts.

Information Studies Colloquium: The Landscape of Data Reuse in Information Retrieval: Motivations, Sources, and Evaluation of Reusability with Tianji Jiang
2025-04-17 14:00 - 16:00 | UCLA Moore Hall, Reading Room, 3340, 457 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States
Abstract:

Sharing and reusing research data can effectively reduce redundant efforts in data collection and curation, especially for small labs and research teams conducting human centered system research, and improve the replicability of evaluation experiments. Building a sustainable data reuse process and culture relies on frameworks that encompass policies, standards, roles, and responsibilities, all of which must address the diverse needs of data providers, curators, and reusers.

Previous studies have found that people’s data sharing and reuse practices differ by the research fields they are in, making it challenging to construct infrastructures that effectively support data sharing in interdisciplinary research communities. As part of his dissertation study, Tianji investigated the data reuse practices of experienced researchers in the field of Information Retrieval (IR), a typically interdisciplinary area where data sharing and reuse are common. This talk will present his preliminary findings from an interview study with 21 researchers from diverse demographic backgrounds, institutions, and career stages, focusing on their motivations, experiences, and concerns regarding data reuse.

Bio:

Tianji Jiang is a doctorate candidate in Information Studies at UCLA, advised by Professor Anne Gilliland. Before joining UCLA, he graduated with his B.M. in Information Management and Information System from Peking University, China in 2019.

Tianji’s research interests focus on research data management, data sharing and reuse, sociometric, academic library services, and digital humanities. He is particularly interested in building community capacity and knowledge infrastructure for data curation, sharing, and reuse through better understanding of people’s data behaviors. Currently he is working on his dissertation “Understanding data reuse practices of IR researchers”. He is also conducting several projects focused on developing tools and methods to identify various data behaviors (e.g., data sharing and data reuse) through bibliographic records.

Tianji Jiang is also working as a research and instruction technology consultant for UCLA Humanities Technology to provide technology support to research and instruction in the division of Humanities.

Early-Career Scholar Series Presenter: Laura Chávez-Moreno Ph.D. and Advanced-Career Scholar Facilitator Daniel Solorzano Ph.D.
2025-04-11 10:00 - 11:00 | UCLA Moore Hall, Room 3320
In this talk, Prof. Laura Chávez-Moreno will present the different strands of her research agenda, exploring the key questions that guide her work. She will also discuss the broader implications of this research for the education field.

Laura Chávez-Moreno is an award-winning scholar, qualitative social scientist, and assistant professor in the Departments of Chicana/o & Central American Studies and Education at the University of California, Los Angeles. She earned her PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education. Dr. Chávez-Moreno’s research has been published in top-tier academic journals and recognized with prestigious awards from organizations such as the American Educational Research Association and the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation. In 2023, she received the Alan C. Purves Award from the National Council of Teachers of English for her article, “The continuum of racial literacies: Teacher practices countering whitestream bilingual education,” published in Research in the Teaching of English. This annual award honors the article deemed most significant in advancing the field. Dr. Chávez-Moreno has taught at all levels of schooling, from elementary and secondary to tertiary and older-adult education. Her five years as a high school Spanish teacher in the School District of Philadelphia included writing district curriculum and serving on boards of community organizations. Dr. Chávez-Moreno’s book, How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America, published by Harvard Education Press, won the 2025 American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Early Career Book of the Year Award.

Refreshments will be served. Please direct questions to Dr. Deborah Southern, desouth@ucla.edu

Information Studies Colloquium: Virtual Landscape: Simulating Space with Painting & Technology with Emma Webster
2025-04-10 14:00 - 16:00 | UCLA Moore Hall, Reading Room, 3340, 457 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States
Please join us for our next IS Colloquium on Thursday, April 10, 2:00-4:00 p.m. in the Reading Room, 3340 Moore Hall. There will be refreshments to follow.

Abstract:

Webster, an artist of fantastical landscapes, will discuss her practice of concretizing the virtual in paint and give an overview of her creative process in the studio. The talk will explore the origins of the virtual, digital space as avatar, and the new frontiers of sculpting with technology.

Bio:

Emma Webster was born in 1989 in Encinitas, California, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. She graduated with her BA from Stanford University in 2011 and received her MFA in Painting from Yale University in 2018.

Webster’s work is part of various public collections around the world, including the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, California; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, California; Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, Florida; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio; Xiao Museum, Rizhao, China; Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China; The Warehouse, Dallas, Texas; and the Groeninghe Art Collection, Bruges, Belgium.

Webster has two current solo exhibitions this spring: That Thought Might Think with Petzel in New York and Vapors with Perrotin in Hong Kong. Other recent solo exhibitions include Perrotin, Hong Kong (2025); Perrotin, Paris (2024); Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles (2023); Perrotin, Dosan Park, Seoul (2022); Stems Gallery, Brussels (2021); and Alexander Berggruen, New York (2021). Group exhibitions include Petzel, New York (2023); Max Hetzler, Berlin (2023); Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (2022); Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego (2022) among others.

In 2021, Webster published Lonescape: Green, Painting, & Mourning Reality, a collection of musings on landscape and image-making in an increasingly digital world. Both this artist book and her eponymous monograph, published by Perrotin in 2024, are available online.
