UCLA School of Education & Information Studies

Learning Café: A Community Engaged Scholarship Series with Michelle Caswell & Anna Robinson-Sweet
2024-10-22 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | UCLA Moore Hall Reading Room, 457 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Join us for our monthly Learning Café series highlighting the community engaged work of our faculty and graduate students. Listen, learn and engage with the work of our school.

Featuring Michelle Caswell, Ph.D., PhD, Professor, Information Studies, Special Advisor to the EVCP on Community Engaged Scholarship & Anna Robinson-Sweet, Doctoral Candidate, Information Studies

“Virtual Belonging: Assessing the Affective Impact of Digital Records Creation in Community Archives” is a four-year participatory action research project led by two community archives, Texas After Violence Project (TAVP) and South Asian American Digital Archives (SAADA), in collaboration with researchers from the UCLA Community Archives Lab. This presentation will address how academic researchers can engage in equitable, mutually beneficial relationships with independent community archives. It will also report some of the project’s findings on the impact of online peer-to-peer oral history projects and the implications of these findings for archival practice.

Future Dates

Fall 2024

Jason Dario – November 5

Chris Jadallah – November 12

Nikki Barry – December 3

Winter 2025

Karen Hunter Quartz – February 11

Thuy Do Vang – Winter Quarter

Ananda Marin – Winter Quarter

Spring 2025

Cinthya Salazar – Spring Quarter

Melissa Villa-Nicolas – Spring Quarter

Julissa Muñiz – Spring Quarter

2024 California Library Association (CLA) Annual Conference
2024-10-18 16:30 - 18:30 | Craft by Smoke and Fire, Pasadena, CA, 30 W Green St, Pasadena, California, 91105, United States
The UCLA Department of Information Studies Reception at the 2024 California Library Association (CLA) Annual Conference in Pasadena, CA.

Don’t miss the opportunity to network with fellow faculty, staff, and students as well as program alumni!

Reception Details

Date: Friday, October 18th

Time: 4:30 – 6:30pm

Location: Craft by Smoke and Fire, Pasadena

Please click here to RSVP for the reception or via the QR code below!

For more information about the reception, contact Michelle Maye at maye@seis.ucla.edu.

Information Studies Colloquia: The Algorithm is a Lie: revisiting blackboxing, transparency and user engagement with AI with Noopur Raval
2024-10-17 14:00 - 16:00 | Colorado
Professor Noopur Raval | October 17 | The Algorithm is a Lie: revisiting blackboxing, transparency and user engagement with AI

Abstract | With the rise of complex computational systems and their real-world applications in all domains of life – work, hiring, socializing, criminal justice etc., we are often told that algorithmic systems are inherently complex, require high degrees of technical expertise, and thus, are unknowable to a degree. We are also often informed that harmful outcomes of algorithmic systems are caused by “bias” and if we control for bias in training data and design, we can make these systems better – or even less harmful and racist and sexist. In response, computational and legal scholars and activists have developed auditing tools to unpack “blackboxed” algorithmic systems and reveal how they function in the hope of producing better social and economic outcomes.

This talk draws on years of ethnographic work across projects and mobilizes case studies to demonstrate how the expertise and unknowability of algorithmic systems is a ruse and a distraction from fundamental questions of values and pedagogy in Computer Science and associated fields. These fundamental challenges are more than just bias or glitches that can be fixed technically. The talk will also argue that algorithmic systems can be investigated as socio-technical systems by non-expert users. In doing so, the talk invites scholars across LIS fields to develop experiential, participatory, archival and experimental methodologies that tackle algorithms as social objects.

Speaker Bio | Dr. Noopur Raval is an assistant professor in Information Studies at UCLA. She is a feminist interdisciplinary interpretivist researcher and educator with a deep interest in how people create and maintain a good life and how technology can support visions of good work and life across the world. She received her PhD in Informatics from UC Irvine and has held positions at UC Santa Cruz, AI Now Institute at NYU, Microsoft Research and Xerox Research in the past.

Undergraduate Pumpkin Pick-N-Paint
2024-10-16 15:30 - 18:30 | UCLA Moore Hall Reading Room, 457 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Join us for pumpkin decorating to celebrate the return of spooky season! We’ll provide the pumpkin, paint, and decorations. Just bring your creativity!

RSVP today to reserve your very own cute mini pumpkin! 🎃

Join Us To Discuss Reform in Child Welfare for Families Experiencing Domestic Violence in the Antelope Valley
2024-10-15 09:30 - 11:30 | Lancaster Library, 601 W Lancaster Blvd, Lancaster, California, 93534, United States
On behalf of the UCLA Pritzker Center, we are pleased to announce the forthcoming release of a new report: Collaborative Reform in Child Welfare for Families Experiencing Domestic Violence.

To hear more about the report and additional efforts to make actionable reform, please join us for a special presentation with Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger, DCFS Director Brandon Nichols, and other distinguished guests.

Undergraduate Intro to Mental Health & Resilience Resources
2024-10-09 16:00 - 18:00 | Rise Center at Lu Valle Commons
Are you a new incoming student or a returning student? Not sure how to manage stress? 🧠

Join us for an enlightening workshop in collaboration with the UCLA RISE Center, designed to provide an overview of all the mental health resources available on campus. This session will equip you with essential tools and strategies for managing your mental health effectively. Whether you’re navigating academic pressures, personal challenges, or simply seeking to enhance your well-being, this workshop will offer valuable insights and practical guidance. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with fellow students and take proactive steps towards a healthier, more balanced life. Everyone is welcome! 🪷

GSAE Coffee & Donut Drop-In
2024-10-09 10:00 - 12:00 | Moore Hall Student Lounge
Happy Fall Quarter! For New Bruins, welcome to UCLA. It was great seeing some of you yesterday, and we hope everyone had a restorative summer!

We’d like to introduce ourselves for the school year. The three of us (Belle, Flora, and Ingrid) will be serving as the co-chairs of the Graduate Student Association of Education (GSAE), a subdivision of the larger Graduate Student Association (GSA). GSAE is made up of student representatives from each of your divisions, which you can find the information for here! If you are seeing open spaces on this contact sheet for your program, we highly encourage you to sign up to become a student representative (responsibilities here)! GSAE as a whole holds social events for the department, works with your respective student representatives, and advocates for student voices by working with our faculty and administration.

Our first event will be on Wednesday, October 9th. Please drop in for some coffee & donuts to meet and chat with us! The flyer is below – we hope to see you there!

Early-Career Scholar Series
2024-10-04 10:00 - 11:00 | UCLA Moore Hall, Room 3320
The UCLA Department of Education Early-Career Scholar Series invites Department faculty, staff, and students to come together to engage with early-career scholars and their research, and build community over a Department lunch at noon following the session. At each session, an early-career scholar will either present their research or workshop a paper or study in progress facilitated by an advanced-career scholar.

This monthly event strives to foster community and connection within our Department, come together to learn more about our early-career scholars, and support their work. Coffee and refreshments will be served.

Book Launch of University-Community Partnerships for Transformative Education "Sowing Seeds of Resistance and Renewal"
2024-10-01 15:00 - 17:00 | UCLA Moore Hall, Room 3320
This open access edited volume reports on a unique network of innovative in-school and out-of-school programs, University-Community Links. UC Links connects university faculty and students with young people and their families in diverse communities around the world.

Come learn about community engaged work throughout the UC and CSU system and around the world!

Click here to download a free digital copy or purchase a physical copy of the book.

International Students Reception
2024-09-30 15:00 - 18:00 | UCLA Moore Hall, Room 3320
For all international students, faculty and staff and everyone interested international research.

Come share your international experiences and learn about international research in education in our school.

Fall Quarter Instruction Begins
2024-09-26 00:00 - 23:59 | Colorado

Ed&IS Convocation 2024
2024-09-25 10:00 - 12:00 | UCLA Moore Hall 100
9:00 AM Pastries and Coffee on East Side of Moore Hall

10:00 WELCOME from Wasserman Dean Christina Christie

INTRODUCTIONS:

Eddie Cole, Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Annamarie Francois, Associate Dean for Public Engagement

Georgia Lazo (optional), Associate Dean for University Partnership Schools at UCLA

John Rogers, Associate Dean for Research/Public Scholarship

Tonia Sutherland, Associate Dean for Faculty Development

Remarks from Cecilia Rios-Aguilar, Chair, Department of Education

Remarks from Todd Franke, Chair, Department of Education

NEW FACULTY PANEL

Julissa Muñiz, Education

Lori Patton Davis, Education

Jordan Rickles, Education

Cinthya Salazar, Education

Melissa Villa-Nicholas, Information Studies

Jin Wang, Education

ORIENTATION ANNOUNCEMENTS & INTRODUCTIONS

Amy Gershon, Director of Student Services

IS Student Governing Board

GSAE

USAB

Interactions

12:00 Lunch (Boxed Lunches on East Side of Moore)

1:00 Orientation to each program

Outdoor Yoga
2024-09-24 11:00 - 12:00 | UCLA Moore Hall Grass
Relax and unwind with gentle, full-body stretches designed to help you de-stress and recharge. This session is open to all students and aims to raise mental health awareness while welcoming new and returning students.

Don’t forget to bring your yoga mat!

Fall Quarter Begins
2024-09-23 00:00 - 23:59 | Colorado

UCLA STEM+C3 Conference: Learning, Reflection, & Celebration
2024-09-20 08:30 - 17:00 | Colorado
Description:

Let’s Celebrate the Learning! RSVP

Date: September 20, 2024

Time: 8:30a – 5:00p

Location: UCLA Luskin Center (425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095)

We will send parking information and additional details closer to the conference.

We are exploring ways to attain substitute teachers.

Hosted by LAUSD, UCLA Center X, UCLA Teacher Education Program and CVUHSD

Eyes on Reading: Maryanne Wolf with Emily Hanford
2024-09-18 17:15 - 19:00 | Friedman Family Auditorium, 925 13th Street Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, 20005, United States
For better or worse, digital reading is transforming the human brain. Join Maryanne Wolf, the best-selling author of Reader, Come Home, and Planet Word’s Journalist-in-Residence Emily Hanford as Wolf presents Beauty, Threat, and Choice: The Deep Reading Brain in a Digital Culture. Wolf’s thought-provoking talk provides a description of the deep reading brain’s development as the foundation for a moderated discussion demonstrating the impact of digital/screen reading on the perception of beauty, the development of empathy, and the extraordinary importance of critical thinking and reflection in a digital age. Following the talk, Hanford will guide the audience through a Q&A.

5:15 p.m. — Light refreshments6:00 p.m. — Presentation begins7:00 p.m. — Q+A with Maryanne Wolf and Emily Hanford

This program is part of the Journalist in Residence Program, presenting events in the Eyes on Reading series, open to all and designed for those educators, policymakers, advocates, and parents who are immersed in the literacy landscape. This program is presented with support from the Ibis Group.

For questions or concerns regarding accessibility needs, please contact programs@planetwordmuseum.org.

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UCLA Pritzker Center Child Welfare Summer Seminar Series- Mental Health
2024-08-16 09:00 - 10:00 | Zoom
Curious about child welfare and related topics? Join us for our free summer seminars to learn more alongside other Bruins and get to know the UCLA Pritzker Center.

August 16, 9-10am PT

Mental Health: Audra Langley, PhDEnhance your insight concerning mental health, trauma and resilience among child welfare involved youth and families.

UCLA Pritzker Center Child Welfare Summer Seminar Series - Education
2024-08-09 09:00 - 10:00 | Zoom
This summer, the UCLA Pritzker Center is hosting a Child Welfare Summer Seminar Series open to all UCLA faculty, staff, and students! Join us for our free summer seminars to learn more about child welfare and related topics alongside other Bruins and get to know the UCLA Pritzker Center!

August 9, 9-10am PT

Education: Tyrone Howard, PhDDeepen knowledge of the interrelated connections between schools and the child welfare system.

Other Series

August 16, 9-10am PT

Mental Health: Audra Langley, PhDEnhance your insight concerning mental health, trauma and resilience among child welfare involved youth and families.

UCLA Pritzker Center Child Welfare Summer Seminar Series - Policy and Practice
2024-08-05 01:30 - 14:00 | Zoom
This summer, the UCLA Pritzker Center is hosting a Child Welfare Summer Seminar Series open to all UCLA faculty, staff, and students! Join us for our free summer seminars to learn more about child welfare and related topics alongside other Bruins and get to know the UCLA Pritzker Center!

August 5, 1-2pm PTPolicy and Practice: Taylor Dudley, JDDevelop an understanding of policy making and laws relevant to the child welfare system.

Other Series

August 9, 9-10am PT

Education: Tyrone Howard, PhDDeepen knowledge of the interrelated connections between schools and the child welfare system.

August 16, 9-10am PT

Mental Health: Audra Langley, PhDEnhance your insight concerning mental health, trauma and resilience among child welfare involved youth and families.

UCLA Pritzker Center Child Welfare Summer Seminar Series - Housing
2024-07-29 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom
This summer, the UCLA Pritzker Center is hosting a Child Welfare Summer Seminar Series open to all UCLA faculty, staff, and students! Join us for our free summer seminars to learn more about child welfare and related topics alongside other Bruins and get to know the UCLA Pritzker Center!

July 29, 1-2pm PT

Housing: Brenda A. Tully, PhDExplore issues concerning housing for families and youth involved with the child welfare system.

Other Series

August 5, 1-2pm PTPolicy and Practice: Taylor Dudley, JDDevelop an understanding of policy making and laws relevant to the child welfare system.

August 9, 9-10am PT

Education: Tyrone Howard, PhDDeepen knowledge of the interrelated connections between schools and the child welfare system.

August 16, 9-10am PT

Mental Health: Audra Langley, PhDEnhance your insight concerning mental health, trauma and resilience among child welfare involved youth and families.

Juneteeth
2024-06-18 - 2024-06-19 | Colorado

2023 - 2024 Commencement
2024-06-15 07:00 - 09:00 | Los Angeles Tennis Center, 420 Charles E Young Drive West, Los Angeles, 90095, United States

Spring Quarter Ends
2024-06-13 - 2024-06-14 | Colorado

LGBTQIA+ Pride Month
2024-05-31 - 2024-06-30 | Colorado

Memorial Day
2024-05-26 - 2024-05-27 | Colorado

Golden Voice: Queer Archives and the Khmer Rouge
2024-05-20 17:30 - 2024-05-21 07:00 | UCLA Math Sciences Building Room 5628
Tuesday, May 21, 2024

12:30 PM-2:00 PM

UCLA Math Sciences Rm 5628

Description:

Join us for a public screening and talkback for Golden Voice, a short documentary about trans survivors of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. The film follows Noy Sitha, a a transgender man, as he returns to the village where he not only survived the 1975 – 1979 genocide, but also unexpectedly discovered queer community. Shifting between the past, present, and future, Golden Voice meditates on how pain and love linger through the years, and how the wisdom of queer elders might provide hope and healing for generations to come. We are joined by the film’s director, Mars Verrone, and producer, Tabitha Payne, whose academic fieldwork was the springboard for the film’s production.

This film screening is hosted by Professor Cindy Nguyen as part of the Global History of Libraries: Colonial Pasts, Decolonial Futures course in the UCLA Department for Information Studies.

Space is limited to the first 30 registrants.

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Tabitha Payne is an organizer, researcher, and incoming Anthropology PhD student. Her award-winning Brown University undergraduate thesis, “Queer Histories of the Khmer Rouge Genocide,” used oral histories and archival research to explore the Cambodian Genocide as an unexpected moment for queer identity & community formation. Tabitha is a longtime collaborator with CamASEAN Youth’s Future, a grassroots LGBTQ and marginalized people’s activist group in Phnom Penh. She has won fellowships and awards with the Brown University Cogut Institute for the Humanities, the Pembroke Institute of the Humanities, the Fulbright Program, and more. Tabitha was born and raised in Phnom Penh, Cambodia to Filipino and American parents.

Mars Verrone is a filmmaker and musician from Los Angeles, CA, now based in Brooklyn, NY. They produced feature documentary UNION, (dir. Stephen Maing, Brett Story) which premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Documentary Competition and won a special jury prize for “The Art of Change.” They are a NBC Original Voices Fellow, PGA Create Fellow, and Brown Girls Doc Mafia Sustainable Artist Fellow. Their work has been supported by Sundance Institute, Ford Foundation, Field of Vision, and the International Documentary Association, among others. In 2019, they graduated magna cum laude from Brown University with honors in Modern Culture and Media (Production) and Phi Beta Kappa membership.

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Mental Health Awareness Month
2024-04-30 - 2024-05-31 | Colorado

National Teacher Appreciation Week
2024-04-30 - 2024-05-05 | Colorado

GSAE April Townhall
2024-04-30 10:30 - 12:00 | UCLA Moore Hall Reading Room, 457 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Description:

We are excited to invite Education graduate students to join GSAE’s April meeting. Light food will be provided. Meeting will be Tuesday, 4/30th from 5:30-7pm in the Reading Room, Moore 3340.

Neurodiversity in the Classroom
2024-04-25 03:00 - 05:00 | UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Bios:

Dr. Barry M. Prizant

Dr. Prizant is a clinical scholar, consultant, researcher and program consultant to children and older persons with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and related neurodevelopmental conditions, and their families. He is the author of Uniquely Human and co-hosts Uniquely Human: The Podcast, sharing inspiring stories and practical advice from thousands of children and older people on the autism spectrum and their families.

Dr. Connie Kasari

Dr. Kasari is a Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Distinguished Professor of Education at UCLA School of Education and Information Studies, and a leading international expert in developing interventions for children with autism spectrum disorder and their families.
