Social Sciences Conference
Dates - 1 day
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Opens
Friday, April 17, 2026
Location
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Venue
James West Alumni Center
325 Westwood Plaza
Hosted by
Center for the Study of Women (CSW) at UCLA
The conference explores how environments and ecologies are shaped through relations of sex, gender, and sexuality, considering feminist and queer theorists' use of ecological processes for new insights and practices; it addresses gendered and colonial ideas of wilderness, domesticity, and reproduction in landscapes and policy, while highlighting feminist and queer methodologies for climate resilience and justice.