Please join the Political Sociology and the Global South Working Group for: Daniel Zipp (UCLA): "Confronting King Coal in China: The State, Capital, and Labor in a Dying Industry" and Cory Mengual (UCLA): "TBA  

TERRY DEACON, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY The BEC Speaker Series hosts presentations by renowned scholars from across the social, behavioral, and biological sciences whose work sheds light on human evolution, including issues of cultural transmission, behavioral ecology, affect, cognition, and health.  

Established in 2001, MMAC is an interdisciplinary discussion group housed in UCLA's Department of Anthropology. In addition to hosting regular talks and discussions with scholars from UCLA and beyond, the group provides a forum for exploring recent research and classical and contemporary theoretical perspectives that inform psychocultural studies and medical anthropology. Regular MMAC participants include faculty in […]

The transatlantic slave trade era – marked by chattel slavery, racial capitalism, and exploitative plantation economies – radically transformed societies and environments in the Americas. In this talk, I expand upon a Black Historical Ecology framework with insights from recent excavations at the Estate Little Princess in St. Croix. Drawing from an array of archaeological, […]

Title: Distinguishing Distress from Disorder: Black-White Patterns in the Determinants of and Links between Depressive Symptoms and Major Depression. Background: Black Americans experience higher rates of psychological distress but similar or lower rates of psychiatric disorders than Whites. This study aimed to clarify these discordant distress-disorder patterns by (1) assessing whether sociodemographic and psychosocial risk […]

Title: Race, Culture and Health: Conceptual and Methodological Innovations Abstract: Building a culture of health and achieving health equity requires that we engage cultural processes in a more meaningful way. Cultural processes and systems are commonly referenced in health inequity scholarship but empirical research generally lags behind this conceptual emphasis. I argue that employing a […]

Organized by the Iris Cantor – UCLA Women’s Health and Education Center The goal of the Women’s Reproductive Health and Environment Conference is to educate women about environmental justice and protect their health. The conference promotes advocacy, education and research. Co-sponsored by: UCLA Center for the Study of Women California Breast Cancer Reseal Program Davide and […]

The Luskin School of Public Affairs and the California Center for Population Research invites you for a Lunch Seminar with CEGA-EASST & BRAC Fellows next Thursday, November 14 from 12:30-1:30 pm in the CCPR Seminar Room. Lunch will be served, please RSVP here. Ronald Mulebeke (EASST fellow), Research Fellow at Makerere School of Public Health […]

Title: Diversity, Immigration, and Public Opinion in the U.S. Abstract: What factors animate public opinion towards immigrants? A substantial literature has tested the impact of individual objective traits like education and job market status on immigration attitudes. In addition, researchers have explored the role of subjective factors like immigrants’ perceived impact on society. However, prior […]