UCLA Center for the Study of Women

On Monday , October 20, students and scholars from various institutions gathered in Royce Hall to attend Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality, a conference organized to honor the life and scholarship of retiring UCLA Professor Karen Brodkin. Speakers from the UC system and beyond populated panels focused on identity and social justice, new approaches to labor, and directions in counter-hegemonic research in order to consider the lasting impact of the work of one of the academic community’s foremost faculty activists and feminist anthropologists.