Week 4
Monday October 19
The Price is Right, Money Matters Monday
Mon 10/19 • 11AM - 3PM PDT
Basic Needs Center @ Strathmore 106
Drop-in Mondays 11 AM - 3 PM: Hey Bruins! Join us for The Price is Right on Monday, October 19th, for a chance to win a prize ???? Chat with our team, including a money expert with 20+ years of wealth management experience, play games, complete practical worksheets, win prizes, and more!
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BRC Midterms Week
Mon 10/19 • 12PM - 2PM PDT RSVP
Bruin Resource Center
Join us for BRC Midterms Week on October 19 & 20 from 12–2 PM to take a break, recharge, and connect with community and support.
Teaching Asian American and Pacific Islander Histories Webinar Series
Mon 10/19 • 4PM PDT RSVP
This eight-part webinar series highlights content from Foundations and Futures, a multimedia textbook from UCLA's Asian American Studies Center. You can register for this virtual webinar at this link: bit.ly/TeachingAAPI
Tuesday October 20
10 + 10 Pop-Up Series: Sustaining Student Belonging
Tue 10/20 • 10AM - 10:20AM PDT RSVP
This session will explore strategies for sustaining a sense of belonging throughout the quarter. Participants will learn practical techniques for co-creating learning experiences with students as a way to foster students' sense of belonging in the classroom. Presenter: Lisa Felipe, Director of Teaching and Learning in Humanities at the UCLA Teaching and Learning Center, TLC Keywords: inclusive, belonging, student-centered, motivation, connectedness, community Each academic quarter, the educational designers and developers of the UCLA Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) offer via Zoom a weekly series of seven pop-up sessions - each just 10 minutes in length - on focused, specific topics related to course design, teaching, learning, and learning assessment. The additional “+10” in the series title refers to an optional 10 minutes that follow each presentation for Q&A and discussion. These 10 + 10 sessions will take place at 10am (PT) every Tuesday in the quarter, from Week 2 through Week 8. These sessions are open to all UCLA instructors—including faculty, lecturers, instructors of record, graduate student instructors, and postdoctoral scholars. Please direct any inquiries to instructorsupport@teaching.ucla.edu.
Little Bodies, Big Conversations
Tue 10/20 • 12PM - 1PM PDT RSVP
RISE Center
In collaboration with CARE, join us for lunch and conversation about supporting your little bruins with boundaries, safety and healthy relationships. A chance to ask questions, share concerns and explore helpful resources!
URFP: Writing a Research Proposal for Undergraduate Programs
Tue 10/20 • 12PM - 1PM PDT RSVP
The URC-Sciences’ 2027 Undergraduate Research Fellows Program (URFP) is a two-quarter program that supports UCLA students who are conducting a life science, physical science, or engineering research project with a UCLA faculty during Winter 2027 and Spring 2027. This workshop will be held via Zoom and go over elements of a Undergraduate Research Proposal.
BRC Midterms Week Day 2
Tue 10/20 • 12PM - 2PM PDT RSVP
Bruin Resource Center
Join us for BRC Midterms Week on October 19 & 20 from 12–2 PM to take a break, recharge, and connect with community and support.
Is New Quizzes Right for You?
Tue 10/20 • 2PM - 3PM PDT
Bruin Learn has two quiz engines available to instructors - Classic Quizzes (the original quiz tool) and New Quizzes. This session is aimed at faculty who would like to learn more about New Quizzes and its benefits, limitations, and upcoming features and enhancements. Audience: Faculty, TAs, Staff
LGBTQ History Month Exhibit and Zine Making
Tue 10/20 • 4PM - 6PM PDT RSVP
Library Main Conference Room
Join the LGBTQ Campus Resource Center in celebrating LGBTQ History Month over a special exhibit of LGBTQ archives in collaboration with the UCLA Library! Engage with community through history and make some zines with us! RSVP through the link in our bio and on our website.
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Wednesday October 21
Collecting and Citing Sources in the Age of AI
Wed 10/21 • 10AM - 11AM PDT
Co-sponsored by UCLA Library, the Kwame J. Granderson Undergraduate Writing Center and the Undergraduate Research Center – Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Learn about citation practices and avoiding plagiarism, how to auto-generate your bibliography, keep track of your sources and more! Join us for this workshop with library instructors to learn about citing your sources. All fall quarter Cornerstone workshops will be held on Zoom.
FALL ENGLISH LANGUAGE CIRCLE: OCTOBER 21 (IN-PERSON)
Wed 10/21 • 12PM - 1PM PDT
Are you looking for a safe and supportive space to practice your English conversation skills? Check out Dashew Center's English Language Circle (ELC)! Here you will have an opportunity to practice your English with other language learners. The circle is led by a native English speaker, who will help you become more confident in your speaking skills and who can answer your language and grammar questions. While this week's ELC session will take place in person, please note that our program for Fall 2026 will operate on an alternating hybrid schedule. ELC meet virtually during odd weeks (weeks 3, 5, 7, and 9) and in-person during even weeks (weeks 2, 4, 6, and 10.) Please be sure to check the full description before registering. Space is limited to 20 participants per session, and participants are welcome to bring and enjoy their lunch during these meetings.
Accessibility Workshop 3 - Making Documents Accessible
Wed 10/21 • 12:30PM - 1:30PM PDT RSVP
This workshop is only open to instructors. This workshop will explore techniques for creating accessible instructional documents in Google Docs and Microsoft Word. Participants will learn how to build meaningful document structure with headings and lists, create descriptive links, design accessible tables, and provide effective alternative text for images and charts. The workshop will also examine accessibility challenges within PDFs and explore why an accessible Word document often gives students a more flexible and accessible experience.
Managing Citations with EndNote
Wed 10/21 • 1PM - 2PM PDT RSVP
An introduction to citation managers and the tool EndNote. Learn how to use EndNote to manage your sources! If you (or your department) has purchased EndNote, this workshop will help you set up your program to find full text, import citations from PubMed and use Cite While You Write to generate bibliographies from your documents. PLEASE NOTE: UCLA Library does not provide access to EndNote Instructor: Antonia Osuna-Garcia, Evidence Based Practice Librarian
Undergraduate Drop-Ins
Wed 10/21 • 1PM - 4PM PDT
Have a quick question about your finances? UCLA Financial Wellness offers undergraduate drop-in hours to help students navigate their financial well-being. **Undergraduate drop-ins are for quick, general inquiries. For questions that require more time or individualized support with topics such as budgeting, saving, credit, debt repayment, student loans, or investing basics, students should book a financial coaching appointment.
FALL OPT WEBINARS (FOR F-1 VISA STUDENTS)
Wed 10/21 • 2PM - 3PM PDT
UCLA F-1 visa students, do you want to know more about off-campus employment authorization? Join us on one of our weekly OPT webinars hosted by the Dashew Center staff to learn more! Time: 2 - 3pm (Pacific Time)
Mellon Mays and URFP Scholarships Info Session
Wed 10/21 • 2PM - 3PM PDT
Powell Library CLICC B / 320B
The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) is a two-year scholarship program ($17,000) designed for outstanding students in Mellon-designated humanities and humanistic social science fields who intend to pursue a PhD and a career in academia. Mellon Mays Fellows work closely with faculty advisors and graduate mentors to design and carry out an independent research project. The Undergraduate Research Fellows Program ($3,000) supports students doing a multi-quarter research or creative project under the mentorship of a UCLA faculty member during winter and spring quarters. At this info session, you will learn about eligibility, application steps, and resources to help you with your application for these scholarships.
Undergraduate Research Center - Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Research and Creative Proposal Workshop
Wed 10/21 • 3PM - 4PM PDT
Powell Library CLICC B / 320B
Learn how to write a research or creative proposal for scholarship and project applications. This workshop is a great way to prepare for your Mellon Mays, McNair, or URFP scholarship application!
Undergraduate Research Center - Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Practice and Play with EdTech: Active Learning in Modernized Classrooms
Wed 10/21 • 3:30PM - 5PM PDT RSVP
Powell 186
This session is open to all instructors, TAs, and postdocs. The Practice and Play with EdTech series offers instructors a hands-on opportunity to explore teaching tools and strategies with TLC staff. This session will explore how modernized classroom spaces can engage students and support meaningful active learning. Attendees will examine how flexible classroom layouts and integrated technologies support pedagogical goals through hands-on activities designed to foster collaboration, deepen content processing, increase student engagement, and promote inclusive participation.
International Food Festival with Wescom Financial
Wed 10/21 • 5:30PM - 8:30PM PDT RSVP
Ackerman Union, Grand Ballroom, 2nd Floor
Are you looking to enjoy an international food experience? Join the UCLA Dashew Center, Wescom Financial, and ASUCLA for an evening celebrating international food and community! Enjoy international food, live student performances, games, giveaways, and more. Wescom Financial will also offer on-site account openings during the event. Register today!
Haunted Hill
Wed 10/21 • 7PM - 10PM PDT
Carnesale Commons
Say Hello to Spooky Szn! Join the On-Campus Housing Council (OCHC) as they host their annual Haunted Hill: a themed haunted house right here on the Hill! This year's theme is based on Internet Horror.
Heaven Is Still Far Away / I Love Thee for Good
Wed 10/21 • 7:30PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Part of: Ryusuke Hamaguchi: Early Works Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Yanai Initiative When Drive My Car won the Oscar for Best International Feature Film in 2022, on top of being the first Japanese film ever nominated for Best Picture, it may have appeared to many as if its director, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, had come out of nowhere to accomplish such a feat. Still others may have known him as the director of the four-hour tour-de-force relationship drama, Happy Hour, when it generated cinephile buzz on the festival circuit in 2016 or perhaps the spellbinding romance-by-way-of identity-crisis, Asako I & II, when it became his first film to premiere at Cannes in 2018. But well before these milestones, Hamaguchi was busy making shorts and features that have rarely screened outside of Japan. After graduating from Tokyo University in 2003 under the influence of John Cassavetes, Hamaguchi began directing in earnest before entering Tokyo University of the Arts where Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure, Pulse) became a mentor. As a student and beyond, Hamaguchi took advantage of a network of non-profit, institutional support to workshop projects that allowed him to experiment with like-minded actors, screenwriters and cinematographers. Indeed, a number of his films from this period (Intimacies, Touching the Skin of Eeriness) foreground the creative process as elements of his sublimely structured mid-career style come into view. With his latest film, All of a Sudden, in theaters this November, the Archive is pleased to present this selection of early works by Hamaguchi that confirm what was to come even as they defy expectations. Series programmed and notes written by Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm.
Thursday October 22
Learning Community (LC) Information Session
Thu 10/22 • 10AM - 10:45AM PDT RSVP
Interested in connecting with colleagues, sharing ideas, and growing your teaching practice? Join the TLC for an information session to learn about two Learning Community (LC) opportunities: 1. GenAI Faculty Learning Community 2. New Instructor Learning Community Learn more about each community, what participation involves, and how you can get involved. We look forward to sharing more about these opportunities and answering your questions! Please register to receive the Zoom meeting information, and contact instructorsupport@teaching.ucla.edu if you have any questions. If you are unable to attend this session, please register for the second information session on Monday, October 26, 2-2:45pm with the same content.
Undergraduate Drop-Ins
Thu 10/22 • 11AM - 4PM PDT
Have a quick question about your finances? UCLA Financial Wellness offers undergraduate drop-in hours to help students navigate their financial well-being. **Undergraduate drop-ins are for quick, general inquiries. For questions that require more time or individualized support with topics such as budgeting, saving, credit, debt repayment, student loans, or investing basics, students should book a financial coaching appointment.
Media Best Practices: Use Captioning to Create Accessible Media
Thu 10/22 • 12PM - 12:30PM PDT
This session will introduce instructors and TAs to accessibility tools that are available in Bruin Learn. We will demonstrate the following: - How to use auto-generated captions - How to edit captions - How to select optimal tools and formats for posting your videos - Overview of the WCAG 2.1 AA compliance deadline for April, 2026 By the end of this session, participants will be able to select and utilize tools to make their media more accessible in Bruin Learn. Audience: Faculty, TAs, Staff
Collecting and Citing Sources in the Age of AI
Thu 10/22 • 1PM - 2PM PDT
Co-sponsored by UCLA Library, the Kwame J. Granderson Undergraduate Writing Center and the Undergraduate Research Center – Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Learn about citation practices and avoiding plagiarism, how to auto-generate your bibliography, keep track of your sources and more! Join us for this workshop with library instructors to learn about citing your sources. All fall quarter Cornerstone workshops will be held on Zoom.
CARE Cafe
Thu 10/22 • 1PM - 3PM PDT
RISE @ Rieber Hall
CARE Cafe is a space to take a break, connect with others, and explore conversations about relationships, consent, healing, and community. Each gathering features a different topic—from hookup culture and pop culture to friendship and pleasure—alongside casual peer conversation and low-stakes activities. Come as you are, grab a snack, join the conversation, make something, or simply spend some time in community.
Career Advising Drop-In
Thu 10/22 • 1:30PM - 3:30PM PDT
Transfer Student Center (Kerckhoff 128)
These are your golden 15-minute slots to get personalized, one-on-one career advice from the UCLA Career Center that caters specifically to your unique journey as a transfer student.
Drop-In Session with the Bruin Resource Center
Thu 10/22 • 1:30PM - 4PM PDT
Bruin Resource Center
Come by the Bruin Resource Center or via zoom to ask legal questions. We provide legal counseling on: -Landlord-Tenant Issues -Immigration Issues -Employment Issues -Family Law Issues -Criminal/traffic Matters -University-related concerns (Disciplinary, Title IX) -Personal Injury -And more!
Legal and Mediation Services Drop-Ins at the BRC
Thu 10/22 • 1:30PM - 4PM PDT
Bruin Resource Center
Have legal questions? Head over to the BRC or hop on the below ZOOM for quick legal counseling on: Landlord-Tenant Issues Immigration Issues Employment Issues Family law Criminal/traffic matters University-related concerns (Disciplinary, Title IX) Personal injury Mediation Service (Students who are going through seperation/divorce/child custody) And more!!
Legal Service Drop In Hours
Thu 10/22 • 2PM - 4PM PDT
BRC Directors Office
Join us for free legal counseling on housing, immigration, employment, family law, criminal/traffic matters, university-related concerns, personal injury, and more. Join us for an in-person or virtual drop-in session. Date: October 22. Time: 2:00–4:00 PM. Location: BRC Director's Office. This event is hosted by the Bruin Resource Center in collaboration with the UCLA Legal Team
Research Your Ballot
Thu 10/22 • 3PM - 4PM PDT RSVP
BYOB—bring your own ballot!—and learn how to research the issues at stake in this November’s election. We’ll discuss how to avoid misinformation and practice strategies for finding the information you need to make an informed voting decision. Led by Katherine Kapsidelis and Ashley Peterson
EatWell Pod: Food Collective Meeting
Thu 10/22 • 3PM - 4:30PM PDT RSVP
Hershey Hall Salon
Join us for this quarter’s EatWell Pod Food Collective Meeting, an in-person gathering of students, faculty, staff, and community partners working to make nutritious food more accessible at UCLA and across Los Angeles. We’ll hear updates on the campus programs and research shaping food access today, from student-led initiatives to new findings on CalFresh enrollment among college students. The meeting will close with an open discussion, followed by time to connect with others working in this space over refreshments. Everyone is welcome, and we hope to see you there!
Claiming Your Space: Confidence, Community, and Success
Thu 10/22 • 3PM - 5PM PDT RSVP
RISE Center
Facilitated by the RISE Center, this workshop explores the impact of the impostor phenomenon and provides strategies for building confidence, fostering self-compassion, and embracing personal achievements. Through reflection and discussion, participants will gain tools to strengthen their sense of belonging, cultivate resilience, and thrive in academic and professional spaces.
UCLA Library Special Collections Curatorial Open House: Food and Culinary History
Thu 10/22 • 4PM - 5PM PDT RSVP
Charles E. Young Research Library, Distinctive Collections Classroom, A-Level
Join curators from Library Special Collections as they offer the UCLA community an opportunity to see and engage with materials that document food and culinary history. This will include materials that represent food and culinary history locally, internationally and across time periods. Beyond providing nourishment, food serves as a connection across cultures and societies, with agriculture, foodways and cuisines offering insights into community history, traditions and social structures. Examine how materials that include cookbooks, recipes, photographs and menus offer insight into the ways food connect us to each other. RSVP encouraged.
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Public Speaking in Academia
Thu 10/22 • 5:15PM - 6:45PM PDT RSVP
This workshop introduces the genres of public speaking in academia, ranging from teaching lectures to conference papers to job talks. The workshop includes suggested strategies to improve your presentation skills.
Haunted Halls
Thu 10/22 • 6PM PDT
Royce Hall
Haunted Halls of UCLA allows for residents to have a spooky experience in the halls of Royce and Powell Library. Serving as an engaging start to the holiday season, this event intends to build community and memories for all Bruins!
Friday October 23
Undergraduate Drop-Ins
Fri 10/23 • 9AM - 3PM PDT
Have a quick question about your finances? UCLA Financial Wellness offers undergraduate drop-in hours to help students navigate their financial well-being. **Undergraduate drop-ins are for quick, general inquiries. For questions that require more time or individualized support with topics such as budgeting, saving, credit, debt repayment, student loans, or investing basics, students should book a financial coaching appointment.
GSRC Drop-In Hours: Financial Wellness
Fri 10/23 • 1PM - 3PM PDT
Graduate Student Resource Center (SAC B11)
Join the Financial Wellness team at the Graduate Student Resource Center for guidance in navigating budgeting, frugal living tips, loan borrowing and repayment, credit scores and more!
Her Wedding Night
Fri 10/23 • 7:30PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
In person: David Stenn, author of Clara Bow: Runnin’ Wild. Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, the Hugh M. Hefner Classic American Film Program and the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles “I’ve had enough trouble with men without marrying any!” declares Clara Bow (whose own hectic love life was this film's inspiration) as she flees wannabe Paris grooms for the French Riviera where comic mayhem ensues amidst Art Deco sets. Unseen for decades due to rights issues and still unavailable on any platform, this super-rare Pre-Code romp is “a rush of great fun, high spirits, and good humor from a bright ensemble cast, and particularly vivacious Bow” (Derek Winnert). Special thanks to David Stenn; and Margot Gerber, Art Deco Society of Los Angeles.
Saturday October 24
Composting and Vermicomposting Workshop at the jane b semel HCI Community Garden
Sat 10/24 • 10AM - 11:30AM PDT RSVP
jane b semel HCI Community Garden (Sunset Canyon Recreation Center)
Learn how to start and maintain your own worm compost bin at home, and the do’s and don’ts of what items to compost!
ResLife x SwD x PCH Trunk or Treat
Sat 10/24 • 4PM - 7:30PM PDT RSVP
University Apartments South
Join us over at UAS for a fun filled afternoon of Trunk or Treating! We'll have activities, pumpkin decorating, sweet treats, a costume contest and more!
The Battle of Algiers, 60th Anniversary
Sat 10/24 • 7:30PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
In person: Q&A with UCLA Cinema and Media Studies Professor Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli and UCLA Comparative Literature Professor Nouri Gana. Guest speaker 60 years after its first screening in Algiers, The Battle of Algiers has lost none of its political punch. Premiering internationally at the 1966 Venice Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion, the film was celebrated for the audacity with which it confronted the still-raw history of French colonialism and the Algerian struggle for independence. In France, however, it remained effectively banned for years. Its extraordinary political afterlife has been equally paradoxical: a film embraced by anticolonial and revolutionary movements around the world has also been studied by military and counterinsurgency strategists, including at the Pentagon during the Iraq War. Starring almost exclusively nonprofessional actors and shot entirely on location in Algiers in a strikingly realist, quasi-documentary style, Gillo Pontecorvo’s film reconstructs the pivotal 1957 Battle of Algiers during the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62). Beginning with French paratroopers closing in on FLN militant Ali La Pointe, the film moves backward to trace his politicization and the escalating confrontation between the National Liberation Front and the French colonial state. Yet The Battle of Algiers is less the story of an individual revolutionary than of a people becoming a political subject. Made shortly before the manifestos that would theorize “Third Cinema,” the film became one of its enduring touchstones: cinema conceived not simply as representation but as intervention. Its unsettling treatment of colonialism, revolutionary violence, torture and collective resistance continues to raise urgent questions about political violence, national liberation and the unfinished work of decolonization. Note written by UCLA Cinema and Media Studies Professor Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli and UCLA Comparative Literature Professor Nouri Gana.
Sunday October 25
Quatuor Danel, Chamber Music at the Clark
Sun 10/25 • 2PM - 4PM PDT
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
The program includes compositions by Sergei Prokofiev, Mieczyslaw Weinberg, and Dmitri Shostakovich. Please visit the event website for full details and ticket information.
Story Time: Amazonian Myths and Kene featuring storyteller Erick (Ronin) Arias Silvano
Sun 10/25 • 2PM - 4PM PDT RSVP
Fowler Museum
Join us for a special Story Time presented in conjunction with Paths of Memory, Paths of Healing: Shipibo-Konibo Kené Art. Our guest storyteller, Erick (Ronin) Arias Silvano, will bring to life the histories of mythical beings—from river serpents to forest spirits of Amazonian oral traditions—that move through Shipibo-Konibo cosmology and the wider Amazon.
Intimacies
Sun 10/25 • 7PM PDT
Billy Wilder Theater
Part of: Ryusuke Hamaguchi: Early Works Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Yanai Initiative When Drive My Car won the Oscar for Best International Feature Film in 2022, on top of being the first Japanese film ever nominated for Best Picture, it may have appeared to many as if its director, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, had come out of nowhere to accomplish such a feat. Still others may have known him as the director of the four-hour tour-de-force relationship drama, Happy Hour, when it generated cinephile buzz on the festival circuit in 2016 or perhaps the spellbinding romance-by-way-of identity-crisis, Asako I & II, when it became his first film to premiere at Cannes in 2018. But well before these milestones, Hamaguchi was busy making shorts and features that have rarely screened outside of Japan. After graduating from Tokyo University in 2003 under the influence of John Cassavetes, Hamaguchi began directing in earnest before entering Tokyo University of the Arts where Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure, Pulse) became a mentor. As a student and beyond, Hamaguchi took advantage of a network of non-profit, institutional support to workshop projects that allowed him to experiment with like-minded actors, screenwriters and cinematographers. Indeed, a number of his films from this period (Intimacies, Touching the Skin of Eeriness) foreground the creative process as elements of his sublimely structured mid-career style come into view. With his latest film, All of a Sudden, in theaters this November, the Archive is pleased to present this selection of early works by Hamaguchi that confirm what was to come even as they defy expectations. Series programmed and notes written by Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm.