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UCLA F-1 visa students, do you want to know more about off-campus employment authorization? Join us on one of our weekly CPT webinars hosted by the Dashew Center staff to learn more! Location: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/95322790676

Relax, destress, and prepare for Finals Week with RISE! Come play some games at RISE! Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

You are invited to join us to explore the Foundations and Futures Multimedia Textbook, the most comprehensive, scholar-informed, online history of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Meet the editor, authors, and fellow educators to learn how you can bring this innovative ethnic studies resource into K-12 classrooms. Location: UC Irvine Student Center, Pacific Ballroom

Relax, destress, and prepare for Finals Week with RISE anytime from 9 am to 6 pm! Come and tap into some creative wellness! Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

Join us in Powel Library 190 for TA and postdoc drop-in hours, social grading edition! Work through your end of quarter grading while enjoying refreshments and building community with your fellow TAs. TLC staff members from the Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Engagement (GSPSE) team will also be available to support you. Location: Powell 190

Summer Financial Aid will disburse the evening of Friday, June 13, 2025 for students enrolled in Summer Session A, or a combination of A&C.

Join us for the opening reception of "Queer Kin: Histories of Subversive Love at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library," the first exhibit in our new quarterly exhibition series. Curator Mal Meisels (they/them) will discuss the exhibit’s inception and its objects, as well its relevance to contemporary LGBTQIA+ life in the United States. Following the talk, guests are invited to explore the exhibit and accompanying book displays in the North and South Book Rooms, and enjoy a light reception on the terrace. Presented in honor of Pride Month, "Queer Kin" pays homage to instances of LGBTQIA+ love and connection in the Clark Library collections. The exhibit will feature rare books, drawings, correspondence, photographs, fine press books, screenprints, and ephemera which recognize a range of non-heteronormative and gender non-conforming relationships from the 18th century to the present. Please visit the event webpage for more information and to RSVP. Location: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

Celebrate Noah Davis and other new exhibitions with galleries open late and music in the courtyard. Food and drinks are available for purchase all night. This event is free and open to the public. The party starts early for Members! Become a Hammer Member and receive priority entry beginning at 7 PM. Members at the Immerse level and above ($250+) are also invited to attend the Director’s Reception, before the public celebration, featuring cocktails and bites. Join today. Location: hammer museum

Part of the 2025 UCLA Celebration of Iranian Cinema Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive Please note: registration does not guarantee entry if the event reach capacity. Admission is granted on a first-come, first-served basis. Patrons who have registered will need to obtain their free tickets at the box office, where seating will be assigned. Any seats remaining 15 minutes before showtime will be released to standby patrons. A Move U.K./Iran, 2024 Filmmaker Elahe Esmaili has stopped wearing a hijab, an act of liberation her parents seem resigned to while she helps them pack up their home. They are decidedly less so when she joins them and their extended family at an Eid celebration, fearing what their relatives will think. In this deftly framed personal documentary, Esmaili captures the multigenerational clash of tradition and change felt by families across Iran. DCP, color, in Persian with English subtitles, 27 min. Director: Elahe Esmaili. Reading Lolita in Tehran Italy/Israel, 2024 Based on Azar Nafisi’s New York Times Best Seller memoir, this sweeping story of perseverance and resistance follows a literature professor (Golshifteh Farahani) from her return to Tehran with her husband in 1979 during the brief window of optimism after the Iranian Revolution through to her eventual exile again in 1997. In between, Nafisi began a book salon in her home that became a refuge for like-minded women watching their rights, professions and freedoms stripped away. Daisy Miller, Pride and Prejudice and, of course, Lolita, along with other Western classics offered the frameworks through which they could make sense of their situation and find the courage to survive it. Brought to the screen by an all-star cast, Nafisi’s story remains as timely and inspiring as ever. DCP, color, in Persian with English subtitles, 108 min. Director: Eran Riklis. Screenwriter: Marjorie David. With: Golshifteh Farahani, Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Mina Kavani. Location: Billy Wilder Theater

Calling all Bruins! Submissions for our Envelope Magazine of 2025 are now open! Envelope is an Art & Writing Magazine featuring creative work from UCLA's International Student, Scholar, and Staff community. We hope to publish this next volume of work by Fall 2025. The theme for the 2025 volume is: Connecting Across Cultures.

Part of the 2025 UCLA Celebration of Iranian Cinema Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive Please note: registration does not guarantee entry if the event reach capacity. Admission is granted on a first-come, first-served basis. Patrons who have registered will need to obtain their free tickets at the box office, where seating will be assigned. Any seats remaining 15 minutes before showtime will be released to standby patrons. Suitcase Iran, 2023 Farhang Foundation Short Film Festival 1st Prize Winner From a large red suitcase laying on the cement of an underpass emerges an even larger man who proceeds about his day in the streets of Tehran — until, after a momentary distraction, he turns to find his suitcase has been stolen. As he desperately searches the city, memories of his previous life flood back and the sense of loss compounds in this by turns surreal and deeply poignant representation of the refugee experience. DCP, color, in Persian with English subtitles, 15 min. Directors: Saman Hosseinpuor, Ako Zandkarimi. Screenwriters: Saman Hosseinpuor, Ako Zandkarimi. Opponent Sweden/Norway, 2023 Payman Maadi delivers a surprising and deeply affecting performance as Iman, an Iranian exile newly arrived in Sweden with his wife and two young children where they anxiously await word on their application for political asylum. A professional wrestler in Iran, Iman joins a local wrestling club in the hopes it will improve their chances to stay. As Iman begins to find renewed purpose, Maryam (Marall Nasiri), his wife, feels hers slipping away. But family tensions are only part of this complex portrait of the exile experience and coming to terms with one's true identity as Iman finds himself again enmeshed by the same rumors and desires that forced him to flee in the first place. DCP, color, in Swedish and Persian with English subtitles, 119 min. Director: Milad Alami. Screenwriter: Milad Alami. With: Payman Maadi, Marall Nasiri, Amirali Abanzad. Location: Billy Wilder Theater

Part of the 2025 UCLA Celebration of Iranian Cinema Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive In-person: actor Vishka Asayesh. Please note: registration does not guarantee entry if the event reach capacity. Admission is granted on a first-come, first-served basis. Patrons who have registered will need to obtain their free tickets at the box office, where seating will be assigned. Any seats remaining 15 minutes before showtime will be released to standby patrons. The Dinner Party Iran, 2023 Farhang Foundation Short Film Festival 3rd Prize Winner Neda Jebelli makes her directorial debut with this penetrating short film about an engagement party that goes off the rails. Shooting entirely in the kitchen where a conservative mother tries to hold things together as the cake delivery is delayed by street protests outside and her daughter refuses to sit with her fiancé, Jebelli makes sharp use of off-screen space and sound to underscore a sense of sweeping societal change. DCP, color, in Persian with English subtitles, 13 min. Director: Neda Jebelli. Screenwriter: Neda Jebelli. Seven Days Germany, 2024 A human rights activist in Iran, Maryam (Vishka Asayesh) has been imprisoned for six years when she’s granted a seven-day medical leave. When he learns of this from exile with their two children in Germany, her husband (Majid Bakhtiari) arranges to have her smuggled across the border where they will meet her. What seems like an extraordinary chance for freedom becomes for Maryam a heartbreaking moral dillemma: rejoin her family, including her teenage daughter, or remain in solidarity with the political movement she joined to fight for her daughter’s future. Directed by Ali Samadi Ahadi and written by Mohammad Rasoulof, Seven Days is a raw, intense exploration of the cost of resistance and freedom. DCP, color, in Persian with English subtitles, 113 min. Director: Ali Samadi Ahadi. Screenwriter: Mohammad Rasoulof. With: Vishka Asayesh, Majid Bakhtiari, Tanaz Molaei. Location: Billy Wilder Theater

Need help making your course materials digitally accessible? Join TLC experts during our open drop-in hour to get your questions answered and receive direct support with accessible documents, accommodations, course content, and Bruin Learn tools. All instructors and staff are welcome! Location: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/96302978546

Now in its 16th year at the Hammer, Bloomsday is a worldwide annual celebration of James Joyce and his landmark book Ulysses. This lively celebration features a cast of veteran actors delivering dramatic readings from the novel interspersed with songs. Directed by Elizabeth Dennehy with actors Sile Bermingham, Sonya Macari, Johnny O’Callaghan, John Rafter Lee, and Kevin Ryan. With musical direction by Victoria Kirsch. Location: hammer museum

Come get help preparing for Summer Teaching during intersession with the Teaching and Learning Center Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Engagement team! Topics covered include: June 17: How to Teach Online and Use Bruin Learn – Learn how to support student engagement online and pace a summer course, how to manage the class and teach on your own, and how to use the BruinLearn gradebook and rubrics. June 18: Sample Assignments and Syllabus Help – Take a deeper dive into aligning assignments with course objectives, workshop sample assignments or syllabi, and discuss how to give feedback and manage grading. Come to one or both sessions! All graduate students teaching in summer are welcome.