UCLA Initiative to Study Hate

The State of Hate - Part One: Hate and the Brain (Three-Part Virtual Series)
2024-06-10 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The State of Hate is a multi-part online series co-sponsored by the Friends of Semel Institute and the UCLA Initiative to Study Hate. The series brings together UCLA experts to share new ways of understanding and mitigating hate.
The first installment in the series, “The Brain and Hate” will examine what we know about how hate takes rise in the human brain. Professors Adriana Galván and Mario Mendez will join in the conversation to explore the opportunities and challenges of studying the neuroscience of hate. They will also discuss some of the cognitive processes that advance hateful behavior and how we can counter them.
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Impact Symposium
2024-06-03 14:00 - 18:00
UCLA Initiative to Study Hate Invites you to our Impact Symposium.
This Symposium will highlight the work of the Initiative to Study Hate (ISH), a community of multi-disciplinary researchers working to understand and mitigate hate.
Date: June 3, 2024
Time: 2PM – 5PM – Reception to follow at 5PM – 6PM
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The Uses of Hatred: A Symposium
2024-03-30 09:45 - 17:00 | Royce Hall – Room 306
This event will propose that a range of disciplines across the humanities have shared and suggestive investments in questions of hatred. Speakers will explore hatred as a human emotion not as it is simply decried or enabled in particular works of art, but as it is in different ways put to use. In particular, they will explore the uses of hatred in criticism: of art, literature and culture. The day will bring together scholars and critics in literature and the visual arts, who are also invested in a range of disciplines including psychoanalysis, queer theory, philosophy and anthropology, in order to discuss hatred in, and the hatred of, a range of creative media.
Each presentation will be followed by discussion with the audience, and the day will end with a final roundtable reflection on hatred and the humanities.
Register here to attend the symposium.
For any questions, please direct these to David Russell (djrussell@ucla.edu) or Sarah Kareem (kareem@humnet.ucla.edu).
Schedule
9:45 am – Welcome and Introduction
10:00 am – 10:50 am – Sarah Kareem (English, UCLA): “The Art Lover and the Vandal”
11:00 am – 11:50 am – Wendy Lee (English, NYU): “Austen’s Hatred”
11:50 am – 12:10 pm – Break
12:10 pm – 1:00 pm – David Russell (English, UCLA): “The Hatred of Criticism”
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm – Lunch Break
2:00 pm – 2:50 pm – Jeremy Melius (Art History, University of York): “Deprivation and Delinquency in Ruskin’s History of Art”
3:00 pm – 3:50 pm – Jaś Elsner (Art History, Oxford University): “Image as Aggression in Courbet: about the polemical nature of L’Origine du Monde”
3:50 pm – 4:10 pm – Break
4:10 pm – 5:00 pm – Roundtable Discussion

Hate Crimes, Terrorism, and the Framing of White Supremacist Violence
2023-12-14 12:00 - 13:00 | Bunche Hall 6275
This talk with Professor Shirin Sinnar is based on an article in California Law Review that unpacks the historical roots and contemporary implications of the hate crimes and terrorism frames. First, it explains how the “hate crimes” and “terrorism” frames took hold in our law and culture, such that they now provide alternative frames for interpreting and responding to White supremacist violence. Sinnar then argues that neither the hate crimes nor terrorism frame adequately conceptualizes the problem or solutions. In particular, the move to reframe White supremacist violence as terrorism comes with grave risks: it shifts institutional power towards a national security apparatus and experts detached from affected communities; it entrenches preemptive law enforcement practices that investigate and imprison people on suspicion of future threats; and it risks the greater targeting of subordinated communities and groups appearing to challenge the dominant racial and socioeconomic order. The response to White supremacist violence should begin with a critical reexamination of both frames.
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“What is Hate?” Part 2
2022-06-13
This two-part series of symposia offered terminological, conceptual and speculative reflections on the question of “What is Hate?” from UCLA faculty members.
Part 2 is going to feature remarks from Robin Kelley, Aaron Panofsky, and Karen Umemoto on “Hate and Race,” and from Norma Mendoza-Denton on “Hate and Language.”
Watch recording here.

“What is Hate?” Part 1
2022-05-17
This two-part series of symposia offered terminological, conceptual and speculative reflections on the question of “What is Hate?” from UCLA faculty members.
Part 1 is going to feature remarks from Anna Spain Bradley and Tendayi Achiume on “Hate and the Law,” Adriana Galván on “Hate and the Brain,” and Safiya Noble on “Hate and the Internet.”
Watch recording here.
