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SUMMARY:Symposium on Sound and Hate
DESCRIPTION:Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/symposium-on-sound-and-hate-tickets-1984826445328 \nUCLA School of Music: https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/event/symposium-on-sound-and-hate-studies/ \nJoin us Friday\, April 10th for a half-day symposium on sound and hate\, presented in collaboration with the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. This symposium explores what hate sounds like—how we hear it in everyday life. From TikTok audio trends and pop music to online subcultures and global conflict\, sound plays a powerful role in shaping how hostility is expressed\, shared\, and felt. This symposium brings together scholars working across music\, media\, and cultural studies to explore how sound doesn’t just reflect hate—it helps produce\, circulate\, and sometimes challenge it. \nThe program opens with a series of short presentations that spotlight how sound operates in very different contexts: \n\nAmalia Mora (UCLA Initiative to Study Hate/Bedari Kindness Institute): examines the soundtracks of online incel communities\, asking how music and shared listening cultures reinforce narratives of male victimhood and normalize misogyny. Her work connects these digital soundscapes to longer histories of gendered violence and cultural ideas about masculinity.\nAllie Kelly (UCLA Graduate Student\, Musicology): explores how music circulates across digital platforms\, focusing on how familiar songs—often detached from their original meaning—are reused in online spaces to signal identity\, build community\, or subtly reinforce harmful stereotypes. Her work highlights how even seemingly benign or popular audio can take on new meanings in platform culture.\nKathryn Agnes Huether (UCLA Initiative to Study Hate and the Leve Center for Jewish Studies Postdoctoral Research Associate-Antisemitism Studies): turns to social media platforms\, where short audio clips—songs\, chants\, and viral sounds (think trending TikTok audio or repurposed pop tracks)—circulate rapidly and often lose their original context. Her work examines how these sounds carry affect\, signal belonging\, and sometimes normalize antisemitism and other forms of hate. She also asks whether practices like “radical listening” are even possible in today’s algorithm-driven media environments.\nShayna M. Silverstein (Northwestern University-Associate Professor\, Performance Studies): challenges familiar assumptions about hate by looking beyond Euro-American frameworks. Drawing on her work in the Middle East\, she asks what hate sounds like in contexts where race is not the primary organizing category\, and how everyday sonic practices—voice\, music\, and public sound—can generate and sustain forms of social division such as sectarianism.\n\nThe symposium continues with an open conversation among participants\, followed by a keynote address from Shayna Silverstein\, and concludes with a reception. \nTogether\, the event invites audiences to think differently about listening—not as passive\, but as something deeply tied to how hate is produced\, experienced\, and potentially challenged. \nRSVP here. \n 
URL:https://studyofhate.ucla.edu/event/symposium-on-sound-and-hate/
LOCATION:Schoenberg Music Building\, Lani Hall
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SUMMARY:Undergraduate Research Roundtable Exploring Human Connection\, Conflict\, and Community
DESCRIPTION:On May 20th\, the Bedari Kindness Institute and the UCLA Initiative to Study Hate will be hosting an Undergraduate Research Week roundtable featuring undergraduates who are conducting or interested in research that redefines human connection\, conflict\, and community. \nFood will be provided. \nRSVP HERE.
URL:https://studyofhate.ucla.edu/event/undergraduate-research-roundtable-exploring-human-connection-conflict-and-community/
LOCATION:Luskin School of Public Affairs Rm. 4317
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SUMMARY:UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute and Initiative to Study Hate Impact Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Join the BKI community for an afternoon devoted to sharing research findings drawn from the study of hate and kindness—and to thinking of ways in which we can make a real difference in the world.   The BKI Impact Symposium will explore some of the most critical issues in the world today\, including navigating AI technologies\, reducing political and social polarization\, and building practices of compassion and community. The symposium will feature the following three panels\, along with research project posters: \nToward a Better AI? Can It Combat Hate with Kindness?   \nThe danger AI poses to society is becoming clearer by the day.  AI technologies have already been explicitly implicated in the spread of mis- and dis-information\, risk developing lethal means of destruction\, and perpetuate sexual violence against women and girls. This panel will consider the very real social\, economic\, and political threat that artificial intelligence poses and how we can insist on accountability from big tech\,while also considering how AI might be used as a tool to combat hate and encourage compassion. \nReplacing Polarization and Hate with Compassion \nPolarization is a ubiquitous and toxic presence in politics\, media\, and popular culture in the U.S.  It discourages meaningful  interactions and connections across social\, political\, and ideological divides. This panel will consider compassion-guided and prosocial-driven initiatives to reduce polarization and increase people’s sense of shared reality and community across differences.  \nFortifying Practices of Compassion and Community  \nA growing trend in research suggests that practices informed by altruism\, prosocial behavior\, and acts of compassion and kindness have a significantly positive impact on our mental and physical well being. This panel will discuss the effects of such acts and initiatives on both the individual and community level\, ultimately exploring how they might benefit our collective humanity. \n***At the culmination of 4 years of research\, the Initiative to Study Hate\, a community of almost 130 multi-disciplinary researchers\, has supported 107 projects to understand and mitigate hate. During the 2025-2026 academic year\, BKI has welcomed over 40 researchers on 18 projects seeking to create a more kind and compassionate world. \nDate and Time: Wednesday\, June 3rd from 1-4pm\nA reception will follow from 4-5pm \nRSVP HERE\nLocation details will be sent upon rsvp.
URL:https://studyofhate.ucla.edu/event/ucla-bedari-kindness-institute-and-initiative-to-study-hate-impact-symposium/
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