Latest Past Events

Compassionate Conversation with Adam Phillips

On February 26th and 27th 2025, The UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute and the UCLA Initiative to Study Hate, in partnership with the UCLA Department of English and the Hammer Museum, will be hosting internationally acclaimed psychoanalyst and author, Adam Phillips, for a three-event series, which will include a lecture and a seminar at UCLA, and […]

The State of Hate – Part Three: Hate and the Internet/Social Media

Online (Zoom)

The State of Hate is a three-part series, jointly sponsored by UCLA's Friends of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, UCLA's State of Hate Initiative, and the Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital Board of Advisors. Hate and the Internet/Social Media - Part 3 in the series, will examine how the landscape of hate online has […]

The State of Hate – Part Two: Hate and Politics

Online (Zoom)

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, Hate and Politics, will look at how hate is playing out […]