Ruth Wilson Gilmore

The UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy is honored to welcome Professor Ruth Wilson Gilmore for its Fourth Annual Distinguished Lecture in Ideas and Organizing. One of the preeminent abolitionist scholars of our times, she is Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, American Studies, and Africana Studies at the City University of New York Graduate Center where she was Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics from 2014 to 2024. Co-founder of many grassroots organizations, including Critical Resistance, Professor Gilmore is author of Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation and Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California.

This lecture is part of the ongoing programs celebrating the Institute at 10. Since 2016, the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy has organized knowledge to challenge inequality, accompanying movements and communities on the frontlines of displacement and dispossession. We look forward to seeing you at this in-person program at the historic UCLA Nimoy Theater where Professor Gilmore will be joined by Institute directors Ananya Roy, Hannah Appel, and Kian Goh.

UCLA Nimoy Theater

1262 Westwood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024

7:00 p.m. Doors open with beverages available for purchase.

7:30 p.m. Ruth Wilson Gilmore's lecture will begin.

RSVP is required for admittance. Admission is free, but registration is required for each attendee. RSVP does not guarantee a seat at the program. Seats are available on a first come basis to those who have RSVP'd.

Parking

Parking is available for $4 beginning at 5:00pm.

The entrance to the parking lot is on Glendon Avenue, directly to the left (north) of the Los Angeles Public Library, Westwood Branch. The actual address for GPS is 10866 Wilshire Blvd. As you exit the parking structure, it is just a short walk to the venue along Wilshire Blvd or Wellworth Ave.

Enter through either of the two entrances marked VISITOR. Upon arrival, take a ticket from the automated booth, enter and park anywhere in the structure that is not marked RESERVED.

Please note: The parking structure will close at 11:00pm and patrons will not be able to access their cars after that time. The surface lot immediately behind The Nimoy is not open on evenings and weekends and is not operated by UCLA. Be advised that we are not responsible for any cars that may be towed or ticketed outside of the lot designated for The Nimoy.

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