Latest Past Events

“The State of Hate” A Three-Part Virtual Series — Part One: Hate and the Brain

“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 […]

Impact Symposium

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 Click here to RSVP […]

The Uses of Hatred: A Symposium

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 […]