UCLA Department of African American Studies

2018 IAC Fall Forum
2018-10-18 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
2018 IAC Fall Forum
Save the Date!

Thursday, October 18, 2018
3:00pm to 5:00pm

UCLA James West Alumni Center

Please join us for presentations from the Institute of American Cultures visiting scholars for 2018-2019
More information to follow.

Organized by the Institute of American Cultures and co-sponsored by the American Indian Studies Center, the Asian American Studies Center, the Bunche Center for African American Studies, and the Chicano Studies Research Center.

Lyrics from Lockdown
2018-10-18 - 2018-10-20
Lyrics from Lockdown
Thursday, October 18, 2018 – Saturday, October 20, 2018
Hip Hop Culture
A critically acclaimed exposé of the ways race, class, power, and privilege shape prisons and policing in America, Lyrics from Lockdown is a story of survival that reveals how the justice system can radically change a young person’s life. In this one-man multimedia production, prison activist, actor, author, and Hip Hop theater innovator Bryonn Bain tells his own unbelievable true story by weaving together the voices of more than 40 characters. Each show is followed by a town hall dialogue.
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Cameron Rowland- Art Workshop
2018-10-16 12:00 - 13:30
CAMERON ROWLAND
ART WORKSHOP
OCTOBER 16th, 2018 | 12:00pm-1:30pm
Future Workshop Dates:
November 26th, 2018 and December 3rd, 2018
Please join us this Tuesday, October 16th at Noon in the Black Forum (153 Haines) for one of three workshops given by artist Cameron Rowland.
Check out Cameron Rowland’s latest exhibition D37 this weekend. For more on Cameron and the D37 exhibit please visit the following link: https://www.moca.org/storage/app/media/CameronRowland_D37_Pamphlet.pdf
Lunch will be provided at the workshop
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A Poetry Reading by Major Jackson
2018-10-15 16:00 - 17:00
A Poetry Reading by Major Jackson
Monday, October 14th, 2018
4:00PM
193 Kaplan Hall

Black Convocation 2018
2018-10-09 17:30 - 20:00
Black Convocation 2018
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
5:30 PM – 8:00 PM
The Black Convocation is an annual event that welcomes new and returning students to the UCLA campus and makes them aware of the different organizations, departments, and resources available to serve them. It is an evening full of Bruin pride, providing encouragement, anecdotes about the past, and a glimpse of the future from UCLA faculty, staff, and alumni dedicated to supporting all students.
The Black Convocation is free and open to the public.
Maps & directions. Parking can be purchased at Parking Lot DD.
The 2018 Black Convocation at UCLA was organized by the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, UCLA Department of African American Studies, UCLA Black Alumni Association, Office of Residential Life (ORL), Afrikan Student Union (ASU), UCLA Career Center, UCLA Black Graduate Student Association (BGSA), Academic Advancement Program (AAP), UCLA Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Connecting Communities to UCLA (CCU), UCLA Community Programs Office & UCLA Student Affairs – Enrollment Management.
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Asmarina: Voices & Images of a Postcolonial Heritage: Screening and Q&A with filmmaker Medhin Paolos
2018-10-07 15:00 - 17:00
Asmarina: Voices & Images of a Postcolonial Heritage: Screening and Q&A with filmmaker Medhin Paolos
Sunday, Oct. 7th, 2018
at the Darren Star Theater (Melnitz Hall 1422)
225 Charles E Young Dr. E
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Italy and the Geopolitics of Migration: Aesthetic Approaches
2018-10-04 09:00 - 20:00
Italy and the Geopolitics of Migration: Aesthetic Approaches
Thursday, Oct. 4
9:00am – 12:00pm at the Darren Star Theater (Melnitz Hall 1422)
1:00pm – 8:00pm at Royce Hall (Room 314)

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Ethnic & Indigenous Studies Welcome
2018-10-01 16:00 - 18:00
Ethnic & Indigenous Studies Welcome
Monday, October 1st, 2018
4:00pm-6:00pm
James West Alumni Center
African American Studies, American Indian Studies, Asian American Studies, and Chicana/o Studies host the 2nd Ethnic and Indigenous Studies Welcome, open to all students, alumni and Bruin affiliates. Explore Ethnic and Indigenous Studies at UCLA. Please join us for FREE food, music, and giveaways with fellow students, faculty, and staff. Learn how Ethnic and Indigenous Studies fits into your UCLA experience and beyond. Welcome new Bruins!

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Department of African American Studies Commencement Celebration
2018-06-16 11:30 - 13:00
Congratulations! The faculty and staff of the Department of African American Studies are looking forward to sharing this wonderful occasion with you.
Date: Saturday, June 16, 2018
Time: 11:30 A.M.
Location: Fowler Museum, Lenart Auditorium
Ticket Information:

Students may request up to 4 complimentary tickets for the Department of African American Studies Ceremony.
An additional four tickets per student are available at $12.00/each.
You should ONLY order tickets for your guests – you do not need a ticket for yourself.
Depending on how many tickets are ordered by all students, there may be extras available. If you would like additional tickets to the ceremony, please e-mail staff@afam.ucla.edu with your name, I.D.# and the number of EXTRA tickets you need (outside of what is ordered online).
Tickets are ordered through MyUCLA for college and departmental graduation ceremonies.
All ticket sales are final. No refunds will be issued for unused tickets.

Parking:

You can pre-purchase parking passes for your guests. The UCLA Central Ticket Office will sell pre-paid Commencement parking permits beginning in May ($12 per permit). The UCLA Central Ticket Office is open from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, Monday-Friday.
The closest parking structure to our venue is Parking Structure 4.
Students or guests with disabilities should contact the Center for Accessible Education (310) 825-1501 voice; (310) 206-6083 TDD, to receive information about parking and other assistance.

On Commencement Day:

Graduates are requested to arrive in front of the Fowler Museum, Lenart Auditorium in African regalia for check-in at 10:30am. Please be on time.
Seating is unreserved. Doors will open at 11:00am.
The ceremony will start promptly at 11:30pm and is expected to last about an hour and half.
Graduates will be asked to sit together in a separate section.

Please contact the Department of African American Studies staff for any questions: staff@afam.ucla.edu

'Race and the Totalitarian Century' with Vaughn Rasberry
2018-05-15 17:00 - 19:00
Race and the Totalitarian Century
A discussion with author Vaughn Rasberry
moderated by Justin Desmangles
Winner of the Ralph J. Bunche Award from the American Political Science Association, and the American Book Award, from the Before Columbus Foundation, Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination, shows how a group of black writers challenged Cold War liberalism’s conceit that it stood in stark opposition to totalitarianism (Nazism and Stalinism). Writers such as Richard Wright, W. E. B. Du Bois, Shirley Graham, C. L. R. James, and John A. Williams, committed to global decolonization and black freedom, pointed to liberal democracies’ legacy of repression and injustice. As a result, they developed a perspective that reimagined the anti-fascist, anti-communist narrative through the lens of racial injustice, with the U.S. as a tyrannical force in the Third World but also as an ironic agent of Asian and African independence.

Tuesday, May 15th, 2018
5:00pm-7:00pm
History Conference Room, Bunche Hall 6275
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Vaughn Rasberry is Associate Professor of English at Stanford University. He works on African American and African Diaspora literature, 20th-century U.S. fiction, postcolonial theory, and philosophical theories of modernity
Justin Desmangles is the director of the Before Columbus Foundation and host of the radio broadcast New Day Jazz
This event is sponsored by the Department of African American Studies, Department of English, Gary B. Nash Chair & the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies.

Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life
2018-05-09 18:00 - 21:00
UCLA’s Department of African American Studies, Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies, Department of Urban Planning, and Department of Sociology present
Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life
with authors Marcus Anthony Hunter and Zandria F. Robinson
in conversation with Scot Brown, Alma Burrell, Lynnée Denise, Frankie “Kash” Waddy

Wednesday, May 9th, 2018
6:00pm-9:00pm
California African American Museum | 600 State Drive | Los Angeles, CA 90037
Free and open to the public.

Chocolate Cities Flyer

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"The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam" by Ula Taylor
2018-04-30 16:00 - 18:00
The UC Consortium for Black Studies presents
THE PROMISE OF PATRIARCHY:
WOMEN AND THE NATION OF ISLAM

Black, Brown, and Powerful: Freedom Dreams in Unequal Cities
2018-04-26 17:00 - 20:00
In Los Angeles and elsewhere, black and brown communities face multiple forms of banishment and exploitation. At this evening of inspiring talks and performances, we shine a light on organizing frameworks and resistance strategies that challenge exclusion and refuse subordination.
We invite scholars, residents, activists, community-based and nonprofit organizations, foundations, policymakers and public officials, and all those interested in social justice work, to join us.
The full program is available HERE

Beyond Coloniality: Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition
2018-04-25 12:30 - 14:00
“Beyond Coloniality: Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition”
Lecture by Aaron Kamugisha

Aaron Kamugisha is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. He is the editor of Caribbean Political Thought: The Colonial State to Caribbean Internationalisms (2013), Caribbean Political Thought: Theories of the Post-Colonial State (2013), (with Yanique Hume) Caribbean Cultural Thought: From Plantation to Diaspora (2013) and Caribbean Popular Culture: Power, Politics and Performance (2016), and with Jane Gordon, Lewis Gordon and Neil Roberts Journeys in Caribbean Thought: The Paget Henry Reader (2016). His work has been published in journals such as Race & Class, Small Axe, The Philosophical Forum, Caribbean Quarterly, Proudflesh, The Journal of Caribbean History and the Journal of West Indian Literature.

Reconsidering Education and Imprisonment: A Conversation on Prisons, Race, and Education
2018-04-24 16:00 - 19:00
The UCLA Departments of African American Studies & Education Present:
DISPOSSESSION & ENCLOSURE: RECONSIDERING EDUCATION AND IMPRISONMENT
a conversation with Sabina Vaught & Damien Sojoyner
Sabina Vaught, associate professor and chair of the Tufts University Department of Education & Damien Sojoyner, assistant professor of anthropology at UC Irvine, will discuss their respective books Compulsory: Education and the Dispossession of Youth in a Prison School and First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles. Based on extensive ethnography, these groundbreaking examinations alter previous understandings of the relationship between schooling and the carceral state.
Tuesday, April 24th, 4pm
The Black Forum, Haines 153
This event is co-sponsored by the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies
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New Directions in Black Queer Studies
2018-04-12 17:00 - 19:00
The UC Consortium for Black Studies presents
New Directions in Black Queer Studies
A Conversation with

Cathy Cohen, David and Mary Winton Green Professor of Political Science, The University of Chicago
and

Roderick Ferguson, Professor of African American and Gender and Women’s Studies, The University of Illinois at Chicago

Moderated by

Uri McMillan, Associate Professor of English, UCLA
Thursday, April 12th, 2018
5:00pm-7:00pm
Bruin Reception Room | UCLA Ackerman Union Second Floor Lounge, AU2414
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Beauty and the Black: Aesthetics Politics and Black Reproduction in Brazil
2018-04-04 12:00 - 14:00
Beauty and the Black: Aesthetics Politics and Black Reproduction in Brazil
Ugo Edu
Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Anthropology
UC Davis

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4
12:00PM
Black Forum Room, Haines Hall 153
lunch will be provided
Based on ethnographic research in Salvador, Bahia, this talk explores the role of aesthetics in the construction and perception of what constitutes healthy reproduction and reproductive practices. I draw on women’s navigations within a Brazilian economy of aesthetics, race, and sexuality and the way these navigations shape and are shaped by processes and procedures related to the governance and measurements of reproduction and reproductive health. I focus on Black women’s experiences of contraceptive use, attempts to acquire tubal ligations, and family construction. I analyze the way that values, sensibilities, and affect that have come to adhere to particular appearances and arrangements, have also adhered to the perception and apprehension of reproductive decision-making (seen and unseen, articulated and not-articulated), reproductive health, and family constructions. This work points to the importance of an understanding and recognition of the aesthetic underpinnings of health and biomedical systems.
Dr. Ugo Edu is a medical anthropologist, currently a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. Previously, she was the Science, Justice, and Health Equity Postdoctoral Fellow at the Health Equity Institute at San Francisco State University. She received her PhD from the joint Medical Anthropology program at University of California, San Francisco/UC Berkeley, with a designated emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Her scholarship has a strong interdisciplinary approach to issues of aesthetics, affect, race, gender, body knowledge and modification, and social justice. In her research, she focuses on the politics of reproduction, reproductive and sexual health, and health inequities in both global and national contexts. She situates her work at the intersection of medical anthropology, public health, black feminism, and science, technology, and society studies.

Blackness and Borderscapes: Queering the Black Mediterranean
2018-04-02 12:00 - 14:00
Blackness and Borderscapes: Queering the Black Mediterranean

SA Smythe
President’s Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies
UC Irvine

MONDAY, APRIL 2
12:00PM
Black Forum Room | Haines Hall 153

In this presentation, Dr. SA Smythe addresses recent challenges in the regulation of legal residency and pathways to citizenship in Italy. Smythe reads contemporary Black Italian women’s writing to consider the stakes of cultural belonging, human rights, and the Italian literary canon in the constitution of the Black Mediterranean. They think alongside Black, Trans, and Mediterranean Studies scholars to expose the material and psychological violence of Frontex Europe and the legacies of colonial and fascist Italy by discussing the politics of citizenship and cultural production without relying on the desire to redeem or reconcile its legal hierarchies.
Dr. SA Smythe is a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Their book manuscript, Crisis and the Canon: Shifting Representation Regimes in the Black Mediterranean, is a transdisciplinary project that examines racialized aporias in the narration of italianità in the Black Mediterranean from the Risorgimento (Italian Unification) to the present. The monograph is a meditation on canonicity and citizenship in the wake of Europe’s self-initiated “crises” of migration and attendant levels of dispossession. SA is president and founder of the Queer Studies Caucus of the American Association of Italian Studies and publishing editor of THEM – Trans Literary Journal. SA is also a poet and an activist who performs and organizes in queer trans Black and abolitionist writing collectives across London, Bologna, Berlin, and most recently Los Angeles.

From Zamunda to Wakanda: Celebrating 30 years of Culturally Diverse Design and Imagination in Film
2018-03-26 19:00 - 21:00
From Zamunda to Wakanda:
Celebrating 30 Years of Culturally Diverse Design and
Imagination in Film
featuring an evening with costume designers
Deborah Nadoolman Landis
Coming to America (1988)
and
Ruth E. Carter
Black Panther (2018)
Imagination has been key to the Black Freedom Struggle and Black cultural expression. No two places best reflect this point more than the filmic chocolate cities of Zamunda (Coming To America, 1988) and Wakanda (Black Panther 2018). In celebration of Women’s History Month, we honor the 30th Anniversary of Coming to America bringing it into dialogue with the new global hit Black Panther. This event will bring together the marvelous Academy Award nominated costume designers for both films, Deborah Nadoolman Landis and Ruth E. Carter, in a dynamic revisit of each film and a discussion of their paths to and through the films. 30-years-ago the world was introduced to the African chocolate city, Zamunda, as the titular Prince Akeem (played by Eddie Murphy), went on a global search for the love of his life. A worldwide classic then and now, Coming to America, especially as realized through costume design has lived on, inspiring everything from weddings, to birthdays, to many subsequent films. 30-years-later the world has again witnessed the magic and power of African inspired costume design in Black Panther as the protagonist King T’Challa serves and protects his people and country from outsiders and internal strife.
Please join us March 26, 2018 at the James Bridges Theater at 7:00 p.m., as we gather to honor the genius of costume designers Deborah Nadoolman Landis and Ruth E. Carter, exploring the people, ideas and the research that guided their visions and helped make the African dreamscapes of Zamunda and Wakanda a rich and lasting portrait of Black possibilities, futures, lives and love.

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Co-sponsored by:
UCLA Department of African American Studies
UCLA African Studies Center
UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television
The David C. Copley Center for the Study of Costume Design

Conversations by Artists for Artists, Spring 2018
2018-03-25 14:00 - 16:00
Conversations by Artists for Artists, Spring 2018

Sunday, March 25th, 2018
2:00pm-4:00pm
California African American Museum | 600 State Drive Los Angeles, CA 90037

Charlyn Green (aka The Cosmic Goddess Herself) and Dr. Scot Brown continue this series conceived by artist Lisa C Soto and originally hosted at Soto Studio in Inglewood, which brings together creative contemporaries from many artistic genres, including visual, performing, and multidisciplinary practices. Two artists working in different mediums and with distinctly different approaches interview one another and then broaden their conversation to an audience of their peers.
Come for a stimulating, nurturing, and supportive environment where creatives can get to know one another and talk shop.

A reception with homemade Caribbean food follows, cooked by Soto.
Limited capacity, RSVP required.

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Tendayi Sithole: “Re-Reading Steve Biko in the Archive: The Epistemology of the Interview”
2018-03-05 14:00 - 16:00
“Re-Reading Steve Biko in the Archive:
The Epistemology of the Interview”

Tendayi Sithole | University of South Africa

Monday, March 5, 2018 | 2:00 pm
10383 Bunche Hall
Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

Scholar/Critic/Poet Tendayi Sithole:
“The archive and the interview assume the place of the original because they are considered primary if not authentic texts. Both are, of course, very important textual forms and more so if they are about important figures. In this paper, I want to re-read the archive and also the interview as important sites in understanding the knowledge practices of Biko under the context of the apartheid regime. This will be done by engaging the interview that Gail Gerhart conducted with Biko in 1972 as the site of examination of the conception of the archive and the interview in re-reading the subjectivity of Biko.”

Tendayi Sithole is an associate professor in the Department of Political Sciences, University of South Africa. He is the author of Steve Biko: Decolonial Meditations of Black Consciousness (2016). Professor Sithole teaches holds a doctorate in African Politics which was based on Achille Mbembe’s political thought. Thematic areas of his research are black radical thought, decolonial critical theory, Africana existential phenomenology, public intellectuals, and literary studies.

This lecture is part of the African Studies Center Speaker Series and is cosponsored by Professor Robin D.G. Kelley, Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History, UCLA Department of African American Studies and the African Activist Association.

For questions/more information, contact:
UCLA African Studies Center | 10244 Bunche Hall | Los Angeles, CA 90095-1310 | Telephone: 310-825-3686
Website: http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa | email: africa@international.ucla.edu

Economic Policy and the Civil Rights Movement: How Coretta Scott King Helped Change Federal Reserve Policy
2018-03-05 12:00 - 15:00
RSVP to rsvpluskin@history.ucla.edu

The Intersection: Woke Black Folk
2018-03-02 19:00 - 21:00
26th Annual Pan African Film Festival
Featured Theater Event

Playwright, Poet, Scholar and Activist FUNMILOLA FAGBAMILA performs for
ONE NIGHT ONLY
her one-woman, hip hop, spoken word theater piece:
THE INTERSECTION: WOKE BLACK FOLK

March 2nd, 2018
Doors Open: 6:00pm
Show Begins: 7:00pm
Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center | 4305 Degnan Blvd #101, Los Angeles, CA 90008

TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLY AT
WWW.FUNMILOLA.COM
The Intersection is a theatrical production that explores and deconstructs black political identity, foregrounding the forms of ideological conflict and difference that exist within what can be understood to be black radicalism. Funmilola Fagbamila (playwright) developed this production during her time as the Inaugural Activist-in-Residence at the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin during the Winter 2017 quarter. Renowned scholar-activist Dr. Angela Davis reviewed the earliest presentation of The Intersection, stating “This production is brilliant, timely and necessary.”
The Intersection has been selected as the featured theatrical production for the 2018 Pan African Film Festival (the largest black film festival in the United States) and will open on March 2, 2018.

The Kind of Man I Am: Jazzmasculinity and the World of Charles Mingus, Jr. by Nichole Rustin-Paschal
2018-02-22 12:00 - 13:30
The Kind of Man I Am: Jazzmasculinity and the World of Charles Mingus, Jr.
by Nichole Rustin-Paschal
Thursday, February 22nd, 2018
12:00pm-1:30pm
Black Forum, Haines Hall 153

The Kind of Man I Am: Jazzmasculinity and the World of Charles Mingus Jr. (Wesleyan 2017) is a gendered cultural history of jazz in the postwar period. She draws on archival records, published memoirs, and previously conducted interviews to explore how Mingus’s ideas about music, racial identity, and masculinity—as well as those of other individuals in his circle, like Celia Mingus, Hazel Scott, and Joni Mitchell—challenged jazz itself as a model of freedom, inclusion, creativity, and emotional expressivity.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Musicology

A Book Talk with Manisha Sinha on "The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition"
2018-02-13 12:00 - 13:30
A Book Talk with Manisha Sinha
The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition
Tuesday, February 13th, 2018
12:00pm-1:30pm
Black Forum, Haines Hall 153

Manisha Sinha will discuss her prize-winning book, The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition (Yale University Press, 2016)
Co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies
Lunch will be provided.

Support for Black Reparations in the Early 21st Century
2018-02-12 12:00 - 14:00
Support for Black Reparations in the Early 21st Century
Talk by Michael Dawson
John D. MacArthur Professor of Political Science and the College
The University of Chicago

Monday, February 12th, 2018
12:00pm-2:00pm
Black Forum, Haines Hall 153

Lunch will be provided.

Why Black Women’s Lives and Histories Matter
2018-02-08 19:00 - 20:30
WHY HISTORY MATTERS
Why Black Women’s Lives and Histories Matter
Thursday, February 8, 2018
7:00 p.m.
Fowler Museum at UCLA, Lenart Auditorium
Self-pay parking available in Structure 4

Funmilola Fagbamila
Adjunct Professor, Department of Pan-African Studies
California State University, Los Angeles
Dion Fountaine Raymond, J.D.
Discrimination Prevention Officer and Coordinator
UCLA Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Brenda Stevenson
Professor and Nickoll Family Endowed Chair in History
UCLA Department of History
moderated by
Marcus Anthony Hunter
Scott Waugh Endowed Chair in the Division of the Social Sciences
Associate Professor and Chair
UCLA Department of African American Studies
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Bankers, Empire, and Black Study
2018-02-01 14:00 - 16:00
Bankers, Empire, and Black Study
Thursday, February 1st, 2018
2:00pm-4:00pm
Reception to follow.
UCLA Young Research Library (YRL) Main Conference Room 11360

A roundtable discussion on Peter James Hudson’s “Banker’s and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean”.
featuring
Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report
Peter James Hudson, UCLA
Walter Johnson, Harvard University
Deborah A. Thomas, University of Pennsylvania
Moderated by Marcus Hunter, UCLA

Cosponsored by the Department of History and the James S Coleman African Studies Center

A Conversation With Bootsy Collins: Worldwide Funk
2018-01-30 18:00 - 20:30
A Conversation With Bootsy Collins: Worldwide Funk
Hosted by Scot Brown

Tuesday, January 30, 2018
6:00pm-8:30pm
Fowler Museum at UCLA, Room A139

RSVP HERE:
worldwidefunk.eventbrite.com
Free and Open to the Public

"My Good Friends Walter Rodney and John Walton": Racial Brokering in New Orleans Education Reform
2017-11-13 12:00 - 14:00
“My Good Friends Walter Rodney and John Walton”:
Racial Brokering in New Orleans Education Reform
A Talk with Christien Tompkins

Monday, November 13th, 2017
12:00pm-2:00pm
UCLA Black Forum Room, Haines Hall 153
Christien Tompkins is a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California Los Angeles in African American Studies. He received his PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago in 2017 and previously worked as an elementary school teacher in a New York City public charter school. His first book project, Reconstructing Race: New Orleans Education Reform as Experimental Labor, has been selected by the University of California Press as a finalist in the new series, Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century.
