UCLA Department of African American Studies

WHILE BLACK WITH MK ASANTE presented by Snapchat
2020-03-02 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
WHILE BLACK WITH MK ASANTE
Monday, March 2, 2020
6:00pm-7:00pm
James Bridges Theater
WHILE BLACK WITH MK ASANTE presented by Snapchat Best-selling author, filmmaker and educator MK Asante is bringing his hit Snapchat show WHILE BLACK WITH MK ASANTE on the road, visiting college campuses across the country. Joined by special guest speakers, Asante will bring the show’s powerful messages to life, exploring what it means to be young, gifted and black in America. Don’t miss out on this exciting event and be a part of the conversation inspiring change.
Link to trailer here
Link to episode 1 on YouTube
Link to show profile page on Snapchat

Thinking About Religion: Langston Hughes and a Literary Approach to the Study of African American Religious History
2020-03-04 16:00 - 17:30
Prof. Wallace Best will be giving a presentation on African American Religious History, with special attention given to Langston Hughe’s insights into the subject. If you are interested in the event, please RSVP at www.religion.ucla.edu.

Thinking Gender 2020: Sexual Violence as Structural Violence: Feminist Visions of Transformative Justice
2020-03-06 08:00 - 18:30
This year marks Thinking Gender’s 30th anniversary!
FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 2020
CARNESALE COMMONS, UCLA
GENERAL REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN
Pre-Register by Friday, February 28, 2020. In-person registration will also be available on the day of the event.
DETAILED SCHEDULE
Thinking Gender 2020 will focus on feminist, queer, trans, anti-carceral, transnational, and intersectional approaches to sexual violence.
Recent #MeToo mobilizations against high-profile predatory sexual abusers including Harvey Weinstein, R. Kelly, and Jeffrey Epstein have heightened public conversation around sexual violence. While important contributions have challenged dominant approaches to sexual violence, much of it has remained caught in legalistic, carceral, or criminal justice discourses that emphasize the punishment of individual actors to the exclusion of envisioning alternative definitions of repair and justice. Such dominant approaches center evidence and proof, and offer only the punishment of individual perpetrators as remedy, often in ways that exacerbate existing structural inequalities. Decades of scholarship and activism have demonstrated the inefficacy of such punitive models to curb sexual violence as well as the ways in which they exacerbate the policing of already marginalized communities.

KEYNOTE PANEL
Transformational Justice: Refusing Criminalization and Sexual Violence
Friday, March 6, 2020, 3:15 PM
Thinking Gender 2020: Sexual Violence as Structural Violence: Feminist Visions of Transformative Justice will feature a keynote panel of scholars and activists, headlined by Mariame Kaba. The panel will follow an opening presentation by Tongva artist, Weshoyot Alvitre.
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Keynote Panelists:
Mariame Kaba
Founder and Director, Project NIA; Researcher-in-Residence, Social Justice Institute, Barnard Center for Research on Women

Mimi Kim
Assistant Professor of Social Work, California State University, Long Beach

Emily Thuma
Assistant Professor of American Politics and Public Law, University of Washington Tacoma

Sarah Haley (Moderator)
Chair, CSW Advisory Committee; Director, UCLA Black Feminism Initiative; Professor, Gender Studies and African American Studies

Keynote Opener:
Weshoyot Alvitre
Illustrator and Comic Book Artist, Tongva (Los Angeles Basin)

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
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ACCESSIBILITY
THIS IS A FRAGRANCE-FREE EVENT. For the health and safety of all attendees, please refrain from wearing products that contain fragrances when attending CSW events. Such products include: perfumes, hair products, deodorants, detergents, etc. For more information on fragrance and accessibility, read about CSW’s Share the Air campaign.
If you require accommodations in order for this event to be accessible to you (e.g., sign language interpretation, large print materials, etc.), please contact thinkinggender@women.ucla.edu by Friday, February 14, 2020. For more information, visit our Events Accessibility Page.

PARKING AND ACCOMMODATIONS
Thinking Gender 2020 will take place at Carnesale Commons which is located in UCLA’s residential community known as the Hill.
Parking and Accommodations Information

CO-SPONSORED BY:

Backed by Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
African American Studies Department
African Studies Center
American Indian Studies Center
American Indian Studies Program
Anthropology Department
Asian American Studies Department
Asian American Studies Center
Bixby Center on Population and Reproductive Health
Black Male Institute and Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families
Bruin Consent Coalition
Campus Assault Resources and Education (CARE)
Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity
Center for Health Policy Research
Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice, & Health
Center X
Chicana/o Studies Department
Chicano Studies Research Center
Community Health Sciences Department
Comparative Literature Department
Criminal Justice Program, UCLA School of Law
Disabilities Studies Program
Education Department
English Department
Fielding School of Public Health
Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History
Gender Studies Department
Healthy Campus Initiative
Humanities Division
Information Studies Department
Institute for Research on Labor & Employment
Institute of American Cultures
Institute of Transportation Studies
Institute on Inequality and Democracy
International Development and Policy Outreach
International Institute
Iris Cantor-UCLA Women’s Health Center
Labor Center
Latin American Institute
Latino Policy and Politics Initiative
Office of Residential Life
Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies
Promise Institute for Human Rights
Ralph and Goldy Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies
School of Medicine-Office of Diversity Affairs
School of Nursing
School of Theater, Film, and Television
Social Sciences Division
Social Welfare Department
Sociology Department
UC Speaks Up
UC Global Health Institute’s Center of Expertise on Women’s Health, Gender and Empowerment
Veterans Legal Clinic
Urban Planning Department
World Arts and Cultures/Dance Department

"The Coming Mental Rage," a Poetry Reading and Performance by Will Alexander.
2020-03-10 15:00 - 17:00
“The Coming Mental Rage,” a Poetry Reading and Performance by Will Alexander
Tuesday, March 10th
3-5pm
Green Room, Rm. 1230
Schoenberg Music Building
Poet, essayist, novelist, playwright, philosopher, visual artist, musician, Will Alexander has been hailed as one of the most important surrealist voices on the planet. A native of Los Angeles, he earned his BA in English and creative writing from the University of California–Los Angeles in 1972. Alexander’s books of poetry include Across the Vapour Gulf (2017), Compression & Purity (2011), The Sri Lankan Loxodrome(2009), Asia & Haiti (1995), and The Stratospheric Canticles (1995). He has taught at many colleges and universities, including the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, the University of California, and Hofstra University, among others. His collection Singing In Magnetic Hoofbeat: Essays, Prose, Texts, Interviews, and a Lecture (2013) was awarded an American Book Award. His other honors include a Whiting Fellowship for Poetry, a California Arts Council Fellowship, and the 2016 Jackson Poetry Prize.

Charly Palmer Regents Lecture
2020-05-20 15:00 - 16:00
UCLA Regents Lecturer
Charly Palmer

Wednesday, May 20, 2020
3PM (PST), 6PM (EST)
Instagram LIVE @ucla_afam
In this lecture series, Charly Palmer discusses the role of the artist in protest movements and how to use art to not only communicate a feeling but also directly impact the world.
Q&A to follow.

The Fire This Time: Race at Boiling Point
2020-06-05 13:00 - 16:00
The Fire This Time: Race at Boiling Point
Join us this Friday, June 5, at 1:00 pm PST for The Fire This Time: Race at Boiling Point, a conversation with Angela Y. Davis, Herman Gray, Gaye Theresa Johnson, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Josh Kun.
Please RSVP to receive a personal link to the webinar: HERE

BSFA Forum on California Ballot Measures 2020
2020-10-05 12:00 - 13:00
BSFA Forum on California Ballot Measures 2020
Monday, October 5th, 2020
12pm-1pm

A special program from the UCLA Black Staff & Faculty Association (BSFA) for stakeholders to hear why Prop 15, Prop 16, Prop 17, Prop 18, Prop 20, Prop 21, Prop 22, Prop 25, Measure J and voting matters today.

https://tinyurl.com/y5kaxngu
Presented by
UCLA BLACK STAFF & FACULTY ASSOCIATION in conjunction with UCLA Government & Community Relations

Black Convocation 2020
2020-10-06 17:00 - 19:00
Save the Date for Black Convocation 2020!
October 6, 2020 via Zoom.
More details to come!

10 Questions: What is Power?
2020-10-19 19:00 - 20:00
This fall, the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture returns with 10 Questions: Reckoning, the third installment of the annual event series that invites the public to join UCLA students in the virtual classroom to engage in vibrant conversation alongside leading faculty and distinguished alumni from across the university.
With COVID-19, the climate crisis, social and political turmoil unlike anything we have seen in a generation, and, of course, a presidential election on our minds, we will be asking our most urgent set of questions yet.
This week William Boyd, Chon Noriega, and Jemima Pierre, will join Victoria Marks, associate dean of academic affairs of the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture and professor in the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, to explore the question “What is Power?”
William Boyd, lawyer, scholar, and environmental advocate
Chon Noriega, art historian, media scholar, and curator
Jemima Pierre, Black studies scholar and anthropologist
Join the conversation. Follow UCLA Arts on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook so you never miss an update.
RSVP HERE

Climate Change, Political Economy and Connectivity in the Red Sea Region
2020-10-21 - 2020-12-02
Climate Change, Political Economy and Connectivity in the Red Sea Region
convened and moderated by Professor Alden Young (UCLA) and Nathalie Peutz (NYU AD)

Check out the Fall Schedule here
https://www.redseanet.org/

Is Now a Good Time? Inside Graduate School
2020-10-21 16:00 - 17:00
Is Now a Good Time? Inside Graduate School
Are you thinking about going to graduate or professional school? Is now the right time? We will be discussing some key areas to consider when making your decision. Some topics we will be addressing are living and working while going to school, transitioning to graduate school, and considerations for taking a gap year.
October 21st
4:00-5:00pm PST
RSVP for Zoom Link.
Student Attendees who come to the event, and fill out a short two question survey at the end are entered to win a $75 gift card to Amazon!
HCPS Event website with panelist bios: https://humanities.ucla.edu/career/hcps/events/is-now-a-good-time-inside-graduate-school/

Want to Make Connections for Your Career After UCLA?
2020-10-22 17:00 - 18:00
Come hear from a panel of former Bruin student-athletes about their paths to success hosted by AAP and the Arthur Ashe Legacy Project! RSVP now!

Contextualizing BLM in the History of Slavery and Segregation
2020-10-23 16:00 - 17:00
Black Lives Matter: Global Perspectives Webinar Series
“Contextualizing BLM in the History of Slavery”

The series aims to provide a platform for scholars, students and activists to deepen our collective understanding of the structure and experience of racial oppression and the long struggle for racial justice, as well as to draw connections among unique, but interlinked antiracist struggles in the context of global histories of colonialism, imperialism and internationalism.

Friday, Oct. 23 — 4:00 p.m.

Speakers: Brenda Stevenson, Deborah Thomas
Register here: https://ucla.in/37lKM2M

ABC (ABolition Curriculum) Organizing Meeting
2020-10-29 15:30 - 17:00
Join us and get in on the next ABC (Abolition Curriculum) organizing meeting!

Thursday 29th @ 3.30 – 5pm PST
Time: Oct 29, 2020
Zoom Meeting:
https://ucla.zoom.us/j/97860305106

BSFA Forum on School Safety Reimagined
2020-11-02 12:00 - 17:00
UCLA Black Staff and Faculty Association
Join us for our BFSA Forum on
School Safety Reimagined
A panel discussion highlighting Black Bruin students, staff, and alumni helping to reimagine what school safety can look like from UCLA to South LA to Richmond, CA.
November 2nd, 2020
12:00pm

A Conversation on Community
2020-11-05 11:30 - 13:00
As we navigate 2020, please join the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion for a special event – exploring and reaffirming UCLA’s commitment to inclusion and dignity for all.
When:
Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 11:30 am
Where:
The event will take place via Zoom. The specific Zoom link and instructions will be provided closer to the event date to all registrants.
Panelists:
Our full list of speakers will be announced very shortly.
RSVP:
Please RSVP at http://bit.ly/ucla_115. Admission is FREE for the UCLA community.
Please note: A valid UCLA e-mail address will be required for RSVP.

RedSeaNet | Fall 2020 Webinar | Climate Change, Political Economy and Connectivity in the Red Sea Region
2020-11-11 07:30 - 2020-12-08 09:00
RedSeaNet | Fall 2020 Webinar
Climate Change, Political Economy and Connectivity in the Red Sea Region

Convened and moderated by Alden Young (UCLA) and Nathalie Peutz (NYUAD)

Supported by the Social Science Research Council’s Transregional Collaboratory on the Indian Ocean
To Register or For More Information Click Here

David Geffen School of Medicine, Virtual Info Session
2020-11-14 10:00 - 12:00
The David Geffen School of Medicine (DGSOM) at UCLA is hosting an Info session for all pre-medical students, graduate, undergraduate, and community college students. This session will focus on presenting on the MD and pre-medical programs DGSOM offers.
Date: November 14, 2020 (Time in PST)
10AM – 11AM: Information about our various MD Programs
11AM – 12PM: Information about our Pre-Health Pipeline Programs
If you are interested please register here: https://uclahs.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3C3jxeUd9NmfTU1
Deadline to register: November 9th, 2020
For more information please visit our website https://medschool.ucla.edu/apply/outreach or contacts us at: outreach@mednet.ucla.edu

IAC Fall Forum
2020-11-18 15:00 - 16:00
Join us on Wednesday, November 18th @ 3pm for the annual IAC Fall Forum featuring the 2020–21 IAC visiting researchers and scholars, graduate and predoctoral fellows, and research grant awardees at UCLA’s four ethnic studies centers. Register @ https://bit.ly/3leyOMz

"Thriving Industries During COVID: First Jobs out of College"
2020-11-18 16:00 - 17:00
“Thriving Industries During COVID: First Jobs out of College”
Learn successful job search strategies and hear from a panel of professionals who are working in thriving industries during COVID-19
Wednesday, November 18th | On Zoom | 4:00-5:00 pm (PST)

"Black Lives Matter—Past, Present, and Beyond" lecture series featuring Christopher Lebron
2020-11-20 09:00 - 11:00
“Black Lives Matter—Past, Present, and Beyond” lecture series
featuring Christopher Lebron
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University
The Beautiful Ugly Struggle:
How Black Lives Mattered to Angela Davis and Amiri Baraka
Friday, November 20, 2020 at 9:00am PST
Live Streaming via Zoom
RSVP Here

10-Year Anniversary of “Critical Race Theory, Race Equity, and Public Health: Toward Antiracism Praxis” Fall Symposium
2020-11-20 12:00 - 13:00
The Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice, & Health presents the
“10-Year Anniversary of “Critical Race Theory, Race Equity, and Public Health: Toward Antiracism Praxis” Fall Symposium
Friday, November 20, 2020 at 12PM PT/3PM ET
Ten years ago, Dr. Chandra Ford and Dr. Collins Airhihenbuwa published, “Critical Race Theory, Race Equity, and Public Health” and “The Public Health Critical Race Methodology: Praxis for Antiracism Research”, revolutionary pieces of work that transformed the study of race within the field of public health and beyond. Join Dr. Terence Keel, Associate Director for Critical Theory at the UCLA Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice, & Health, on Friday, November 20, 2020, at 12 pm PT/3 pm ET as he hosts a discussion with Dr. Ford and Dr. Airhihenbuwa about the origins and impact of their groundbreaking work, its continued importance, and the future of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in public health and biomedicine.
Registration Information can be found here: https://bit.ly/10YrCRTandPublicHealth

"Lena Horne, Stormy Weather, and the Hollywood Supernova" by Dr. Philana Payton (UC Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow)
2020-11-20 16:00 - 17:00
“Lena Horne, Stormy Weather, and the Hollywood Supernova”
A Talk by Dr. Philana Payton (UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow)
November 20, 2020 at 4PM PST
Register Here

CAP UCLA presents Meshell Ndegeocello's celebration of James Baldwin
2020-11-29 - 2020-12-31
CAP UCLA presents Meshell Ndegeocello’s celebration of James Baldwin
Chapter and Verse: The Gospel of James Baldwin is a 21st-century ritual tool kit for justice, shared in isolation, bridging communities around the world. Inspired by James Baldwin’s seminal treaty on justice in America, The Fire Next Time, the project was created during the time of two raging pandemics plaguing the United States — COVID-19 and racism.
Participants are invited to engage in an urgent and critical investigation of race, religion, sexual orientation, America and its status quo, celebrating Baldwin’s ideas and legacy through music, meditations, and visual imagery. The vernacular of a church service, structured rituals and worship, and other forms of sacred practice, inspire the gifts offered each month from September-December 2020, free of charge.

Call: Dial a toll-free telephone number to discover songs, meditations, and chants to ease your mind any time, day or night, when you need it most. 1-833-4-BALDWIN (1-833-422-5394).
See: Experience visual testimonies of Baldwin’s text, with original music created by Meshell and artistic collaborators, including Suné Woods, Nicholas Galanin, and Charlotte Brathwaite.
Read: Sign up for the monthly printed newsletter, featuring Baldwin’s words and calls to action, delivered four times, directly to your mailbox. To register to receive the broadsheet, click here before September 21st. One copy per household, please. We are currently unable to accommodate international mailing addresses.

Black Lives Matter in Brazil
2020-12-10 11:00 - 12:00
Like in the United States, police violence against people of color is pervasive in Brazil, the country with the world’s second-largest Black population. This interdisciplinary panel of scholars from Brazil and the U.S. will trace the history of Black Brazilian mobilization against state-sanctioned violence; compare police violence against people of color in Brazil, the U.S., and South Africa; and examine the particular impacts of police violence on Black LGBTQ+ Brazilians.
Thursday, December 10, 2020
11:00AM PDT
Click Here for the Zoom Registration
Panelists:
Alvaro Nascimento, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro
Waleska Miguel Batista, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
Watufani Poe, Brown University
Moderator: Ugo Edu, Department of African American Studies

Organized by the Latin American Institute and Center for Brazilian Studies, and co-sponsored by History, Public Policy, and Spanish and Portuguese

Homegoing: The Technology of Living Data and Black Public Mourning in the Age of COVID-19
2020-12-10 15:00 - 16:00
UCLA’s Digital Humanities program, Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (c2i2), and the Department of Information Studies’ Graduate Student Colloquium present:
Homegoing: The Technology of Living Data and Black Public Mourning in the Age of COVID-19
A lecture by Professor Kim Gallon (Purdue University)
Thursday, December 10, 2020 3:00pm (PST)

Kim Gallon is an Associate Professor of History. Her work investigates the cultural dimensions of the Black Press in the early twentieth century. She is the author of many articles and essays as well as the book, Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press (University of Illinois Press, 2020). She currently serves as the inaugural editor for the Black Press in America book series at Johns Hopkins University Press. Gallon is also the author of the field defining article, “Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities,” and the founder and director of two black digital humanities projects: The Black Press Research Collective and COVID Black: A Taskforce on Black Health and Data. She also serves on a number of digital advisory boards for digital humanities projects and grants. To learn more about her research and teaching follow her on Twitter, @BlackDigitalHum

Registration Required (click here)

Pre-Kwanzaa Celebration 2020 with Dr. Scot Brown (Keynote Speaker)
2020-12-10 19:00 - 21:00
The Community Folk Art Center (CFAC) and Syracuse University’s Department of African American Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences invites you to virtually celebrate a Pre-Kwanzaa Celebration event!

Special guest performers include: the Adanfo Ensemble ( African Drumming and Dance), Dr. Joan Hillsman ( Joan Hillsman Network), Alice Queen (Vocalist) and Dr. Scot Brown (Keynote Speaker).
The concert will be live-streamed from CFAC, with virtual doors opening at 7 p.m EST/ 4 p.m. PST
Register Here

Career Day with the Lakers
2020-12-11 17:00 - 18:30
Join us this Friday, Dec 11th, 2020 for a panel discussion featuring staff from the LA Lakers and the broad range of career paths that exist within professional supports.
Hosted by the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies in partnership with the Lakers Black Action Network.
Register Here

FESTIVALS IN THE CITY OF ANGELS: KWANZAA IN LEIMERT PARK VILLAGE
2020-12-17 17:00 - 18:00
FESTIVALS IN THE CITY OF ANGELS: KWANZAA IN LEIMERT PARK VILLAGE

Thursday, December 17, 2020 | 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Kwanzaa is a relatively new holiday, created in 1966, following the Watts Rebellion, to bring the Black community together. Today, it is celebrated annually around the world, most notably on the West Coast in Leimert Park Village, the vibrant heart of Black culture in Los Angeles. The Fowler has partnered with We Love Leimert for a program honoring Kwanzaa and its seven principles and symbols rooted in the sacred teachings of Asante and Zulu harvest celebrations. We’ll hear from cultural bearers and figures from the Leimert Park Village community who are organizing for Black liberation and self-determination. The program will culminate with a dance class led by Kamilah Marsh and Keti Ciofassa, giving participants an opportunity to embody the principles of Kwanzaa.
This program is co-presented by UCLA’s Department of African American Studies, in partnership with We Love Leimert.
REGISTER HERE

Festivals in the City of Angels
This series connects museum programs with communities across the city in order to better understand manifestations of lived religions in Los Angeles and honor local expressions of global faiths. This series is generously supported by a grant from Lilly Endowment Inc.

UCLA Black Alumni Association’s Social Justice Summit
2021-01-08 08:00 - 2021-01-10 11:00
UCLA Black Alumni Association’s Social Justice Summit
January 7th-10th, 2021
Register HERE
UCLA Black Alumni Association’s Social Justice Summit is going virtual. Following a tumultuous year which laid bare the country’s racial inequity, UBAA plans to bring thought leaders, activists, entertainers and Black Bruin professionals together to discuss the most pressing issues facing the Black community today. Watch the promo video here or below:

Schedule of Events:
Thursday, Jan. 7 at 7 p.m.
A Love Song for LaTasha – Panel Discussion with Director Sophia Nahli Allison
Friday, Jan. 8 at 5:30 p.m.
Black LGBTQ+ Lives Matter – Panel Discussion
Saturday, Jan. 9 at 1 p.m.
Unmasking Disparities in Education in a COVID World
Saturday, Jan. 9 at 4 p.m.
The Anatomy of a Racist – Panel Discussion with Molefi Asante & Dr. Ray Winbush
Saturday, Jan. 9 at 9 p.m.
Athletes Beyond the Wind- Panel Discussion with 1968 Track Olympians
Sunday, Jan. 10 at 10 a.m.
Black at the Intersection of Racial Justice and a Pandemic
