UCLA Department of African American Studies

African American Political Thought: Past and Present
2015-05-15 09:30 - 2015-05-16 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

Historicizing Masculinities: The Colloquium
2015-05-13 12:00 - 14:00
Sponsored by The History of Women, Men & Sexuality Emphasis, UCLA Department of History
Maurice O. Wallace
English & Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American Studies, University of Virginia
The Camera and the Slave: History, Technology & the Problem of Personhood in Louis Agassiz’s Slave Daguerreotypes

Annual Colloquium Series: Black Lives Matter
2015-05-04 14:00 - 17:00
Center for Social Theory and Comparative History, co-sponsored with the Department of African American Studies & the Gary Nash Chair in US History Annual Colloquium Series
PRESENTS
Black Lives Matter
Discussant: Robin D.G. Kelley
Gary Nash Chair, Department of History, UCLA
For more information call
Center for Social Theory and Comparative History
(310) 206-5675 or email: mertes@ucla.edu

Human Caging in the 21st Century: Mass Incarceration Awareness Week UCLA
2015-05-04 08:00 - 2015-05-07 17:00
The Class of ’68 Criminal Justice Reform Workgroup Presents Human Caging in the 21st Century: Mass Incarceration Awareness Week UCLA.
Monday- May 4th 5PM-7PM:
American Crime and Punishment
Exploring Implicit Bias and the Criminal Justice System
through television
UCLA Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium
Tuesday- May 5th 5PM-7PM
Convicted and Unashamed
Panel moderated by Justin Christopher in conversation
w/ Professors Kelly Lytle-Hernandez and Laura Abrams
(location TBD)
Wednesday- May 6th 11AM-1PM
Women, Race, and Mass Incarceration
Panel featuring Susan Burton from A New Way of Life
and others facilitated by OluFemi Taiwo
Department of Philosophy Community Room
Thursday- May 7th 12:15PM-2PM
Mass Incarceration Documentary Screening
Conversation facilitated by Class of ‘68 Workgroup
Luskin School of Public Affairs Room# 3343
For updated details: Search Facebook Event Human Caging in
21st Century: Mass Incarceration Awareness Week UCLA

"Dear White People" Film Screening and Discussion
2015-04-29 18:00 - 21:30
UCLA Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh, African American Studies Department, Institute of American Cultures, Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, Luskin School of Public Affairs, and School of Theater, Film and Television, present:
“Dear White People” – Film Screening and Discussion
6:00 p.m. Reception in the James Bridges Theater Lobby
7:00 p.m. Screening of multiple award-winning film Dear White People
8:45 p.m. Q&A with the filmmakers:
Writer and Director Justin Simien, Executive Producer Stephanie Allain, Producer Effie Brown, Producer Julia Lebedev
For more info & RSVP:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dear-white-people-film-screening-and-discus…

Falling Walls Lab: Apply Now!
2015-03-17 12:30
Application deadline: May 30, 2015
Apply online at www.falling-walls.com/lab
The Falling Walls Lab takes place on June 20, 2015 at the HSEC Auditorium, UCSD, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla 92093
Win a Scholarship and a Trip to Berlin
A distinguished jury selects the winner who
• travels to Berlin on November 8-9, 2015
• qualifies directly for the Lab Finale in Berlin on November 8, 2015 as one of 100 international and interdisciplinary participants (travel costs and accommodation are covered).
• is awarded a ticket for the international Falling Walls Conference on November 9, 2015 where some of the world’s most prominent scientists from around the world present their current breakthrough research in 15 minutes each.
Questions?
cdegracialux@ucsd.edu
j1moore@ucsd.edu

From Healing to Action: Advancing Policing Equity
2015-02-23 18:00
This interactive campus forum will examine issues which have not been a substantial part of the national conversation, including root causes of police violence, policing as it relates to women, best practices with law enforcement and emotional wellness. Please RSVP and join us for this dynamic event!

Anthropology 2015 Goldschmidt Lecture by John Jackson
2015-02-11 16:30 - 20:00
“Thick Depiction: Anxiety, Anthropology, and Film/Video” presented by John L. Jackson, Jr., Dean of the School of Social Policy & Practice and the Richard Perry University Professor of Communication, Anthropology, and Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania. More about the lecture.

Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Workshop with Christopher Lebron
2015-01-29 12:00 - 13:30
Chris Lebron (Assistant Professor Philosophy & African American Studies, Yale University) is the author of The Color of Our Shame: Race and Justice in Our Time. The book received the American Political Science Foundation Award for Best First Book in Political Theory.
He will be workshopping his paper, “The Sense and Sensibility of Equality.” This is co-sponsored by Race, Ethnicity, and Politics & Political Theory.

Unequal Ground: Race and Social Inequality in America Today
2015-01-14 17:30 - 19:30
A Faculty Discussion Featuring:
Leah Boustan, Sarah Haley, Keith Camacho, Kelly Lytle Hernandez and Peter James Hudson
Moderated by Cheryl I. Harris
For articles by the panelists please click on the titles below.
“Was Postwar Suburbanization “White Flight”? Evidence From the Black Migration by Leah Boustan
“Who Killed Robert McCulloch’s Father?” by Peter James Hudson
“The National City Bank of New York and Haiti 1909-1922” by Peter James Hudson
“Like I Was a Man”:Chain Gangs, Gender, and the Domestic Carceral Sphere in Jim Crow Georgia by Sarah Haley
“Hobos in Heaven: Race, Incarceration, and the Rise of Los Angeles, 1880-1910” by Kelly Lytle Hernandez
“Amnesty or Abolition?: Felons, illegals, and the Case for a New Abolition Movement” by Kelly Lytle Hernandez

Ferguson, Mass Incarceration and Hip Hop Activism with Rosa Clemente
2014-10-29 16:00 - 18:00
Rosa Clemente: Doctoral student, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, UMASS-Amherst
008 VP Candidate-Green Party

2014 CRS Annual Symposium: Whiteness as Property: Twenty Year Appraisal
2014-10-02 17:15 - 2014-10-04 18:00
For more information or to register for this event please visit the 2014 Critical Race Symposium homepage.

African-American Studies Open House
2014-10-01 16:00 - 18:00

"Feminism and Abolition: Extending the Dialogue" by Angela Y. Davis
2014-05-08 17:30 - 19:00
Critically acclaimed author, activist, and intellectual Angela Y. Davis is this year’s UC Regents Professor and Professor of History of Consciousness, an interdisciplinary PhD program, and Professor of Feminist Studies at University of California, Santa Cruz. The event is sponsored by the Gender Studies Department and will be held at 5:30pm in Royce Hall.

“Transcultural Performance Disciplines: Embodying AfroAsia Through Martial Arts in Theater, Film and Everyday Practice” by Zachary Price
2014-05-06 12:00 - 13:00
Zachary Price is the Bunche Assistant Researcher on the Race & Hollywood/Hollywood Advancement Project. His work looks at performance as a strategy for political survival and transformation. Dr. Price has a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in Theater and Dance, an M.F.A. in Playwriting from the New School University, a B.S. in performance studies from Northwestern University.

"Free Angela and All Political Prisoners!" Film Screening
2014-04-30 17:30 - 19:45
Tickets required. Seating is General Admission.
Doors open 5:00pm.
Tickets for this event are for UCLA students.
Tickets are first come first serve.

"In the Life: Black Women and Serial Murder" by Terrion Williamson
2014-04-24 12:00 - 13:00
Williamson is an Assistant Professor of African American Literature and Cultural Studies at Michigan State University. Her research interests include critical black cultural studies and critical race theory, black feminist theory, femicide and gendered violence, legal constructions of deviance and outlawry. She is currently working on a manuscript culled from her dissertation project entitled Scandalize My Name: Black Feminist Practice and the Making of Black Social Life.

"Science Fictions: The Eugenics Redlining of Racial and Sexual Outsiders in US Immigration Policy, its History, and Our Resistance" by Nancy Ordover
2014-04-22 16:30 - 18:00

"The New Day: Notes on (Mis)Education and the Dark Proletariat" by James Ford III
2014-04-17 12:00 - 13:00
Professor Ford will reflect on the current crisis of education by revisiting 1930s Black radical thinkers, including W.E.B. Du Bois, Katherine Dunham and Langston Hughes. Drawing on Du Bois’s classic Black Reconstruction, he argues that the dark proletariat’s underground pursuit of education begins reconstructing mainstream educational institutions. Likewise, a Langston Hughes poem, “New Day,” identifies the the title with the “flesh that triumphs (as well as the spirit),” probing the ethical relation between pedagogy, ecstatic poetry, and the political in its collective, contrarian stance towards America’s segregationist educational agenda.

Peniel Joseph discusses his new book, "Stokely: A Life"
2014-03-12 16:00 - 17:30
Peniel E. Joseph is Professor of History at Tufts University and founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy. He is the the author of the award-winning Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America and Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama as well as editor of The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights-Black Power Era and Neighborhood Rebels: Black Power at the Local Level.

David Sheen reports on the struggle of African Immigrants in Israel
2014-03-04 18:30 - 20:30

"Black Youth Culture, Informal Economy & Drugs in the 1980s" by Donna Murch
2014-02-27 12:00 - 13:00
Donna Murch, a Bunche Center Visiting Scholar, is associate professor of history at Rutgers University and co-director of the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis and the Black Atlantic. Her teaching and research specializations are postwar U.S. history, modern African American history, and twentieth-century urban studies. Her talk will center around the research for her upcoming book on black youth culture, informal economy and drugs in the 1980s. The event is free and open to the public.
All-day parking ($12) and short-term parking (payable at pay stations) are available in Lots 2, 3 or 4 (enter the campus at Hilgard and Westholme avenues). UCLA is smoke-free and tobacco-free. The use of cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco and all other tobacco products, as well as electronic cigarettes, will be prohibited on UCLA’s campus and at sites owned or fully leased by the university. For more information, please visit: https://ccle.ucla.edu/course/view/UCLA_tobacco_free_task_force.

Akinyele Umoja discusses his book, "We Will Shoot Back"
2014-02-25 08:00 - 17:00
We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement (NYU Press, 2013)
Akinyele Umoja is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of African-American Studies, Georgia State University. A long-time activist and historian of the black freedom movement, Dr. Umoja holds a PhD from Emory University.

Groundings: Black Solidarity with Palestine
2014-02-19 19:00 - 21:00
Conversation with writer dream hampton and hip hop artist Jasiri X about their recent trip to Palestine, facilitated by Sohail Dalautzai, Professor at UCI and author of Black Star, Crescent Moon, and Robin D. G. Kelley, interim chair of African American Studies

Shana Redmond discusses her book, "Anthem"
2014-02-19 12:00 - 13:00
Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora (NYU Press, 2013)

Shana Redmond is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She holds a PhD from Yale University and has published widely on black music and politics.

*co-sponsored with the Bunche Center.

"The Art of Being Difficult: The Turn to Abstraction in African-American Poetry & Painting During the 1940s and '50s" by Jackie Goldsby
2014-02-13 16:00 - 18:00

"American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs" Free Screening
2014-02-12 20:00 - 22:00
Screening will be followed by conversation with filmmaker Grace Lee.
Tickets are first-come, first-served.

Jonathan Scott Holloway discusses his book, "Jim Crow Wisdom"
2014-01-30 12:00 - 13:00
Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black American Since 1940 (UNC Press, 2013)
Jonathan Holloway, Yale University Professor of History, American Studies and African American Studies is also the author of Confronting the Veil: Abram Harris Jr., E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919-1941 (2002). He is a specialist in post-emancipation United States history with a focus on cultural and intellectual history.
*co-sponsored with the Bunche Center

Afro-American Studies BA Welcome Event
2013-10-09 15:00 - 17:00
