UCLA Department of African American Studies

A Conversation With Bootsy Collins: Worldwide Funk
2018-01-30 18:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
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.

Futures of Black Radicalism
2017-11-07 13:30 - 18:00
Futures of Black Radicalism
Tuesday, November 7th, 2017
1:30pm-6:00pm
California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) Auditorium
(located in South Campus)

RSVP
https://futuresofblackradicalism.eventbrite.com

Schedule
1:30pm-2:00pm Pre-Reception (with refreshments)
2:00pm-3:30pm Response to book by Jonathan Gomez, Olufemi Taiwo, Thabisile Griffin, and Marques Vestal and author response by Alex Lubin and Gaye Theresa Johnson
3:45pm-5:00pm Authors and Artivist Dialogue with Authors and Tom Morello and Chuck D
5:00pm-6:00pm Reception & Book Signing (with food & refreshments)

With additional comments by Elizabeth Robinson and Shana Redmond

Black as Space, Femme as Future: An Afrofuturist Feminist Roundtable
2017-10-19 16:00 - 19:00
Black as Space, Femme as Future: An Afrofuturist Feminist Roundtable

Thursday, October 19th, 2017
4:00pm-7:00pm
UCLA Young Research Library (YRL), Room 11348

Conversations with
Andre Carrington, Department of English and Philosophy | Drexel University
Nalo Hopkinson, Department of Creative Writing | UC Riverside
Tananarive Due, Department of African American Studies | UCLA

What It Iz! The Spokenwordical
2017-10-13 19:00 - 2017-10-14 22:00
What It Iz! The Spokenwordical
The UCLA Department of African American Studies, The Institute of Inequality and Democracy, and the Department of Theater present What It Iz: The Spokenwordical !
What It Iz will be performed during the BARS Conference at UCLA over the weekend of October 13th – 15th, 2017. Performances will take place the evenings of Fri, Oct. 13th & Sat, Oct. 14th at 8 PM at the Northwest Auditorium, UCLA. Note that the doors will open at 7 PM.
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Special pre/post-show appearances by…
The Founder of Hip Hop: DJ KOOL HERC
The First Lady of Hip Hop: CINDY CAMPBELL
The Godfathers of Hip Hop: THE LAST POETS
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This event is open seating but you can RSVP here:
https://whatitizproduction.wixsite.com/whatitiz/rsvp
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An art installation in the lobby will be available one hour before the show.

Black Convocation 2017
2017-10-10 17:00 - 19:30
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.

OCTOBER 10, 2017
5:00pm-7:30pm
DE NEVE PLAZA ROOM

REGISTER HERE

Presented by: The Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, Dept. of African American Studies, Black Alumni Association (BAA), Academic Advancement Program (AAP), UCLA Institute of American Cultures (IAC), IAC Development, Student Affairs, Office of Residential Life, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI), Black Graduate Students Association (BGSA), First Year Experience (FYE), Dept. of Sociology, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Afrikan Student Union (ASU), UCLA Anderson Black Business Student Association (BBSA), Black Bruin Transfer Success (BBTS), Dean of UCLA Social Sciences.

Ethnic & Indigenous Studies Welcome
2017-09-26 16:00 - 18:00
Ethnic & Indigenous Studies Welcome

We are #EthnicStudies. Explore African American Studies, American Indian Studies, Asian American Studies, and Chicana/o Studies at our FREE event with food, music, and giveaways with fellow students, faculty, and staff. Learn how Ethnic and Indigenous Studies fits into your UCLA experience and beyond.

Tuesday, September 26th, 2017
4PM
Sunset Village Plaza

Generously sponsored by First Year Experience, Office of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion, Dean of UCLA Social Sciences, Institute of American Cultures, and the Asian American Studies Center.

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Department of African American Studies Commencement Ceremony
2017-06-17 11:30 - 13:00
The following information is in regards to the Department of African American Studies commencement ceremony.
Date: Saturday, June 17th, 2017
Time: 11:30am-1:00pm
Location: UCLA Fowler Museum, Lenart Auditorium; 308 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA 90024
Tickets: Students may request up to 4 complimentary tickets. There will be a $12.00 charge (per ticket) to your BruinBill account for each additional ticket ordered. Guest tickets are to be picked up from 1308 Rolfe Hall prior to commencement day.
Parking: The closest parking lot to the Fowler Museum is Lot 4. Parking is $12.00 per vehicle. Parking passes are available from the Parking Services Office prior to commencement day.
The address to Lot 4 is 221 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095.
Students on Graduation Day:

Student graduates are requested to arrive at the Fowler Museum, Lenart Auditorium in cap and gown for check in at 11:00am. Please be on time!
Seating is unreserved and doors will open at 11:15am.
The ceremony will start at 11:30am.

Please email Eboni Shaw, eshaw@afam.ucla.edu or Tricia Park, triciapark@afam.ucla.edu for further questions.
For more information on commencement, please go to www.commencement.ucla.edu

Film Screening & Discussion of: BaddDDD, Sonia Sanchez
2017-05-17 16:30 - 19:00
RESCHEDULED TO MAY 17th, 2017
Film Screening & Discussion of: BaddDDD, Sonia Sanchez
Screening will be followed by a Discussion with Dr. Sonia Sanchez + Book Signing and Reception.

Date: Wednesday, May 17th, 2017
Time: 4:30pm-7:00pm
Location: CNSI Auditorium (South Campus)
RSVP HERE

Costume Designer, Ruth E Carter: Design for the Decades
2017-05-15 19:00 - 21:00
Design for the Decades
with
Ruth E. Carter, UCLA TFT Copley Center’s Swarovski Designer-in-Residence
UCLA Bridges Theater
Monday, May 15th, 2017
7:00pm-9:00pm
(reception to follow)
Ruth E. Carter’s unparalleled ability to develop an authentic story through costume and character has made her one of the most sought after and renowned costume designers today. She has garnered two Academy Award (Oscar) nominations for “Best Costume Design,” for Spike Lee’s Malcolm X (1992) and Steven Spielberg’s Amistad (1997). Ruth Carter holds a BA from Hampton University, majoring in Theatre Arts. Carter has worked in the industry for three decades and has been credited with well over forty films to date. Carter is a frequent collaborator with director Spike Lee. Carter and Lee have worked on twelve films together beginning with School Daze (1988) and including Do the Right Thing (1989), Malcolm X, Old Boy (2013), and Chi-Raq (2015). Known for her research and diligence to the craft, specifically for her outstanding work for period ensemble films like the highly praised Lee Daniels’ The Butler (2013), and Best Picture Academy Award nominee Selma (2014), her most recent period work. Currently she recently wrapped the film Marshall, about the life of the first African American Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall and is currently shooting the new Marvel super hero film, Black Panther.

RSVP HERE

A Talk with Richard C. Brown: From Appalachia to the Academy
2017-05-09 15:30 - 17:00
A Talk with Richard C. Brown:
From Appalachia to the Academy
Join us in a colloquia to hear Richard C. Brown speak about his experience growing up black in Appalachia during the Civil Rights Era, his journey migrating to New York during the height of the African-American Great Migration, and his experience collaborating with his daughter, Professor Karida L. Brown (UCLA Sociology), on her research project on the African American experience in and through central Appalachia.

Date: Tuesday, May 9th, 2017
Time: 3:30-5pm
Location: Public Affairs, 1234
Moderated by: Robin D. G. Kelley and Karida L. Brown
(light refreshments served)

Emancipation and Empire Series: Professor E. Kwame Otu
2017-05-08 12:00 - 14:00
Emancipation & Empire: Africa and the Project of Black Studies presents
Professor E. Kwame Otu
Carter G. Woodson Center for African-American and African Studies, University of Virginia
at the Black Forum at the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies; UCLA 153 Haines Hall
Monday, May 8th, 2017
12:00pm-2:00pm
All workshops will be based on a pre-circulated paper. Hardcopies are available at the African Studies Center, the Department of African American Studies, and the Ralph J. Bunche Center.
For more information contact: Eboni Shaw: eshaw@afam.ucla.edu

Emancipation and Empire Series: Professor Siba N'Zatioula Grovogui
2017-04-24 12:00 - 14:00
Emancipation & Empire: Africa and the Project of Black Studies presents
Professor Siba N’Zatioula Grovogui
Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University
at the Black Forum at the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies; UCLA 153 Haines Hall
Monday, April 24th, 2017
12:00pm-2:00pm
All workshops will be based on a pre-circulated paper. Hardcopies are available at the African Studies Center, the Department of African American Studies, and the Ralph J. Bunche Center.
For more information contact: Eboni Shaw: eshaw@afam.ucla.edu

Obsesion Cuban Hip Hop Duo In Residence at UCLA
2017-04-12 15:00 - 2017-04-13 17:00
Obsesion- Cuban Hip Hop DuoIn Residence at UCLA
Wednesday-Thursday, April 12-13

Wednesday, April 12, 3-5 p.m
Cuban Hip Hop: Desde el principio [From the beginning]
Schoenberg Music Building, Room 1100 (Schoenberg Auditorium)
Documentary screening followed by a Q&A with Obsesion and filmmaker Vanessa Díaz (Visiting researcher at Chicano Studies Research Center)
Co-sponsor: Department of Ethnomusicology

Thursday, April 13, 5-7 p.m
Public Conversation with Obsesion on Hip Hop, Race, and Gender
Powell Library Rotunda
Moderated by Aisha Finch, UCLA Professor of African American Studies and Gender Studies
Translation by Vanessa Díaz, Visiting researcher at Chicano Studies Research Center
Refreshments provided

One of the most well-respected and longest-running hip hop groups in Cuba, Obsesion was formed in 1996 by Magia López and Alexey “el tipo este” Rodriguez. They’ve performed with the likes of The Roots, and their fan base includes Harry Belafonte, Mos Def, and Afrika Bambaata. They also form part of the collective Club del Espendru, which empowers Afrocuban culture and business in Havana. Co-sponsor: Latin American Institute, Program on Caribbean Studies, Dept. of Gender Studies, Chicano Studies Research Center
Admission to both events is free; no reservations are required. For more information, email tksangwand@library.ucla.edu #UCObsesion

Winston C. Doby Distinguished Lecture featuring U.S. House of Representative John Lewis
2017-04-10 11:30 - 14:00
Monday, April 10th, 2017
11:30pm-1:00pm
UCLA Royce Hall
The UCLA Academic Advancement Program Proudly Presents
The 5th Annual
Winston C. Doby Distinguished Lecture
featuring
THE HONORABLE JOHN LEWIS
United States House of Representatives
Tickets are free of charge
Available from the UCLA Central Ticket Office in person or by phone (310) 825-2101
Click Here for More Information

What It Iz! The Spokenwordical
2017-03-17 - 2017-03-18
A fusion of traditional musical theatre, hip-hop, and spoken-word poetics, this “spokenwordical” is inspired by the 1975 musical The Wiz. What It Iz is a journey of self-discovery from the birth of hip-hop through the social and political corruption that fuels the current incarceration epidemic. Poignant and humorous, mesmerizing and musical, come see What It Iz!
To RSVP: what-it-iz.eventbrite.com
Suggested Donations
General Admission: $20 per ticket
Groups of 5 or more: $10 per ticket
To donate to the UCLA Department of African American Studies, please visit:
https://giving.ucla.edu/campaign/Donate.aspx?SiteNum=515

Film Screening of: BaddDDD, Sonia Sanchez
2017-03-13 16:00 - 19:00
Screening will be followed by a Discussion with Dr. Sonia Sanchez + Book Signing and Reception.
All are Welcome!

Uri McMillan: Author Meets Critic
2017-03-06 16:00 - 2017-03-07 17:00
In Celebration of Professor Uri McMillan’s multiple award-winning book
Embodied Avatars:
Genealogies of Black Feminist Art & Performance

Featuring Guest Speakers:
Amber Musser, Washington University
Jessica Johnson, Johns Hopkins
Patrick Anderson, UC, Irvine
Josh Chambers-Letson, Northwestern University
Roy Perez, Willamette University
Jayna Brown, UC, Riverside

Diasporic Dreams, African Nation-State Realities Rastafarian Repatriation to Tanzania
2017-02-27 12:00 - 14:00
As part of the series Emancipation & Empire: Africa and the Project of Black Studies,
the Department of African American Studies at UCLA presents
Diasporic Dreams, African Nation-State Realities
Rastafarian Repatriation to Tanzania
Monique Bedasse
Departments of History and African American Studies
Washington University in St. Louis
Respondent: Marcus Anthony Hunter, Sociology and African American Studies, UCLA
Monday, February 27, 2017
12:00pm-2:00pm
Black Forum at the Ralph J. Bunche Center
153 Haines Hall
Professor Bedasse’s workshop is part of Emancipation & Empire, a year long series examining the role and status of Africa within the disciplinary project of Black Studies. Workshops are based on a pre-circulated paper. Hardcopies are available at the African Studies Center, the Department of African American Studies, and the Ralph J. Bunche Center.
For more information contact: Eboni Shaw: eshaw@afam.ucla.edu
Emancipation & Empire: Africa and the Project of Black Studies is cosponsored by Professor Melvin L. Rogers, the Scott Waugh Chair in the Division of Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science and African American Studies; UC Consortium for Black Studies in California; James S. Coleman African Studies Center; Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA.

Melina Abdullah: Information, Access, Activism
2017-02-09 15:00 - 17:00
Melina Abdullah: Information, Access, Politics. A discussion brought to you by the UCLA Information studies department’s diversity council.
Closest parking available in Lot #3. Reception to follow in the GSE&IS Building 2nd Floor Grand Salon.
Registration Required! Click here

"From South Africa to Donald Trump's America: A Comparative Perspective" with XOLELA MANGCU, University of Cape Town
2017-02-02 14:00 - 16:00
Free and open to the public!
Co-sponsored by the UCLA African Studies Center, Office of the Vice Chancellor of Equity, Diversity,
and Inclusion, the Dean of Social Sciences, the Department of African American Studies, the
Department of History, and the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies

Film at REDCAT Presents "The Murder of Fred Hampton: The Struggle Continues"
2017-01-29 19:00 - 21:00
FILM AT REDCAT PRESENTS
The Murder of Fred Hampton: The Struggle Continues
The landmark documentary The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971, 88 min.), by Howard Alk and Michael Gray, is a testament to Black activism and a chilling record of covert police and FBI actions. Begun to portray the activities of the Chicago branch of the Black Panther Party and its dynamic young leader, Fred Hampton, the film becomes a passionate, clear-eyed response to Hampton’s brutal assassination by police later that year. “Hampton’s killing was the gravest domestic crime of the Nixon administration,” Noam Chomsky has said.
The screening is followed by a panel discussion with artist Sam Durant, activist and educator Ericka Huggins, and UCLA scholar Robin Kelley.
Curated by Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud as part of the Jack H. Skirball Series.
“The charismatic chair of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party accomplished a great deal before he was cut down at the age of 21. Hampton headed the Chicago chapter of the Panthers, where he formed a multiracial “rainbow coalition” of organizations, including Students for a Democratic Society, the Blackstone Rangers street gang, and a Puerto Rican organization known as the National Young Lords. He also started a community service program that included a free breakfast program for children and a free medical clinic, and held political education classes.
And under his leadership, the Chicago Black Panthers monitored the police and looked out for instances of police brutality. Most of all, Fred Hampton brokered a truce among Chicago’s major street gangs…
…Hampton struggled against the same problems Black America faces today, and lost his life for it. His life mattered.”
-David A. Love, theGrio

The Filmmakers
Filmmakers Mike Gray and Howard Alk were already shooting a portrait of this charismatic speaker and community organizer when his murder occurred. Arriving at the crime scene only a few hours after the police raid, the unsettling footage they captured was later used to contradict news reports and police testimony in what many believe to be Hampton’s assassination. Alk and Gray collaborated on several other documentary filmswith Gray’s Production Company, The Film Group. The twoproduced American Revolution II (1969) and the seven part educational series Urban Crisis and the New Militants, both works dealing with the race related social turmoil in Chicago at the time.

The Panelists
Sam Durant is a multimedia artist whose works engage a variety of social, political, and cultural issues. Often referencing American history, his work explores the varying relationships between culture and politics, engaging subjects as diverse as the civil rights movement, southern rock music, and modernism. He has had solo museum exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium and the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Zealand. His work has been included in the Panamá, Sydney, Venice and Whitney Biennales. His work has been extensively written about including seven monographic catalogs and books. In 2006 edited a comprehensive monograph on Black Panther artist Emory Douglas’ work. His recent curatorial credits include Eat the Market at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Black Panther: the Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the New Museum in New York. He was a finalist for the 2008 Hugo Boss Prize and his work can be found in many public collections including The Art Gallery of Western Australia in Perth, Tate Modern in London, Project Row Houses in Houston and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Durant teaches art at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California.
Ericka Huggins is an educator, Black Panther Party member, former political prisoner, ally and poet. For 35 years, Ericka has lectured in the United States, and internationally, Restorative Justice practices and, the role of spiritual practice in creating and sustaining social change. In 2016, in recognition of the 50th Anniversary of the Black Panther Party, Ericka speaks about the importance of inclusive grassroots movements. From 2011 through 2015 Ericka was professor of Sociology and African American Studies in the Peralta Community College District. At Merritt College, home of the Black Panther Party, she co-created and taught a course, “The Black Panther Party-Strategies for Organizing The People”.

Robin Kelley is Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research has explored the history of social movements in the U.S., the African Diaspora, and Africa; black intellectuals; poverty studies and ethnography; colonialism/imperialism; organized labor; and constructions of race. Kelley’s essays have appeared in the Journal of American History, African Studies Review, New York Times Magazine, Utne Reader, New Labor Forum, and Counterpunch. Kelly has written several books, including: Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, and Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original. His most recent book, Africa Speaks, America Answers!: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times, examines the lives of four artists and the groups they led during the age of African decolonization.
BUY TICKETS HERE
(there is a student rate of $8.00
REDCAT | THE ROY AND EDNA DISNEY/CALARTS THEATER is located at 631 West 2nd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 – at the corner of 2nd and Hope Streets inside the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex. Parking is available in the Walt Disney Concert Hall parking structure and at adjacent lots. Unless otherwise specified, tickets are $11 for the general public, $8 for members. Tickets may be purchased by calling 213.237.2800 or at www.redcat.org or in person at the REDCAT Box Office on the corner of 2nd and Hope Streets (30 minutes free parking with validation). Box Office Hours: Tue-Sat | noon-6 pm and two hours prior to curtain.

Insurgency at the Crossroads: A Book Talk by AISHA FINCH
2017-01-26 16:00 - 18:00
In Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba: La Escalera and the Insurgencies of 1841-1844, Aisha Finch traces the emergence of a dynamic resistance movement of slaves and free people of color in nineteenth-century Cuba. Drawing from the largely unexplored testimonies in the Cuban National Archive, this book focuses attention on the hundreds of enslaved people who forged a radical, alternative vision of freedom in Cuba’s plantation countryside. Demonstrating that black slave women and non-elite slaves were critical to shaping and organizing this movement, Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba offers new ways to think about slave mobilizations, black political struggles, and histories of rebellion.
Respondents: George Lipsitz, UC Santa Barbara, Department of Black Studies Ula Taylor, UC Berkeley, Department of African American Studies Lisa Brock, Kalamazoo College, Department of History Co-sponsored by: The Departments of African American Studies and Gender Studies

Praxis Center: An Online Resource Center for Radicals
2017-01-25 12:00 - 14:00
Praxis Center: An Online Resource Center for Radicals
DR. LISA BROCK
Wednesday, January 25th, 2017
12:00pm-2:00pm
UCLA CNSI Auditorium
Reception will follow with food & drinks
Join Dr. Lisa Brock, founder and senior editor of Praxis Center, an online resource for scholars, activists and artists to teach, to learn and to deepen our analysis of what is and what is to be done! Dr. Brock, will talk about the inspiration for Praxis Center, how it was developed, and lead participants in a short writing workshop on how to write for the people.
Lisa Brock (aka Doc Brock) is the Academic Director of the Arcus Center of Social Justice Leadership at Kalamazoo College, where she has worked to infuse social justice into Liberal Arts Education. Her writings on Africa and the African Diaspora have appeared in dozens of academic journals, political outlets, book chapters and the groundbreaking book, Between Race and Empire: African-Americans and Cubans Before the Cuban Revolution. Lisa is currently Co-Chair of the Board Trustees of the Davis Putter Scholarship Fund and senior editor of Praxis Center, an online blog and resource center for scholars, activists and artists. A rebel all her life, Lisa fought for girls’ rights and Black rights while growing up in her native Cincinnati, Ohio area and against police violence and judicial misconduct in Washington D.C. while an undergraduate. She became a leader in the anti-apartheid movement while in graduate school in Chicago and lived in Mozambique as a Fulbright Scholar where she critically merged her academic interest with southern African liberation struggles. She worked to found the Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement Collection at Columbia College Chicago (CCC) and to endow an international travel scholarship for students involved in African-American Studies. She has also led study abroad programs for faculty, students and activist to South Africa and Cuba. As an historian and justice leader, Lisa is an internationalist who views history as a way to enter contemporary discussions about race, class, gender, and global inequalities. Lisa attended Oberlin College and earned her B.A. from Howard University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in African History from Northwestern University.

Emancipation & Empire: Africa and the Project of Black Studies
2016-12-05 12:00 - 14:00
Emancipation & Empire: Africa and the Project of Black Studies
Black Forum at the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA
153 Haines Hall
Mondays, 12:00pm-2:00pm
All workshops will be based on a pre-circulated paper. Hardcopies are available at the African Studies Center, the Department of African American Studies, and the Ralph J. Bunche Center.
For more information contact: Eboni Shaw: eshaw@afam.ucla.edu
Workshops:
December 5th, 2016: Alden H Young, Africana Studies and History, Drexel University
January 23rd, 2017: Maboula Soumahoro, English, Université François-Rabelais, Tours-Bennington College
February 27th, 2017: Monique Bedasse, History and African American Studies, Washington University
March 13th, 2017: Tshepo Masango Chéry, African & African Diasporas Studies, University of Texas at Austin
April 24th, 2017: Siba N’Zatioula Grovogui, Africana Studies, Cornell University
May 8th, 2017: E. Kwame Otu, Carter G. Woodson Center for African-American and African Studies, University of Virginia
Emancipation & Empire is cosponsored by:
Professor Melvin L. Rogers, the Scott Waugh Chair in the Division of Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science and African American Studies; UC Consortium for Black Studies in California; James S. Coleman African Studies Center; Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA.

Jordan T Camp on "Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State"
2016-11-28 12:00 - 13:00
INCARCERATING THE CRISIS: FREEDOM STRUGGLES AND THE RISE OF THE NEOLIBERAL STATE
JORDAN T. CAMP
Monday, November 28th, 2016
12:00pm in the Black Forum Room; Haines Hall 153
BOOK TALK: The United States currently has the largest prison population on the planet. Drawing from his new book, Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State (University of California Press, 2016), Jordan T. Camp will trace the roots of the carceral crisis through a series of turning points in U.S. history, beginning with the urban uprisings of the 1960s and terminating with the policing crisis of 2014-2016. Through an examination of these dramatic instances of racial criminalization and state violence, he will suggest the making of the neoliberal carceral state was not inevitable and that alternative outcomes have been and continue to be possible.

Jordan T. Camp is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Race and Ethnicity and International and Public Affairs at Brown University. He is the author of Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State (University of California Press, 2016), co-editor (with Christina Heatherton) of Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Verso Books, 2016), and co-editor (with Laura Pulido) of Clyde A. Woods’ Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans (University of Georgia Press, forthcoming). He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Film screening of the Netflix Documentary, 13th
2016-11-01 17:00 - 20:00
Film screening of the Netflix Documentary, 13th and Panel Discussion hosted by the Af-Am188A course “Abolition”

*pizza and refreshments to be served

November 1st, 2016 at Bunche Hall 2209A
5:00pm-7:50pm

2016 Black Convocation at UCLA
2016-10-04 17:00 - 19:00
Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA
presents
2016 Black Convocation at UCLA
The Black Convocation is an annual event which welcomes new and returning students to the UCLA campus and makes them aware of the different organizations, departments, and resources available to serve them. In keeping with this year’s theme–“A1DAY1”–the event will be 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 2016 Black Convocation, “A1DAY1” will be held in Haines Hall. A Reception will begin at 5:00 pm in Haines 153 & Haines North Patio, with the Convocation Program immediately following from 6:15 pm to 7:30 pm, in Haines 220.
The Black Convocation is co-sponsored by the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies; the Department of African American Studies; the Black Alumni Association, the Academic Advancement Program; the Institute of American Cultures (IAC); IAC Development; the Division of Student Affairs; the UCLA Office of Residential Life, UCLA Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Black Graduate Students Association, and the Afrikan Student Union.
Register here
The Black Convocation and Reception are free and open to the public.
Parking ($8) is available (after 4:30pm) at the Pay Stations in Structure 2 (south entrance, levels 1 & 2) or Structure 3 (north entrance, levels 1-3). Enter the UCLA campus at Hilgard and Westholme avenues.
Map for Haines Hall & Parking: http://maps.ucla.edu/campus/
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.
NOTES: In case we reach capacity in Haines 220, a simulcast of the program will be provided in Haines 135 & 153. Please remember to sign in at the check-in table when arriving.

Randy Weston's African Rhythms Trio
2016-09-29 19:00 - 2017-03-07 20:08
UCLA CELEBRATES NEA JAZZ MASTER RANDY WESTON’S 90TH BIRTHDAY WITH A FREE CONCERT
Thursday, September 29th, 2016
7:00pm
UCLA FOWLER MUSEUM,
LENART AUDITORIUM
THE YAMAHA CFX 9′ CONCERT GRAND PROVIDED COURTESY OF KEYBOARD CONCEPTS IN SHERMAN OAKS.
Co-Sponsored by The Friends of Jazz, Department of African American Studies, Gary B. Nash Chair, and Department of Music
RSVP HERE
