BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UCLA Department of African American Studies - ECPv6.15.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:UCLA Department of African American Studies X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://afam.ucla.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for UCLA Department of African American Studies REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181018 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181021 DTSTAMP:20260418T081000 CREATED:20181001T182526Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181001T182526Z UID:2727-1539820800-1540079999@afam.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Lyrics from Lockdown DESCRIPTION:Lyrics from Lockdown\nThursday\, October 18\, 2018 – Saturday\, October 20\, 2018\nHip Hop Culture \nA 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. \nBUY TICKETS HERE URL:https://afam.ucla.edu/event/lyrics-from-lockdown/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181016T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181016T133000 DTSTAMP:20260418T081000 CREATED:20181011T221828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181011T221828Z UID:2752-1539691200-1539696600@afam.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Cameron Rowland- Art Workshop DESCRIPTION:CAMERON ROWLAND\nART WORKSHOP\nOCTOBER 16th\, 2018 | 12:00pm-1:30pm\nFuture Workshop Dates:\nNovember 26th\, 2018 and December 3rd\, 2018 \nPlease join us this Tuesday\, October 16th at Noon in the Black Forum (153 Haines) for one of three workshops given by artist Cameron Rowland.  \nCheck 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  \nLunch will be provided at the workshop \nRSVP HERE URL:https://afam.ucla.edu/event/cameron-rowland-art-workshop/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181015T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181015T170000 DTSTAMP:20260418T081000 CREATED:20180925T212415Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180925T212415Z UID:2715-1539619200-1539622800@afam.ucla.edu SUMMARY:A Poetry Reading by Major Jackson DESCRIPTION:A Poetry Reading by Major Jackson\nMonday\, October 14th\, 2018 \n4:00PM \n193 Kaplan Hall \n \n  URL:https://afam.ucla.edu/event/a-poetry-reading-by-major-jackson/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181009T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181009T200000 DTSTAMP:20260418T081000 CREATED:20180718T183726Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180718T183726Z UID:2534-1539106200-1539115200@afam.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Black Convocation 2018 DESCRIPTION:Black Convocation 2018 \nTuesday\, October 9\, 2018 \n5:30 PM – 8:00 PM \nThe 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. \nThe Black Convocation is free and open to the public. \nMaps & directions. Parking can be purchased at Parking Lot DD. \nThe 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. \nRegister Here on Eventbrite! URL:https://afam.ucla.edu/event/black-convocation-2018/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181007T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181007T170000 DTSTAMP:20260418T081000 CREATED:20180918T181749Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180918T181749Z UID:2690-1538924400-1538931600@afam.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Asmarina: Voices & Images of a Postcolonial Heritage: Screening and Q&A with filmmaker Medhin Paolos DESCRIPTION:Asmarina: Voices & Images of a Postcolonial Heritage: Screening and Q&A with filmmaker Medhin Paolos \nSunday\, Oct. 7th\, 2018 \nat the Darren Star Theater (Melnitz Hall 1422) \n225 Charles E Young Dr. E \nPlease click here for map and directions. URL:https://afam.ucla.edu/event/asmarina-voices-images-of-a-postcolonial-heritage-screening-and-qa-with-filmmaker-medhin-paolos/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181004T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181004T200000 DTSTAMP:20260418T081000 CREATED:20180918T180557Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180918T180557Z UID:2685-1538643600-1538683200@afam.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Italy and the Geopolitics of Migration: Aesthetic Approaches DESCRIPTION:Italy and the Geopolitics of Migration: Aesthetic Approaches \nThursday\, Oct. 4 \n9:00am – 12:00pm  at the Darren Star Theater (Melnitz Hall 1422) \n1:00pm – 8:00pm at Royce Hall (Room 314) \n \nPlease click here to RSVP URL:https://afam.ucla.edu/event/italy-and-the-geopolitics-of-migration-aesthetic-approaches/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181001T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181001T180000 DTSTAMP:20260418T081000 CREATED:20180925T213008Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180925T213008Z UID:2721-1538409600-1538416800@afam.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Ethnic & Indigenous Studies Welcome DESCRIPTION:Ethnic & Indigenous Studies Welcome\nMonday\, October 1st\, 2018 \n4:00pm-6:00pm \nJames West Alumni Center \nAfrican 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! \n\n \nRSVP HERE URL:https://afam.ucla.edu/event/ethnic-indigenous-studies-welcome-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180616T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180616T130000 DTSTAMP:20260418T081000 CREATED:20180319T195445Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180319T195445Z UID:2321-1529148600-1529154000@afam.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Department of African American Studies Commencement Celebration DESCRIPTION:Congratulations! The faculty and staff of the Department of African American Studies are looking forward to sharing this wonderful occasion with you. \nDate: Saturday\, June 16\, 2018\nTime: 11:30 A.M.\nLocation: Fowler Museum\, Lenart Auditorium \nTicket Information: \n\nStudents may request up to 4 complimentary tickets for the Department of African American Studies Ceremony.\nAn additional four tickets per student are available at $12.00/each.\nYou should ONLY order tickets for your guests – you do not need a ticket for yourself.\nDepending 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).\nTickets are ordered through MyUCLA for college and departmental graduation ceremonies.\nAll ticket sales are final. No refunds will be issued for unused tickets.\n\nParking: \n\nYou 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.\nThe closest parking structure to our venue is Parking Structure 4.\nStudents 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.\n\nOn Commencement Day: \n\nGraduates 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.\nSeating is unreserved. Doors will open at 11:00am.\nThe ceremony will start promptly at 11:30pm and is expected to last about an hour and half.\nGraduates will be asked to sit together in a separate section.\n\nPlease contact the Department of African American Studies staff for any questions: staff@afam.ucla.edu URL:https://afam.ucla.edu/event/department-of-african-american-studies-commencement-ceremony/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180515T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180515T190000 DTSTAMP:20260418T081000 CREATED:20180510T212901Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180510T212901Z UID:2465-1526403600-1526410800@afam.ucla.edu SUMMARY:'Race and the Totalitarian Century' with Vaughn Rasberry DESCRIPTION:Race and the Totalitarian Century\n A discussion with author Vaughn Rasberry \n moderated by Justin Desmangles  \nWinner 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. \n  \nTuesday\, May 15th\, 2018 \n5:00pm-7:00pm \nHistory Conference Room\, Bunche Hall 6275 \nCLICK HERE FOR THE FLYER \n 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 \n Justin Desmangles is the director of the Before Columbus Foundation and host of the radio broadcast New Day Jazz \nThis 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.  URL:https://afam.ucla.edu/event/2465/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180509T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180509T210000 DTSTAMP:20260418T081000 CREATED:20180425T183410Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180425T183410Z UID:2433-1525888800-1525899600@afam.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life DESCRIPTION:UCLA’s Department of African American Studies\, Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies\, Department of Urban Planning\, and Department of Sociology present \nChocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life\nwith authors Marcus Anthony Hunter and Zandria F. Robinson \nin conversation with Scot Brown\, Alma Burrell\, Lynnée Denise\, Frankie “Kash” Waddy \n \nWednesday\, May 9th\, 2018 \n6:00pm-9:00pm \nCalifornia African American Museum | 600 State Drive | Los Angeles\, CA 90037\n Free and open to the public.\n\nChocolate Cities Flyer \n\nRSVP HERE URL:https://afam.ucla.edu/event/chocolate-cities-the-black-map-of-american-life/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180430T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180430T180000 DTSTAMP:20260418T081000 CREATED:20180328T185612Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180328T185612Z UID:2357-1525104000-1525111200@afam.ucla.edu SUMMARY:"The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam" by Ula Taylor DESCRIPTION:The UC Consortium for Black Studies presents \nTHE PROMISE OF PATRIARCHY:\nWOMEN AND THE NATION OF ISLAM  URL:https://afam.ucla.edu/event/the-promise-of-patriarchy-women-and-the-nation-of-islam-by-ula-taylor/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180426T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180426T200000 DTSTAMP:20260418T081000 CREATED:20180405T205312Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180405T205312Z UID:2368-1524762000-1524772800@afam.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Black\, Brown\, and Powerful: Freedom Dreams in Unequal Cities DESCRIPTION: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. \nWe 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. \nThe full program is available HERE URL:https://afam.ucla.edu/event/black-brown-and-powerful-freedom-dreams-in-unequal-cities/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180425T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180425T140000 DTSTAMP:20260418T081000 CREATED:20180419T183717Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180419T183717Z UID:2393-1524659400-1524664800@afam.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Beyond Coloniality: Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition DESCRIPTION:“Beyond Coloniality: Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition” \nLecture by Aaron Kamugisha \n \nAaron 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. URL:https://afam.ucla.edu/event/beyond-coloniality-freedom-in-the-caribbean-intellectual-thought/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180424T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180424T190000 DTSTAMP:20260418T081000 CREATED:20180419T182820Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180419T182820Z UID:2386-1524585600-1524596400@afam.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Reconsidering Education and Imprisonment: A Conversation on Prisons\, Race\, and Education DESCRIPTION:The UCLA Departments of African American Studies & Education Present: \nDISPOSSESSION & ENCLOSURE: RECONSIDERING EDUCATION AND IMPRISONMENT\na conversation with Sabina Vaught & Damien Sojoyner \nSabina 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. \nTuesday\, April 24th\, 4pm \nThe Black Forum\, Haines 153 \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies \nClick here for flyer URL:https://afam.ucla.edu/event/reconsidering-education-and-imprisonment-a-conversation-on-prisons-race-and-education/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180412T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180412T190000 DTSTAMP:20260418T081000 CREATED:20180328T185014Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180328T185014Z UID:2346-1523552400-1523559600@afam.ucla.edu SUMMARY:New Directions in Black Queer Studies DESCRIPTION:The UC Consortium for Black Studies presents \nNew Directions in Black Queer Studies\nA Conversation with \n \nCathy Cohen\,  David and Mary Winton Green Professor of Political Science\,  The University of Chicago \nand \n \nRoderick Ferguson\, Professor of African American and Gender and Women’s Studies\, The University of Illinois at Chicago \n  \nModerated by \n \nUri McMillan\, Associate Professor of English\, UCLA \nThursday\, April 12th\, 2018 \n5:00pm-7:00pm \nBruin Reception Room | UCLA Ackerman Union Second Floor Lounge\, AU2414 \nRSVP HERE URL:https://afam.ucla.edu/event/2346/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180404T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180404T140000 DTSTAMP:20260418T081000 CREATED:20180315T203827Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180315T203827Z UID:2313-1522843200-1522850400@afam.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Beauty and the Black: Aesthetics Politics and Black Reproduction in Brazil DESCRIPTION:Beauty and the Black: Aesthetics Politics and Black Reproduction in Brazil\nUgo Edu \nChancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow \nDepartment of Anthropology \nUC Davis \n  \nWEDNESDAY\, APRIL 4 \n12:00PM \nBlack Forum Room\, Haines Hall 153 \nlunch will be provided \nBased 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. \nDr. 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. URL:https://afam.ucla.edu/event/beauty-and-the-black-aesthetics-politics-and-black-reproduction-in-brazil/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180402T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180402T140000 DTSTAMP:20260418T081000 CREATED:20180315T203247Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180315T203247Z UID:2308-1522670400-1522677600@afam.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Blackness and Borderscapes: Queering the Black Mediterranean DESCRIPTION:Blackness and Borderscapes: Queering the Black Mediterranean\n \nSA Smythe \nPresident’s Postdoctoral Fellow \nDepartment of Gender & Sexuality Studies \nUC Irvine \n  \nMONDAY\, APRIL 2 \n12:00PM \nBlack Forum Room | Haines Hall 153 \n  \nIn 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. \nDr. 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. URL:https://afam.ucla.edu/event/blackness-and-borderscapes-queering-the-black-mediterranean/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180326T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180326T210000 DTSTAMP:20260418T081000 CREATED:20180314T184901Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180314T184901Z UID:2304-1522090800-1522098000@afam.ucla.edu SUMMARY:From Zamunda to Wakanda: Celebrating 30 years of Culturally Diverse Design and Imagination in Film DESCRIPTION:From Zamunda to Wakanda:\nCelebrating 30 Years of Culturally Diverse Design and\nImagination in Film\nfeaturing an evening with costume designers \nDeborah Nadoolman Landis\nComing to America (1988) \nand \nRuth E. Carter\nBlack Panther (2018) \nImagination 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. \nPlease 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. \n  \nRSVP NOW!\nzamundatowakanda.eventbrite.com\n  \nCo-sponsored by: \nUCLA Department of African American Studies \nUCLA African Studies Center \nUCLA School of Theater\, Film\, and Television\nThe David C. Copley Center for the Study of Costume Design URL:https://afam.ucla.edu/event/from-zamunda-to-wakanda-celebrating-30-years-of-culturally-diverse-design-and-imagination-in-film/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180325T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180325T160000 DTSTAMP:20260418T081000 CREATED:20180307T194326Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180307T194326Z UID:2296-1521986400-1521993600@afam.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Conversations by Artists for Artists\, Spring 2018 DESCRIPTION:Conversations by Artists for Artists\, Spring 2018 \n  \nSunday\, March 25th\, 2018 \n2:00pm-4:00pm \nCalifornia African American Museum | 600 State Drive Los Angeles\, CA 90037 \n  \nCharlyn 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. \nCome for a stimulating\, nurturing\, and supportive environment where creatives can get to know one another and talk shop. \n  \nA reception with homemade Caribbean food follows\, cooked by Soto. \nLimited capacity\, RSVP required. \n\nRSVP HERE URL:https://afam.ucla.edu/event/conversations-by-artists-for-artists-spring-2018/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180305T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180305T160000 DTSTAMP:20260418T081000 CREATED:20180227T200614Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180227T200614Z UID:2283-1520258400-1520265600@afam.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Tendayi Sithole: “Re-Reading Steve Biko in the Archive: The Epistemology of the Interview” DESCRIPTION:“Re-Reading Steve Biko in the Archive: \nThe Epistemology of the Interview” \n  \nTendayi Sithole | University of South Africa \n  \n  \nMonday\, March 5\, 2018 | 2:00 pm \n10383 Bunche Hall \nFree and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. \n  \nScholar/Critic/Poet Tendayi Sithole: \n“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.” \n  \nTendayi 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. \n  \nThis 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. \n  \nFor questions/more information\, contact: \nUCLA African Studies Center | 10244 Bunche Hall | Los Angeles\, CA 90095-1310 | Telephone: 310-825-3686 \nWebsite: http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa | email: africa@international.ucla.edu URL:https://afam.ucla.edu/event/tendayi-sithole-re-reading-steve-biko-archive-epistemology-interview/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180305T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180305T150000 DTSTAMP:20260418T081000 CREATED:20180226T214951Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180226T214951Z UID:2272-1520251200-1520262000@afam.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Economic Policy and the Civil Rights Movement: How Coretta Scott King Helped Change Federal Reserve Policy DESCRIPTION:  \n \n  \nRSVP to rsvpluskin@history.ucla.edu URL:https://afam.ucla.edu/event/economic-policy-civil-rights-movement-coretta-scott-king-helped-change-federal-reserve-policy/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180302T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180302T210000 DTSTAMP:20260418T081000 CREATED:20171211T223156Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171211T223156Z UID:2125-1520017200-1520024400@afam.ucla.edu SUMMARY:The Intersection: Woke Black Folk DESCRIPTION:26th Annual Pan African Film Festival \nFeatured Theater Event \n  \nPlaywright\, Poet\, Scholar and Activist FUNMILOLA FAGBAMILA performs for  \nONE NIGHT ONLY  \nher one-woman\, hip hop\, spoken word theater piece: \nTHE INTERSECTION: WOKE BLACK FOLK \n  \nMarch 2nd\, 2018 \nDoors Open: 6:00pm \nShow Begins: 7:00pm \nBarbara Morrison Performing Arts Center | 4305 Degnan Blvd #101\, Los Angeles\, CA 90008 \n \nTICKETS AVAILABLE ONLY AT \nWWW.FUNMILOLA.COM \nThe 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.” \nThe 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. URL:https://afam.ucla.edu/event/the-intersection/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180222T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180222T133000 DTSTAMP:20260418T081000 CREATED:20180123T221505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180123T221505Z UID:2170-1519300800-1519306200@afam.ucla.edu SUMMARY:The Kind of Man I Am: Jazzmasculinity and the World of Charles Mingus\, Jr.  by Nichole Rustin-Paschal DESCRIPTION:The Kind of Man I Am: Jazzmasculinity and the World of Charles Mingus\, Jr.\nby Nichole Rustin-Paschal \nThursday\, February 22nd\, 2018 \n12:00pm-1:30pm \nBlack Forum\, Haines Hall 153 \n \nThe 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. \n  \nCo-sponsored by the Department of Musicology URL:https://afam.ucla.edu/event/kind-man-jazzmasculinity-world-charles-mingus-jr-nichole-rustin-paschal/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180213T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180213T133000 DTSTAMP:20260418T081000 CREATED:20180208T225238Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180208T225238Z UID:2233-1518523200-1518528600@afam.ucla.edu SUMMARY:A Book Talk with Manisha Sinha on "The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition" DESCRIPTION:A Book Talk with Manisha Sinha\nThe Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition \nTuesday\, February 13th\, 2018\n12:00pm-1:30pm\nBlack Forum\, Haines Hall 153 \n \nManisha Sinha will discuss her prize-winning book\, The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition (Yale University Press\, 2016) \nCo-sponsored by the Department of History and the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies\nLunch will be provided. URL:https://afam.ucla.edu/event/book-talk-manisha-sinha-slaves-cause-history-abolition/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180212T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180212T140000 DTSTAMP:20260418T081000 CREATED:20180123T220138Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180123T220138Z UID:2165-1518436800-1518444000@afam.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Support for Black Reparations in the Early 21st Century DESCRIPTION:Support for Black Reparations in the Early 21st Century\nTalk by Michael Dawson \nJohn D. MacArthur Professor of Political Science and the College\nThe University of Chicago \n \nMonday\, February 12th\, 2018\n12:00pm-2:00pm\nBlack Forum\, Haines Hall 153 \n\nLunch will be provided. URL:https://afam.ucla.edu/event/support-black-reparations-early-21st-century/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180208T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180208T203000 DTSTAMP:20260418T081000 CREATED:20180103T185545Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180103T185545Z UID:2136-1518116400-1518121800@afam.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Why Black Women’s Lives and Histories Matter DESCRIPTION:WHY HISTORY MATTERS\nWhy Black Women’s Lives and Histories Matter \nThursday\, February 8\, 2018\n7:00 p.m.\nFowler Museum at UCLA\, Lenart Auditorium\nSelf-pay parking available in Structure 4 \n \nFunmilola Fagbamila\nAdjunct Professor\, Department of Pan-African Studies\nCalifornia State University\, Los Angeles \nDion Fountaine Raymond\, J.D.\nDiscrimination Prevention Officer and Coordinator\nUCLA Office of Equity\, Diversity and Inclusion \nBrenda Stevenson\nProfessor and Nickoll Family Endowed Chair in History\nUCLA Department of History \nmoderated by\nMarcus Anthony Hunter\nScott Waugh Endowed Chair in the Division of the Social Sciences\nAssociate Professor and Chair\nUCLA Department of African American Studies \nRSVP HERE URL:https://afam.ucla.edu/event/black-womens-lives-histories-matter/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180201T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180201T160000 DTSTAMP:20260418T081000 CREATED:20171211T222719Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171211T222719Z UID:2115-1517493600-1517500800@afam.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Bankers\, Empire\, and Black Study DESCRIPTION:Bankers\, Empire\, and Black Study \nThursday\, February 1st\, 2018 \n2:00pm-4:00pm \nReception to follow. \nUCLA Young Research Library (YRL) Main Conference Room 11360 \n \n  \nA roundtable discussion on Peter James Hudson’s “Banker’s and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean”. \nfeaturing \nGlen Ford\, Black Agenda Report \nPeter James Hudson\, UCLA \nWalter Johnson\, Harvard University \nDeborah A. Thomas\, University of Pennsylvania \nModerated by Marcus Hunter\, UCLA \n  \nCosponsored by the Department of History and the James S Coleman African Studies Center URL:https://afam.ucla.edu/event/bankers-empire-black-study/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180130T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180130T203000 DTSTAMP:20260418T081000 CREATED:20180122T210948Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180122T210948Z UID:2155-1517335200-1517344200@afam.ucla.edu SUMMARY:A Conversation With Bootsy Collins: Worldwide Funk DESCRIPTION:A Conversation With Bootsy Collins: Worldwide Funk \nHosted by Scot Brown \n \nTuesday\, January 30\, 2018  \n6:00pm-8:30pm \nFowler Museum at UCLA\, Room A139 \n\nRSVP HERE: \nworldwidefunk.eventbrite.com \nFree and Open to the Public URL:https://afam.ucla.edu/event/conversation-bootsy-collins-worldwide-funk/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171113T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171113T140000 DTSTAMP:20260418T081000 CREATED:20171023T191554Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171023T191554Z UID:2031-1510574400-1510581600@afam.ucla.edu SUMMARY:"My Good Friends Walter Rodney and John Walton": Racial Brokering in New Orleans Education Reform DESCRIPTION:“My Good Friends Walter Rodney and John Walton”:\nRacial Brokering in New Orleans Education Reform \nA Talk with Christien Tompkins \n \nMonday\, November 13th\, 2017\n12:00pm-2:00pm\nUCLA Black Forum Room\, Haines Hall 153 \nChristien 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. URL:https://afam.ucla.edu/event/good-friends-walter-rodney-john-walton-racial-brokering-new-orleans-education-reform/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171107T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171107T180000 DTSTAMP:20260418T081000 CREATED:20171023T185614Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171023T185614Z UID:2027-1510061400-1510077600@afam.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Futures of Black Radicalism DESCRIPTION:Futures of Black Radicalism \nTuesday\, November 7th\, 2017\n1:30pm-6:00pm\nCalifornia NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) Auditorium\n(located in South Campus) \n\nRSVP\nhttps://futuresofblackradicalism.eventbrite.com \n\n \n\n  \nSchedule\n1:30pm-2:00pm Pre-Reception (with refreshments)\n2:00pm-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\n3:45pm-5:00pm Authors and Artivist Dialogue with Authors and Tom Morello and Chuck D\n5:00pm-6:00pm Reception & Book Signing (with food & refreshments) \n  \nWith additional comments by Elizabeth Robinson and Shana Redmond \n\n  URL:https://afam.ucla.edu/event/futures-black-radicalism/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR