A Book Talk with Manisha Sinha The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition Tuesday, February 13th, 2018 12:00pm-1:30pm Black Forum, Haines Hall 153 Manisha Sinha will discuss her prize-winning book, The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition (Yale University Press, 2016) Co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies […]
The Kind of Man I Am: Jazzmasculinity and the World of Charles Mingus, Jr. by Nichole Rustin-Paschal Thursday, February 22nd, 2018 12:00pm-1:30pm Black Forum, Haines Hall 153 The Kind of Man I Am: Jazzmasculinity and the World of Charles Mingus Jr. (Wesleyan 2017) is a gendered cultural history of jazz in the postwar period. She draws on […]
26th Annual Pan African Film Festival Featured Theater Event Playwright, Poet, Scholar and Activist FUNMILOLA FAGBAMILA performs for ONE NIGHT ONLY her one-woman, hip hop, spoken word theater piece: THE INTERSECTION: WOKE BLACK FOLK March 2nd, 2018 Doors Open: 6:00pm Show Begins: 7:00pm Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center | 4305 Degnan Blvd #101, Los […]
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“Re-Reading Steve Biko in the Archive: The Epistemology of the Interview” Tendayi Sithole | University of South Africa Monday, March 5, 2018 | 2:00 pm 10383 Bunche Hall Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Scholar/Critic/Poet Tendayi Sithole: "The archive and the interview assume the place of the original because they […]
Conversations by Artists for Artists, Spring 2018 Sunday, March 25th, 2018 2:00pm-4:00pm California African American Museum | 600 State Drive Los Angeles, CA 90037 Charlyn Green (aka The Cosmic Goddess Herself) and Dr. Scot Brown continue this series conceived by artist Lisa C Soto and originally hosted at Soto Studio in Inglewood, which […]
From Zamunda to Wakanda: Celebrating 30 Years of Culturally Diverse Design and Imagination in Film featuring an evening with costume designers Deborah Nadoolman Landis Coming to America (1988) and Ruth E. Carter Black Panther (2018) Imagination has been key to the Black Freedom Struggle and Black cultural expression. No two places best reflect this point more than […]
Blackness and Borderscapes: Queering the Black Mediterranean SA Smythe President’s Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies UC Irvine MONDAY, APRIL 2 12:00PM Black Forum Room | Haines Hall 153 In this presentation, Dr. SA Smythe addresses recent challenges in the regulation of legal residency and pathways to citizenship in Italy. Smythe […]
Beauty and the Black: Aesthetics Politics and Black Reproduction in Brazil Ugo Edu Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Anthropology UC Davis WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4 12:00PM Black Forum Room, Haines Hall 153 lunch will be provided Based on ethnographic research in Salvador, Bahia, this talk explores the role of aesthetics in the construction and perception […]
The UC Consortium for Black Studies presents New Directions in Black Queer Studies A Conversation with Cathy Cohen, David and Mary Winton Green Professor of Political Science, The University of Chicago and Roderick Ferguson, Professor of African American and Gender and Women’s Studies, The University of Illinois at Chicago Moderated by Uri McMillan, Associate Professor of English, UCLA […]
