The Intersection: Woke Black Folk

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 […]

Tendayi Sithole: “Re-Reading Steve Biko in the Archive: The Epistemology of the Interview”

“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

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

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

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

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 […]

New Directions in Black Queer Studies

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 […]

Reconsidering Education and Imprisonment: A Conversation on Prisons, Race, and Education

The UCLA Departments of African American Studies & Education Present: DISPOSSESSION & ENCLOSURE: RECONSIDERING EDUCATION AND IMPRISONMENT a conversation with Sabina Vaught & Damien Sojoyner Sabina 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 […]

Beyond Coloniality: Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition

"Beyond Coloniality: Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition" Lecture by Aaron Kamugisha Aaron 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: […]