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 […]
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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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
"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 […]
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
Bankers, Empire, and Black Study Thursday, February 1st, 2018 2:00pm-4:00pm Reception to follow. UCLA Young Research Library (YRL) Main Conference Room 11360 A roundtable discussion on Peter James Hudson's "Banker's and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean". featuring Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report Peter James Hudson, UCLA Walter Johnson, Harvard University Deborah A. […]
