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. […]
WHY HISTORY MATTERS Why Black Women’s Lives and Histories Matter Thursday, February 8, 2018 7:00 p.m. Fowler Museum at UCLA, Lenart Auditorium Self-pay parking available in Structure 4 Funmilola Fagbamila Adjunct Professor, Department of Pan-African Studies California State University, Los Angeles Dion Fountaine Raymond, J.D. Discrimination Prevention Officer and Coordinator UCLA Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion […]
Support for Black Reparations in the Early 21st Century Talk by Michael Dawson John D. MacArthur Professor of Political Science and the College The University of Chicago Monday, February 12th, 2018 12:00pm-2:00pm Black Forum, Haines Hall 153 Lunch will be provided.
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 […]
