The Elephant in the Room: BIPOC Artistic and Intellectual Presence in Music Studies
2021-02-10 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
February 10, 2021 – Danielle Brown: “The Elephant in the Room: BIPOC Artistic and Intellectual Presence in Music Studies”
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and The UCLA Department of African American Studies are proud to welcome multi-disciplinary artist, scholar, and Founder of of My People Tell Stories, LLC, Danielle Brown.
In this presentation, Dr. Brown will discuss her efforts to address issues of equity, diversity and inclusion to create positive change through her work at My People Tell Stories and her social justice minded framework—Canon, People, and Pedagogies (CPP). Specifically focusing on the “People” portion of her framework, Dr. Brown will share how addressing the “elephant in the room”—the minimization, marginalization, and devaluation of BIPOC artists and intellectuals—requires more than diversifying the canon and increasing “diversity hires.” Rather, it requires a reckoning with the forces that ask BIPOC artists and intellectuals to be present, even while denying their presence.
About Danielle Brown
Danielle Brown, Ph.D. is a multi-disciplinary artist, scholar, and entrepreneur. She is the Founder and CEO of My People Tell Stories, LLC, a company based on the premise that people of color in particular, and marginalized people in general, need to tell and interpret their own stories. Brown earned a doctorate in Music from New York University with a concentration in ethnomusicology and specialization in the music of Latin America and the Caribbean.
She is a former Assistant Professor of Music History and Cultures at Syracuse University and is certified in the Kodály method. Brown is the author of the music-centered ethnographic memoir, East of Flatbush, North of Love: An Ethnography of Home, and the East of Flatbush, North of Love: Teacher Guidebook. She is a 2018 NYSCA/NYFA Fellow in Folk/Traditional Arts and was a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Musicology at the University of Miami for the 2019—2020 school year. Brown will be a Visiting Lecturer at Stanford University during the 2021 Winter Quarter.
About the Still Waiting Speaker Series:
“Our ancestors fought for what they expected to be a very different outcome than the one we are currently experiencing. The racial gulf has widened, and we are fighting battles that are bewildering to those of us who know the struggles of others who came before us.”
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and its Inaugural Dean, Eileen L. Strempel are proud to launch Still Waiting, a new speaker series that invites the public to join UCLA students in conversation with prominent figures invited by the school’s Anti-Racism Action Committee (ARAC), to help us understand ourselves and our response to this deeply hurtful moment in our nation’s racial reckoning. Still Waiting invites us to demand better of our communities and better of our actions in response to the tangible effects of racist policing, academic and institutional indifference, and methodologies that may bridge the gap between feelings of alienation and feelings of sanctuary and refuge for us all.
About the ARAC:
ARAC, the Anti-Racism Action Committee of The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, is a non-hierarchical group of students, staff, and faculty members committed to changing the atmosphere of our Bruin community by addressing issues of bias, marginalization and discrimination toward black, Indigenous and people of color and other intersectional communities.
Register here!

A Road Map to Black Homeownership & Black Entrepreneurship in Real Estate: How to Get Started
2021-02-16 19:00 - 2021-02-17 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Are you interested in learning how to invest in real estate without a large down payment or getting your hands too dirty? Hear from our panelists, who found creative ways to build generational wealth through real estate.
Join us on February 16th and 17th for this two part panel series on black homeownership and entrepreneurship! You don’t want to miss this incredible opportunity to get advice from successful black entrepreneurs and real estate agents. This event was organized by the UCLA Anderson School of Business’ Black Business Student’s Association. This event is apart of their Beyond Barriers Series!

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‘Blues for the 1980s’: Funk Bands in Dayton, Ohio
2021-02-17 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
We are proud to announce that one of our esteemed faculty members Dr. Scot Brown will be apart of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music’s Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy Colloquium Series.
Dr. Scot Brown is an associate professor of African American Studies and History at UCLA. Brown is the author of the book Fighting For Us and has penned numerous articles on African American history, social/political movements, music, and popular culture. He is a contributing author and the editor of the book, Discourse on Africana Studies. Brown is in the process of completing a book project exploring the city of Dayton, Ohio as a 1970s musical hotbed of soul and funk bands. Brown has appeared as an expert commentator on African American music and popular culture for many programs on television, radio, and social media: KLRU, National Public Radio, Sirius/XM Radio, DATV, BET/Centric, TV One, and VH1. Additionally, Brown has appeared in several documentaries on the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, including the PBS documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution.
On February 17th at 1:00-3:00pm join us on Zoom and watch the ‘Blues for the 1980s’: Funk Bands in Dayton, Ohio lecture.

TED X UCLA and UCLA African American Studies present Bryonn Bain an IG LIVE Q&A
2021-02-22 12:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join us!! On our IG Live this Monday. We are collaborating with TED X UCLA to deliver a very special black history month event!! Prison activist, actor, hip hop theatre pioneer, and @ucla_afam faculty member, Bryonn Bain will be participating in a Q and A on the meaning of black history month, prison reform, resilience and more. Don’t miss out! This Monday at 12pm PST!!
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. Bryonn Bain is Brooklyn’s own hip hop theater innovator, spoken word poetry champion, prison activist, actor, author and educator. His work has been featured at the Apollo Theater, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Public Theater (NYC), National Black Theatre (Harlem), New Jersey Performing Arts Center (Newark), the Actor’s Gang (Culver City), the Los Angeles Theater Center (LATC), Festival de Liege (Belgium), M1 Theater Festival (Singapore), Universidad de las Americas (Mexico) and Muteesa Royal University (Uganda), Rikers Island (New York), Marion Prison (Ohio), TEDX at Ironwood State Prison and Sing Sing Prison. After teaching the first hip hop and spoken word workshop in the Dramatic Arts at Harvard University, Bain began consulting Columbia University’s Center for Justice and School of Law as a Visiting Scholar, and founded the prison education program offering college degrees from NYU to men incarcerated in upstate New York. Bain co-supervises the UCLA International Human Rights Law Clinic, and serves as faculty advisor for the Justice Work Group currently developing a Center for Justice at UCLA. With pilot courses and programs at the California Institute for Women (CIW) and Barry J. Nidorf (BJN) Juvenile Hall, Bain is working with students, faculty and administrators across the university to develop UCLA’s Prison Education Program. Celebrated as “poet laureate of the hip hop generation” by NAACP President Benjamin Jealous, Bryonn’s discussions aired weekly in over 20 million homes worldwide on BET’s award-winning talk show My Two Cents. His interviews have included figures such as Mike Wallace, Tavis Smiley, LL Cool J, Tricia Rose, Dolores Huerta, Tim Robbins, Malik Yoba, Snoop Dogg, Nelson George and Harry Belafonte. His work has won grants from the Open Society Foundation, the Ford Foundation.

Wrongfully imprisoned during his second year at Harvard Law School, Bryonn successfully sued the NYPD, interviewed with Mike Wallace on “60 Minutes,” and wrote the Village Voice cover story – “Walking While Black” – drawing the largest response in the history of the nation’s most widely-read progressive newspaper. Bain’s grassroots arts organization, Blackout Arts Collective, developed the Lyrics on Lockdown Tour reaching prisons in 25 states and spawning university courses using poetry to build critical literacy in prisons nationwide. His first book, The Prophet Returns, honors the legacy of Kahlil Gibran and the countless voices Bain has worked with behind bars nationwide for nearly three decades. His second book, The Ugly Side of Beautiful: Rethinking Race and Prison in America, is published by Third World Press with a foreword by Mumia Abu-Jamal and introduction by Lani Guinier. His latest book, Fish & Bread/Pescado y Pan, is a bilingual, hip hop education children’s book published by Brown Girl’s Books. Winning coveted titles as the 1999 Boston Grand Slam Champion and 2000 Nuyorican Grand Slam Poetry Champion, Bain ranked #1 in the nation and placed second in the world during the 2000 International Poetry Slam. As Artist-in-Residence for the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education, Bryonn founded the Lyrical Minded project — which has employed over 50 artists nationwide and brought hip hop, theater, spoken word poetry and film to public schools and detention centers in New York, San Francisco and Boston. Bain has taught courses and professional development for teachers and artists at Brooklyn College, NYU, The New School, Long Island University, and Columbia University ranging from hip hop and spoken word poetry to critical perspectives on the prisons and policing. Bryonn has lectured and performed at over 100 colleges and correctional facilities in the U.S., Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe.
His one-man multimedia production, Lyrics From Lockdown – executive produced by Harry Belafonte – tells the story of Bain’s wrongful imprisonment through hip hop theater, spoken word poetry, calypso and classical music, as well as lyrics and letters exchanged with fellow poet and friend, Nanon Williams. Sentenced to Death Row at 17, and after more than 25 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit, a federal judge finally ordered Nanon’s release in November 2010 — one year after the NYC premiere of Bain’s production at The Public Theater. Developed in prisons, public schools and universities nationwide, the show has received extraordinary reviews, sold out on three continents with standing ovations in Europe, Asia and Africa.
Check out the webpage: www.LyricsfromLockdown.com.

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Black Excellence: Celebrate and Network with Successful Professionals
2021-02-25 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
You are invited to participate on Thursday, February 25th and celebrate with UCLA’s Black Bruin legacy & history in the making.

Featuring:

Celebration of the history & legacy of Black Bruins through the formal recognition of historical icons, contemporary alumni, staff, and faculty who have exhibited exceptional career success.
Panel of distinguished UCLA alumni, staff and faculty focusing on Academic & Career Achievement and providing solutions to contemporary issues with focus on intersection with diversity and social justice.
Networking with alumni, staff, faculty and select employers from a various industries including Business, Entertainment, Higher Education, Healthcare, Tech, Law, Policy, and much more.
Spotlight of relevant university accomplishments and inroads such as AAP’s 50th Anniversary, the establishment of the Black Bruin Resource Center and the inaugural year of the Career Center’s DOORS program.
Acknowledgement of “Rising Stars” among current students(undergrad/graduate), post docs and/or recent alumni

Thursday, February 25th, 2021
Hosted via Zoom

Black Excellence is being held in collaboration with
AAP
Admissions
African American Studies
Alumni Association
ASP
Black Bruin Resource Center
CCCP
CPO
ORL
Ralph Bunche Center

RSVP here

Dean's Salon, "Ethnic Studies at UCLA: Scholarship for Social Justice"
2021-03-23 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join us on March 23rd at 4:00pm for the UCLA College of Social Sciences for the Dean’s Salon,”Ethnic Studies at UCLA: Scholarship for Social Justice”

This event is a conversation with

Leisy Abrego
Chair and Professor
UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies
Randall Akee
Chair and Associate Professor, UCLA Department of American Indian Studies
Associate Professor, UCLA Department of Public Policy
Cheryl Keyes
Chair and Professor, UCLA Department of African American Studies
Professor, Ethnomusicology and Global Jazz Studies
Natalie Masuoka
Chair and Associate Professor, UCLA Department of Asian American Studies
Associate Professor, UCLA Department of Political Science
moderated by
Darnell Hunt, Ph.D.
Dean, UCLA Division of Social Sciences
Professor of Sociology and African American Studies

Register at:
http://view.eamail3.ucla.edu/?qs=3affd1d42f01fde1276c89bfb4a87d9e0e0bfeb7dbbaaef442f0acc00d34e7e18f467e6db3a0bb39ac680188d44ca810281c284f3c118a3beeb6fbb37a3ee0c79d67dddf0cbb186a36114e0ca8be4804

Save the date: Join the UCLA Legacy 2021!
2021-04-06 17:30 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
With great excitement, we invite you to join us on the evening of Tuesday, April 6th, for Join the UCLA Legacy, a virtual event honoring our African American admits for the Fall class of 2021. Save the date to connect with faculty and staff to learn more about the many benefits of becoming a Bruin! Our success speaks for itself through these student responses.
–“I especially enjoyed being able to discuss with the department chairs and their willingness to make sure that we constantly understood the entire college-going process.”
–“I mostly enjoyed how the faculty and administration made me feel welcomed and that I deserved to attend the school. Even though I don’t identify with the majority of the school, it shouldn’t stop me from pursuing my dreams.”
–“The Legacy event was the icing on the cake that I needed to feel valued as an African American student in such a large university.”

Mark your calendar April 6th 2021 5:30-7:30pm

Stay tuned for more details coming soon!

Connecting ART & LAW FOR LIBERATION 2021: Call for Proposals
2021-04-16 - 2021-04-17
Connecting ART & LAW FOR LIBERATION
a CALL TO ACTION to end Mass Incarceration
On April 16-17, 2021 join artists, activists, attorneys, advocates and scholars for a Virtual Conference featuring innovative collaborations at the intersection of ART and the LAW!
Build community, re-energize and play, while developing visionary strategies to end mass incarceration — with participants from college campuses, communities and carceral spaces.
Proposal Due: January 11, 2021
Send proposals and questions to: CALLtoActionUCLA@gmail.com by January 11, 2021. Details on the 2019 CALL Festival are on our website at: www.calltoactionucla.com

A Collaboration between the UCLA Prison Education Program,
UCLA School of Law’s Criminal Justice Program and the Prison Law & Policy Program

Africa’s Readiness for Climate Change (ARCC) virtual forum
2021-04-19 09:00 - 2021-04-23 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join us for the upcoming Africa’s Readiness for Climate Change (ARCC) virtual forum, organized by the UCLA African Studies Center and Earth Rights Institute, and co-sponsored by the Department of African American Studies.
Register here https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_b5cGk3_ASFO1WEkwK2NAtA.

The webinar event is scheduled for April 19-23 and registration to attend is free.
Register Here
Exact times to be announced, but starting time will be 9 am for most days as three of the presenters will be Zooming from the continent.

Confirmed Speakers are Nnimmo Bassey, Director of the Health of Mother Earth Foundation; Ousmane Aly Pame, President Global Ecovillage Network Africa, Founder/President REDES(Network for Ecovillage Emergence and Development in the Sahel); HE Ambassador Sidique Abou-Bakarr Wai, Sierra Leone Ambassador to the US; and Elizabeth Wathuti, Founder, Green Generation Initiative and Head of Campaigns at Wangari Maathai Foundation, Kenya.
Additionally, there will be panels on Public Health, Indigenous Knowledge, Policy, and more.
For information, email africa@international.ucla.edu, visit the conference website at https://www.international.ucla.edu/asc/article/206676

"Resemblance, Representation, and Resonance in Black Film and Media"
2021-04-30 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
UCLA Department of African American Studies invites you to attend the lecture series
“Black Lives Matter—Past, Present, and Beyond” featuring
Racquel Gates
Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, College of Staten Island, CUNY
Author, “Double Negative: The Black Image and Popular Culture”
speaking on
Resemblance, Representation, and Resonance in Black Film and Media
Friday, April 30, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. PDT
Live streaming via Zoom
RSVP HERE
The basic idea of “representation” – that onscreen images construct meaning – takes on particular urgency when those being represented have been historically ignored, or worse, grossly misrepresented, throughout history. Such is the case with Black representation in film and media. As a result, critics and scholars alike continue to theorize solutions to the thorny issues of representation. Though these conversations are not new, their centrality speaks to ongoing problems related to the images of women and minorities in the media. Yet how often are we actually talking about “resemblance” rather than representation? And how might we begin to consider questions about quality, taste, and emotional resonance? This talk contemplates these aspects of cinematic representation and argues that such a shift offers new possibilities for Black cinematic engagement.

"After Sudan: Hajj Hamad and the Search for the Horn of Africa" with Prof. Alden Young
2021-05-14 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
“After Sudan: Hajj Hamad and the Search for the Horn of Africa”
A Lecture with Professor Alden Young
Friday, May 14th, 2021
2:00pm (PST)
RSVP HERE
About the lecture: My talk focuses on the work of the Sudanese intellectual Mohammad Abu Qasim Hajj Hamad. He was one of the Children of 1964, who came of age in the October Revolution, which promised a democratic transformation, but he watched in horror as the military returned to power in 1969 and within a few years began exiling intellectuals and political activists. It was in exile that intellectuals like Hajj Hamad began looking for alternatives to the Sudanese state. In this talk, I will discuss his ideas about the Horn of Africa as a region. I will also discuss the ways in which he sought to place Sudan within the Greater Middle East in the process trying to rewrite Sudanese history. Hajj Hamad’s historical project was an attempt to break Sudanese society out of the impasse within which it was trapped. According to Hajj Hamad, Sudan was a society stuck between binaries such as Arab and African, Communist and Islamist, as well as Center and Periphery. In his opinion, it was only by overcoming these binaries that Sudanese society could develop.
Alden Young is a political and economic historian of Africa and the Middle East. He is Assistant Professor of African American Studies and a faculty member in the International Development Studies program at the University of California, Los Angeles. His first book Transforming Sudan: Decolonization, Economic Development and State Formation was published by Cambridge University Press in December 2017. Along with Nathalie Puetz of NYU Abu Dhabi, Young has been awarded a research grant by the SSRC to work on climate change adaptation among the Red Sea littoral countries.

The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Historical Context
2021-06-01 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Historical Context
Tuesday, June 1st, 2021

5:00PM PDT
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Professor Brenda E. Stevenson moderates an online conversation with Karlos K. Hill and Hannibal Johnson, both authors and experts on the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, in which a white mob assaulted residents, looted, and destroyed their homes, churches, schools, and businesses in the predominantly Black neighborhood and business district of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The panel discusses the history of Black migration to Oklahoma, the Jim Crow realities of the early 20th century, the facts surrounding the Tulsa massacre, and the immediate aftermath in which hundreds of Black Americans were dead, homeless, or imprisoned, their families and financial lives devastated.
An Associate Professor and Chair of the Clara Luper Department of African and African-American Studies at the University of Oklahoma, Hill is the founder and chair of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Commission. His most recent book is The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History. An attorney, author, and highly regarded public historian, Johnson is the author of Black Wall Street 100: An American City Grapples with its Historical Racial Trauma.
Co-presented by the UCLA Department of African American Studies
RSVP HERE

Taking Stock: U.S. Counterterrorism Interventions in Africa Today
2021-07-15 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Taking Stock: U.S. Counterterrorism Interventions in Africa Today

July 15th, 2021
12:00pm
Register Here
While Washington is winding down counterterror operations in Afghanistan and possibly Iraq, there is growing pressure from some quarters for an increase in U.S. military engagement in Africa. In mid-June, France announced an end to its counterterrorism operation in the Sahel, now in its seventh year. France is hoping the U.S. and countries contributing to a 15,000 strong peacekeeping force will step up to fill the void, but the ambush of four U.S. soldiers in neighboring Niger in 2017 raised serious questions about mission creep and oversight of US troops on the continent. Meanwhile, the Biden administration is reportedly considering returning troops recently pulled by the Trump administration back to Somalia.

Why are the French leaving Mali? What impact did Western-backed security assistance missions have in diminishing terrorism threats and supporting democracy in the region? Why is the U.S. military looking to wind down operations in West Africa but at the same time considering returning troops to Somalia, despite significant democratic backsliding by the U.S.-backed government there?

The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs will host a panel of discussion to shine a light on this undercovered region and provide recommendations for better oversight and accountability mechanisms to avert counterproductive mission creep and endless U.S. war in Africa.

Join us for a timely and important conversation with:
Alden Young, Assistant Professor of African American Studies at UCLA and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
Stephanie Savell, Senior Researcher at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University and co-director of the Costs of War Project.
Amanda Sperber, Independent journalist, focusing on politics, youth, and armed conflict in Kenya, Somalia and Sudan.
Lizzy Shackelford (Moderator), Senior Fellow on U.S. Foreign Policy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, former QI Non-Resident Fellow, and author of “The Dissent Channel: American Diplomacy in a Dishonest Age.”

Black Convocation
2021-09-29 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Black Convocation 2021

Sept. 29th
5-6pm
Zoom Registration Link

IdentiTEA Discussion
2021-10-05 07:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The Mixed Student Union (MSU) is hosting their first discussion/meeting of the year this upcoming Tuesday, October 5, at 7pm-8pm in Kaplan Hall, in room 135!
They will be discussing what it’s like growing up mixed-race, and overall spilling the “tea” on what it’s like being mixed and how that affects identity.
*MSU is a cultural group for mixed-race and multiethnic individuals that aims to unite and foster UCLA’s mixed community. They meet weekly on Tuesdays at 7-8pm at Kaplan 135.*
Join their newsletter subscription here!

Professor Brenda Stevenson's Inaugural Lecture
2021-10-25 09:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Professor Brenda Stevenson
Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair of Women’s History
Oxford University is running a program of public events this month to celebrate the start of Professor Stevenson’s tenure.

The Lecture: Creating History at the Intersection of Gender, Jim Crow and Remembrance will be broadcast live on Youtube.

Black Dress & Culture Series: Debating the Black Body in Fashion & Popular Culture
2021-11-06 11:00 - 14:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Black Dress & Culture Series
Debating the Black Body in Fashion & Popular Culture
Location: Via Zoom & In-person for UCLA students only (see RSVP Link).
Description: The Black Dress & Culture Series annual colloquiums explore the critical topic of Black dress. The influences of Black bodies, Black style, and Black makers are undeniable forces in shaping culture through fashion, costume design, and styling. Black bodies have consistently acted as sites of cutting-edge aesthetics and emulation. Yet, they have endured ridicule, discrimination, fear, and violence. This series engages scholars and practitioners in conversations that reinsert Black people into cultural narratives. Their discussions will address and expand on the multiple viewpoints within ongoing and sometimes contentious histories and contemporary practices. The inaugural event, “Debating the Black Body in Fashion and On-Screen,” will focus on the work of Black costume designers, in conversation with scholars, to address the topic of Black women and body size, as well as respectability politics in dress on screen.
Colloquium Schedule:
11:00 a.m. Welcome and Introductions
11:15 a.m. Panel I: Black Women and Body Size in History and on Screen
12:15 p.m. Coffee Break
12:30 p.m. Panel II: The “Aesthetics of Excess” and Respectability Politics
1:30 p.m. James Bridges Theater in-person discussion followed by refreshments

UCLA Institute of American Cultures Fall Forum 2021
2021-11-09 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Description:
You are invited to the UCLA Institute of American Cultures (IAC) annual Fall Forum, featuring the 2021–22 IAC visiting researchers and scholars, graduate and predoctoral fellows, and research grant awardees at UCLA’s four ethnic studies centers. Featured speakers will be interviewed by faculty experts, followed by a Q&A.
Find out more about who and what is featured in the Webinar through the Zoom Registration Link.

Kal Penn on Life and Diversity in Hollywood
2021-11-11 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Darnell Hunt, Ph.D and Dean, UCLA Division of Social Sciences Professor of Sociology and African American Studies invites you to attend the Dean’s Salon: Kal Penn on Life and Diversity in Hollywood!
Kal Penn will be taking live questions from the viewers starting at 6:00 p.m.If you would like to submit your questions in advance of the webinar please email hnadworny@support.ucla.edu by Wednesday, November 10.
Thursday, November 11, 20215:00 – 6:30 p.m. PSTLive streaming via Zoom

Click here to register for the event

To purchase a hardcover edition of Kal Penn’s new memoirYou Can’t Be Serious please click here

Students & TV Writers Panel
2021-11-15 11:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Description:
Are you a college student or recent grad who’s interested in sharing your experiences with TV writers? Do you have pressing questions about how a story unfolds in the Writers Room? If so, join a panel on zoom where you can converse with writers of a half-hour comedy hit! See the flyer for details and send us an email with your preferred date and time. There are three options to choose from!
*Email Delina.Brooks@abcs.tv for inquiries about the event and how to attend!*
The event will take place on three separate days:
Monday, November 15th (11:00 am PST)
Tuesday, November 16th (1:00 pm PST)
Wednesday, November 17th (2:30 pm PST)

Geneva Smitherman Book Talk!
2022-05-03 16:30 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
This event will feature a panel that discusses the recent publication of Dr. Geneva Smitherman’s memoir: Geneva Napoleon Smitherman, My Soul Look Back in Wonder, 1st edition (Routledge, 2022). Three speakers, Dr Bryce Henson, Dr. Austin Jackson, and our very own Professor Kyle T. Mays, will offer reactions to her book from their interdisciplinary perspectives and also comment on her contribution to Black Studies. Excited to see you all there!

The book talk will take place in The Black Forum (Haines Hall 153) at 4:30 pm on Tuesday, May 3rd!
If you are on campus, we would welcome your in-person attendance!
If you would rather watch online, click here for the zoom link!

Comrade Sisters Book Talk w/ Ericka Huggins & Stephen James
2022-10-19 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Mark your calendars for the October 19th Comrade Sisters Book Talk Event! UCLA has invited Activist Ericka Huggins and Photographer Stephen James to discuss their book “Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party”!

Read more about our esteemed guest speakers below!

Writing Health Through Black Feminist Theory
2022-10-24 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

Sekou Odinga: Reflections of A Freedom Fighter
2022-10-25 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles)

UCLA 34th Annual MLK Oratorical
2023-02-01 19:00 - 22:00 UTC
On February 1st at 7pm UCLA will host the 34th Annual MLK Oratorical Contest in Covel Commons. We hope you can spread the word, join us for festivities, and watch amazing students perform spoken word, oration and griot.

Black Dress & Culture Series: Fashion City Los Angeles
2023-04-22 10:00 - 14:00 UTC | James Bridges Theater
Description:
UCLA will be hosting the second installment of the “Fashion City: Los Angeles” jointly presented by UCLA’s Copley Center for the Study of Costume Design and Department of African American Studies.

The Black Dress and Culture series engages scholars and practitioners in conversations on the multifaceted aspects of Black dress within cultural narratives. These panel discussions will focus on the evolving perceptions and impacts of Black fashion and aesthetics in history and popular culture and will address and expand on the multiple viewpoints within ongoing and sometimes-contentious histories and contemporary practices.
This two-part discussion will encourage debate and engage with the speakers’ repertory of knowledge, experience, and research.
RSVP Required:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ucla-black-dress-culture-series-tickets-607726405037

*Contact Kristen Mundy (kmundy@afam.ucla.edu) or Gina Lewis (lewisgina@g.ucla.edu) with questions!*

Political Economy of the Black World II
2023-05-31 09:15 - 2023-06-01 17:30 UTC | UCLA
MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
In May 1979, the Center for Afro-American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles hosted a two-day symposium entitled The Political Economy of the Black World. This spring, Professors Peter James Hudson and Jemima Pierre are convening The Political Economy of the Black World II, a two-day symposium that draws on and expands the themes and conversations of the original 1979 event. It will serve as the inaugural event of the new Center for Advanced Studies of Political Economy and Race (CASPER).
The Political Economy of the Black World II will be held on May 31st and June 1st at UCLA and will include presentations from a global group of scholars hailing from Kenya, Tunisia, Barbados, Trinidad, Puerto Rico, Norway, Canada and beyond.
Please join us for the Public Conversations with:

Dr. Claudia Mitchell-Kernan, Faculty Emeritus, former chair of the Center for Afro-American Studies, and former Vice Chancellor of Graduate Studies at UCLA – and co-convener of the original 1979 event.
Dr. Horace G. Campbell, Professor of African American Studies and Political Science at Syracuse University and Chairperson of the Global Pan African Movement (North American delegation).
Dr. Deborah E. McDowell, Alice Griffin Professor of Literary Studies and former director of the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia.
Ajamu Baraka, Chairperson, Coordinating Committee of the Black Alliance for Peace, senior editor and contributing columnist for the Black Agenda Report, and former Green Party vice-presidential candidate.

For more information, including the schedule, please see the flier above. We look forward to seeing you there!

JOB TALK: Black Buddhists & the Black Radical Tradition
2024-02-01 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Kaplan Hall 365, Kaplan Hall, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Join us Thursday, Feb. 1st, as we welcome Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad for our first job talk of the year! These job talks are an opportunity for members of the UCLA community to hear faculty position applicants present on topics they are experts in. Please come hear Dr. Vesely-Flad speak and get an opportunity to ask her questions about her research!
*Lunch Provided*

JOB TALK: “’We’ve Been Born Free’: Rastafari Women’s Pan-African Worldmaking
2024-02-06 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Kaplan Hall 365, Kaplan Hall, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Our second job talk of the year! Come stop by Kaplan 193, Tuesday, February 6th, for Dr. Shamara’s Alhassan talk titled “We’ve Been Born Free”: Rastafari Women’s Pan-African Worldmaking. These job talks are an opportunity for members of the UCLA community to hear faculty position applicants present on topics they are experts in. Please come hear Dr. Alhassan speak and get an opportunity to ask her questions about her research!
*Lunch will be provided*

Radical Reparations BOOK TALK
2024-02-06 18:00 - 20:00 UTC | UCLA Career Center, UCLA Career Center, Room #200, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Speakers:
Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter
Author & UCLA Professor
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Willie “Prophet” Stiggers
President of the Black Music Action Coalition
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Description:
Join us for an exciting book talk on Tuesday, February 6th! Get ready to dive into the thought-provoking world of RADICAL REPARATIONS: Healing the Soul of A Nation written by our very own UCLA Professor, Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter. In conversation with, Willie “Prophet” Stiggers, he will discuss the powerful ideas and perspectives presented in the book. Students, Faculty and Staff of UCLA are all welcome to attend and engage in fresh insights on this important topic!

DETAILS:

Date: Tuesday, February 6th, 2024
Time: 6:00pm-8:00pm
Location: UCLA Career Center Room 200 (located in the Strathmore Building)

*Books will be sold by the Reparations Club*
Food & Beverages will be provided.
