Annual Colloquium Series: Black Lives Matter

Center for Social Theory and Comparative History, co-sponsored with the Department of African American Studies & the Gary Nash Chair in US History Annual Colloquium Series PRESENTS Black Lives Matter Discussant: Robin D.G. Kelley Gary Nash Chair, Department of History, UCLA For more information call Center for Social Theory and Comparative History (310) 206-5675 or email: […]

Historicizing Masculinities: The Colloquium

Sponsored by The History of Women, Men & Sexuality Emphasis, UCLA Department of History Maurice O. Wallace English & Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American Studies, University of Virginia The Camera and the Slave: History, Technology & the Problem of Personhood in Louis Agassiz’s Slave Daguerreotypes

A Special Staged Reading of “Yohen” featuring Mr. Danny Glover

Cheryl I. Harris (UCLA Department of African American Studies Chair) and Zachary F. Price, Ph.D. (Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow UCLA Department of African American Studies), invite you to a special staged reading of Phillip Kan Gotanda's Yohen, featuring Danny Glover (actor, producer, activist, and humanitarian) and Karen Lew (actress), directed by Ben Guillory (Producing Artistic Director, Robey Theatre Company).   Please RSVP by Friday, May 22 Free and open […]

UCLA Department of African American Studies Commencement

The UCLA Department of African American Studies will hold its Commencement Celebration on: *Students are recommended to come at least 45 minutes prior to the ceremony Additional Commencement Information: www.commencement.ucla.edu

2015 Black Convocation

ADMISSION Free and open to the public. RSVP is required. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION The Black Convocation is an annual event which 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 […]

“Beyond the Lights” Film Screening and Discussion

UCLA Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh, African American Studies Department, Institute of American Cultures, Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, Luskin School of Public Affairs, and School of Theater, Film and Television present: "Beyond The Lights" – Film Screening and Discussion "“Beyond the Lights,” Gina Prince-Bythewood’s occasionally silly, frequently stirring romantic melodrama... […]

“War Against All Puerto Ricans” by Nelson Denis

The talk is titled "War Against All Puerto Ricans." Nelson Denis, the author of the new book War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony, will be discussing his book, the history of colonialism in Puerto Rico, and the plight of Puerto Rican political prisoner Oscar López Rivera. The talk will also feature an introduction […]