UCLA Department of African American Studies

The 40th National Council for Black Studies Conference Call for Papers
2016-01-15
All abstracts must be submitted online no later than January 15, 2016.
On the heels of the establishment of the first generation of Black Studies departments and programs across the United States, starting from 1968, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte hosted a conference of Black Studies scholars in March 1975 to create a national organization that would help guide the standardization of the curriculum, mission, and the accreditation of Black Studies academic units. It was from that meeting that the National Council for Black Studies was created in July 1975. Forty years later, the field of Black Studies has grown into a formidable discipline and field of study with more than 200 degree programs at the Undergraduate, Master’s and Doctoral levels in the United States alone. The 2016 conference of the National Council for Black Studies offers a critical juncture to reflect on the difficulties and accomplishments that have accompanied the institutionalization of Black Studies in the academy, as well as the new opportunities and emerging challenges that deserve the attention of scholars, activists, and policy makers regarding the condition of black people globally.
Participants are invited to present new theoretical and empirical studies as well as new models of practice and social activism on a wide range of topics that deal with the Black experience globally and across time. The NCBS, therefore, invites abstracts for individual papers, panels, posters, roundtable discussions, and workshops on various aspects of Black Studies that are informed by historical and social science analyses, arts and literary criticism, philosophical reflections, and spiritual interventions, among others, especially as these may relate to the issues of race, migration, citizenship, social justice, Pan-Africanism, environmental and social sustainability, globalization, diaspora formations, development and economic empowerment, moral economy, community formation, sexuality, and gender. We welcome you to submit abstracts that explore transnational, transcultural, transgendered approaches; studies that are place or region specific; as well those that explore the questions of modernity and the challenges of its “post” manifestations and reifications such as postcoloniality, postmodernity, and postraciality.
You are encouraged to dig deep into the intellectual history of Africana Studies and use this background to formulate inter-generational and inter-geographic theories about the black experience. We are also looking for studies that amplify and challenge seemingly centered and settled perspectives in order to explore new directions in Black Studies. For example, what does it mean to be Africa-centered in the 21st century in the face of the new media, digital revolution, and hyper-globalization? What pedagogical tools make Black Studies necessary for developing a culture-conscious and history-literate global citizenry? What new insights do we offer for creating a just world? How do we develop frameworks of multi-tiered social responsibility at the individual, family, community, national, corporate, and multinational levels for sustainable and ethical solutions to the challenges of racism, mass incarceration, poverty, political apathy, and anti-black violence? We seek to develop a conference program that defines the global black presence in accordance with the original Pan-African vision of Black Studies.
Hence, scholars working on the black experience in North America, the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, Europe, Australia and Asia are invited to submit abstracts. Interested participants, established and emerging scholars, students and social activists, should send an abstract of no less than 75 – 250 words for a panel (one for the panel subject and one for each panelist), and/or individual paper and poster presentations.
For round-table discussions and workshop, please submit a 75-250 word abstract.
For more information visist: http://www.ncbsonline.org/

Open Poetry Slam
2016-01-16 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
First 20 poets to sign up (Sign up: 5-6pm)
Top 10 to be invited to return to compete for $500 in cash prizes at the main event
* Book donations are required for free entry.
In collaboration with The Justice Work Group, UCLA Residential Life, and the Department of African American Studies.

"Urban Removal: Police, Prisons, and Domestic Policy after Civil Rights" by Elizabeth Hinton
2016-01-19 14:00
Elizabeth Hinton is Assistant Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies and the Department of History at Harvard University. Hinton’s research focuses on the persistence of poverty and racial inequality in the 20th century United States. Her current scholarship considers the transformation of domestic social programs and urban policing after the Civil Rights Movement. In her forthcoming book, From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: Race and Federal Policy in American Cities (with Harvard University Press), Hinton examines the implementation of federal law enforcement programs beginning in the mid-1960s that laid the groundwork for the mass incarceration of American citizens.

"A Latin American Multicultural State at Work: Anti-Black Racism and the Fate of the Caricature of an Afro-Ecuadorian Congressman" by Jean Muteba Rahier
2016-01-22 15:00
See attached flyer for more information.

"How Structural Racism Works" by Tricia Rose
2016-01-29 02:00 - 15:00
This lecture introduces Rose’s in-progress research, video and public engagement project. In it, Rose argues that five key drivers of structural racism—housing, criminal justice, education, wealth and media—form a flexible, highly connected apparatus. In addition, the project highlights the role of narrative in driving structural racism as well as the problem and yet importance of making legible and compelling a progressive, anti-racist popular narrative in a highly mass-mediated age.

Keith Feldman Public Book Talk: A Shadow over Palestine: The Imperial Life of Race in America
2016-03-10 03:45 - 15:45

The Archive, The Critic, The Record Shop, and the Blues Woman
2016-03-10 15:30 - 17:00
Featuring:
Daphne Brooks
Professor of African American Studies/Theater Studies
Yale

Reception will follow.
Please RVSP at: https://daphnebrooks.eventbrite.com
For more info contact: jessgonzalez@humnet.ucla.edu

UCLA Department of African American Studies Commencement
2016-03-11 11:30
The UCLA Department of African American Studies will hold its Commencement Celebration on:
Saturday, June 11th, 2016
11:30am at the Lenart Auditorium in the Fowler Museum
*Students are recommended to come at least 45 minutes prior to the ceremony. Line up time is at 10:00am.
Additional Commencement Information: www.commencement.ucla.edu

UCLA Department of African American Studies Commencement
2016-06-11 11:30 - 14:00
The UCLA Department of African American Studies will hold its Commencement Celebration on:
Saturday, June 11th, 2016
11:30am at the Lenart Auditorium in the Fowler Museum
*Students are recommended to come at least 45 minutes prior to the ceremony. Line up time is at 10:00am.
Additional Commencement Information: www.commencement.ucla.edu
Guest Keynote Speaker: Jerrika Hinton, Grey’s Anatomy actress.
Bright, enterprising, strikingly beautiful, multi-faceted, and an undeniable talent are all ways Jerrika Hinton can be described. In 2016 Hinton can be seen starring as the ambitious and headstrong “Dr. Stephanie Edwards” on ABC’s long running, award winning series “Grey’s Anatomy.” Joining the cast in season nine [2012] Hinton quickly became one of the most talked about characters on the show. In addition to “Grey’s Anatomy” Hinton is currently in pre-production on SOLACE, an independent film which she is producing. Written by filmmaker Tchaiko Omawale, the film is a dark, coming-of-age story about a young girl sent to live with her estranged family after the death of her father. Loneliness and sadness cause her to strike up a questionable friendship with the girl next door, who further pushes her to spiral out of control. Hope Olaide Wilson [“The Last Ship,” TNT] is set to star in the project. Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, Hinton has been performing since the age of three. She landed her first professional role at the age of eleven in a theatrical production of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. Hinton went on to attend Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas where she studied directing and playwriting at the Meadows School of the Arts. By the time she graduated she had directed three productions, funded a small theatre company, had written five shows, and was awarded the SMU Rosenfield Award for Playwriting. Upon graduation Hinton traveled the US, performing both classical and original works including most notably, “Viola” in Twelfth Night (Utah Shakespearean’s Festival) and the political satire she co-penned, Dreaming America (Echo Theatre). Continuing her commitment to developing new work, she eventually moved to Massachusetts to collaborate with New WORLD Theater’s annual Project 2050 program, a revolutionary multicultural and multidisciplinary youth arts program. In 2012 Hinton wrote, produced, and directed the short film THE STRANGELY NORMAL, which received the distinction of being official selections at the San Francisco Black Film Festival, Out In The Desert LGBT Film Festival, and the Atlanta Black Film Festival. That same year she landed a series regular role on “Grey’s Anatomy.” ! While working behind the camera has always been one of Hinton’s passions, fulfilling her love of bringing characters to life on screen has been of equal importance. Over the last few years, she has held roles on top television series such as ABC’s “Scandal,” FOX’s “Bones,” the short lived yet critically acclaimed series “Terriers” for FX, and FOX’s “Lie to Me.” When not working in film or television Hinton loves to nourish other aspects of her creative side, including taking photos (her abstract photography can be found on her website, taken mostly by her favorite camera, the Olympus PEN), throwing themed events for her friends and family, and studying French. She is also a bit of a daredevil; her next mission is to take a course on stunt driving. Hinton has been a longtime supporter of The Innocence Project. She has also maintained her commitment to both creativity and community service, teaching at numerous theaters and most recently serving as an artist-in-residence at the East LA Classic Theatre. She currently volunteers with The Actors Fund.

'Black Life/Schwarz-Sein' by Professor Alexander Weheliye
2016-09-26 16:00 - 18:00
Alexander G. Weheliye is professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University where he teaches black literature and culture, critical theory, social technologies, and popular culture. He is the author of Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity (Duke University Press, 2005), which was awarded The Modern Language Association’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Study of Black American Literature or Culture and Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human (2014, Duke UP).

Monday, September 26th, 2016
4:00pm-6:00pm
Humanities 193
Co-Sponsored by the Department of African American Studies and Department of English.

Word on Wednesday Open Mic Night
2016-09-28 19:00 - 21:00
Word on Wednesday Open Mic Night
September 28th, Wednesday 7-9 PM, at the Kerckhoff Art Gallery
The Word Open Mic seeks to celebrate the counter narrative nature of spoken word poetry, and its power to educate. We offer a platform for the stories of intersectionality to be listened to; especially in our current campus/society climate where conversations are more about comfort for the privileged than progress for the rest.

Professional poets will be featured in conjunction with student artists: Shasparay Lighteard, a nationally recognized TED Talk poet will perform to conclude the night. Her narrative as a unique black woman living in intersectionality is needed in our current campus climate.

Randy Weston's African Rhythms Trio
2016-09-29 19:00 - 2017-03-07 20:08
UCLA CELEBRATES NEA JAZZ MASTER RANDY WESTON’S 90TH BIRTHDAY WITH A FREE CONCERT
Thursday, September 29th, 2016
7:00pm
UCLA FOWLER MUSEUM,
LENART AUDITORIUM
THE YAMAHA CFX 9′ CONCERT GRAND PROVIDED COURTESY OF KEYBOARD CONCEPTS IN SHERMAN OAKS.
Co-Sponsored by The Friends of Jazz, Department of African American Studies, Gary B. Nash Chair, and Department of Music
RSVP HERE

2016 Black Convocation at UCLA
2016-10-04 17:00 - 19:00
Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA
presents
2016 Black Convocation at UCLA
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. In keeping with this year’s theme–“A1DAY1”–the event will be an evening full of Bruin pride, providing encouragement, anecdotes about the past, and a glimpse of the future from UCLA faculty, staff, and alumni dedicated to supporting all students.
The 2016 Black Convocation, “A1DAY1” will be held in Haines Hall. A Reception will begin at 5:00 pm in Haines 153 & Haines North Patio, with the Convocation Program immediately following from 6:15 pm to 7:30 pm, in Haines 220.
The Black Convocation is co-sponsored by the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies; the Department of African American Studies; the Black Alumni Association, the Academic Advancement Program; the Institute of American Cultures (IAC); IAC Development; the Division of Student Affairs; the UCLA Office of Residential Life, UCLA Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Black Graduate Students Association, and the Afrikan Student Union.
Register here
The Black Convocation and Reception are free and open to the public.
Parking ($8) is available (after 4:30pm) at the Pay Stations in Structure 2 (south entrance, levels 1 & 2) or Structure 3 (north entrance, levels 1-3). Enter the UCLA campus at Hilgard and Westholme avenues.
Map for Haines Hall & Parking: http://maps.ucla.edu/campus/
UCLA is smoke-free and tobacco-free. The use of cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco and all other tobacco products, as well as electronic cigarettes, will be prohibited on UCLA’s campus and at sites owned or fully leased by the university. For more information, please visit:https://ccle.ucla.edu/course/view/UCLA_tobacco_free_task_force.
NOTES: In case we reach capacity in Haines 220, a simulcast of the program will be provided in Haines 135 & 153. Please remember to sign in at the check-in table when arriving.

Film screening of the Netflix Documentary, 13th
2016-11-01 17:00 - 20:00
Film screening of the Netflix Documentary, 13th and Panel Discussion hosted by the Af-Am188A course “Abolition”

*pizza and refreshments to be served

November 1st, 2016 at Bunche Hall 2209A
5:00pm-7:50pm

Jordan T Camp on "Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State"
2016-11-28 12:00 - 13:00
INCARCERATING THE CRISIS: FREEDOM STRUGGLES AND THE RISE OF THE NEOLIBERAL STATE
JORDAN T. CAMP
Monday, November 28th, 2016
12:00pm in the Black Forum Room; Haines Hall 153
BOOK TALK: The United States currently has the largest prison population on the planet. Drawing from his new book, Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State (University of California Press, 2016), Jordan T. Camp will trace the roots of the carceral crisis through a series of turning points in U.S. history, beginning with the urban uprisings of the 1960s and terminating with the policing crisis of 2014-2016. Through an examination of these dramatic instances of racial criminalization and state violence, he will suggest the making of the neoliberal carceral state was not inevitable and that alternative outcomes have been and continue to be possible.

Jordan T. Camp is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Race and Ethnicity and International and Public Affairs at Brown University. He is the author of Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State (University of California Press, 2016), co-editor (with Christina Heatherton) of Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Verso Books, 2016), and co-editor (with Laura Pulido) of Clyde A. Woods’ Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans (University of Georgia Press, forthcoming). He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Emancipation & Empire: Africa and the Project of Black Studies
2016-12-05 12:00 - 14:00
Emancipation & Empire: Africa and the Project of Black Studies
Black Forum at the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA
153 Haines Hall
Mondays, 12:00pm-2:00pm
All workshops will be based on a pre-circulated paper. Hardcopies are available at the African Studies Center, the Department of African American Studies, and the Ralph J. Bunche Center.
For more information contact: Eboni Shaw: eshaw@afam.ucla.edu
Workshops:
December 5th, 2016: Alden H Young, Africana Studies and History, Drexel University
January 23rd, 2017: Maboula Soumahoro, English, Université François-Rabelais, Tours-Bennington College
February 27th, 2017: Monique Bedasse, History and African American Studies, Washington University
March 13th, 2017: Tshepo Masango Chéry, African & African Diasporas Studies, University of Texas at Austin
April 24th, 2017: Siba N’Zatioula Grovogui, Africana Studies, Cornell University
May 8th, 2017: E. Kwame Otu, Carter G. Woodson Center for African-American and African Studies, University of Virginia
Emancipation & Empire is cosponsored by:
Professor Melvin L. Rogers, the Scott Waugh Chair in the Division of Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science and African American Studies; UC Consortium for Black Studies in California; James S. Coleman African Studies Center; Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA.

Praxis Center: An Online Resource Center for Radicals
2017-01-25 12:00 - 14:00
Praxis Center: An Online Resource Center for Radicals
DR. LISA BROCK
Wednesday, January 25th, 2017
12:00pm-2:00pm
UCLA CNSI Auditorium
Reception will follow with food & drinks
Join Dr. Lisa Brock, founder and senior editor of Praxis Center, an online resource for scholars, activists and artists to teach, to learn and to deepen our analysis of what is and what is to be done! Dr. Brock, will talk about the inspiration for Praxis Center, how it was developed, and lead participants in a short writing workshop on how to write for the people.
Lisa Brock (aka Doc Brock) is the Academic Director of the Arcus Center of Social Justice Leadership at Kalamazoo College, where she has worked to infuse social justice into Liberal Arts Education. Her writings on Africa and the African Diaspora have appeared in dozens of academic journals, political outlets, book chapters and the groundbreaking book, Between Race and Empire: African-Americans and Cubans Before the Cuban Revolution. Lisa is currently Co-Chair of the Board Trustees of the Davis Putter Scholarship Fund and senior editor of Praxis Center, an online blog and resource center for scholars, activists and artists. A rebel all her life, Lisa fought for girls’ rights and Black rights while growing up in her native Cincinnati, Ohio area and against police violence and judicial misconduct in Washington D.C. while an undergraduate. She became a leader in the anti-apartheid movement while in graduate school in Chicago and lived in Mozambique as a Fulbright Scholar where she critically merged her academic interest with southern African liberation struggles. She worked to found the Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement Collection at Columbia College Chicago (CCC) and to endow an international travel scholarship for students involved in African-American Studies. She has also led study abroad programs for faculty, students and activist to South Africa and Cuba. As an historian and justice leader, Lisa is an internationalist who views history as a way to enter contemporary discussions about race, class, gender, and global inequalities. Lisa attended Oberlin College and earned her B.A. from Howard University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in African History from Northwestern University.

Insurgency at the Crossroads: A Book Talk by AISHA FINCH
2017-01-26 16:00 - 18:00
In Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba: La Escalera and the Insurgencies of 1841-1844, Aisha Finch traces the emergence of a dynamic resistance movement of slaves and free people of color in nineteenth-century Cuba. Drawing from the largely unexplored testimonies in the Cuban National Archive, this book focuses attention on the hundreds of enslaved people who forged a radical, alternative vision of freedom in Cuba’s plantation countryside. Demonstrating that black slave women and non-elite slaves were critical to shaping and organizing this movement, Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba offers new ways to think about slave mobilizations, black political struggles, and histories of rebellion.
Respondents: George Lipsitz, UC Santa Barbara, Department of Black Studies Ula Taylor, UC Berkeley, Department of African American Studies Lisa Brock, Kalamazoo College, Department of History Co-sponsored by: The Departments of African American Studies and Gender Studies

Film at REDCAT Presents "The Murder of Fred Hampton: The Struggle Continues"
2017-01-29 19:00 - 21:00
FILM AT REDCAT PRESENTS
The Murder of Fred Hampton: The Struggle Continues
The landmark documentary The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971, 88 min.), by Howard Alk and Michael Gray, is a testament to Black activism and a chilling record of covert police and FBI actions. Begun to portray the activities of the Chicago branch of the Black Panther Party and its dynamic young leader, Fred Hampton, the film becomes a passionate, clear-eyed response to Hampton’s brutal assassination by police later that year. “Hampton’s killing was the gravest domestic crime of the Nixon administration,” Noam Chomsky has said.
The screening is followed by a panel discussion with artist Sam Durant, activist and educator Ericka Huggins, and UCLA scholar Robin Kelley.
Curated by Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud as part of the Jack H. Skirball Series.
“The charismatic chair of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party accomplished a great deal before he was cut down at the age of 21. Hampton headed the Chicago chapter of the Panthers, where he formed a multiracial “rainbow coalition” of organizations, including Students for a Democratic Society, the Blackstone Rangers street gang, and a Puerto Rican organization known as the National Young Lords. He also started a community service program that included a free breakfast program for children and a free medical clinic, and held political education classes.
And under his leadership, the Chicago Black Panthers monitored the police and looked out for instances of police brutality. Most of all, Fred Hampton brokered a truce among Chicago’s major street gangs…
…Hampton struggled against the same problems Black America faces today, and lost his life for it. His life mattered.”
-David A. Love, theGrio

The Filmmakers
Filmmakers Mike Gray and Howard Alk were already shooting a portrait of this charismatic speaker and community organizer when his murder occurred. Arriving at the crime scene only a few hours after the police raid, the unsettling footage they captured was later used to contradict news reports and police testimony in what many believe to be Hampton’s assassination. Alk and Gray collaborated on several other documentary filmswith Gray’s Production Company, The Film Group. The twoproduced American Revolution II (1969) and the seven part educational series Urban Crisis and the New Militants, both works dealing with the race related social turmoil in Chicago at the time.

The Panelists
Sam Durant is a multimedia artist whose works engage a variety of social, political, and cultural issues. Often referencing American history, his work explores the varying relationships between culture and politics, engaging subjects as diverse as the civil rights movement, southern rock music, and modernism. He has had solo museum exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium and the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Zealand. His work has been included in the Panamá, Sydney, Venice and Whitney Biennales. His work has been extensively written about including seven monographic catalogs and books. In 2006 edited a comprehensive monograph on Black Panther artist Emory Douglas’ work. His recent curatorial credits include Eat the Market at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Black Panther: the Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the New Museum in New York. He was a finalist for the 2008 Hugo Boss Prize and his work can be found in many public collections including The Art Gallery of Western Australia in Perth, Tate Modern in London, Project Row Houses in Houston and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Durant teaches art at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California.
Ericka Huggins is an educator, Black Panther Party member, former political prisoner, ally and poet. For 35 years, Ericka has lectured in the United States, and internationally, Restorative Justice practices and, the role of spiritual practice in creating and sustaining social change. In 2016, in recognition of the 50th Anniversary of the Black Panther Party, Ericka speaks about the importance of inclusive grassroots movements. From 2011 through 2015 Ericka was professor of Sociology and African American Studies in the Peralta Community College District. At Merritt College, home of the Black Panther Party, she co-created and taught a course, “The Black Panther Party-Strategies for Organizing The People”.

Robin Kelley is Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research has explored the history of social movements in the U.S., the African Diaspora, and Africa; black intellectuals; poverty studies and ethnography; colonialism/imperialism; organized labor; and constructions of race. Kelley’s essays have appeared in the Journal of American History, African Studies Review, New York Times Magazine, Utne Reader, New Labor Forum, and Counterpunch. Kelly has written several books, including: Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, and Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original. His most recent book, Africa Speaks, America Answers!: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times, examines the lives of four artists and the groups they led during the age of African decolonization.
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"From South Africa to Donald Trump's America: A Comparative Perspective" with XOLELA MANGCU, University of Cape Town
2017-02-02 14:00 - 16:00
Free and open to the public!
Co-sponsored by the UCLA African Studies Center, Office of the Vice Chancellor of Equity, Diversity,
and Inclusion, the Dean of Social Sciences, the Department of African American Studies, the
Department of History, and the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies

Melina Abdullah: Information, Access, Activism
2017-02-09 15:00 - 17:00
Melina Abdullah: Information, Access, Politics. A discussion brought to you by the UCLA Information studies department’s diversity council.
Closest parking available in Lot #3. Reception to follow in the GSE&IS Building 2nd Floor Grand Salon.
Registration Required! Click here

Diasporic Dreams, African Nation-State Realities Rastafarian Repatriation to Tanzania
2017-02-27 12:00 - 14:00
As part of the series Emancipation & Empire: Africa and the Project of Black Studies,
the Department of African American Studies at UCLA presents
Diasporic Dreams, African Nation-State Realities
Rastafarian Repatriation to Tanzania
Monique Bedasse
Departments of History and African American Studies
Washington University in St. Louis
Respondent: Marcus Anthony Hunter, Sociology and African American Studies, UCLA
Monday, February 27, 2017
12:00pm-2:00pm
Black Forum at the Ralph J. Bunche Center
153 Haines Hall
Professor Bedasse’s workshop is part of Emancipation & Empire, a year long series examining the role and status of Africa within the disciplinary project of Black Studies. Workshops are based on a pre-circulated paper. Hardcopies are available at the African Studies Center, the Department of African American Studies, and the Ralph J. Bunche Center.
For more information contact: Eboni Shaw: eshaw@afam.ucla.edu
Emancipation & Empire: Africa and the Project of Black Studies is cosponsored by Professor Melvin L. Rogers, the Scott Waugh Chair in the Division of Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science and African American Studies; UC Consortium for Black Studies in California; James S. Coleman African Studies Center; Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA.

Uri McMillan: Author Meets Critic
2017-03-06 16:00 - 2017-03-07 17:00
In Celebration of Professor Uri McMillan’s multiple award-winning book
Embodied Avatars:
Genealogies of Black Feminist Art & Performance

Featuring Guest Speakers:
Amber Musser, Washington University
Jessica Johnson, Johns Hopkins
Patrick Anderson, UC, Irvine
Josh Chambers-Letson, Northwestern University
Roy Perez, Willamette University
Jayna Brown, UC, Riverside

Film Screening of: BaddDDD, Sonia Sanchez
2017-03-13 16:00 - 19:00
Screening will be followed by a Discussion with Dr. Sonia Sanchez + Book Signing and Reception.
All are Welcome!

What It Iz! The Spokenwordical
2017-03-17 - 2017-03-18
A fusion of traditional musical theatre, hip-hop, and spoken-word poetics, this “spokenwordical” is inspired by the 1975 musical The Wiz. What It Iz is a journey of self-discovery from the birth of hip-hop through the social and political corruption that fuels the current incarceration epidemic. Poignant and humorous, mesmerizing and musical, come see What It Iz!
To RSVP: what-it-iz.eventbrite.com
Suggested Donations
General Admission: $20 per ticket
Groups of 5 or more: $10 per ticket
To donate to the UCLA Department of African American Studies, please visit:
https://giving.ucla.edu/campaign/Donate.aspx?SiteNum=515

Winston C. Doby Distinguished Lecture featuring U.S. House of Representative John Lewis
2017-04-10 11:30 - 14:00
Monday, April 10th, 2017
11:30pm-1:00pm
UCLA Royce Hall
The UCLA Academic Advancement Program Proudly Presents
The 5th Annual
Winston C. Doby Distinguished Lecture
featuring
THE HONORABLE JOHN LEWIS
United States House of Representatives
Tickets are free of charge
Available from the UCLA Central Ticket Office in person or by phone (310) 825-2101
Click Here for More Information

Obsesion Cuban Hip Hop Duo In Residence at UCLA
2017-04-12 15:00 - 2017-04-13 17:00
Obsesion- Cuban Hip Hop DuoIn Residence at UCLA
Wednesday-Thursday, April 12-13

Wednesday, April 12, 3-5 p.m
Cuban Hip Hop: Desde el principio [From the beginning]
Schoenberg Music Building, Room 1100 (Schoenberg Auditorium)
Documentary screening followed by a Q&A with Obsesion and filmmaker Vanessa Díaz (Visiting researcher at Chicano Studies Research Center)
Co-sponsor: Department of Ethnomusicology

Thursday, April 13, 5-7 p.m
Public Conversation with Obsesion on Hip Hop, Race, and Gender
Powell Library Rotunda
Moderated by Aisha Finch, UCLA Professor of African American Studies and Gender Studies
Translation by Vanessa Díaz, Visiting researcher at Chicano Studies Research Center
Refreshments provided

One of the most well-respected and longest-running hip hop groups in Cuba, Obsesion was formed in 1996 by Magia López and Alexey “el tipo este” Rodriguez. They’ve performed with the likes of The Roots, and their fan base includes Harry Belafonte, Mos Def, and Afrika Bambaata. They also form part of the collective Club del Espendru, which empowers Afrocuban culture and business in Havana. Co-sponsor: Latin American Institute, Program on Caribbean Studies, Dept. of Gender Studies, Chicano Studies Research Center
Admission to both events is free; no reservations are required. For more information, email tksangwand@library.ucla.edu #UCObsesion

Emancipation and Empire Series: Professor Siba N'Zatioula Grovogui
2017-04-24 12:00 - 14:00
Emancipation & Empire: Africa and the Project of Black Studies presents
Professor Siba N’Zatioula Grovogui
Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University
at the Black Forum at the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies; UCLA 153 Haines Hall
Monday, April 24th, 2017
12:00pm-2:00pm
All workshops will be based on a pre-circulated paper. Hardcopies are available at the African Studies Center, the Department of African American Studies, and the Ralph J. Bunche Center.
For more information contact: Eboni Shaw: eshaw@afam.ucla.edu

Emancipation and Empire Series: Professor E. Kwame Otu
2017-05-08 12:00 - 14:00
Emancipation & Empire: Africa and the Project of Black Studies presents
Professor E. Kwame Otu
Carter G. Woodson Center for African-American and African Studies, University of Virginia
at the Black Forum at the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies; UCLA 153 Haines Hall
Monday, May 8th, 2017
12:00pm-2:00pm
All workshops will be based on a pre-circulated paper. Hardcopies are available at the African Studies Center, the Department of African American Studies, and the Ralph J. Bunche Center.
For more information contact: Eboni Shaw: eshaw@afam.ucla.edu

A Talk with Richard C. Brown: From Appalachia to the Academy
2017-05-09 15:30 - 17:00
A Talk with Richard C. Brown:
From Appalachia to the Academy
Join us in a colloquia to hear Richard C. Brown speak about his experience growing up black in Appalachia during the Civil Rights Era, his journey migrating to New York during the height of the African-American Great Migration, and his experience collaborating with his daughter, Professor Karida L. Brown (UCLA Sociology), on her research project on the African American experience in and through central Appalachia.

Date: Tuesday, May 9th, 2017
Time: 3:30-5pm
Location: Public Affairs, 1234
Moderated by: Robin D. G. Kelley and Karida L. Brown
(light refreshments served)
