UCLA Department of African American Studies

Where Do We Go From Here? Preserving Los Angeles's Black Business History
2019-03-14 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Where Do We Go From Here? Preserving Los Angeles’s Black Business History
Thursday, March 14th, 2019
1:00pm-3:00pm
Charles E. Young Research Library, Main Conference Room
What does the history of black entrepreneurship add to our understanding of black communities, politics, and economic life?
This roundtable brings together long-term business owners who were interviewed for the UCLA Center for Oral History Research’s recent interview series “Where Do We Go From Here? Histories of Long-Term Black Business Ownership, Community, and Family in Los Angeles County.” They’ll discuss the challenges and opportunities for black businesses, their own business strategies, and the contributions black businesses make to the larger African American community. They’ll also reflect on how black businesses might be documented and how oral history can contribute to those efforts.
RSVP HERE: lablackbusiness.eventbrite.com
Moderator: Yolanda Hester is a researcher and writer whose work has focused on public histories in Los Angeles’ African American community. She was the interviewer for the Center for Oral History Research’s series on black business ownership in Los Angeles County. Most recently, she has worked with the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and the William Grant Still Art Center researching and editing a project celebrating the forty-year history of the center’s Black Doll Show and is also collaborating on a project documenting the history of Operation Bootstrap and Shindana Toys, two organizations that grew out of the Watts Rebellion. She received her master’s degree in African American studies from UCLA.
Roundtable participants:
Vivian Bowers: Third-generation owner of Bowers & Sons Cleaners, a family business that has been in operation since the 1940s.
Carl Dickerson: Founder of Dickerson Employment Benefits, an insurance company that has been in existence since 1965.
Gregory Dulan: Second-generation restauranteur and owner of soul food restaurant Dulan’s on Crenshaw.
Kim L. Hunter: Founder of Lagrant Communications, a marketing communications agency, and Lagrant Foundation, a nonprofit that promotes diversity in the advertising, marketing, and public relations fields.
Gail Taylor: Third-generation owner of Woods Valentine Mortuary, which has been in operation since 1928.
William Taylor: Founder of A+ Moving, a moving and storage company founded in the early 1970s.

Free LA: The New Frontier of Abolition?
2019-03-14 19:00 - 21:00
We are excited to announce a performance and public dialogue with Bryonn Bain, the creator and lead performer of the award-winning “Lyrics from Lockdown.” The event, “Free LA: The New Frontier of Abolition?” will be held Thurs, 7-9pm at the California African American Museum. See you there!

Gender, Slavery, and Freedom
2019-03-15 09:30 - 15:30

Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace: From Watts to Detroit
2019-03-24 - 2019-03-25
“Aretha Franklin’s Amazing Grace: From Watts to Detroit”
Sunday, March 24th, 2019 | 4:30pm-7:30pm
Screening of “Amazing Grace” and Discussion
Monday, March 25th, 2019 | 10:00am-4:30pm
Discussions, Music & Celebration
Aretha Franklin’s Amazing Grace: From Watts to Detroit is a two-day event held on the Queen of Soul’s 77th birthday. The event will reflect on the influence and impact of Aretha Franklin’s groundbreaking gospel album, “Amazing Grace,” recorded in Los Angeles with the late Reverend James Cleveland and The Southern California Community Choir in 1972. This event will not only look at this historic recording but also celebrate the legacy and genius that is Ms. Aretha Franklin. We bring together world-renowned scholars, artists, and community members to acknowledge Aretha Franklin’s global impact, featuring one-of-a-kind discussions, presentations, and a celebratory reception.
SCHEDULE:
Sunday, March 24th, 2019 | 4:30pm-7:30pm at the California NanoSystems Institute Auditorium
4:30pm-5:00pm | Welcome
Scott L. Waugh, UCLA Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost
Commissioner Mike Davis, Board of Public Works Commission President Pro-Tem
5:00pm-6:30pm | Screening of “Amazing Grace”
6:30pm-7:30pm | “Amazing Grace” Discussion
Kimberlé Crenshaw, Columbia Law School and UCLA Law School
Lynnée Denise, DJ Scholar
Salamishah Tillet, Rutgers University- Newark
Scot Brown, UCLA
Monday, March 25th, 2019 | 10:00am-4:30pm at the California NanoSystems Institute Auditorium
10:00am-10:15am | Welcome
Darnell M. Hunt, UCLA Dean of Social Sciences
David Schaberg, UCLA Dean of Humanities
Lynnée Denise & Marcus Anthony Hunter
10:15am-11:15am | Opening Keynote
Ed Pavlic, University of Georgia
11:15am-12:30pm | How Sweet the Sound: Blues Ministry & Black Power
Moderator: Wade Dean, UCLA
Ashon T. Crawley, University of Virginia
Fredara Hadley, Oberlin College & Conservatory
Shana Redmond, UCLA
Zandria F. Robinson, Georgetown University
12:30pm-1:15pm | Lunch & Music by DJ Tracy Adams
1:15pm-1:20pm | Remarks by Kyle T. Mays, UCLA
1:20pm-2:30pm | The Soul Print: Music, Place, & Albums
Moderator: Dominique Rocker, UCLA
Emily J. Lordi, UMass Amherst
Lynnée Denise, DJ Scholar
Marcus Anthony Hunter, UCLA
Mark Anthony Neal, Duke University
2:30pm-2:40pm | Remarks
Jessica Care Moore, Poet, Activist & Producer
Oliver Wang, Cal State Long Beach
2:40pm-3:40pm | Closing Keynote
Jessica Care Moore, Poet, Activist & Producer
Joi Gilliam, Singer & Songwriter
3:45pm-4:30pm | Closing Reception
arethafranklin.eventbrite.com
Important Notice:
This event is oversold. Please keep in mind that your RSVP does not guarantee you a seat; seating is first-come, first-served for those that RSVP’d.
If you can’t make it to the event on Monday, March 25th, you’re still in luck – we will be Live-Streaming the event all-day on the Department of African American Studies YouTube channel.
The link is below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV7X3rTXFfI

Parking
Parking will be available in Structure 8 for $12.00 (all day) by Pay-By-Space.
There will also be limited parking available in Structure 9 for $12 (all day) only through the PARKMOBILE app.
For more information on parking, https://transportation.ucla.edu/campus-parking/visitors

Other
Please note that tripods, monopods, food and beverages are not allowed inside the auditorium.
Please email triciapark@afam.ucla.edu for any questions/concerns.

A Reading with Roxane Gay
2019-04-02 12:00 - 13:00
A Reading with Roxane Gay

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019
12:00pm-1:00pm
Black Forum Room, Haines 153
(lunch will be provided)

Roxane Gay’s writing appears in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018, Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, Harper’s Bazaar, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. She is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist, the nationally bestselling Difficult Women and New York Times bestselling Hunger: A Memoir of My Body. She is also the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel and the editor of Best American Short Stories 2018. She is currently at work on film and television projects, a book of writing advice, an essay collection about television and culture, and a YA novel entitled The Year I Learned Everything. In 2018, she won a Guggenheim fellowship.

A Reading with Roxane Gay
2019-04-02 12:00 - 13:00
We would like to invite you to a reading by critically acclaimed writer, editor, and commentator Roxane Gay. She has written numerous bestsellers such as “Bad Feminist.”, “Difficult Women.”, and “Hunger, a Memoir of my Body.” Come through on April 2nd, from 12-1pm in Haines Hall 153.

Exclusive Screening & Conversation of "THE RED LINE"
2019-04-25 18:00 - 20:30
The Department of African American Studies and the Warner Bros. Television & CBS Television Network
Presents
AN EXCLUSIVE SCREENING AND CONVERSATION OF
“THE RED LINE”

Thursday, April 25th, 2019
6:00pm-8:30pm
Door Opens at 5:30pm (seating on a first come, first served basis)
UCLA Fowler Museum, Lenart Auditorium | 308 Charles E Young Dr. N
Event is Free and Open to All
The Red Line follows the lives of three vastly different Chicago families whose stories of loss and tragedy intersect in the wake of the shooting of an African-American doctor by a white cop. As the stories of the Calder, Young and Evans families converge, a message of hope appears — it’s possible to emerge from tragedy stronger, and it’s important to come together with others in an effort not only to survive, but to thrive. Academy Award®, Golden Globe® and Emmy Award® nominee Ava DuVernay serves as executive producer.
Watch the Trailer Here
Following the exclusive screening of the first two episodes, the cast – Emayatzy Corinealdi (Middle of Nowhere), Noah Wyle (ER), and Aliyah Royale (War Paint), and director Victoria Mahoney (Star Wars:Episode IX) will join Dean of Social Sciences Darnell Hunt, Professor Karida Brown, and Professor Marcus Anthony Hunter for an intimate conversation.
RSVP HERE:
TheRedLinexUCLA.eventbrite.com

Special Advance Screening of 'Bolden'
2019-05-01 18:00
Special Advance Screening of
Bolden
Where the Music Began

Wednesday, May 1st, 2019
6:00PM
Landmark’s Regent Theater | 1045 Broxton Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90024
BOLDEN, an upcoming drama directed by Dan Pritzker, imagines the compelling, powerful and tragic journey of Buddy Bolden, the unsung American hero who invented Jazz. With little biographical information known and no found recordings of his music, the film’s narrative comprises fragmented memories of his past, against the political and social context in which his revolutionary music was conceived.
Starring Gary Carr as Bolden with original music written, arranged and performed by Wynton Marsalis, BOLDEN invites you to experience a world fueled by passion, greed and musical genius, in early 1900s New Orleans. The film co-stars Erik LaRay Harvey, Yaya DaCosta, Ian McShane and Michael Rooker.
Watch the Trailer Here
Bolden is Rated R • In Theaters May 3
boldenmovie.com #boldenmovie @boldenmovie
Bolden soundtrack available now on Blue Engine Records

RSVP HERE

Book Celebration with Kyle T. Mays "Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes"
2019-05-16 12:00 - 14:00
Book Celebration with Kyle T. Mays
Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes
Modernity and Hip Hop in Indigenous North America

Expressive culture has always been an important part of the social, political, and economic lives of Indigenous people. More recently, Indigenous people have blended expressive cultures with hip hop culture, creating new sounds, aesthetics, movements, and ways of being Indigenous. This book documents recent developments among the Indigenous hip hop generation. Meeting at the nexus of hip hop studies, Indigenous studies, and critical ethnic studies, ‘Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes’ argues that Indigenous people use hip hop culture to assert their sovereignty and challenge settler colonialism. From rapping about land and water rights from Flint to Standing Rock, to remixing “traditional” beading with hip hop aesthetics, Indigenous people are using hip hop to challenge their ongoing dispossession, disrupt racist stereotypes and images of Indigenous people, contest white supremacy and heteropatriarchy, and reconstruct ideas of a progressive masculinity. In addition, this book carefully traces the idea of authenticity; that is, the common notion that, by engaging in a Black culture, Indigenous people are losing their “traditions.” Indigenous hip hop artists navigate the muddy waters of the “politics of authenticity” by creating art that is not bound by narrow conceptions of what it means to be Indigenous; instead, they flip the notion of “tradition” and create alternative visions of what being Indigenous means today, and what that might look like going forward.
‘Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes’ is a finalist for the Native American & Indigenous Studies Association’s Best First Book Prize

Department of African American Studies Commencement Celebration 2019
2019-06-15 11:30 - 13:00
Congratulations! The faculty and staff of the Department of African American Studies are looking forward to sharing this wonderful occasion with you.
Date: Saturday, June 15, 2019
Time: 11:30 A.M.
Location: Fowler Museum, Lenart Auditorium
Ticket Information:

Students may request up to 4 complimentary tickets for the Department of African American Studies Ceremony.
An additional four tickets per student are available at $12.00/each.
You should ONLY order tickets for your guests – you do not need a ticket for yourself.
Depending on how many tickets are ordered by all students, there may be extras available. If you would like additional tickets to the ceremony, please e-mail staff@afam.ucla.edu with your name, I.D.# and the number of EXTRA tickets you need (outside of what is ordered online).
Tickets are ordered through MyUCLA for college and departmental graduation ceremonies.
All ticket sales are final. No refunds will be issued for unused tickets.

Parking:

We strongly encourage our guests to take LYFT/UBER to avoid the crowded parking areas on campus. For LYFT and UBER please use the following address to be dropped off close to Fowler Museum, 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095.
You can pre-purchase parking passes for your guests. The UCLA Central Ticket Office will sell pre-paid Commencement parking permits beginning in May ($12 per permit). The UCLA Central Ticket Office is open from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, Monday-Friday.
The closest parking structure to our venue is Parking Structure 4.
Students or guests with disabilities should contact the Center for Accessible Education (310) 825-1501 voice; (310) 206-6083 TDD, to receive information about parking and other assistance.

On Commencement Day:

Graduates are requested to arrive in front of the Fowler Museum, Lenart Auditorium in African regalia for check-in at 10:30am. Please be on time.
Seating is unreserved. Doors will open at 11:00am.
The ceremony will start promptly at 11:30pm and is expected to last about an hour and half.
Graduates will be asked to sit together in a separate section.
Graduates, their friends, and family are requested to dress in all white.

Please contact the Department of African American Studies staff for any questions: staff@afam.ucla.edu

The Intersection: Woke Black Folk
2019-08-09 20:00 - 22:00
THE INTERSECTION
Woke Black Folk
Friday, August 9th, 2019
Skirball Cultural Center
8:00 pm
Buy Tickets HERE

Nigerian American scholar, playwright, artist, and performer Funmilola Fagbamila presents a spoken word theater piece that explores and deconstructs black political identity. While demonstrating the deep differences and divides within black communities, this one-woman show also calls into question the partisanship and groupthink that often inform discussions about social justice in these times. Called “timely, brilliant, and necessary” by Angela Davis, The Intersection is a story about how humans navigate difference.

3rd Annual Ethnic & Indigenous Studies Welcome
2019-10-01 16:00 - 18:00
3rd Annual
Ethnic & Indigenous Studies Welcome
October 1st, 2019
4:00pm-6:00pm
Rolfe Hall Courtyard
Explore African American Studies, Asian American Studies, American Indian Studies, Chicana/o Studies, Gender Studies, Labor Studies and more at our event.
Enjoy food, music, giveaways with fellow students, faculty, and staff.
Learn how your Ethnic & Indigenous Studies fits into your UCLA experience and beyond.

RSVP HERE:
EIS2019.eventbrite.com

Black Convocation 2019
2019-10-09 17:00 - 20:00
Black Convocation 2019
Wednesday, October 9th, 2019
5:00pm-8:00pm
Palisades Room, Carnesale Commons at UCLA

Join us for the 2019 Black Convocation event at UCLA! Good food, live entertainment, and a welcoming community. We hope to see you there!

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, staff, and alumni dedicated to supporting all students.
The Black Convocation is free and open to the public.
Maps & directions. Parking can be purchased at Parking Structure Sunset Village (SV).
The 2019 Black Convocation at UCLA was organized by the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, UCLA Department of African American Studies, UCLA Black Alumni Association (UBAA), Office of Residential Life (ORL), Afrikan Student Union (ASU), UCLA Career Center, UCLA Black Graduate Student Association (BGSA), and the Academic Advancement Program (AAP).

CLICK HERE TO RSVP

Join Ignite at UCLA!
2019-10-09 18:00 - 19:00
Interested in how you can be more politically involved? Come to the first meeting of Ignite at UCLA, where young college women can be provided opportunities to improve their community through political activism!

On the Matter of Blackness in Europe: Transnational Perspectives
2019-10-10 - 2019-10-11
A Two-Day Symposium
On the Matter of Blackness in Europe: Transnational Perspectives
Thursday, October 10th, 2019 and Friday, October 11th, 2019
UCLA Charles E. Young Grand Salon (Kerckhoff Hall)
(308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095)
CLICK HERE TO RSVP
“On the Matter of Blackness in Europe: Transnational Perspectives” is a two-day international symposium taking place at UCLA on October 10-11, 2019. The symposium seeks to dismantle the perceived homogeneity of Black transnational and anticolonial experiences by attending to how various struggles for Black lives unfold. Scholars, artists, and activists will discuss articulations of relational Black solidarities and struggles for Black lives across Europe, foregrounding less-explored paradigms of Black formations, creations, improvisations, and struggles throughout Europe and beyond. Participants will engage with the lived experiences of Blackness and Black political struggles across various geopolitical sites and dynamic encounters within the European context. Further, this even will interrogate the power relations at work within academic scholarship that determines what becomes monolithically referred to as “Black Europe.” The symposium will feature a keynote address from Gloria Wekker (Utrecht University).
DAY 1 PROGRAM
9:00am Invocation/Welcome
9:30am-11:00am Panel One: Fugitive Memories, Black Spatialities | Moderated by Robin D.G. Kelley, UCLA

Raphaëlle Rabanes (Berkeley), “Resounding the Presence of the Ancestors: Guadeloupean Carnival, Movement Politics, and the Fraught Affirmation of a Black Caribbean TimeSpace”
Jamele Watkins (Stanford), “Anger and Silence: Black East German History”
Heather Merrill & Donald Carter (Hamilton), “Blackness Ascendant: Place, Loss, and Memory”

11:10am-12:40pm Panel Two: Black Movement Formations | Moderated by Margo Okazawa-Rey (Mills)

Pamela Ohene-Nyako (Geneva), “Internationalist Women of African Descent & Blackness, 1970-1985”
Oda-Kange Midtvåge Diallo (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), “Creating ‘Black’ Spaces – How African-Norwegian (Everyday) Activists Try to Build a Sustainable Community in Oslo”
Jean Beaman (UCSB), “Anti-Racism without Race: The Possibilities and Constraints of BlackLivesMatter in France”

12:45pm-2:00pm Lunch
2:10pm-3:40pm Panel Three: Speaking B(l)ack with/and the Archives | Moderated by Shelleen Greene, UCLA

Emma-Lee Amponsah (Ghent University), “Kreyolization: Resisting Assimilation Violences in Dutch and Flemish Education”
Esther Mugambi (Artist), “How Do You Observe a Stone That is About to Strike You?”
Jessica de Abreu (The Black Archives) and Mitchell Esajas (New Urban Collective), “The Black Archives: The Genealogy of Anti-Racism in the Netherlands”

3:45pm-4:00pm Coffee Break
4:00pm-5:30pm Panel Four: Black Poesis and Aesthetic Mediations in Europe | Moderated by Eddie Bruce-Jones, Birkbeck)

Jeannette Oholi (Gießen), “Negotiating Blackness in Contemporary Afro-German Poetry”
Tonica Hunter & Adia Trischler (Artist Collective), “SERIES: BLACK”
Bam Willoughby (Cornell), Notes On Livability: Being Alive in the Aegean Coast of Turkey

5:30pm Closing Remarks:Gaye Theresa Johnson, UCLA
DAY 2 PROGRAM
9:00am-10:30am Panel Five: Subverting Stages and Spaces | Moderated by Ugo F. Edu, UCLA

Mélanie Pétrémont (Geneva), “Laughing Back at Racism and Whiteness in Europe”
Jeannette Ehlers (Artist) & Elizabeth Löwe Hunter (Berkeley), “The Aftermath of Danish Colonialism”

10:40am-12:10pm Panel Six: Racialized Knowledges | Moderated by Yasemin Yildiz, UCLA

Gian-Louis Hernandez (Università della Svizzera italiana), “Black European PhD Students: An Affective Inquiry”
Zavier Wingham (NYU), “‘Eating the Other’: Metaphors of the Racialized Body in Turkey”
Tiffany Florvil (New Mexico), “Black German Cultural Interventions in the Magazine afro look”

12:15pm-1:30pm Lunch
1:45pm-3:15pm Borderscapes, Colonial Memories, and Policing the Crisis | Felice Blake, UCSB

Furat Abdulle, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Eddie Bruce-Jones, Birkbeck School of Law
SA Smythe, UCLA
Vanessa E. Thompson, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

3:15pm-3:30pm Break
3:30pm-4:45pm Keynote Speaker: Gloria Wekker (Utrecht)
5:00pm-5:30pm Thinking Black Studies in/and Europe: Closing Reflections with Marcus Anthony Hunter, UCLA5:30pm-6:30pm Reception

“On the Matter of Blackness in Europe: Transnational Perspectives” is sponsored by the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI); the UCLA Dept. of African American Studies, the UCLA Dept. of European Languages and Transcultural Studies; UCLA Dean of Humanities; UCLA Dean of Social Sciences; the Institute on Inequality and Democracy; the Center for the Study of Women; the Center for the Study of Religion; the UCLA Dept. of Anthropology, the UCLA Dept. of Gender Studies, the UCLA Dept. of Geography, the UCLA Dept. of History, the UCLA Dept. of Philosophy, the UCLA Dept. of Sociology, and the UCLA Theater Department.
Co-Organized by SA Smythe (UCLA) and Vanessa Thompson (Goethe University Frankfurt)
FAQs
What are my transportation/parking options for getting to and from the event?
The event will be held on the UCLA campus at Kerckhoff Grand Salon (308 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095). We recommend parking at Parking Structure 4 for $13.00 (all day) by Pay-By-Space. According to the UCLA Map, Parking Structure 4’s address is 221 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA. Please go to the UCLA Visitor Parking page for more details.
Is there reserved seating?
No. Seats are available on a first come first serve basis.

127th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture by Brenda Stevenson
2019-10-30 15:00 - 17:00
The Los Angeles Division of the Academic Senate of the University of California cordially invites you to attend the
127th UCLA FACULTY RESEARCH LECTURE:
“Gifts of the Storyteller”
by Brenda E. Stevenson

Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Lecture at 3:00 p.m.
Schoenberg Hall, UCLA Schoenberg Music Building

Reception immediately following
RSVP for the reception by Wednesday, October 23, 2019
RSVP

Inquiries: (310) 794-3272
uclarsvp@specialevents.ucla.edu

“Locking Up Our Own,” a Luskin Lecture and Book Discussion by James Forman Jr.
2019-11-07 18:00 - 20:00
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs presents
“Locking Up Our Own,”
a Luskin Lecture and Book Discussion by James Forman Jr.

Thursday, November 7, 2019
Time: 6:00-8:00pm
California African American Museum (CAAM)
600 State Drive, Los Angeles
James Forman, Jr., author of “Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America,” will discuss his critically acclaimed 2017 book which explores how decisions made by black leaders — often with the best of intentions — contributed to disproportionately incarcerating black and brown people. His Washington Post bestseller was longlisted for the National Book Award and has been named a Best Book of the Year by numerous publications, including the New York Times, The Marshall Project, Publisher’s Weekly, and GQ Magazine. Forman, a graduate of Yale Law School, and former law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, now teaches constitutional law at Yale and the course “Race, Class, and Punishment.
*The UCLA Luskin Lecture Series enhances public discourse on topics relevant to the betterment of society. The Series features renowned public intellectuals, bringing together scholars as well as national and local leaders to address society’s most pressing problems. The Luskin Lecture series has included speakers such as journalist Jorge Ramos; Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson; Secretaries Leon Panetta, Anthony Foxx, and Madeline Albright; Governor Howard Dean; and Police Chief William J. Bratton.
RSVP required for admittance.
Admission is free, but registration is required for each attendee.
Transit: CAAM and Exposition Park are serviced by the Metro Expo Line in the light rail system. The station is Expo Park/USC.
Parking: CAAM is at the corner of Figueroa Street and Exposition Boulevard, just west of the 110 Freeway. Please note that our parking lot entrance is at 39th and Figueroa. Please put that cross section into your maps search or GPS device. Parking is $12 during the day. $15 after 5 pm. CASH ONLY.

"Burning Cane" Screening and Q&A
2019-11-10 19:00 - 23:00
Don’t miss out on the screening THIS SUNDAY of “Burning Cane.” at the James Bridges Theater from 7-11pm. Also included is a Q&A with the films director, Phillip Youmans!

"Urgent Care: Careers in Medicine and Health"
2019-11-12 16:00 - 17:30
“Urgent Care: Careers in Medicine and Health”
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
4:00pm -5:30pm
Career Center, Conference Room A/B (Third floor)

Interested in making a difference through Healthcare?
This panel will feature information on getting into the medical and health fields for Humanities and Social Science students.
Click Here for More Information

Presenting a Screening + Q&A of "Watergate, Or: How we learned to stop an out of control President"
2019-11-13 10:00 - 16:30
Oscar-winning Director Charles Ferguson (Inside Job, No End in Sight) is coming to TFT with his newest documentary film WATERGATE. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director in person. The documentary chronicles Watergate, one of the biggest criminal conspiracies in modern politics in the US. With the current political climate and the ongoing news about impeachment, this is a film that must not be missed.
Seats are extremely limited. Please RSVP using the website below by November 14th.
https://forms.gle/oaWi7ArR55nxD3ZY8

Regents Lecture with Artist, Charly Palmer
2019-11-19 16:00 - 17:30
UCLA REGENTS LECTURER
CHARLY PALMER
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
4:00pm-5:30pm
light reception to follow
Hershey Hall Grand Salon (South Campus)
801 Hilgard Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90095

This lecture series will consist of Charly Palmer discussing the role of the artisan in protest movements and how to uses ones art to not only communicate a feeling but directly impact the larger society.
Charly Palmer’s original artwork will be showcased in the foyer
RSVP HERE

IAC Fall Forum 2019
2019-11-20 15:00 - 17:00
IAC Fall Forum 2019
Wednesday, November 20th
3:00-5:00PM
James West Alumni Center, 325 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Join us in honoring the 2019-2020 IAC visiting scholars, graduate and predoctoral fellows, and research grant awardees! Reception, followed by conversations featuring IAC scholars. Learn about the research and scholarship that the IAC and the four ethnic studies research centers are supporting. Location: UCLA James West Alumni Center, 325 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles
RSVP HERE

CEC, BFS & Skoll Center Present: Just Mercy w/ Q&A
2019-12-05 19:00 - 20:00
Campus Events Commission, Bruin Film Society and the Skoll Center for Social Impact Entertainment are proud to present an early screening of
JUST MERCY
WHAT: A free advance screening of JUST MERCY plus a panel Q&A
WHEN: Thursday, December 5, at 7:00pm
WHERE: James Bridges Theater

FREE TICKETS HERE: https://tinyurl.com/vanurdg

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVQbeG5yW78

Winter Feast
2019-12-12 12:00 - 14:00
Winter Feast is a chance of us to come together as a community and take a moment to breathe, eat, drink, and listen to music.
RSVP here

Black on Both Sides Listening Party
2019-12-13 19:30 - 22:30
In this one-of-a-kind listening session, UCLA musicology professor Shana Redmond brings together critics, scholars, and musicians to reflect on the creativity and significance of the album Black on Both Sides by Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def). The album, which turns 20 this year, combines sonic complexity with lyrics that reflect the musician’s strong political beliefs and is consistently cited as one of the top ten hip-hop albums of all time. Redmond is joined by Sohail Daulatzai, film and media studies and African American studies professor at UC Irvine; emcee and comedian Open Mike Eagle; film and TV music supervisor Morgan Rhodes, co-host of Heat Rocks podcast; and DJ Lynnée Denise.
ATTENDING THIS PROGRAM?

Ticketing: This free program is not ticketed.
Parking: Parking is available under the museum. Rates are $7 for the first three hours with museum validation, and $3 for each additional 20 minutes, with a $20 daily maximum. There is a $7 flat rate after 6 p.m. on weekdays, and all day on weekends. Cash only.
Restaurant: Enjoy a meal or drink before or after the program at our restaurant Audrey. The restaurant is open 11 a.m.–11 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 11 a.m.–9 p.m. Sunday. Members and UCLA students receive 10% off.

Your Major, Your Destiny?
2020-01-27 17:30 - 19:00
Are you worried your major restricts the internship opportunities available to you? Are you wondering how to obtain an internship not typically associated with your major? Do people constantly ask you, “so, what are you going to do with that?”
If so, look no further! The UCLA Career Peers are proud to present the first installment of this year’s Internship-Meetup Series: Your Major, Your Destiny?? Come hear from a panel of UCLA students and alumni who majored in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences and obtained internships in diverse career fields, including tech, pharma, and business. In doing so, you’ll learn of the variety of career paths you can pursue after your undergraduate education.
The panel will be followed by audience Q&A and networking. All majors and years are welcome. There will be FREE food and drinks!
RSVP on Handshake and check out the event on Facebook!

Conversation and Book Signing with Morris Day
2020-01-30 19:00 - 21:00
Conversation and book signing with Morris Day, hosted by Dr. Scot Brown
January 30, 2020
7:00pm (Doors open at 6:30pm)
Book Signing and Reception to be held
Seats are on a first come, first serve basis
UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, Centennial Ballroom

RSVP HERE: morrisdayUCLA.eventbrite.com

Parking: Self-parking is available underneath the Luskin Conference Center and in UCLA Parking Structure 8, Level 4, directly across the street from the Center.
Book Sale: Morris Day’s “On Time: A Princely Life in Funk” will be sold at the event.

Transnational Legal Discourse on Race and Empire
2020-01-31 09:00 - 18:00
We are excited to announce a symposium hosted by the UCLA Law Review. The Symposium brings together perspectives from scholars in Critical Race Theory and Third World Approaches to International Law to provide an interdisciplinary approach to tackling current international legal issues, with particular focus on Migration, SocioEconomic Equality, and Emergencies.
If you are interested in attending, you can RSVP here

E. Patrick Johnson discusses his new book "Honeypot" with Osun Joni L. Jones
2020-02-07 19:30 - 22:00
We are pleased to announce that author and scholar, E. Patrick Johnson, will be discussing his brand new book, “Honeypot”, with artist Osun Joni L. Jones. Honeypot is an engaging and moving book that reveals the complexity of identity while offering a creative method for scholarship to represent the lives of other people in a rich and dynamic way.

If you are interested in hearing more about this book, you are welcome to attend the discussion on February 7th from 7:30-10pm, at Skylight Books North Angeles (1818 N Vermont Ave Los Angeles, CA 90027).

See you there!

Melnitz Repertory presents: Passing Through w/ Larry Clark in person (16mm)
2020-02-13 19:30 - 21:00
One of the greatest jazz films ever made, screening in its original format, with director Larry Clark in person

Thursday, February 13, 2020
7:30 PM – 10:00 PM
James Bridges Theater, UCLA Melnitz 1409

Free screening!
16mm preservation print from the UCLA Film and Television Archive, co-presented by the UCLA Department of African-American Studies and the AMIA UCLA Student Chapter
With director Larry Clark in person for a conversation with film curator Jheanelle Brown (LA Filmforum)
REGISTER HERE
The explosion of African-American filmmakers who came out of UCLA’s film school in the 1970s—collectively referred to as the L.A. Rebellion—produced a groundbreaking body of work that is often difficult to see. Rarely screened, Larry Clark’s expressionistic celebration of Black jazz music and its resistance to commodification is one of the great neglected independent films of the era. When a saxophonist (Nathaniel Taylor) is released from jail, he considers and rejects a white-dominated music industry, seeking instead to reunite with his mentor (Clarence Muse) and his former bandmates. Unavailable on home video, we are honored to present Clark’s debut feature in its original format, with the filmmaker in person—to reappraise a film that, per Clark, “wasn’t made for release, it was made for the revolution.” Winner: Special Jury Prize, Locarno Film Festival (1977)
“One of the rare fiction features about the jazz world made by a black filmmaker… Original and thoughtful, this is a very special first feature, with a feeling for the music that’s boldly translated into film style.” -Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Chicago Reader
“A rarely seen but utterly remarkable graduation feature about jazz, the Attica prison riot, white exploitation of blacks in the music biz and revolution, featuring toothsome footage of Horace Tapscott’s Pan-Afrikan People’s Jazz Arkestra.” -The Guardian
Jheanelle Brown is a film curator/programmer and educator based in Los Angeles whose curatorial practice creates frameworks to explore the boundlessness of Black life in experimental and non-fiction film and video. She is interested in the space between fugitivity and futurity and elevating an ethic of care. Jheanelle is a board member and an associate programmer for Los Angeles Filmforum and recently served as guest co-curator, with Darol Olu Kae, for Black Radical Imagination. Jheanelle was co-curator, with Sarah Loyer, of Time Is Running Out of Time: Experimental Film and Video from the L.A. Rebellion and Today on view at Art + Practice. She is currently Special Faculty at California Institute of the Arts and Distinguished Visiting Artist at Otis College of Art and Design.
Please note: this screening is first-come, first-serve, with priority for those on the RSVP list or with Bruin ID cards.
Doors open at 7:00 and the screening will begin at 7:30pm.
