BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UCLA Department of African American Studies - ECPv6.15.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://afam.ucla.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for UCLA Department of African American Studies REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180402T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180402T140000 DTSTAMP:20260508T164432 CREATED:20180315T203247Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180315T203247Z UID:2308-1522670400-1522677600@afam.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Blackness and Borderscapes: Queering the Black Mediterranean DESCRIPTION:Blackness and Borderscapes: Queering the Black Mediterranean\n \nSA Smythe \nPresident’s Postdoctoral Fellow \nDepartment of Gender & Sexuality Studies \nUC Irvine \n  \nMONDAY\, APRIL 2 \n12:00PM \nBlack Forum Room | Haines Hall 153 \n  \nIn this presentation\, Dr. SA Smythe addresses recent challenges in the regulation of legal residency and pathways to citizenship in Italy. Smythe reads contemporary Black Italian women’s writing to consider the stakes of cultural belonging\, human rights\, and the Italian literary canon in the constitution of the Black Mediterranean. They think alongside Black\, Trans\, and Mediterranean Studies scholars to expose the material and psychological violence of Frontex Europe and the legacies of colonial and fascist Italy by discussing the politics of citizenship and cultural production without relying on the desire to redeem or reconcile its legal hierarchies. \nDr. SA Smythe is a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University of California\, Irvine. Their book manuscript\, Crisis and the Canon: Shifting Representation Regimes in the Black Mediterranean\, is a transdisciplinary project that examines racialized aporias in the narration of italianità in the Black Mediterranean from the Risorgimento (Italian Unification) to the present. The monograph is a meditation on canonicity and citizenship in the wake of Europe’s self-initiated “crises” of migration and attendant levels of dispossession. SA is president and founder of the Queer Studies Caucus of the American Association of Italian Studies and publishing editor of THEM – Trans Literary Journal. SA is also a poet and an activist who performs and organizes in queer trans Black and abolitionist writing collectives across London\, Bologna\, Berlin\, and most recently Los Angeles. URL:https://afam.ucla.edu/event/blackness-and-borderscapes-queering-the-black-mediterranean/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180404T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180404T140000 DTSTAMP:20260508T164432 CREATED:20180315T203827Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180315T203827Z UID:2313-1522843200-1522850400@afam.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Beauty and the Black: Aesthetics Politics and Black Reproduction in Brazil DESCRIPTION:Beauty and the Black: Aesthetics Politics and Black Reproduction in Brazil\nUgo Edu \nChancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow \nDepartment of Anthropology \nUC Davis \n  \nWEDNESDAY\, APRIL 4 \n12:00PM \nBlack Forum Room\, Haines Hall 153 \nlunch will be provided \nBased on ethnographic research in Salvador\, Bahia\, this talk explores the role of aesthetics in the construction and perception of what constitutes healthy reproduction and reproductive practices. I draw on women’s navigations within a Brazilian economy of aesthetics\, race\, and sexuality and the way these navigations shape and are shaped by processes and procedures related to the governance and measurements of reproduction and reproductive health. I focus on Black women’s experiences of contraceptive use\, attempts to acquire tubal ligations\, and family construction. I analyze the way that values\, sensibilities\, and affect that have come to adhere to particular appearances and arrangements\, have also adhered to the perception and apprehension of reproductive decision-making (seen and unseen\, articulated and not-articulated)\, reproductive health\, and family constructions. This work points to the importance of an understanding and recognition of the aesthetic underpinnings of health and biomedical systems. \nDr. Ugo Edu is a medical anthropologist\, currently a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California\, Davis. Previously\, she was the Science\, Justice\, and Health Equity Postdoctoral Fellow at the Health Equity Institute at San Francisco State University. She received her PhD from the joint Medical Anthropology program at University of California\, San Francisco/UC Berkeley\, with a designated emphasis in Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality. Her scholarship has a strong interdisciplinary approach to issues of aesthetics\, affect\, race\, gender\, body knowledge and modification\, and social justice. In her research\, she focuses on the politics of reproduction\, reproductive and sexual health\, and health inequities in both global and national contexts. She situates her work at the intersection of medical anthropology\, public health\, black feminism\, and science\, technology\, and society studies. URL:https://afam.ucla.edu/event/beauty-and-the-black-aesthetics-politics-and-black-reproduction-in-brazil/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180412T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180412T190000 DTSTAMP:20260508T164432 CREATED:20180328T185014Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180328T185014Z UID:2346-1523552400-1523559600@afam.ucla.edu SUMMARY:New Directions in Black Queer Studies DESCRIPTION:The UC Consortium for Black Studies presents \nNew Directions in Black Queer Studies\nA Conversation with \n \nCathy Cohen\,  David and Mary Winton Green Professor of Political Science\,  The University of Chicago \nand \n \nRoderick Ferguson\, Professor of African American and Gender and Women’s Studies\, The University of Illinois at Chicago \n  \nModerated by \n \nUri McMillan\, Associate Professor of English\, UCLA \nThursday\, April 12th\, 2018 \n5:00pm-7:00pm \nBruin Reception Room | UCLA Ackerman Union Second Floor Lounge\, AU2414 \nRSVP HERE URL:https://afam.ucla.edu/event/2346/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180424T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180424T190000 DTSTAMP:20260508T164432 CREATED:20180419T182820Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180419T182820Z UID:2386-1524585600-1524596400@afam.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Reconsidering Education and Imprisonment: A Conversation on Prisons\, Race\, and Education DESCRIPTION:The UCLA Departments of African American Studies & Education Present: \nDISPOSSESSION & ENCLOSURE: RECONSIDERING EDUCATION AND IMPRISONMENT\na conversation with Sabina Vaught & Damien Sojoyner \nSabina Vaught\, associate professor and chair of the Tufts University Department of Education & Damien Sojoyner\, assistant professor of anthropology at UC Irvine\, will discuss their respective books Compulsory: Education and the Dispossession of Youth in a Prison School and First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles. Based on extensive ethnography\, these groundbreaking examinations alter previous understandings of the relationship between schooling and the carceral state. \nTuesday\, April 24th\, 4pm \nThe Black Forum\, Haines 153 \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies \nClick here for flyer URL:https://afam.ucla.edu/event/reconsidering-education-and-imprisonment-a-conversation-on-prisons-race-and-education/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180425T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180425T140000 DTSTAMP:20260508T164432 CREATED:20180419T183717Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180419T183717Z UID:2393-1524659400-1524664800@afam.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Beyond Coloniality: Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition DESCRIPTION:“Beyond Coloniality: Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition” \nLecture by Aaron Kamugisha \n \nAaron Kamugisha is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies\, Cave Hill Campus. He is the editor of Caribbean Political Thought: The Colonial State to Caribbean Internationalisms (2013)\, Caribbean Political Thought: Theories of the Post-Colonial State (2013)\, (with Yanique Hume) Caribbean Cultural Thought: From Plantation to Diaspora (2013) and Caribbean Popular Culture: Power\, Politics and Performance (2016)\, and with Jane Gordon\, Lewis Gordon and Neil Roberts Journeys in Caribbean Thought: The Paget Henry Reader (2016).  His work has been published in journals such as Race & Class\, Small Axe\, The Philosophical Forum\, Caribbean Quarterly\, Proudflesh\, The Journal of Caribbean History and the Journal of West Indian Literature. URL:https://afam.ucla.edu/event/beyond-coloniality-freedom-in-the-caribbean-intellectual-thought/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180426T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180426T200000 DTSTAMP:20260508T164432 CREATED:20180405T205312Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180405T205312Z UID:2368-1524762000-1524772800@afam.ucla.edu SUMMARY:Black\, Brown\, and Powerful: Freedom Dreams in Unequal Cities DESCRIPTION:In Los Angeles and elsewhere\, black and brown communities face multiple forms of banishment and exploitation. At this evening of inspiring talks and performances\, we shine a light on organizing frameworks and resistance strategies that challenge exclusion and refuse subordination. \nWe invite scholars\, residents\, activists\, community-based and nonprofit organizations\, foundations\, policymakers and public officials\, and all those interested in social justice work\, to join us. \nThe full program is available HERE URL:https://afam.ucla.edu/event/black-brown-and-powerful-freedom-dreams-in-unequal-cities/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180430T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180430T180000 DTSTAMP:20260508T164432 CREATED:20180328T185612Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180328T185612Z UID:2357-1525104000-1525111200@afam.ucla.edu SUMMARY:"The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam" by Ula Taylor DESCRIPTION:The UC Consortium for Black Studies presents \nTHE PROMISE OF PATRIARCHY:\nWOMEN AND THE NATION OF ISLAM  URL:https://afam.ucla.edu/event/the-promise-of-patriarchy-women-and-the-nation-of-islam-by-ula-taylor/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR