Featured Event
Critical Conversations Spring 2022: Celebrating the Life and Legacy of June Jordon
The Department of African American Studies at UC Berkeley’s 2021-22 Critical Conversations speaker series is organized as a celebration of the life and legacy of June Jordan, a gifted and prolific writer, a powerful activist, an innovative teacher and a longtime member of our Department. Fall 2021 will be devoted to June’s activist work, her prose and her architectural imaginary. Spring 2022 will be devoted to her work as a poet and teacher. Building on our successful Spring 2021 series celebrating Dr. Barbara Christian and exploring the concept of abolition democracy, this series continues to ask: what are the lessons of the Black Feminist, Black Radical, and Black intellectual traditions for our moment and what is the role of Black Studies in building more just futures?
Fall 2021
A Place of Rage: June Jordan and her Circle
Monday, September 20, 2021 @noon PST
Angela Y. Davis and Pratibha Parmar
BAMPFA will stream A Place of Rage (dir. Pratibha Parmar, 1991) September 10-October 10, 2021 free of charge https://bampfa.org/event/streaming-place-rage
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Skyrise: June Jordan’s Architectural Imaginary
Monday, October 4, 2021 @noon PST
Olalekan Jeyifous, Brandi Summers, and Mabel O. Wilson
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Black Girlhood, Truth and Transformation
Monday, November 15, 2021 @noon PST
Cat Brooks, Kenly Brown, and Holly Joshi
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Spring 2022
Learning from June Jordan: A Poetry for the People Conversation
Monday, February 28, 2022 @noon PST
Samiya Bashir and Solmaz Sharif
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Black Writers and the Bay
Monday, March 7, 2022 @noon PST
Tongo Eisen-Martin and Tanea Lunsford Lynx
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Black Childhoods
Monday, April 4, 2022 @noon PST
Joshua Bennett and Chiyuma Elliott
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400 Years of African American History Symposium
This day-long symposium will kick off a year of events at UC Berkeley to mark the 400 year anniversary of the beginning of slavery in North America. The events are being co-organized by the Haas Institute, the African American studies and history departments, the African American Student Development Center, and the Black Staff & Faculty Organization.
