Events

Details coming soon!

Join the Department of African American Studies and the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues at UC Berkeley to celebrate Professor Stephen Small’s 30-year campus career. The retirement party will include a family-style lunch; panel discussions with and about Professor Small’s scholarship, teaching/mentorship, and contributions to campus administration; and a closing reception. Please RSVP to attend: For our in-person program Or our Zoom webinar. Note: the Zoom webinar will only cover the 1:00 – 3:00 pm PT program.  Program 11:30 am – 12:30 pm: Lunch in 650 Social Sciences Building, the African American Studies Albert Johnson Conference Room 1:00 –…

Join us for an interactive discussion about the connections between the 1999 Ethnic Studies protests and the Gaza Solidarity Encampment.   November 13, 2024  5-7pm Erskine A. Peters Reading Room, 675 Social Sciences Building RSVP to attend.    If you have questions about accessibility or require accommodations, please contact Barbara Montano at bmontano14@berkeley.edu or 510-664-4324.

Please join us in the Erskine A. Peters Reading Room for the first installment of our delightfully spooky Black Horror Film Series! Refreshments and scares will be provided 🎃👻

Please join us as we come together to honor those members of the African American Studies department who have become ancestors.

The author of Cross-Cultural Harlem, Sandhya Shukla is an Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Virginia. Noah Hansen is Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ralph J. Bunch Center for African American Studies at UCLA and is working on a book on Garveyism. For more information, please see the event webpage.  For copies of precirculated material that will be discussed at this event, please contact Leo Dunsker at dunsker@berkeley.edu This event is sponsored by the Department of English, the Department of Ethnic Studies, and the Department of African American Studies and African Diaspora Studies.

Please join us for the inaugural meeting of the Beyond the Veil Book Club, hosted by the Erskine A. Peters Reading Room. More details to come!

Please join us for the opening of Bossale: Inheritance, a yearlong exhibit curated by Erskine A. Peters Reading Room Attendant Mark Williams Jr., focusing on the development of the department’s undergraduate and graduate curriculum by VèVè Clark.           

Litanies is a ritual reading performance for Audre Lorde, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Lorde delivering her first poetry reading at the Women’s Building in the fall of 1974. A collaboration between Courtney Desiree Morris and Alexis Pauline Gumbs, it is the third installation in the Readings, a series of live ritual performance readings of the work of black literary ancestors of the African Diaspora. Acting as a choir director, Morris invites the readers to perform as a polyphonic choir to create sound, music, and movement through an embodied engagement with the text. The public is invited to bear witness…

Join us on October 17th, 12:00pm-1:00pm in Fannie Lou Hamer Black Resource Center for a special conversation with veteran Black Panther, Mama C, facilitated by Ms. Daphne Muse. This event is co-organized by African American Student Development and African American Studies. Please RSVP to attend.