Co-Sponsored Events

September 9, 2022 9:30 am to 5:00 pm Tilden Room, Located on the 5th floor of the MLK Jr./ASUC Student Union Building at UC Berkeley Please register in advance to attend. Join the Black Studies Collaboratory (BSC) and African American and African Diaspora Studies Department to celebrate, learn from, and be in conversation with the Spring and Summer 2022 cohorts of the BSC’s Small Grantee program. The symposium will include a series of curated conversations amongst our grantees, moderated by a scholar working in their subject area. There will be time for audience questions and conversation during the panels and in the break periods.…

Wednesday, April 13th (6 – 8:30pm PT) Museum of African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco   bone black is a ritual performance reading for the late black feminist writer and theorist, bell hooks/Gloria Jean Watkins(1952-2021). The performance will feature 69 black women of all genders who will serve as live and virtual ritual readers reciting hooks’ prolific body of work. The ritual gathers artists, scholars, activists, workers, spiritual leaders, and everyday people to engage in this work and create collective spaces for grieving, reflection and ancestral veneration. The public is invited to bear witness – a concept/practice that hooks theorized extensively…