Fall 2024

The Department of African American Studies Presents: Arts & Crafts Movie Night! Watching “The Last Holiday” Come de-stress before finals! Join us for coloring, crafting, and making ginger-bread houses.  Wednesday Dec 4th, 5pm to 7pm  Erskine A. Peters Reading Room Social Sciences Building, 6th Floor, Room 675 If you require an accommodation for effective communication or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Barbara Montano at bmontano14@berkeley.edu or 510-664-4324 with as much advance notice as possible.

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.

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.           

The Department of African American Studies and UC Berkeley Librarians present Library Pop Up!    Join us for Black books, Caribbean food, and community!  Tuesday September 24, 2024 3-5PM  Erskine A. Peters Reading Room  675 Social Sciences Building (ADA accessible), Erskine A. Peters Reading Room    Please RSVP to attend. Caribbean food from Coco Breeze provided with vegan and gluten-free options.    If you have any questions about accessibility or require accommodations to participate in this event, please contact Barbara Montano at bmontano14@berkeley.edu or call 510.644.4324 with as much advance notice as possible.   Organized by Michele McKenzie, Jennifer Brown, Sine…

Please register to attend.  Join the Department of African American Studies and EastSide Arts Alliance for a conversation on abolition, decolonization, and education with local and international movement activists. Arrive early to check out Bandung Books and the latest exhibit in EastSide’s gallery. Geo Maher’s books will be available for purchase at Bandung Books. Refreshments will be served. Geo Maher is an abolitionist educator, organizer, and writer based in Philadelphia. He has taught previously at the University of Pennsylvania, Vassar College, Drexel University, San Quentin State Prison, and the Venezuelan School of Planning in Caracas, and has held visiting positions at the CUNY Graduate Center,…

Please register to attend.  We stumble through 2024 in search of new political coordinates. Long gone is the myth of the end of history, and today we instead confront sharp questions about the fraught tangle of race, class, and gender. Explosive struggles against racist police brutality and colonial domination worldwide remind us that the work of the past remains largely unfinished. Our moment needs urgent decoding, and we have no Rosetta Stone better suited to the task than W.E.B. Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction. This presentation, the product of a forthcoming collective volume on Du Bois’ text, provides a broad overview of…

Please register to attend.  Monday, September 16, 12:00 – 2:00 pm 675 Social Sciences Building, Erskine A. Peters Reading Room, Department of African American Studies Join the Department of African American Studies for an informal lunch with Geo Maher, Coordinator of the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition and Reconstruction. All UC Berkeley students are invited to discuss abolition, political organizing, and more with Geo. Lunch will be provided, vegetarian and vegan options will be available. Please contact Barbara Montano at bmontano14@berkeley.edu if you have any allergies or other dietary needs. If you require an accommodation for effective communication…