Upcoming 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.…

Registration Link   Tickets will go on sale Tuesday April 19, 2022   Tickets will be available for purchase via tickets.berkeley.edu, by phone (510) 642-9988 and in person at Zellerbach Hall during regular business hours. They are open Tuesday-Friday, 12:00pm-5:30pm, Saturday-Sunday, 1:00pm-5:00pm.  The direct link for online purchase is  https://secure-tickets.berkeley.edu/18011/18012.   Students are encouraged to order online at tickets.berkeley.edu.  The phone lines and ticket window have been quite busy due to Cal Performances’ upcoming 2022-23 season announcement. But all ordering options (phone, online and in person) are available. Once tickets are purchased, they will be delivered by email only. Mail and will call delivery methods…

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…

Archives hold the historical receipts that document and reveal the innovations, philosophies, and cultural dynamics of society. Without scholars, curators, intellectuals, and archivists like those serving on this panel, the power of Black lives and cultures would be pounded by the hammers of revisionism and relegated to obscurity. In a time of raging debates around “critical race theory” and book banning, collecting, documenting, and archiving Black lives and cultures across the diaspora remain an essential foundation for Afrofuturism. This powerful panel has been assembled to address some of the challenges and victories met related to how we preserve the voices…