Events
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Register for Black Graduation 2024
Time: Date: Location: Zellerbach Auditorium
Grads click here to register.
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Library Pop-Up
Time: - 5:00 PMDate: Location: Social Science Building, Room 675
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Forms of Folklore Reading
Time: - 7:00 PMDate: Location: Social Science Building, Room 675
Join us for a reading of collected folklore stories from the students of Anthropology 160 – Forms of Folklore!
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Forms of Folklore Reading and Screening of Zora is My Name!
Time: - 7:00 PMDate: Location: Social Science Building, Room 675
Join the Reading Room Team for an evening of storytelling, food, and beverages as we watch Zora is My Name! – a filmed theatrical production of Hurston’s life and the beloved folklore that she collected.
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Black Activists Elders Oral History Project Reception
Time: - 5:30 PMDate: Location: Ethnic Studies Library, 30 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley
Black Activists Elders Oral History Project Reception Thursday, February 29, 2024, 4:00 – 5:30 pm Please register to attend. Please join the Department of African American Studies to celebrate the unveiling of the Black Activists Elders Oral History Project in the Ethnic Studies Library at UC Berkeley. Led by Professor Ula Y. Taylor, the project includes oral histories conducted by UC Berkeley undergraduate students from activist elders living in the Bay Area. The reception will feature journalist and project team lead Corey Antonio Rose, who will discuss the project’s significance. Light refreshments will be served. Location: the UC Berkeley Ethnic…
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Midterm Study Jam
Time: - 6:30 PMDate: Location: Social Science Building, Room 675
The Erskine A. Peters Reading Room will be hosting a study jam to begin midterm season. It will be held on February 28th from 12:30pm to 6:30pm. Join us for some studying and snacks!
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Black Success, White Backlash, and the “N-Word Moment”
Time: - 2:00 PMDate: Location: 820 Social Science Building, Social Science Matrix, UC Berkeley
Speaker: Professor Elijah Anderson
Black Success, White Backlash, and the “N-Word Moment” Elijah Anderson, Yale University Tuesday, February 20, 2024, 12:00 – 2:00 pm PT Social Science Matrix, 820 Social Science Building, UC Berkeley ***Registration is required*** To attend virtually, please register on Zoom. Lunch refreshments will be served in person. Since the end of the Civil Rights Movement, large numbers of Black people have made their way into settings previously occupied only by whites. While many whites supported these changes, many others felt that their own rights were being abrogated by Black inclusion. Moreover, Black prosperity has provoked white resentment that can make life…
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The Black Panther Party and Intercommunalism
Time: Date: Location: 675 Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley
Join the department of Black Studies as we: explore the Black Panther Party’s newspapers through the newspaper archives held at the Ethnic Studies Library learn about the BPP’s solidarity with Palestinian liberation understand the BPP’s theory of intercommunalism watch a documentary about anti-colonial struggle Please register to attend. For more information, please contact Barbara Montano at bmontano14@berkeley.edu or 510-664-4324. If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) 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…
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A Special Community Conversation with Former Black Panther, Mama C.
Time: - 6:30 PMDate: Location: Fannie Lou Hamer Black Resource Center (Hearst Field Annex D3)
Speaker: Mama C. (Charlotte O'Neil)
A Special Community Conversation with Former Black Panther, Mama C. Tuesday, October 17th 5:00-6:30pm Fannie Lou Hamer Black Resource Center (Hearst Field Annex D3) Snacks and beverages will be provided. Hosted by African American Student Development and African American & African Diaspora Studies at UC Berkeley.
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Cross-Border Cosmopolitans: The Making of a Pan-African North America
Time: Date: Location: 223 Philosophy Hall
Speaker: Dr. Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey
Book Talk: Cross-Border Cosmopolitans: The Making of a Pan-African North America Oct. 17, 2023 | 12:30 p.m. PT | 223 Philosophy Hall 20th-century Black history cannot be understood without accounting for the influence of Pan-African thought. In his new book CrossBorder Cosmopolitans: The Making of a Pan-African North America, Dr. Wendell Adjetey explores how global Black liberation movements began within the U.S.-Canadian borderlands as cross-border, continental struggles. As revolutionaries from Oakland to Toronto dreamed of an “African world”, the prospect of coalitions among the Black Power, Red Power, and Quebecois Power movements inspired U.S. and Canadian intelligence services to infiltrate…