Events
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Unmoved: Anxiety and Black Cinema
Time: - 7:00 PMDate: Location: Nestrick Room, 142 Dwinelle Hall
Speaker: Lauren Cramer, University of Toronto
This event is cosponsored by the Department of African American Studies Event time TBA Berkeley Film & Media Seminar flyer
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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…
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Cat Brooks in Residence at UC Berkeley
Time: Date: - 10/22/2023
Speaker: Cat Brooks
PUBLIC EVENTS Performances of ‘Tasha THURSDAY–FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19–21 Durham Studio Theater • Dwinelle Hall Free for Berkeley Students • $35 General Admission Written and performed by Cat Brooks, this one-woman show tells the story of Natasha McKenna who died in 2015 at age 37 while in police custody in Fairfax, VA. Cat Brooks in Conversation with Margo Hall FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 4pm–5:30pm 650 Social Sciences Building Free • No Reservation Required Cat Brooks and longtime collaborator Margo Hall (performer, theater-maker, and educator) will discuss their community-centered artistic practices. White Supremacy: Black Trauma & Healing Justice SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1pm–3pm Bancroft…
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Bells on the Hill: Rage and Slavery’s Postbellum Madness
Time: - 1:45 PMDate:
Speaker: Professor Micah Khater, African American Studies
Bells on the Hill: Rage and Slavery’s Postbellum Madness Professor Micah Khater Monday, October 2nd 12:15 to 1:45 pm Social Sciences Building, Room 650 Albert Johnson Conference Room This paper examines how objects from slavery forged a relationship between the antebellum and the postbellum and how formerly enslaved people contested these invocations of the past through material remembrance, rage, and stories of white madness. By tracing the life of one object, the bell rack, I explore the profound complexities of theorizing madness, disability, and slavery. Insanity is often marshalled against the possibility of Black rage. But what happens when descriptions…
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ACB-FGC: A Culturally Responsive Program to Support Black Families Involved with the Ontario Child Welfare System
Time: - 2:00 PMDate: Location: 223 Philosophy Hall
Speaker: Dr. Lance McCready, Co-director, ACB-FGC
Sponsor(s): Canadian Studies Program, Consulate General of Canada in San Francisco, School of Education, Center for Race and Gender, Department of African-American Studies The disparate and disproportionate involvement of African American families in the child welfare system has been well documented, but research examining the experiences of African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) Canadian families in child welfare is emerging in Canada. In the province of Ontario, recent studies find that Black families are represented in the child welfare system at disproportionate and disparate rates. Experiences of Black youth, caregivers, and workers also highlight differential and punitive treatment within the system. These findings have given…
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A Divided Diaspora and the Future of Eritrea: A Live Panel Discussion
Time: - 11:30 AMDate:
In the summer of 2023, Eritrean Government-sponsored Diaspora Festivals have been the center of attention in many western countries. At these many festivals, supporters and opponents of the Eritrean government have clashed, leading to violence and termination of festivals by host countries in Europe, the UK, Canada, USA and Israel. After the September 2 clashes in Tel Aviv, Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said “We want harsh measures against the rioters, including the immediate deportation of those who took part.” Yemane G. Meskel – Eritrea’s Minister of Information stated in his latest on X, formerly known as Twitter, “Eritrean festivals are targeted…
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Black Voices in the Shadows of the Big House: Folk artist Clementine Hunter’s challenge to southern gentility narratives of slavery and slave cabins
Time: - 1:30 PMDate: Location: 2111 Bancroft Way, #104, Berkeley, CA
Speaker: Professors Stephen Small and Ula Taylor
Sponsor(s): Center for Research on Social Change, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies Stephen Small, Director, Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, and Professor, African American Studies, UC Berkeley With Ula Y. Taylor, Professor of African American Studies & 1960 Chair of Undergraduate Education, UC Berkeley, as respondent Tens of thousands of plantations, buildings, work structures and gardens currently comprise a tourist infrastructure of the southern heritage industry. Louisiana is one of the most prominent and frequently visited states that benefit from this tourism and has more than sixty heritage sites housed…
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Black chicagoland is… Opening Reception
Roderick E. Jackson and april l. graham-jackson Worth Ryder Art Gallery | UC Berkeley Exhibition Opening Reception | August 30, 2023 from 5:00pm-7:00pm Blackchicagoland.com Event Details Wednesday, August 30th 5:00-7:00PM Worth Ryder Art Gallery at UC Berkeley, 116 Anthropology and Art Practice Building Featuring Duane E. Powell, legendary DJ and Black House Kid, spinning Chicago house music Opening remarks at 5:30PM “The biggest secret in Chicago is that Chicago was founded by a Black man.” –Lerone Bennett Jr. Inspired by Black life across Chicagoland, “Black chicagoland is…” emerges as a multi-sensory installation conceived by Roderick E. Jackson and april l. graham-jackson. “Black chicagoland is…” brings together…