Events

The Department of African American Studies at UC Berkeley’s 2021-22 Critical Conversations speaker series is organized as a celebration of the life and legacy of June Jordan, a gifted and prolific writer, a powerful activist, an innovative teacher and a longtime member of our Department. Fall 2021 will be devoted to June’s activist work, her prose and her architectural imaginary. Spring 2022 will be devoted to her work as a poet and teacher. Building on our successful Spring 2021 series celebrating Dr. Barbara Christian and exploring the concept of abolition democracy, this series continues to ask: what are the lessons…

The Underground Scholars at UC Berkeley and Stanford University would like to invite you to Bridging the Gap, Incarceration to College a conversation with Dr. Nikki Jones and Samuel Maul.  The event will be held online on August 6th from 6-8 pm PDT.  Please take a moment to RSVP using this form. This is a fundraising event for the students of Incarceration to College and all proceeds go directly to the students.  Please share this flyer with your network and we hope to see you there.   If you would like to learn more about the Incarceration to College program…

Thursday, June 22, 2021 9:00 – 12:00 am PDT / 11:00 am – 2:00 pm CDT / 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT  EVENT DESCRIPTION Join us Tuesday, June 22, 9am-12pm PDT, for a half-day forum with fair housing advocates and leading race and housing scholars from across the United States for the unveiling of “The Roots of Structural Racism,” a groundbreaking new project from the Othering & Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley which details just how widespread and harmful racial residential segregation remains today, why it matters, who it impacts, and what can be done to reverse this dangerous…

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Register  On Friday, May 14 from 12pm-1:30pm PDT (3pm-4:30pm EDT), UC Berkeley’s Social Science Matrix will feature a “Matrix on Point” panel discussion entitled, “America’s Pursuit of Racial Justice,” focused on the recent Black-led protests and the Black Lives Matter movement, situated within the broader historical context of social movements for racial justice in the United States. The panel will include Monica Bell, Associate Professor of Law & Sociology, Yale Law School; Leigh Raiford, Associate Professor of African American Studies, UC Berkeley; and Brandon M. Terry, Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and Social Studies, Harvard University. Christopher Muller, Assistant…

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Register here   Join a conversation with three authors on the history and politics of Black popular music. About this Event Black music has been a powerful force, expressing joy, pain, and speaking truths to a global audience. In this program, we will look more deeply into the history and politics of Black music through examining the career of singer, actor and activist Paul Robeson, discussing the music of the Black Power movement, and by exploring the trajectory of the iconic 1990’s hip hop group, A Tribe Called Quest. The discussion features authors Hanif Abdurraqib (Go Ahead in the Rain:…

Streamtext (secondary location where live captions can be viewed) athttps://www.streamtext.net/player?event=UCBerkeley Facebook Chat will be enabled at https://www.facebook.com/UCBerkeley/ Event questions submission form at https://forms.gle/XPiYSc7TwvqQrnwGA The death of George Floyd, and the many black and brown people who have died at the hands of the police before and since, require careful examination of the long history of race and racism in policing in the United States. Is meaningful reform of policing possible? Is the answer abolition and what would that mean? Some of our leading experts on campus on this topic will discuss these important questions. Introduction: Raka Ray, Dean, Division of…

Please register at https://berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zTUmEow3TbWSnIhAqq1dZw. In this dynamic artist talk, Gabrielle Civil discuss her own trajectory as a black feminist performance artists, highlighting key collaborations and inspirations, and promoting black feminist joy as a creative practice.  Presented by UC Berkeley’s Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. Gabrielle Civil is a black feminist performance artist, poet, and writer, originally from Detroit MI. She has premiered fifty performance works around the world, most recently with Wild Beauty at the Velocity Dance Center in Seattle (2020) and in the Salt Lake City Performance Art Festival (2021). Her performance memoirs include Swallow the Fish (2017),…