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 ...
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...
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...
This day-long symposium will kick off a year of events at UC Berkeley to mark the 400 year anniversary of the beginning of slavery in North America. The events are being co-organized by the Haas Institute, the African American studies and history departments, the African American Student Development...
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
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 BuildingRSVP to attend.If you have questions about accessibility or require accommodations, please contact Barbara...
The Departments of African American Studies and Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley invite you to celebrate the life of beloved colleague, friend, and mentor, Professor Robert Allen. Community members will speak to Professor Allen’s life, work, and lasting legacy. A lunch reception will follow in 650 Social Sciences Building.
Film screening and discussion with Rachel M'BonFilmmaker and JournalistAnd DiscussantAkasemi NewsomeAssociate Director of Global International and Area Studies / Institute for European Studies
In Switzerland, a country of neutrality, new, unfamiliar voices are being heard. Voices of women who fight for the recognition of structural racism, deconstruct stereotypes and confess their double identity as Swiss and Black. It is in this context that Rachel M’Bon begins her own search for...
