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...
Join us on October 17th, 12:00pm-1:00pm in Fannie Lou Hamer Black Resource Center for a special conversation with veteran Black Panther, Mama C, facilitated by Ms. Daphne Muse. This event is co-organized by African American Student Development and African American Studies. Please RSVP to attend.
Litanies is a ritual reading performance for Audre Lorde, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Lorde delivering her first poetry reading at the Women's Building in the fall of 1974. A collaboration between Courtney Desiree Morris and Alexis Pauline Gumbs, it is the third installation in the Readings, a series of live ritual performance readings of the work of black literary ancestors of the African Diaspora. Acting as a choir director, Morris...
Please join us for the opening of Bossale: Inheritance, a yearlong exhibit curated by Erskine A. Peters Reading Room Attendant Mark Williams Jr., focusing on the development of the department’s undergraduate and graduate curriculum by VèVè Clark.
The author of Cross-Cultural Harlem, Sandhya Shukla is an Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Virginia. Noah Hansen is Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ralph J. Bunch Center for African American Studies at UCLA and is working on a book on Garveyism. For more information, please see the event webpage.
For copies of precirculated material that will be discussed at this event, please contact Leo Dunsker at...
