Comrade Sisters Book Talk w/ Ericka Huggins & Stephen James
2022-10-19 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Campbell Hall Pavilion
Mark your calendars for the October 19th Comrade Sisters Book Talk Event! UCLA has invited Activist Ericka Huggins and Photographer Stephen James to discuss their book “Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party”!

Read more about our esteemed guest speakers below!

Writing Health Through Black Feminist Theory
2022-10-24 15:00 - 17:00 | Hershey Hall Grand Salon

Sekou Odinga: Reflections of A Freedom Fighter
2022-10-25 17:00 - 18:30 | 118 Haines Hall

UCLA 34th Annual MLK Oratorical
2023-02-01 19:00 - 22:00
On February 1st at 7pm UCLA will host the 34th Annual MLK Oratorical Contest in Covel Commons. We hope you can spread the word, join us for festivities, and watch amazing students perform spoken word, oration and griot.

Black Dress & Culture Series: Fashion City Los Angeles
2023-04-22 10:00 - 14:00 | James Bridges Theater
Description:
UCLA will be hosting the second installment of the “Fashion City: Los Angeles” jointly presented by UCLA’s Copley Center for the Study of Costume Design and Department of African American Studies.

The Black Dress and Culture series engages scholars and practitioners in conversations on the multifaceted aspects of Black dress within cultural narratives. These panel discussions will focus on the evolving perceptions and impacts of Black fashion and aesthetics in history and popular culture and will address and expand on the multiple viewpoints within ongoing and sometimes-contentious histories and contemporary practices.
This two-part discussion will encourage debate and engage with the speakers’ repertory of knowledge, experience, and research.

RSVP Required:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ucla-black-dress-culture-series-tickets-607726405037

*Contact Kristen Mundy (kmundy@afam.ucla.edu) or Gina Lewis (lewisgina@g.ucla.edu) with questions!*

Political Economy of the Black World II
2023-05-31 09:15 - 2023-06-01 17:30 | UCLA
MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
In May 1979, the Center for Afro-American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles hosted a two-day symposium entitled The Political Economy of the Black World. This spring, Professors Peter James Hudson and Jemima Pierre are convening The Political Economy of the Black World II, a two-day symposium that draws on and expands the themes and conversations of the original 1979 event. It will serve as the inaugural event of the new Center for Advanced Studies of Political Economy and Race (CASPER).
The Political Economy of the Black World II will be held on May 31st and June 1st at UCLA and will include presentations from a global group of scholars hailing from Kenya, Tunisia, Barbados, Trinidad, Puerto Rico, Norway, Canada and beyond.

Please join us for the Public Conversations with:

Dr. Claudia Mitchell-Kernan, Faculty Emeritus, former chair of the Center for Afro-American Studies, and former Vice Chancellor of Graduate Studies at UCLA – and co-convener of the original 1979 event.
Dr. Horace G. Campbell, Professor of African American Studies and Political Science at Syracuse University and Chairperson of the Global Pan African Movement (North American delegation).
Dr. Deborah E. McDowell, Alice Griffin Professor of Literary Studies and former director of the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia.
Ajamu Baraka, Chairperson, Coordinating Committee of the Black Alliance for Peace, senior editor and contributing columnist for the Black Agenda Report, and former Green Party vice-presidential candidate.

For more information, including the schedule, please see the flier above. We look forward to seeing you there!
