African American Studies at University of California, Berkeley

12/14/2024

12/03/2024

Check out our December News & Events from AAS:

11/27/2024

✨The Department of African American Studies Presents: Arts & Crafts Movie Night!
⭐Watching “The Last Holiday”
⭐Come de-stress before finals! Join us for coloring, crafting, and making ginger-bread houses.
⭐Wednesday Dec 4th, 5pm to 7pm
⭐Erskine A. Peters Reading Room Social Sciences Building, 6th Floor, Room 675

If you require an accommodation for effective communication or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Barbara Montano at [email protected] or
510-664-4324 with as much advance notice as possible.

11/09/2024

The Department of African American Studies presents: “Whose University? Our University!” twLF and the Student Intifada
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 Building
RSVP (link in bio): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/whose-university-our-university-twlf-and-the-student-intifada-tickets-1074911632629?aff=oddtdtcreator

If you have questions about accessibility or require accommodations, please contact Barbara Montano at [email protected] or 510-664-4324.

10/25/2024

✨From Berkley Street to (UC) Berkeley: Celebrating the Career of Stephen Small
✨Wednesday, November 20, 2024
✨11:30 am - 12:30 pm: Lunch, 1:00 - 3:00 pm: Program, 3:00 - 4:00 pm: Reception
✨Lunch & reception: Room 650, Program: Room 820
✨RVSP to attend: africam.berkeley.edu/events/ss/ (in-person or Zoom)
Join the Department of African American Studies and the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues at UC Berkeley to celebrate Professor Stephen Small’s 30-year campus career. The retirement party will include a family-style lunch; panel discussions with and about Professor Small’s scholarship, teaching/mentorship, and contributions to campus administration; and a closing reception.
Sponsored by the African American Studies Department and the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues.
Questions about accessibility? Contact Barbara Montano at [email protected] or 510-664-4324 with as much advance notice as possible.
Photos courtesy of Stephen Small and UC Berkeley.

10/23/2024

Imagining Black Collectivity, In and Beyond Harlem: Sandhya Shukla and Noah Hansen in Conversation
Wednesday, October 31, 2024 at 12:00 pm
554 Social Sciences Building, UC Berkeley
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 copies of precirculated material that will be discussed at this event, please contact Leo Dunsker at [email protected]
This event is sponsored by the Department of English, the Department of Ethnic Studies, and the Department of African American Studies and African Diaspora Studies.
For access needs, please contact Leo Dunsker at [email protected] or 510-388-9967.

10/21/2024

The Department of African American Studies, Erskine A. Peters Reading Room, presents our fall 2024 calendar of events! All event taking place in 675 Social Sciences Building 📚
10/22: “bossale. inheritance.” Exhibit Opening, 5-6:30pm
10/24: Beyond the Veil Book Club, 5-6:30pm
11/01: Honoring our Departmental Ancestors, 9 am - 5 pm
11/07: Black Horror Film Series #1, 5-7pm
11/13: Archiving the Third World Liberation Strike, 5-7pm
Find more information at africam.berkeley.edu/events.

Join us tomorrow, October 22nd, for the exhibit opening of “bossale.inheritance” from 5:00 - 6:30 pm in Social Sciences Building Room 675. Refreshments will be served.
bossale (n) - French bossale, from Spanish bozal (“wild, untamed, raw; born in Africa and recently enslaved in a colony”).
inheritance (n) - to receive from an ancestor as a right or title descendible by law at the ancestor’s death.

If you require an accommodation for effective communication or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Barbara Montano at [email protected] or 510-664-4324 with as much advance notice as possible.

10/10/2024

A Special Conversation with Mama C. (Facilitated by Ms. Daphne Muse)

Join us for a special community conversation with veteran Black Panther, Mama C.

Thursday, October 17th
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Fannie Lou Hamer Black Resource Center
Hearst Field Annex D3

Snacks and beverages will be provided. Hosted by AASD and AAS. Please RSVP (link in bio):
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Opdn2127-HDOaz-g3pOVbal7mUk7WkZOB-nuEzuHEEY/viewform?edit_requested=true.

09/24/2024

Join us next week for Celebrating the Life of Robert Allen!
Wednesday, October 2, 2024, 12:00 - 2:00 pm, 820 Social Sciences Building
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. RSVP (in-person or Zoom webinar): africam.berkeley.edu/events, link in bio.
If you require an accommodation for effective communication or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Barbara Montano at [email protected] or 510-664-4324 with as much advance notice as possible.

09/23/2024

Visual artist Wendel A. White (Wendel White: Photographic Projects) photographs material culture, objects, documents, and books held in public collections to explore the complexities of American history, slavery, abolition, concepts of race, and Black life and culture.

As part of the program Manifest | Thirteen Colonies Book Launch and Conversation, marking the launch of his book Wendel A. White: Manifest | Thirteen Colonies (Radius Books/Peabody Museum Press, 2024), White will have a conversation with contributors to the book. They will discuss White’s body of work, the construction of race, and the ways in which artifacts, material culture, art, and photography shape historical narratives, memories, and contemporary perspectives on Black life and culture.

Free hybrid event. September 26, 2024, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm. Register: https://tinyurl.com/ManifestBookLaunchConversation.

Speakers: Wendel A. White, Distinguished Professor of Art, Stockton University; 2021 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University

Cheryl Finley, Inaugural Director of the Atlanta University Center Art History + Curatorial Studies Collective AUC Art Collective; Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Art & Visual Culture; Spelman College; Associate Professor, Department of Art & Visual Studies, Cornell University University

Leigh Raiford, Professor of African American Studies, African American Studies at University of California, Berkeley

Deborah Willis, University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging, NYU Tisch School of the Arts

Conversation moderated by Brenda Tindal, Chief Campus Curator, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Visit the Peabody Museum for free before and after the program to see Wendel White’s exhibition Manifest: Thirteen Colonies, and join us for the related ArtsThursdays. Copies of Wendel A. White: Manifest | Thirteen Colonies will be available for sale. Free event parking at the 52 Oxford Street Garage starting at 4:30 pm.

09/12/2024

09/12/2024

Celebrating the Life of Robert Allen. Courtesy of African American and African Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

09/10/2024

Don't miss our next Banned Scholar in Residence, Geo Maher, here for three public programs starting next week, including an event with East Side Arts Alliance! Find all the details and register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/african-american-studies-uc-berkeley-43477667073.

09/04/2024

Read our first newsletter of the year with a welcome back message from Chair Taylor and more information on our Fall 2024 programming:

Dear Community,  I am excited to serve as Chair of the Department of African American Studies. As we begin the Fall, 2024, semester, a top goal is to maximize our intellectual possibilities amid worldly chaos. Our faculty will bring their best intellectual selves into the classroom and prepare syll...

08/29/2024

Applications are due this coming Monday, September 2nd for the Assistant Professor of Caribbean Studies position! Read more and apply: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04462.

08/29/2024