Events Archive
Spring 2012:
"Selfhood on the Edge: African Photography at the India Ocean Crossroads"
Professor Sandy Prita Meier, Wayne State University, will lecture on the role of photography in fashioning cultural identity in the Swahili Coast port cities and Indian Ocean world.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
5:00-6:00pm
HSSB 1174
Women of Color Lawyers Working Towards Social Justice - Chicana & Chicano Studies Spring 2012 Colloquium Series
Panelist: Jessica Delgado, Simona Farisse and Arcelia Hurtado
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
3:30-5:00pm
Dolores Huerta Room, South Hall 1623
Winter 2012:
New Release: Darkening Mirrors: Imperial Representation in Depression Era African American Performance.
Book reading and signing at the Multicultural Center, UCSB, March 1st, 3:00pm.
“Expanding Horizons: Pumzi, Science Fiction and African Cinema”
Jude Akudinobi, UC Santa Barbara.
Monday Africa Seminar Series (MASS): New Approaches to African Cinema
Fall 2011:
Perspectives on American
Literature and Culture
Vortrag im Rahmen des Forschungscolloquiums
der Abteilungen Literatur und Kultur
Donnerstag, 1. Dezember 2011
18.00 Uhr c.t.
Raum 340
Jeffrey Stewart, University of California, Santa Barbara
Looking Backward to Look
Forward: Winold Reiss in
Context
Meet-the-Artist Talk with Cyril Neville
Hosted by Professor Stephanie Batiste
Monday, November 14, 12 noon - 1 pm
South Hall 3711 – Free and open to the public
http://www.nevilles.com/biography/cyril/
Co-presented by Arts & Lectures and the Department of Black Studies
Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life at UCSB presents
Melissa Harris-Perry, columnist for The Nation and commentator on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show
“Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America”
Tuesday, October 4 / 8:00 p.m.
UCSB Corwin Pavilion – A FREE event
Melissa Harris-Perry is professor of political science at Tulane University, where she is founding director of the Project on Gender, Race, and Politics in the South. She is also the author ofBarbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought, winner of the 2005 Best Book Award, Racial and Ethnic Political Identities, Ideologies and Theories Category of the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section, American Political Science Association and co-winner of the 2005 W.E.B. Du Bois Book Award, National Conference of Black Political Scientist. Copies of Sister Citizen will be available for purchase and signing at this free, public event.
Click here to visit the Mellisa Harris-Perry website
Co-sponsored by the Department of Black Studies
Spring Quarter 2011:
The Myth of an Un-Changing South African Past:
Racial Regimes, the Tradition of South African History, and the
Documentary Photography of Omar Badsha and Nadine Hutton
Black Studies Colloquium/Proseminar Series
A talk by Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Program in African American Studies, University of California, Irvine
Housing, Health, and Wealth
Black Studies Colloquium/Proseminar Series
A talk by Professor George Lipsitz, Departments of Black Studies and Sociology, UCSB
Date: May 26, 2011
Time: 5 PM
Location: Girvetz 2115
Fanonian Meditations: Reflections on the Epistemology of Decolonial Thinking
Black Studies Colloquium/Proseminar Series
A talk by Professor Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Department of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley
Date: May 19, 2011
Time: 5 PM
Location: Girvetz 2115
Torture and the fragment: Slaves Ancient and Modern
Black Studies Colloquium/Proseminar Series
A talk by Professor Page DuBois, UC San Diego
Date: May 12, 2011
Time: 5 PM
Location: Girvetz 2115
2nd Annual African Culture Show
Date: May 12, 2011
Time: 8-11 PM
Location: IV Theater
New Black Faces in a Black City
Black Studies Colloquium/Proseminar Series
A talk by LaToya Tavernier, Department of Black Studies Dissertation Scholar
Date: May 5, 2011
Time: 5 PM
Location: Girvetz 2115
A talk by Professor Earl Stewart
Dr. Earl Stewart’s Vernacular Harmony
Come hear Professor Earl Stewart from the Department of Black Studies talk discuss his new book,Vernacular Harmony, at the Center for Black Studies Research on Wednesday, May 4th at noon.
Date: May 4, 2011
Time: 12 PM/noon
Location: 4603 South Hall
Vacant Land and No Supermarkets in the Inner City: Food Insecurity and New Initiatives for Sustainability
Black Studies Colloquium/Proseminar Series
A talk by Dorceta Taylor, Associate Professor in the School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan
Date: April 20, 2011
Time: Moon
Location: MultiCultural Center Theater
How Racism Takes Place
Race Matters Series
George Lipsitz
Tuesday, April 19, 6:30 pm
Discussion/MCC Lounge
How to Study and Theorize the Changing Color of HIV/AIDS Prevention
Black Studies Colloquium/Proseminar Series
A talk by Kevin Moseby, Black Studies Dissertation Scholar
Date: April 14, 2011
Time: 5 PM
Winter Quarter 2011:
CHUCK D
"Let's Not Forget: Haiti, One Year Later"
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
7:00 pm Corwin Pavilion
Spring Quarter 2010:
Race and Desire: Black Actors in Adult Film A Conversations for Change/New Sexualities Symposium
Featuring Vanessa Blue, Sinnamon Love, and Tyler Knight
Moderated by Professor Mireille Miller-Young, Feminist Studies, UCSB
Date: Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Time: 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Location: Mosher Alumni House, UC Santa Barbara
Sponsors: The Department of Feminist Studies, The Hull Chair, The Center for Black Studies Research, The Department of Black Studies, The Women’s Center, The MultiCultural Center, and Interdisciplinary Humanities Center New Sexualities Research Focus Group
Cup of Culture - Meet the Filmmaker New Muslim Cool
Wednesday, May 26
6 pm
Film Screening/MCC Theater
New Muslim Cool is a documentary that follows three eventful years in the life of Hamza "Jason" Perez, a Puerto Rican convert to Islam, who is also a hip hop artist, interfaith prison chaplain and family man. New Muslim Cool is a nuanced and riveting story that premiered on PBS in June 2009. The MCC is screening the film on May 26th at 6 PM. Discussion with the director, Jennifer Maytorena Taylor and Su'ad Abdul Khabeer, Senior Project Advisor for the film, following the screening. Su'ad is a 2009-10 UCSB Department of Black Studies Dissertation Fellow. The Center for Black Studies Research, the Center for New Racial Studies and the UCSB Muslim Students Association are cosponsors of this event. Please see URLs below for details: |
COLLOQUIUM SERIES
Speaker: Kiana Green
Date: May 17, 2010
Location: Broida 1640
Time: 2 PM
Title of Talk: Real Black Masculinity: Constructing and Policing Black Masculine Lesbian Subjectivity in The Aggressives
Speaker: Zakiyyah Jackson
Date: May 18, 2010
Location: UCEN State Street Room
Time: 4 PM
Title of Talk: A Question Mark Followed by an Exclamation Point: Grace
Jones' Feline Feminine and the Limits of Purrrformativity
Speaker: Sionne Neeley
Date: May 20, 2010
Location: UCEN State Street Room
Time: 4 PM
Title of Talk: Listening to Another's Wound: The Kologo and Auto-Tune as Black Sound Technologies in Ghana and the U.S
Speaker: Suad Khabeer
Date: May 24, 2010
Location: UCEN Flying A Room
Time: 4 PM
Title of Talk: Islam in Color: Race, Hip Hop, and American Muslim Youth
Talk is co-sponsored by the Center for Middle East Studies
Race Matters Series"The Compton Cookout" and More: Race in the College Party Scene
Tuesday, May 11,
7:30 pm
Discussion/Embarcadero Hall
Racially charged theme parties are a growing trend on college campuses. But the parties have garnered national attention from those who question whether they are just clean fun, or symptomatic of more serious race- related issues in our community. Clyde Woods, professor in Black Studies and UCSB graduate student Reginald Archer will facilitate this discussion. Fnann Keflezighi, Sy Prescott, and David Ritcherson, leaders of the UCSD movement against campus racism will join in the discussion and sign copies of a new book on the UCSD/UC crisis entitled Another University Is Possible. |
Spring Diversity Festival: What are the prospects for minority/majority drama in the Age of Obama?
Thursday, April 29, 2010
The Multicultural Center Theater
Noon :
A video exhibition of collages by Romare Bearden that influenced the playwriting of August Wilson, the premiere African American dramatist |
3:30pm :
A reading of Act I of Pantomime, a play by Derek Walcott, Nobel Prize winning Caribbean author, that explores the difficulties that face us when the first become last and the last first in the postcolonial Americas. |
5:00pm :
A lecture “Looking Back to Look Forward: Cross-Cultural Diversity and Today’s American Theater,” a lecture by Stanford University Olive H. Palmer Professor of the Humanities Harry Elam, an expert on the plays of August Wilson and Luis Valdez, and the leading authority on African American Drama in the United States today. |
Percy Hintzen: Professor of African American Studies, Chair of the Center for African Studies, and former Director of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of California, Berkeley
Friday, April 16, 2010
4:00 - 5:30 pm
HSSB 1174
Re-Theorizing the African Diaspora: Metaphor, Revelaion, Recognition & Consciousness
The UC Multi-Campus Research Group in African Studies presents Percy Hintzen Professor of African American Studies, Chair of the Center for African Studies, and former Director of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of California, Berkeley Re-Theorizing the African Diaspora Metaphor, Revelation, Recognition & Consciousness Friday, April 16, 2010 4:00-5:30 pm HSSB 1174 Percy C. Hintzen is Professor and former Chair of African American Studies, a former Director of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He serves, currently, as Chair of the Center for African Studies. He earned his Ph.D. in Comparative Political Sociology from Yale University in 1981. His scholarship is organized around an examination of the relationship between the African Diaspora and the modern. More generally, it examines relationships among modernity, political economy, and the production of difference. His research has focused on the West Indies, Africa, and black immigrants to the United States. His publications include The Costs of Regime Survival, Cambridge University Press, 1989, West Indian in the West, New York University Press, 2001 and Problematizing Blackness: Self Ethnographies by Black Immigrants to the United States (edited with Jean Rahier), Routledge, 2003. He has also published numerous articles in journals and chapters in books on race, ethnicity, class, and political economy. |
Stacks of Obits: A Choreopoem
Thursday, April 15, 2010
7:30 pm
Performance / MCC Theater
Stephanie L. Batiste’s one-woman show is a rhythmic perfomative contemplation of the street murders of young people of color in Los Angeles. Batiste processes the obituaries, contained in a young woman’s scrapbook, of young black people killed with guns. The show acts as an intellectual and emotional intervention in a flood of unchecked violence. Directed by Brian Granger, graduate student in the Department of Theater and Dance. Krump performances by UCSB students. |
 Stephanie Batiste |
Roberto Hernandez
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Noon - 1 PM
Center for Black Studies Research, 4603 South Hall
Citizens and Felons: Race, Immigration, and Felony Disenfranchisement
The UCSB Center for Black Studies Research Presents Roberto Hernández y Citizens and Felons Race, Immigration, and Felony Disenfranchisement Roberto D. Hernández was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico but raised in San Ysidro, California, just a short ten blocks from the U-S///Mexico border with Tijuana. Hernández is currently a Visiting Researcher at the Center for Black Studies Research at UC Santa Barbara and Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is completing a dissertation examining the multiple manifestations of violence on the U-S///Mexico border in the context of nationalisms, coloniality and the modern/colonial world-system. Hernández was previously a Visiting Researcher in the Chicano Studies Institute (formerly known as the Center for Chicano Studies) at UC Santa Barbara, as well as a Graduate Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Social Change at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on U-S///Mexico border cities and the attendant social and political lived experiences (immigration, trade, smuggling, etc), social and antisystemic movements, epistemologies of resistance produced because of, against and despite nation-state borders, as well as the multiple and often competing tendencies of radical political thought and practices throughout the non-Western world from the 1930's to the present (cultural, revolutionary, and regressive nationalisms, Marxisms, feminisms, indigenismo, etc.) |
Fred Ho - Tomorrow is Now!
Monday, April 12, 2010
4:00 pm
Lecture-Demo/MCC Theater
Afro-Asian Music and the Revolutionary Imagination
Composer, baritone saxophonist, author, scholar, revolutionary matriarchal socialist and aspiring luddite activist Fred Ho will give a unique talk and solo baritone sax recital inter-connecting music and activism for social-political and cultural transformation to combat the plasticity and toxicity of industrial capitalist existence and to replace it with a new social life that is ecological and matriarchal. Fred Ho is the 16th Harvard Arts Medalist in the nearly 400 years of Harvard University. |
Shirley Kennedy Memorial Lecture
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
4:00 p.m.
UCSB MultiCultural Center Theater
cost: FREE
http://research.ucsb.edu/cbs/
The Center for Black Studies Research invites you to the eighth annual Shirley Kennedy Memorial Lecture!
Jayne Cortez, award-winning poet, musical performer, filmmaker, and social activist:
“From Watts to Dakar: A View of African American Culture in Los Angeles and Beyond”
We are excited to welcome poet, musical performer, filmmaker, and social activist Jayne Cortez to the MCC Theater for the premier Black Studies event on our campus. Ms. Cortez, who divides her time between New York City and Dakar, Senegal, won the 1980 American Book Award for /Mouth on Paper.
We hope you'll join us at this year’s Shirley Kennedy Memorial Lecture.
For questions about this event, please contact Mahsheed Ayoub at mayoub@cbs.uscb.edu or by phone at (805) 893-3914 on or after March 18.
We look forward to seeing you!
Spring Quarter 2009:
THE UCSB WOMEN'S CENTER PRESENTS:
2008-2009 Colloquium of Dissertation Scholars and Fellows
Please join us in the Women’s Center Conference Room for a series of lectures by the UCSB 2008-2009 dissertation scholars from the Department of Black Studies:
Erica Lorraine Williams
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
4:00 pm
Anxious Pleasures: Race and the Sexual Economies of Transnational Tourism in Salvador, Brazil
Investigating how discourses of black hypersexuality have constructed Salvador, Brazil, as a "site of desire" in the global tourist imaginary, Williams explores the lived effects that these discourses have on Afro-Brazilian women and men. Drawing upon data collected during 18 months of ethnographic field research, she highlights the dynamic between sex tourism and the commodification of Afro-Brazilian culture by examining how the state strategically appropriates an eroticized blackness and Afro-Brazilian culture to "sell" to foreign tourists.
Damien M. Schnyder
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
4:00 pm
Articulations of the State: Prison and Public Education
Building upon the school-to-prison pipeline scholarship, Schnyder explores the micro-processes by which public education as a state structure facilitates the movement of black male bodies into the labyrinth of the prison system. However, departing from the body of literature, he details how the public education structure is an ideological and pragmatic extension of the organizational logic of prison.
Following each of these presentations there will be a reception with light refreshments and the opportunity to speak with the dissertation scholars about their cutting-edge research. Don't miss this chance to visit with our distinguished visitors!
Click here to download the 2008-2009 Colloquium of Dissertation Scholars and Fellows in PDF format.
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Flavors of the Trade Winds by Gérard Georges Pigeon
Thursday, May 7, 2009
4:00 pm
Reading / MCC Lounge
The story of Doux Papa is a meditation on the Pigeon family's travels along the arms of a twentieth century triangular route between the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe. This account of his childhood incorporates not only personal memories, but also important elements of social history. It forms part of a strong new current in Caribbean writing striving to convey to the reader different and overlooked facets of Caribbean identity. Gérard Georges Pigeon will read passages from this book and answer questions. |
 Gérard Georges Pigeon Professor Emeritus |
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Roots of Community Exhibits
Locations:
UCSB Black Studies Department
3632 South Hall
Eastside Library Branch
1102 E. Montecito Street
Franklin Neighborhood Center
1136 E. Montecito Street
"Roots of Community" Archiving Workshop for the Community
Learn how to preserve and care for your family photos, scrapbooks, memorabilia and important documents.
Eastside Library
1102 E. Montecito Street
Martin Luther King Wing
Saturday, February 28, 2009
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Free of Charge! Held in conjunction with Roots of Community: African American Activism in Santa Barbara Exhibit.
Organized by the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives, Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Click Here for more "Roots of Community" Information
Winter Quarter 2009:
Reception for Roots of Community:
African American Activism in Santa Barbara
Monday, February 2, 2009
5:00 - 7:00 pm
Davidson Library's 3rd Floor
Mary Cheadle Room
Co-Sponsored by the Department of Black Studies
Click here to view event poster (pdf)
Fall Quarter 2008:
1968: A Global Year of Student Driven Change
Conference
November 20 - 22, 2008
Marking the 40th anniversary of the Black Student takeover of a computer building on the campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara, a conference, 1968: A Global Year of Student Driven Change, will take place at UCSB from November 20-22, of 2008.
The Department of Black Studies at UC Santa Barbara organizes this conference to place such Black student agency, which led to the founding of the Department and the Center for Black Studies Research at UCSB, in a global context, one that includes such other student driven awakenings as the Paris uprising in May of 1968, the university student protests in Mexico City on the eve of the Olympics, the launching of the Asian American Studies movement, and the codification of the Chicana/o Studies movement in El Plan de Santa Barbara in 1969.
View Conference Website for Complete Details
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Film Screening: "Trouble the Water"
Thursday, November 20, 2008
7:30 PM, Campbell Hall
"Superb…One of the best American documentaries in recent memory."
The New York Times
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, this astonishingly powerful documentary is at once horrifying and exhilarating. A never before seen look inside Hurricane Katrina, the film opens the day before the storm makes landfall, as an aspiring rap artist turns her new video camera on herself and her 9th Ward neighbors, weaving a redemptive tale of self-described street hustlers who become heroes and survive the storm to seize a chance for a new beginning.
(Tia Lessen & Carl Deal, 2008, 96 min.)
Professor Clyde Woods of the Department of Black Studies, who is studying rebuilding efforts in New Orleans, will introduce the film and lead an audience discussion immediately following the screening.
View the "Trouble the Water" Website
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Conference: Domesticity, Affect, Intimacy, Power and Justice
Friday, Saturday, & Sunday
October 24 - 26, 2008
University of California Santa Barbara
McCune Conference Room (6020 HSSB)
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Symposium - "Politics from Almost Anything:
A Lecture as an Art Proposal"
Hugo Hopping
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
5:00 - 7:00 pm, 1610 Broida Hall
Hugo Hopping is the current IHC Artist in Residence at the University of California at Santa Barbara. "Politics from almost anything: a lecture as an art proposal", is a presentation to make public the functions of his residency period, which kindly request to involve UCSB student participation and collaboration in three main facets of a project in support of a major conference taking place at UCSB, titled 1968: A Global Year of Student Driven Change, Nov. 20-22, 2008.
H.H. is an artist based in Los Angeles and Copenhagen. He has generated a variety of projects which have explored collaboration as a medium through a variety of formats and has exhibited his individual projects in Mexico, U.S. and Europe.
His residency has been made possible by a collaboration between the department of Black Studies and IHC at UCSB.
Additional event archives will be posted soon.
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