Announcement Archive

2025

Benjamin Barson, Ph.D. - “Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons” 5/28 & Multimedia Concert + Artist Talk - G. Rodriguez & B. Barson 5/27
May 19, 2025
Join the Department of Black Studies and our Co-sponsors in celebrating HAITIAN FLAG WEEK! Two-day Symposium: May 19, 2025 - May 20, 2025
May 18, 2025
The Black Studies Department Yoga Collective Presents: "Black Yoga for Everybody" - Join Dr. Gail Parker on 6/2/25 for "Restorative Yoga" Talk + Class
April 23, 2025
UCSB Department of Black Studies: Now Accepting Applications for 2025-26AY Dissertation Fellowship
April 23, 2025
"The Takeover" - Documentary Film produced by Black Studies Major, Zoe McCullough, and Natalia "Rosie" Bultman, News Director, KCSB Thursday, May 22nd 5pm @ MCC
April 8, 2025
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"What can I do with a major or minor in Black Studies?" (Anonymous UCSB Undergraduate) Read our Department's answer!
March 17, 2025

2024

UCSB Winthrop Undergraduate Research Grant for Students in the Division of Social Sciences - DEADLINE: Friday, June 7, 2024
May 29, 2024
“Archives Unbound: 50 Years of Hope, Resistance and Rebellion" - The Cedric J. Robinson and Elizabeth P. Robinson Conference
May 27, 2024
Race and Gender in a Tropical Democracy: Xica da Silva and Black Women' Agency in Colonial Brazil A Talk by Raquel Luciana de Souza (Federal University of Bahia)
May 22, 2024
Professor Jeffrey Stewart Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
May 21, 2024
STATEMENT ON UCSB's ENCAMPMENT - May 15, 2024
May 15, 2024
RESISTIR PARA EXISTIR Conference || DAY 2 PROGRAM || May 16 Mayo || ART GALLERY
May 14, 2024
RESISTIR PARA EXISTIR Conference || DAY 3 PROGRAM || May 17 Mayo || LIVE MUSIC
May 13, 2024
RESISTIR PARA EXISTIR Conference || DAY 1 PROGRAM || May 15 Mayo || FILM SCREENING
May 13, 2024
Professor Omise'eke Tinsley featured in Essence Magazine article: "To Black Women, 'Girlhood' Is More Than A Trend" (April 19, 2024)
April 25, 2024
Professor Sabrina Strings' book, Fearing the Black Body (NYU Press, 2019), featured in The New York Times article: "Let them Eat. . .Everything" (April 24, 2024)
April 22, 2024
CONFERENCE PROGRAM - "Resistir Para Existir: Black LGBT Art and Activism in the Americas" || May 15th - May 17th @ UCSB ||
April 13, 2024
The Hull Endowed Chair & Department of Feminist Studies presents - Annual Hull Lecture by Dr. Anne Premilla Nadasen || "Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism"
April 12, 2024
Black Studies Colloquium Series presents: "Theorizing Black Inches: Reading the Homo-Thug in Thug Pornography" - A lecture by Mark Lockwood, Dissertation Scholar
April 10, 2024
Black Studies Colloquium Series: "Exploring the Transformative Power of Studying Black Life" - Waverly Duck, Professor and North Hall Chair of Sociology || 4/29, 10:30am-12:00pm ||
April 9, 2024