Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA

08/06/2019

Mark Q. Sawyer Memorial Lecture in Racial and Ethnic Studies

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11/26/2018

30th Annual Neuroscience Poster Session Distinguished Lecture and Inclusive Excellence Seminar with Dr. Erich Jarvis




The UCLA Brain Research Institute and UCLA Scientific Excellence Through Diversity Committee Present:
Erich Jarvis, Ph.D.
Professor, Laboratory of Neurogenetics of Language, Rockefeller University Investigator, HHMI
30th Annual Neuroscience Poster Session Distinguished Lecture:
"Insights from Non-Human Animals into the Neurobiology of Human Language"
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Ackerman Union Grand Ballroom
4pm

    The UCLA Brain Research Institute and UCLA Scientific Excellence Through Diversity Committee Present: Erich Jarvis, Ph.D. Professor, Laboratory of Neurogenetics of Language, Rockefeller University Investigator, HHMI 30th Annual …

11/20/2018

Save the date! Sunday, Dec. 2nd, 2 pm - 4 pm, Transformation: Lectures, Conversations and Storytelling about Healing and Social Action. Integrity, a storytelling event. Speakers include Aurora Levins Morales, Robin Kelley Professor of History, Ariel Hernandez & Everlyn Hunter.

11/07/2018

"Clarity: A Storytelling Event" is in just 10 days, and features storyteller Dean Steckman.

Saturday, 11/17 at 2pm Mercado La Paloma, at 3655 S. Grand Ave in the Conference Room. Co-sponsored by A New Way of Life Re-Entry Project and by Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. Free and open to the public.

About Dean:

Dean Steckman serves as an Educational Advisor for CalWORKs/ Workforce Preparation at Moreno Valley College (MVC). In this role, he is able to assist and advise students who belong to underrepresented, under-served, disadvantaged, and low-income populations. Dean started his educational journey at 26 years, and is a single parent of two, and a CalWORKS recipient. He is passionate about getting to work with students who are also parenting.

Dean started attending MVC in Fall of 2012 and graduated with two Associate degrees in Spring 2015. Shortly after, in Fall of 2015, Dean transferred to University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as a Psychology major. In Summer of 2017, Dean graduated from UCLA with a Bachelors degree in Gender Studies. In Fall of 2017, Dean went on to pursue a Masters of Science in Counseling & Student Development in Higher Education (SDHE) at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB). Dean is currently in his second year of his master’s program and looks forward to graduating in Spring of 2020. Dean aspires to become a counselor at a community college and eventually move into educational administration in Student Services.

More info at: repairconnect.org/events

11/06/2018

BLACK FEMINISM AND THE PRACTICE OF CARE

Friday, November 16th, 2018
9:00am-4:30pm
9:00am Breakfast, 9:30am Discussions , 4:30pm Closing Reception
UCLA Faculty Center, Sequoia Room

Register now: BFPC2018.eventbrite.com

Audre Lorde famously maintained that “caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” This gathering explores the concept of care against the backdrop of Lorde’s quote, through the lens of black feminist epistemology and praxis. It understands care as a community practice of generating power, as well as an individual ethic of self-love, and asks how ideas about care shape our political activism, critiques of power, and dreams of freedom. It also seeks to reimagine black well-being within a self-help culture that privileges whiteness and normative femininity, and explores how black people have cared for one another across time and space. And it reconsiders the most familiar narratives of stress and depletion to show how black lives are diminished by state violence, historical trauma, neoliberal assaults, heteropatriarchal norms, ravaging kin ties, and intramural violence. How can we engage new possibilities for self-care, radical healing, wholeness, and joy?

BLACK FEMINISM AND THE PRACTICE OF CARE Friday, November 16th, 2018 9:00am-4:30pm 9:00am Breakfast, 9:30am Discussions , 4:30pm Closing Reception UCLA Faculty Center, Sequoia Room Audre Lorde famously maintained that …

11/05/2018

Congratulations to Kelly Lytle Hernandez, the 2018 John Hope Franklin Prize awardee for best published book in American Studies, "City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965." This award honors preeminent historian John Hope Franklin.

10/31/2018

“Black History in Dark Times: Reflections of an Historian”

Historians in Society Lecture Series

Peter Hudson, UCLA Departments of African American Studies and History

First published in 1938 as the dark clouds of fascism amassed over Europe, CLR James’ classic study, "The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution," described the efforts of enslaved Africans to found a Black Republic – Haiti – at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Yet it was written with another historical struggle on the horizon: the coming decolonization of Africa. Given the multiple historical coordinates of book, "The Black Jacobins" – and CLR James himself – offers us any number of lessons on the writing of history and the historian in society. This talk will explore some of these lessons, especially as they pertain to the writing of Black history during our current perilous times.

Historian in Society Lecture Series Peter Hudson, UCLA Departments of African American Studies and History First published in 1938 as the dark clouds of fascism amassed over Europe, CLR James’ …

10/30/2018

The November 2018 Bunche Center newsletter is now available! To download, click below.

Highlights include Kelly Lytle Hernández's Robert G. Athearn Prize for best book, "City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965" (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), Lorrie Frasure-Yokley's Distinguished Teaching Award, Brenda Stevenson's 2018 Carter G. Woodson Scholars Award, a new report by Million Dollar Hoods, and more.

Upcoming events include:
- "The Black Blackout: New Media Erasures of Black and Brown Narratives - And How to Fight Back" on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018, 12:30 pm - 2 pm at Haines Hall 153.
- Film screening and panel discussion with director and writer of Sorry To Bother You, Boots Riley, on Tues., Nov 6, 2018, 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm at the Fowler Museum.
- Repair "Clarity: Stories by Jerrika Hinton, Susan Burton, Dean Tutulu Steckman, Gabriela Sanchez Marez, with a vocal performance by Danette Wilson," on Sat., Nov. 17, 2018, 2 pm - 4 pm at Mercado La Paloma.

The November 2018 Bunche Center newsletter is now available! To download, click here, or click on the image below. Highlights include Kelly Lytle Hernández’s Robert G. Athearn Prize for best book, City of …

10/23/2018

Please join us on Thursday, November 1, 2018, 12:30 pm - 2 pm at Haines Hall 153, for a discussion with Esther Iverem on "The Black Blackout: New Media Erasures of Black and Brown Narratives - And How to Fight Back."

Please join us on Thursday, November 1, 2018, 12:30 pm – 2 pm at Haines Hall 153, for a discussion with Esther Iverem on “The Black Blackout: New Media Erasures …

10/23/2018

10/23/2018

UCLA Department of Anthropology, Undergraduate Program, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA present director Boots Riley and his film "Sorry to Bother You" on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm at the Lenart Auditorium (A103B) in the Fowler Museum. Q&A follows with H. Samy Alim, Gaye Theresa Johnson, Boots Riley, Kelly Lytle Hernandez, and Robin D.G. Kelley.

UCLA Department of Anthropology, Undergraduate Program, Luskin School of Public Affairs and the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies present director Boots Riley and his film Sorry to …