Events

Nite Bjuti Residency

Join us for a performance with Nite Bjuti at BAMPFA, as a part of their artist residency with  the Black Studies Collaboratory housed in the Department of African American Studies at UC Berkeley.

Cat Brooks Residency

Cat Brooks, returns to UC Berkeley for a special residency organized by the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS), and co-sponsored Black Studies Collaboratory.

Black chicagoland is… Opening Reception

The Black Studies Collaboratory and the Department of Art Practice are pleased to present Black chicagoland is… a multi-sensory collaboration cultivated by Roderick E. Jackson and april l. graham-jackson that explores the music, sociosonics, visuals, and geographies of Black life across Chicagoland. Black chicagoland is… brings together richly textured photography, the music and sounds of Black chicagoland, and inner musings from Black Chicagoans to thicken how we understand Black Chicagoness within and beyond the city’s iconic South Side.

Black chicagoland is…

The Black Studies Collaboratory and the Department of Art Practice are pleased to present Black chicagoland is… a multi-sensory collaboration cultivated by Roderick E. Jackson and april l. graham-jackson that explores the music, sociosonics, visuals, and geographies of Black life across Chicagoland. Black chicagoland is… brings together richly textured photography, the music and sounds of Black chicagoland, and inner musings from Black Chicagoans to thicken how we understand Black Chicagoness within and beyond the city’s iconic South Side.

2023 BSC Small Grantee Symposium

Join the Black Studies Collaboratory and the Department of African American Studies for our first Small Grantee Symposium, featuring the projects of some of the 27 recipients of our Spring and Summer 2022 Small Grantee Program.

Summer 2023 Small Grants Program Info Session #2

Join this info session to learn more about our Small Grants Program and Fall 2022 application!

Summer 2023 Small Grants Program Info Session #1

Join this info session to learn more about our Small Grants Program and Fall 2022 application!

Sacred Larder: Uplifting the Histories and Memories of Traditional Food Preservation Techniques in the Black Community

The Unheard Black Deaf in Arts

White Supremacy: Black Trauma and Healing Justice as a Liberatory Practice

Educate to Liberate: A Black Panther Photographic Time Capsule Unveiled

Ferguson Rises: Black Grief, Insurgent Memory, and the Politics of Transformation

“On Erotic Mastery”: Pornography, Hip-Hop Feminisms, and Transness

Hit2Hit: Battle of Celebrated Rwandan Music Producers Trackslayer and Dr. Nganji, a Documentary Screening and Discussion

Caught Caring: (Un)freedom and the Costs of Service Labor in the University

Ebony Visions and Cowrie Shell Dreams: Black Storytelling and Children’s Literature across the Generations

Fall 2022 Small Grants Program Info Session #2

Join this info session to learn more about our Small Grants Program and Fall 2022 application!

Fall 2022 Small Grants Program Info Session #1

Join this info session to learn more about our Small Grants Program and Fall 2022 application!

2022 BSC Small Grantee Symposium

Join the Black Studies Collaboratory and the Department of African American Studies for our first Small Grantee Symposium, featuring the projects of some of the 27 recipients of our Spring and Summer 2022 Small Grantee Program.

Black Love, Black Power, Black Families, in Amerikkka, Part One

Gag | Re | Flex : when life gives you xxxxxxx

On Black Violence and Black Futures with Kellie Carter Jackson and Lenora Warren

Black Healing Portal I: Transpoetic Artistic Experience, Surviving Futuristic Spirituality

Show Don’t Tell: Describing Life with Kevin Quashie and Christina Sharpe

On These We Stand: Collecting, Documenting and Archiving Black Lives and Cultures

Black Love, Black Power, Black Families, in Amerikkka, Part Two

Genocide, Antiblackness, + the Pornographic: The Urgency of Black Autonomy and Abolitionist Activism

The New Eagle Creek Saloon: The Black Aesthetic at the Kitchen (NYC)

The Performance of Labor/The Labor of Performance: A Convening

Curated by Ra Malika Imhotep, The Performance of Labor/The Labor of Performance is a convening of Black feminist artists and cultural workers who will communally explore the question(s) of how the forms and methods of opera, surrealism, free jazz, poetry, & dance help us communicate the concerns of radical black feminism(s)

“Music, the Diaspora, and the World”: A Conversation with Angélique Kidjo

Angélique Kidjo will be joined in conversation by Tianna Paschel, Associate Professor in the UC Berkeley Department of African American Studies; Ivy Mills, Lecturer, Visual and Literary Cultures of Africa and the African Diaspora; and Victoria Grubbs, Lecturer and Black Studies Collaboratory Postdoctoral Fellow.

Small Grants Program Info Session and Q+A

Join our info session to learn more about the Small Grants Program and the application process. We will hold a Q+A session where you can get answers to your questions.

Ochy Curiel’s Opening Keynote for the Global Black Feminism Summer Lab

The Black Studies Collaboratory at UC Berkeley invites you to attend the opening keynote for the Global Black Feminisms Summer Lab. Ochy Curiel’s keynote, “From Identity Politics to a Non-Fragmented Analysis of Oppression,” will be held virtually at 1:00 PST on June 28.

Black Feminist Geographies of Emancipation

The Department of African American Studies invites you to join us to discuss how black communities have navigated their everyday lives through practices of space-making and survival, resistance and refusal, in the context of antiblackness, gentrification and neoliberal multiculturalism. This conversation will also explore what black feminism offers for understanding these complex practices and ultimately toward the goal of emancipation.

Abolition for the People with Kaepernick Publishing

This event, part of a series on abolition democracy, features editors and contributors to Kaepernick Publishing’s groundbreaking online publication, “Abolition for the People,” a project produced by Kaepernick Publishing in partnership with LEVEL. In conversation with Nikki Jones and Gabriel Regalado, Berkeley alumni Ameer Loggins, Christopher Petrella, and Connie Wun, and prominent abolitionist Mariame Kaba, author of We Do This ‘Til We Free Us

Abolition, Black Studies & the Law

On behalf of The Department of African American Studies, we invite you to join us for a conversation about police abolition. This event, part of a series on this topic, will feature two of the leading scholars in conversations on police reform and the enduring legacies of racial violence.

Black Feminism & the Sonic Archive

Black Feminism and the Sonic Archive The third in our series celebrating the life and legacy of Dr. Barbara T. Christian features two of her former students sharing their groundbreaking work on Black sound, Black archives and Black feminist thought.