The Black Studies Collaboratory Sitemap Pages AboutBlack Futures Retreat Photo GalleryBlogContactEventsFAQ’sNewsOpportunitiesPressProgramsResourcesThe Black Studies CollaboratoryThe Black Studies Collaboratory Sitemap Posts Berkeley, College of Letters and Science: UC Berkeley’s Department of African American Studies Awarded $2.8 Million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Center for Education Partnerships: UC Berkeley’s African American Studies Department Receives $2.8M Grant The Daily Californian: UC Berkeley’s African American studies department receives $2.8M grant The Grio: UC Berkeley’s African American Studies Department awarded $2.8 million for community project Yahoo: UC Berkeley’s African American Studies Department awarded $2.8 million for community project Press The Black Studies Collaboratory Welcomes Nite Bjuti for Residency at UC Berkeley in March 2024 March 11, 2024 The Black Studies Collaboratory (BSC) is excited to announce Nite Bjuti’s upcoming artist residency in March 2024. Nite Bjuti, (pronounced “Night Beauty”), is a mesmerizing trio composed of Candice Hoyes, Val Jeanty, and Mimi Jones. This Afro Caribbean ensemble is renowned for their evocative improvisations, blending electronics, vocalism, bass, Haitian drum rhythms, sampling, and spoken word to craft a captivating narrative journey. From March 11 through 14, Nite Bjuti will participate in programming with the Department of African American Studies, including a guest class lecture. On Wednesday, March 13th at 7:30 pm, Nite Bjuti will share their work in a public performance at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA). The trio will also lead an interactive conversation on archives, sonic storytelling, and collaboration following their performance Tickets, free of charge, are required to attend and will be available starting Wednesday, February 14 at 11 am. Nite Bjuti’s residency in the Department of African American Studies at UC Berkeley promises to be a remarkable exploration of their unique artistic expression. Inspired by the centuries-old Haitian folklore of “Night Beauty,” Nite Bjuti delves into a world where a girl’s bones sing in her afterlife, her spirit seeking justice. The trio is celebrated for their exceptional contributions to the arts, having received the UMEZ Arts Engagement Grant for their 2022 mixed media installation, commissioned by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. In 2020, they were honored with the NYC Women’s Fund in Jazz Music, fully funding their highly anticipated debut album, which was released in 2023. Please join us on March 13th at BAMPFA to experience Nite Bjuti! Berkeley Talks: Michael Brown’s family on keeping his memory alive August 25, 2023 | UC Berkeley Public Affairs Rashad Arman Timmons, a fellow at UC Berkeley’s Black Studies Collaboratory, joins in conversation with the family of Michael Brown Jr., whose 2014 killing by police ignited a wave of protests across the country. Listening to Rwandan Popular Music with Victoria Netanus Grubbs August 7, 2023 | UC Berkeley Social Science Matrix This episode of the Matrix Podcast features an interview with Victoria Netanus Grubbs, a Black feminist sound theorist and abolitionist educator. Victoria is currently the Black Studies Collaboratory Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley. She completed her PhD in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University in May 2021. Her current book project, Kumva Meze Neza: Sounding Blackness in Rwanda, examines how popular Rwandan music worked in the aftermath of genocide to produce a collective social body. Drawing on five years of participant observation among Rwandan music industry professionals and their audiences, her work demonstrates how shared investments in the sensory experience of Blackness produce formations of togetherness that defy traditional organizing categories. The World-Building Potential of Black Studies March 17, 2023 | Najmul Miah In colleges and universities where African American or Black Studies programs exist, they are often interdisciplinary—integrating academic disciplines ranging from history and anthropology to the arts, and more. As a field unto itself, Black Studies is both nascent and revelatory: What Black Studies teaches us about Black life and liberation reveals deep insights into the American story writ large. How the Black Studies Collaboratory is reimagining Black Studies through community engagement November 10, 2022 | Michelle Phillips When UC Berkeley’s African American Studies professors Leigh Raiford and Tianna Paschel launched the Black Studies Collaboratory (BSC) in 2021(link is external), their vision centered on creating a space for critical, joyful and generative engagement that would expand beyond the institution and into the surrounding community. “This is an opportunity to experiment with new forms of collaboration, engage in new conversations around freedom, justice, and joy, and to deepen our roots in the Bay Area,” said Paschel. Chancellor Carol Christ added, “The project will take this critical moment in our history as an invitation to reimagine African American Studies’ relationship to the institution of the university and in turn reimagine the institution’s relationship to its surrounding Black communities.” Now halfway into its three-year journey, the Black Studies Collaboratory has constructed creative and inclusive means to gather and mobilize artists, activists and scholars in service to the interdisciplinary, political, and world-building work of Black Studies. The Black Studies Collaboratory Welcomes Second Cohort of Abolition Democracy Fellows August 15, 2022 | The Black Studies Collaboratory The Black Studies Collaboratory at UC Berkeley announces Abolition Democracy Fellows for the 2022-2023 academic year. Postdoctoral Fellows Dr. Peace And Love El Henson and Dr. Victoria Grubbs, and Elder in Residence Ms. Daphne Muse, continuing their positions from last year, will be joined by Dissertation Writing Fellows Caleb Dawson and Rashad Timmons; Activist in Residence Cat Brooks; Artist Fellows Antoine Hunter and Bryant Terry; and Archivist in Residence Lisbet Tellefsen. Berkeley Talks: The performance of labor March 28, 2022 In episode 134 of Berkeley Talks, Black feminist artists and cultural workers communally explore the questions of how the forms and methods of opera, surrealism, free jazz, poetry and dance help us communicate the concerns of radical Black feminisms. A través del rap: grupo Krudxs Cubensi promueve el respeto y la inclusión February 10, 2022 | Telemundo 48 El grupo Krudxs Cubensi, integrado Odaymar y Oli, busca a través del rap mover corazones, emociones y llamar a la libertad. Odaymar y Oli representan a la comunidad LGBTQ+ y se identifican como queers y feministas que defienden su causa. “Con el rap tu consigues un beat, escribes tus líricas, las pones juntas y ya es una manera asequible para la gente que no tiene mucho poder hacer la música”, explicaron. Welcome Our Dissertation & Postdoc Abolition Democracy Fellows! May 28, 2021 | The Black Studies Collaboratory We are excited to support and learn from this talented and innovative group of interdisciplinary scholars each working at the leading edge of Black Studies Hip Hop Duo Krudxs Cubensi Joins BSC as Artist Fellows May 14, 2021 | The Black Studies Collaboratory The Black Studies Collaboratory (BSC) at UC Berkeley is excited to announce that the Afro-Cuban queer feminist Hip Hop duo, Krudxs Cubensi, will join the Abolition Democracy Fellows program (ADFP) as Artist Fellows. Welcome Zachary Norris: Our Inaugural Activist-in-Residence! April 27, 2021 | The Black Studies Collaboratory The Black Studies Collaboratory (BSC) at UC Berkeley is pleased to announce that Zachary Norris will take part in the Abolition Democracy Fellows Program as the first Activist-in-Residence. Welcome Sadie Barnette: Our Inaugural Artist Fellow! April 23, 2021 | The Black Studies Collaboratory The Black Studies Collaboratory (BSC) at UC Berkeley is pleased to announce that Sadie Barnette will be the BSC inaugural Artist Fellow. Welcome Daphne Muse: Our Inaugural Elder in Residence! March 23, 2021 | The Black Studies Collaboratory The Black Studies Collaboratory is honored to announce Ms. Daphne Muse as the inaugural Elder-in-Residence. Hosted under the Abolition Democracy Fellows Program Berkeley, College of Letters and Science: UC Berkeley’s Department of African American Studies Awarded $2.8 Million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation January 18, 2021 | Berkeley Letters & Science The Division of Social Sciences congratulates UC Berkeley African American Studies on this inspiring achievement. Center for Education Partnerships: UC Berkeley’s African American Studies Department Receives $2.8M Grant January 18, 2021 | Center for Educational Partners UC Berkeley’s African American studies department was awarded a $2.8 million grant by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation on Dec. 11, 2020, to support an initiative led by the department’s faculty. The Daily Californian: UC Berkeley’s African American studies department receives $2.8M grant January 18, 2021 | The Daily Californian UC Berkeley’s African American studies department was awarded a $2.8 million grant by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation on Dec. 11, 2020, to support an initiative led by the department’s faculty. The Grio: UC Berkeley’s African American Studies Department awarded $2.8 million for community project January 17, 2021 | The Grio UC Berkeley’s African American Studies Department has received a $2.8 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to expand its community impact. Yahoo: UC Berkeley’s African American Studies Department awarded $2.8 million for community project January 17, 2021 | Yahoo! “Black Studies Collaboratory,” a three-year project that is overseen by the department, is set to expand Black studies outside of the classroom to educate the community and general public. The project is led by professors Leigh Raiford and Tianna S. Paschel. Berkeley News: Berkeley African American Studies awarded $2.8 million grant to expand community impact January 15, 2021 | Berkeley News What is the role of Black studies in building a more just future? What lessons from Black feminist, radical and intellectual traditions can we apply to this moment in history? And how do we solidify our commitment to Black studies as a public good? Programs Community Partners Program The Black Studies Collaboratory is pleased to announce our Community Partners for the 2022-2023 academic year. This partnership brings together Black organizations across the Bay Area from a broad cross-section of community-building and service. Through generative, insightful partnerships, we are striving toward expanding this year of deep communal work, world building, and public engagement with Black Studies. BSC & BAOBOB Announce Membership Directory The Black Studies Collaboratory (BSC) at UC Berkeley and the Bay Area Organization of Black Owned Businesses (BAOBOB) have developed a close partnership through the BSC’s Community Partners Program. We have worked together to uplift the quality of Small Grants Program The Small Grants Program will provide grants of up to $5,000 for research, teaching, curriculum development, and related projects to faculty, undergraduates students, graduate students, and staff, either as individuals, teams, or as representatives of a UC Berkeley program, department, or unit. Fall 2022 – Spring 2023 Black Futures Retreat At the conclusion of these three years of Black Studies Collaboratory programming, we will take time to reflect, recharge, and be in celebration through a Black Futures Retreat. Fall 2023 (stay tuned) Black Studies Open University The Black Studies Open University will offer a one credit course open to the public whose syllabus will be generated from the work of the Abolition Democracy Fellows Program and the Global Black Feminisms Summer Lab. Spring 2023 Global Black Feminisms Summer Lab The Global Black Feminisms Summer Lab (Summers 2021-2023) will bring together senior mentors and advanced graduate students in the humanities for a one to two-week summer intensive program. Summers 2021, 2022, 2023 Abolition Democracy Fellows Program During the 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 academic years, the ADFP welcomes a core group of 12-15 fellows research and practice are located within the humanities and appropriately intersects with the mission of the Black Studies Collaboratory. The cohorts will be comprised of: Elder in Residence, Activist/Community Scholar in Residence, Artist Fellows, Postdoctoral fellows, and Dissertation fellows. 2021-2022, 2022-2023 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. Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Date: 03/13/2024 Read More 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. Time: 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Date: 10/16/2023 – 10/22/2023 Read More 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. Time: 9:30 am – 5:00 pm Date: 09/15/2023 Read More 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. Time: 5:00 pm – 12:00 am Date: 08/30/2023 – 09/21/2023 Read More 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. Time: 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Date: 08/30/2023 Read More Sacred Larder: Uplifting the Histories and Memories of Traditional Food Preservation Techniques in the Black Community Time: 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Date: 04/19/2023 Read More The Unheard Black Deaf in Arts Time: 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Date: 04/12/2023 Read More White Supremacy: Black Trauma and Healing Justice as a Liberatory Practice Time: 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Date: 04/05/2023 Read More Summer 2023 Small Grants Program Info Session #2 Join this info session to learn more about our Small Grants Program and Fall 2022 application! Time: 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm Date: 03/23/2023 Read More Summer 2023 Small Grants Program Info Session #1 Join this info session to learn more about our Small Grants Program and Fall 2022 application! Time: 5:00 pm – 5:30 pm Date: 03/21/2023 Read More Educate to Liberate: A Black Panther Photographic Time Capsule Unveiled Time: 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Date: 03/15/2023 Read More Ferguson Rises: Black Grief, Insurgent Memory, and the Politics of Transformation Time: 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Date: 03/08/2023 Read More “On Erotic Mastery”: Pornography, Hip-Hop Feminisms, and Transness Time: 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Date: 03/01/2023 Read More Hit2Hit: Battle of Celebrated Rwandan Music Producers Trackslayer and Dr. Nganji, a Documentary Screening and Discussion Time: 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Date: 02/22/2023 Read More Caught Caring: (Un)freedom and the Costs of Service Labor in the University Time: 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Date: 02/08/2023 – 02/01/2023 Read More Ebony Visions and Cowrie Shell Dreams: Black Storytelling and Children’s Literature across the Generations Time: 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Date: 02/01/2023 Read More Fall 2022 Small Grants Program Info Session #2 Join this info session to learn more about our Small Grants Program and Fall 2022 application! Time: 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm Date: 09/22/2022 Read More Fall 2022 Small Grants Program Info Session #1 Join this info session to learn more about our Small Grants Program and Fall 2022 application! Time: 6:00 pm – 6:30 pm Date: 09/15/2022 Read More 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. Time: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Date: 09/09/2022 Read More On Black Violence and Black Futures with Kellie Carter Jackson and Lenora Warren Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 am Date: 04/27/2022 Read More Black Healing Portal I: Transpoetic Artistic Experience, Surviving Futuristic Spirituality Time: 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm Date: 04/20/2022 Read More Show Don’t Tell: Describing Life with Kevin Quashie and Christina Sharpe Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Date: 04/13/2022 Read More On These We Stand: Collecting, Documenting and Archiving Black Lives and Cultures Time: 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Date: 04/06/2022 Read More Black Love, Black Power, Black Families, in Amerikkka, Part Two Time: 10:00 am – 11:30 am Date: 03/30/2022 Read More Black Love, Black Power, Black Families, in Amerikkka, Part One Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Date: 03/16/2022 Read More Gag | Re | Flex : when life gives you xxxxxxx Time: 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Date: 03/09/2022 Read More Genocide, Antiblackness, + the Pornographic: The Urgency of Black Autonomy and Abolitionist Activism Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Date: 03/02/2022 Read More The New Eagle Creek Saloon: The Black Aesthetic at the Kitchen (NYC) Time: 3:30 pm – 6:30 pm Date: 02/25/2022 Read More 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) Time: 11:00 am – 12:30 am Date: 02/11/2022 Read More “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. Time: 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm Date: 10/28/2021 Read More 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. Time: 1:00 pm – 6:30 pm Date: 10/18/2021 – 10/19/2021 Read More 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. Time: 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Date: 06/28/2021 Read More 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. Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Date: 05/04/2021 Read More 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 Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Date: 03/29/2021 Read More 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. Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Date: 03/01/2021 Read More
Berkeley, College of Letters and Science: UC Berkeley’s Department of African American Studies Awarded $2.8 Million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Center for Education Partnerships: UC Berkeley’s African American Studies Department Receives $2.8M Grant
The Grio: UC Berkeley’s African American Studies Department awarded $2.8 million for community project
The Black Studies Collaboratory Welcomes Nite Bjuti for Residency at UC Berkeley in March 2024 March 11, 2024 The Black Studies Collaboratory (BSC) is excited to announce Nite Bjuti’s upcoming artist residency in March 2024. Nite Bjuti, (pronounced “Night Beauty”), is a mesmerizing trio composed of Candice Hoyes, Val Jeanty, and Mimi Jones. This Afro Caribbean ensemble is renowned for their evocative improvisations, blending electronics, vocalism, bass, Haitian drum rhythms, sampling, and spoken word to craft a captivating narrative journey. From March 11 through 14, Nite Bjuti will participate in programming with the Department of African American Studies, including a guest class lecture. On Wednesday, March 13th at 7:30 pm, Nite Bjuti will share their work in a public performance at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA). The trio will also lead an interactive conversation on archives, sonic storytelling, and collaboration following their performance Tickets, free of charge, are required to attend and will be available starting Wednesday, February 14 at 11 am. Nite Bjuti’s residency in the Department of African American Studies at UC Berkeley promises to be a remarkable exploration of their unique artistic expression. Inspired by the centuries-old Haitian folklore of “Night Beauty,” Nite Bjuti delves into a world where a girl’s bones sing in her afterlife, her spirit seeking justice. The trio is celebrated for their exceptional contributions to the arts, having received the UMEZ Arts Engagement Grant for their 2022 mixed media installation, commissioned by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. In 2020, they were honored with the NYC Women’s Fund in Jazz Music, fully funding their highly anticipated debut album, which was released in 2023. Please join us on March 13th at BAMPFA to experience Nite Bjuti!
Berkeley Talks: Michael Brown’s family on keeping his memory alive August 25, 2023 | UC Berkeley Public Affairs Rashad Arman Timmons, a fellow at UC Berkeley’s Black Studies Collaboratory, joins in conversation with the family of Michael Brown Jr., whose 2014 killing by police ignited a wave of protests across the country.
Listening to Rwandan Popular Music with Victoria Netanus Grubbs August 7, 2023 | UC Berkeley Social Science Matrix This episode of the Matrix Podcast features an interview with Victoria Netanus Grubbs, a Black feminist sound theorist and abolitionist educator. Victoria is currently the Black Studies Collaboratory Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley. She completed her PhD in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University in May 2021. Her current book project, Kumva Meze Neza: Sounding Blackness in Rwanda, examines how popular Rwandan music worked in the aftermath of genocide to produce a collective social body. Drawing on five years of participant observation among Rwandan music industry professionals and their audiences, her work demonstrates how shared investments in the sensory experience of Blackness produce formations of togetherness that defy traditional organizing categories.
The World-Building Potential of Black Studies March 17, 2023 | Najmul Miah In colleges and universities where African American or Black Studies programs exist, they are often interdisciplinary—integrating academic disciplines ranging from history and anthropology to the arts, and more. As a field unto itself, Black Studies is both nascent and revelatory: What Black Studies teaches us about Black life and liberation reveals deep insights into the American story writ large.
How the Black Studies Collaboratory is reimagining Black Studies through community engagement November 10, 2022 | Michelle Phillips When UC Berkeley’s African American Studies professors Leigh Raiford and Tianna Paschel launched the Black Studies Collaboratory (BSC) in 2021(link is external), their vision centered on creating a space for critical, joyful and generative engagement that would expand beyond the institution and into the surrounding community. “This is an opportunity to experiment with new forms of collaboration, engage in new conversations around freedom, justice, and joy, and to deepen our roots in the Bay Area,” said Paschel. Chancellor Carol Christ added, “The project will take this critical moment in our history as an invitation to reimagine African American Studies’ relationship to the institution of the university and in turn reimagine the institution’s relationship to its surrounding Black communities.” Now halfway into its three-year journey, the Black Studies Collaboratory has constructed creative and inclusive means to gather and mobilize artists, activists and scholars in service to the interdisciplinary, political, and world-building work of Black Studies.
The Black Studies Collaboratory Welcomes Second Cohort of Abolition Democracy Fellows August 15, 2022 | The Black Studies Collaboratory The Black Studies Collaboratory at UC Berkeley announces Abolition Democracy Fellows for the 2022-2023 academic year. Postdoctoral Fellows Dr. Peace And Love El Henson and Dr. Victoria Grubbs, and Elder in Residence Ms. Daphne Muse, continuing their positions from last year, will be joined by Dissertation Writing Fellows Caleb Dawson and Rashad Timmons; Activist in Residence Cat Brooks; Artist Fellows Antoine Hunter and Bryant Terry; and Archivist in Residence Lisbet Tellefsen.
Berkeley Talks: The performance of labor March 28, 2022 In episode 134 of Berkeley Talks, Black feminist artists and cultural workers communally explore the questions of how the forms and methods of opera, surrealism, free jazz, poetry and dance help us communicate the concerns of radical Black feminisms.
A través del rap: grupo Krudxs Cubensi promueve el respeto y la inclusión February 10, 2022 | Telemundo 48 El grupo Krudxs Cubensi, integrado Odaymar y Oli, busca a través del rap mover corazones, emociones y llamar a la libertad. Odaymar y Oli representan a la comunidad LGBTQ+ y se identifican como queers y feministas que defienden su causa. “Con el rap tu consigues un beat, escribes tus líricas, las pones juntas y ya es una manera asequible para la gente que no tiene mucho poder hacer la música”, explicaron.
Welcome Our Dissertation & Postdoc Abolition Democracy Fellows! May 28, 2021 | The Black Studies Collaboratory We are excited to support and learn from this talented and innovative group of interdisciplinary scholars each working at the leading edge of Black Studies
Hip Hop Duo Krudxs Cubensi Joins BSC as Artist Fellows May 14, 2021 | The Black Studies Collaboratory The Black Studies Collaboratory (BSC) at UC Berkeley is excited to announce that the Afro-Cuban queer feminist Hip Hop duo, Krudxs Cubensi, will join the Abolition Democracy Fellows program (ADFP) as Artist Fellows.
Welcome Zachary Norris: Our Inaugural Activist-in-Residence! April 27, 2021 | The Black Studies Collaboratory The Black Studies Collaboratory (BSC) at UC Berkeley is pleased to announce that Zachary Norris will take part in the Abolition Democracy Fellows Program as the first Activist-in-Residence.
Welcome Sadie Barnette: Our Inaugural Artist Fellow! April 23, 2021 | The Black Studies Collaboratory The Black Studies Collaboratory (BSC) at UC Berkeley is pleased to announce that Sadie Barnette will be the BSC inaugural Artist Fellow.
Welcome Daphne Muse: Our Inaugural Elder in Residence! March 23, 2021 | The Black Studies Collaboratory The Black Studies Collaboratory is honored to announce Ms. Daphne Muse as the inaugural Elder-in-Residence. Hosted under the Abolition Democracy Fellows Program
Berkeley, College of Letters and Science: UC Berkeley’s Department of African American Studies Awarded $2.8 Million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation January 18, 2021 | Berkeley Letters & Science The Division of Social Sciences congratulates UC Berkeley African American Studies on this inspiring achievement.
Center for Education Partnerships: UC Berkeley’s African American Studies Department Receives $2.8M Grant January 18, 2021 | Center for Educational Partners UC Berkeley’s African American studies department was awarded a $2.8 million grant by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation on Dec. 11, 2020, to support an initiative led by the department’s faculty.
The Daily Californian: UC Berkeley’s African American studies department receives $2.8M grant January 18, 2021 | The Daily Californian UC Berkeley’s African American studies department was awarded a $2.8 million grant by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation on Dec. 11, 2020, to support an initiative led by the department’s faculty.
The Grio: UC Berkeley’s African American Studies Department awarded $2.8 million for community project January 17, 2021 | The Grio UC Berkeley’s African American Studies Department has received a $2.8 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to expand its community impact.
Yahoo: UC Berkeley’s African American Studies Department awarded $2.8 million for community project January 17, 2021 | Yahoo! “Black Studies Collaboratory,” a three-year project that is overseen by the department, is set to expand Black studies outside of the classroom to educate the community and general public. The project is led by professors Leigh Raiford and Tianna S. Paschel.
Berkeley News: Berkeley African American Studies awarded $2.8 million grant to expand community impact January 15, 2021 | Berkeley News What is the role of Black studies in building a more just future? What lessons from Black feminist, radical and intellectual traditions can we apply to this moment in history? And how do we solidify our commitment to Black studies as a public good?
Community Partners Program The Black Studies Collaboratory is pleased to announce our Community Partners for the 2022-2023 academic year. This partnership brings together Black organizations across the Bay Area from a broad cross-section of community-building and service. Through generative, insightful partnerships, we are striving toward expanding this year of deep communal work, world building, and public engagement with Black Studies. BSC & BAOBOB Announce Membership Directory The Black Studies Collaboratory (BSC) at UC Berkeley and the Bay Area Organization of Black Owned Businesses (BAOBOB) have developed a close partnership through the BSC’s Community Partners Program. We have worked together to uplift the quality of
Small Grants Program The Small Grants Program will provide grants of up to $5,000 for research, teaching, curriculum development, and related projects to faculty, undergraduates students, graduate students, and staff, either as individuals, teams, or as representatives of a UC Berkeley program, department, or unit. Fall 2022 – Spring 2023
Black Futures Retreat At the conclusion of these three years of Black Studies Collaboratory programming, we will take time to reflect, recharge, and be in celebration through a Black Futures Retreat. Fall 2023 (stay tuned)
Black Studies Open University The Black Studies Open University will offer a one credit course open to the public whose syllabus will be generated from the work of the Abolition Democracy Fellows Program and the Global Black Feminisms Summer Lab. Spring 2023
Global Black Feminisms Summer Lab The Global Black Feminisms Summer Lab (Summers 2021-2023) will bring together senior mentors and advanced graduate students in the humanities for a one to two-week summer intensive program. Summers 2021, 2022, 2023
Abolition Democracy Fellows Program During the 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 academic years, the ADFP welcomes a core group of 12-15 fellows research and practice are located within the humanities and appropriately intersects with the mission of the Black Studies Collaboratory. The cohorts will be comprised of: Elder in Residence, Activist/Community Scholar in Residence, Artist Fellows, Postdoctoral fellows, and Dissertation fellows. 2021-2022, 2022-2023
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. Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Date: 03/13/2024 Read More
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. Time: 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Date: 10/16/2023 – 10/22/2023 Read More
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. Time: 9:30 am – 5:00 pm Date: 09/15/2023 Read More
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. Time: 5:00 pm – 12:00 am Date: 08/30/2023 – 09/21/2023 Read More
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. Time: 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Date: 08/30/2023 Read More
Sacred Larder: Uplifting the Histories and Memories of Traditional Food Preservation Techniques in the Black Community Time: 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Date: 04/19/2023 Read More
White Supremacy: Black Trauma and Healing Justice as a Liberatory Practice Time: 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Date: 04/05/2023 Read More
Summer 2023 Small Grants Program Info Session #2 Join this info session to learn more about our Small Grants Program and Fall 2022 application! Time: 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm Date: 03/23/2023 Read More
Summer 2023 Small Grants Program Info Session #1 Join this info session to learn more about our Small Grants Program and Fall 2022 application! Time: 5:00 pm – 5:30 pm Date: 03/21/2023 Read More
Educate to Liberate: A Black Panther Photographic Time Capsule Unveiled Time: 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Date: 03/15/2023 Read More
Ferguson Rises: Black Grief, Insurgent Memory, and the Politics of Transformation Time: 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Date: 03/08/2023 Read More
“On Erotic Mastery”: Pornography, Hip-Hop Feminisms, and Transness Time: 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Date: 03/01/2023 Read More
Hit2Hit: Battle of Celebrated Rwandan Music Producers Trackslayer and Dr. Nganji, a Documentary Screening and Discussion Time: 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Date: 02/22/2023 Read More
Caught Caring: (Un)freedom and the Costs of Service Labor in the University Time: 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Date: 02/08/2023 – 02/01/2023 Read More
Ebony Visions and Cowrie Shell Dreams: Black Storytelling and Children’s Literature across the Generations Time: 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Date: 02/01/2023 Read More
Fall 2022 Small Grants Program Info Session #2 Join this info session to learn more about our Small Grants Program and Fall 2022 application! Time: 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm Date: 09/22/2022 Read More
Fall 2022 Small Grants Program Info Session #1 Join this info session to learn more about our Small Grants Program and Fall 2022 application! Time: 6:00 pm – 6:30 pm Date: 09/15/2022 Read More
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. Time: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Date: 09/09/2022 Read More
On Black Violence and Black Futures with Kellie Carter Jackson and Lenora Warren Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 am Date: 04/27/2022 Read More
Black Healing Portal I: Transpoetic Artistic Experience, Surviving Futuristic Spirituality Time: 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm Date: 04/20/2022 Read More
Show Don’t Tell: Describing Life with Kevin Quashie and Christina Sharpe Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Date: 04/13/2022 Read More
On These We Stand: Collecting, Documenting and Archiving Black Lives and Cultures Time: 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Date: 04/06/2022 Read More
Black Love, Black Power, Black Families, in Amerikkka, Part Two Time: 10:00 am – 11:30 am Date: 03/30/2022 Read More
Black Love, Black Power, Black Families, in Amerikkka, Part One Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Date: 03/16/2022 Read More
Genocide, Antiblackness, + the Pornographic: The Urgency of Black Autonomy and Abolitionist Activism Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Date: 03/02/2022 Read More
The New Eagle Creek Saloon: The Black Aesthetic at the Kitchen (NYC) Time: 3:30 pm – 6:30 pm Date: 02/25/2022 Read More
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) Time: 11:00 am – 12:30 am Date: 02/11/2022 Read More
“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. Time: 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm Date: 10/28/2021 Read More
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. Time: 1:00 pm – 6:30 pm Date: 10/18/2021 – 10/19/2021 Read More
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. Time: 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Date: 06/28/2021 Read More
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. Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Date: 05/04/2021 Read More
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 Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Date: 03/29/2021 Read More
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. Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Date: 03/01/2021 Read More
