• Department of Black Study Open Forum

    At this online, open forum, Black Study Initiative (BSI) members discussed the origins, foundational concepts, and imagined futures of the then proposed UCR Department of Black Study. https://vimeo.com/712994125

  • Toward Lasting Peace & Justice

    Toward Lasting Peace & Justice: A Roundtable with U.S.-based Activists & Palestinians Living Under Occupation This roundtable brings together speakers for a community dialogue about the path toward lasting peace and justice in the occupied lands of Palestine. Dr. Margo Okazawa-Rey, with more than a half-century of social justice movement-building experience, will dialogue with younger […]

  • Insurgencies/ Counterinsurgencies: a Conversation on Aesthetics, Archives, and Autonomy

    Virtual CA, United States

    Featuring Department of Black Study faculty: Dr. El/yse Ambrose and Dr. Dylan Rodríguez with Shellyne Rodriguez (New York City based artist, organizer, professor) and Orisanmi Burton (professor at American University, author of Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt) led by UCR professors Elyse Ambrose (Department of Black Study […]

  • The Black Trans Ethical World(un)making Lab

    Virtual CA, United States

    Co-Sponsored by the Department of Black Study and UCHRI an experimental, local-national collective of black trans artists, scholars, and activists engaging their moral imagination toward more just worlds

    Free
  • An Artist talk with KING COBRA

    SSC 229

    Co-sponsored by Black Study and the Department of English Join us on Friday Nov 1 at 11am in SSC 229 for a lecture by & conversation with the profoundly innovative artist, KING COBRA (documented as Doreen Lynette Garner). KING COBRA creates corporeal sculptures to explore methods of colonial torture and diseases spread by White Europeans […]

  • The Salt Roads Fellowship – Artist Talk with Jennifer Harge

    Culver Arts Center 3834 Main St, Riverside

    Co-Presented by Black Study and UCR Arts: The Salt Roads Inaugural Fellow, Jennifer Harge shares her work, thoughts, and conjurings in this dynamic artist talk. Post-Sharing talk facilitated by Sage Ni’Ja Whitson, Associate Professor and Chair of Black Study

  • Repetition is Holy

    Culver Arts Center 3834 Main St, Riverside
  • Film Screening and Artist Talkback with writer and director, NOVA CYPRESS BLACK

    INTS 1128

    (dey/dem): a choreo-doc is an experimental documentary illuminating the lives of Black non-binary folks in the American souf & deir connection to the nearly erased history of gender expansiveness in pre-colonial Africa. Co-sponsored by Holstein Family and Community Chair in the Study of Religion, the Department of Black Study, and the Black Trans Ethich World(un)making […]