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 […]

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