Hemispheric South\/s Graduate Student Works in Progress Symposium<\/strong><\/h2>\nJune 6, 4:00-6:00 pm<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n Digital Arts and Humanities Commons (Music 1410)\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\nAll are welcome to attend this\u00a0informal, collaborative space in which graduate students will be sharing research in progress.\u00a0 The symposium\u00a0is intended to create community and dialogue to support students throughout their research and writing\u00a0process<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Please join us to hear these four fabulous scholars share their work and for our round table discussion on the U.S. Race and Ethnic Literatures Exam List. This will be particularly useful for any first year students considering taking the exam.<\/p>\n
\n- “Exclusionary Beginnings: Oppositional Sexism and TERF Ideology in Lesbian Separatist Politics” by Jamiee Cook<\/li>\n
- \u00a0<\/span><\/span>“Form and Performance in LeAnne Howe’s\u00a0Shell Shaker<\/i>” by Nicole Dib
\n<\/span><\/li>\n- “Luxury or Labor? On the Cognitive Construction of Class<\/span>\u00a0and the Biopolitics of Attention” by Aili Pettersson Peeker<\/li>\n
- \u201c’He was like a child again’: Cormac McCarthy\u2019s\u00a0Cities of the Plain<\/i>\u00a0and the Risks of Storytelling” by Fredrik Svensson<\/li>\n
- “Round Table Discussion of the U.S. Race and Ethnic Literatures Exam List” with Nicole Dib and Maite Urcaregui<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
For more information, see HS WIP Poster.<\/a><\/p>\nVisit from Distinguished Guest Lecturer Professor Noliwe Rooks<\/strong><\/h2>\nMay 14, 2018 12:30-1:45<\/h4>\nWebb 1100<\/h4>\n
Professor Noliwe Rooks (Department of Africana Studies, Cornell University) will serve as Distinguished Guest Lecturer in Professor Ingrid Banks (Department of Black Studies, UCSB)\u00a0 Spring 2018 \u201cWomen and Politics of the Body\u201d (BLST 106) course.<\/p>\n
Noliwe Rooks is an Associate Professor in Africana Studies and Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at
\nCornell University. An interdisciplinary scholar, she works on racial implications of beauty, fashion and
\nadornment; racial inequality in education; race, food and the politics of the city, and Black women\u2019s studies.
\nHer work explores how race and gender both impact and are impacted by popular culture, social history and
\npolitics in the United States. Join us while Professor Rooks discusses her award-winning book, Hair Raising:
\nBeauty, Culture, and African American Women (Rutgers University Press, 1996).<\/p>\n
Sponsored by the UC Consortium for Black Studies in California, Hemispheric South\/s Research Initiative,
\nOffice of the Dean of Arts and Humanities, Center for Black Studies Research, and the Interdisciplinary
\nHumanities Center.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n“In the Black Radical Tradition. . .\u201d Research Symposium<\/strong><\/h2>\nA Research Symposium and Commemoration of Black Studies at 50 Years<\/h4>\nWednesday, April 18, 2018<\/span>\u00a0to\u00a0Friday, April 20, 2018<\/span><\/h4>\nUCSB MultiCultural Center\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n\u201cBut always, its focus was on the structures of the mind. Its epistemology granted supremacy to metaphysics not the material.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Cedric Robinson,\u00a0Black Marxism<\/em>, 1983.<\/div>\nThe Black Radical Tradition emerges as a philosophy, a consciousness and a practice of resistance and survival necessitated by the inexplicable and outrageous onslaught of oppressive practices and phobic behavior with which European traditions of colonialism and imperialism assaulted African people as far back as the Roman Empire. This radical consciousness and practice of resistance took its strength and historical endurance from the ability of the African people in the grip of the most violent forms of enslavement, colonialism and imperialism to recreate and conserve the consciousness of the communities and societies from which they had been taken, a consciousness which insisted on the humanity and voice of all human beings.<\/p>\n
It was this enduring consciousness that gave rise and enduring life to the traditions, beliefs, myths and messianic visions that gave generation upon generation of African people who found themselves in the grip of the most destructive and horrific ideologies and practices of the West the persistence and ideological vitality to continue to imagine, attempt and put into practice the impossible. This ideological vitality took many forms finding expression in slave rebellions and marronage as well as in the practices of lived experience, embodied in, as Cedric Robinson writes, \u201cthe shouts, the spirituals, the sermons, and the very textual body of Black Christianity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Please find the full program and schedule\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-hemsouths-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/BlackRadicalTradition_FINAL_LR_0-194x300.jpg\")
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Free-Dem Foundation at UCSB, sponsored by the Center for Black Studies Research<\/strong><\/h2>\nfeaturing Robert Jones, Jerome Morgan, and Daniel Rideau<\/div>\nSunday, March 4, 2018<\/span>\u00a0to\u00a0Tuesday, March 6, 2018<\/span><\/div>\nVarious locations\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\nRobert Jones, Jerome Morgan and Daniel Rideau were all wrongly convicted and served a total of more than fifty years in Angola Prison before being found innocent. While in prison they made a pact to someday reunite and go into business together as free men. They enrolled in prison education programs, learned trades, and studied the law. They stuck together and worked with allies outside the prison. Today through their work with Free-Dem Foundations, a non-profit community-based youth organization in New Orleans, they are realizing the vision they created while unjustly incarcerated.<\/em><\/p>\nSUNDAY, MARCH 4<\/strong>
\n4:00 p.m. | Community Dialogue
\nLa Casa de la Raza, 601 E Montecito St., Santa Barbara<\/p>\n6:30\u20138:30 p.m. | Informal reception
\nMosher House Living Room and Library, UCSB<\/p>\n
MONDAY, MARCH 5<\/strong>
\n12 noon | Panel discussion
\nUCSB Center for Black Studies Research, 4603 South Hall
\nJerome Morgan, Robert Jones, and Daniel Rideau discuss the origins, development, and ongoing work of Free-Dem Foundations<\/p>\n6:00 p.m. | \u201cFrom Wrongful Incarceration to Community Mobilization\u201d
\nUCSB MultiCultural Center Theater
\nJerome Morgan speaks about his life before incarceration, surviving and fighting for freedom while inside Angola Prison, and his work with Students at the Center and Youth Activism<\/p>\n
TUESDAY, MARCH 6<\/strong>
\nCommunity Building and Accompaniment
\n11:30\u20131: Free-Dem Foundations Mentoring Curriculum
\nUCSB Center for Black Studies Research, 4603 South Hall
\nJerome Morgan, Robert Jones, and Daniel Rideau meet with Black undergraduates, graduate students, community affiliates, and the Transformative Pedagogy Project to discuss the Free-Dem Foundation Mentoring Curriculum on life skills and professional development.<\/p>\nFree-Dem-Flyer-2-21<\/a><\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/www.cbsr.ucsb.edu\/sites\/dev.cbsr.ucsb.edu\/files\/styles\/large\/public\/Three-speakers-photo.png?itok=I4cb-FGq\")
<\/p>\n
Embodying the Present Moment\u00a0with Sharon Bridgforth and Omi Osun Joni L. Jones<\/strong><\/h2>\nOctober 24-27, MCC Theater and Lounge<\/strong><\/p>\n*October 24: Tuesday Evening, Bridgforth will give a reading and lecture entitles “Dat Black Mermaid Man \/ Healing and Transformation through Art hosted by the MCC, MCC Theater, 7-9pm<\/p>\n
October 26: Thursday Evening, Reception and Introductions, MCC Lounge, 7-9pm — Participation by Invitation<\/em><\/p>\nOctober 27: Friday, Workshop and Performance, MCC Lounge<\/p>\n
Performance Workshop 9:30-3:00 pm\u00a0 — Participation By Invitation<\/em><\/p>\n3:30-5 Open Practice and Discussion — Open to the Public<\/em><\/p>\nMaster class facilitators, Sharon Bridgforth and Omi Osun Joni Jones, believe in the power of the body
\nto say what words do not, and the power of words to guide us to our most courageous selves. For them,
\nour stories and our bodies reveal our deepest humanity, power, and joy.<\/p>\n
Using the principles of theatrical jazz\u2014being present, improvisation, solo virtuosity, ensemble-building\u2014
\nJones and Bridgforth guide participants through a series of practices designed to strengthen authenticity
\nand selfhood. Through movement, truth-telling, and collaboration, this workshop explores the themes of
\nvulnerability, life challenges, embodied stories, family history, and intention.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n“Singing to Keep from Talking” with Cherrie Moraga and Celia Rodriguez<\/strong><\/h2>\nOn October 16, 2017, at 4pm in the McCune Room (HSSB 6020)<\/p>\n
Presentations by Cherr\u00ede Moraga and Celia Rodr\u00edguez on the unspoken, the knowing that is found in censorship, taboo, silence; the radical revelations\u00a0 (consciencia) born from the body\u2019s capture and release; how art practice (theater, creative writings, visual work) is a freedom road to that knowledge; strong enough to be unforgettable; strong enough to remember what went wrong in the first place.<\/p>\n
The presentations will involve the audience\u2019s engagement.<\/p>\n
All are welcome!<\/p>\n
Co-sponsored by Literature and Mind, American Cultures & Global Contexts Center, Hemispheric South\/s, and Center for Modern Literature, Materialism, and Aesthetics.<\/p>\n
Digital Arts and Humanities Commons (Music 1410)\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\nAll are welcome to attend this\u00a0informal, collaborative space in which graduate students will be sharing research in progress.\u00a0 The symposium\u00a0is intended to create community and dialogue to support students throughout their research and writing\u00a0process<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Please join us to hear these four fabulous scholars share their work and for our round table discussion on the U.S. Race and Ethnic Literatures Exam List. This will be particularly useful for any first year students considering taking the exam.<\/p>\n
\n- “Exclusionary Beginnings: Oppositional Sexism and TERF Ideology in Lesbian Separatist Politics” by Jamiee Cook<\/li>\n
- \u00a0<\/span><\/span>“Form and Performance in LeAnne Howe’s\u00a0Shell Shaker<\/i>” by Nicole Dib
\n<\/span><\/li>\n- “Luxury or Labor? On the Cognitive Construction of Class<\/span>\u00a0and the Biopolitics of Attention” by Aili Pettersson Peeker<\/li>\n
- \u201c’He was like a child again’: Cormac McCarthy\u2019s\u00a0Cities of the Plain<\/i>\u00a0and the Risks of Storytelling” by Fredrik Svensson<\/li>\n
- “Round Table Discussion of the U.S. Race and Ethnic Literatures Exam List” with Nicole Dib and Maite Urcaregui<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
For more information, see HS WIP Poster.<\/a><\/p>\nVisit from Distinguished Guest Lecturer Professor Noliwe Rooks<\/strong><\/h2>\nMay 14, 2018 12:30-1:45<\/h4>\nWebb 1100<\/h4>\n
Professor Noliwe Rooks (Department of Africana Studies, Cornell University) will serve as Distinguished Guest Lecturer in Professor Ingrid Banks (Department of Black Studies, UCSB)\u00a0 Spring 2018 \u201cWomen and Politics of the Body\u201d (BLST 106) course.<\/p>\n
Noliwe Rooks is an Associate Professor in Africana Studies and Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at
\nCornell University. An interdisciplinary scholar, she works on racial implications of beauty, fashion and
\nadornment; racial inequality in education; race, food and the politics of the city, and Black women\u2019s studies.
\nHer work explores how race and gender both impact and are impacted by popular culture, social history and
\npolitics in the United States. Join us while Professor Rooks discusses her award-winning book, Hair Raising:
\nBeauty, Culture, and African American Women (Rutgers University Press, 1996).<\/p>\n
Sponsored by the UC Consortium for Black Studies in California, Hemispheric South\/s Research Initiative,
\nOffice of the Dean of Arts and Humanities, Center for Black Studies Research, and the Interdisciplinary
\nHumanities Center.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n“In the Black Radical Tradition. . .\u201d Research Symposium<\/strong><\/h2>\nA Research Symposium and Commemoration of Black Studies at 50 Years<\/h4>\nWednesday, April 18, 2018<\/span>\u00a0to\u00a0Friday, April 20, 2018<\/span><\/h4>\nUCSB MultiCultural Center\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n\u201cBut always, its focus was on the structures of the mind. Its epistemology granted supremacy to metaphysics not the material.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Cedric Robinson,\u00a0Black Marxism<\/em>, 1983.<\/div>\nThe Black Radical Tradition emerges as a philosophy, a consciousness and a practice of resistance and survival necessitated by the inexplicable and outrageous onslaught of oppressive practices and phobic behavior with which European traditions of colonialism and imperialism assaulted African people as far back as the Roman Empire. This radical consciousness and practice of resistance took its strength and historical endurance from the ability of the African people in the grip of the most violent forms of enslavement, colonialism and imperialism to recreate and conserve the consciousness of the communities and societies from which they had been taken, a consciousness which insisted on the humanity and voice of all human beings.<\/p>\n
It was this enduring consciousness that gave rise and enduring life to the traditions, beliefs, myths and messianic visions that gave generation upon generation of African people who found themselves in the grip of the most destructive and horrific ideologies and practices of the West the persistence and ideological vitality to continue to imagine, attempt and put into practice the impossible. This ideological vitality took many forms finding expression in slave rebellions and marronage as well as in the practices of lived experience, embodied in, as Cedric Robinson writes, \u201cthe shouts, the spirituals, the sermons, and the very textual body of Black Christianity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Please find the full program and schedule\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nPhotos from the “In the Black Radical Tradition. . .” Symposium:<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Free-Dem Foundation at UCSB, sponsored by the Center for Black Studies Research<\/strong><\/h2>\nfeaturing Robert Jones, Jerome Morgan, and Daniel Rideau<\/div>\nSunday, March 4, 2018<\/span>\u00a0to\u00a0Tuesday, March 6, 2018<\/span><\/div>\nVarious locations\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\nRobert Jones, Jerome Morgan and Daniel Rideau were all wrongly convicted and served a total of more than fifty years in Angola Prison before being found innocent. While in prison they made a pact to someday reunite and go into business together as free men. They enrolled in prison education programs, learned trades, and studied the law. They stuck together and worked with allies outside the prison. Today through their work with Free-Dem Foundations, a non-profit community-based youth organization in New Orleans, they are realizing the vision they created while unjustly incarcerated.<\/em><\/p>\nSUNDAY, MARCH 4<\/strong>
\n4:00 p.m. | Community Dialogue
\nLa Casa de la Raza, 601 E Montecito St., Santa Barbara<\/p>\n6:30\u20138:30 p.m. | Informal reception
\nMosher House Living Room and Library, UCSB<\/p>\n
MONDAY, MARCH 5<\/strong>
\n12 noon | Panel discussion
\nUCSB Center for Black Studies Research, 4603 South Hall
\nJerome Morgan, Robert Jones, and Daniel Rideau discuss the origins, development, and ongoing work of Free-Dem Foundations<\/p>\n6:00 p.m. | \u201cFrom Wrongful Incarceration to Community Mobilization\u201d
\nUCSB MultiCultural Center Theater
\nJerome Morgan speaks about his life before incarceration, surviving and fighting for freedom while inside Angola Prison, and his work with Students at the Center and Youth Activism<\/p>\n
TUESDAY, MARCH 6<\/strong>
\nCommunity Building and Accompaniment
\n11:30\u20131: Free-Dem Foundations Mentoring Curriculum
\nUCSB Center for Black Studies Research, 4603 South Hall
\nJerome Morgan, Robert Jones, and Daniel Rideau meet with Black undergraduates, graduate students, community affiliates, and the Transformative Pedagogy Project to discuss the Free-Dem Foundation Mentoring Curriculum on life skills and professional development.<\/p>\nFree-Dem-Flyer-2-21<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Embodying the Present Moment\u00a0with Sharon Bridgforth and Omi Osun Joni L. Jones<\/strong><\/h2>\nOctober 24-27, MCC Theater and Lounge<\/strong><\/p>\n*October 24: Tuesday Evening, Bridgforth will give a reading and lecture entitles “Dat Black Mermaid Man \/ Healing and Transformation through Art hosted by the MCC, MCC Theater, 7-9pm<\/p>\n
October 26: Thursday Evening, Reception and Introductions, MCC Lounge, 7-9pm — Participation by Invitation<\/em><\/p>\nOctober 27: Friday, Workshop and Performance, MCC Lounge<\/p>\n
Performance Workshop 9:30-3:00 pm\u00a0 — Participation By Invitation<\/em><\/p>\n3:30-5 Open Practice and Discussion — Open to the Public<\/em><\/p>\nMaster class facilitators, Sharon Bridgforth and Omi Osun Joni Jones, believe in the power of the body
\nto say what words do not, and the power of words to guide us to our most courageous selves. For them,
\nour stories and our bodies reveal our deepest humanity, power, and joy.<\/p>\n
Using the principles of theatrical jazz\u2014being present, improvisation, solo virtuosity, ensemble-building\u2014
\nJones and Bridgforth guide participants through a series of practices designed to strengthen authenticity
\nand selfhood. Through movement, truth-telling, and collaboration, this workshop explores the themes of
\nvulnerability, life challenges, embodied stories, family history, and intention.<\/p>\n
<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\nPhotos from the “Embodying the Present Moment Workshop”:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n“Singing to Keep from Talking” with Cherrie Moraga and Celia Rodriguez<\/strong><\/h2>\nOn October 16, 2017, at 4pm in the McCune Room (HSSB 6020)<\/p>\n
Presentations by Cherr\u00ede Moraga and Celia Rodr\u00edguez on the unspoken, the knowing that is found in censorship, taboo, silence; the radical revelations\u00a0 (consciencia) born from the body\u2019s capture and release; how art practice (theater, creative writings, visual work) is a freedom road to that knowledge; strong enough to be unforgettable; strong enough to remember what went wrong in the first place.<\/p>\n
The presentations will involve the audience\u2019s engagement.<\/p>\n
All are welcome!<\/p>\n
Co-sponsored by Literature and Mind, American Cultures & Global Contexts Center, Hemispheric South\/s, and Center for Modern Literature, Materialism, and Aesthetics.<\/p>\n
\n<\/span><\/li>\n
For more information, see HS WIP Poster.<\/a><\/p>\n Professor Noliwe Rooks (Department of Africana Studies, Cornell University) will serve as Distinguished Guest Lecturer in Professor Ingrid Banks (Department of Black Studies, UCSB)\u00a0 Spring 2018 \u201cWomen and Politics of the Body\u201d (BLST 106) course.<\/p>\n Noliwe Rooks is an Associate Professor in Africana Studies and Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at Sponsored by the UC Consortium for Black Studies in California, Hemispheric South\/s Research Initiative, The Black Radical Tradition emerges as a philosophy, a consciousness and a practice of resistance and survival necessitated by the inexplicable and outrageous onslaught of oppressive practices and phobic behavior with which European traditions of colonialism and imperialism assaulted African people as far back as the Roman Empire. This radical consciousness and practice of resistance took its strength and historical endurance from the ability of the African people in the grip of the most violent forms of enslavement, colonialism and imperialism to recreate and conserve the consciousness of the communities and societies from which they had been taken, a consciousness which insisted on the humanity and voice of all human beings.<\/p>\n It was this enduring consciousness that gave rise and enduring life to the traditions, beliefs, myths and messianic visions that gave generation upon generation of African people who found themselves in the grip of the most destructive and horrific ideologies and practices of the West the persistence and ideological vitality to continue to imagine, attempt and put into practice the impossible. This ideological vitality took many forms finding expression in slave rebellions and marronage as well as in the practices of lived experience, embodied in, as Cedric Robinson writes, \u201cthe shouts, the spirituals, the sermons, and the very textual body of Black Christianity.\u201d<\/p>\n Please find the full program and schedule\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Photos from the “In the Black Radical Tradition. . .” Symposium:<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Robert Jones, Jerome Morgan and Daniel Rideau were all wrongly convicted and served a total of more than fifty years in Angola Prison before being found innocent. While in prison they made a pact to someday reunite and go into business together as free men. They enrolled in prison education programs, learned trades, and studied the law. They stuck together and worked with allies outside the prison. Today through their work with Free-Dem Foundations, a non-profit community-based youth organization in New Orleans, they are realizing the vision they created while unjustly incarcerated.<\/em><\/p>\n SUNDAY, MARCH 4<\/strong> 6:30\u20138:30 p.m. | Informal reception MONDAY, MARCH 5<\/strong> 6:00 p.m. | \u201cFrom Wrongful Incarceration to Community Mobilization\u201d TUESDAY, MARCH 6<\/strong> Free-Dem-Flyer-2-21<\/a><\/p>\n October 24-27, MCC Theater and Lounge<\/strong><\/p>\n *October 24: Tuesday Evening, Bridgforth will give a reading and lecture entitles “Dat Black Mermaid Man \/ Healing and Transformation through Art hosted by the MCC, MCC Theater, 7-9pm<\/p>\n October 26: Thursday Evening, Reception and Introductions, MCC Lounge, 7-9pm — Participation by Invitation<\/em><\/p>\n October 27: Friday, Workshop and Performance, MCC Lounge<\/p>\n Performance Workshop 9:30-3:00 pm\u00a0 — Participation By Invitation<\/em><\/p>\n 3:30-5 Open Practice and Discussion — Open to the Public<\/em><\/p>\n Master class facilitators, Sharon Bridgforth and Omi Osun Joni Jones, believe in the power of the body Using the principles of theatrical jazz\u2014being present, improvisation, solo virtuosity, ensemble-building\u2014 Photos from the “Embodying the Present Moment Workshop”:<\/strong><\/p>\n On October 16, 2017, at 4pm in the McCune Room (HSSB 6020)<\/p>\n Presentations by Cherr\u00ede Moraga and Celia Rodr\u00edguez on the unspoken, the knowing that is found in censorship, taboo, silence; the radical revelations\u00a0 (consciencia) born from the body\u2019s capture and release; how art practice (theater, creative writings, visual work) is a freedom road to that knowledge; strong enough to be unforgettable; strong enough to remember what went wrong in the first place.<\/p>\n The presentations will involve the audience\u2019s engagement.<\/p>\n All are welcome!<\/p>\n Co-sponsored by Literature and Mind, American Cultures & Global Contexts Center, Hemispheric South\/s, and Center for Modern Literature, Materialism, and Aesthetics.<\/p>\nVisit from Distinguished Guest Lecturer Professor Noliwe Rooks<\/strong><\/h2>\n
May 14, 2018 12:30-1:45<\/h4>\n
Webb 1100<\/h4>\n
\nCornell University. An interdisciplinary scholar, she works on racial implications of beauty, fashion and
\nadornment; racial inequality in education; race, food and the politics of the city, and Black women\u2019s studies.
\nHer work explores how race and gender both impact and are impacted by popular culture, social history and
\npolitics in the United States. Join us while Professor Rooks discusses her award-winning book, Hair Raising:
\nBeauty, Culture, and African American Women (Rutgers University Press, 1996).<\/p>\n
\nOffice of the Dean of Arts and Humanities, Center for Black Studies Research, and the Interdisciplinary
\nHumanities Center.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n“In the Black Radical Tradition. . .\u201d Research Symposium<\/strong><\/h2>\n
A Research Symposium and Commemoration of Black Studies at 50 Years<\/h4>\n
Wednesday, April 18, 2018<\/span>\u00a0to\u00a0Friday, April 20, 2018<\/span><\/h4>\n
UCSB MultiCultural Center\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nFree-Dem Foundation at UCSB, sponsored by the Center for Black Studies Research<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\n4:00 p.m. | Community Dialogue
\nLa Casa de la Raza, 601 E Montecito St., Santa Barbara<\/p>\n
\nMosher House Living Room and Library, UCSB<\/p>\n
\n12 noon | Panel discussion
\nUCSB Center for Black Studies Research, 4603 South Hall
\nJerome Morgan, Robert Jones, and Daniel Rideau discuss the origins, development, and ongoing work of Free-Dem Foundations<\/p>\n
\nUCSB MultiCultural Center Theater
\nJerome Morgan speaks about his life before incarceration, surviving and fighting for freedom while inside Angola Prison, and his work with Students at the Center and Youth Activism<\/p>\n
\nCommunity Building and Accompaniment
\n11:30\u20131: Free-Dem Foundations Mentoring Curriculum
\nUCSB Center for Black Studies Research, 4603 South Hall
\nJerome Morgan, Robert Jones, and Daniel Rideau meet with Black undergraduates, graduate students, community affiliates, and the Transformative Pedagogy Project to discuss the Free-Dem Foundation Mentoring Curriculum on life skills and professional development.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nEmbodying the Present Moment\u00a0with Sharon Bridgforth and Omi Osun Joni L. Jones<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\nto say what words do not, and the power of words to guide us to our most courageous selves. For them,
\nour stories and our bodies reveal our deepest humanity, power, and joy.<\/p>\n
\nJones and Bridgforth guide participants through a series of practices designed to strengthen authenticity
\nand selfhood. Through movement, truth-telling, and collaboration, this workshop explores the themes of
\nvulnerability, life challenges, embodied stories, family history, and intention.<\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n“Singing to Keep from Talking” with Cherrie Moraga and Celia Rodriguez<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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