Professor Bennetta Jules-Rosette, Director
African and African-American Studies Research Center Presents

Labor in Apartheid and Post Apartheid South Africa
ERC Provost Ivan Evans

Thursday, February 13, 2025
3:30 PM
SSB 101
Join via Zoom https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/94446215470

Provost Ivan Evans (ERC) will present a lecture, film clips, and a discussion concerning government repression during the Apartheid Era (Sharpeville, 1960) and the Post-Apartheid Era (the Marikana Massacre, 2012), as well as the treatment of illegal miners in 6,000 abandoned mines in 2024. Patterns of violence and redress will be examined in a comparative perspective.

AAASRC 2025 Black History Month

Professor Bennetta Jules-Rosette, Director
African and African-American Studies Research Center Presents
Dance & Drumming Workshop
with Gene Perry

February 20, 2025
3:30 – 5:00 PM
SSB 101

Master Drummer Gene Perry will present an Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Latin Dance and Drumming Workshop with practical applications of the musical rhythms and dances from various regions, with UCSD African Studies students.

Light refreshments will be served.

AAASRC 2025 Black History Month

AAASRC is thrilled to announce that our Director, Bennetta Jules-Rosette (Distinguished Professor of Sociology, UC San Diego), and our Board Member, J.R. Osborn (Associate Professor, Communication, Culture & Technology (CCT), Georgetown University), received recognition for their book, African Art Reframed (University of Illinois Press, 2020). The Arnold J. Rubin Outstanding Publication Award was presented at the Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA) Triennial in Chicago this month.

Join us in celebrating Black History Month 2018 with a film screening of War Witch accompanied by a roundtable discussion Thursday, February 15, 2018 at 4:00 PM.

This 2012 film, directed by Kim Nguyendeals with the dilemmas of a twelve-year-old girl who is forced to become a child soldier in Congo (DRC). A panel led by Provost Ivan Evans and the AAASRC Board will discuss the film. Running Time For the Film: 90 minutes.

Admission is free and open to the campus community and the general public. Light refreshments will be served.

Link to Facebook event here.

This Lecture by Professor Peter Bloom (UC Santa Barbara) and images surrounding the Senegalese Sharpshooters who participated in World War I. It deals with film footage and archival records.

This event is open to the campus community and the general public.

Contact email: bjulesrosette@ucsd.edu

Facebook Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/252412295297655/

This lecture by Wallace Bullock of the Bregamos Theatre covers the speeches, discourses, and film clips of champion boxer Muhammad Ali concerning war, resistance, and politics.

This event is open to the campus community and the general public.

Contact email: bjulesrosette@ucsd.edu

Facebook Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/152790135512867/

Statement of Purpose

Our Goal is to facilitate faculty, postgraduate, and graduate research in African and African diaspora studies in the social sciences and the humanities and to foster the comparative, cross-national, and interdisciplinary dimensions of research with a core group of leading scholars.  These research efforts are linked to larger local and international community concerns.  The Center also oversees the undergraduate African Studies Minor.

Upcoming Events

Black History Month 2018

Muhammad Ali and Social Activism

4:00 pm – 5:30 pm, Thursday, February 1st

Social Science Building, UCSD, Room #101

Mythologies of the Senegalese Sharpshooters: Cinema, Shell Shock, and the Colonial Experience

4:00 pm – 5:30 pm, Thursday, February 8th

Social Science Building, UCSD, Room #101

Film Screening of “War Witch,” directed by Kim Nguyen, followed by a Panel Discussion Chaired by Provost Ivan Evans

4:00 pm – 6:30 pm, Thursday, February 15th

Social Science Building, UCSD, Room #101

 Afro-Caribbean Dance & Drumming Workshop with Master Percussionist Gene Perry

3:30 pm – 5:30 pm, Thursday, February 22nd

Atkinson Pavilion, UCSD Faculty Club