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

Join us in recognizing students, faculty, and staff from the UCSD community and beyond for their extraordinary contributions and achievements toward African and African-American studies.  The evening will include a three-course dinner and dessert, dance and musical performances, and a keynote lecture by Dr. George Lipsitz, University of California Santa Barbara, on “The Afro-Diasporic Imagination: Decorating the Way to Other Worlds”.

Contact AAASRC at bjulesro@ucsd.edu in order to reserve your ticket.  Promotional materials are attached below, including ticket prices and donation categories.