Announcement Archive

2025

"What can I do with a major or minor in Black Studies?" (Anonymous UCSB Undergraduate) Read our Department's answer!
March 17, 2025

2024

UCSB Winthrop Undergraduate Research Grant for Students in the Division of Social Sciences - DEADLINE: Friday, June 7, 2024
May 29, 2024
“Archives Unbound: 50 Years of Hope, Resistance and Rebellion" - The Cedric J. Robinson and Elizabeth P. Robinson Conference
May 27, 2024
Race and Gender in a Tropical Democracy: Xica da Silva and Black Women' Agency in Colonial Brazil A Talk by Raquel Luciana de Souza (Federal University of Bahia)
May 22, 2024
Professor Jeffrey Stewart Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
May 21, 2024
STATEMENT ON UCSB's ENCAMPMENT - May 15, 2024
May 15, 2024
RESISTIR PARA EXISTIR Conference || DAY 2 PROGRAM || May 16 Mayo || ART GALLERY
May 14, 2024
RESISTIR PARA EXISTIR Conference || DAY 3 PROGRAM || May 17 Mayo || LIVE MUSIC
May 13, 2024
RESISTIR PARA EXISTIR Conference || DAY 1 PROGRAM || May 15 Mayo || FILM SCREENING
May 13, 2024
Professor Omise'eke Tinsley featured in Essence Magazine article: "To Black Women, 'Girlhood' Is More Than A Trend" (April 19, 2024)
April 25, 2024
Professor Sabrina Strings' book, Fearing the Black Body (NYU Press, 2019), featured in The New York Times article: "Let them Eat. . .Everything" (April 24, 2024)
April 22, 2024
CONFERENCE PROGRAM - "Resistir Para Existir: Black LGBT Art and Activism in the Americas" || May 15th - May 17th @ UCSB ||
April 13, 2024
The Hull Endowed Chair & Department of Feminist Studies presents - Annual Hull Lecture by Dr. Anne Premilla Nadasen || "Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism"
April 12, 2024
Black Studies Colloquium Series presents: "Theorizing Black Inches: Reading the Homo-Thug in Thug Pornography" - A lecture by Mark Lockwood, Dissertation Scholar
April 10, 2024
Black Studies Colloquium Series: "Exploring the Transformative Power of Studying Black Life" - Waverly Duck, Professor and North Hall Chair of Sociology || 4/29, 10:30am-12:00pm ||
April 9, 2024
Black Studies Colloquium Series "Curating African Cinema: Interventions and Intersections" - April 16, 2024 (5-6 p.m.)
April 9, 2024
Black Studies Colloquium Series Co-Sponsors - Burdick Scholar Program: "Ethnographies of Blackness" - April 10, 2024 (3:30pm-5:00pm) - 3635 South Hall
April 8, 2024
Urban Colonialscapes: Racial Apartheid and Spatial Insurgency (Online Seminar) || April 5th-June 15th
April 1, 2024
Chicana and Chicano Studies presents - Afro-Chicanx Digital Humanities Project: Memories, Narratives, and Oppositional Consciousness of Black Diasporas (April 2- April 7)
March 27, 2024
Black Studies Graduate, JACOB, finds success as a Black Creator in Fashion/Black Entrepreneurship!
March 21, 2024