Calendar of Events
Results For 2012
“Masculinities in Motion: Mobility, The Township and the Spectacular”
Megan Jones is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Stellenbosch and a research associate with the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, Johannesburg.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Locking Hoes and Horns: Ethnic Contestation in Ankole
Christopher Muhoozi
African Presidential Scholar, University of Michigan
Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
"Sites of Memory in Sub-Saharan African Cinema"
Sheila Petty, dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts and professor of media studies at University of Regina (Canada).
Monday, February 06, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Second Generation Knowledge and the Politics of Reconciliation in South Africa
A talk by Jonathan Jansen, vice-chancellor and rector, University of the Free State, South Africa
Tuesday, February 07, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
"Expanding Horizons: Pumzi, Science Fiction and African Cinema"
Jude G. Akudinobi, UC Santa Barbara
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
The Arte Wave
Manthia Diawara will provide an analysis of the films of Abderrhamane Sissako and Haroun Mahat Saleh in the context of the production strategies of Arte TV.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
“Framing Biopolitics: Jo Ramaka's Cinema of Power”
Akinwumi Adesokan, Indiana University
Monday, February 27, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
African Women in War Zones: A Feminist Perspective
Dr. Amina Mama, University of California, Davis
Tuesday, March 06, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Azmari in Hollywood
Filmmaker Leelai Demoz will speak about his experiences as an actor, producer and director. Azmari is an Amharic word for troubadour or storyteller. It is also the name of his production company.
Monday, March 12, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
A Symposium on Blackness, Germany, and the Concept of Race
Friday, April 6, 2012
1:00 pm – 5:30 pm
UCLA Faculty Center
Friday, April 06, 2012
1:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Media Hope and African Capacity
A lecture by Farah Chaudhry and Chip Duncan
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
African Identity in Post-Apartheid Public Architecture: White Skin, Black Masks
A lecture by Jonathan Noble, University of the Witwatersrand.
Monday, April 16, 2012
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Increasing Access to Family Planning in Rural Ethiopia
Dr. Ndola Prata, UC Berkeley
Monday, April 23, 2012
1:00 PM
Islam and the Making of the Public Space
Mamadou Diouf delivers the James S. Coleman Memorial Lecture.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
A lecture and book signing with Isaiah Washington
The award-winning actor, father and philanthropist will share his story of ancestral discovery and his new book "A Man from Another Land: How Finding My Roots Changed My Life"
Thursday, May 03, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
The Black Mediterranean: Migration and Revolution in the Global Millennium
A public lecture by Alessandra Di Maio, University of Palermo, English.
Monday, May 07, 2012
4:00 PM
Reducing Maternal Mortality in Africa: What We Know
Dr. Grace Kodindo, Columbia University
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
1:00 PM
AAA Conference: "The Business of Africa"
The African Activist Association at UCLA presents the 7th Annual Graduate Student Colloquium. The keynote address on Friday, May 18 features H.E James Kimonyo, Ambassador of the Republic of Rwanda to the United States. The Saturday, May 19th program will consist of panel discussions and presentations on the Business of Africa in its manifold manifestations.
Friday, May 18, 2012
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
AAA Conference: "The Business of Africa"
Seventh Annual Conference hosted by the African Activist Association.
Saturday, May 19, 2012
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Establishing a New Religious Movement, 1952-1962: The Baha’i Faith in Africa
Anthony A Lee, Ph.D. (2007) is General Editor of the academic series Studies in the Babi and Baha'i Religions (Kalimat Press) and has published in African history and African American history.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Female Genital Cutting in Africa: Public Health Implications
Dr. Nawal Nour, Harvard University
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
1:00 PM
International Institute IDP Open House & Fall Reception-Part of 'Welcome Week'!
As part of the campus-wide 'True Bruin Welcome Week' activities, the International Institute Interdepartmental Programs (IDPs) will be hosting an Open House & Fall Reception, to which you are cordially invited.
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Cancelled - Investing in Africa's Future
Due to unexpected last minute changes on the United Nations General Assembly program, President Paul Kagame regrets that he is unable to visit UCLA on September 28, 2012, and deliver his planned lecture.
Friday, September 28, 2012
UCLA Study Abroad Fair
We invite you to join in the 26th Annual UCLA Study Abroad Fair. Each year, more than 2000 students visit the fair to learn about the wide variety of study abroad programs available.
Tuesday, October 09, 2012
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Music & Dance of Zimbabwe
Featuring Martha Thom & Jacob Mafuleni.
Tuesday, October 09, 2012
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Who is Joseph Kony...and does KONY 2012 matter?
Presentation by Professor Ayesha Nibbe, Hawaii Pacific University.
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
"Into the Niger Delta" Film Screening
Acclaimed Nigerian director Jeta Amata brings his documentary film depicting the conditions in the Niger Delta and showing seven diverse Americans as they travel to the to witness firsthand the environmental devastation and social unrest caused by catastrophic oil spills. Amata, participants in the film and Professor Jude Akudinobi, UCSB, will be present for a panel discussion and Q&A.
Monday, October 15, 2012
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Commerce with the Universe: Travel, Trade and the Afrasian Imagination
Professor Gaurav Desai, Tulane University, discusses the Asian (Indian) presence in and connections with Africa.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
May it Never End: Fantasies & Drama of Fluctuating Temporality in Eastern DRC
Presentation by Professor James Smith, University of California, Davis
Monday, October 22, 2012
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Documentary Film Series - "I Had A Dream"
The story of Yona Bugale, the "Herzl" of Ethiopian Jewry, and his struggle to bring his people to Israel.
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Do Catholics See Things Differently? On Photographs & Museum Objects in Missionary Representations of Africa
Presentation by Professor Peter Pels, Leiden University.
Monday, November 05, 2012
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Film Screening of "Tey"
UCLA African Studies Center will host two screenings of the film "Tey" at the American Film Institute Fest (AFI Fest). AFI Fest runs November 1-8, 2012.
Monday, November 05, 2012
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program Intro,Q&A
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Film Screening of "Tey"
UCLA African Studies Center will host two screenings of the film "Tey" at the American Film Institute Fest (AFI Fest). AFI Fest runs November 1-8, 2012.
Wednesday, November 07, 2012
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
"Unmasking the State: Making Guinea Modern"
The talk attempts to understand the relations between iconoclasm (the attempt to destroy objectionable objects,) and ethnogenesis (the coming into being of qualitatively new ethnic identities).
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
