Mon
Feb 5
An Evening with Hilton Als: Pulitzer Prize Winning Essayist and Author
6 - 7pm
@ Weiss Theater
UCSD Department of Theater and Dance
FREE (Limited Seating, must RSVP)
In celebration of Black History Month, the UC San Diego Department of Theatre and Dance is pleased to announce Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and critic Hilton Als in a public event on Monday, Feb. s from 6 to 7 p.m. in the Mandell Weiss Theatre. The conversation will be between Mr. Als and Dr. Gentry Patrick, UC San Diego professor of neurobiology, with opportunities for questions and observations from the public.
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Mon
Feb 6
African-Americans in Times of War: A Conversation w/ Kimberley Phillips Boehm '82
12 - 1:30pm
@ Black Resource Center
Black History Month Committee, Black Resource Center
FREE (Limited Seating, must RSVP)
Join us for a conversation w/ Kimberley Phillips Boehm '82 as she leads us through a retrospective of African-Americans in times of war and the connections to modern-day activism.
Mon
Feb 7
Community in Comics?
7 - 8:30pm
@ Multipurpose Room (Located by Price Center)
Warren Residential Life, CleRHCs, Warren College Provost Office, Thurgood Marshall College Provost Office, Thurgood Marshall Residential Life , ICRA
FREE
Are your communities represented in comic book culture? Join Comic book illustrator and designer Ryan Benjamin to discuss representation in our favorite comic book stories and films.
Wed
Feb 7
HDH's 21st Annual Black History Month Celebration
11am - 8:00pm
@ OceanView Restaurant at Thurgood Marshall
HDH / OceanView Restaurant / Thurgood Marshall College
FREE (Menu Available for Purchase)
This year, our Black History Celebration is an all-day event! Come for lunch, stay for dinner, all the while enjoying art, music, dance, spoken word, and a delicious special menu.
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Thurs
Feb 8
Mythologies of the Senegalese Sharp Shooters:
Cinema Shell Shock, and the Colonial Experience
4 - 5:30pm
@ Social Science Building, # 101
African and African-American Studies Research Center
FREE
This lecture by Professor Peter Bloom (UC Santa Barbara) and images surrounding the Senegalese Sharp Shooters who participated in World War I. It deals with film footage and archival records.
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Thurs
Feb 9
Black Educational History:
Revisiting Du Bois’ The Talented Tenth with Professor Sherice Clarke
12 - 1:20pm
@ Pepper Canyon Hall 3rd Floor Room 302
Education Studies
FREE
In 1903, Professor W. E. B. Du Bois laid out an argument for how and why higher education could be an instrument of social progress for African Americans in an essay entitled The Talented Tenth. Join Assistant Professor of Education Studies, Sherice Clarke, in a brown bag lunch discussion on the essay and Du Bois’ argument as it concerns the education of students of color in Trump’s America.
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Sat
Feb 10
“Chicano Legacy: Students Empowering Students,”
a film by Horacio Jones
2 - 3:30pm
@ GPS, Room #3201
TMC and Dept. of Literature
FREE
Two screenings of a 35-minute film on the making of the Chicano Legacy mural at Peterson Hall, the African American history mural in the
Price Center, and the Sojourner Truth statue at TMC. The role of student activism in transforming the campus environment with works
of public art is the theme of the documentary.