Winter '25: AAS Brown Bag Speaker Series

The speaker series features research talks from our own UC Davis AAS faculty and Designated Emphasis Affiliate Faculty across departments including Sociology, Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, French and Comparative Literature, School of Education, History, and Community and Regional Development. *Lunch is provided.Our first speaker event for Winter Quarter features Dr. Tobias Warner, Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature and Director of the Critical Theory Program. Full details below.

AAS "First Fridays" Speaker Series

Please join us for our final "First Fridays" AAS Speaker Series Event of the Fall Quarter, featuring Dr. Bruce Haynes, Professor of Sociology, UC Davis, on Friday, December 6th, 12:00pm-1:30pm. Full details below.

Cancelled: Spring 2024: AAS New Directions in African American and African Studies Speaker Series with Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom

Welcome to the AAS Spring 2024 New Directions Speaker Series! We are proud and honored to have such an amazing group of inspirational speakers present their research and life's work. Thank you to our co-sponsors: the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and the Manetti Shrem Museum.  

Register here for Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom's talk. This event is now hybrid. However, guests are welcome to join us in person in Hart Hall 3201. Food will be provided. 

Spring 2024: AAS New Directions in African American and African Studies Speaker Series with Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens

Welcome to the AAS Spring 2024 New Directions Speaker Series! We are proud and honored to have such an amazing group of inspirational speakers present their research and life's work. Thank you to our co-sponsors: the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and the Manetti Shrem Museum.  

Register here for Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens's talk. This is a hybrid event. Guests are welcome to join in person in Hart Hall 3201. Food will be provided. 

Spring 2024: AAS New Directions in African American and African Studies Speaker Series with Dr. France Winddance Twine

Welcome to the AAS Spring 2024 New Directions Speaker Series! We are proud and honored to have such an amazing group of inspirational speakers present their research and life's work. Thank you to our co-sponsors: the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and the Manetti Shrem Museum.  

Register here for Dr. France Winddance Twine's talk. This is a hybrid event. Guests are welcome to join in person in Hart Hall 3201. Food will be provided. 

Winter 2024: AAS New Directions in African American and African Studies Speaker Series with Dr. Gina Ulysse (Postponed / To Be Rescheduled)

Welcome to the AAS Winter 2024 New Directions Speaker Series! We are proud and honored to have such an amazing group of inspirational speakers present their research and life's work. Thank you to our co-sponsors: the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and the Manetti Shrem Museum.  

Register here for Dr. Gina Ulysse's talk. This is a hybrid event. Guests are welcome to join in person in Hart Hall 3201. Food will be provided. 

Winter 2024: AAS Book Celebration with Professor Emerita Halifu Osumare

The African American and African Studies department welcomes you to join us on Wednesday, March 13th to celebrate the book launch of Professor Emerita Halifu Osumare's new book: Dancing the Afrofuture: Hula, Hip-Hop, and the Dunham Legacy. 

The event will take place in Hart Hall 3201 on Wednesday, March 13th from 4pm-6pm. We hope to see you there!

Register for the event: HERE 

AAS Winter Symposium: Reimagining Repair

The Department of African American & African Studies welcomes you to join in our Winter Symposium: Reimagining Repair, on Thursday and Friday, Jan. 11-12, 2024. The symposium will be a hybrid virtual and in-person format, with presentations via zoom and audience members joining both in-person (with food) and remotely. In-person events will take place at the UC Davis International Center -- 463 California Ave., Davis, CA 95616 -- 3rd Floor, where virtual zoom presentations will be broadcast on the projector screen.