• New Books in Caribbean Studies - Conversation with Dr. Kaysha Corinealdi

    Panama in Black

    Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century

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  • A Conversation with Dr. PJLO and Dr. Ramsey

    Tuesday, March 22, 2022

    5:00 PM PT / 8:00 PM ET

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  • Histories of Migration and Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Lessons for Migration Studies: Centering Embodied Experience in Scholarship

    Friday, March 18, 2022

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  • Garifuna Ancestral Memory in Diaspora

    Garifuna Ancestral Memory in Diaspora is a panel dialogue on how Black Indigenous communities such as Garifuna New Yorkers engage multiple forms of ancestral memory-making as embodied archives of Black Indigenous life in the Americas.

    This event will be moderated by Pablo José López Oro, this academic year’s Miriam Jiménez Román Fellow.

    Tuesday, March 1, 2022

    6:00 PM 7:30 PM

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  • Publishing Pathways: Demystifying the Writing Process

    Dr Jessica Hernandez, Dr. Nicole Ramsey, Dr. Esther Trujillo and Author Jessica Hoppe will share their insights of writing, publishing, and demystifying these processes. Attendees will receive a guidebook to accompany the conversation and support your writing process.

    Sunday, Feb. 6

    4-5:30PM PT/7-8:30PM PT

  • The History of Belizean Culture and Migration with Dr. Nicole Ramsey

    Formerly known as British Honduras, Belize's culture has evolved from a series of Black and indigenous people moving to and from the country. In this episode, Dr. Nicole Ramsey shares how these movements have been critical to Belize's identity formation, as well as the growing diaspora in the U.S west coast.

    November 10, 2021

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  • S2E12: A Candid Dialogue About Black Women’s Knowledge Production and The Politics of Citation

    This episode of Cite Black Women podcast features a candid dialogue about Black Women’s knowledge production and the politics of citation. On Friday, February 26th, 2021, scholars convened virtually at UC Berkeley. The lineup included CBW collective members Dr. Whitney N. L. Pirtle, Associate Professor of Sociology at UC Merced and Imani A. Wadud, PhD candidate in American Studies at the University of Kansas. The featured panelists were Derrika Hunt, Erin M. Kerrison, Frances Roberts-Gregory, Kerby Lynch, Nicole Denise Ramsey, and Reelaviolette Botts-Ward. Caleb Dawson organized the event and it was presented by the Black Graduate Student Association in collaboration with African American Student Development and The Office of Graduate Diversity. The conversation is both powerful and insightful, bringing together multiple points of Black feminist departure to creatively weave a series of alternative ethics, praxes, personal narratives, and radical philosophies around the urgency of Black citation and its future.

    Friday, February 26th, 2021,

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  • Afro-Latinx Voices: Afrolatinidad--What it means and why it matters

    February 21, 2021

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  • Writing Black Caribbean Women: A Conversation

    The Blackness in Latin America and Caribbean (BLAC) working group in conjunction with UC Berkeley's Center for Latin American Studies is pleased to announce its first event in the AfroLatinx Voices roundtable series, "Writing Black Caribbean Women: A Conversation" featuring Afro-Puerto Rican novelist and poet Aya de León and Jamaican novelist Nicole Dennis-Benn. The discussion will be moderated by PhD candidate in African Diaspora Studies, BLAC co-founder, and scholar of Belize and its diaspora, Nicole Ramsey.

    Part of the AfroLatinx Voices Series

    October 23, 2020

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