Africa- general

CAS Faculty Hour

CAS Faculty Hour Series

Fall 2025 The CAS Faculty Hour invites two on-campus professor/scholars thinking about Africa to an informal dialogue over lunch. Take time out of your hectic schedules, and join us, as UCB faculty (usually), sometimes from different disciplines, explore new connections...

CAS Work-In-Progress Series

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The CAS Work-in-Progress Series stimulates informal cross-disciplinary convos between graduate, faculty, and other campus Africanists. The core group is made up of Rocca Fellows: recent recipients of the Center for African Studies' prestigious graduate dissertation fellowship awards. The forum provides a space for...

Center for African Studies Colloquium Series

Banner with CAS AFrica logo, blue background, the Colloquium Series text

Fall 2025 The Center for African Studies Colloquium Series invites lectures, book talks, and panels given by prominent Africa-focused scholars. These colloquia present the latest in Africanist and Afro-diasporic thought, drawing together with inter-...

UC Berkeley–Stanford African Studies Graduate Conference 2026

CFP posterMarch 6th, 2026 Disruption/Resilience: Institutions, Memories, and Belonging in Africa

This conference invited papers that examine how African societies and their diasporas have confronted, and continue to navigate, moments of profound upheaval, including colonial conquest, slavery, war, displacement, disablement, climate change, economic crises,...

Fall Course Highlights - 2025!

August 12, 2025
African Language Courses


Informative poster about taking language courses in Swahili at UC BerkeleyAFRICAM 11A 001 - REC 001 offered through African American Studies
Elementary...

James Q. Davies

Director, Center for African Studies, Professor
Music

James Q. Davies is Professor of Music, editor of the UChicago Press book series New Material Histories
of Music, and scholar with musicological interests and expertise in the long nineteenth century. He
authored the books Romantic Anatomies of Performance (California: 2014) and Creatures of the Air:
Music, Atlantic Spirits, Breath, 1817-1913 (Chicago: 2023). James grew up in Johannesburg, with first
degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand. He wrote his PhD at the University of Cambridge,
where he later received a Junior...

Congratulations to our Rocca Fellows for Academic Year 25-26

June 10, 2025

Photo of the "Benin Bronze," an ivory pendant carved into the form of a royal African woman thought to be Queen Mother Idia from the Kingdom of Benin. Beside the image reads "Congratulations Rocca Fellows, Academic Year 2025-2026!"

Congratulations to...

Reflections on the "Golden Age" of Senegalese Studies at UC Berkeley with Tobias Warner, and a New Poem by Mariama Bâ

April 30, 2025
By Paul de Morais

A portrait photo of Tobias Warner beside a portait photo of Mariama Bâ.Tobias Warner became professor of French and Comparative Literature at UC Davis in 2012 after completing his PhD in Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley under the mentorship of Professor Karl Britto. At Davis he regularly...

African Humanities at UC Berkeley

An image of publications by various Berkeley faculty in the African humanities.

CAS Brown Bag Series - Spring 2025 - Building African Studies Community

Spring 2025 Brown Bag Series list of 4 events

Brown Bag Series is at 12 Noon. The days of week and location vary slightly.
Also see our...