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Upcoming Events
11 October 2022 | 7:30 pm
The Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024
17 November 2022 | 18:00
Henley Business School
Lecture Theatre G11
Brenda E. Stevenson Delivers Inaugural Lecture as the Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair at St. John’s College, Oxford University on October 25 & 26
Creating History (and an archive) at the Intersection of Gender, Jim Crow and Remembrance, Inaugural lecture,
Examination Schools, High Street
or live on YouTube
17.00–18.00, Monday 25 October
Read Professor Stevenson's personal note here.
You are now warmly invited to attend the lecture in person: sign up here.
The lecture will also be available to watch live on YouTube here.
‘Women’s History: The Future’
Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair of Women’s History
Roundtable Discussion
17.30, Tuesday 26 October
Sheldonian Theatre and live broadcast
Professor Louise Richardson, Vice-Chancellor, will host a roundtable discussion featuring Professor Stevenson and Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, at the Sheldonian Theatre, addressing the complexities of ‘Women’s history: the future’. The event will be immediately followed by a closing address from Secretary Clinton.
Tickets for the live broadcast can be booked here; in-person tickets are now sold out, but you can join the waiting list here.
Please join the SF Camerawork Gallery on Wednesday, August 12th for an online conversation with artist Carla Jay Harris and historian Brenda E. Stevenson, Ph.D., moderated by SF Camerawork Board President Michelle Branch. Harris and Stevenson will discuss their recent collaboration on Bitter Earth, a site-specific installation whose title is taken from the 1960s blues track “This Bitter Earth,” written by Clyde Otis and sung by legendary blues women and rhythm and blues singers Dinah Washington, Etta James, Aretha Franklin, and Mikki Howard.
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 | 4:30 pm-6:00 pm PST
This is an online event. Please RSVP below.
Making Mammy: Stereotypes in Black Cinema
Please join Dr. Brenda E. Stevenson, co-curator of Making Mammy: A Caricature of Black Womanhood, 1840–1940, for a presentation at the California African American Museum on the role of the “Mammy” in the history of black cinema. Stevenson will examine how the legacy of the mammy stereotype lives on in the public imagination through film, entertainment, and advertising, as well as how it perpetuates falsehoods about African Americans.
Sunday, February 9, 2020 | 3:30 pm-4:30 pm
California African American Museum
600 State Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90037
African Americans and the Vote: Issues of Freedom, Justice, and Resilience
Brenda E. Stevenson will join Dr. Maulana Karena (CSULB), Dr. Donna Nicol (CSUDH), Dr. Boris Ricks (CSUN), and Dr. Francille Rusan Wilson (USC) for a rich round table discussion on “African Americans and the Vote.” The conversation will explore the historic and contemporary relationship of the black community and the franchise, highlighting the challenges, resilience, and triumphs that have characterized this legacy.
Thursday, February 6, 2020 | 6pm-8pm
Public Works Chamber
Los Angeles City Hall
Please RSVP to (213) 978-0254
Conference 2:
“Burgesses to be chosen in all places”: Representative Governance Takes Hold on British Claimed Soil,
Contested Foundations: Commemorating the Red Letter Year of 1619
Organized by William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Professors Brenda E. Stevenson (UCLA) and Sharla M. Fett (Occidental College), this conference will explore the significance of 1619 in both Virginian and larger American history. The year 1619 marked the beginning of a representative government in the state, the arrival of captive African laborers, and the initiation of a successful plan to encourage permanent family development through the importation of English women.
This second conference interrogates the ideals and realities of representative governance structures among British (and European) residents of North America from early colonization until the mid-18th century. There will be emphases on the barriers of race, gender and wealth to participation in these “representative” governments. Scholars will investigate the impact of the development of these colonial governments, and their legal institutions, on native peoples’ self-governance efforts and claims to the land vis-à-vis their settler neighbors. Furthermore, the conference will explore the contradictions inherent in the legal institutionalization of race-based chattel slavery, and the implications of this for the U.S.’s founding political constituents, documents, and institutions.
Friday, February 21, 2020| 10 am-4:30 pm
Saturday, February 22, 2020|10 am-12:45 pm
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
2520 Cimarron Street
Los Angeles, California 90018
Brenda E. Stevenson to present UCLA’s Faculty Research Lecture, Fall 2019
“
Gifts of the Storyteller”
Wednesday, October 30, 2019| 3 pm
Schoenburg Hall
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California 90095
Conference 1: “20. And odd Negroes”: African Labor, Colonial Economies, and Cultural Pluralities,
Contested Foundations:
Commemorating the Red Letter
Year of 1619
Organized by William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Professors Brenda E. Stevenson (UCLA) and Sharla M. Fett (Occidental College), this conference will explore the significance of 1619 in both Virginian and larger American history. The year 1619 marked the beginning of a representative government in the state, the arrival of captive African laborers, and the initiation of a successful plan to encourage permanent family development through the importation of English women.
Friday, October 25, 2019| 10 am-4:30 pm
Saturday, October 26, 2019| 10 am-12:45 pm
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
2520 Cimarron Street
Los Angeles, California 90018
Brenda E. Stevenson to present at the Association for the Study of African American Life and History’s 104th Annual Conference
Brenda E. Stevenson will present during two events during
ASALH’s 2019 Conference this Fall. Respectively titled “Women Fighting for Freedom in Urban America: Three Historic Case Studies” and “400 Years of Perseverance: Stolen From Africa But Making Black Lives Matter,” these talks will expand on the conference’s larger theme of Black Migrations.
Wednesday, October 2, 2019- Sunday, October 6, 2019
Thursday, October 3, 2019 | “Women Fighting for Freedom in Urban America: Three Historic Case Studies”
Saturday October 5, 2019 |“400 Years of Perseverance: Stolen From Africa But Making Black Lives Matter”
Embassy Suites by Hilton in North Charleston, SC.
5055 International Blvd
North Charleston, SC 29418
“Making Mammy: A Caricature of Black Womanhood, 1840-1940”
A California African American Museum exhibition co-curated by Tyree Boyd-Pates, (CAAM) Taylor Bythewood-Porter (CAAM), and
Brenda E. Stevenson (UCLA). This exhibit will explore the role of the Mammy caricature in the years surrounding the abolition of slavery and the emergence of the the New South in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Wednesday, September 25, 2019 - Sunday, March 1, 2020
California African American Museum
600 State Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90037
Brenda E. Stevenson to speak at Yale’s 50th anniversary of African American Studies: “400 years: Africans in America, 1619-2019”
Brenda E. Stevenson joins James Horn (Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation) and Stephanie Smallwood (University of Washington) for a conversation about the arrival of the first Africans at Jamestown in 1619.
Thursday, September 12, 2019| 5 pm-7:30 pm
Center Church on the Green
250 Temple Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06511
Brenda E. Steveson to present her lecture “Art, Slavery, and the Family” during her residency at the University of Augsburg
Wednesday, May 22, 2019 | 6:15 pm
Rahmen des Historiker_innenkilloquiums, SoSe 2019
Brenda E. Stevenson and local artist, Carla Jay, selected as part of larger showing, “Remembrance”
“Bitter Earth" addresses the experiences of black women in Jim Crow America. The presentation joins the work of other local artists, including Melinda Gibson, Lebohang Kganye, Kovi Konowiecki, B. Neimeth and Martin Parr.
Tuesday, November 27, 2018 | Tuesday-Saturday, 10-6
(excluding holidays)
Bergamot Station Arts Center, Rose Gallery
2525 Michigan Avenue, D-4
Santa Monica, CA 90404
Brenda E. Stevenson To Speak at UCLA Luskin Center
for History and Policy: “Antisemitism Past and Present”
Dr. Brenda E. Stevenson will serve as a panel member for the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy’s discussion “Antisemitism: Past and Present Reflections on the Aftermath of Pittsburgh.” Panelists will offer a range of historical and contemporary perspectives on this latest incarnation of what has been called “the longest hatred.”
Tuesday, November 27, 2018 | 5pm
UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy
Bunche Hall, 6275
11282 Portola Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Brenda E. Stevenson
in Conversation with
Tyree Boyd-Pates
Dr. Brenda E. Stevenson will be in conversation with Tyree Boyd-Pates, the curator of History at the California African American Museum. The two will explore the history of enslavement in the Golden State, as well as the ways the institution changed during Reconstruction.
Sunday, November 19, 2018 | 2pm-4pm
California African American Museum
600 State Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90037
Brenda E. Stevenson to Serve as Panelist for “Why History Matters: Why Black Women’s Lives and Histories Matter”
Brenda E. Stevenson joins Funmilola Fagbamila, Dion Fountaine Raymond, and Marcus Anthony Hunter in conversation to remember the lives and experiences of remarkable and ordinary black women throughout history.
Thursday, February 8, 2018 | 7pm
Fowler Museum at UCLA
308 Charles E Young Dr N
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Brenda E. Stevenson Appointed Distinguished Lecturer for
UCLA’s Southern Grandeur Tour
Brenda E. Stevenson will present her research on“The Changing Spaces and Faces of Slavery” during the 2017 Southern Grandeur Tour. The tour will journey down the Mississippi River visiting cities in Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee.
April 30 - May 8, 2017
aboard the American Queen
Brenda E. Stevenson to Speak at Hammer Museum’s Event
“Latasha Harlins: The Victimization of Black Girls”
UCLA historian Brenda Stevenson, Loyola Law School Associate Professor Priscilla Ocen, and UCLA legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw will discuss how the case of Latasha Harlins illuminates the vulnerability of black girls and how communities can serve
and protect them.
Wednesday, March 29, 2017 | 7:30pm
Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Brenda E. Stevenson in Conversation with Ibram X. Kendi
Brenda E. Stevenson will be in conversation with Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, to discuss the transformation of antiblack racist ideas throughout history.
Sunday, December 4, 2016 | 1:30pm
Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Brenda E. Stevenson to Speak at KPCC’s “50 Years of Watts” Event
Brenda E. Stevenson will speak at KPCC’s special live broadcast of Take Two, which features remembrances of and discussions about the Watt’s Rebellion fifty years later.
Tuesday, August 11, 2015 | 9:00am - 11:00am
Watts Labor Community Action Committee
10950 South Central Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90059
Brenda E. Stevenson to Deliver Lecture on
“The Civil Rights Movement and Contemporary Society” for the Pacifica Institute
Brenda E. Stevenson will deliver a lecture on the “The Civil Rights Movement and Contemporary Society” for the Pacifica Institute. Dr. Stevenson’s talk will focus on the life and legacy of
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 22, 2013 | 7pm
801 Ladera Lane
Santa Barbara, CA 93108