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The Extraordinary 2018 Eruption of Kīlauea Volcano, Hawaii
Tina Neal
Tina Neal will describe this summer's intense volcanic unrest and eruption at one of the most active volcanoes in the world, and the highest-threat volcano in the United States, Kīlauea Volcano on the Island of Hawaii.
Read MoreRadical Black Women of Harlem: A Walking Tour
Asha Futterman and Mariame Kaba
Learn about radical Black women who contributed to making Harlem a center of cultural innovation, radical politics and sustained activism throughout the twentieth century.
Read More“Moving Mountains and Liberating Dialogues”: Creating a Black Feminist Archaeology
Whitney Battle-Baptiste
Battle-Baptiste will discuss how she approached the work of studying the material past of captive African peoples, combining inquiries into her own identity and relationship to the field of archaeology, and an intersectional approach to African Diaspora archaeology through a Black feminist theoretical lens.
Read MoreBlack Imaginaries, Scandinavian Diasporas
Jeannette Ehlers, Ellen Nyman, and La Vaughn Belle
Join Jeannette Ehlers (Denmark/West Indies), Ellen Nyman (Sweden), and La Vaughn Belle (St. Croix) for a conversation on the aesthetics of decolonization.
Read MoreWayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: A Salon in Honor of Saidiya Hartman
Saidiya Hartman with Daphne Brooks, Aimee Meredith Cox, Macarena Gomez-Barris, and Alexander G. Weheliye, moderated by Tina Campt
Saidiya Hartman’s highly anticipated new book, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval (Norton, February 2019) wrestles with the question, “What is a free life?”
Read MoreWe Will Have Been Living Otherwise: Archiving in the Future Perfect Tense
Avery Gordon
What kind of archive safeguards or keeps company with or “summons,” to use Chimurenga Library’s words, a past that the present hasn’t yet caught up with? Can such a past or such an archive be summoned to haunt the present as an alternative?
Read MoreAfrican Diasporic Countervisualities
La Vaughn Belle, Vanessa Valdes, and Dixa Ramirez, moderated by Tina Campt
This panel challenges the overproduction of certain images of Caribbean men, women, and children that have allowed for dominant, often nationalist, narratives from the region, highlighting inconvenient histories previously ignored, erased, silenced, ghosted.
Read MoreScholar and Feminist Conference: The Politics and Ethics of the Archive
Akwaeke Emezi, Jarrett Drake, Chinelo Okparanta, C. Riley Snorton, and more.
The S&F Conference will bring together archivists, librarians, artists, activists, and scholars to discuss the particular political and ethical challenges that reside in the project of creating archives for communities and social justice movements.
Read MoreS&F Literary Spotlight: Chinelo Okparanta and Akwaeke Emezi
Chinelo Okparanta and Akwaeke Emezi
Join award-winning writers Chinelo Okparanta, author of Under the Udala Trees and Happiness Like Water, and Akwaeke Emezi, author of Freshwater, in a conversation on literary approaches to history, archives, and memory, moderated by Yvette Christiansë.
Read MoreBuilding from the Left: Strategies to Disrupt the Right
Pooja Gehi, Cara Page, and Tarso Luís Ramos, moderated by Janet Jakobsen
How can the left develop more robust strategies to undermine and disrupt the powerful ascendance of the U.S. Right, and build a transformative intersectional social justice agenda?
Read MoreRoxane Gay in Conversation with Katia D. Ulysse
Roxane Gay and Katia D. Ulysse
These authors will discuss issues including the Caribbean and its diaspora, method, feminism, and gender in their work. The conversation with be followed by a moderated discussion.
Read MoreDocumentary Screening: Capturing the Flag
Filmmaker Anne de Mare with Flora Davidson
Exploring themes that are constantly sensationalized and manipulated by the media, “Capturing The Flag” offers deeply personal, often surprising perspectives on the 2016 Presidential Election and its aftermath.
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