Poet, musician, filmmaker, actor and intellectual Saul Williams discusses the relationships between aesthetic forms and political education in conversation with Dr. Shana Redmond, Director of the Center for the Study of Social Difference. Reflecting on practices of Black experimentation\u2014in language, music, and film\u2014this dialogue explores the various sites of enclosure and foreclosure, from the nation state to the university, that bear upon the present and what practices are necessary to enact more just futures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This conversation is the second installment of the University in\/and Crisis working group<\/a>, a collaboration between the Center for the Study of Social Difference<\/a> at Columbia University, the Barnard Center for Research on Women<\/a>, and the Edmund W. Gordon Institute for Advanced Stud<\/a>y at Teachers College, and is supported by The Radio in the Orchard. It is presented as part of The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Cultures’s Black On Screen: A Century of Radical Visual Culture<\/em>, a centennial series capturing 100 years of local and transnational Black movement work and artistic evolution on film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n