2023-24 Events

For the fourth and final cycle of Insurgent Intersections: Combating Global Anti-Blackness, we will be hosting a full-day symposium to celebrate the culmination of this multi-year project that took its inspiration from the events of 2020. Healing from Global Anti-Blackness: An Interactive Symposium invites scholars, students, activists, artists, and community members to reflect on how people and communities contend with anti-Blackness in multiple ways and work individually and collectively to resist oppressive systems and structures.

Some of the questions we hope to explore through this symposium include:

• What practices did our ancestors develop to cope with the realities of anti-Blackness? How can we learn from and apply the lessons of our ancestors to further achieve healing?
• How can we create spaces for Black individual and collective healing?
• How can the lessons learned from Black experience translate into concrete policy and community actions?
• How do imagination and freedom dreaming contribute to Black healing?

With an emphasis on collaborative knowledge production, this symposium will include working sessions on ancestral practices of healing;  creating spaces and practices of healing rooted in Black experience; and black joy and black futures. This event will include talks, small break-out group discussions, collaborative art projects, a keynote, and a final dance reception with a DJ.