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Literature, Critical Theory, and Black Ecologies

Date & Time

Wednesday, April 12, 2023, 5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.

Category

Communities of Care

Location

Zoom Webinar

Contact

Sabiha Ansari

Information

Sponsored by ISGRJ Black Ecologies Initiative; Black Lab: Experiments in Theoretical Black Studies (Rutgers), and the University of California, Berkeley College of Environmental Design

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This virtual event will explore how Black writers--across literatures and in quotidian Black expressive cultures-- script, narrate, reimagine, theorize, and counter the order naturalizing Black vulnerability and ecocide as well as how these writers generate new epistemes for imagining a different order.

Hosted by Dr. Dana Cypress (Colgate University), Dr. Justin Hosbey (University of California-Berkeley), and J.T. Roane (Rutgers ISGRJ Named Term Chair).

Featured Speakers: Helen Ganiy, Dr. Randi Gill-Sadler, Dr. Carlyn Ferrari, Dr. Elleza Kelley, Dr. Christine Okoth, JP Sloan, and Dr. Maurice Wallace.

View the flyer here. 
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