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Workshop Program

2022

July 6

PANEL 1

“The Legacy of Black Maternal Grief and Political Action”

11:00-12:30

Juliet Hooker
“Conclusion,” Black Grief/White Grievance: Democracy and the Problem of Political Loss”
(forthcoming, Princeton University Press)

Melynda Price
“The Afterlife of Black Motherhood”

Shatema Threadcraft
“Abolition Democracy and Toni Morrison’s Democratic Ethics of Care”

PANEL 2

“Black Study, Praxis and Translation Against Social Death”

1:00-2:30

Sherwin Bryant
“Between Social Death and Racial Life: Gender, Sex, and Race Governance in Colonial Barbacoas”

Minkah Makalani
“C.L.R. James on Black Power and the Challenge of Black Studies”

Robbie Shilliam
“Rastafari Reason and Social Death”

Maboula Soumahoro
“Translating and Prefacing Saidiya Hartman’s Lose Your Mother in French and France”

July 7

PANEL 3

“The Past, Present and Fugitive Futurity of Black Politics”

11:00-1:00

Brittney Cooper
“Where’s the Love?: Toward a Black Feminist Ethics of Critique”

Megan Ming Francis
“The Capture of Accountability”

Melanye Price
“Creating a Culture of Resistance Through Institution Building: The Case of Prairie View”

Deva Woodly
“Mediations on A Politics of Futurity: Radical Black Feminist Pragmatism at the Shoreline and On the Brink”

PANEL 4

Conference Reflections and Wrap Up

1:00-2:00