This two-day conference will be organized around a series of conversations (rather than formal paper presentations), and will also feature an opening “state of the field” roundtable and a final dialogue focused on the role of public-facing scholarship. Each conversation is organized around a specific discipline or approach within the broader interdisciplinary mode of intellectual inquiry named as Black Studies and will be facilitated by a moderator, who will help to explore the place of religion in the context of black studies.

Find the full schedule here.

Link for flyer here.

On October 5th at 6:15 pm (at Faculty House, 2nd Floor), we will be welcoming to our campus Itamar Vieira Junior, a Brazilian geographer, intellectual and author of several works of fiction. His bestselling novel, Crooked Plow (Torto Arado) was recently translated into English, and the event will feature a conversation between the author, his translator Johnny Lorenz (also a poet and literary critic), and the celebrated scholar and activist Keisha-Khan Perry.