Interchurch Center Suite 503
Join ISERP on Friday, April 24 at Interchurch Center (suite 503) for an ISERP Interdisciplinary Graduate Seminar Series on “Blackness across Geographies.” The workshop centers how formulations of Blackness appear and are grounded within local and global relations of power that construct racial differences. Another scope of the workshop is to bring forth underutilized or emerging concepts, e.g. Black dignity, grounded in African and Black diasporic experiences and histories. As such, we seek to continue an established lineage of work while exploring new concepts and frameworks that can push us forward in thinking about what Blackness is within contemporary broader scholarly racial-political frameworks.
The all-day workshop will feature papers by Columbia Ph.D. students in the social sciences and humanities on plantation afterlives, prisons and police, as well as Black self-determination and self-actualization. Dr. Audrey Célestine (NYU), Dr. Amelia Herbert (Barnard), and Dr. Jean Beaman (CUNY Graduate Center) will participate as discussants. The workshop will include lunch and a reception.
Please register at this link by April 21.
