Sessions
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↗︎ Frequencies of Blackness: A Listening Session
Tina Campt, Zara Julius, Jenn Nkiru and Alexander Weheliye
Nov 20, 2020
12pm(EST)7pm(SAST)
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↗︎ Sovereignty
Deborah Thomas, Savannah Shange, Gabrielle Goliath and Khwezi Mkhize
Public Session(Zoom)
Feb 25, 2021
12pm(EST) 7pm(SAST)
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Enclosure: blackness and transmutation
Mabel Wilson
Closed workshop (Open to participants from the Global South)
Apr 29, 2021 (session 1)
May 6, 2021 (session 2)
12pm(EST) 6pm(SAST)
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Catastrophe::Cartography
Christina Sharpe, Dionne Brand, Torkwase Dyson, Canisia Lubrin, Kevin Browne, and Dele Adeyemo
Public Session (Zoom)
April 30, 2021
12pm(EST) 6pm(SAST)
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Frictions
Tavia Nyong'o and Keguro Macharia
Closed workshop (Open to participants from the Global South)
May 7, 2021
12pm(EST) 6pm(SAST)
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Out of the Ruins of Representation
Rizvana Bradley and Denise Ferreira da Silva
Date TBA
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“Blackness” and/as resilience
Kaiama L Glover
Date TBA
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Title To Be Determined
Hazel Carby
Date TBA
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About The Project
The Sojourner Project is a mobile Black Studies academy initiated by the Practicing Refusal Collective, an international Black feminist forum of artists and scholars dedicated to initiating dialogues on blackness, anti-black violence and black futurity in the twenty-first century.
Structured as a mobile academy that intentionally aims to exceed the literal and figurative walls of the university, The Sojourner Project convenes transnational and diasporic gatherings in which conversations, workshops and art activations create multi-directional encounters with histories of struggle and practices of refusal that have emerged in different black communities. The intention of each convening is to respond to the cultural, intellectual, political, and social landscapes of African and African diasporic localities through collaborative engagements between members of the Practicing Refusal Collective and resident artists, scholars and community and cultural workers. Our goal is a dialogue on national and regional inflections of anti-blackness (including black-on-black violence and Afrophobia), the resulting formations of black precarity and fungibility, and the possibilities for creating alternative futures. Our dialogues seek to formulate critical toolkits for exploring the role of Black Studies in creating intellectual frameworks for black communities to mobilize in the struggle for social transformation.
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