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Annual bell hooks Symposium
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Annual bell hooks Symposium
7:00 am - 2:00 pm PSTVirtual
A day-long symposium featuring a keynote conversation between Dr. Salamishah Tillet and Dr. Kevin Quashie
Friday, February 3, 2023 | 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM EST
East Village, 17th floor
RSVP HERE | WATCH VIA LIVESTREAM
Speakers:
- Régine Jean-Charles, Director of Africana Studies, Dean’s Professor of Culture and Social Justice, and Professor of Africana Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Kabria Baumgartner, Dean’s Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies; Associate Director of Public History
- Layla Brown, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology & Africana Studies
- Jenia Browne, International Affairs ’24, Africana Studies Program Assistant
- Meredith Clark, Founding Director of the Center for Communication, Media Innovation and Social Change
- Asia Potts, English PhD student
- AK Wright, Black Feminism Postdoctoral Fellow
- Demita Frazier, Scholar, Writer, Social Justice Activist
- Jovonna Jones, Assistant Professor, English Department, Boston College
- Annette Joseph Gabriel, Associate Professor of Romance Studies, Duke University
- Salamishah Tillet, Henry Rutgers Professor of African American Studies & Creative Writing; Director of Express Newark, Rutgers University
- Kevin Quashie, Professor of English, Brown University
Agenda:
- 7:00 AM PST | 10:00 AM EST Welcome and Opening Remarks
- 7:30 – 9:00 AM PST | 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EST “Until Black Women Are Free, None of Us Are Free”
- 9:00 – 10:00 AM PST | 12:00 – 1:00 PM EST Lunch (Break in Livestream)
- 10:00 – 11:30 AM PST | 1:00 – 2:30 PM EST “We Do This ‘Til We Free Us”
- 12:00 – 1:30 PM PST | 3:00 – 4:30 PM EST Keynote Conversation: “How We Get Free…”
- 1:30 PM PST | 4:30 PM EST Closing Remarks
This one-day symposium brings together the Northeastern community and beyond to reflect on the connection between Black feminism and Black freedom in honor of bell hooks⎼cultural theorist and activist, public intellectual, teacher, and feminist writer.
ASL interpreting services will be provided.