Global Black Geographies Conference
From Thursday, October 05, 2023
To Friday, October 06, 2023
The Department of Geography at Rutgers-New Brunswick and the organizing committee of the McGrann-USF Global Black Geographies Conference are excited to bring together a global network of researchers and activists interested in Black geographic studies and activist interventions against the racialized power dynamics that perpetuate devaluation, extraction, expropriation and marginalization of Black lives and majority-Black places.
The conference will highlight critical scholars and community organizers who foreground Black Studies epistemologies in their work, notably by drawing on the vital insights of social movement participants in our collective knowledge production. Featuring scholars and activists from the US, Brazil, and the Caribbean, the conference will develop and strengthen scholar-activist collaboration across these Black diasporic spaces.
Come join us in:
• a creativity-infused somatic practice workshop with Alixa García Blackgeography Alixa Garcia Workshop Flyer. Pdf.pdf
• a critical sharing about Black ecologies with MST campesinas and Maroon/Quilombola fisherwomen from Brazil and Guayana
• roundtables on favela community journalism; policing/militarization and abolition tactics, Black cooperativism and more.
The Global Black Geographies Conference will take place at Rutgers-New Brunswick on October 5-6th and in New York City on October 7-8th 2023. Location: 35 Seminary Place, New Brunswick.
Please visit the conference website to check out the program and REGISTER: https://sites.rutgers.edu/2023-magrann-conference/
Please spread the word widely in your networks and communities!
Best regards,
The Co-organizing Committee: Dr. Priscilla Ferreira (Chair), Dr. Kevon Rhiney, Dr. Teona Williams, Raymond Jennings, Calvin Walds, Nia Cambridge, Dr. Adam Bledsoe, Dr. Yousuf Al-Bulushi, Dr. Willie Jamaal Wright, Dr. Renato Emerson dos Santos, Gizele Martins, Livia Vidal, Morena de Barros, Fransergio Goulart, Juliana Wu.
Hosted by: The Department of Geography (Rutgers University-New Brunswick)
Co-sponsored by The Urban Studies Foundation, Rutgers Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Institute, The Rutgers Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, The School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS Global Initiative), Rutgers Global, and the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS).
Dr. Priscilla Ferreira
Assistant Professor of Geography and Latinx & Caribbean Studies-Rutgers New Brunswick
The Rutgers Institute For the Study of Global Racial Justice Fellow (2023-2024)
Rotary World Peace Fellow