November 18,2022 – 1:00pm – 7:00p EDT.
Hybrid Event ( In-Person & Online)

Location : Columbia University Faculty House -President’s Ballroom
64 Morningside Drive, New York, NY 10027

Registration: https://forms.gle/s3FVjwAsuXyNVFUHA

In- Person registrants,  Space is limited, registration does not guarantee seating. Masking is suggested in indoor spaces.  If you require disability accommodations, please contact Columbia Disability Services at 212-854-2388 or disability@columbia.edu

Online Registrants please visit our Livestream
https://bit.ly/3D2QEft
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Introduction – 1p.
Kellie E. Jones, Chair Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Columbia University

1. Seeing the Valley – Black Urban Spaces

Listening to Lives, Seeing Livelihoods – 1p
Diedra Kelley (The Romare Bearden Foundation)
Elizabeth Chin (ArtCenter College of Design)
Patricia Zavella (University of California at Santa Cruz)
Jerry Philogene (Dickinson College)
Obery Hendricks (Columbia University)

Spatial Politics Against Global Anti-Blackness – 2:20p
Jacqueline Nassy Brown (Hunter College and the Graduate Center CUNY)
Anthony Johnson (Independent Writer and Scholar)
Brandi T. Summers (University of California at Berkeley)
Frank A. Guridy (Columbia University)

Coffee Break – 3p

2. Facing the Acropolis – Infrapolitical Practices of Resistance

Dialogic Encounters in  Black Studies – 3:20p
Eric Tang (University of Texas at Austin)
Oneka LaBennet(University of Southern California)
Vanessa Agard-Jones (Columbia University)
Robert Gooding Williams (Columbia University)

Posthumous Futurity: Roundtable Introduction toThe Valley & the Acropolis– 4:10p
Jafari Allen (University of Miami)
Farah Jasmine Griffin  (Columbia University)
Arlene Davila  (New York University)
Vanessa Agard-Jones (Columbia University)

Closing Reflections – 5p
Mabel O. Wilson, Director Institute for Research in African American Studies
Invited guests

Exhibition – 5:30p
The Photography of Steven Gregory: Meditations on People and Place
Curated by Diedra Harris Kelly, Susan Gregory, and Mabel O. Wilson

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Columbia University makes every effort to accommodate individuals with disabilities. Please notify us if you need any assistance. Disability Services can be reached at 212.854.2388 and access@columbia.edu.