BLACK GEOGRAPHIES
INSURGENT KNOWLEDGE, SPATIAL POETICS, AND THE POLITICS OF BLACKNESS
A Symposium Organized by the Berkeley Black Geographies Project
Keynote Address by Katherine McKittrick, Oct 12th at 3:30 pm
October 11th and 12th, 2017
9 am-5 pm
Fannie Lou Hamer Black Resource Center
Hearst Annex D-3
Black liberation movements around the world, from the streets of Oakland and Ferguson to the shores of southern Europe, have focused international conversations among activists, academics, and artists on the importance of blackness to the geographical imagination. Importantly, this dialogue has elucidated the possibilities of blackness as a radical framework for envisioning liberation, social justice, and reconstruction.
We invite researchers, students, organizers, and community stakeholders to the Black Geographies Symposium to discuss the possibilities of work oriented around black geographic thought. This symposium offers black geographies as a capacious field of inquiry that invite historical, political, economic, sociological, and artistic perspectives–as well as a range of “established” and alternative methodologies.
Sponsorship provided by the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, the UC Consortium for Black Studies in California,
the UC Berkeley Departments of Geography and African American Studies, and the Fannie Lou Hamer Black Resource Center
