Organized by Sanctuary Spaces: Reworlding Humanism within the Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy

Date: Friday, June 11
Time: 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Location: Webinar (Registration Required)

Situated at the present historical conjuncture of resurgent white nationalism and xenophobia, the closing event of the Sanctuary Spaces Sawyer Seminar, Freedom and Fugitivity thinks across Black feminism and Indigenous studies to foreground “beautiful experiments” of flight, refusal, and rebellion.

Featuring:
Saidiya Hartman, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University; 2019 MacArthur Fellow

In conversation with:
Aisha K. Finch, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Gender Studies, UCLA

Tiffany Lethabo King, Associate Professor of African-American Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Georgia State University

Kyle Mays, Assistant Professor of African American Studies, American Indian Studies, and History, UCLA

Moderated by:
Sarah Haley, Director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women Black Feminism Initiative
Associate Professor of African American Studies and Gender Studies, UCLA

Chaired by:
Ananya Roy, Director of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy
Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare, and Geography, UCLA

Co-organized with Black Feminism Initiative at UCLA
Co-sponsored by the UCLA American Indian Studies Center

Part of the Sawyer Seminar Sanctuary Spaces: Reworlding Humanism