Schedule

7 p.m., Council Chamber, Fowler Student Center
Keynote Event

From Transnational Borders to No Borders? Commoning, Abolition, and Imagining Otherwise
Miriam Ticktin, professor of anthropology at CUNY (City University of New York) Graduate Center

Presentation abstract: Migration is a lightning rod in political debates globally, from Tunisia and South Africa to the US, Australia, and many countries in Europe. And in most of these places, managing migration is synonymous with closing the borders. This talk will discuss the transnational politics of border walls, before it turns to transnational political movements that work to counter enclosures and other forms of containment. These struggles sometimes use the language of “no-borders,” and they involve a similar set of transnational circuits as do the technologies and designs of border walls, but with the opposite goal. While taking seriously these powerful politics and counterpolitics, ultimately Dr. Ticktin is interested in how people are imagining different ways of being, alongside or in the interstices of these visions–and she ends by discussing these forms of afterpolitics, grounded in collective living and abolitionist forms of world-making.

• American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided. For additional information about accessibility, please consult the Event Details page.
• No registration is required. This event will not be streamed.
• Book signing and reception to follow in the Council Chamber foyer. Books will be available for purchase.

Information about daytime events (panels, workshops, and other sessions) will be added soon.

7 p.m., Council Chamber, Fowler Student Center
Keynote Event

Indigenous Hip Hop and Healing Soul: Colonized Moderns in Conflict on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Christina Leza, associate professor of anthropology and Indigenous studies at Colorado College

Presentation abstract: The U.S.-Mexico border symbolizes both the colonized state of Indigenous territories in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and the border identities of this region’s Indigenous peoples. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork in the borderlands and close analysis of language and sound in the music of two U.S.-Mexico Indigenous hip hop groups, Shining Soul and Anahuac Underground, Christina Leza addresses identity negotiation and ethnic alliance-building for border Indigenous hip hop artists producing music as decolonial and racial justice movement. These hip hop productions articulate unique Indigenous American histories of settler colonialism through the lens of postapocalyptic suffering and violence at the border, communicating ongoing struggles for freedom from colonialism. Musical “soul” is explored as a mode of interethnic communication and survival emerging from colonized and Indigenous struggles to (re)claim Indigenous identities and lifeways. Addressing the featured Indigenous music artists as colonized moderns in conflict, Leza further explores how border Indigenous hip hop narratives intersect with similar apocalyptic storytelling by other conscious hip hop artists who employ postcolonial/postapocalyptic imagery. In doing so, this keynote offers an entry point for discussing the significance of soul as a symbol and poetic tool across BIPOC discourses for liberation.

• American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided. For additional information about accessibility, please consult the Event Details page.
• No registration is required. This event will not be streamed.
• Book signing and reception to follow in the Council Chamber foyer. Books will be available for purchase.

Information about daytime events (panels, workshops, and other sessions) will be added soon.

7 p.m., Agnes Flanagan Chapel
Race Monologues

Each year a different group of L&C students writes an original series of personal narratives to share their feelings, experiences, and understandings of race, ethnicity, and identity. We invite you to learn more about the history of Race Monologues.

Doors open at 6:40 p.m. First-come seating. Doors will be closed at 7 p.m. (or earlier if we reach capacity), and latecomers will not be admitted.