Literature, Critical Theory, and Black Ecologies (October 18, 2023)

This special webinar explored how Black writers--across literatures and in quotidian Black expressive cultures--script, narrate, reimagine, theorize, and counter the order naturalizing Black vulnerability and ecocide as well as how these writers generate new epistemes for imagining a different order.
Hosted by: Dr. Dana Cypress (Colgate University), Dr. Justin Hosbey (University of California-Berkeley) and Dr. J.T. Roane (Rutgers ISGRJ Named Term Chair)
Featuring: Helen Ganiy, Dr. Randi Gill-Sadler, Dr. Carlyn Ferrari, Dr. Elleza Kelley, Dr. Christine Okoth, JP Sloan and Dr. Maurice Wallace.
Sponsored by: ISGRJ Black Ecology Initiatives, Black Lab: Experiments in Theoretical Black Studies (Rutgers), and the University of California, Berkeley College of Environmental Design