Black Ecologies Symposium
Thursday, Nov 21, 2024
Michigan Union-Wolverine Room
8:30 a.m. -12:00 p.m.

Black ecology is the study of Black people and their environment. Please join us as eminent scholars from across the country will discuss various aspects of this important field of study. This symposium is part of a year-long exploration of Black Ecology within the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies.
Participants and Presentation titles:

Joshua Bennett (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
“Veils: Black Life and The Art of Opacity”
Brigitte Fielder (University of Wisconsin)
“Black Birds; Black Flight”
Che Gossett (University of Pennsylvania)
“The Dark Sublime”
Aliyah Khan (University of Michigan)
"Oil Drilling in El Dorado: A Creolese Crossing"
JT Roane (Rutgers University)
“Transforming ‘Mississippi-America’: Land and Ecology in June Jordan's Work”
C Riley Snorton (University of Chicago)
“MUD: Swamp Tales, Trans Ghosts, and Nonbinary Magical Realism”
Marisa Solomon (Barnard College)
“Tending to Black Trash”
Meg Sweeney (University of Michigan)
"‘Dead White Man's Clothes' and the Women of Kantamanto Market"

8:30 a.m.- 8:45 a.m. : Welcome
8:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. : Panel I
10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. : Break
10:30 a.m.- 12:00 p.m. : Panel 2
12:00 p.m.- 12:05 p.m. : Concluding remarks