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Monday, September 29

8:45-9:00 Welcome: Catherine Lu (Director of the Lin Centre, RGGJ Coordinator)

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9:00-10:15 Panel 1

Chair: Jacob Levy (麻豆色情片, RGCS Coordinator)

Paper presenter: Juliet Hooker (Brown University)

Title: "Mute but Eloquent": Frederick Douglass on Commemoration and Historical Memory

Abstract: In the last two decades of the nineteenth century, as the US was moving toward national reconciliation at the expense of Black rights, Frederick Douglass fought to preserve an anti-racist memory of the Civil War that centered Black freedom. Douglass argued against building Confederate monuments because he understood them as a form of white amnesiac commemoration sutured by anti-Black racism. Instead, he argued for a historical memory that centered abolitionists, Black soldiers, and the freed people who had emancipated themselves from slavery. In an 1882 speech celebrating Decoration Day, Douglass urged Rochester, NY to build a monument to those who fought for the Union that 鈥渨ould be a just tribute to the dead, and a noble inspiration to the living. It would stand before your people mute but eloquent鈥攁 sacred object around which your children and your children's children could rally.鈥� Douglass himself would become one of the first African-Americans to be memorialized in a stand-alone public monument in the US, and ritual commemorations of his life became a key element of African-American efforts to preserve a historical memory of slavery and the Civil War not infused by Lost Cause propaganda during the height of Confederate monument-building in the early decades of the twentieth century. In this talk, I explore Douglass鈥� understanding of monuments as profoundly pedagogical, and his political ideas about commemoration and historical memory as key arenas in the struggle for racial justice.

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10:15-10:45 Break

10:45-12:00 Panel 2

Chair: Yves Winter (麻豆色情片)

Paper presenter: Shatema Threadcraft (Vanderbilt)

Title: Misfits' Word and World Work 鈥� Hamraie's 鈥楥rip鈥� Technoscience and Morrison's Truant Democracy

Abstract: In this paper, I bring Aimi Hamraie's concept of "crip technoscience" and their understanding of how ideology is materialized in the built environment as well as how disability justice activists fought to inscribe the world otherwise into conversation with my account of Morrison's truant democracy, an account that is indebted to Stephanie Camp's claim that the phenomenon of truancy braided a rival geography into the plantation system. I believe these thinkers provide a roadmap for how to move forward today.

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12:00-1:30 Break

1:30-3:00 Panel 3

Chair:听Natalie Stoljar (麻豆色情片)

Paper presenter: Samantha Puzzi (Political Science, 麻豆色情片, PhD candidate)

Title: Campus Occupations, The University, and the Right to the City

Abstract: Can the idea of the 鈥榬ight to the city鈥� help us make sense of the linkages between student resistance and campus occupations, university governance, and a broader anti-capitalist movement? This paper argues that, reformulated based on Lefebvre鈥檚 understudied comments on the 1968 Paris student revolts (Lefebvre 1969 [1968]), it can. In the paper鈥檚 first section, I argue in favor of reinterpreting the right to the city as usefully anchored around protest struggles for democratic transformation of existing institutions. The second section locates the university within this framework, arguing that elite universities are key actors in capitalist spatial production and thus important sites for pursuing, clarifying, and expanding the right to the city. I propose a novel 鈥榬ight to the campus鈥� based on democratizing university governance, in terms of both empowering students, faculty, and staff and establishing participation in university-decision making for broader publics of non-members. The third and final section explores how the right to the campus expresses and concretizes itself through occupations of university grounds and barricade construction, with reference to the spatial politics of Columbia University and Paris in 1968. By taking up physical space, occupations disrupt university activities to generate attention for student demands and assert student participation in university decision-making. By converting physical space, occupations provide venues for rehearsing a reimagined university characterized by democratic self-management and for establishing linkages with non-university members and other resistant organizations.

Discussant: Louis-Thomas Kelly (post-doctoral fellow, McMaster University)

3:00-3:30 Break

3:30-5:30 Panel 4: Roundtable on Shatema Threadcraft鈥檚 The Labors of Resurrection: Black Women, Necromancy, and Morrisonian Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2025)

Chair: Amber Rose Johnson (麻豆色情片)

Participants: Debra Thompson (麻豆色情片), Gina Starblanket (University of Victoria/University of Toronto), Catherine Lu (麻豆色情片), Shatema Threadcraft (Vanderbilt)

5:30-6:30 pm Reception

Tuesday, September 30

9:15-9:30 Welcome

9:30-10:45 Panel 5

Joint with Canada Research Chair in Racial Inequality in Democratic Societies

Chair: Debra Thompson (麻豆色情片)

Paper presenter: Tr茅 Garnett (University of California, Riverside, PhD student)

Title: Fighting Black: The Politically Transformative Power of Black Martial Artistry

Abstract: In reckoning with how norms of anti-blackness have actively excluded black people鈥檚 access to democratic spaces, theorizations on democracy within black political thought have often asserted concepts of democracy that go beyond the merely procedural. Such conceptions are commonly intertwined with goals of breaking down anti-black structures that would negate black people鈥檚 place as legitimate democratic subjects. Pursuing these goals necessitates cultivating and rehearsing a democratic disposition capable of resisting and overcoming dehumanizing logics. I argue that one undertheorized site where such rehearsals can, and indeed, have occurred is within black martial artistry. Martial arts training has been used in black political struggles from slave rebellions to the Black Power movement and its accounts speak to its value in transforming subjects for political action. I argue that this result goes deeper than political tactics of self-defense to reflect an embodied political subjectivity honed to internalize empowered views of oneself as capable of creating change and resisting harm from external forces. In theorizing the actualization of this subjectivity, which I refer to as the 鈥渕artial agentive self,鈥� I connect accounts of black martial artistry to black political thought, namely Africana phenomenology, and martial arts studies to demonstrate how martial arts practice can be further harnessed towards democratically transformative ends. While I argue that all martial artistry can have this effect, I also consider how differences between styles and training spaces can mediate what shape the martial agentive self takes and its potential to be pursued within current political contexts.

Discussant: William Tilleczek (Universit茅 de Montr茅al)

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10:45-11:15 Break

11:15- 1:00 pm Panel 6

Roundtable on Democracy and Design

Chair: Catherine Lu (麻豆色情片)

Participants: Gina Starblanket (University of Victoria /University of Toronto), Shatema Threadcraft (Vanderbilt) , Deva Woodly (Brown), Louis-Thomas Kelly (McMaster University)

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1:00-3:30 Break

3:30-5:30 Panel 7

Joint with GRIPP Colloquium

Chairs: Catherine Lu (麻豆色情片), Ryoa Chung (Universit茅 de Montr茅al), Amandine Catala (UQAM)

Paper presenter: Deva Woodly (Brown)

Paper title: Taking Worldbuilding Seriously: Fabulation, Fabrication, and the Black Feminist Politics of Futurity

Abstract: Takes June Jordan's work with Buckminster Fuller to redesign Harlem in the context of urban renewal/"negro removal" and places Jordan's concept of "aliveness" and flourishing at the center of the process of rebuilding (as any poet turned architect would).

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5:30-6:00 pm End of conference