A Conversation on Land, Art, and Abolitionist Practice, with JT Roane and jackie sumell, 11/13
5 The Green
On November 13, University Ecologies will be hosting a special discussion entitled "A Conversation on Land, Art, and Abolitionist Practice," in Eaton Hall, Room 260. We will be joined by JT Roane, Assistant Professor at Rutgers University, and artist jackie sumell.
The conversation centers how communities in different regions of the United States have utilized land as part of the Black Radical Tradition. We will consider how the land serves abolitionist praxis, revealing struggles for liberation that create possibilities beyond carceral and colonial systems. Land becomes both a material and symbolic container for communities who resist displacement, reimagine belonging and cultivate forms of mutual aid that challenge extractive economies. The speakers will cover historical cases of plotting and marronage, and contemporary currents in intellectual and artistic production, organizing, activism as well as food and environmental justice. As June Jordan’s 1976 essay, “Controlling Intellectual Background,” reminds us, “We must learn to share the earth while there is still time to try.”
Sponsors
The Center for the Humanities | University Ecologies | Tufts University Prison Initiative (TUPIT) |Anthropology | English | Environmental Studies | Sociology | Theatre, Dance, & Performance Studies | Race, Colonialism & Diaspora | Urban and Environmental Policy & Planning | Visual & Material Culture Studies
If you require assistance in order to attend, please email alex.blanchette@tufts.edu or humanities@tufts.edu. All are welcome.
