With/Out – ¿Borders? II:
Post-Oppression Imaginaries and Decolonized Futures
Let’s Remap the World!
Date: October 21 and 22, 2016
Location: Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership, Kalamazoo College
205 Monroe Street, Kalamazoo, MI 49006
This was a CONFERENCE – [UN]CONFERENCE featuring modules that included panel discussions, breakout sessions, and performances designed to prompt us to collectively conjure, theorize, decolonize, and map a future we can all thrive in.
Conference Videos
Afrofuturism Plenary
Friday, October 21, 9:45 am -11:15am
Decolonized Knowledge Plenary
Friday, October 21, 2:00pm – 3:30pm
Naomi Klein Keynote Speech
Friday, October 21, 7:00pm – 8:00pm
Sustainable Futures Plenary
Saturday, October 22, 9:30pm – 11:00am
Next Systems Plenary
Saturday, October 22, 2:00pm – 3:30pm
Confirmed Speakers and Facilitators
- Naomi Klein
- Adrienne Brown
- Daniel Beaty
- Christina Heatherton
- Peter Bratsis
- Sunni Patterson
- Dara Cooper
- Alice Kim
- Stephanie Shonekan
- Prudence Browne
- Simon Akindess
- Sean Estelle
- Nicholas Estes
- Alex Lubin
- Shante Paradigm Smalls
- Cynthia Young
- Valorie Thomas
- Shayna Plaut
- Shreena Gandhi
- Jaafar Aksikas
- Erin Polley
- Scott Kurashige
- Amaha Selassi
- Denise Miller
- Kai M. Green
- D. Denenge Duyst-Akpem
- Jiba Anderson
- Francisco Villegas
- Xavier Morales
- Felipe Sousa-Rodriguez
- Rhonda Williams
- Rebecca Alexander
- Ali Abunimah
- Mildred Williamson
- Jax Lee Gardner
- Jacob Corvidae
- Tama Hamilton
- Yolanda Vega
- Sojn Boothroyd
- Shea Howell
- Tawana Petty
- Shannon Sykes
- Binney Girdler
- Kali Akuno
- Santiago Valles
- Ntanya Lee
- Matt Birkhold
- Sholanna Lewis
- Jonathan Romero
- Karla Aguillar
- Pat Fry
- Anne Mitchell
- Elizabeth Vega
Modules and Interventions
The modules will focus on the following interventions:
*Cultural and academic work informed by Afrofuturism, the visioning of post-oppression desires through fantasy, film, technology, and speculative fiction
*Radical teaching, campus activism, and education advocacy that upends colonial knowledge to create liberatory educational structures and paradigms
*Ideologies and technologies that move toward a renewable energy [r]evolution and sustainable future
*Global and local work creating next systems and deploying new economic possibilities and strategies
Community Cosponsors
