Decolonial Love: Learning to Redream Dangerously Again

109 Tower Road,Ithaca NY 14853

13 May, 2023

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How might we learn to redream dangerously again?Join us for a two-day symposium that brings together scholars, creative writers, and activists to discuss and envisage how the theories, practices, and visions of the roles of love, identity, and land are complexly intertwined with (trans)national structured challenges. With a commitment to "learning to redream dangerously again" during a historical moment of an unceasing remonstration of the intersectional inequality and injustice entrenched in the United States and other localities, the 2023 cohort of the Einaudi Center's Global Racial Justice graduate fellows will host the "Decolonial Love" symposium. The symposium aims to reconstruct and reimagine the multifacetedness of individuals and the complexity of their ties with the self, others, and the natural world through the lens of coloniality and decoloniality. Hosted by the Einaudi Center as part of its inequalities, identities, and justice global research priority, and co-sponsored by Migrations: A Global Grand Challenge, the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program, and the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research. Saturday, May 13 | Uris Hall, G08Registration,12:30 p.m. Opening Remarks, 1:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. Mohamed Abdou (Cornell University)Keynote Address, 1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Mariana MoraPanel I - Identities, 2:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Moderator: I-An "Amy" Su (Cornell University) Alaina Roberts (University of Pittsburgh), "Is Black and Indigenous Reconciliation Possible?"María Elizabeth Rodríguez Beltran (Rutgers University), "Redefining Black Caribbeanness: Peripheral Relationships Decentering the Colonial Family"Michele Cheng (Cornell University)Amber Starks, "The Disenfranchising of Black Indigeneity from Global Indigeneity"Alivia Moore (Cornell University)Film Screenings and Discussions, 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Moderator: Chinasa T. Okolo (Cornell University) 1000 Gifts of Decolonial LoveEgúngún (Masquerade)Counterfeit KunkooCane/CainReception, 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. *** Sunday, May 14 | Uris Hall, G08Registration and Breakfast, 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Panel II - Decolonial Love, 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Moderator: Karina Edouard (Cornell University) Billy-Ray Belcourt (University of British Columbia), "Queer Indigenous Poetics and Erotics"Erica Violet Lee, "Inner City Love Notes: On Street Graffit, Protest Art, and Other Signs of Blooming"Gina Goico (Cornell University), "Envisioning Possibilities: Naming and Archiving Memories of Love and Care in the Dominican Republic"Ariel Dela Cruz (Cornell University), "Don't You Remember?: Intergenerational Filipinx Care and Refusal"Poetry Reading and Color Therapy, 10:45 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Moderator: Ariel Dela Cruz (Cornell University) Billy-Ray Belcourt (University of British Columbia)Valeen JulesErica Violet LeeLunch, 11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Panel III - Solidarities of the Earth: Envisioning and Enacting Reparative Land Justice Moderator: Kendra Kintzi (Cornell University) Enrique Salmón (Cal State East Bay), "We Still Need Rain Spirits: Cultivating Indigenous Land-based Relationships, Resilience, and Identity"Kristen Bos (University of Toronto), "Beads Land"shakara tyler (University of Michigan)Troy Richardson (Cornell University), "Land Labors: Smallest Gestures, Empirical Intimacies"Closing Remarks, 2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Mohamed Abdou (Cornell University)