Description: Drawing from literary texts and works in other genres of creative and social expression, participants address the following questions in five-minute provocations: How does the prefix global alter, expand, or complicate notions and practices of black studies? Conversely, how does black study of the world enhance understandings of the global?

Speakers

Michael Datcher, independent scholar

Kun Huang, Cornell U

Trent Masiki, Boston U

Asimina Ino Nikolopoulou, Grinnell C

Chriss Sneed, U of Connecticut, Storrs

Dorothy Randall Tsuruta, San Francisco State U

Jasmine Wade, U of California, Davis

Presider

Neelofer Qadir, U of North Carolina, Greensboro