Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Langston Hughes Lobby and Mezzanine, 515 Malcolm X Blvd (LOCATION SUBJECT TO CHANGE)
Thabisile Griffin, ACLS Global Racisms Fellow, ICLS and History, Columbia University
This series is being sponsored by the the Ambedkar Initiative at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society with the support of Africana Studies (Barnard), the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities (CU), AAADS (CU), and IRAAS (CU)
Featured guests- Russell Hamilton, Alfredo Colon, Joy Guidry, Jessie Cox, & Gaiutra Bahadur, Jacob Cohen
Film screening, performances, and conversations on the imperative of improvisation in social movements, including features on Southern Black marching bands, jazz techniques/ traditions, and the reclamation of cultural and spacial geographies.
About this event
The Ambedkar Initiative at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, with the support of Africana Studies at Barnard, the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities (CU), AAADS and IRAAS at Columbia University presents
Blueprints for Undercommons: Local and Global Wildness
April 14th-16th, 2022 at Columbia University and Barnard College
Join our three day series of work study groups, presentations, film screenings and musical performances, showcasing, studying, and discussing global events and movements that have been understood as wild and incomprehensible, forms of ‘acting out,’ or as instantiating periods of disorientation.
Saturday 4/16, 4-7pm EST
“On Improvisation: Unbridled Freedom Movement and the Arts”
Location: Schomburg Center – open to in-person attendance by the public. Location subject to change.
Please note that this event will not be virtual or recorded.
The Undercommons is both a practice and place of fugitive freedom against logics of manufactured debt, racial capitalism, and neoliberal conceits.
Powered by the Black radical tradition, spaces and moments of undercommoning are fundamentally international, studious, illogical, and borderless.
