Dear Students,
here you can find an abridged version of the slides we used in class (I am only providing the ones with practical information + a couple of slides with additional comments not included in the essays you already have).
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rI3ds7dQ2Cu2YOBw6anfuzRx8W9glAzE?usp=share_link
As you can see on our course schedule, Week 4 of our course will consist in an International Conference, to which you are all invited. The topics we’ll discuss are extremely relevant, the keynote and guest speakers who will be with us will surely encourage thought-provoking reflections and I do hope you’ll find all of this very interesting.
This is the link to the event website: https://sites.google.com/view/infrasctructuresofracism/program?authuser=0. The conference takes place over two and a half days. The longer keynote sessions are alternated by roundtable encounters, centered on specific topics; on March 24, from 9 to 12, a workshop on Anti-racist Pedagogies will be held. This is meant as a less “institutional” event and will include group role-plays in which you’ll be actively involved; the workshop will be followed by an interview + debate based on the podcast https://www.sullarazza.it/, featuring Dr. Nathasha Fernando, one of the show’s curator.
Attendance will be taken for those of you who are planning to take the mid-term exam. You are more than welcome to join us and be involved in the entire conference, which is free and open to all. However, the specific sessions you are invited to attend in order to take the mid-term exam are the following:
Keynote 1 – Elizabeth MADDOCK DILLON (Northeastern University, USA): “Racial Capitalism and the Story of Sweetness: Milk, Sugar, Honey and the Food Chain”
Keynote 2 – Nic[o] BRIERRE AZIZ (Interdisciplinary artist and curator, USA): “I’d Rather Get Out Of Jail Than Get $1,000,000”
Antiracist Pedagogies: Workshop with Activists, guest speaker Nathasha Fernando
Keynote 3 (online) – Kevin E. QUASHIE (Brown University, USA) – “The Matter of Black Sentences”
Keynote 4 – M. Giulia FABI (Università di Ferrara, Italy) – “The Personal and the Political in African American Fiction of the Early Jim Crow Era”
AND one roundtable of your choice among the five on the program.
If, in exceptional circumstances, you are unable to attend one of the sessions above, you need to select a roundtable of your choice as an alternative, and notify me with an email. An attendance sheet will be made available and circulated during the events. This event is meant as a valuable opportunity for intellectual growth, but the themes analyzed and discussed in the conference will not be included in the mid-term exam.
I hope this clarifies some doubts you had.
Best,
Cristina Di Maio.