“Down by the Riverside,” A Town Hall featuring Dr. Bayo Akomolafe alongside nine stellar scholar-activists, will take place on Wednesday, August 7th from 1:30 to 5:30 PM Eastern Time.
This conversation seeks new postures to face our uncertain future as a species and as a planet. Inspired by a cosmo-vision of power—one not reducible to human agency, electoral politics, techno-bureaucratic resolutions, or activist victories — a confluence of decolonial, post-humanist, Black studies, and many other perspectives will merge in W.E.B. Du Bois’ historic home town of Great Barrington. The Town Hall will be live streamed to audiences around the world.
Live stream tickets are $10; Registrants will receive a link prior to the start time.
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EVENT DESCRIPTION
There’s a feeling in the air. A sense that all is not well. But streaming alongside our discomfort is the hint of an opening: a minor gesture, a trickster adrift, whispering that this is the time to get lost.
2024 is perhaps the most politically charged year in recent history, with more than half the global human population voting in charged national elections. The dramatic upheavals and uncertainties of our times leave us feeling locked in a death spiral: a holding pattern that secretes the very violences from which it purports to protect.
Where do we go when we leave the voting booths? If speaking truth to power renders us captive to its calculations — if our activisms, loud solidarities, our anti-colonial efforts serve to reproduce problematic patterns, what else is there to do?
This Town Hall is a walking-by-the-edges, a drifting-along-the-sides. Together, this group will join attendees in a process of embodied inquiry: invoking a sense of the political, of an otherwise, of the non-legible.
Tune in alongside these scholars, elders, and storytellers. We will linger at the edges — at the syncopated shorelines of the riverside — to listen, to feel, and to be moved.