“Building the Fugitive Academy” Workshops and Seminars Hosted by Boston College (March 5-May 7)

Boston College is hosting “Building the Fugitive Academy: Communication, Culture, Media, & Rhetoric Scholars on the Work of Transformation” as a conference divided into two parts: seminars and workshops. A description of the conference on their website is as follows:

“In this ongoing moment of global consciousness and uprising about racism, classism, sexism, ableism, and other forms of oppression, collaboratively creating theories and tactics to dismantle violent institutions and create liberatory worlds is necessary and urgent work. This conference is focused on the cooperative historical, theoretical, and skillbuilding portions of transformation, specifically in the context of the disciplines of communication, media studies, cultural studies, and rhetoric. It is intended to respond to multiple exigences, including ongoing conversations about structural whiteness across disciplines. We hope that this event will help to ease the burden of doing inclusion, diversity, equity, and access work in professional organizations, by supporting coalition building and community support. In using the term fugitivity, we take inspiration from and pay homage to Fred Moten and his transformative work in Black Studies. Practicing fugitivity is an urgent and necessary act.”

The session schedule is:

March 5, 2021-Introduction: Why Transformation, Why Now?*

March 12, 2021-Session 1: Histories of Disciplinary Resistance*

March 19, 2021 -Session 2: Thriving Against Whiteness

11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. EST: Recorded Workshop