How might we learn to redream dangerously again?

Join us for a two-day symposium that brings together scholars, creative writers, and activists to discuss and envisage how the theories, practices, and visions of the roles of love, identity, and land are complexly intertwined with (trans)national structured challenges.

With a commitment to "learning to redream dangerously again" during a historical moment of an unceasing remonstration of the intersectional inequality and injustice entrenched in the United States and other localities, the 2023 cohort of the Einaudi Center's Global Racial Justice graduate fellows will host the "Decolonial Love" symposium. The symposium aims to reconstruct and reimagine the multifacetedness of individuals and the complexity of their ties with the self, others, and the natural world through the lens of coloniality and decoloniality.

Hosted by the Einaudi Center as part of its inequalities, identities, and justice global research priority, and co-sponsored by Migrations: A Global Grand Challenge, the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program, and the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research.

Reserve your seat today!

Saturday, May 13

Registration, 12:30 p.m. EDT

Opening Remarks, 1:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. EDT

Mohamed Abdou (Cornell University)Keynote Address, 1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. EDT

Mariana Mora (Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology), "Towards a politics of listening and sensorial truths, the struggle for racialized justice for the 43 disappeared students of Ayotzinapa, Mexico"Panel I - Identities, 2:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. EDT

Moderator: I-An "Amy" Su (Cornell University)

Alaina E. Roberts (University of Pittsburgh), "Is Black and Indigenous Reconciliation Possible?"María Elizabeth Rodríguez Beltran (Rutgers University), "Redefining Black Caribbeanness: Peripheral Relationships Decentering the Colonial Family"Michele Cheng (Cornell University), "The Aftermath of Colonization and Colonialism: Musical Identities of a 1.5 Generation Taiwanese American"Amber Starks, "The Disenfranchising of Black Indigeneity from Global Indigeneity"Alivia Moore (Cornell University), "Truth Bias and Intergroup Dynamics"Film Screenings and Discussions, 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. EDT

Moderator: Chinasa T. Okolo (Cornell University)

1000 Gifts of Decolonial LoveEgúngún (Masquerade)Counterfeit KunkooCane/CainReception, 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. EDT

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Sunday, May 14

Registration and Lunch, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. EDT

Poetry Reading and Color Therapy, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. EDT

Moderator: Ariel Dela Cruz (Cornell University)

Billy-Ray Belcourt (University of British Columbia)Valeen JulesErica Violet LeePanel II - Solidarities of the Earth: Envisioning and Enacting Reparative Land Justice, 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. EDT

Moderator: Kendra Kintzi (Cornell University)

Enrique Salmón (Cal State East Bay), "We Still Need Rain Spirits: Cultivating Indigenous Land-based Relationships, Resilience, and Identity"Kristen Bos (University of Toronto), "Beads Land"shakara tyler (University of Michigan)Troy Richardson (Cornell University), "Land Labors: Smallest Gestures, Empirical Intimacies"Panel III - Decolonial Love, 2:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. EDT

Moderator: Karina Edouard (Cornell University)

Gina Goico (Cornell University), "Envisioning Possibilities: Naming and Archiving Memories of Love and Care from the Dominican Republic"Ariel Dela Cruz (Cornell University), "Don't You Remember?: Intergenerational Filipinx Care and Refusal"Erica Violet Lee, "Inner City Love Notes: On Street Graffit, Protest Art, and Other Signs of Blooming"Closing Remarks, 4:15 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. EDT

Mohamed Abdou (Cornell University)

This webinar will offer insight into the currents events taking place in Sudan. Please register to attend.

Speakers
Dr. Nisrin Elamin, University of Toronto
Dr. Mai Hassan, MIT
Dr. Deen Sharp, London School of Economics

Moderator
Dr. Mostafa Minawi, Cornell University

Film Screening and Discussion

Join us for a simultaneous film screening across six U.S. universities, with the director and producers of the film available for Q&A. We'll be watching the film Dragon for Sale: Environmental Justice and the Illusion of "10 New Balis" Development in Indonesia.

Dr. Anil Menon argues that "forced migration can foster a strong group identity among refugees, which can mobilize them toward political parties that champion their identity-based grievances." Join us to discuss and hear Dr. Menon present his methodologies, analysis, and results of this argument in his recently published work The Political Legacy of Forced Migration: Evidence from Post-WWII Germany.

Dr. Anil Menon is a Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Government at Cornell University. His research examines how traumatic experiences – ranging from interstate wars and forced migration to public health crises – shape short- and long-term political attitudes, behaviors, and institutions. Dr. Menon's work on these issues has been published at both academic and policy journals – American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, The Economic Journal, PLOS ONE, International Journal of Public Health, and Current History – and has been featured in popular press outlets like the Washington Post: Monkey Cage and The Conversation.

In-person capacity for this event will be limited, please register using the Zoom link below. Lunch will be provided.