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Coretta Scott King Center Global Racial and Social Justice Summit Highlights

Another World is Possible: A Global Racial and Social Justice Summit 

Summit Description: 

“Another World is Possible” is an in-person Global Racial and Social Justice summit that will run from February 13-16, 2025 at Antioch College in Yellow Springs Ohio. The conference is being sponsored by the Coretta Scott King Center for Cultural and Intellectual Freedom. 

 

Another World is Possible will create a space for academics, artists, activists, community organizers, and students to discuss current racial and social justice concerns and resistance efforts. Around the world and in the United States, we have witnessed and experienced a deepening of existing as well as the emergence of new forms of political domination and economic exploitation. For example, we have seen increases in attacks on racial and social justice movements; authoritarian actions and policies; the strengthening and mainstreaming of the far right, and the promotion of exclusionary policies. This, of course, includes the attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion; Critical Race Theory; immigrants; LGBTQIA+ rights; Feminist studies; Gender studies; unions; voting rights; reproductive rights; and the teaching of Black Studies in U.S. higher education and K-12 institutions, to name a few things. 

 

In response to these developments, as Patricia Hill Collins, bell hooks, and others have advocated, it is extremely important for individuals and groups dedicated to racial and social justice to gather and collectively grapple with resistance so that we might survive and thrive inside and outside of the academy. How is this current wave of extremist actions and exclusionary policies impacting academics, artists, activists and students dedicated to racial and social justice? How are individuals and groups resisting and working towards greater peace and justice in this moment? How can we use the summit as a space to develop visions of racially and socially just futures, create networks of support, and collectively strategize to achieve what we envision?  

 

Invited Guests 

Guest who have been invited to the summit thus far include: 

The Un/Commoning Pedagogies Collective: 

The Un/Commoning Pedagogies Collective consists of 7 scholar/artist/activists in the humanities and social sciences who have written and conducted workshops on how to incorporate embodied anti-racist pedagogies into the higher education classroom. These scholars who work in Haiti, Trinidad, Mali, Senegal, and the United States bring a global perspective to their anti-racist pedagogies. They will facilitate a workshop as well as embodied visioning sessions at the summit. 

 

  • Here is a link to an article by the collective “Un/Commoning Pedagogies: Forging Collectivity Through Difference in the Embodied Classroom and Beyond”: 

https://performancematters-thejournal.com/index.php/pm/article/view/385

 

Sincerely the Black Kids: 

The summit will feature screening of the film Sincerely the Black Kids, followed by a panel discussion featuring the director of the film, Miles Iton, that will focus on building more inclusive campus communities. Miles Iton is also the founder and director of Lo-Fi Language Learning, which is a Taiwan-based English as a Foreign Language program that uses hip-hop to teach language and build bridges across cultural divides. Iton will engage in a dialogue about hip-hop, racial and social justice organizing, and education at the summit. 

 

 

Mareas/Tides

The summit will also feature a dance performance, “Mareas/Tides,” by Denison University dance faculty, Marion Ramirez and Ojeya Cruz Banks, and music faculty, celebrating sacred celestial-ocean relationships through story-telling, song, and improvisation. It traces the storied geographies between and through Puerto Rico, Guåhan to Aotearoa to Alabama to Senegal. The performance braids the artists’ distinct island cosmologies together and embodies the gravitational power of the African diaspora flowing through the Caribbean and Indigenous Pacific worlds. The program features musicians Pete Mills, Timothy Carpenter, Matthew Dixon, and Dean Hullet. 

 

These and other individuals will be in conversation with artists, scholars, activists, and youth from Antioch and the local community who are engaged in impactful racial and social justice work. 

 

 

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