Presentations

In her presentation, Professor Batiste takes a critical creative approach to the relationship between performance, violence, and death in Black Los Angeles. Her investigations of the ways performance served Black Angelinos in negotiating loss and grief turns towards sensitive and vulnerable interiority. This focus on Black feeling challenges external modes of understanding black life and…

"In 2020 French president Emmanuel Macron eased access to national archives relating to colonial Algeria. A review of these new public domain records reveal insights into colonial pedagogical practices which directed the print production of graphology chapbooks and broadsides, designed to shape indigenous women’s education through language, in order to homogenize ethnic and cultural diversity…

"Colonial conquests around the world were not only focused on the usurping of Indigenous lands, but also on the colonization of the minds of the Indigenous inhabitants. Colonial education and missionary schools functioned as mechanisms for ideological control, including in higher education. This resulted in research epistemologies and methodologies being inherently influenced by colonial perspectives…