Presentations

Taylor Jackson's workshop will focus on the everyday uses of kitchen herbs and connecting it to historical uses for African Americans. We will also explore the ways in which everyday practices are connected to decolonization. Join us as we welcome former UCSB Student, Taylor Jackson, to give LIVE and LIVES first ever workshop! Taylor is…

This presentation offers a new conceptual tool for Black women’s revolutionary-revelation writing. Integrating theory, method, and praxis, and drawing from Black feminist thought, Black girlhood studies, critical race feminism, womanist theology, the wild woman archetype, and autoethnography, this tool facilitates the unearthing and excavation of Black girl and Black women’s personal and private life writings into…

"In September 1973, William Fuller and Larry Cannon founded Prisoners Against Rape, an organization comprised of individuals who committed rape, feminist anti-sexual violence workers and organizations, and individuals invested in combating rape and rape culture. As Black men, both in their twenties and both perpetrators of sexual violence serving time in Lorton Reformatory, they knew…

"Black girls and women are currently underrepresented in mathematics and the computing disciplines. In this work we explore a novel approach to the development in middle school Black girls of abstractions required for higher level mathematics and science exploration through the practice of crochet. We use the term abstraction to describe the generalization of a…

In this presentation, Dr. Ogbunu integrates concepts from population genetics with ideas grounded in the social sciences to reimagine a biology that is reflective, more technically sound, less reliant on essential categories, and better equipped to dismantle pernicious falsehoods. Join us as we welcome Dr. C. Brandon Ogbunu, Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology…

"Since its inception some 60 years ago, artificial intelligence (AI) has evolved from an arcane academic field into a powerful driver of social transformation. Like the invention of electricity, AI is the quintessential “dual-use” technology with enormous potential for reshaping the nature of education. Indeed, AI sits at the center of a constellation of general-use…

"White epistemologies have long narrated the literacy practices taught in teacher education programs and enacted in classrooms. Literacy education has siloed issues of literacy and equity, and mutually excluding them in the teaching of literacy methods perpetuate white-centric literacy instruction in classrooms. In this talk, I argue for a Black epistemological literacy education that centers…

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…

"The field of educational psychology, while closely aligned with several adjacent branches of psychology, focuses on teaching and learning processes in support of the development of students within K-12 schools and beyond. Similar to other fields, educational psychology has been historically dominated by theories and empirical studies developed and carried out by white scholars who…