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In The Disordered Cosmos, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein shares her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and what lies beyond it, to the physics of melanin in skin, to the latest theories of dark matter — all with a new spin informed by history, politics, and the wisdom of Star Trek. One of the leading physicists of her generation, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is also one of fewer than one hundred Black American women to earn a PhD from a department of physics. Her vision of the cosmos is vibrant, buoyantly non-traditional, and grounded in Black feminist traditions. Prescod-Weinstein urges us to recognize how science, like most fields, is rife with racism, sexism, and other dehumanizing systems. She lays out a bold new approach to science and society that begins with the belief that we all have a fundamental right to know and love the night sky.

Join Dr. Prescod-Weinstein for an enlightening discussion about her book, her science and her vision for a world that allows everyone to experience and understand the wonders of the universe.

Co-sponsored by The College of Natural Sciences

In this transnational dialogue three artists, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley (London), Pêdra Costa (Berlin/Brazil), and Nadia Granados (Colombia), discuss how their work intervenes in dominant theories of gender and sexuality by centering the body as a site of knowledge production. What is the role of technology in archiving black trans experience? How does the black trans archive allow us to imagine our lives in environments that centre our bodies? How does cuir/kuir/queer Latin American performance art disrupt global North to South epistemological flows? How can multimedia technologies and the body be used to decode violence and make visible alternative political strategies of resistance to mass media and imperialism? Through feminist, queer, decolonial, and anti-racist work, these artists theorize gender and sexuality while re-territorializing the body and bodies of knowledge.

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Co-sponsored by the Teresa Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies

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Join us for a roundtable discussion on the recent translation of Black Brazilian intellectual Beatriz Nascimento’s  Translating Beatriz work into English: "In Front of the World: Nascimento" (Antipode, 2021). In this conversation, Patricia Noxolo (University of Birmingham), Alissa Trotz (University of Toronto) and Alex Ratts (Universidade Federal de Goiais) will reflect on Beatriz Nascimento’s legacy for radical geography, transnational Black feminism and critical theory, and the importance of translating her work into English. This dialogue will also include the co-authors of the article and the translated collection: Christen Smith, Archie Davies and Bethânia Gomes. This event is co-sponsored by Antipode and the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. 

Discussants: 

• Patricia Noxolo - human geographer and Caribbeanist, University of Birmingham

• Alissa Trotz - Transnational feminist scholar and Caribbeanist, University of Toronto

• Alex Ratts - Anthropologist and cultural geographer, Universidade Federal de Goiás

Respondents: 

• Archie Davies - Geographer and translator, University of Sheffield 

• Bethania Gomes - Daughter of Beatriz Nascimento, Ballerina - Dance Theater of Harlem

• Christen Smith - Black feminist anthropologist, University of Texas at Austin

We are the sparks, igniting and reigniting the beauty of resistance through Black feminist lineage. In this conversation we join artists of poetry, film, and the academy to talk about how their work speaks to contemporary social movements, exposing inequity and possibility, with writer, poet, and activist Stacey Ann Chin (@staceyannchin), documentary filmmaker and curator Ania Freer of Goat Curry Gallery, and Fikile Nxumalo(@Nxumalo71), Ndwandwe early childhood researcher

Stacey Ann Chin pens the words of power, raptured emotion. In her recent Instagram posts, Zuri, her daughter, joins the discussion, offering reflections of self and society. We’ll talk more about how feminist futures show up in their relationship. 

Ania Freer of Goat Curry Gallery hears and documents the intonations, breaths, facial expressions and relationships found in oral histories of Jamaica, shifting the parameters of ‘fine art’. In one clip, two young girls relay the complicated life of the River Maiden in the waters of Westmoreland.  

Fikile Nxumalo is an early childhood scholar who look at how our relationships with land are rooted in Indigenous knowledges, Black feminist geographies, and critical posthumanist theories. In one of her works with kiyana ross, Black space with young children is imagined with the words of Octavia Butler, Nikki Giovanni and drum rhythms. 

Stacey Ann, Ania, and Fikile listen to young children in such different ways engaging feminist futures and feminist pasts. In this conversation, we’ll talk about where they see possibilities in the intersections of age, race, and gender in all its expressions. Join us for this living room conversation, where we take the plastic off our grandma’s couch and try not to spill anything.

Registration link: https://utexas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEpd-GtqDsvH9DuRMcuQTi_NtQnSF5hGT1h