“They Have Returned”: Ghanaians, African Americans, and the State Cultivation of Diasporic Dreams
Dansowaa Adu presented her thesis in May. Drawing deeply from archives and travelogues, Adu explores the reflections of African Americans who traveled to Ghana under Kwame Nkrumah in the 1950s and 1960s.
Puerto Rican Feminists Confront the State
A lecture by Dr. Marisol LeBrón (UC Santa Cruz)
Knife Strikes Bone: Policing at the Limits of Empire
Christina Heatherton delivered the keynote address at the “Racialized Policing” conference where she offered a conjunctural analysis of policing.
Antonio Gramsci and the Current Conjuncture
A conference at UC Berkeley co-hosted by the Trinity Social Justice Initiative, the Department of Geography and Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley, and the International Gramsci Society
Connecticut Ethnic Studies Symposium
Trinity students who worked with Christina Heatherton for the semester traveled to Storrs, CT to present their independent research projects, accompanied by Juliet Nebolon (Trinity), Christina, and Jordan.
The Radical Art of Listening
Christina Heatherton joined Barbara Smith (Combahee River Collective co-founder) and Armin Farris (UCSC) to celebrate the induction of Paul Ortiz as a Hess Scholar at the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute, Brooklyn College.
Power & the Possibilities of Remembering: Unearthing Hidden Black Histories in New York City
In March we hosted Trinity alum (‘09) and Primus Project founder, Prof. Alex Manevitz (History, Baruch College).
Forgetting & Remembering: Seneca Village
While Seneca Village faded from memory by the end of the 19th century, there has been a renewed surge interest at present. In March 2023, Hidden Black CT organized a chapter workshop for Alex Manevitz’s book, The Rise and Fall of Seneca Village: Remaking Race and Space in Nineteenth-Century NYC (under contract, Cornell Univ. Press).
Education Must Be Defended
This conference considers the spatial, institutional, and pedagogical provocations posed by the global anticolonial tradition of the 1960s and 70s for the present day.
Reading the Conjuncture
Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton were invited to discuss conjunctural analysis and its relevance to politics today at Wesleyan University.