We’re thrilled to invite you to the "Kollektiv Omsorg: Collective Care as Black Feminist Praxis Within, Outside, and Against the Academic Industrial Machine" webinar on the 20th of November 2024, from 09:00 to 10:30 Mountain Time (UTC-7). This session will gather notable Afro-Nordic scholars to discuss how Black feminist praxis can transform intellectual work both within and outside the traditional boundaries of academia.
Please register here
Following the COVID-19 pandemic and the global Black Lives Matter movement, scholars Dr. Lena Sawyer, Dr. Jasmine Kelekay, and Dr. Oda-Kange Midtvåge Diallo founded the Kollektiv Omsorg to address intellectual isolation in academia. Together, they created a space for collective care, supporting each other while critiquing and resisting the neoliberal pressures of the academic industrial machine. This collective care has resulted in novel forms of collaboration, thinking, and knowledge production—reimagining what intellectual work can be and, more importantly, what it can feel like.
Date: Wednesday, 20 November 2024
Time: Sweden & Denmark - 17:00/Washington DC - 11:00/Edmonton - 09:00/Brazil - 13:00/ South Africa - 18:00 / Finland - 18:00
Place: ZOOM. Please register here
Duration: 90 min
Meet the Speakers:
Dr Jasmine Kelekay is an affiliated scholar at the Centre for Multidisciplinary Research on Racism (CEMFOR) at Uppsala University and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at Howard University. Kelekay, an Afro-Finnish-Swedish scholar, concentrates his research on the politics of being Black in Finland and Sweden.
Dr Oda-Kange Midtvåge Diallo is a Black feminist studying African diaspora youth in the Nordics through "Black study," a non-disciplinary, collaborative, and embodied knowledge creation method. Oda-Kange has a PhD in Gender Studies and an MA in Anthropology. She thinks with, from, and against Nordic colonialism and nation-state materialities as Fulani, Norwegian, and Danish. Oda-Kange always uses collaborative, queer, Black feminist, and anticolonial pedagogies. She is an Erasmus University Rotterdam PostDoc.
Dr Lena Sawyer is an Associate Professor at Gothenburg University, Sweden. She has a PhD in cultural anthropology from US Santa Cruz and studies Sweden's history of racism, particularly anti-Blackness, and its embeddedness in institutions like social work and education. Black feminist theories underpin her recent collaborative arts-based and walking pedagogies.
Moderated by Prof Shirley Anne Tate, Professor and Canada Research Chair Tier 1 in Feminism and Intersectionality in the Sociology Department at the University of Alberta, this session offers fresh perspectives on how Black feminist praxis can confront and transform the challenges of working within neoliberal academic structures.
To be part of this transformative conversation, register here
Join us in exploring how collective care, grounded in Black feminist praxis, can reshape the academic landscape.
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