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Pan-Africanism and Afrofuturism(s)
Thu, March 20, 5:00 to 6:15pm, Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza, Floor: 4th, Salon ESession Submission Type: Panel
Abstract
This panel brings together scholars of the Black Speculative Arts Movement (BSAM) as they discuss various approaches to Pan-Africanism and Afrofuturistic discourse. There will be four papers: Abstract: Afrofuturism 2.0 and Black Studies in the Polycrisis Era by Reynaldo Anderson, Which Afro in the Afrofuture? by 
Tiffany Barber, Mothership AI: Centering Black and Indigenous Wisdom for Urban and Planetary Liberation by Lonny Avi Brooks and Black Posthumanism: A New Pan-Africanism by Philip Butler. Each deploys a mulitplanar methodology to unpack, construct or analyze the various ways Afrofuturistic discourse interacts with Pan-African ideas.
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Abstract: Afrofuturism 2.0 and Black Studies in the Polycrisis Era - Reynaldo Anderson, Temple University
Which Afro in the Afrofuture? - Tiffany Barber, UCLA
Mothership AI: Centering Black and Indigenous Wisdom for Urban and Planetary Liberation - Lonny Avi Brooks, Cal State East Bay and the AfroRithm Futures Group
Black Posthumanism: A New Pan-Africanism - Philip Butler, Iliff School of Theology