Conference Program & App

Any sessions cancelled after September 15, 2026 will be listed below:

• “Abject Pleasures and Fugitivity in African Diasporic Women’s Visual Art and Performance”
• “Abolitionist Accountability Across Prison Walls: Contesting Carceral Barriers to Knowledge Production”
• “Are You Sure, Sweetheart, that You Want to Be Well?”: Health, Wellness and Radical Self-Possession”
• “Assata is Welcome Here”
• “Bad Feelings”
• “Becoming Undone to Being Unbothered: Summoning Healing Energy Within Black Queer Critique and Praxis”
• “Critical Muslim Studies and the Question of Self-Defense”
• “Dialogue is a Dumpster Fire: New Militancies in Fascist Times”
• “FolioX: Prepared Chinese Dulcimer and Improvisation”
• “Improv and Your Classroom: A Pedagogy Workshop (Session 1)” and “(Session 2)”
• “Improvising Being With, Being Away”
• “Improvising Care: Food, Sovereignty, and Diaspora Under Constraint – An Experimental Laboratory/Participatory Workshop”
• “Making a Way Getting Away: Black and Native Women in Archives of the Atlantic World”
• “Necropolitics and Refusal”
• “New Directions in the Trans Archives”
• “Off the Cuff: Activism, Improvisation, and the Pursuit of Transformative Political Realities”
• “PALESTINE IN MOVEMENT: IMPROVISATIONS ACROSS THE GLOBAL IMPERIAL BODY”
• “Performing Change: The Art of Politics and Community”
• “(Re)thinking Porn Studies in the Wake of Crisis”
• “Reproduction as Pedagogy: Improvisation, Speculation, and the Contested Futures We Teach”
• “Sounding Self: Ephemeral Black Worlding and the Queering of Collective Identity Construction”
• “Transnational Dialogue on Prison and Jail Expansion I: Methods, Scale and Carceral Development”