Katherine McKittrick: Plantation Futures

Saturday October 27

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Sat Oct 27 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility

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Katherine McKittrick
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Professor of Gender Studies at Queen's University, Kingston

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Stella Kyriakakis

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This lecture is part of the CAAS Conference. Attendance is through conference registration only. Registration to attend this conference is required through the CAAS website online registration system: http://www.yorku.ca/laps/en/CAAS2012Fees.html

Katherine McKittrick is a Professor of Gender Studies at Queen's University, Kingston. She teaches and research in the areas of black studies, critical race studies, and cultural geographies, with an emphasis on expressive cultures (music, literature, poetry). She is particularly interested in the ways in which black communities–past and present–have used creative knowledge as a means of disrupting commonsense geographic knowledges. Katherine also researches the writings of intellectual Sylvia Wynter–who continues to inform her study of the new human and radical poetics. Katherine authored "Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle," and co-edited, with Clyde Woods, "Black Geographies and the Politics of Place." She has also published in "Topia," "Gender, Place and Culture," and "Mosaic." Her current manuscript, tentatively titled "Dear Science," will explore the promise of science in black creative texts.