This panel will focus on how The Black Lives Matter movement in its stand against white supremacy and state sanctioned violence inflicted upon Black communities, has become a movement that transcends national borders, for around the world rings a rallying cry against law enforcement agencies designed to maintain cultural hegemony, social hierarchies, and public control through brute force. Relying on a culture of fear, policing in its many forms as a global institution decrees an unilateral vision of national identity and is a greater tactic of state repression. Militarized police tactics are utilized and exchanged from country to country, so the same must be true of the methods of revolution. 

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Moderator: Lesedi Graveline

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Panelists

• Marc Lamont Hill

• Oluwole Ojewale

• Sarah Nahar

• Douglas Lucas Kivoi

This panel will focus on Afrikan Diasporic spiritual-religious practices that have significant dance traditions. Panelists will discuss the hxstories of dance traditions of Vodou, Candomblé, Umbanda, and Traditional Ifá, and Regla de Ocha-Ifá amongst other spiritual-religious practices, the dance traditions’ role in their sacred spaces, their codification in institutional-secular training, and in choreography alongside Modern and Contemporary compositions. This panel will focus on Afrikan Diasporic spiritual-religious practices that have significant dance traditions. Panelists will discuss the hxstories of dance traditions of Vodou, Candomblé, Umbanda, and Traditional Ifá, and Regla de Ocha-Ifá amongst other spiritual-religious practices, the dance traditions’ role in their sacred spaces, their codification in institutional-secular training, and in choreography alongside Modern and Contemporary compositions.