Event Description
The Caribbean Coalition at UC Berkeley hosted the Imagining Caribbean Futures Symposium, a two-day interdisciplinary event that took place from April 10 to 11 at UC Berkeley. This event engaged with the question: What are Caribbean futures? Through dynamic panels, a screening of Burnt Milk by Joseph Douglas Elmhirst, and a keynote address by Dr. Kevon Rhiney, attendees explored the paths forward for Caribbean people and geographies by engaging with the complexities of historical forces and future possibilities in the region.
The symposium was organized around four central themes:
- Modernity and the Anthropocene
- Art Practice and Performativity
- Sovereignty and Subjecthood
- Towards Repair and Radical Imagination
Speakers
For a full list of speakers, visit the Caribbean Coalition website.
Co-sponsorship
Presented by the Caribbean Coalition at UC Berkeley and co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Berkeley Black Geographies, the Geography Department, the Townsend Center for the Humanities, and the Zones of Incommunicability and Biomedicine Research Team.