What does access and openness look like in truly liberatory spaces? How do space and spatiality construct belonging, community and identity? Reciprocally, how do the concepts of belonging, community, and identity impact and construct space and spatiality? How can the temporality and spatiality of subcultures be used to assess political and cultural change? Some questions the conference seeks to explore:

How might liberation encourage, if not require, new orientations to the concepts of time and space? What is the messiness that exists in these spaces of creation? This conference seeks to look at liberatory conceptions of spatiality and temporality, particularly in the contexts of racial justice, abolition, disability rights, queer/trans ecologies, human development, death studies and practices, embodiment, community building, and more. Here, we instead cast aside normative ideas of time and and space to focus on how liberating the concepts of temporality and spatiality can help us imagine and create new futures, communities, and ways of being. We move through time and space in fits & bursts some ways of moving and being are deemed normative or “good” and brought to the forefront, while others might be marginalized and cast aside.

Time and space, while often seen as linear and confined concepts, can be stretched, altered, and reconfigured. Location MIT STATA Center: 32 Vassar Street Cambridge MA All sessions will take place on the 1st floor Find it on the map

Ariella azoulay unlearning imperialism