An Afternoon with Marisa Solomon

Hosted by the Humanities Center and featuring visiting fellow, Marisa Solomon.

Marisa Solomon’s work looks at the durability of racism and its many material forms: toxicity’s movement through soil and bodies, the placement of landfills, waste infrastructure, and the technocratic planning and management of Black life and death. Attentive to the ways coloniality and anti-blackness are sedimented into the landscape, her work focuses on how Black improvisation with waste's form and meaning upend environmental thinking—including the raced, classed, and gendered stewards to whom the earth supposedly belongs.

She is the author of The Elsewhere is Black

This event will be hybrid, so you can attend it either in person in 602 CL or via Zoom as you prefer. Precirculated material for this colloquium will be available here about two prior to the event.