Associate Professor, Africana Studies

TOPIC: “A Poetics of Liberation”

Joshua Myers is associate professor of Africana Studies at Howard University. He is a writer and editor of A Gathering Together: Literary Journal and the author most recently of We are Worth Fighting For: A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989. He is currently working on a biography of Cedric J. Robinson and a book on Black Studies and the nature and meaning of disciplinarity.

ORGANIZERS

For this Forum, the VCS Program worked in collaboration with the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts and received support from the Creative Citizens in Action Program Series. Professor Myers’ lecture is the inaugural event in Land to Light On, a new collaborative public programming series between the Wattis Institute and CCA's academic departments focusing on racial capitalism, abolition, and decolonization. Myers’ presentation is organized by Jacqueline Francis, Diego Villalobos, and Kim Nguyen.