In Conversation
Dr. Aissatou Ba, PhD
October 29, 2022
12:00 – 1:00 (ET – New York City Time)
HIV Testing, HIV Prevalence, and High Risk Sexual Behaviors:
An Epidemiological Analysis
Epidemiologist Dr. Aissatou Ba, of the Medical University of South Carolina, joins
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Dr. C.L. NASH, PhD
August 20, 2022
12:00 (ET – New York City Time)
Resisting Misogynoir: Historic Womanist Epistemology
Dr. C.L. Nash obtained her PhD in Historical Theology from the University of Edinburgh and the University of Gloucestershire. She is the first recipient of the IASH Duncan Forrester Fellowship at Edinburgh University. In addition to her post in Edinburgh, she is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Leeds where she initiated and still manages a research project, Misogynoir to Mishpat (or from Hatred of Black Women to Restorative Justice). She launched the website (https://misogynoir2mishpat.com/) and hosted the inaugural, international seminar on May 13th (featuring Prof. Esther Mombo) with the second seminar hosted on Sept. 20th (featuring Prof. Rosetta Ross). A new member of the editorial board for Black Women and Religious Cultures, Dr. Nash is also published in various theological blogs including with the Centre for Religion and Public Life, Leeds University. Her work is also featured in journals including The Journal of Theology for Southern Africa. In addition to several articles and chapters being released throughout 2022, her first book is scheduled for release in 2023 with SCM Press.
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Professor Dr. Shirley Anne Tate
July 9, 2022
12:00 – 1:00 (ET)
Professor and Canada Research Chair Tier 1 in Feminism and Intersectionality in the Sociology Department, University of Alberta, Canada
Speaking on her 2019 publication
Decolonising Sambo Transculturation, Fungibility and Black and People of Colour Futurity
Professor Tate’s area of research is Black diaspora studies broadly and her research interests are institutional racism, the body, affect, beauty, hybridity, ‘race’ performativity and Caribbean decolonial studies while paying attention to the intersections of ‘race’ and gender. Her current research project is on antiracism and decolonization in universities. She is Honorary Professor, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa, and affiliated to CriSHET, and Visiting Professor in CRED, Leeds Beckett University, UK.
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Visual Artist – Carol Sorhaindo
April 16, 2022
12:00 (ET)
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March 2022 In Conversation is celebrating Women’s History month with a full line up of Extraordinary Women!! Join us each Saturday afternoon.
Happy 2022!
Check back after January 10th
for the 2022 Schedule
Till then below enjoy the recordings of the 2021 season
December 12, 2021
12:00 (ET)
Twelve*
An Open Rehearsal & Audience Discussion
(Invited Showing)
Request invitation HERE
October 30, 2021
12:00 (ET)
The Feminine in Caribbean Life and Theology:
female vulnerabilities/possibilities and the pandemic
Dr. Adanna James currently lectures at the Seminary of St John Vianney in Trinidad and has taught courses on Catholic Education, Justice and the Women’s Movement and Feminist Theology. She forms part of the Secretariat of the Caribbean Conference on Theology in the Caribbean Today, an open theological space for Caribbean thinkers. She is also a board member of Bethesda, a Family Ministry in the Catholic Church that attends to families of persons with disabilities. Dr. James received her PhD from from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. Register HERE.
August 15, 2021
4:00 (ET)
A Letter Home For Dad
(Virtual Open Rehearsal)
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July 24, 2021
12:00 – 1:00 (ET)
Dr. Adanna James
Dr. Adanna James is a Trinidadian lecturer, daughter, sister and friend to many. Her research interests include theological ethics, disability theology, Caribbean studies and she also has interests in ecology, the arts, dance and food preparation. She currently lectures at the Seminary of St John Vianney in Trinidad and has taught courses on Catholic Education, Justice and the Women’s Movement and Feminist Theology. She forms part of the Secretariat of the Caribbean Conference on Theology in the Caribbean Today, an open theological space for Caribbean thinkers. She is also a board member of Bethesda, a Family Ministry in the Catholic Church that attends to families of persons with disabilities. Dr. James received her PhD from from the Katholieke Universitiet Leuven in Belgium. Watch/Listen HERE.
July 17, 2021
12:00 – 1:00 (ET)
Dr. Ameena Al Rasheed
Dr. Al-Rasheed is Senior Research and Programme Advisor on Gender at The United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation. As a researcher, she innovates cross cultural research, engaging in robust academic inquiry. Dr. Al Rasheed earned her PhD at the University of Leeds with the thesis, “The Performativity on Muslimness, the intersection of gender, migration and religion in the lives of Sudanese women in West Yorkshire”, which draws on Black feminist epistemology and ethnographic to examine first and second generation Sudanese Muslim women’s formation of identity and belonging in the midst of ‘accepted’ hegemonic Arabic Islam and dominant Christian culture in West Yorkshire. Dr. Al-Rasheed’s deep concern and passion for the lives and wellbeing of African Diaspora peoples and gender and migration justice are central to her research and career trajectory. Watch/Listen HERE.
June 26, 2021
12:00 – 1:00 (ET)
Dr. Enoch H. Page
Returns to In conversation
Dr. Enoch H. Page has spent the better part of 37 years in higher education, an anthropologist researching and teaching on structures of oppression, promoting education justice, and theorizing about sexed, gendered, raced, and classed embodied subjects. In this return to In Conversation Dr. Page critically engages issues at the intersections of environmental justice and oppression, exploring struggles for identity and potential futures. Watch/Listen HERE.
June 12, 2021
12:00 – 1:00 (ET)
In Conversation with Marlies Yearby
Marlies Yearby is an artist, choreographer, and director with a global perspective who has created work across various platforms including theater, film, and diverse multimedia. She is the Tony Award Nominated Choreographer of RENT, Drama League Award! recipient for the Los Angeles production of RENT, and a Dora Award Nomination for the Canadian production of RENT. Her work was licensed for RENT the movie, and she is the choreographer of the CINECAST of RENT. Brown Butterfly a multimedia celebration of the life and times of Muhammad Ali “The Greatest” as Director and Choreographer. Yearby co-created the concept with Composer Craig Harris with great critical acclaim. Ms. Yearby received a Helen Hayes Award nomination for her choreography for Oedipus Plays at Washington Shakespeare Theatre in DC. A Bessie Award Recipient for her choreography on Stained written by Lisa Jones and Alva Rogers. She choreographed Shay Young Blood’s Talking Bones; Penumbra Theater MN, Rita Dove’s Darker Face of The Earth; Guthrie Theater in MN, Writer Sekou Sundiata’s Mystery of Love; American Musical Theater Festival in PA.
Ms. Yearby has developed a creative process called “In Our Bones Technique” as an acknowledgment of the legacies, lived experiences, memories, and day-to-day energies ever-present in moving bodies at work. Ms Yearby is also the author of Seed Awakening On The Eve of Blue, which explores and examines human interaction with food.
Watch/Listen: HERE
May 15, 2021
12:00 – 1:00 ET
In Conversation with Dr. Melissa Barber
Dr. Melissa Barber is the author of “Thirty Days of Thanks: A Journey Towards Healing and Deliverance and the CEO of the consultant company Thirty Days of Thanks. She completed her medical training at the Latin American School of Medicine (LASM)/ La Escuela Latinoamericana de Medicina (ELAM) in Havana, Cuba; and, is currently a Principal Investigator on the COVID-19 Community Pesquisa Project, which is seeking to investigate the impacts of COVID-19 on South Bronx communities. She is a co-founder of South Bronx Unite, a coalition of South Bronx residents and organizations fighting for the social, environmental, health, and economic wellbeing of the Mott Haven-Port Morris Section of the South Bronx. Dr. Barber serves as a founding Executive Board Member on the Mott Haven-Port Morris Community Land Stewarts Inc., the first ever founded community land trust in The Bronx, seeking to acquire vacant city property to transform into a community wellness center focused on health, education, and the arts. Dr. Barber is the single mother of an amazingly gifted autistic daughter and currently resides where she was born, in the best place on this planet, The South Bronx.
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April 10, 2021
12:00 – 1:00 ET
In Conversation with Dr. Anna Kasafi Perkins
In Conversation/The Church, IPV and LBTQ in Jamaica
Dr. Anna Kasafi Perkins is a senior programme officer in the Quality Assurance Unit at the University of the West Indies serving the Mona Campus. A Roman Catholic theologian/ethicist by training, she is a former dean of studies of St Michael’s Theological College, where she continues as adjunct faculty. She is the author of Justice as Equality: Michael Manley’s Caribbean Vision of Justice, and contributor/co-editor/editor for Justice and Peace in a Renewed Caribbean: Contemporary Catholic Reflections, Quality in Higher Education in the Caribbean and Rough Riding: Tanya Stephens and the Power of Music to Transform Society. She has also written several articles and book chapters. Dr. Perkins received her PhD in Theological Ethics from Boston College in the United States.
Watch/Listen: HERE
March 27, 2021
12:00 – 1:00 EST
In Conversation with Professor C. S’thembile West
Professor Emerita at Western Illinois University: African American Studies, English, Women’s Studies, C. S’thembile West is a former basketball coach and modern dance instructor who taught in New York City public school system. For three decades she danced with companies led by Chuck Davis, Lynn Simonson, and Dianne McIntyre. She co-created works with Crowsfeet Dance Collective and directed a small company, We Dance, spring 1983. West began writing about dance in newspapers while dancing with McIntyre’s Sounds in Motion Dance Company as a corrective for critics at the time who were writing about the company and the Jazz musicians with whom the company collaborated without acknowledgment of the history, heritage, or traditions that undergirded the genre. Professor C. S’thembile West was born and raised in Harlem, NYC.
Watch/Listen HERE
MARCH 6, 2021
12:00 – 1:00 EST
In Conversation with Dr. Enoch H. Page
A product of predominantly Black primary and secondary schooling, Dr. H. Enoch Page has spent the better part of 37 years in higher education, an anthropologist researching and teaching on structures of oppression, promoting education justice, and theorizing about sexed, gendered, raced, and classed embodied subjects. Join us as we discuss Black America’s past and present struggles for identity and belonging and potential futures.
Watch/Listen to Video Excerpt HERE
February 25, 2021
12:00 – 1:00 EST
In Conversation with Professor Dr. Joanne Kilgour Dowdy
Join me in conversation with Professor Dr. Joanne Kilgour Dowdy (International Dance and Theater Artist, Adult Learning Specialist, and Education Innovator and Visionary) discussing her life of melding artistry and scholarship, her lifelong archiving practices, and performing after 40.
Watch/Listen to Video Excerpt HERE
February 3 – March 10, 2021
Choreography+ Workshop Intensive
3:00 – 6:00 (EST)
March 19, 2021
Twelve* Invited Showing
February 18, 2021
The Mobility Roundtable Series
Mobility and Gender: “Use and Abuse” in design and operation of mobility
Globally, abuse has become a frequent experience for many mobility users. In this Roundtable we discuss the role and impact of Gender in use and abuse in mobility.
Watch/Listen: HERE
January 20, 2021
10:00 pm – 12:00 am
Interview with Yajaira Saavedra
12:00 pm (EST)
October 2021
Radical Religions Panel
July 28 – August 24 2021
TU Dance/Equipoise 2021 Summer Dance Intensive
In partnership with TU Dance, Equipoise provides the unique, hybrid (online/in person), of individualized curriculum alongside one-on-one assessment sessions and coaching that compliment and deepen professional training, highlighting the wellbeing and holistic development of the whole human person/artist.
February 18, 2021
The Mobility Roundtable Series
Mobility and Gender: “Use and Abuse” in design and operation of mobility
Globally, abuse has become a frequent experience for many mobility users. In this Roundtable discussion on the role and impact of Gender in use and abuse in mobility, I present on mobility use by vulnerable populations.
Watch/Listen: HERE
Interview with Yajaira Saavedra – January 20, 2021 on AfroBeat Radio
Aired on AfroBeat Radio, January 20, 2021 10:00 – 11:00pm, Yajaira Saavedra brings her activism, passion for justice, and her love for good food to the building and sustaining community in the 2020/2021 COVID 19 pandemic.
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November 30, 2020
Fall/Rise…Repeat: Bringing Down Babylon, An Embodied Exploration of African Diaspora Spiritual Resilience as Warfare Against Oppression
An exploration of African Diaspora expressive modalities to inscribe critical joy and beauty into (living and dead) Black bodies and communities
October 29, 2020 11:00 (EST)
Critical Joy/Ecstatic Reasoning (CJ/ER) – Blackness Protracted Workshops
Through embodied practices that center on African Diasporic (Black) body technologies of reasoning in and through ecstatic joy, Critical JoyJ/Ecstatic Reasoning workshops are explorations and examinations of embodied techniques for accessing joy and innovative reasoning that are potentially resurrective. In CJ/ER workshops the body’s abilities are directed to manufacture (real and/or imagined) spaces/place for reconstruction, reconfiguration, and realignment of self-to-self, self-to-community, and self-to-divine. CJ/ER workshop participants will be guided through techniques and experience processes for igniting Critical Joy/Ecstatic Reasoning into daily life, and discovery and re/imagine inner embodied resources for navigating through and making sense of life in a problematic world.
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CARMEN MONTANA
The making of Carmen Montana, a choreoplay based on the true story of an adult literacy student. In this video, Joanne Kilgour Dowdy, PhD questions Carol Marie Webster – director/choreographer, about the creative process.
Shadows of Flames, 2005, is an exploration humanity’s encounter with fire, broadly conceived.
The United Nations’ (UN) General Assembly declared the year 2011 to be the International Year for People of African Descent. Conceived by Carol Marie Webster in Celebration of 2011 Black History Month Mother Libation was an evening of original stories about mothers and grandmothers of Africa and the African Diaspora. Above pictured are Ameena Al-Rasheed sharing stories from her Sudanese grandmother and Carol Marie Webster asking questions about the cultural, social, and historical context of Al-Rasheed’s grandmother’s time.
Offering journeys of joy, laughter, struggles, and triumphs, six women and men share the personal histories of women who though their extraordinarily ordinary lives and life philosophies fortified families and communities. Contributing writers and performers were Ameena Al-Rasheed, Ronald Cummings, Nalini Mohabir, Shirley Anne Tate and Carol Marie Webster. Stories from the Sudan, Jamaica, New York City, Florida, Trinidad, Canada, and the United Kingdom were shared. Mother Libation was performed at Stage@Leeds at the University of Leeds on 3 October 2011.
Mother Libation’s Artist-Audience discussion session was an essential component of the evening’s experience. For more than thirty minutes audience members shared their own stories of mothers and grandmothers who constructively troubled and inspired them.
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