Symposium on Afrofuturism and Diasporic Research
Be the first in line. Mark your calendars for the tentative start date: Wednesday, February 2, 2025. Keep checking back for event registration, speaker announcements, and more details. Need answers ASAP? Reach out to our event planning team at tranq3@uw.edu for info and more.
“Storytelling from the Familiar”
We celebrate the experiences and the wisdom embedded in our everyday lives, recognizing that community knowledge, ancestral knowledge, and personal knowledge is a profound form of research.
We invite you to explore how identity, scholarship, culture, creative work, and research manifest in our daily interactions from the burbs to the bayous, from the trenches to the trailer parks, from the boardroom to the living room, and from the Jack and Jill’s to our metaphorical kitchen table. This symposium aims to disrupt/challenge how we define research by highlighting the stories that emerge from the familiar spaces of Afro-diasporic ways of knowing.
By embracing and uplifting these familiar stories, we affirm that no experience disqualifies one from being a researcher; instead, these varied perspectives enrich our collective understanding and push the boundaries of conventional scholarship.
Join us at our metaphorical kitchen table, where everyday experiences become transformative praxis and we uplift Storytelling from the Familiar.
