Symposium on Afrofuturism and Diasporic Research

This teach-in, facilitated by NC State researchers and librarians, will center the concept of Sankofa for participants to learn, share, and imagine new practices of archival storytelling. Facilitators will outline different approaches in personal, community, and institutional settings and will provide participants with tools to consider how to preserve their stories and artifacts by donating to or creating their own archives. In the spirit of Ubuntu, facilitators will work alongside community members to engage with questions about how this type of memory work can situate our lived experiences by drawing on the past and present to imagine the future.