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2024 CONFERENCE – Through the Portal: Growing the World We Want
September 20 - September 22
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“Through the Portal: Growing the World We Want” is an invitation for social justice scholars, organizers, dreamers, and artists. Join us as we navigate the complexities of our current landscape to imagine a world marked by freedom, self-determination, liberation, joy, and justice. Join us in addressing some of the most significant challenges of our time with resilience, hope, and creative insight.
ABOUT
This fall, from September 20-22, join us for a pivotal gathering as a thousand artists, activists, and scholars converge in Chicago to culminate the Portal Project. This two-year, movement-driven symposium has ignited debates, dialogue, and collective envisioning on critical questions of justice, power, solidarity, and change.
As the world stands on the brink of a historic national election amid global wars and political turmoil, “Through the Portal” offers a space to confront, assess, and reimagine our collective future. We plan to be in Chicago for this historic national convening.
Join us as we transcend the traditional boundaries of both academia and activism, hosting convergence that connects scholar-activists with community-based and movement-focused intellectuals and artists. Speakers will discuss a range of issues, including—abolition, economic democracy, climate justice, feminism, racial justice, and the threat of authoritarianism.
We will analyze the current situations on the ground in Palestine, South Africa, and Brazil, as well as offer frameworks for responding to the current injustices plaguing higher education, from attacks on CRT, Black, and Queer Studies, to spiraling student debt, to the exploitation of campus labor, and increased repression of dissent.
SPEAKERS
Cathy J. Cohen • Angela Y. Davis • Lorgia García-Peña • Amy Goodman • Robin D.G. Kelley • Dima Khalidi • Moe Mitchell • Aja Monet • Chandra Talpade Mohanty • Barbara Ransby • Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor • and more…