Carolina Seminars: Land Back Abolition Project Seminar

A Carolina Seminars event

Our university was built on and later profited from the sale of near and distant Native lands, from the labor of people who were enslaved, and through the sale of enslaved labor. Now we inhabit a complex space that is also home to immigrants from all over the world, who labor at and attend the university. As students, faculty, and staff at this institution, we have a responsibility to engage with this history and how it shapes our current relationships to one another, to our North Carolina community, and to ongoing global and local impacts that are connected to this history: from gentrification at home to research abroad. In this Carolina Seminar, we seek to build on the work of our new Land Back Abolition Project and convene interested faculty, staff, and students to study how to best do the work of repair in a university context. We intend to read and bring speakers in Black and Indigenous Studies, with a specific focus on the intersections and solidarity between these fields, on land-based education and research, and on Land Back and Abolition movements. We bridge Indigenous principles of land-as-pedagogy and Black Geographies practices connecting land and liberation.

Convener: Sara Smith, geography professor and Faculty Fellow (2015, 2018).

This event is sponsored by the IAH.