The Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University invites you to Malleable Forms - Define Abolition, organized by renowned artist and 2019 Solomon Fellow, Xaviera Simmons on Wednesday, November 6 from noon to 6pm. This six hour participatory program, which you are welcome to enter and exit at any time, centers on the theme of abolition, its history and contemporary connections to reparations, carceral justice, and the undoing of “whiteness” in its many forms.
This event will take place in The Annex space of the Sackler Building on Harvard University’s campus at 485 Broadway in Cambridge. Invited guests such as Jackie Wang, Adom Getachew and Sadada Jackson will alternate with presentations by Xaviera’s students in what promises to be a lively, engaging and challenging meditation on the theme. If you are bringing students, you may ask them to consider what role abolition plays or may play in their intellectual, social and institutional contexts.