"Bad Made Measure" a talk by Professor Katherine McKittrick (Queen's University)

The department of African and African American Studies invites you ro join us for a public lecture by Professor Katherine McKittrick. The talk will be followed by a Q & A. Light refreshments provided. Paper Abstract: This paper is a relational conversation nested in black studies, science studies of blackness and race, and black creative text. The discussion will address how the social production of biologically determinist racial scripts¿which extend from a biocentric conception of the human¿can be dislodged by bringing studies of blackness in/and science into conversation with autopoetics, black Atlantic livingness, weights and measures, and poetry (specifically M. NourbeSe Philip's Zong!). The underlying purpose of this paper is to think about how engaging interdisciplinarity and forging relational knowledges assists in anti-colonial academic research and teaching while also disrupting anti-black biocentric scripts. The event is co-sponsored by Women's Studies, Center for North American Studies, the Franklin Humanities Institute, and the Department of Literature.