Due to public health concerns, this event has been cancelled.
Dr. Tiffany King is an Assistant Professor in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University. She specializes in several topics, such as Black gender and sexuality in the African Diaspora, Black feminisms, Black Studies, Native feminisms, critical geographies and settler colonialism. She recently published her book, The Black Shoals: Abolition, Decolonization and Conquest (2019), and her work has been featured in journals such as Theory & Event and the Critical Ethnic Studies, and she has discussed her work in interviews with the Black Agenda Report and Feral Feminisms.
Dr. King will be visiting campus for her public lecture, "The Black Shoals," on Wednesday, March 18th at 3pm in 165 Thompson Library. The talk is free and open to the public. Additionally, she will be leading a graduate workshop on Thursday, March 19th. Learn more about the workshop on the event page.
About the book: In The Black Shoals Tiffany Lethabo King uses the shoal—an offshore geologic formation that is neither land nor sea—as metaphor, mode of critique, and methodology to theorize the encounter between Black studies and Native studies. King conceptualizes the shoal as a space where Black and Native literary traditions, politics, theory, critique, and art meet in productive, shifting, and contentious ways. These interactions, which often foreground Black and Native discourses of conquest and critiques of humanism, offer alternative insights into understanding how slavery, anti-Blackness, and Indigenous genocide structure white supremacy. Among texts and topics, King examines eighteenth-century British mappings of humanness, Nativeness, and Blackness; Black feminist depictions of Black and Native erotics; Black fungibility as a critique of discourses of labor exploitation; and Black art that rewrites conceptions of the human. In outlining the convergences and disjunctions between Black and Native thought and aesthetics, King identifies the potential to create new epistemologies, lines of critical inquiry, and creative practices.
This event is co-sponsored by the Livable Futures Global Arts & Humanities Discovery Theme.