Tools for the Undercommons Speaker Series 2026, Part 2

When: Weds, Apr 22, 2025, 12-1:15pm PT / 1-2:15pm MT / 2-3:15pm CT / 3-4:15pm ET
Where: Online via zoom

Drawing inspiration from Harney and Moten’s theorization of “study” as the “incessant and the irreversible intellectuality” present in myriad forms of collective knowledge production, this speaker series brings together scholars, artists, and other cultural workers to share field-tested tools that maintain alternate centers of gravity within (and outside of) academia, while also constituting an undercommons of its own. 

This IA Collaboratory is organized by professors Jacqueline Jean Barrios and Harris Kornstein (Public & Applied Humanities, University of Arizona), and each virtual event features two guest speakers in a salon-style conversation with attendees.

This month’s event features speakers Ana María Álvarez, Associate Professor, Theater & Dance, UC San Diego, and Founding Artistic Director, CONTRA-TIEMPO Activist Dance Theater, and SA Smythe, Associate Professor, Black Studies & the Archive, and Director of the Collaboratory for Black Poiēsis, University of Toronto.