A private ticketed exhibition tour and conversation with Columbia University Artist-in-Residence Tao Leigh Goffe on her climate sound sculpture. Part of the DEMO2023 Festival presented by the New Museum.

This dual keynote by Tao Leigh Goffe and Eddie Bruce-Jones examines the mangroves as Caribbean studies method and is situated at the intersection of environmental/ecological issues and epistemology. It is part of Stanford University’s Global Studies Department’s Caribbean Epistemologies Symposium.

During this virtual Young Men’s Group workshop, guest panelists Dr. Oeur and Dr. Goffe will engage members to explore the intersection of race and gender. Discussion topics will include Asian identities and Asian and Black Solidarity Movements throughout history. BCNY’s Young Men’s Group (YMG) is a supportive space where members (6th-12th grade) share their experiences and discuss issues that are important to them.

In the inaugural virtual event of the Dark Lab initiative, Digital Junkanoo, performance artist Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow will discuss her creative practice and ongoing work on Junkanoo in conversation with Digital Junkanoo Director Dr. Tao Leigh Goffe.

This interdisciplinary symposium probes the scope and scale of present-day Caribbean social emergencies brought about by climate colonialism and centuries of racial capitalism. Panelists assess the opportunities for regional transformation, transnational accountability, and reparative ways of knowing and dwelling amid crisis. They focus on what climate repair looks like today -- the emerging vital alignments that seek to interrupt capitalist systems of death and environmental destruction.

In this hands-on workshop Artist-in-Residence at Columbia University Climate School, Dr. Tao Leigh Goffe will present on climate crisis and what it means to listen underwater. Drawing from research for her forthcoming book AFTER EDEN on race and climate crisis, she will explore possibilities for regenerative aquaculture.

Climate justice requires racial justice, which Dr. Goffe explores in this talk by tuning into Black, Indigenous, and Asian traditions of mountain ballads. Listening to the life mountains give birth to and what they have witnessed of conquest across the Americas, she proposes a way to hear the multi-layered soundtrack of the co-production that exists in the natural environment. Reflecting on her practice as a DJ and sound artist, she shares techniques and modes of sound mixing and experimentation. Looking to the reverberations of Black feminist poetics on rural life in Toni Morrison’s Sula and bell hooks’ Appalachian Elegy, she will explore how many mountainous landscapes hold ancestral songs that echo freedom and possibility. How, she asks, can we understand “telling it on the mountain” as a strategy of witness for a shared future?

In this guest lecture for Dr. Ruha Benjamin’s course, “Methods of Worldbuilding,” at Princeton University, Dr. Tao Leigh Goffe presents on dj’ing as a Black method and Black technology.

This panel gathers writers, scholars, and organizers in memory of bell hooks (1952-2021). We will speak to the far-reaching legacy she has left to those who strive to counteract the “politics of power” in the classroom and on the page. Panelists will address hooks’s critique of contemporary masculinity and racial representation, her expansive theories of “multicultural education,” the sound of Black geology in her dirges and mountain songs, and her wide-ranging, ongoing preoccupation with love in its many forms. This will be an opportunity for panelists and participants alike to discuss not only how we teach, read, and write about hooks’s work, but also how education can be a “practice of freedom” in the twenty-first century.

In celebration of Women’s History Month and its theme of “Women Who Tell Our Stories,” NYU Liberal Studies invites you to join Dr. Leo Douglas at a screening and panel discussion for the launch of his documentary short, Reimagining Queen Nanny of the Maroons. This event features LS professor Jacqueline Bishop, Dr. Marcia Douglas, Dr. Tao Leigh Goffe, and Dr. Thera Edwards.

This panel explores intersections between (anti/de)colonial ecologies across the Caribbean, Oceania (Hawaiʻi), and the Philippines. Unsettling discourses that de-historicize the relationship between colonialism and our contemporary climate crises, we highlight insurgent diasporic, Indigenous, and (Afro) Asian negotiations with ecologies of extraction and racial capitalism. In doing so, we aim to respond to climate justice scholarsʻ calls to attend to the interlapping relationship between the making of colonial earth (Yusoff) and uneven experiences of climate injustice. We ask: How might bringing Caribbean, Pacific, and Asian geographies expand conversations on colonial ecologies? How might our understanding of Black, Indigenous , Diasporic and Asian ecologies expand in thinking archipelagically about various sites of U.S. empire? What kinds of futurities might we glean from engaging diasporic / Indigenous / Asian / Black epistemologies and everyday acts of refusal?

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Panel Discussion

Tao Leigh Goffe (Africana Studies and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) and Jeffrey Palmer (Performing and Media Arts), Dark Laboratory: Black X Indigenous Media Ecologies, Cornell University

Christina Chia (Associate Director, John Hope Franklin Humanities Center) and Deborah Jenson (French and Caribbean Studies and Global Health Humanities), Health Humanities Lab, Duke University (also an earlier Haiti Humanities Lab)

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof (History and American Culture) and Rebecca Ontiveros-Chavez (Staff Attorney, Michigan Immigrant Rights Center), Immigrant Justice Lab, University of Michigan

Max Liboiron (Geography) and Kaitlyn Hawkins (Laboratory Manager and Researcher), Civic Laboratory for Environmental Research, Memorial University

A Dark Laboratory co-sponsored event on Indigenous presence in Hip Hop in honor of legendary photographer, Brother Ernie Paniccioli with a special virtual panel discussion. Tune in Friday Dec. 4th at 8pm EASTERN, at bit.ly/erniepanel

On the panel: Supaman (@supamanhiphop), Remind (@bstarremind1977), Drezus (@drezus, Ojibwe Cree), Sewa (@mi_xantico, Chef, Birthworker), Prophecy (@prophecy_antithesis, of Antithesis), and Taboo (@taboo, of the Black Eyed Peas).

Dark Laboratory co-founder Tao Leigh Goffe will moderate a conversation on global indigeneity. Join us for the First Nation panel of the African Diaspora International Film Festival.

A large diversity of ethnic groups existed when Europeans arrived in Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, and other countries. Their arrival was part of a plan of conquering lands, accumulating riches, and subjugating peoples. The impact of this terrible project still resonates today. ADIFF-NY 2020 is paying attention to the history and legacy of these events with a selection of 10 films from the USA, Canada, Ecuador, Mexico, New Zealand and Australia that illustrate the impact of colonization and the struggles that followed for indigenous peoples. The program also includes a virtual conversation about the history and fights of First Nation People with filmmakers, activists, and scholars.