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Philly, Wasssssup? ✨☺️🇺🇲 I’m pleased to start the year by the Modern Language Association Convention 2024 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania the Saturday 6th of January 2024 🙌🏾 I’d never imagined attending such an historic convention, which gathered for the first time in 1883. MLA provides opportunities for its members to share their scholarly findings and teaching experiences with colleagues and to discuss trends in the academy ✍🏾 MLA aims to sustain one of the finest publishing programs in the humanities. For more than a century, members have worked to strengthen the study and teaching of language and literature. Invited by the historian Dr. Frieda Ekotto, the current Chair of the Department of AfroAmerican and African Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. She’s the current President of the Modern Language Association and forester her intellectual historian interests as an award-winning philosopher with areas of expertise in 20th and 21st-Century Anglophone and Francophone Literature and in the Cinema of West Africa and its diaspora. Under her presidential year, she invited a selected panel of speakers, who celebrate blackness. The black body exists in multiple historical sites at once, and celebrating the black body has been a profound challenge. Celebrating it means wading through the violent seas of the history of enslavement to sit with the idea that inhabiting blackness is itself a radical act—and that celebration is essential in reimagining the black body as something more than the abused body. With the turn toward understanding celebration as a conceptual category, we also turn toward a new vocabulary of being black, black futures, black in celebration ❤ For the first time, I’ll present my forthcoming project @bantuheritage____ 🌴☀️ Take a seat, it's already yours! 💛 #BantuHeritage #AfricanWomensWriters. #CuratorialNarratives #BantuWriters #AfricanHeritage taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by @ah_mais_lis
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