The marathon served as a spatial-temporal format for students, scholars, lawyers, activists, community members, and artists to process issues and incubate ideas raised by American Monument. It was structured as a rhythm between political education...

In this workshop, participants collectively activated the archival materials of American Monument to experience the disjunctive relationship between sound, visuality and law. This experience was used to discuss how American Monument uniquely...

This session outlined certain elements in the history of philosophical pessimism that might be productively discussed within the field of Black studies. The point of departure was the political culture of racial slavery—as it emerges in the early...

Goldberg explored American Monument using the traditional Hip-hop DJ technique of needle dropping, and Ralph Ellison’s multi-turntable theory of Black presence and mediation. His aim was to conjure a collective Black avatar/spirit from the...

In the spirit of American Monument’s invitation to witness, this experimental and collaborative writing session seeks to activate these impulses and build voices for resisting, healing and care. What happens when we place ourselves as witnesses...

Governments, law enforcement agencies, corporations, and their partners in public and private sectors including the academy across the world are using algorithms, predictive analytics, risk assessment, facial recognition, drones, and other forms...

Centering Anthony Paul Farley's The Black Body as Fetish Object, 76 Or. L. Rev. 457 (1997), Gustafson and Lamb examined Supreme Court jurisprudence and modern policing as producers of racial difference, as well as sources of racial pleasure. This...

Following the previous day’s overview, Khan focused on specific grassroots efforts to stop, dismantle, and abolish of the Stalker State.

Goldberg explored American Monument using the traditional Hip-hop DJ technique of needle dropping, and Ralph Ellison’s multi-turntable theory of Black presence and mediation. His aim was to conjure a collective Black avatar/spirit from the...