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.

This virtual event is free and open to the public. It will also be posted on YouTube. Join the stream here.

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Dr. Tao Leigh Goffe is an award-winning writer and DJ specializing in the origin stories that emerge from histories of race, empire, climate, and technology. Dr. Goffe is an assistant professor of literary theory and cultural history at Cornell University. Her story was featured as an experimental short film on Hulu’s Initiative 29 that celebrates Black history, heroes, and futurism. Writing recipes, curating exhibitions, and producing mixed media art, she explores the full range of the human sensorium in her artistic practice. She was born in London, United Kingdom and lives and works in Manhattan. She studied English at Princeton University before earning her PhD from Yale University. Her research is rooted in literature and theories of labor that center Black feminism’s engagements with Indigeneity and Asian diasporic racial formations.

Dr. Eddie Bruce-Jones is Professor of Law at SOAS, University of London. He is the author of Race in the Shadow of Law: State Violence in Contemporary Europe (Routledge, 2017) and Principal Investigator on the AHRC-Funded Project “Towards an Integrated Colonial Archive: Humanities, Law and British Indentureship. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Institute of Race Relations and Rainbow Migration, the advisory board of the Centre for Intersectional Justice in Berlin, and the Editorial Board of the Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law and Advisory Board of the European Law Open. He is an Essays Editor at the literary magazine, The Offing.

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