Dear {{FirstName or 'friend'}},
I’m thrilled to share with you our full agenda for the Othering & Belonging Conference happening in just a few short weeks. With just a few pieces left to finalize, here’s a sample of the rich programming you can expect at O&B24. -
On Thursday, April 25, we’ll hear from iconic geographer Ruth Wilson Gilmore, disability justice leader Imani Barbarin, and acclaimed belonging-builder Roberto Bedoya; see the premiere of the Belonging Resident Company, and experience the “profoundly spiritual and dance-inducing ensemble” that is Orchestra Gold.
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Friday will feature a keynote talk with OBI Director john a. powell and celebrated journalist Maria Hinojosa on our conference theme of belonging without othering; talks from dynamic authors and movement leaders such as Maurice Mitchell, Scott Shigeoka, and Astra Taylor; a set of eight concurrent breakout sessions with dozens of national leaders; and an innovative conversation on ideas to build economic systems based in belonging, repair, and interdependence with leaders like Nwamaka Agbo, Jovan Scott Lewis and Nick Tilsen.
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Saturday, our closing day, will feature urgent conversations on meeting our current global moment including: the role of collective memory and trauma in how we move forward, with Palestinian historian Sherene Seikaly, renowned writer Naomi Klein, and Pulitzer-prize winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen; a conversation on building Long Bridges across difference in order to preserve our common humanity and democratic norms; a dynamic closing session with leading global peacebuilders like Shamil Idriss and Sanam Naraghi Anderlini on what it would take, in a time of increased war, hyper-fragmentation, and rising authoritarianism, to embrace belonging as a radical new proposition to save ourselves, each other, and our planet. Saturday will also feature a closing with renowned Bay Area artists Kev Choice and Destiny Muhammed.
If you are not able to attend in-person we are also offering a free livestream of all mainstage sessions, which will include live captioning (translatable to Spanish) and a moderated live chat to interact with folks tuning in from all over the globe. Register for our livestream here to receive your access link.
We only have about 300 tickets left for our in-person conference and they are selling quickly, so we hope you will register soon!
We do have a limited number of free tickets available for people who can volunteer to help us out with a variety of conference-related tasks, including registration, way-showing, and attendee support. Please see this link for details and to apply.
See some of the speakers and artists who will be at our conference below. |
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Sanam Naraghi Anderlini
Founder and CEO of the International Civil Society Action Network |
| Nwamaka Agbo
CEO of the Kataly Foundation and Managing Director of the Restorative Economies Fund
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DeAngelo Bester Executive Director of the Workers Center For Racial Justice |
| Omar Salha
Founder and Chief Executive of Ramadan Tent Project
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Myriam Méndez Montalvo
Director of Valiente es Dialogar
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| Pastor Bob Roberts
Founder of GlocalNet
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Belonging Resident Company Dance/theater troupe hosted by the Othering and Belonging Institute |
| Favianna Rodriguez
Co-founder and president of The Center for Cultural Power |
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Viet Thanh Nguyen Vietnamese-American, Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist & literature professor, USC |
| Sherene Seikaly Palestinian scholar, UC Santa Barbara
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Nick Tilsen Indigenous activist & founder of NDN Collective |
| Yuna Blajer de la Garza
Political theorist, Loyola University Chicago
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Dance Brigade Feminist, political dance theater company |
| Destiny Muhammad Harpist, recording/performing artist, band leader, composer and producer
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Melanie DeMore Singer/composer, choral conductor, music director and vocal activist |
| Orchestra Gold Oakland, CA-based ensemble
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Veronica Ramirez
Sacred activist |
| Michelle Mush Lee
Poet, narrative strategist, and pioneer of spoken word pedagogy
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Christine Wong Yap Bay Area-based visual artist and social practitioner |
| Michelle Ayazi Meditation and Movement Instructor
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Roberto Bedoya Cultural Affairs Manager for the City of Oakland |
| Sarah Crowell Dancer and choreographer
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Ruth Wilson Gilmore Iconic geographer and scholar photo credit: Amaal Said |
| Maria Hinojosa
Journalist & author of Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America
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Maurice Mitchell
Activist, strategist, and director of national
Working Families Party
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| Scott Shigeoka Curiosity expert, best-selling author, and bridge-builder |
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Shamil Idriss CEO, Search for Common Ground, the world's largest peace-building organization
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| Naomi Klein
Award-winning journalist, bestselling author, and Associate Professor at UBC
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Astra Taylor Writer, documentarian, and co-founder of the Debt Collective
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| john a. powell Director, Othering & Belonging Institute
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We can’t wait to welcome and learn with you next month. Sincerely,
Rachelle, Basima, Christian, Ashley, Cecilie, Sarah, Hossein, Puanani, Olivia, Erfan, Tanya, & Ashlin O&B 2024 organizing committee |
PS: We are seeking sponsors to help us bring this vibrant Othering & Belonging Conference to life. If you'd like to support this conference please contact obconf@berkeley.edu!
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