Seltzer Lecture: Reclaiming Black Memory, Forging Black Possibilities

This year’s John Seltzer and Mark Seltzer Memorial Lecture is a conversation about Black memory. What does Black memory look like, sound like, feel like? How does Black memory inhabit and reshape space?

Black memory lives, breathes, and moves with the people. It is a rhythm that beats with purpose – a sound of refusal and a spirit of disruption that plants seeds for new possibilities. Black place-making is the creation and holding of memories. It is a radical rupture of colonial imaginaries through the re-remembering, architecting, and troubling of space. The ways in which Black communities have, and continue, to occupy space offer us powerful pathways to envision the futures we want to see, starting now.

Meet the speakers.