Events

The Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University is hosting a multidisciplinary conference on Transnational Desires and Childhoods of Empire as a means of continuing a critical, multidisciplinary dialogue around Black childhoods and childhoods of color. We seek to convene scholars, writers, practitioners, artists, and advocates for children interested in wrestling with the tensions around diasporas and immigrations globally especially as we have seen a rise in nationalism(s) within the US and abroad. In Decolonizing Diasporas, Yomaira Figueroa writes about the importance of decolonial thinking and writing when revisiting the histories of imperialisms that have essentialized ideas around nation, language, race, and ethnicity.