The Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis (RCHA) presents
Liberation Scholarship Symposium
Closing Event of the 2024-26 RCHA Seminar "Black Power and White Supremacy: The Cyclical Dialectics of Power," Leslie Alexander and Kim D. Butler, Project Directors
April 21, 2026
10a – 7p
AB West 6051
Session I: 10:00a – 11:30a
Rebel Writing: Writing from Alternative Epistemologies Dr. Quito Swan, Professor, George Washington University, in conversation with Dr. Kim Butler
Session II: 11:45a – 1:15p
Scholarship and Teaching in the Activist Present Dr. Dylan Rodríguez, Distinguished Professor UC Riverside, and Dr. Ula Taylor, Professor UC Berkeley, in conversation with Dr. Nicole Burrowes
Session III: 2:30p – 5:00p
Archiving the Underground Dr. Vanessa Holden, University of Kentucky, in conversation with Dr. Kris Scorsone And Archiving Digital Activism with Erika Gorder, University Archivist
Session IV: 5:30p – 7:00p
Closing Keynote: Michelle Alexander, Civil Rights Scholar and Author of The New Jim Crow in conversation with Dr. Leslie Alexander
Please register to attend the keynote separately
Register for Symposium: go.rutgers.edu/liberation
Register for Closing Keynote: go.rutgers.edu/liberation-keynote