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Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024 | 4:45 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

Opening Keynote Speech: Bayo Akomolafe - For those spirited away: Making sanctuary as a vocation of exile in restless times

Bayo Akomolafe (Ph.D.), A widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, and author of two books, These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home (North Atlantic Books) and We Will Tell our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak, He is the Founder of The Emergence Network and host of the online postactivist course, ‘We Will Dance with Mountains’. He currently lectures at Pacifica Graduate Institute, California and University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. He sits on the Board of many organizations including Science and Non-Duality (US) and Local Futures (Australia). In July 2022, Dr. Akomolafe was appointed the inaugural Global Senior Fellow of University of California’s (Berkeley) Othering and Belonging Institute, where he acts as the Forum’s “provocateur in residence”, guiding Forum members in rethinking and reimagining our collective work towards justice in ways that reject binary thinking and easy answers. He has also been appointed Senior Fellow for The New Institute in Hamburg, Germany. For more information, please see bayoakomolafe.net

Contact: [email protected]

Audience: Alumni, Faculty, Parents and Families, Public, Staff, Students

Sponsor: Kofi Annan Institute for Global Citizenship (IGC)

Listed under: Campus Events, Front Page Events

Location

Kagin Commons - Kagin Ballroom

21 Snelling Ave. S.

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