HRLA Studies – Fall 2024

November Session by Christal Pérez on Race, Ecology and the Human/Nonhuman

For the November HRLA Studies session, Christal Pérez will share a series of presentations on artists, theories and scholars who engage with ideas on ecology and its relationship to race, colonialism and frameworks that uphold what constitutes the Human and nonhuman.

First meeting – Monday November 4 6:30 – 9pm @HRLA

Second meeting – Tuesday November 12 – 6:30 – 9pm @LACC Art Gallery

Third meeting – Tuesday November 19 – 6:30 – 9pm @HRLA

Recommended for participants to check the following materials Christal has proposed:

– Sylvia Wynter’s No Humans Involved: an open letter to my colleagues (1992)

– Kathryn Yusoff’s A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None. Chapter “Geology, race & matter“.(2018)

Optional reading: Sylvia Wynter’s Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation–An Argument.

In addition to those this video breaks down the main arguments in the longer Wynter text. Please watch the video in preparation for the conversation:

part 1 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRwGq69f9cA

part 2 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-XeUxpgcwM

HRLA Studies –– Free of cost –– No RSVP –– Come share and take some ideas home