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Join us for a panel discussion on Unlearning Imperialism and Decolonizing Futures with Kewulay Kamara as part of this year’s Stephan Weiss Lecture Series, presented by the School of Design Strategies that centers screenings of Raoul Peck’s four-part series, Exterminate All the Brutes.
Screening Part 3 (Optional): Killing at a Distance or … How I Thoroughly Enjoyed the Outing  - 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
 Interactive Panel Discussion: Kewulay Kamara - 12:00 - 1:30 pm
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Through screenings and discussions, we collectively challenge dominant worldviews around colonialism, capitalism, business practices, and material inequities, asking how students, educators, designers, and business leaders can intervene in the stories, myths, frames, and systems that inform our practices and pedagogies. Moving beyond the rhetorical, the series challenges participants to identify concrete steps to transform and transition their own practices from the oppressive and exploitative to the equitable and just.
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Over the course of four weeks, we invite the public to engage with the film and participate in curated activities in viewing pods and to attend a variety of discussions and talks to consider and explore how these themes translate in their own practices. This year’s talks explore indigenous knowledge, interdependence, decolonizing futures and other approaches in challenging racist systems and institutional power.Â
Screening Exterminate All the Brutes
Please note the optional corresponding screenings will take place before each discussion and are open to the public. Participants from The New School will be able to screen the documentary asynchronously at anytime during the Weiss Lecture series from February 25- March 24th via the links that will be sent to registered participants.
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CONTENT WARNING
The films and discussions presented here include topics that some may find offensive, disturbing and/or traumatizing. We recognize the power of these narratives, images and ideas to activate a range of emotions and responses. Throughout the programming, we aim to create and foster space for diverse and respectful dialogue, and we invite you to participate in a robust, honest, and thoughtful exchange of ideas. We also welcome your honest feedback at any time during or after the programs. This is part of a larger process of collective unlearning to which we are committed.
Presented by Parsons at the New School by the School of Design Strategies.
Organized by: Hala Abdel Malak, Barbara Adams, Kamrin Harbin, Miliaku Nwabueze, Jennifer Rittner and Jessica Walker.
By joining this online event, you will be prompted to accept Zoom Terms of Service. If the session is recorded, you acknowledge that by participating, your name, phone number, and profile picture might be visible to the public. You can customize your personal information when creating your Zoom account. The New School may use any recorded material from the event.
Kwamou Eva Feukeu is a Project Officer acting as the Africa coordinator for Futures Literacy at UNESCO. She is an experienced facilitator and lab designer involved in labs run mainly in Africa and Europe since 2014, and a full member of the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF) and Plurality U+ network. A jurist by training, she focuses her recent works on the role that norms play in the production and evolution of anticipatory systems using lessons learned from postcolonial legally pluralist contexts as evidence of complexity. She is also keen to work on African representations and uses of the future. She is currently a PhD candidate in Complexity Studies and Law at the Centre for Complex Systems in Transition (CST) at the University of Stellenbosch. She holds a Master’s Degree in business litigation and arbitration and a Bachelor in African studies from Sciences Po Paris.
Kewulay Kamara, internationally renowned poet/ storyteller, multi-media artist, development pioneer and lecturer, has been the subject of three feature articles in The New York Times and has appeared on A&E Television, Public Television and other major media outlets. Â Kewulay has performed at The Cathedral of St John the Divine, The Kitchen, Symphony Space, Gerald Lynch Theater, City Center, The Museum of Natural History and Oxford University, and participated in The Peoples Poetry Gatherings, and the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry and Langston Hughes Festivals.
He is the recipient of numerous grants from major foundations including the Ford Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, the National Geographic, and National Endowment for the Arts. His documentary of epic poetry and history is forthcoming. Kewulay received an MA in Economics at the Graduate Faculty New School for Social Research and presented a thesis for an MFA in Performance and Integrated Media Arts at Brooklyn College CUNY. He has lectured for 25 years at the City University of New York. Kewulay is founder and Executive Director of Badenya Inc., a non-profit cultural/educational organization that established Dankawalie Secondary School in Sierra Leone. Mr. Kamara serves on UNESCO’s Steering Committee on Foresight and Strategic Planning.Â
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