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DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, C. Riley Snorton explores trans ecological pract
 ices of becoming in territories defined as hostile environments for human 
 life. In close engagement with the films\, Uyra: The Rising Forest (Dir. C
 uri\, 2022)\, an experimental documentary set in the Amazon forest and the
  northern Brazilian municipality of Manaus\, and Neptune Frost (Dirs. Uzey
 man and Williams\, 2022)\, an Afrofuturist musical set in a coltan mining 
 site and an e-waste dump in the hilltops of Burundi\, Snorton traces a myc
 orrhizal network among “pioneer species” plant life and people across 
 the racial capitalocene. Moving through questions of form and aesthetics\,
  social and ecological constructions of difference\, and matters of praxis
  in both films\, this talk dwells with the pedagogical life of plants and 
 the motility of peripheries.\n\n \n\nThis event is part of the Denbo Cente
 r for Humanities & the Arts' 2025-26 Distinguished Lecture Series. \n\n \n
 \nC. Riley Snorton is professor of English and Comparative Literature and 
 jointly appointed with the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender
  at Columbia University. He is the author of Black on Both Sides: A Racial
  History of Trans Identity (2017) and Nobody is Supposed to Know: Black Se
 xuality on the Down Low (2014). Snorton is also the co-editor of Saturatio
 n: Race\, Art\, and the Circulation of Value (2020) and The Flesh of the M
 atter: A Critical Forum on Hortense Spillers (2024). A Black Queer History
  of the United States\, which Snorton co-authored with Darius Bost\, is sc
 heduled for release in January 2026.
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LOCATION:Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts\, Suite 223\, Seminar Room 
 C114A/B
SUMMARY:"Plant Pedagogy and Peripheral Movements"
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