The Inaugural RACE Conference: Everything You Need to Know
What are reparative arts, and how we might chart a way forward in alleviating systemic harms and injustices by creating living monuments through staging, performance, and other ways of memorialization?
Drawing on Dorinne Kondo’s (2018) concept of ‘reparative creativity’, we understand reparative arts as the processes (methodologies/pedagogies) and/or products (visual, audio, performance) designed to present a call-to-action for change to systemic and/or structural causes of inequity and injustice in our society by amplifying community solutions towards repair and healing
This inaugural RACE Conference theme will explore the case of what remains of Civil War Confederate monuments in Baltimore and how these spaces may better represent a shared vision where Baltimore citizens may experience belonging.
The inaugural Reparative Arts in Community Engagement (RACE) will be held in Baltimore, Maryland from October 5th-8th.
RACE Conference Partners
- JHU Center for Social Concern
- Eubie Blake Cultural Center
- JHU Arts and Innovation
- National Great Blacks in Wax Museum
- JHU Office of Economic Development and Community Partnerships
- JHU Center for Africana Studies
- JHU Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine
- Billie Holiday Center for Liberation Arts
- JH Center for Health Equity
- JH Urban Health Institute
- JHU Program in Medicine, Science, and the Humanities
- Sawyer Seminar: Rethinking the Right to the City through the Black Radical Tradition
- JHU Alexander Grass Humanities Institute
- JH Program in Arts, Humanities, and Health
- JHU Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship
- JHU Program in Museums and Society
- The Reginald F. Lewis Museum