Borders, Human Itineraries, and All Our Relation

DELE ADEYEMO (UK/Nigeria) is an architect, artist, and critical urban theorist. Dele’s creative practice, research, and pedagogy interrogate the underlying racial drivers in the production of space. Adeyemo is completing his PhD, titled Last Dark Continent, at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the recipient of the Journal of Architectural Education’s inaugural Fellowship, the Canadian Centre for Architecture’s Andrew Mellon Fellowship, and Het Nieuwe Instituut’s Research Fellowship. Adeyemo’s projects have been presented internationally, including at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale, the 5th Istanbul Design Biennial, the 13th São Paulo Architecture Biennial, and the 2nd Edition of the Lagos Biennial. He currently teaches an architecture design studio at the Royal College of Art, London.

NADIA YALA KISUKIDI (France) is Associate Professor in philosophy at Paris 8 Vincennes–Saint-Denis University. She was Vice President of the Collège International de Philosophie (2014–2016). Member of the Les Cahiers d’études africaines (CNRS, Ehess) editorial committee, she was co-curator of the Yango II Biennale, Kinshasa, DRC (July/August 2022). Kisukidi is specialized in French and Africana philosophy. She has published Bergson ou l’humanité créatrice (CNRS, 2013), and Dialogue Transatlantique with the Brazilian philosopher Djamila Ribeiro (Anacaona, 2021). Her first novel, La Dissociation, was published by Seuil in 2022.

RINALDO WALCOTT (Canada) is Professor and Chair of Africana and American Studies at the University at Buffalo. His teaching and research are in the area of Black diaspora cultural studies and postcolonial studies with an emphasis on questions of sexuality and gender. He is the author most recently of On Property (Biblioasis, 2021) and The Long Emancipation: Moving Toward Black Freedom (Duke University Press, 2021).

NATALIE DIAZ (US/Mojave/Akimel O’otham) was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the banks of the Colorado River. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. She is the author of When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of the American Book Award; Diaz’s second collection, Postcolonial Love Poem, was published by Graywolf Press in 2020 and won a Pulitzer Prize. She is a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, a Lannan Literary Fellow, and a Native Arts Council Foundation Artist Fellow. She is an alumni of the United States Artists Ford Fellowship and now serves on the board of trustees. She is currently a Mellon Foundation Fellow. Diaz teaches at the Arizona State University Creative Writing MFA program where she is the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall…