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    • CONFERENCE
      • REGISTRATION AND PROGRAM
      • SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS
      • CALL FOR PROPOSALS
      • BLACK HORROR ROUNDTABLE
      • VIRTUAL PRESENTATIONS
    • RESOURCES
    • ABOUT
      • COMMITTEE
      • SPONSORS
    • CONTACT
  • Home
  • CONFERENCE
    • REGISTRATION AND PROGRAM
    • SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS
    • CALL FOR PROPOSALS
    • BLACK HORROR ROUNDTABLE
    • VIRTUAL PRESENTATIONS
  • RESOURCES
  • ABOUT
    • COMMITTEE
    • SPONSORS
  • CONTACT

black horror geographies roundtable

The Black Horror Geographies Roundtable is part of a series of conversations through Berkeley Black Geographies that centered the geographical imprints of Black horror films, specifically through the works of Jordan Peele (Nope), Nia DaCosta (Candyman 2021), and Joe Talbot (Last Black Man in San Francisco). Graduate students examined the role geography plays in the everyday haunts and horrors of Black life, spectatorship and the desensitized viewer, the historical positioning of Black people across the horror genre, and how geographical thought and practice offers a critical perspective for analyzing Blackness within horror films. 


This roundtable brings together graduate students who have taken part in these discussions who will offer framing remarks followed by a larger, moderated discussion with conference attendees. To continue the conversation, the BGGSC will host a private screening of Jordan Peele's Nope after the roundtable at the New Parkway Theater in Oakland. 

Discussants

Zana Sanders earned a B.A. in Film and Media and M.A. in African American Studies from Georgia State University. Her research explores the visual representation of (anti)Blackness in film, digital media, and popular culture. 


Broadly, Zana’s research interests include performances of race and gender, Black visual representation, Black resi

Zana Sanders earned a B.A. in Film and Media and M.A. in African American Studies from Georgia State University. Her research explores the visual representation of (anti)Blackness in film, digital media, and popular culture. 


Broadly, Zana’s research interests include performances of race and gender, Black visual representation, Black resistance in visual and material culture, Black radical thought, and Black social movements. Currently, Zana is a doctoral student in the department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. 

Roderick Jackson is a Black Chicagoan, photographer, and PhD Student in the African American Studies Department at UC Berkeley. His research explores Black labor in Gary, IN.—the former steel  capital of the United States—after the Great Recession of 2008. He investigates how Black male laborers form community to organize for more equitab

Roderick Jackson is a Black Chicagoan, photographer, and PhD Student in the African American Studies Department at UC Berkeley. His research explores Black labor in Gary, IN.—the former steel  capital of the United States—after the Great Recession of 2008. He investigates how Black male laborers form community to organize for more equitable employment conditions while maintaining strong bonds in hyper-masculine spaces of socioeconomic devaluation and insecurity. 


He is also a musician, producer, and composer who is part of the Grammy certified production duo Tensei with Chris Kramer. Their music has been featured on the TV show South Side on HBO Max and The Blacklist on NBC. He also works as a solo producer, writer, and composer with Sony|KPM  and is collaborating with his  wife april l. graham-jackson on a multimedia project centering the visual and sonic geographies of Black Chicagoland.

Robert  Moeller is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Geography at UC  Berkeley. His research interrogates racial capitalist political economy  and racialization in the Sacramento River Basin of Northern California  (Nisenan Maidu and Plains Miwok Territory). He engages in multiscalar  analysis of how hydrological infrastructure and the

Robert  Moeller is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Geography at UC  Berkeley. His research interrogates racial capitalist political economy  and racialization in the Sacramento River Basin of Northern California  (Nisenan Maidu and Plains Miwok Territory). He engages in multiscalar  analysis of how hydrological infrastructure and the commodification and  preservation of agricultural production establish settler colonial  temporalities of white futurity, undergirded by racialized fear and  promise, with special attention to these structures' historical  antecedents in the Atlantic plantocracy and their export into U.S.  imperial endeavors in the Pacific. He analyzes how migratory and  displaced laboring populations demonized by these formations offer  alternate societal imaginaries through their material and poetic  interventions throughout the landscape of the Sacramento Valley.

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