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Black Earth Study Club: Militant Education With Sónia Vaz Borges

On the occasion of Nolan Oswald Dennis’s exhibition, overturns, SI is delighted to present the third convening of the Black Earth Study Club—a series of transdisciplinary gatherings informed by Dennis’s artistic, scientific, and philosophical ruminations on the material and metaphysical conditions of decolonization.

This event centers the indispensability of alternative pedagogical models in the production, transmission, and sustenance of socially transformative knowledges. Recalling the emergence of militant educational spaces during the anti-colonial liberation struggles in the mid-twentieth century, this event considers the necessity of continuing to foster sites of anti-imperial thinking and epistemic de-linking in the present.

The evening will open with a screening of Mangrove School (2022), a film by Sónia Vaz Borges and Filipa César. Shot in the mangroves of contemporary Guinea-Bissau, it retells the history of makeshift schools built in the forests of the liberated zones by the PAIGC during their armed struggle against Portuguese colonial forces in the 1960s and 70s. Following the screening, Borges will deliver a presentation that unpacks these resonant histories in addition to her ongoing research on militant education and ecology.

On March 15, from 2-4pm, artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed will lead a collaborative workshop that further elaborates these themes of pedagogy and knowledge production.

Please RSVP to rsvp@swissinstitute.net.











When: Wed., Mar. 12, 2025 at 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Where: Swiss Institute
38 St. Marks Pl.
212-925-2035
Price: Free
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On the occasion of Nolan Oswald Dennis’s exhibition, overturns, SI is delighted to present the third convening of the Black Earth Study Club—a series of transdisciplinary gatherings informed by Dennis’s artistic, scientific, and philosophical ruminations on the material and metaphysical conditions of decolonization.

This event centers the indispensability of alternative pedagogical models in the production, transmission, and sustenance of socially transformative knowledges. Recalling the emergence of militant educational spaces during the anti-colonial liberation struggles in the mid-twentieth century, this event considers the necessity of continuing to foster sites of anti-imperial thinking and epistemic de-linking in the present.

The evening will open with a screening of Mangrove School (2022), a film by Sónia Vaz Borges and Filipa César. Shot in the mangroves of contemporary Guinea-Bissau, it retells the history of makeshift schools built in the forests of the liberated zones by the PAIGC during their armed struggle against Portuguese colonial forces in the 1960s and 70s. Following the screening, Borges will deliver a presentation that unpacks these resonant histories in addition to her ongoing research on militant education and ecology.

On March 15, from 2-4pm, artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed will lead a collaborative workshop that further elaborates these themes of pedagogy and knowledge production.

Please RSVP to rsvp@swissinstitute.net.

Buy tickets/get more info now