Join the Center on Public Diplomacy for a conversation with writer and curator Ekow Eshun to explore the transnational worlds of Black creativity and imagination through the exhibition “In the Black Fantastic.” The show is dedicated to the work of contemporary artists from the African diaspora, who draw on science fiction and myth to address racial injustice and explore alternative realities. It brings together artists who inventively recycle and reconfigure elements of folklore, myth, spiritual traditions, pageantry and legacies of Afrofuturism. At once vivid and thought-provoking, lyrical and relevant, the works in the show embody the power of the fantastic to help us chart new ways of confronting legacies of racism and celebrating cultures of resistance and affirmation.

The conversation and Q&A session will be moderated by Josh Kun.