Black Portraiture[s]

This year's conference Black Portraitures: The Black Built Environment takes place in Los Angeles, CA Sept 28–30, 2026. Register today!

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Black Portraiture[s] 2026 is co-hosted by @nyuniversity, @GettyMuseum and @UCLA.

Please contact [email protected] with any questions.

Register here: https://t.co/TmOj6l07cj

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We’re thrilled to announce the Black Portraiture[s] Conference is coming to the west coast this fall 2026. This year's conference theme is “Los Angeles: The Black Built Environment” which takes place in-person & virtually Monday, September 28 to Wednesday, September 30, 2026.

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The conference will present and encourage research and scholarship on modern and contemporary visual and structural approaches, centering the audacity of Black built environments from within the diaspora’s global influence and iterations.

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Call For Submissions-
Black Portraiture[s] VII: Play & Performance @expressnewark Rutgers University—Newark, NJ
February 17 – 19, 2022 
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That’s a wrap! Thank you all for attending BLACK PORTRAITURE[S]: Absent/ed Presence, 2021

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Schedule Correction: Please note that today’s panel ‘Digital Networks, Aesthetics, and Black Death’ begins at 2pm EST

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Tonight!

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Today is the day! Join us for the first fully online edition of Black Portaiture[s] brought to you by @Wedge_Toronto & @aeartcentre
Registration is still open & free to all
https://t.co/64lw7PYKOL

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A CALL TO ACTION
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Happening now!

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M. NourbeSe Philip will deliver the keynote address for Black Portraiture[s]: Toronto, Absente/d Presence, a conference exploring Blackness as absent/ed presence in art, art history, performance, archives, museums, cultural production & technology. Oct.13 https://t.co/xRunXMrMbm

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Join us today as we open this year’s Black Portraiture[s]: Toronto, Absent/ed Presence conference with a keynote address by @mnourbese in conversation with @tdotpioneers hosted by @agotoronto ✨
https://t.co/NOfYDMXwLg

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Black Portraitures Keynote: M. NourbeSe Philip

Wed Oct 13 - 1 to 2pm ET
https://t.co/WPuUXQBBUw

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Black Portraiture[s]: Absent/ed Presence, 2021 is online this year & registration is open!
https://t.co/D2bm1wELMP

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Register now for Black Portraiture[s] Absent/ed Presence Keynote: M. NourbeSe Philip @mnourbese
https://t.co/NOfYDMXwLg

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deadline march 15👇🏽

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🗣 Call for Submissions

BLACK PORTRAITURE[S]: Toronto, Absent/ed Presence, 2021

You are invited to participate in the annual Black Portraiture[s] Conference, to be held online and in-person at Ryerson University, October 14 – 16, 2021.

https://t.co/HVB7p6sWEf