AFROFUTURISM NOW: Speculation, Imagination, and World-Making

Dr. Reynaldo Anderson, Associate Professor of Africology and African American Studies at Temple University and Co-Founder of the Black Speculative Arts Movement, joins Rutgers University–Camden for a timely and provocative exploration of Afrofuturism Now.

Anchored in Afrofuturism 2.0 and Black speculative traditions, Dr. Anderson will examine how African diasporic knowledge, memory, and creative practice actively shape the future rather than merely imagine it. In a moment defined by technological acceleration, political uncertainty, and ongoing struggles over Black life and belonging, this lecture considers how speculation and imagination function as tools of liberation, cultural critique, and collective world-making.

This gathering invites students, faculty, staff, and community members to think boldly about Black futurity, creative freedom, and the power of imagination to transform social realities in the present.