Keynote Speakers

Daniel B. Coleman (he/they) is a transdisciplinary transfeminist artist-scholar currently working at the intersections of performance studies, Black Diaspora studies, decolonial thought, trans studies, Afro and Indigenous cosmologies, Black feminisms, critical ecologies, and performance as research. His current book project, Trans Ecologies at the End of the Human, is a poetic-epistemological and performance research process that moves between Greensboro, North Carolina, and San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas. The book furthers an ecological articulation of embodiment for Afro-descendant, Native/Indigenous, and peoples of mixed descendency while also asking what a trans analytic allows us to co-sense in each of these locations, with histories of Black Civil Rights and Indigenous autonomy, respectively.
Daniel is trained as an oral historian and critical/performance ethnographer and is invested in listening to the voices of the Black diaspora in the Americas.
As an artist, Daniel has worked with different performance companies and duet projects performing and teaching in México, the U.S., and Canada, as well as in Costa Rica, Brasil, Colombia, Spain, France, Portugal, Germany, Greece, The Netherlands, Poland, and Estonia.
Daniel believes in decolonizing the curriculum, centering the voices of scholars of color and thinkers outside of the continental U.S., and inviting creative, embodied, and emancipatory epistemological practices.