Speakers
- Layla West
- New York University
Layla June West is a second-year master’s student in the Africana Studies Program at NYU’s Department of Social and Cultural Analysis. In 2016 she graduated from Howard University with a B.A. in English, and in 2017 she completed a Fulbright fellowship as an English Teaching Assistant in Cape Town, South Africa. Layla seeks to join the tradition of intellectual work that extends Ayi Kwei Armah’s practice of “re-membering” Kemetic and contemporary modes and episodes of African human existence. She is currently interested in mining for synergy between Kushite era hieroglyphic inscriptions, black bodies and vernacular deployed in internet memes, and current scholarship on racialized surveillance.