MAY 07, 2026

IMAGINING OTHERWISE

WORLDMAKING IN PROGRESS

We Invite You to ImaginE Otherwise...

"To begin with the otherwise as word, as concept, is to presume that whatever we have is not all that is possible. Otherwise. It is a concept of internal difference, internal multiplicity. The otherwise is the disbelief in what is current and a movement towards, and an affirmation of, imagining other modes of social organization, other ways for us to be with each other. Otherwise as plentitude. Otherwise is the enunciation and concept of irreducible possibility, irreducible capacity, to create change, to be something else, to explore, to imagine, to live fully, freely, vibrantly...Otherwise expresses an unrest and discontent, a seeking to conceive dreams that allow us to wake laughing, tears of joy in our eyes, dreams that have us saying, I hope this comes true."

Ashon Crawley (Black Queer Studies Scholar, Creative Writer, Artist)

about the conference

Imagining otherwise:

WORLDMAKING IN PROGRESS

Graduate Students from the New York University (NYU) Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) and NYU's Center for Collaborative Indigenous Research with Communities and Lands (Center CIRCL) invite students from the tri-state area to join us for our 2026 Student Conference, Imagining Otherwise: Worldmaking in Progress.

Christina Sharpe’s In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, urges us to work towards living and ‘imagining otherwise’ as a vital and creative, everyday act of resistance to colonialism (Sharpe, 2016). Our one-day student conference, Imagining Otherwise: Worldmaking in Progress, takes up this call, building upon the traditions of Black, Indigenous, and scholars who theorize and write into a future-oriented, radical imagination of other worlds and alternative formations of co-existence. The conference invites advanced undergraduate students, graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in any field or discipline to come together, re-imagine and re-orient our relations and existence in the world, while daring to Imagine Otherwise.