Author, speaker, researcher, geographer Celeste Winston

I translate complex research into captivating presentations and workshops on racial and spatial justice, critical geography, and reimagining safety beyond the criminal legal system.

RECENT & UPCOMING SPEAKING EVENTS

June 1, 2024

VisArts
155 Gibbs Street
Rockville, MD 20850

July 18, 2024

Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies Bonn, Germany

October 11, 2024

Georgetown University Washington, DC


SELECTED PAST SPEAKING EVENTS

Imagining a Safer World: Scholar and Activist Perspectives

Inaugural Temple Women’s Conference: Reimagining Safety

April 5, 2024
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

This gender-inclusive hybrid panel (in-person or online) included scholars and activists addressing the theme of imagining a safer world beyond criminal justice institutions. Do institutions that claim to be working in the interests of “safety” really achieve those ends? How can a safer world be reimagined?


How to Lose The Hounds: A Conversation On Police Abolition And Black Freedom Struggles

November 9, 2023
Making Worlds Bookstore and Social Center, Philadelphia, PA

A discussion with Celeste Winston, author of How to Lose the Hounds: Maroon Geographies and a World beyond Policing, and Philadelphia organizer Christopher Rogers, about Winston's new book and its relevance for organizing for a police-free Philadelphia.


Prime Meridian Unconference

April 17, 2022
The New School Vera List Center for Art and Politics, New York, NY

The three-day, hybrid Prime Meridian Unconference brought together artists, architects, musicians, physicists, geographers, technologists, and scholars of African American Studies. Through interactive talks, workshops, panels, performances, and plenary sessions, participants considered new ways of understanding our relationship to space-time, utilizing specific Black social, geographical, and cultural frameworks that seek to unmap Black temporalities from the Greenwich Mean timeline. Together they explored and unpacked the standards and protocols of time that have left and continue to leave Black people locked out of the past and future—stuck in a narrow temporal present.

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