In "The Specificity of Black Suffering: Antiblackness an the Necessary Disordering of Educational Research," Michael Dumas will explore the implications of theorization of antiblackness for educational research, with attention to how the specificity of antiblackness presents challenges for analyses of race, racial equity, and school reform.

Dumas will argue that taking up antiblackness in education research requires an intellectual “program of complete disorder.” He will offer some initial thoughts toward an understanding of what that disordering desires and demands in our scholarship.