Discerning, Divining, and Deciding: How Conjuring Reshapes Afro-Diasporic P

What happens when the people excluded from formal power develop their own technologies of knowing?

Join Adéjọ́kẹ́ at the 2026 Public Anthropology Conference for:

Discerning, Divining, and Deciding: How Conjuring Reshapes Afro-Diasporic Power Equations

Saturday, November 7, 2026 | 4:00 PM
Room D | Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library
901 G Street NW | Washington, DC

We’ll explore conjure not simply as “belief,” but as a system of discernment, hidden knowledge, timing, interpretation, agency, and survival.

Whose ways of knowing have we been willing to call knowledge?

ANTHROPOLOGY CONFERENCE

Hosted by of the Department of Anthropology and the Public Ethnography Lab at American University

Funded by

the National Science Foundation Accelerating Research Translation program under the Translating Research Into Action Center (TRAC) award #2331399.