Prof. Anthony Farley Speaks at Several Conferences, New Publications Forthcoming and More Presentations into 2025

Professor Anthony Farley, the James Campbell Matthews Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence at Albany Law School, has had a busy 2024 with several speaking engagements, new publications, and exciting collaborations with fellow faculty members, with more to come in 2025.  Here are just some of the highlights.

Publications:
Farley's new publications, include Blackness, Repetition, and Non-Philosophy, which was published in The Oxford Literary Review and a forthcoming piece, Watch Out, Here Comes Tomorrow, as part of the publication Structures of Dissonance: Aesthetics Beyond Capital?, which is part of the Aesthetics & Politics Lecture Series, CalArts School of Critical Studies.

Presentations:
Basketball is Life
Farley spoke at the #SayHerName Symposium on Intersectional Feminism & Police Violence at Loyola Chicago School of Law on April 12, 2024. Farley was invited as the Luncheon Speaker (with Albany Law School Professor Ciji Dodds) at the #SayHerName symposium.

Blackness & Non-Philosophy
Farley was invited to speak on “Blackness & Non-Philosophy” at the Philosophy of the Black Experience Conference, at Howard University on March 28-30, 2024.

Afro-Optimism and Abolition
Farley was invited to give the Gretchen Hoadley Burke ’81 Lecture at the ALANA Cultural Center, at Colgate University on February 19, 2024.

Afro-Optimism
Farley was invited to speak as panelist on “Natal Alienation, Emancipation, Damnation” at the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting in Montreal, Canada on March 14-17, 2024.

Farley and Professor Ciji Dodds presented at the Bennington College Center for the Advancement of Public Action on the topic "Saving Democracy Together" as part of a seven-week public course on the foundations and future of democracy, hosted by the Senator Patrick J. Leahy Public Policy Forum.

Farley and Dodds also teamed up to give a presentation Teaching CRT to 1-Ls at the Society of American Law Teachers 2024 Teaching Conference, “We Won’t Back Down: Standing Together for Transformative Legal Education" at Boston University School of Law on September 20-21, 2024. 

Finally, to conclude 2024, Farley was invited to participate in the workshop, "Race, Law and Humanities: A CRT Approach." Organized under the auspices of the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies at Columbia Law School and the African American Policy Forum.  The workshop took place from December 8-9 in New York City at the Orthodox Room at the Interchurch Center at 61 Claremont Ave, New York, NY and at Columbia Law School.

Professor Farley also has a number of presentations already planned for 2025, including:
An invitation to speak at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention in New Orleans, LA, being held on January 9-12, 2025, as a panelist on the panel “Black Psychoanalysis?”.

An invitation to participate in a symposium on Race, capitalism, and law convened by Prof. Saru Matambanadzo of Tulane University, sponsored by Tulane Law School and the Murphy Institute, and set to take place on February 21 - 22, 2025 at Weinmann Hall at Tulane Law School in New Orleans, LA.

An invitation to discuss his recent work, "Blackness, Repetition, and Nonphilosophy," and the Oxford Literary Review symposium in which it appeared, at a gathering to take place at Emory University in April of 2025.

An invitation to participate in "Beyond Boundaries," a world-spanning Socratic dialog including over fifty leading scholars & artists of renown convened by Helmut Bräutigam and set to continue through 2025.