Videos
Zakiyyah Iman Jackson speaks at Loophole of Retreat: Venice, a symposium held from Oct 7-9, 2022 at the Fondazione Cini in Venice, Italy, in conjunction with Simone Leigh: Sovereignty, the artist's exhibition at the U.S. Pavilion as part of the 59th Biennale di Venezia.
A Map to the Door of No Return at 20: A Gathering (York University) (K’eguro Macharia, Tiana Reid, Sam Tecle, and Zakiyyah Iman Jackson) November 4, 2021
The Center for Religion & the Human Presents Zakiyyah Iman Jackson in Conversation with J. Kameron Carter (Indiana University) March 24, 2021
Looking Like a Person: Portraits after Coloniality (Huntington Library) (Malik Gaines, Simon Gikandi, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Joseph M. Pierce) October 5, 2021
Against Criticism: Notes on Decipherment and the Force of Art (UCLA program in Experimental Critical Theory and Hammer Museum) (Zakiyyah Iman Jackson and Kenneth Reinhard) May 6, 2021
Messy Studio: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21–Academy) (Markus Reymann, John Palmesino, and Zakiyyah Iman Jackson) June 21, 2020
Fleshing out the Image: Pleasure and Refusal in Contemporary Aesthetics: Zakiyyah Iman Jackson in conversation with Denise Ferreira da Silva (University of Copenhagen) November 27, 2020
Becoming Human Book Launch (Eric Ziner, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Tavia Nyong’o, Joshua Chambers-Letson, and Ann Pellegrini) May 5, 2020
Loophole of Retreat: Guggenheim Museum (Tina Campt, Dionne Brand, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Christina Sharpe, and Vanessa Agard-Jones) May 3, 2019
The Theoretical Turn Panel: Columbia University (Josef Sorett, Rizvana Bradley, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Christina Sharpe, and Joseph Winters) April 25-27, 2019
Interviews
Fantastic Blackness with Tav and Shanté
“Interview: Zakiyyah Iman Jackson on Becoming Human,” March 21, 2021
Parallax Views w/ J.G. Michael, “Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World w/ Zakiyyah Iman Jackson,” August 14, 2020
Always Already Podcast, “Interview: Zakiyyah Iman Jackson on Becoming Human,” July 2, 2020
Black Agenda Report, BAR Book Forum: Zakiyyah Iman Jackson’s “Becoming Human,” May 20, 2020
Black Perspectives, “Becoming Human: A New Book on Blackness and Animality,” May 8, 2020