About the Roundtable 

The 7th annual meeting of the Roundtable for Black Feminist & Womanist Theory will be held November 5-7, 2026 as a hybrid conference, with in-person events taking place at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The keynote will be delivered by Dr. Yanique Hume (University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus). 

The Roundtable is a venue for scholars, activists, and artists across disciplines and professional trajectories to share work highlighting intellectual contributions of Black women, femmes, and non-men throughout the African diaspora. The aim of the conference is to create a working space for participants of various backgrounds to receive feedback on their projects that will enrich Black feminist and womanist traditions. There is no required theme for those who would like to present under the Roundtable for Black Feminist and Womanist Theory program; however, all projects must focus on/utilize at least one aspect of Black feminist theory or womanist thought.

As the Roundtable will be held in Amsterdam this year, the focus is on creating Trans-Atlantic conversations in Black Feminism between the US, Netherlands, and the broader diaspora.

Event venues: 

Thursday, November 5, and Friday, November 6, 2026
University of Amsterdam — Roeterseiland Campus
REC J/K, Room T1.03
UvA location code: 341.O T1.03 / REC JKT1.03

Organizers:

• K. Bailey Thomas bailey.thomas@uri.edu
• Michael L. Thomas m.l.thomas@uva.nl

This event has been sponsored by the Philosophy Department and its Critical Cultural Theory Group, the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, NICA, RPA Decolonial Futures, and Alessandra Benedicty Koken on behalf of the project “Anti-colonialisms, into Our Now-Moments