Institute at 10
A Decade of Organizing Knowledge to Challenge Inequality
March 12-13, 2026
On the occasion of the Institute’s 10th anniversary, we convened university and movement scholars to take up the conditions and possibilities of a third reconstruction, or the unfinished work of abolition, reparation and decolonization. Learning from freedom movements, as the Institute has always done, we foregrounded insurgencies that dismantle police-property relations and situate the U.S. as an empire-state within a world of landless and poor people’s movements. Taking place at a conjuncture of resurgent white nationalism, we asked how the public university can house the third reconstruction and chart the forms of study necessary for dangerous times.
