Zainabu Jallo is contributing as a presenter to the panel "Spiritual Repair: Post-Secular Black Atlantic Arts" at the ACASA Symposium.

The panel explores how the spiritual has been transmitted in popular and modern Black art in a context defined by secularism. This panel invites papers that address the spiritual in African and Black arts across the world, situating spirituality in a post-secular Black Atlantic. Recognizing the important work of the Indian art historian Partha Mitter, to what extent should spirituality be understood as an orientation developed and circulated in the context of empire? Positing that coloniality was founded on secularism, to what extent can we understand the embrace of the spiritual in Black visual and material arts as spiritual repair?