Events | Black Buddhist Studies

IRTF Liberation Lab Keynote and Book Signing

🗓️ Apr 9, 2026 @ 7:00pm ET – Loganberry Books
🗓️ Apr 10, 2026 @ 6:30pm ET – Third Space Reading Room
🗓️ Apr 11, 2026 @ 11:30am – 5:00pm ET (1:00pm Keynote) – IRTF Liberation Lab @ CSU Law

📍In-person

🗺️ 13015 Larchmere Blvd, Cleveland, OH 44120 – Loganberry Books
🗺️ 1464 E 105th St, Cleveland, OH 44106 – Third Space Reading Room
🗺️ 1801 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44115 – CSU College of Law

Book signing and discussions with author Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad about two of the greatest literary voices from the US and how they reflect justice and liberation.

Nannie Helen Burroughs Lecture Series

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🗓️ March 25th, 2026 @ 5:00pm ET

📍In-person

🗺️ HU West Campus
Holy Cross Hall
2900 Van Ness St. NW, DC

Guest Speaker: Rima Vesely-Flad, Ph.D.
The 5:00pm reception will be followed by a lecture and book signing.
This event is free; no tickets are required.

Harvard Book Store Discussion with Dr. Tracey Hucks

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🗓️ March 6th, 2026 @ 7:00pm ET

📍In-person

🗺️ 1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA

Harvard Book Store welcomes Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad—Founding Director of the Initiative for Black Buddhist Studies and a Visiting Affiliate Fellow at Princeton University’s Center for Culture, Society, and Religion—for a discussion of her new book, The Fire Inside: The Dharma of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde. She will be joined in conversation by Dr. Tracey Hucks—Suzanne Young Murray Professor at Harvard Radcliffe Institute and the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Africana Religious Studies at Harvard Divinity School.

A Place of Rage: Book Club with Alexandra Cain, M.Div

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🗓️ March 1, 2026 @ 1:00 – 2:30 pm ET

📍Online

A book club conversation with the author of the Substack newsletter, Constant Craving.

Participants are encouraged to read Chapter 1 of The Fire Inside and come ready to think and co-create with fellow readers.

The opening chapter of this book turns toward Palestine and asks what solidarity actually requires of us. Drawing on ancestors like Audre Lorde and James Baldwin, Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad models a reflective process that refuses innocence and moves toward accountable action.

Firestorm Collective Discussion and Book Signing

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🗓️ Feb 21, 2026 @ 2:00pm – 3:30pm ET

📍In-person

🗺️ Firestorm Collective, 1022 Haywood Rd, Asheville NC

To celebrate the release of The Fire Inside, our co-op hosts author and scholar Rima Vesely-Flad for a discussion of the radical literary legacies of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde.

Dr. Vesely-Flad will read from the book, take questions from the audience, and sign copies of The Fire Inside.

Malaprop’s Bookstore Discussion

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🗓️ Feb 11, 2026 @ 6:00pm – 7:00pm ET

📍In-person

🗺️ Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe, 55 Haywood St, Asheville, NC

Join us in-store when local scholar and author Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad presents her newest book, The Fire Inside: The Dharma of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde.