The Alchemy Lecture is a partnership between York University and Knopf Canada, organized by Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York, CHRISTINA SHARPE. She is the author of In the Wake- On Blackness and Being; Monstrous Intimacies- Making Post-Slavery Subjects; and Ordinary Notes (Knopf Canada, April 2023). DELE ADEYEMO (UK/Nigeria) is an architect, creative director, and urban theorist. A Canadian Centre for Architecture's Andrew Mellon Fellow and Het Nieuwe Instituut's Research Fellow, he teaches at London's Royal College of Art. NATALIE DIAZ (US/Mojave/Akimel O'otham) is an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. She is the author of When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of the American Book Award, and Postcolonial Love Poem, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. NADIA YALA KISUKIDI (France) is Associate Professor in philosophy at Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis University. She specializes in French and Africana philosophy, and has also written a novel, La Dissociation. RINALDO WALCOTT (Canada) is Professor and Chair of Africana and American Studies at the University at Buffalo. He is the author of On Property and The Long Emancipation- Moving Toward Black Freedom.