July 9, 2021
6PM Lisbon | 1PM New York
in English and Portuguese

Join the Queer Aqui working group for Lisbon Dialogues Confronting Afrotravesti Diaspora with Puta Da Silva and Miguel Vale de Almeida, moderated by Daniel da Silva.

Register for the Zoom Webinar: https://rutgers.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IcoqGwTeSBuOwxUlIFUGTA

See our Eventbrite for more information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/queer-aqui-lisbon-dialogues-confronting-afrotravesti-diaspora-tickets-162076309605

This two-part mini-lecture and film series explores the connections among social movements led by travestis, trans latinas and transgender and gender non-binary people across the Americas. The series features keynote speakers and activists Indianarae Siqueira and Bamby Salcedo alongside two films that reflect upon their experiences: Aconchego da tua Mãe/Your Mother's Comfort (2020) and Transvisible: The Bamby Salcedo Story (2014).

Bamby Salcedo/Transvisible: The Bamby Salcedo Story

Thursday, March 4th - Thursday, March 11th: View on your own film streaming of Transvisible: The Bamby Salcedo Story (2014). [Director: Dante Alencastre, Columbia University Arts & Sciences alumni]

Thursday, March 11th 4:00pm-5:30pm

Keynote: Bamby Salcedo, CEO of TransLatin@ Coalition in conversation with Dr. Macarena Gómez-Barris, Chair of Social Science & Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute

To register for the March 11th Keynote Webinar and access the film link to stream, visit: https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8q_221cMSdefTD1JCZPx3g

This two-part mini-lecture and film series explores the connections among social movements led by travestis, trans latinas and transgender and gender non-binary people across the Americas. The series features keynote speakers and activists Indianarae Siqueira and Bamby Salcedo alongside two films that reflect upon their experiences: Aconchego da tua Mãe/Your Mother's Comfort (2020) and Transvisible: The Bamby Salcedo Story (2014).

Indianarae Siqueira/Aconchego da tua Mãe/Your Mother's Comfort

Thursday February 18th - Thursday, February 25th: View on your own film streaming of Aconchego da tua Mãe/Your Mother's Comfort (2020). [Director: Adam Golub, Columbia University School of Journalism alumni]

Thursday, February 25th 4:00pm-5:30pm

Keynote: Indianarae Siqueira, Founder of Casa Nem (Rio de Janeiro) in conversation Dr. Daniel da Silva, researcher of Lus-Afro-Brazilian gender, sexuality, and performance, and Professor of Portuguese at Rutgers University. Event in Portuguese and English with Live Interpretation.

To register for the February 25th Keynote Webinar and access the film link to stream, visit: https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_l-W958fLRbKbg6wrwMimfw

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In honor of the first Indigenous Peoples Day 2020 commemoration at Columbia University on 12 October 2020.

You are invited to a webinar/zoom event at 7 pm on "Indigenous Peoples of the Americas and the Covid-19 Pandemic"

Speakers:

• Sachem HawkStorm, welcome from the Lenape People

• Lisa Bellanger (Anishnabe), International Indian Treaty Council, Board of Directors

• Dr. Myrna Cunningham (Miskita),President , Fondo para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas de América Latina y el Caribe

• Victor Lopez Carmen, (Crow Creek Sioux Tribe and Yaqui), Co-Chair Global Indigenous Youth Caucus

• Tarcila Rivera Zea (Quechua), President, International Indigenous Women’s Forum, Vice-President, Chirapaq

• Sara Nawashahu Yawanawá- Bergin (Yawanawa), Chief of Shukuvena Village

• Janene Yazzie, (Diné (Navajo)), Dzit Asdáán (Strong Women) Command Center for Covid Relief

Organized by The University Seminar on Indigenous Studies, The University Seminar on Latin America and the Institute for the Study of Human Rights and cosponsored by Native American Council, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Center for the Study of Social Difference, Mailman School of Public Health, Institute of Latin American Studies, at Columbia University, and Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Native Studies Forum and The Latinx Project at New York University.

For Zoom login information, please register here: https://bit.ly/2GPyOTP

Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Social Difference Environmental Justice, Belief Systems, and Aesthetic Experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean working group.

The Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University presents in conjunction with the Ambedkar Initiative

Understanding Systemic Racism: Race, the Human, and Humanity in These Times

Étienne Balibar, Columbia University, and Nahum Chandler, UC Irvine

Moderated by Anupama Rao, ICLS Associate Director and CSSD Geographies of Injustice working group co-director

Register for this event here

About the Series:

The Institute for Comparative Literature and Society is committed to the goal of social justice through education and critical scholarship. To address the urgent need to combat racism in our times, we introduce a new 2020-2021 conversation/lecture series called “Understanding Systemic Racism” to reflect on the roots of racial discrimination, class oppression, colonial injustice, and other institutionalized oppression and sanction for violence against Black people and peoples of color. We stress the importance of opening the U.S. centered conversations surrounding race and identity toward a broad and comparative reckoning with racism and its violent histories around the world. This exciting webinar series is programmed in conjunction with our Ambedkar Initiative that links Columbia University with the anti-caste legacy of B. R. Ambedkar to reflect on his continued relevance to discussions about social justice, affirmative action, and democratic thinking in a global frame.

Join the Menstrual Health and Gender Justice working group in celebrating the launch of The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies!

The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies invites the reader to explore menstruation from nearly every possible angle, including dimensions that you might not yet have considered: the historical, political, embodied, cultural, religious, social, health, economic, artistic, literary and many more. With 72 chapters on more than 1000 pages, the Handbook–the first of its kind–establishes Critical Menstruation Studies as a rich field of research.

The editors, Chris Bobel, Inga Winkler, Breanne Fahs, Katie Ann Hasson, Elizabeth Arveda Kissling, and Tomi-Ann Roberts together bring almost a century of expertise in studying menstruation. Over the last three years, they have sought out 134 contributors in more than 30 countries to address a wide range of menstrual matters in the Handbook.

During the launch, the editors will provide a brief introduction and a few contributors will share key messages from their respective chapters. The event will end with a Q&A at which point audience members will be invited to submit questions for specific contributors and editors. 

Visit our blog to learn more about the handbook and click here to download the complete handbook for free.

Register for the event here.

Managing personal data has become a non-trivial form of unpaid labor performed by ordinary individuals as a part of everyday life. Focusing on the case of personal finance—based on a relational ethnography of identity theft resolution—Brensinger proposes four general types of data work: maintenance, whereby individuals monitor their data and guard against potential breakdown, corruption, or “illegitimate” appropriation, improvement aimed at increasing the symbolic value conveyed by their data, repair work to dispute and correct perceived inaccuracies with data, and resistance, which attempts to hinder the very production and exploitation of data. This labor has important implications for inequality, insecurity, and the legitimacy of data-related institutions. Finally, Brensinger concludes with a framework for extending the study of data work beyond personal finance to a host of institutional domains, including welfare, healthcare, education, and online reputation and social media.

Note: Pre-registration is not available for this event. To receive the Zoom link and a copy of the pre-circulated paper, please join the GSC Workshop mailing list or contact coordinators Anna Hidalgo (aph2144) and Dominic Terrel Walker (dtw2120).

This event is co-sponsored with the Department of Sociology's Gender, Sexuality, and Culture (GSC) Workshop and the Data, Algorithms and Social Justice working group.

Nothing Even Matters tells a tale at the critical intersection of historical analysis and theoretical speculation as a way to interrogate how modes of architectural production are operative parts of the same project that has historically, and continues to mutate, to produce varying ideas about racial difference. These alignments are not merely material, they constitute a discursive system, an aesthetic and sociotechnical mode of operation that orders the world in particular ways. Simultaneously anonymous and outstanding, this talk engages Mitchell-Lama housing—a strategically crafty and impactful experiment in a long line of housing schemes hatched in New York, enacted in 1955, targeting middle-income black families. Recognized as an alternative program, complicating post-war histories of housing, Nothing Even Matters shares Ife Salema Vanable’s ongoing study of Mitchell-Lama housing, charting its hybridity, the simultaneous ambiguity and specificity with which the terms of its production have been managed (“middle-income,” “family,” “household), the ways that its objects (high-rise residential towers) aesthetically deviate from and challenge expectations for how black bodies are to be physically and materially housed, and the varied sanctioned, unauthorized, ingenious, pleasurable, sensuous, and particularly quotidian forms of occupancy black bodies have waged behind and beyond their facades.

Media: https://arch.umd.edu/events/under-construction-lecture-ife-salema-vanable

Presented in collaboration with the Motherhood and Technology working group:

As hospital births became the norm over the course of the 20th Century, the percentage of women giving birth at home took a nosedive. In the past few decades, however, home births have started regaining popularity among women who fear the impersonality of the hospital setting. Join OB/GYN Dr. Andrei Rebarber and Certified Nurse Midwife Cara Muhlhahn for an illuminating discussion on the landscape of birth settings in the U.S., how our model compares to other countries, and how we can increase collaboration between hospitals and midwives to provide safer birth experiences. 

This event is being organized by Saving Mothers, an NYC-based 501(3)(c) dedicated to improving the reproductive and maternal health of women worldwide. 

Tickets are free, but please register in advance.

Presented by the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality, co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Social Difference and the Department of Art History and Archaeology.