Thursday, December 1st

4:00PM - 5:30PM

Light Reception to Follow

East Gallery, Buell Hall (515 W. 116th St.)

RSVP requested: https://dec1ECSLecture.eventbrite.com

This talk will examine the ways in which art and poetic practices can revision our spaces and provide new anti-colonial tools. Rethinking colonial spatial philosophies must include our mind’s eye so that we can reimagine a just world. Settler environmental control is often invisible in its scaffolding of power—by revisioning we expose its superstructure, and hopefully build new sightlines which account for colonial and racial injustice. Here, Goeman will explore the work of video poems, or “poemeos”, as Heid Erdrich calls them, and speak to the various role of artist and poets to create new avenues that structure healthier relationships.

Seating is available on a first-come first-served basis, RSVPs do not guarantee admission. All attendees must show either a CU/BC ID (affiliates) or vaccination record (non-affiliate) for entry to the event.

Co-Presented with Columbia University Division of the Humanities, the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement, the Center for the Study of Social Difference, the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University, the Department of American Studies at Barnard College, and the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University

Contact Information

Columbia U ISSG

issg@columbia.edu

This workshop explores Zip Code Memory Project’s current undertaking: creating an accessible, enduring website that collates, showcases, and sustains the highs and lows of the last three years.

More often than not, sharing public humanities projects with larger audiences depends on the distribution and preservation of information online. And yet, when looking to memorialize these projects for future cohorts and community members, how should publics imagine the design and role of the website itself? In the Zip Code Memory Project’s final active year, the objectives are not only to continue the larger, outstanding effort of remembering COVID-19, but to memorialize ZCMP itself.

Note: The event will be held over Zoom

Workshop Leader

Meg Jianing Zhang (PhD Student, Department of English and Comparative Literature)
Lex Taylor (Guest, ZCMP Web Design and Development)
Project: Zip Code Memory Project

The Zip Code Memory Project (ZCMP) seeks to find community-based ways to memorialize the devastating losses resulting from the Coronavirus pandemic while also acknowledging its radically differential effects on Upper New York City neighborhoods. Through a series of art-based workshops, public events, social media platforms, and a performance/exhibition at the Cathedral of St John the Divine, community members re-imagine zip codes not as zones of separation, but as interrelated spaces for connectivity and mutual care.

This workshop is presented as part of the Public Humanities Skills Workshops, a series of sessions that connect graduate fellows and the public with skills, methods, and strategies to engage in the interdisciplinary field of the Public Humanities. These workshops are hosted by the Public Humanities Initiative and open to all. Advanced registration is required.

Please email disability@columbia.edu to request disability accommodations. Advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs.

Speakers: Judith Helfand, Marie Nazon, Sarah Senk
Moderated by Mikhal Dekel

The Covid pandemic is diminished, and we are back in classrooms, workplaces, restaurants and social places. But who is left behind? What is still owed to those who lost their lives?

Details here.

CHRONIC LIFE: CAN WE GO THE DISTANCE WITH  THE VIRUS?

A Roundtable Webinar with Alexandra Juhasz, Theodore Kerr, Lorie Novak, & Meghan O’Rourke
Moderated by Laura Wexler and Eilin Perez

Tuesday, September 27, 4:00 – 5:30 PM ET

The pandemic is far from over, vaccination is imperfect, long-covid is a significant threat, politics plays hardball with our lives, we are underprepared for the horizon of other viruses, consequences are vastly unequally distributed, and we are likely to be anxious, in denial, and puzzled about how best to respond. In this Roundtable, four prominent artists and scholars will present art and organizing strategies drawn from lived experience with chronic illness, community activism, and the personal and political demands long-hauling presents.

• Videomaker and scholar Alexandra Juhasz and writer Theodore Kerr, co-authors of a new book, We Are Having This Conversation Now: The Times of AIDS Cultural Production, will discuss the  necessarily multiple time frames of long-time HIV/AIDS activism.

• Artist Lorie Novak will share and discuss Migraine Register, her durational photographic commitment to making visible the significant impact of this chronic and pervasive but invisible condition.

• Writer Meghan O’Rourke, Editor of The Yale Review and author of the New York Times bestselling memoir, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness will consider the challenge of narrating auto-immune and other poorly understood illness when no coherent story readily appears.

Moderated by historian Laura Wexler, Charles H. Farnam Professor of American Studies and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Yale University and Co-chair of Yale Public Humanities, and Eilin Perez, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of History and Yale Public Humanities.

Sponsored by The Henry R. Luce Foundation, The ZipCode Memory Project , Center for the Study of Social Difference and the Society of Fellows/Heymann Center for the Humanities at Columbia University, and Yale Public Humanities.

Click here for the webinar recording.

Panel Discussion: "Sex Is As Sex Does" with Author Paisley Currah

Featuring Paisley Currah, Katherine Franke, and Che Gossett

Moderated by Kendall Thomas

Every government agency in the United States, from Homeland Security to the Departments of Motor Vehicles, has the authority to make its own rules for sex classification. Many transgender people find themselves in the bizarre situation of having different sex classifications on different documents. Whether you can change your legal sex to "F" or "M" (or more recently "X") depends on what state you live in, what jurisdiction you were born in, and what government agency you're dealing with. In this panel discussion centered on noted transgender advocate and scholar Paisley Currah's new book, Sex Is As Sex Does, Currah will be joined by Professor Katherine Franke and Che Gossett to explore this deeply flawed system, and discuss why it fails transgender and non-binary people.

Wednesday, September 21, 2022
4:15 PM - 5:30 PM ET
Jerome Greene Hall 102B

RSVP: SEPT21CURRAHBOOKPANEL.EVENTBRITE.COM
 
Seating is available on a first-come first-served basis, RSVPs do not guarantee admission. This event will be livestreamed on the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law's YouTube channel.

Each attendee must reserve their own ticket in their name in order to be able to check in with Public Safety at Columbia Law School. In-Person ticket sales will end at 3:00PM on Tuesday, September 20th.

All attendees must show either a CU/BC ID (CU/BC affiliates) or vaccination record (non-affiliate) for entry to the event.

Co-sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender, the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law, and the Center for the Study of Social Difference 

Menstrual Health and Gender Justice working group co-director Lauren Houghton presented her talk, “Protest with your Period: Using Menstrual Tracking Apps in Research  for Gender Justice”  at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health’s Period Apps, Privacy & Politics: Emerging Issues event.

Speakers: Margaret Johnson, University of Baltimore, School of Law Amanda Shea, Clue Lauren Houghton, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health

Click here to watch the recording.