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ZCMP Film Featured in News Coverage of Queens World Film Festival

The Zip Code Memory Project’s short film, “Together, Not Alone” was included in press coverage of the Queens World Film Festival, where the film was screened along with other community-made short films about the COVID-19 pandemic. Read the reviews in Broadway World and Queens Chronicle.

Gil Z. Hochberg Awarded American Comparative Literature Association's 2022 René Wellek Book Award | Insurgent Domesticities

American Comparative Literature Association's 2022 René Wellek Book Award went to Insurgent Domesticities working group co-director Gil Z. Hochberg’s Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future (Duke University Press, 2021).

Lila Abu-Lughod Delivers Keynote Address | Religion and the Global Framing of Gender Violence

Former co-director of the Religion and Global Framing of Gender Violence working group, Lila Abu-Lughod, will be presenting with Rema Hammami and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian on their forthcoming book with Duke University Press. Friday, February 25, 2022, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.

Virtual Event. Registration required.

https://watson.brown.edu/cmes/events/2022/gender-violence-geopolitics-and-feminism

“What do we talk about when we talk about extractivism?” Colloquium with Jennifer Wenzel

The Extractive Media working group met on 8 March 2023 with Professor Wenzel. She led the group in a discussion of some recent work on extractivism, both her own recent article co-authored with Imre Szeman and selection from Stephanie LeMenanger's 2013 book Living Oil.

Jennifer Wenzel and Imre Szerman, "What do we talk about when we talk about extractivism?" Textual Practice 35, no. 3 (2021): 505-523.

Stephanie LeMenanger, Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century (Oxford University Press, 2013).

Ana Ozaki in Conversation at Princeton | Spatial Storytelling: Boats, Beaches, and Bairros

Spring 2023 Mellon Forum: Spatial Storytelling // April 11 with Ana Ozaki and Keisha-Khan Perry
Boats, Beaches, and Bairros

Apr 11, 2023, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Location: Princeton School of Architecture and Zoom

Event Description

Mellon Forum on the Urban Environment

Spring 2023 || Spatial Storytelling

Boats, Beaches, and Bairros with Keisha-Khan Perry, Presidential Penn Compact Associate Professor of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania and Ana Ozaki,  Princeton-Mellon Fellow in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities 

This is a hybrid event. Attend in person at the School of Architecture (lunch boxes available while supplies last), or register for the Zoom webinar: https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cr7UGrwqTXSqn5F-HiWufg

 

Black feminist scholar bell hooks (1952-2021) gave us innumerable conceptual tools to understand the complexities of race, gender, and place. Her critical essay "Homeplace: A Site of Resistance," first published in the 1990 Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural politics, illustrates how the homeplace can represent spaces of oppression as well as liberation. In this presentation, I narrate stories from coastal cities across the Americas to explore the neighborhoods where the cultural imagination and radical politics flourish even as poor and people of color experience the brutality of white supremacist violence and spatial displacement. In hooks' formulation, the oppressed make home in inhospitable places, resist the gendered racial domination of space, and demand a sense of cultural and political belonging. I tell the stories of how social movement activists fight to keep beachlands as Black homespaces, where they have forged communities and survived amidst the violence for generations. 

 

The Spring 2023 Mellon Forum on the Urban Environment is kindly sponsored by the Mellon Foundation and the Princeton University Humanities Council, Program in Latin American Studies, Center for Collaborative History, Departments of Art & Archaeology and English, HMEI, PIIRS, SPIA, and the School of Architecture.

Mellon Forum events are free and open to the public. Boxed lunches are available while supplies last.

Ana Ozaki in Conversation at Princeton | Of Milk, Blood, and Bones

Fall 2022 Mellon Forum on the Urban Environment / RACE EMPIRE ENVIRONMENT

Of Milk, Blood, and Bones: Brazil’s Colonial and Postcolonial Plantation "Big House"

with Ana Ozaki, Princeton-Mellon Fellow, and Isadora Mota, History

October 25 at 12pm EST 2022

Attend this discussion in Betts Auditorium, abiding by University event guidelines. Box lunches are provided while supplies last.

Or register in advance for this Zoom webinar:
https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iBApUPu0RxyRoQK1mTrkQg

Gilberto Freyre's influential book Casa Grande e Senzala [The Masters and the Slaves] (1933) has been an international reference in Brazil's historical racial relations. In this equally historiographical and fictional study, a benevolent rendering of the plantation's "big house" stands for Brazil, that is, as the root of its modern, exceptional, and multiculturalist society. In this view, colonial domesticity's openness to "masters" and "slaves" nurtured interracial relations, miscegenation, and transculturation. According to Freyre, spatial practices such as implanted bones and blood in building foundations and breast milk ties between white boys and their Black wet nurses embodied some of Brazil's hybridity matrices.

In this presentation, Ozaki will analyze these historiographical and spatial tropes to contend how the plantation permeated modern frameworks of territory and domesticity. She will argue that Brazil's nation-building process was contingent upon bodily accumulations to forge perceptions of racial fluidity, tropical adaptability, and alternative modernity to Europe's and the US's binary racial dynamics. 

The Mellon Forum is sponsored by the Mellon Foundation, Humanities Council, Center for Collaborative History, HMEI, PIIRS, PLAS, Department of Art + Archaeology, Department of English, and the School of Architecture.


Mignon Moore Interviewed on Forthcoming Book

Mignon Moore, member of the Insurgent Domesticities working group and Barnard’s Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Sociology, was interviewed on her forthcoming book, In the Shadow of Sexuality: Social Histories of African American Lesbian and Gay Elders, 1950-1979, which examines the lives of racialized sexual minority elders during the second Great Migration.

Insurgent Domesticities Co-Director Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi’s Book Selected for Theory in Forms Series

Congratulations are in order to Insurgent Domesticities co-director Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi for the selection of her forthcoming book, Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement (Duke University Press, 2024), for the Theory in Forms series edited by Nancy Rose Hunt, Achille Mbembe, and Todd Meyers.

Insurgent Domesticities | Concept Histories of Settlement Workshop in Switzerland

Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Hollyamber Kennedy, and S.E. Eisterer from the Insurgent Domesticities working group participated in the Concept Histories of Settlement workshop at ETH Zurich's Department of Architecture on March 10, 2023. The workshop examined how displacement and migration shaped settlement in modernity’s constructed environments in the colonized world.

Transnational Black Feminisms | Celia Naylor Publishes New Book “Remembering the Enslaved at Rose Hall Plantation, Jamaica”

Celia Naylor, Professor in the Africana Studies and History departments at Barnard College, published Remembering the Enslaved at Rose Hall Plantation, Jamaica (University of Georgia Press), which examines enslaved people’s experiences at Rose Hall. Naylor also invites readers to explore the project through the interactive website Un)Silencing Slavery.

Transnational Black Feminisms | Tami Navarro Publishes New Book “Virgin Capital”

Tami Navarro, Assistant Professor of Pan-African Studies at Drew University, published Virgin Capital: Race, Gender, and Financialization in the US Virgin Islands (SUNY Press), an ethnographic study of the exploitation of the US Virgin Islands as a tax haven and cheap labor resource

Motherhood and Technology | Rishi Goyal and Arden Hegele Publication, “Culture and Medicine: Critical Readings in the Health and Medical Humanities”

Congratulations to Rishi Goyal and Arden Hegele, Motherhood and Technology working group co-directors, on the recent publication of their new book, Culture and Medicine: Critical Readings in the Health and Medical Humanities, by Bloomsbury Press!