The Institute of Fine Art to Host Discussion on Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi's Architecture of Migration
Slated to continue an exciting book tour following her upcoming February 6 event at the Heyman Center, Insurgent Domesticities co-director Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi will be hosted the following week for a discussion of her latest work, Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camp and Humanitarian Settlement (Duke University Press, 2023), at yet another renowned institution.
The discussion will be conducted with Professor Prita Meier, associate professor of African art and architectural history at the Institute of Fine Arts and Department of Art History.
When: 6 PM on Tuesday, February 13
Where: James B. Duke House
Forthcoming Memoir by Motherhood & Technology Working Group Fellow Emily Bloom
Warm congratulations to Emily Bloom, a Motherhood and Technology Working Group member and Mellon Public Humanities Fellow at Sarah Lawrence University, for her forthcoming book, I Cannot Control Everything Forever: A Memoir of Motherhood, Science, and Art (St. Martin’s Press, 2024).
Fellow Working Group member Rachel Adams has praised the memoir, saying: “A big-hearted, wise, and beautifully written account of longing for and diving into motherhood, of parenting a child with unexpected challenges, and the technologies that sustain and complicate our lives. I wanted to read on to know what happened next and I did not want it to end.”
The Extractive Media WG Releases its Spring 2024 Events Lists
The Extractive Media Working Group has released its Spring 2024 Events Flyer listing its upcoming programming for the semester.
Follow this link to see upcoming events at CSSD.
SOF/Heyman Center to Host Discussion on Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi's New Book: Architecture of Migration (2023)
The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities will be hosting a discussion of Professor Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi’s new book, Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement (2023). Professor Siddiqi is the co-director of the Insurgent Domesticities Working Group at the Center for the Study of Social Difference and Assistant Professor of Architecture at Barnard College, Columbia University.
Fellow CSSD members and Columbia faculty, Hiba Bou Akar, Anupama Rao, and Miriam Ticktin, will participate as respondents. The event will be followed by a reception.
When: Tuesday, February 6, at 6:15pm.
Where: The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room, Columbia University.
For information and to RSVP, please visit this page.
Zip Code Memory Project Website to be Hosted by SOF/Heyman Center
The Zip Code Memory Project, a Social Engagement project at CSSD, now has a host for its completed website (found here) through The Society of Fellows & Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University.
The project will also be archived in perpetuity through NYU Special Collections.
Follow this link to read more on this announcement as well as the official release from the project itself.
Recovery WG Update: Workshopping the Work of Nadja Eisenberg-Guyot & Chloé Salama Faux
The Recovery Working Group has recently workshopped Nadja Eisenberg-Guyot’s Verso book proposal as well as a chapter of Chloé Salama Faux’s dissertation, titled “African Renaissance as Primal Scene: Fantasies of Death and Rebirth after Apartheid.”
Tami Navarro, Co-Director of Transnational Black Feminisms, to Speak on Panel at the Duke Centennial
Transnational Black Feminisms Working Group Member Tami Navarro will join fellow speakers in participating in “Sitting at the Kitchen Table Again: A Decade After Fieldnotes from Women of Color in Anthropology,” a panel in the Duke Centennial on February 19, 2024.
More information about the event is forthcoming.
An Update on the Wonderful Work of Faith Adiele from the Afro-Nordic Feminisms WG
Afro-Nordic Feminisms Working Group member Faith Adiele’s experimental essay on her parents' courtship will appear in a special issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review: African Writing: A Partial Cartography of Provocations, edited by Chris Abani.
In November, she presented on decolonial travel at the British Virgin Island Literary Fest with members of the Virgin Islands Studies Collective (Road Town, BVI). In early December, she hosted the 2nd Annual African Literary Award at the Museum of the African Diaspora (San Francisco, USA); she also received a San Francisco Press Club Award for her entertainment review “A Light in the Window of the World: Protest Art and Black Liberation” in Smithsonian Folklife. Read more about the award here.
In addition, two writing projects launched in December: Life in the Temporary, a bilingual Arabic-English anthology published by the Olive Writers Association based in Casablanca, Morocco that she co-edited; and, the latest issue of Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature (London, UK) where she edits the Decolonising Travel section and also has an essay included about getting braids in Morocco and Nigeria.
Seeds of Diaspora WG to Host Film Screening of Naeem Mohaiemen's "Jole Dobe Na" in February
The Seeds of Diaspora Working Group is excited to announce that their February meeting, a screening of Working Group member Naeem Mohaiemen's film Jole Dobe Na, is open to attendance by all CSSD affiliates!
The screening is scheduled to take place on Friday 2/23, from 3.30 - 6 pm, in the Lifetime Screening Room (5th floor, Dodge Hall). Naeem will be in attendance for a discussion of the film after the screening, which will focus on its portrayal of plant life and feeling.
A description of the film is below:
Jole Dobe Na (Those Who Do Not Drown), 64 min, 2020
In an empty hospital in Kolkata, a man confronts protocols of blood samples, a subtly discriminatory office, regulations against bribery, and an abandoned operating theater. There are no doctors, signs of life, or residue of death. His mind is on a loop of the last weeks of his wife’s life, when a quiet argument developed between them. When is the end of medical care, whose life is it anyway? If what use is a science that can detect plant emotions, invent fingerprint technology, but fail to give dignity to the end of life.
Congratulations to Recent PhD Graduates Elizabeth Löwe Hunter & Oda-Kange Midtvåge-Diallo
CSSD is thrilled to announce that Afro-Nordic Feminisms Working Group members Elizabeth Löwe Hunter and Oda-Kange Midtvåge-Diallo recently completed their PhDs at the University of California, Berkeley, Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, and the Norwegian Technical University, Department of Comparative Cultural Studies, respectively.
Midtvåge-Diallo’s dissertation, “Joining in Black Study: Knowledge Creation and Black Feminist Critique Alongside African Norwegian Youth” is now publicly available.
Afro-Nordic Feminisms WG Member Jasmine Kelekay to Join Howard University's Department of Sociology and Criminology in Fall 2024
CSSD wishes to congratulate Afro-Nordic Feminisms Working Group member Jasmine Kelekay, who will be joining Howard University’s Department of Sociology and Criminology as an Assistant Professor in the fall of 2024.