Co-director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity interviewed by US News
Executive Committee member Karl Jacoby spoke about the legal battle between the Apache Tribal members and US Forest Service.
Historian Karl Jacoby, co-director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and member of the CSSD Executive Committee, was interviewed in US News about a legal challenge brought by Apache tribal members against the US Forest Service to prevent a parcel of land from becoming a copper mine. Professor Jacoby also wrote in Public Books on the United States' 19th-century frontier wars and more recent imperialist conflicts.
Anupama Rao will be moderating a discussion on the Dalit Panthers and Literary Insurgence
This talk is a part of the Understanding Systemic Racism: Art and Politics series hosted by the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University.
Anupama Rao, co-director of the Geographies of Injustice working group, will be moderating a discussion on The Dalit Panthers and Literary Insurgence as part of the “Understanding Systemic Racism: Art and Politics” series hosted by the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society. Featured guest speakers include Suraj Yengde (Harvard University) and Yogesh Maitreya (Panther’s Paw Publication).
To learn more about Professor Anupama Rao’s work at CSSD visit the Gender & the Global Slum and Reframing Gendered Violence working group pages.
Queer Aqui Working group fellow featured in the Hawai’i Contemporary Art Summit
Elizabeth Povinelli and the Karrabing Film Collective screened a visual essay for the conference
Anthropologist Elizabeth Povinelli, Queer Aqui, Liberalism's Others, and Borders and Boundaries working group fellow and collaborators the Karrabing Film Collective were among the featured artists who participated in the 2021 Hawai'i Contemporary Art Summit. The program explored the theme for Hawai‘i Triennial 2022, Pacific Century – E Ho‘omau no Moananuiākea. On February 11th, Professor Povinelli and the Karrabing Film collective shared a visual essay on toxic sovereignties, reclamation, and the stakes of staying connected to ancestral places, titled: The Jealous One (2017).
Farah Jasmine Griffin to Deliver Virtual Lecture at Hollins University
The co-director of the Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women working group will discuss the singer and activist Billie Holiday
Farah Jasmine Griffin, co-director of the Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women working group, will deliver the virtual lecture "Returning to Lady: A Reflection 'In Search of Billie Holiday,'" as part of the Hollins University Dee Hull Everist Visiting Speaker Series. This online event will take place Thursday, February 25th at 7:30 PM.
To connect to the event you must reach out by 3:00 pm EST the day of the event, email the event name, your name, phone number, and, if different, the name on your Zoom account to creative.writing@hollins.edu.
Engendering the Archive Working Group Fellow was a guest on The Dean's Table
Mabel O. Wilson spoke with Fredrick Harris, Columbia University Dean of the Division of Social Science.
Mabel O. Wilson, Engendering the Archive Working and Reframing Gendered Violence working group fellow, spoke with Columbia University Dean of Social Science Fredrick Harris on his podcast, The Dean's Table. Professor Wilson spoke about how she decided on becoming an architect, reflected on her work which explores the history of Black exhibitions and museums, and shared insights into scholarship and practices of race, space, and culture.
Mabel O. Wilson interviewed by Washington Post
Engendering the Archive Working Group Fellow spoke to the Post about the Capitol riots and racial injustice in the police responses to protesting.
Mabel O. Wilson, Engendering the Archive Working and Reframing Gendered Violence working group fellow was interviewed by The Washington Post. She spoke about the racial injustice of rioters attacking the US Capitol without consequence, while Black Americans peacefully protesting police violence have been regularly met with outsized force.
Maya Sabatello featured in the Research Ethics & Compliance – Film Discussions series
The Director of the Precision Medicine Working Group will be discussing the science fiction film “Gattaca, on March 8th from 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm.
Maya Sabatello, Director of the Precision Medicine Working Group, will be featured in the Research Ethics & Compliance – Film Discussions series. Professor Sabatello, Arthur Caplan, and moderator Shawna Benston will be discussing “Gattaca,” a science fiction film concerning genetics, eugenics, reproductive technologies, and genetic discrimination. This event is co-sponsored by The Precision Medicine: Ethics, Politics, and Culture Project. This event will be held online via Zoom. Register here.
Queer Aqui Co-Director Authors New Book
Jack Halberstam’s Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire (2020) is published by Duke University Press.
Jack Halberstam, co-director of the Queer Aqui working group, recently published the new book Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire (2020). In the book, Professor Halberstam offers an alternative history of sexuality by tracing the ways in which wildness has been associated with queerness and queer bodies throughout the twentieth century.
CSSD Media Fellow Awarded Open City Fellowship by The Asian American Writers' Workshop (AAWW)
As an AAWW fellow Jessica Jacolbe will report on Asian diasporic and Muslim communities in New York City.
Geographies of Injustice Media Fellow, Jessica Jacolbe has been named a 2021 Open City Fellow by The Asian American Writers’ Workshop. During her nine month fellowship Jessica will be reporting on Asian diasporic and Muslim communities in New York City, specifically writing arts and culture stories and reporting on the Flushing and Woodside neighborhoods in Queens.
For a full list of AAWW 2021 Margins and Open City Fellows click here.