Read Now! New Blog Post on the Prison Education & Social Justice Working Group: "Tranforming Prison Education from the Inside"
Click this link to read the latest blog post on the Prison Education and Social Justice Working Group, titled “Transforming Prison Education from the Inside: How a Columbia Initiative is Impacting Change.”
Videos from the the 49th Scholar and Feminist Conference: Anti-Colonialism, Black Radicalism, and Transnational Feminism
On March 22-23, the Transnational Black Feminisms Working Group at CSSD and the Barnard Center for Research on Women co-sponsored the 49th Scholar and Feminist Conference: Anti-Colonialism, Black Radicalism, and Transnational Feminism.
Take some time to watch the videos below.
Many thanks to everyone who joined us, from panelists to audience members, and thanks to everyone involved in organizing and co-sponsoring a truly transformative conference.
Marxism and Transnational Black Feminist Liberation with Charisse Burden-Stelly, Dayo Gore, and Robyn Spencer-Antoine, moderated by Premilla Nadasen
Black Women and Anti-Colonialism, 1940s-1980s with Lynette Jackson, Laurie Lambert, and Paula Marie Seniors, moderated by Imaobong Umoren
The Colonial Legacy, Gender, and Economic Empowerment with Yolande Bouka, Jennifer Fish, Natasha Lightfoot, and Keisha-Khan Perry, moderated by Tami Navarro
Intellectual and Activist Interventions in Contemporary Movements, with Layla Brown, Zifeng Liu, and Gabriella Muasya, moderated by Tami Navarro
Lilian Chee from the Insurgent Domesticities WG Contributes to New Book, Architectures of Care (Routledge, 2023)
Insurgent Domesticities Working Group Member Lilian Chee has contributed a chapter, titled “Titled “Domesticity and the Architecture Film: Caring-With Architecture,” to the recently released book: Architectures of Care: From the Intimate to the Common (Routledge, 2023).
To read more about the book launch for this work, as well as its related text, Architecture from Public to Commons (Routledge, 2023), follow this link.
Read Now! New Blog Post, titled "Extraction, Waste, and Security," following Extractive Media's Event on March 4
Click here to access Extractive Media’s latest blog post follow their March 4 seminar with scholars Eleanor Johnson and Jonah Rowen.
Plate 1, “The Colonial House,” from Carl Bernhard Wadström, An Essay on Colonization (1794).
For information on the past event itself, you can access the original event page here.
2024 Call for Proposals Deadline Approaching: Friday, March 8, at 9 AM
This is a kind reminder that the Center for the Study of Social Difference’s deadline for accepting project proposal submissions is this Friday, March 8, at 9 AM.
We look forward to receiving your submissions.
A Range of Columbia Courses Being Taught by Participants in the Prison Education Working Group
Participants in the Prison Education and Social Justice Curricula Working Group have been teaching a range of Columbia courses in prisons.
Professor Jennifer Middleton, supported by Nick Ide, taught “Earth: Origin, Evolution, Processes, Future” at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in the fall semester.
Professor Alisa Solomon is teaching “Journalism & Public Life” at Sing Sing this spring.
Professor Samuel Kelton Roberts is teaching “Histories of Public Health in Communities of Color: The Built Environment in the 20th Century United States” at Taconic Correctional Facility spring.
And Professor Julie Crawford is teaching “Paradise Lost, Frankenstein, Paradise” at Taconic this spring.
Recovery WG Member Nadja Eisenberg-Guyot Publishes New Piece in City and Society
CSSD wishes to congratulate Recovery Working Group member Nadja Eisenberg Guyot who has recently published a piece in City & Society, the journal of the Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology.
The piece is titled "On how to live while being thrown away: Black people who use drugs and the politics of anti-disposability, North Philadelphia, circa 2007 to 2010."
The Prison Education Working Group Will Hold an Information Panel on March 4 for GSAS Students
The Prison Education and Social Justice Working Group will hold an informational panel on March 4th at The Heyman Center, introducing graduate students from across Arts & Sciences to the range of paid opportunities to teach in prison contexts and support justice-impacted students through Columbia’s Justice-in-Education (JIE) Initiative.
When: Monday, March 4, 2024
12:30-1:45 PM
Where: The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room
Visit the event page on our website for more information and to RSVP through the CU Center for Justice
An Update on the Tremendous Work of Motherhood & Tech WG Member George Estreich
Motherhood and Technology Working group member George Estreich, who recently became the Nonfiction Editor at literary magazine AGNI, published “Tlön, Uqbar, ChatGPT” in The Journal of Philosophy and Disability, Vol. 3, 2023.
His essay "Concision: A Sprawl," originally published in AGNI, was chosen by Vivian Gornick for The Best American Essays 2023.
In February, he was part of a panel at the Associated Writing Programs conference in Kansas City: "Writing and Intellectual Disability: An Inclusive Panel." This panel included both published writers and people with Down syndrome, including his daughter Laura.
Refugee Cities WG Member Kian Tajbakhsh Publishes Piece in The Atlantic: "Iran Is Not a 'Normal' Country"
Refugee Cities Working Group member and author of Creating Local Democracy in Iran: State Building and the Politics of Decentralization (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2022), Kian Tajbakhsh recently publish an article in The Atlantic, titled “Iran Is Not a ‘Normal’ Country.” You can find the article here.