Afro-Nordic Feminisms Co-Directors Monica L. Miller and Nana Osei-Kofi co-authored the introduction to I Talk about It All the Time by Camara Lundestad Joof
Afro-Nordic Feminisms Co-Directors Monica L. Miller and Nana Osei-Kofi co-authored the introduction to I Talk about It All the Time by Camara Lundestad Joof, translated by Olivia Gunn, newly published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
Nana Osei-Kofi & Lena Sawyer co-authored, “Counter Archiving as a Decolonial Pedagogy of Collective Care,” published in Decolonising Social Work in Finland: Racialisation and Practices of Care
Nana Osei-Kofi and Lena Sawyer co-authored, along with Kris Clarke, “Counter Archiving as a Decolonial Pedagogy of Collective Care,” published in Decolonising Social Work in Finland: Racialisation and Practices of Care in March 2024.
Tess Skadegård Thorsen from Afro-Nordic Feminisms WG Co-Authored a Chapter in the New Book: (Farve)blinde vinkler – om racialisering, ulighed og andetgørelse i pædagogisk praksis
Tess Skadegård Thorsen also co-authored a chapter in Danish with Mira C. Skadegård in the new book (Farve)blinde vinkler – om racialisering, ulighed og andetgørelse i pædagogisk praksis. (Colour)Blind angles - on racialization, inequity, and othering in pedagogical practices. Their chapter is called Velmenende og almendannende – Diskrimination, racisme og den gode intention i gymnasieundervisning. (Well-meaning and educational - Discrimination, racism, and good intentions in high-school education.)
Jack Halberstam, Director of Past CSSD WG Queer Aquí & ISSG Faculty Director, Announced as 2024 Guggenheim Fellow
The Center for the Study of Social Difference wishes to congratulate Professor Jack Halberstam, the David Feinson Professor of the Humanities, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Director of the Institute the Study of Gender & Sexuality (ISSG), and Director of the past CSSD Working Group Queer Aquí, has been named a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow.
Read the full ISSG article here.
Mana Kia, Director of the New CSSD WG Alternative Modes of Being, Receives Award for Community Building & Engagement at Humanities Faculty Recognition Awards
The Center for the Study of Social Difference wishes to congratulate Mana Kia, Associate Professor in MESAAS and the director of the new Alternative Modes of Being project starting at CSSD this coming fall, for receiving an Award for Community Building and Engagement at the inaugural Humanities Faculty Recognition Awards.
The awards were presented on March 6, 2024, and honored faculty members in the following categories: Academic Excellence and Community Building and Engagement. Awardees were chosen by Acting Dean of Humanities Bruno Bosteels in consultation with the thirteen Humanities Chairs.
Afro-Nordic Feminisms WG Member Tess Skadegård Thorsen Joins Danish Delegation to Brussels in April
Tess Skadegård Thorsen joined a Danish delegation to Brussels in April 2024, where she met with policy-makers and legislators for discussions on gender, racism, and AI regulation. On 16 April, she also gave a guest lecture at Copenhagen University on the Acts, (arti)Facts, and Politics of Representation in Danish Film.
Extractive Media to Co-Sponsor Event with the South Asia Institute at Columbia
The Extractive Media Working Group at CSSD will be co-sponsoring Camera South Asia II alongside the South Asia Institute as they return this year to host a conversation that takes an expansive view of South Asia and its diasporic geographies. Our renowned roster artists, curators, and scholars probe the relation between aesthetics and politics, migration and memory, be it in post-1990s India or the 19th century oceanic voyages of the subcontinent’s “old diaspora.” Camera South Asia seeks to balance a focus on the contemporary with a long view of the past and to unsettle easy ascriptions of identity or authenticity, be it for individuals or for images.
CSSD Call for Applications for Two Business Office Positions: Communications Coordinator & Events Coordinator
Call for Applications
for ABD Graduate Students
The Center for the Study of Social Difference [CSSD] is looking for two ABD graduate students to join the CSSD Business Office for at least one academic year. We are searching for applicants interested in a cross-disciplinary approach to issues of social difference locally and globally. CSSD works across the University to support faculty Working Groups and social engagement projects that foster ethical and progressive social change. To learn more about CSSD, please visit our website.
Candidates can develop administration skills by working closely with the CSSD staff on Center operations and project management. They should expect to commit 10 hours per week to their roles at the Center.
ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR RESPONSIBILITIES:
Events Coordinator: Primary responsibilities include organizing Working Group requests for meetings, events, and travel
Communications Coordinator: Primary responsibilities include preparing CSSD communication for the newsletter, social media, blog, and annual report
ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR PAY:
The administrative coordinator roles offer an expected total pre-tax salary of $5K/semester (assuming 10 hours per week). It will be paid out hourly through the casual student administrative worker position, or ‘additional compensation’ if holding a Student Officer position simultaneously. The application deadline is May 3, 2024, with qualified candidates contacted or interviewed on a rolling basis. Apply early for the best opportunity for consideration. The start date is Monday, Sept. 2.
TO APPLY:
Applicants should email CSSDassistant@gmail.com the following information by May 3.
Please include CSSD Coordinator Position in the Subject line.
CV and cover letter
1-2 paragraphs describing your interest in working with CSSD, your administrative experience, and expected commitments for the September 2024 – June 2025 term
Name and contact information for three references
Seeds of Diaspora WG Director Lynnette Widder to Co-Sponsor April 10 Event, Titled "The Great Padma: The Epic River that Made the Bengal Delta"
Seeds of Diaspora WG Director Lynnette Widder will be co-sponsor an April 10 Event along with the Columbia Climate School, titled "The Great Padma: The Epic River that Made the Bengal Delta.”
Among others sponsoring and contributing to the event are CSSD fellows Anelise Chen and Ana Paulina Lee.
We hope you are able to participate in this phenomenal event.
Premilla Nadasen, Co-Director of the Transnational Black Feminisms WG, to Lead Two Events this April on Care
Premilla Nadasen, Co-Director of the Transnational Black Feminisms Working Group, the Barnard Center for Research on Women, and Ann Whitney Olin Professor of History at Barnard College, will be leading to events this April related to the theme of Care.
April 5-6, 2024: Care, Racial Capitalism, and Social Reproduction, led by Premilla Nadasen (BCRW C0-Director and Ann Whitney Olin Professor of History), brings together scholars, organizers, and artists to consider the intersections of social reproduction, racial capitalism, care, the state, and liberatory social change. Social reproduction signifies the labor necessary to maintain and reproduce human life and the labor force. It provides a lens to consider the social relations through which life is made, sustained, and might be transformed. Drawing on the long history of organizing and theorizing forged by feminist activists, low-wage women of color organizers, and scholars who have pushed us to expand our political analysis to include the dimensions of paid and unpaid domestic, emotional, and reproductive labor, this project considers the following questions: What is social reproduction and why does it matter? How does social reproduction broaden the scope of what counts as work and who counts as a worker? How does racial capitalism help us analyze and understand the value of social reproduction? How is the changing landscape of social reproduction reflective of political and economic shifts? And how is capitalism remaking itself in relation to social reproduction? Building on the work of feminist scholars and activists and the Black Radical Tradition, we also consider how social reproduction can and has been a site of organizing: What are the possibilities and limits of care for labor organizing, disability justice, and abolitionist organizing? How do we understand care in relation to social transformation and the state? Learn more about this event on the BCRW page here.
April 18, 2024: Care: the Highest Stage of Capitalism
Premilla Nadasen (Barnard College) will be joined by Dorothy Roberts (University of Pennsylvania) to discuss her new book, Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Haymarket Books, 2023), a powerful critique of capitalist care relations and the economic profit extracted from care. Care traces the rise of the care economy, from its roots in slavery, where there was no clear division between production and social reproduction, to the present care crisis, experienced acutely by more and more Americans. Today’s care economy, Nadasen shows, is an institutionalized, hierarchical system in which some people’s pain translates into other people’s profit. Yet this is also a story of resistance. Low-wage workers, immigrants, and women of color in movements from Wages for Housework and Welfare Rights to the Movement for Black Lives have continued to fight for and practice collective care. These groups help us envision how, given the challenges before us, we can create a caring world as part of a radical future. Learn more about this event on the BCRW page here.