Menstrual Health and Gender Justice working group launches new blog, Periodsatcolumbia.com
The Center for the Study of Social Difference (CSSD) working group Menstrual Health and Gender Justice launches a new blog.
CSSD working group Menstrual Health and Gender Justice launches a new blog.
The site will feature news, events, research, publications, and reflections by working group members and others in the field of menstrual health and gender justice.
The Menstrual Health and Gender Justice working group seeks to further the nascent field of menstrual studies. The working group puts particular emphasis on critically evaluating the current state of research, advocacy and programming, with interest in examining whose voices are being represented in the field, which actors shape the dominant narrative, whose voices are marginalized, what the gaps are, and how interdisciplinary collaboration might help remedy some of these gaps.
Click here to access the blog.
Pedagogies of Dignity Working Group Hosts Workshop at Lenfest
On September 30th the CSSD working group Pedagogies of Dignity held a workshop bringing together formerly incarcerated students, educators, and activists to discuss prison education.
On September 30, 2018 the CSSD working group Pedagogies of Dignity supported a workshop at Columbia’s Lenfest Center for the Arts, the second such workshop of the Center for New Narratives in Philosophy. The workshop brought together formerly incarcerated students, academics, prison educators, and activists to discuss the benefits of prison education as well as challenges associated with it. The event was hosted by Christia Mercer, Gustave M. Berner Professor of philosophy at Columbia University and Project Director of the working group.
The Pedagogies of Dignity working group has been working with educational staff at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) to organize a series of mini-courses available to men of the MDC. These courses have been attended by over 140 men since February. A full recap of the September 30th workshop can be read here on the CSSD blog.
Professor Lydia Liu Writes Review in Artform
Co-director of working group Bandung Humanisms, Lydia Liu, discusses contemporary Chinese artist Xu Bing’s exhibition “Thought and Method”
Wun Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities, and co-director of the CSSD Bandung Humanisms working group, Lydia Liu describes artist Xu Bing’s Beijing retrospective multimedia exhibition as both “transformative” and “executed with disciplined craftsmanship”. She goes on to write that, “The tension between sensory stimulation and intellectual rigor is one of the works' strongest animating forces, leading to a sequence of revelations about the place of 'truth' in moments of suspended sensory certainties."
Professor Liu’s review can be found here.
More on “Xu Bing: Thought and Method” can be read here.
Student Reflects on Max Haiven’s New Book and the Updated Caribbean Syllabus
Columbia College student Arianna Scott reflects on a recent event held by CSSD working group Unpayable Debt.
On October 10th the CSSD working group, Unpayable Debt, held an event to launch Max Haiven’s new book, Art After Money, Money After Art, as well as the second edition of the Caribbean Debt Syllabus.
Following the event, Columbia College student Arianna Faria Scott wrote a reflection in which she shares the impression made on her by Haiven’s ideas. In addition, she shares her perspective on debt in the Caribbean drawing on her experience in Guyana growing up in a family descended from indentured laborers. Her full reflection can be read here on the CSSD blog.