Jean Howard and Ana Paulina Lee to be Featured on Panel “A Celebration of Soft Power”
The discussion will revolve around American democracy, race, performance, and US-China relations.
CSSD Executive Committee member and former Women Mobilizing Memory co-director, Jean Howard, and co-director of the Geographies of Injustice working group, Ana Paulina Lee will be featured on the upcoming panel “A Celebration of Soft Power.” Fellow panelists will include David Henry Hwang and Denise Cruz and will address American democracy, race, performance, and US-China relations, and will be followed by an audience Q&A. The event will take place on December 3rd from 4 pm to 6 pm in Kent Hall and is free of charge.
To read more about the event, click here.
Marighella Film Screening Followed by Director Q&A
Ana Paulina Lee to discuss Brazil’s current political climate.
Join co-director of the CSSD working group Geographies of Injustice, Ana Paulina Lee, and the director of Marighella, Wagner Moura, in a discussion on censorship, race, and the current political climate in Brazil. The film is a “searing and energized portrait of one of Brazil’s most divisive historical figures, Afro-brazilian poet and politician Carlos Marighella,” and is currently banned in Brazil. Tickets are $15. The film screening will take place on Saturday, December 7th at 8:00 pm in the Teacher’s College Chapel.
To learn more about the film and ticket purchase, click here.
Ana Paulina Lee Designated Antonio Candido Prize Winner for Best Book in the Humanities
The Antonio Candido Prize is awarded annually by the Latin American Studies Association.
Ana Paulina Lee, co-director of CSSD working group Geographies of Injustice, was recognized by the Brazil Section at the Latin American Studies Association with the Antonio Candido Prize for Best Book in the Humanities for her recent book Mandarin Brazil: Race, Representation, and Memory.
To read more about the Latin American Studies Association’s Awards, click here.
For more information on Lee’s book, click here.
Unpayable Debt’s “Valor y Cambio” Project Wins NALIP Media Trailblazer Award
Frances Negrón-Muntaner will be receiving this award in early December.
CSSD Executive Committee member and former Unpayable Debt working group co-director Frances Negrón-Muntaner received the National Association of Latino Independent Producers Media Trailblazer Award for her “Valor y Cambio” project. She will receive this award at NALIP’s Diverse Women in Media Forum 2019 on December 5.
Read more about “Valor y Cambio” at their official website here.
Vicky Murillo Featured in the New York Times
The article is entitled “In Argentina Elections, Leftists Savor Victory over Incumbent.”
Vicky Murillo, co-director of the Environmental Justice, Belief Systems, and Aesthetic Experiences in Latin America and the Carribean working group and Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Columbia University, was featured in a New York Times article analyzing the results of Argentina’s recent elections. In it, she shared her thoughts regarding the political calculations of former Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who recently ran for office as vice-president with Alberto Fernández at the top of the ticket.
Read the full article here.
Laura Charney Reports on Menstrual Health and Gender Justice Film Screening
The screening of Period: End of Sentence took place on September 26.
The Menstrual Health and Gender Justice Working Group hosted a film screening and critical panel on the Oscar-winning documentary, Period: End of Sentence. Grad fellow for the working group, Laura Charney, discusses the analysis and criticism of the ideas established in the film by the panelists and attendees in her latest blog post for RightsViews.
Charney writes, “Menstrual health research is often obstructed in shoddy statistics, lack of thorough qualitative data, and approaches to international development that favour implementing behavioural changes based on generalized surveys… They critiqued Period: End of Sentence on the basis of its reliance on unreliable research, perpetuation of harmful stereotypes, and iteration of a global north saviour complex.”
Read the full blog post here.
WCCLC Welcomes Jewelle Bickford
Women Creating Change Leadership Council (WCCLC) welcomes its newest member, Jewelle Bickford.
Women Creating Change Leadership Council (WCCLC) welcomes its newest member, Jewelle Bickford, Partner and Wealth and Fiduciary Advisor at Evercore Wealth Management. In addition to joining WCCLC, she is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the founder of Women and Foreign Policy, the Council's task force on the role of women in economic and political development in the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
To learn more about WCCLC and its members, visit here.
Paige West Leads Essay Series Ruminating the Future of Anthropology
The essay series is entitled "From Reciprocity to Relationality: Anthropological Possibilities."
Paige West, CSSD Director and former co-director of the Pacific Climate Circuits and Reframing Gendered Violence working groups, led the publication of an essay series that brought together sixteen anthropologists to discuss the possible futures of the field of anthropology. Published on the Society for Cultural Anthropology, the essay series focused on analyzing the power dynamics of racism, elitism, sexism, and violence within the field historically and continuing into the present.
Read more about the essay series here, and her introduction here.
Anupama Rao Participates in the Columbia University Seminar on South Asia
The lecture, entitled “Marx in Maharashta? The Memoir of Dalit Communist,” took place on November 18.
This past week Geographies of Injustice working group co-director, Anupama Rao, delivered a lecture titled "Marx in Maharashta? The Memoir of Dalit Communist" as a part of the Columbia University Seminar on South Asia. Her talk focused on her soon to be published translation of the autobiography/biography of R.B. More (1903-1972), a Dalit trade unionist, labor organizer, and Ambedkarite.
Read more about her recent lecture here.
Paige West Delivers the Annual Contested Development Lecture at King's College London
The lecture, entitled “Commoning and Decannonizing Political Ecology: An Example from Melanesia and New York City,” took place on October 30th.
Last month, CSSD Director and former co-director of the Pacific Climate Circuits working group, Paige West delivered the annual Contested Development Lecture at King's College London as a part of their Human Geography Seminars. West’s talk, “Commoning and Decannonizing Political Ecology: An Example from Melanesia and New York City,” addresses the necessary transformations the field of Political Ecology must undergo to meet the demands of a changing world through the lens of a decade long collaborative project located in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.
Read more about her recent lecture here.
To learn more about Paige West’s work in Papua New Guinea, read about the June 2019 Voices on the Ground: Human Rights Defenders Workshop here.
Lila Abu-Lughod Gives B.N. Ganguli Memorial Lecture
The lecture, entitled “Gender, Violence, Security,” took place on November 1.
This past week Lila Abu-Lughod delivered the twenty-first B.N. Ganguli Memorial Lecture, a series instituted in memory of economist Professor B.N. Ganguli. The lecture, entitled “Gender, Violence, Security,” took place at the Center for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi.
Lila Abu-Lughod is co-director of Religion and the Global Reframing of Gender Violence, and of Reframing Gendered Violence. She is also a member of CSSD’s current Executive Committee.
Read more about her recent lecture here.
Macarena Gómez-Barris Featured on Democracy Now
The Queer Theory co-director discusses the recent protests in Chile.
Macarena Gómez-Barris, co-director of the Queer Theory working group, founder and director of the Global South Center, and chairperson of Social Science and Cultural Studies at the Pratt Institute, appeared twice on Democracy Now on October 28 to discuss the recent protests in Chile.
Over a million Chileans have taken to the streets to demonstrate against social inequality, the increasingly high cost of living, and continued privatization. The protests, which started October 19, are the largest in the country since the fall of its military dictatorship in 1990.
Watch the first video here, and the second here.
Street Named After Madam C. J. Walker and A’Lelia Walker in Harlem
WCCLC member A’Lelia Bundles is the biographer of the two civil rights champions.
This summer, 136th Street in Harlem was unveiled as Madam C.J. Walker and A’Lelia Walker Way. The two Walkers are the great-(great-)grandmothers of A’Lelia Bundles, their biographer, who is also a member of the Women Creating Change Leadership Council, as well as a Columbia University Trustee.
Bundles has released a book on Madam C.J. Walker under the title On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker. C.J. Walker was a self-made millionaire who developed hair products specifically for black hair. Bundles is currently working on a book of Walker’s daughter, A’Lelia Walker, who was an activist during the Harlem Renaissance.
On Twitter, Bundles writes, “It still is sinking in that thousands will pass this Harlem street sign each year. If even just a few are curious enough to google @MadamCJWalker & A'Lelia Walker aka @JoyGoddessHarlm our work will be worth it.”
Read an interview with Bundles on the occasion of the street unveiling here.
A’Lelia Bundles Featured in Essence Magazine
The WCCLC member is releasing a haircare line with Sephora to celebrate the trailblazing work of her great-great-grandmother Madam C.J. Walker.
A’Lelia Bundles, part of the Women Creating Change Leadership Council, is featured in Essence discussing the work of her great-grandmother, an activist, and great-great-grandmother, a self-made millionaire who developed hair products specifically for Black hair. In collaboration with Bundles, Sephora is now releasing its new Madam C.J. Walker line.
Last year, Bundles participated in the WCCLC fifth-year anniversary celebration. She is currently working on her fifth book, a biography of her great-grandmother entitled The Joy Goddess of Harlem: A'Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance. She has also written On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker, on her great-great-grandmother, A’Lelia Walker’s mother C.J. Walker.
Read the full Essence interview with A’Lelia Bundles on “the Walker legacy of sisterhood and philanthropy, and its current impact on the natural hair movement taking place today.”
Janice Ellig and Melissa Fisher Speak on ‘Corporate Feminisms’ Panel
The event, which took place in the spring semester, was organized by Women Creating Change.
A round table entitled Corporate Feminisms and Its Discontents took place on March 13, 2019 to discuss the persistent gender and racial disparities in the higher echelons of the corporate sector despite significant gains in recent years. Two members of the Women Creating Change Leadership Council participated in the event: Janice Ellig and Melissa Fisher.
Read more about the event on the CSSD blog here.
Watch the Video for the ‘#MeToo: One Year After Christine Blasey Ford’ Panel
The event, organized by Women Creating Change, was moderated by WCCLC member Davia Temin.
On October 9, Women Creating Change, along with CSSD, hosted an event entitled #MeToo: One Year After Christine Blasey Ford—the almost two-hour-long panel discussion is now available for viewing on YouTube.
The event was moderated by Women Creating Change Leadership Council member Davia Temin. It featured multiple contributors to the recent volume Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement, as well as Columbia Law Professor Olatunde Johnson.
Marianne Hirsch and Ayşe Gül Altınay Discuss Women Mobilizing Memory Book Launch
Marianne Hirsch and Ayşe Gül Altınay present Women Mobilizing Memory working group’s eponymous book, Women Mobilizing Memory: Stories of Feminist Co-Resistance at the 2019 Mnemonics Summer School.
Marianne Hirsch (professor of English, comparative literature, and gender studies at Columbia University) and Ayşe Gül Altınay (professor of cultural anthropology and director of the Gender and Women’s Studies Center of Excellence at Sabancı University) discussed the working group, Women Mobilizing Memory, eponymous book, Women Mobilizing Memory: Stories of Feminist Co-Resistance, at the 2019 Mnemonics Summer School Lecture Series, Memory and Activism. To see their full presentation, check out this video.