The Menstrual Health and Gender Justice Working Group Officially Launches the Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies

Fellows of the Menstrual Health and Gender Justice working group officially launched the Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies at a virtual event on October 8th, 2020.  Lead handbook editor Chris Bobel and co-editors Breanne Fahs, Tomi-Ann Roberts, Katie-Ann Hasson, Elizabeth Arveda Kissling, and Inga Winkler, introduced the 1000+ page handbook and hosted a live Q&A session on handbook’s accessibility and potential to create change around the conversation on menstruation.

Read and download the complete open access handbook here. 

Geographies of Injustice Media Fellow Publishes Article for VICE

Jessica Jacolbe, Geographies of Injustice working group Media Fellow, penned the piece, Rio’s Favela Museum Organizes Community and Memorializes Its People” featured in VICE Magazine. Jacolbe writes about the work of memorialization done by Antonio Firmino and the Sankofa Museum in Rocinha, the largest favela in Rio de Janeiro, as COVID-19 storms through Brazil. 

To read the article, click here.

To learn more about the work of the Geographies of Injustice Working Group, read here.

NEW CSSD Podcast - Just Three

The Center for the Study of Social Difference is proud to present our new podcast, Just Three, hosted by Catherine LaSota. Hear artists, activists, scholars, and others from around the world talking about how their work intersects with social justice, and how we can confront the biggest social justice challenges of our time.

Just Three can be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Listen and subscribe!

Episodes, show notes, and transcripts can be found on the Just Three podcast page here.

Jennifer Dohrn to Speak on Upcoming Panel "Nurses on the COVID-19 Frontlines: Experiences and Lessons Learned in Wuhan, China and NYC"

Jennifer Dohrn, co-director of the On the Frontlines: Nursing Leadership in Pandemics working group, will be a panelist at the Columbia Global Centers | Bejing virtual event "Nurses on the COVID-19 Frontlines: Experiences and Lessons Learned in Wuhan, China and New York City, USA." The panel will address elements of an effective public health response, valuable lessons learned from being in the COVID-19 frontline, COVID-19 impact on nursing education, nursing training, and capacity building, and recommendations for improving nursing research.

Register for and learn more about the event here.

Fellows of the Menstrual Health and Gender Justice Working Group Author an Article on Evidence-Driven Policy and Practice for Menstrual Health

Fellows of the Menstrual Health and Gender Justice working group, Inga T. Winkler, Chris Bobel, Lauren C. Houghton, Noémie Elhadad, Caitlin Gruer & Vanessa Paranjothy co-authored an article titled, The Politics, Promises, and Perils of Data: Evidence-Driven Policy and Practice for Menstrual Health. In their paper, which takes the form of a conversation, members of the Menstrual Health and Gender Justice working group discuss the promises and perils of data about menstruation and bring their various disciplinary backgrounds to bear.

Black Atlantic Ecologies Graduate Assistant featured in Columbia News for Co-Creation of New Podcast

Alyssa James, graduate assistant of the Black Atlantic Ecologies working group, was featured in Columbia News in the Q&A, Anthropology Students’ Podcast Is a Response to Protests and the Pandemic, in which she and her co-host Brendane Tynes discuss the inspiration behind the creation of their new podcast, “Zora’s Daughters.” 

To learn more about Zora’s Daughters read here. 
To listen to the Zora’s Daughters podcast click here.
To learn more about Black Atlantic Ecologies, read here. 

Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi to Speak on Insurgent Domesticities at Cooper Union

Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Director of the new Insurgent Domesticities working group and Assistant Professor of Architecture at Barnard College, will be giving a lecture on Insurgent Domesticities at Cooper Union as a part of the Student Lecture Series. This online event will take place Thursday, November 5, 2020 from 6:30-8:30PM ET. Register in advance here.

Update
Watch the full lecture here.

Engendering the Archive Fellow Has Won the British Academy’s Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize

Hazel Carby, Engendering the Archive and Women Mobilizing Memory working group fellow, has won the 2020 British Academy’s Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for for Global Cultural Understanding. This prize is awarded to works of non-fiction which contribute towards the cultural understanding of connections and divisions which shape identities across the world. Professor Carby’s book Imperial Intimacies: A Tale Of Two Islands (Verso Books, 2019) tells the story of her family in the context of British Empire.

To learn more about Professor Carby’s award click here.