Refugee Cities Member Organized Nov. Conference Aimed at Reframing Migrant "Crisis" in NYC
Refugee Cities working group member Hiba Bou Akar organized a conference, alongside Hugo Sarmiento, titled “The Migrant ‘Crisis’ in NYC: Immigration, Asylum, and The Right to the City.” Hosted by GSAPP, the conference was split into two panels: “Urban History of Immigrant ‘Crises’ in NYC,” “Formal and Informal Systems of Support and Care,” and “Housing Question and the Right to Shelter.”
For more on this conference, read the full Columbia Spectator story here.
Insurgent Domesticities Member Hollyamber Kennedy To Be Published in The Journal of Architecture
Insurgent Domesticities working group member Hollyamber Kennedy has a new article coming out in the Winter/Spring 2024 “Territories of Incarceration” special issue of The Journal of Architecture, titled “Wastelands of Empire and ‘Sites of Salvation’: Landscapes of ‘Reform’ in 19th Century Germany.”
More information will be shared when available.
Professor Jack Halberstam to Deliver Public Lectures in Sydney, Australia
Former co-director of the Queer Aquí working group and David Feinson Professor of the Humanities, Jack Halberstam, will be delivering a public lecture as part of the Queer PowerPoint series, held in Sydney, Australia, on December 15, 2023. In anticipation of the forthcoming work entitled The Wild Beyond: Music, Architecture and Anarchy, this lecture will examine the particularities of what Professor Halberstam means by “wildness” as a space of possibility for breaking from binaries such as gender, sexuality and so on. Tickets are still on sale for this wonderful event here.
The event is hosted by the Power Institute at the University of Sydney.
Already sold out is Professor Halberstam’s talk on Thrusday, December 14, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia titled “All Fall Down: Post-Industrial Demolition Projects and the Aesthetic of Collapse.”
CSSD Members Participated in Faculty Roundtable "On Feminism and Palestine" on Dec. 4
CSSD Interim Director Lila Abu-Lughod, Transnational Black Feminisms co-director Premilla Nadasen, Insurgent Domesticities co-director Neferti X. M. Tadiar, and former Queer Aquí director Jack Halberstam — among others — participated in a faculty roundtable discussion titled “On Feminism and Palestine” this past Monday.
This event was co-sponsored and co-presented by Columbia University's Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender, Institute for Research in African-American Studies, Center for Palestine Studies, Center for the Study of Ethnicity & Race, and the Barnard Center for Research on Women.
Iulia Stătică Publishes New Text in Routledge Architext Series: Urban Phantasmagorias: Domesticity, Production and the Politics of Modernity in Communist Bucharest (Routledge, 2023)
Iulia Stătică, member of the Insurgent Domesticities Working Group, has recently published Urban Phantasmagorias: Domesticity, Production and the Politics of Modernity in Communist Bucharest (Routledge, 2023), as a part of Routledge’s Architext series.
From Routledge: “Urban Phantasmagorias examines the legacies of socialist housing in the city of Bucharest during the period of communist rule in Romania. The book explores the manner in which the socialist state reconfigured the city through concrete acts of demolition and construction, as well as indirectly through legal frameworks aimed at the regulation of women’s reproductive agency, in an attempt to materialize its idea of modernity. It follows the effects of this state agenda with a focus on the period between 1965 and 1989 through an investigation of the transformations, representations, meanings, and uses of domestic spaces.”
Afro-Nordic Feminisms WG Members to be in Conversation at UC Berkeley's Nordic Center
On December 6, two members of the Afro-Nordic Feminisms Working Group, Elizabeth Löwe Hunter and Jasmine Kelekay, will be in conversation at the Nordic Center at UC Berkeley. Part of the Nordic Talks podcast, the conversation will be available after the event: The Myth of the Nordic Utopia - Social Democracy Through Afro-Nordic Perspectives.
CSSD Interim Director Lila Abu-Lughod receives the 2023 Career Award from the Association for Feminist Anthropology
CSSD Interim Director Lila Abu-Lughod received the 2023 Career Award from the Association for Feminist Anthropology on November 18, 2023, at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association held in Toronto, Canada.
Afro-Nordic Feminisms WG Member Temi Odumuso Participated in Weekend of Archival Happenings at SouthNord Artfest
In late November, Afro-Nordic Feminisms Working Group member Temi Odumuso participated in a weekend of archival happenings at the SouthNord Artfest at Kulturhuset in Stockholm, Sweden. She was part of a mini-seminar in collaboration with the Ethnographic Museum on the history of black people in the Nordics.
Seeds of Diaspora Co-Director Lynnette Widder Awarded a 2023 Architecture + Design Independent Projects Grant
CSSD wishes to congratulate Seeds of Diaspora co-director Lynnette Widder for being awarded a 2023 Architecture + Design Independent Projects grant for her project, "Rogue Plants, Native Soils: Histories of Destruction and its Opposites."
For more information on both the project and the grant itself, follow this link.