Elizabeth Bernstein Wins Prestigious Presidential Research Award | Recovery
Congratulations to Recovery working group co-director Elizabeth Bernstein for receiving the Barnard College’s Presidential Research Award for her project “Imagining Immunity: Politics, Precarity, and the Governance of Dis-ease.”
CSSD Co-Director Ana Paulina Lee in "Literature Around the World" 2022 in Paris
Geographies of Injustice Co-Director Ana Paulina Lee and Xiaolu Guo read poems they have written on the theme of dust, accompanied by the double-bassist Marc Marder. Together, they improvised a performance between words and music, live from Reid Hall, in Montparnasse.
To see more about the event see more here [External link Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination]
Sonia Tolani Attends Sports Cardiology Summit | Women’s Heart Disease
Sonia Tolani MD attended Sports Cardiology Summit on December 9 2022 held in a basketball court.
Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University Ed Cohen discussed his new book with the Recovery working group in November 2022
On November 9th, 2022, the Recovery working group hosted Ed Cohen, Professor, Womens and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, as a guest for an event open to external attendees to discuss his new book On Learning to Heal, or What Medicine Doesn’t Know. See more and purchase the book here.
Co-Director Elizabeth Bernstein publishes edited volume "Paradoxes of Neoliberalism" (2021)
Co-Director of the Recovery working group Elizabeth Bernstein publishes edited volume "Paradoxes of Neoliberalism: Sex, Gender, and Possibilities for Justice” (2021). To learn more about the publication and to purchase a copy see here. [link to external link, Routledge].
Call for Papers/ Participants Refugee CitiesSymposium on the Urban Dimensions of Forced Displacement [deadline extended]
Call for Papers/ Participants
Refugee Cities
Symposium on the Urban Dimensions of Forced Displacement
Columbia University, New York, NY
April 27-28, 2023
The Refugee Cities Working Group at the Center for the Study of Social Difference, Columbia
University, welcomes proposals for presentations at our forthcoming, interdisciplinary public
symposium, “Refugee Cities: Urban Dimensions of Forced Displacement.”
The Refugee Cities Working Group’s concerns lie at the intersection of urban studies on the one
hand and, on the other, the humanistic and social justice-oriented study of the mass movement
of people fleeing violence, war and forced removal. This symposium will focus on the impact
of refugees on cities and urban processes, both in the present moment and as a historical
phenomenon. We welcome proposals from public intellectuals, artists and activists as well as
PhD candidates and faculty members at all stages in their career and from any discipline,
examining any place and time.
A keynote lecture will take place on the evening of Thursday, April 27, with all other
presentations to be scheduled throughout the day on Friday, April 28. All events will take place
at the Heyman Center/ SOF, Columbia University, New York.
Please submit a brief description of your proposed presentation (maximum of 350 words) along
with a short CV (maximum of 2 pages) as one, single pdf file to refugeecitiesCSSD@gmail.com.
The deadline for sending your proposal is March 13, 2023, (deadline extended from March 6, 2023).
For further information about the Refugee Cities Working Group, please visit our page here
For further information contact refugeecitiesCSSD@gmail.com.
This symposium and the Refugee Cities Working Group have been possible with support from
the Center for the Study of Social Difference, as well as the Society of Fellows and Heyman
Center for the Humanities at Columbia University.
Working Group Director Inga Winkler to give talk about Human Rights in Menstrual Movements at Oxford University in May 2023
Menstruation matters, and it matters for the realization of human rights. Menstrual stigma has profound effects on the rights to health, education, work, and participation in public life, among others. As menstruation is gaining increasing attention, many organizations have adopted the framing of human rights, which holds the promise of addressing menstrual stigma. Dr Winkler's presentation critically assesses the menstrual movement and its employment of human rights, examining the promises, pitfalls, and renewed potential of human rights.
Many current efforts at the global level are at risk of instrumentalization, tokenism, and reductionism. However, the menstrual movement is not monolithic, and many grassroots initiatives employ a broader and more nuanced understanding of human rights. Combined with normative arguments, this allows re-envisioning human rights in the menstrual movement (from below) to address gender injustices. At a conceptual level, Dr Winkler's work is embedded in critiques of the human rights ‘enterprise’ as risking to lose legitimacy and seeks to contribute to the emergence of a stronger human rights movement that bridges the local and the global.
Working group member Nancy reame contributes to "Changing Practices in ICS - international commercial surrogacy" for the website Surrogacy360.org
Working group member Nancy Reame was an invited contributor to the resource, "Changing Practices in ICS - international commercial surrogacy" for the website Surrogacy360.org, a collaborative project between the Center for Genetics and Our Bodies, Ourselves Today. Launched in 2016, Surrogacy360 provides unbiased information for the public, independent of industry influence or commercial advertising.
See link to surrogacy360.org website here
CSSD group member Aya Labanieh publishes an article in 'Journal of Postcolonial Writing'
In December 2022, CSSD group member Aya Labanieh’s article “Can the Subaltern Laugh? Humour, Translatability, and the Inequalities of World Literature” was published in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing
See link to article here [link to external website]
CSSD Working Group Director Tami Navarro in Conversation with Columbia faculty and former CSSD working group member about Navarro's recent book
Putting Race to Work:
Neoliberal Development in the US Virgin Islands
Tami Navarro and Natasha Lightfoot will discuss Navarro's book Virgin Capital, which explores racial capitalism and the failures of neoliberal development in the Caribbean and beyond. With their shared intellectual engagement in the region, this conversation will touch on the past, present, and possible futures of islands in the Caribbean.
Virgin Capital: Race, Gender, and Financialization in the US Virgin Islands by Tami Navarro
When: Thursday, 12:15pm–2:00pm EDT on April 27, 2023
Where: The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room, Columbia University
To register for the event see more here [link to webpage of the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities]
Call for Papers/Participants - Refugee Cities Symposium on the Urban Dimensions of Forced Displacement
Check out the Refugee Cities Call for Papers/Paticipants for the Symposium on the Urban Dimensions of Forced Displacement at Columbia University, New York, NY, April 27-28, 2023
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi to Deliver the Teetzel Lecture at the University of Toronto
Insurgent Domesticities co-director Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi will be delivering the Teetzel Lecture at the University of Toronto on November 16, 2022.