Pedagogies of Dignity Director Featured in The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing in the World
Christia Mercer is one of a number of women Janice Kaplan has included in her recently published book.
Christia Mercer, former director of the Pedagogies of Dignity working group, is one of a number of women included in Janice Kaplan’s recently published book The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing in the World.
A description and audio excerpt of the book can be found here.
Racial Capitalism Media Fellow Honored by the World Economic Forum
Larry Madowo, Columbia Journalism 2020, has been selected as a Young Global Leader of 2020.
Larry Madowo, Columbia Journalism class of 2020 and Center for the Study of Social Difference Racial Capitalism working group Media Fellow, has been selected as a Young Global Leader of 2020 by the World Economic Forum.
To see a full list of honorees click here.
New Netflix Docu-series Inspired by the book 'On Her Own Ground' Reaches Number 1
The show, titled Self Made, was inspired by the work of A’Lelia Bundles, CSSD Women Creating Change Leadership Council member.
The new four part docu-series on Netflix, titled Self Made, chronicles the life of Madam C.J. Walker. The show, starring Octavia Spencer was inspired by the book originally titled On Her Ground : The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker and was written by Walker’s great-great-granddaughter and Women Creating Change Leadership Council member A’Lelia Bundles.
Watch the limited series now out on Netflix.
New Post from Women Mobilizing Memory Working Group Member for International Women's Day
Women Mobilizing Memory book editor, Ayşe Gül Altınay, penned the recent post Feminist Curious Steps Through History: Illumination in Dark Times for Social Difference Online.
Ayşe Gül Altınay, editor of the recently published Women Mobilizing Memory book and member of the Women Mobilizing Memory working group penned the recent Social Difference Online blog post Feminist Curious Steps Through History: Illumination in Dark Times . The post was submitted in honor of International Women’s Day, March 8, 2020.
Ana Paulina Lee Participates in Workshop Discussing Restitution of Plundered Objects
The workshop was hosted by the Decolonial Collective on Migration of Objects and People at Brown University.
On February 7, 2020, Ana Paulina Lee, co-director of the Geographies of Injustice: Gender and the City working group, delivered a presentation of her research, “Sorcery and Violence in the Archive,” in a workshop titled “Gendered Approaches to Restitution: Labor, Migration, Structural Amnesia and Trauma.” The workshop brought scholars together to discuss the restitution of plundered objects as part of “world repairing.”
Read about the workshop here.
Geographies of Injustice Fellows Featured in Rio On Watch
Fernando Ermiro and Antônio Carlos Firmino are both fellows of the CSSD Geographies of Injustice working group and partners in the Sankofa Museum.
Fernando Ermiro and Antônio Carlos Firmino, fellows of the CSSD working group Geographies of Injustice, are highlighted for the work they have done with the Sankofa Museum. Ermiro discusses his participation in the resident-led tours of Rocinha and suggests that they are essential to accurately depict the community’s long history and to support local development. He argues that community-led tours should “touch on certain points: the law is not a synonym for justice; income distribution what moves the local economy thinking globally and acting locally.”
For their whole account and the rest of the article, read here.
To learn more about the work of Geographies of Injustice, read here.
Join Geographies of Injustice Co-Director for a Book Talk
Anupama Rao is the editor of Memoirs of a Dalit Communist: The Many Worlds of R.B. More by Satyendra More
Anupama Rao, co-director of Geographies of Injustice and former co-director of CSSD working groups Gender & The Global Slum and Reframing Gendered Violence, will be featured in a discussion of the recent publication she edited, Memoirs of a Dalit Communist: The Many Worlds of R.B. More by Satyendra More, and will be joined by Elleni Zelleke and Sudipta Kaviraj.
To learn more about the book and to RSVP, click here.
To learn more about the Geographies of Injustice working group, read here.
Unpayable Debt Co-director Featured in Podcasts The Takeaway and Hilando Fino
Frances Negron Muntaner discusses the Puerto Rican diaspora in these interviews.
Frances Negron Muntaner, former co-director of the CSSD working group Unpayable Debt, was recently featured on WNYC’s podcast, The Takeaway, and Hilando Fino, a podcast produced by Cadena Radio of Universidad de Puerto Rico. In these episodes, “How West Side Story Culturally Defined the Puerto Rican Diaspora - For Better or for Worse” and “La isla que se vacía [The island that empties],” respectively, Muntaner discusses various aspects of the Puerto Rican diaspora.
To listen to The Takeaway episode, click here.
To listen to the Hilando Fino episode, click here.
To learn more about the Unpayable Debt working group, click here.
Former CSSD Director Marianne Hirsch’s New Book Featured in Columbia News
School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference was co-authored by Leo Spitzer.
Former CSSD Director and project director of Women Mobilizing Memory, Marianne Hirsch, is interviewed about her new book, School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference, by Columbia News. She discusses the idea behind the book, her personal connection to the subject matter, the revealing nature of photographs, and her research on memory, amongst other things.
To read the whole interview, click here.
Environmental Justice Working Group Event Featured in Spectator Article
The film screening of “Antonio and Piti” was organized as a part of Columbia’s Year of Water initiative.
Center for the Study of Social Difference working group, Environmental Justice, Belief Systems, and Aesthetic Experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean, organized a film screening of Antonio and Piti as a part of Columbia’s Year of Water initiative. Panelist Esther Hamburger described the film as being about “the prejudices this [mixed] couple had to face when they decided to marry, but it’s also about the success of their family… They turned what could be thought of as a problem into something powerful.” Antonio and Piti is co-directed by Brazilian-French filmmaker Vincent Carelli and indigenous filmmaker Wewito Piyãko.
For the full Spectator article, click here.
To learn more about the Environmental Justice working group, click here.
New Blog Post from CSSD Precision Medicine Graduate Fellow
Sonia Mendoza-Grey reviews Dr. Shirley Sun’s discussion on the racialization of precision medicine.
On December 4, 2019, Precision Medicine: Ethics, Politics, and Culture working group hosted a lecture by Shirley Sun, Associate Professor of Sociology with joint courtesy appointments at Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine and the School of Biological Sciences at NTU. Sun discussed the racialization of precision medicine in her talk, “Should you be worried about racialization of precision medicine? Insights from Asia and North America.” Using comparative analysis of provider perspectives on the categorization of genomics data based on race in Singapore, Canada, and the United States, Sun explained the dilemmas facing physicians as a result of racialized precision medicine.
To learn more about the lecture, read the blog post here.
Environmental Justice Working Group Takes Part in Year of Water Exhibition
The exhibition, located on the 7th floor of Dodge Hall, is now on display for the next two weeks.
The Environmental Justice, Belief Systems and Aesthetic Experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean working group, in collaboration with the Columbia Music & Arts Library, launched a new exhibition titled “Year of Water: The Amazon and Its Tributaries.” Highly focused, it presents topics related to the Amazon River, including the music of Philip Glass’s Aguas da Amazonia, the Yanomami culture in the work of shaman Davi Kopenawa, the dance of the Lia Rodrigues troupe, the photography of Claudia Andujar, as well as conceptual topics (buen vivir, extractivism, among others). The exhibition was curated by Elizabeth Davis, with additional input and technical assistance from Emily Lavins and Nick Patterson.
The working group has taken part in the Year of Water celebration through its Water, Sound, and Indigenous Film series with two events this year. The film series focuses on indigenous film productions that have engaged with local environmental struggles between indigenous communities and transnational agribusinesses, hydroelectric projects, mining corporations, systematic food injustice, local entanglements in drug wars, and localized armed conflicts. It seeks to highlight the unique, radical aesthetics and sounds we find in these documentaries through the influence of indigenous experience and understanding of sustenance, environment, nature, and conservation.
The exhibition is now on display at the Music & Arts Library, located on the 7th floor Dodge Hall.
To read more about the upcoming Water, Sound, and Indigenous Film series events, click here and here.
CSSD Director Paige West’s Essay Published in Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon
Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon was published by Punctum Books
Paige West, CSSD director and former director of the Pacific Climate Circuits working group, published an essay on dispossession in Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon. The volume is “an immediate catalogue of the climate crisis toward ‘pluralizing perception and thereby open up the range of possible action.’”
To access the piece, click here.
To learn more about the Pacific Climate Circuits working group, read here.
Judith Butler Featured in Fragments, Lists, & Lacunae from February 13th to the 15th at New York Live Arts
Former Rethinking Vulnerability and Resistance director takes on professor role in theater production.
Former director of CSSD Working Group Rethinking Vulnerability and Resistance, Judith Butler, is featured in Fragments, Lists & Lacunae, a multimedia production written and produced by Alexandra Chasin and Zishan Ugurlu. The production focuses on three college students who are taking a course about gaps, holes, blanks, and white space, and in a series of nine lectures, their professor, played by Butler, offers multimedia provocations on absence, silence, negation, and nothingness.
The show will run from February 13th to the 15th at New York Live Arts.
For more information on the production and ticket purchase, click here.
To read more about Vulnerability and Resistance, click here.
CSSD Anniversary Symposium Speakers featured in The New Yorker
Masha Gessen interviews Judith Butler about her new book The Force of Nonviolence.
Masha Gessen, a speaker at the 10th anniversary symposium for the Center for the Study of Social Difference (CSSD), interviews fellow guest speaker and former CSSD working group director, Judith Butler, about her new book The Force of Nonviolence. The piece is featured in The New Yorker and can be read in full here.
For more on Judith Butler’s CSSD working group, Rethinking Vulnerability and Resistance: Feminism and Social Change, click here.
Racial Capitalism Co-Director Publishes New Article
Jordan Camp examines the intersection of racism, capitalism, and US military doctrine.
Racial Capitalism working group co-director Jordan T. Camp published a new article titled “Counterinsurgency Reexamined: Racism, Capitalism, and US Military Doctrine.” Drawing on archival research, historical geography, and Marxist theory, the article traces US counterinsurgency efforts throughout the last century in examining the role of racism in achieving consent to counterinsurgency wars, and its impact on the endurance of capitalism.
Read the full article here.
Sexual Citizens Featured in Bwog
Former Reframing Gendered Violence co-director discusses her joint publication with Shamus Khan.
At the book launch for Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus, co-authors, Jennifer Hirsch, professor of sociomedical sciences and former co-director of CSSD working group, Reframing Gendered Violence, and Shamus Khan, professor of sociology, spoke about their inspiration for researching sexual assualt on campus and the conversations surrounding the topic. Bwog, the Columbia student news blog, covered the event.
To read about the full event, click here.
For more information on the book, click here.
Christina Heatherton to Deliver Lecture at The People’s Forum
The Racial Capitalism working group co-director’s lecture will examine the early life of Elizabeth Catlett.
Racial Capitalism working group co-director and Assistant Professor of American Studies at Barnard College, Christina Heatherton, will deliver a lecture titled “How to Make a Dress: Domestic Labor, Internationalism, and the Radical Pedagogy of Elizabeth Catlett” at The People’s Forum on February 29, 2020. The lecture will trace Elizabeh Catlett’s life as she developed into a radical feminist, fierce anti-racist, and staunch internationalist.
Read more about her lecture and RSVP here.
Racial Capitalism Co-Director Launches New Show Titled “The New Intellectuals”
Jordan Camp’s monthly interview show can be found on Youtube.
Racial Capitalism working group co-director Jordan T. Camp launched a monthly interview show, “The New Intellectuals,” on Youtube. Produced by The People’s Forum, it features interviews with intellectuals invested in the struggles of the poor, working class, and dispossessed in North America and the world.
Check out a full list of available episodes here.
Co-Authors of "Sexual Citizens" Interviewed by NPR
Reframing Gendered Violence co-director, Jennifer Hirsch, discusses her new book.
Jennifer Hirsch, professor of sociomedical sciences and former co-director of CSSD working group, Reframing Gendered Violence, and Shamus Khan, professor of sociology, talk about their recent publication, Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus, with NPR. In the interview, Hirsch and Khan mention the overwhelming number of students who were open to sharing their personal experiences with sex, assault, and power dynamics.
Sexual Citizens aims to transform how individuals see and address the widespread problem of sexual assault on college campuses. For more information on the book, click here.
To read the full interview, click here.