Motherhood & Tech WG Member Aya Labanieh Publishes "No Fap: A Cultural History of Anti-Masturbation" in LA Review of Books
Motherhood and Technology Working Group member Aya Labanieh has published a new article in the Los Angeles Review of Books, titled “No Fap: A Cultural History of Anti-Masturbation,” diving into the anxieties around masturbation throughout much of world history up to the present.
Motherhood & Technology WG Fellow to Deliver Public Lecture on the History of Hormones at Sarah Lawrence University
Sarah Lawrence University will host Motherhood and Technology Working Group member Randi Hutter Epstein, MD, MPH, for a lecture (open to the public) on the history of hormones (endocrinology) and the array of actors at play from doctors and parents to hucksters and sleuths. The event is based on Randi Hutter Epstein’s 2018 book Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything.
Scheduled for November 2, 2023, this event is sponsored by the Laura Kirchman Manuelidis '63 Science and Literary Arts Endowment Fund.
Refugee Cities Member Speaks During Nacera Belaza's US Debut of "L'Onde"
Refugee Cities working group member, A. George Bajalia, joined Wesleyan University Director for the Arts Joshua Lubin-Levy in discussion following famed French-Algerian dancer and choreographer Nacera Belaza’s debut performance of “L’Onde” in the United States.
Read more about the event here.
Neferti X. M. Tadiar Discusses "Remaindered Life" (Duke University Press 2022) In Public Books Magazine
Read Insurgent Domesticities co-director Neferti X. M. Tadiar’s interview about her 2022 book Remaindered Life with Harvard Professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies Durba Mirta.
Article can be found here.
Refugee Cities WG Member Achilles Kallergis Participated as a Speaker at Penn State's “(Dis)Place: From Tent Camps to the Future of Urbanism – The Architecture of Migration"
Refugee Cities working group member, Achilles Kallergis, participated in a research symposium, titled “(Dis)Place: From tent camps to the future of urbanism – The architecture of migration” on Nov. 13-14 The symposium was hosted by The College of Arts and Architecture’s Stuckeman School at Penn State.
Read more about the event here.
Recovery WG Co-Director Elizabeth Bernstein Publishes Article in Public Books
Recovery working group co-director, Elizabeth Bernstein, published an article in Public Books, titled “Heal Thyself?” The article explores Professor Bernstein’s personal experience with a life-changing illness that began in 2014, describing the challenges faced during the diagnostic process and subsequent journey through various symptoms. The article also explores first-person accounts of those with similar illnesses as well as books reviews of works by Meghan O’Rourke and Ed Cohen.
The article suggests the need for a broader consideration of social transformations to better support relations of care and explores potential models of medicine driven by community control rather than profit.
To read the full article, follow the link here.
Refugee Cities Member Mae Ngai Publishes "The Painful Afterlife of a Cruel Policy" in The Atlantic
Refugee Cities working group member, professor of history, and Lung Family Professor of Asian American studies at Columbia, Mae Ngai, published a new piece in The Atlantic on September 26th, 2023.
In this publication, Professor Ngai tells the narrative of Fae Myenne Ng and her latest historical memoir Orphan Bachelors. Recounting the author's family experiences in San Francisco's Chinatown, the story provides a heartfelt portrayal of the challenges and dynamics faced during the close of the era of Chinese Exclusion.
Read the publication here.
Recovery WG Co-Director Rebecca Jordan-Young Participated in “Recovery in Practice” Conference
Recovery Working Group co-director Rebecca Jordan-Young (Ann Whitney Olin Professor and Chair at Barnard College) participated in the Heyman Center's “Recovery In Practice” conference.
Professor Jordan-Young moderated a conversation with frontline harm reduction workers, community activists, and researchers about the failings of the war on drugs and the function that comprehensive harm reduction, robust multi-pathway recovery supports, and innovative social science research can work to repair and replace the tired criminal justice-focused paradigm.
Paige West and John Aini Awarded Grants to Continue Work With Indigenous Communities
Paige West and her longtime-collaborator from Papua New Guinea, John Aini, received two major grants to continue their work with Indigenous communities in New Ireland.
Paige West and her long-time collaborator from Papua New Guinea, John Aini, received two major grants in support of their project “Deepening socio-spiritual and socio-ecological practice in Papua New Guinea.” These grants allow them to continue to work with 23 Indigenous communities in New Ireland. The two foundations who provided these funds wish to remain anonymous. West and Aini have also received a grant from the Azimuth World Foundation for their project "Lovangai Island Green Belt" which supports their work with twelve villages on Lovangai Island in mapping their sea and land rights for a court case focused on Indigenous sovereignty. For more information, click here.
ZCMP Film Featured in News Coverage of Queens World Film Festival
The Zip Code Memory Project’s short film, “Together, Not Alone” was included in press coverage of the Queens World Film Festival, where the film was screened along with other community-made short films about the COVID-19 pandemic. Read the reviews in Broadway World and Queens Chronicle.
Kerwin Kaye Publishes Chapter in the Paradoxes of Neoliberalism: Gender, Sex, and Possibilities for Justice
Recovering working group member Kerwin Kaye published their chapter, "Neoliberal Vulnerability and the Vulnerability of Neoliberalism,” in Paradoxes of Neoliberalism: Gender, Sex, and Possibilities for Justice (Routledge Press, 2021).
Katherine Bergevin's Op. Ed. on Reproductive Freedom in Washington Post
Katherine Bergevin’s May 17, 2023 op. ed., “Like today, 18th-century laws about pregnancy aimed to control women,” was published in the Washington Post.
Gil Z. Hochberg Awarded American Comparative Literature Association's 2022 René Wellek Book Award | Insurgent Domesticities
American Comparative Literature Association's 2022 René Wellek Book Award went to Insurgent Domesticities working group co-director Gil Z. Hochberg’s Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future (Duke University Press, 2021).
Lila Abu-Lughod Delivers Keynote Address | Religion and the Global Framing of Gender Violence
Former co-director of the Religion and Global Framing of Gender Violence working group, Lila Abu-Lughod, will be presenting with Rema Hammami and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian on their forthcoming book with Duke University Press. Friday, February 25, 2022, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Virtual Event. Registration required.
https://watson.brown.edu/cmes/events/2022/gender-violence-geopolitics-and-feminism
Scarcity Colloquium with Carl Wennerlind
Extractive Media held a colloquium April 5, 2023 with Professor Wennerlind, where he introduced and discussed his forthcoming book, co-authored with Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis (Harvard University Press, forthcoming 2023).
“What do we talk about when we talk about extractivism?” Colloquium with Jennifer Wenzel
The Extractive Media working group met on 8 March 2023 with Professor Wenzel. She led the group in a discussion of some recent work on extractivism, both her own recent article co-authored with Imre Szeman and selection from Stephanie LeMenanger's 2013 book Living Oil.
Jennifer Wenzel and Imre Szerman, "What do we talk about when we talk about extractivism?" Textual Practice 35, no. 3 (2021): 505-523.
Stephanie LeMenanger, Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century (Oxford University Press, 2013).
Ana Ozaki in Conversation at Princeton | Spatial Storytelling: Boats, Beaches, and Bairros
Spring 2023 Mellon Forum: Spatial Storytelling // April 11 with Ana Ozaki and Keisha-Khan Perry
Boats, Beaches, and Bairros
Apr 11, 2023, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Location: Princeton School of Architecture and Zoom
Event Description
Mellon Forum on the Urban Environment
Spring 2023 || Spatial Storytelling
Boats, Beaches, and Bairros with Keisha-Khan Perry, Presidential Penn Compact Associate Professor of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania and Ana Ozaki, Princeton-Mellon Fellow in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities
This is a hybrid event. Attend in person at the School of Architecture (lunch boxes available while supplies last), or register for the Zoom webinar: https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cr7UGrwqTXSqn5F-HiWufg
Black feminist scholar bell hooks (1952-2021) gave us innumerable conceptual tools to understand the complexities of race, gender, and place. Her critical essay "Homeplace: A Site of Resistance," first published in the 1990 Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural politics, illustrates how the homeplace can represent spaces of oppression as well as liberation. In this presentation, I narrate stories from coastal cities across the Americas to explore the neighborhoods where the cultural imagination and radical politics flourish even as poor and people of color experience the brutality of white supremacist violence and spatial displacement. In hooks' formulation, the oppressed make home in inhospitable places, resist the gendered racial domination of space, and demand a sense of cultural and political belonging. I tell the stories of how social movement activists fight to keep beachlands as Black homespaces, where they have forged communities and survived amidst the violence for generations.
The Spring 2023 Mellon Forum on the Urban Environment is kindly sponsored by the Mellon Foundation and the Princeton University Humanities Council, Program in Latin American Studies, Center for Collaborative History, Departments of Art & Archaeology and English, HMEI, PIIRS, SPIA, and the School of Architecture.
Mellon Forum events are free and open to the public. Boxed lunches are available while supplies last.
Ana Ozaki in Conversation at Princeton | Of Milk, Blood, and Bones
Fall 2022 Mellon Forum on the Urban Environment / RACE EMPIRE ENVIRONMENT
Of Milk, Blood, and Bones: Brazil’s Colonial and Postcolonial Plantation "Big House"
with Ana Ozaki, Princeton-Mellon Fellow, and Isadora Mota, History
October 25 at 12pm EST 2022
Attend this discussion in Betts Auditorium, abiding by University event guidelines. Box lunches are provided while supplies last.
Or register in advance for this Zoom webinar:
https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iBApUPu0RxyRoQK1mTrkQg
Gilberto Freyre's influential book Casa Grande e Senzala [The Masters and the Slaves] (1933) has been an international reference in Brazil's historical racial relations. In this equally historiographical and fictional study, a benevolent rendering of the plantation's "big house" stands for Brazil, that is, as the root of its modern, exceptional, and multiculturalist society. In this view, colonial domesticity's openness to "masters" and "slaves" nurtured interracial relations, miscegenation, and transculturation. According to Freyre, spatial practices such as implanted bones and blood in building foundations and breast milk ties between white boys and their Black wet nurses embodied some of Brazil's hybridity matrices.
In this presentation, Ozaki will analyze these historiographical and spatial tropes to contend how the plantation permeated modern frameworks of territory and domesticity. She will argue that Brazil's nation-building process was contingent upon bodily accumulations to forge perceptions of racial fluidity, tropical adaptability, and alternative modernity to Europe's and the US's binary racial dynamics.
The Mellon Forum is sponsored by the Mellon Foundation, Humanities Council, Center for Collaborative History, HMEI, PIIRS, PLAS, Department of Art + Archaeology, Department of English, and the School of Architecture.
Women Mobilizing Memory Featured on College Walk for Women's History Month
Women Mobilizing Memory, an anthology created by the working group by the same name and published by Columbia Press, has been featured on College Walk for Women's History month.
Madiha Tahir | Assistant Professor of American Studies at Yale University
Congratulations to Madiha Tahir, member of the Insurgent Domesticities working group, on her new position as Assistant Professor of American Studies at Yale University!