Reconstructing History in Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro and Dharavi, Mumbai
In affiliation with the CSSD working group, Geographies of Injustice
Project Directors: Ana Paulina Lee, Anupama Rao
The CSSD Geographies of Injustice: Gender and the City group will build on its collaborative working relationships with Sankofa Museum of Rocinha, Observatorio de Favelas, and Instituto Moreira Salles in Rio de Janeiro on the Reconstructing History project. In collaboration with these organizations, this project will complete a podcast series on “Sounds of the Favela,” to be housed on the Instituto Moreira Salles’ web radio Radio Batuta, one of the most widely recognized and accessed online radio stations in Brazil. “Sounds of the Favela” will consist of 20 interviews with musicians/performers based in Rio de Janeiro, and Mare and Rocinha-based historians, archivists, and geographers will use the podcast as a teaching tool for teenagers and young adults to learn about the histories of these two largest informal settlements from the perspective of music and artistic production by residents. This podcast will also inform performance and memory research in Mumbai in collaboration with URBZ, and completes a critical stage of a larger project to foster equitable access to the city, memory, and education.
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These new groups will build on established CSSD projects in alignment with Columbia University's Fourth Purpose.
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Events
The second piece of a two-part event, the Beyond Dystopia Roundtable follows the Dry Ground Burning film screening on Friday, April 28.
This film screening is the first piece of a two-part event, and will be followed by the Beyond Dystopia Roundtable on Saturday, April 29.
Artist Talk with Paromita Vohra: Gardens of Pleasure Feminism, Desire and Doing Documentary Work in (for) South Asia
An event with Muniz Sodré (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) and Nijaz (Rapper, Conjunto da Maré).
Ladee Hubbard and Ana Paulina Lee will discuss how racial representations from the past bear on the present in historical narratives and the idea of science.
A film about a gifted newborn who knows how to talk, walk and run, and is also the savior of the village.
The activity aims to carry out artistic, poetic and reflective exercises with different audiences, inspired by the concept of “poetics of childhood” by Renato Noguera, Ação Poética.
Join us via Zoom for this event in a series of workshops that will take place in 2021-2022 as part of the CSSD Geographies of Injustice working group's activities.
September 2021 programming with Observatorio de Favelas & CSSD’s Geographies of Injustice working group
This event is a part of the Afro-Americas in Dialogue Series: Brazilian Black Awareness Month.
In our first tour, we would like to invite you to visit favela of Rocinha with professional guides tours, Erik Martins from ‘Rocinha by Rocinha’ Tours and Antônio Firmino from Sankofa Museum. Erik’s tour provides a genuine experience in a favela with local people, but also with information about tour origins, trajectories, their struggles, culture, and the dynamics of Favela of Rocinha.
Co-sponsored by the Geographies of injustice: Gender and the City working group and featuring working group co-directors Ana Paulina Lee and Anupama Rao
CSSD working group Geographies of Injustice co-sponsors discussion on Dalit Feminisms and Dalit Futures.