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The Cunning of Gender Violence: Securitization and the Violence of Law
Lila Abu-Lughod, Shenila Khoja-Moolji, Karen Engle, Janet R. Jakobsen, Vasuki Nesiah, and Rafia Zakaria
Contributors to The Cunning of Gender Violence (Duke 2023) discuss how a once visionary feminist project has folded itself into contemporary world affairs.
Read MoreGender Without Identity
Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini
Rooted in the work of French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche, in queer and trans of color critique, and in the authors’ extensive clinical experience with queer and trans people, Gender Without Identity presents a radical theory of gender formation and its ongoing mutations.
Read MoreFeminist Revolution in Iran: Reflections on Year One
Bahareh Badiei, Kiana Karimi, N. of the Begoo Collective, and Fatemeh Shams, moderated by Manijeh Moradian
Feminists for Jina-NYC invites you to an evening of reflection with activists, artists, and scholars on the first year of an unfolding feminist revolution in Iran.
Read MoreWith and Against Technoscience in the Aftermath
M. Murphy (University of Toronto)
Professor M. Murphy, author of The Economization of Life (Duke University Press, 2017), will deliver the BCRW Silver Science Lecture and F/ISTS Conference keynote.
Read MoreIt’s All Policing, It’s All War: Chicago Organizers on Connecting Abolition and Demilitarization
Benji Hart, Asha Ransby-Sporn, Timmy Châu, and Dean Spade
ASL will be provided. Live transcription is available here. The prison and police abolition movement and the anti-war movement are often thought of as separate, siloed formations. However, in practice, organizers working to end racist, colonial, imperialist, patriarchial, ecocidal violence understand these to be the same fight. Join us for a conversation with Benji Hart, […]
Read MoreUnsilencing Slavery: A Celebration of Celia E. Naylor’s New Book
Celia Naylor (Barnard College) and Natasha Lightfoot (Columbia University)
Celia E. Naylor (Professor of Africana Studies and History, Barnard College) will be joined by Natasha Lightfoot (Associate Professor of History, Columbia University) to discuss Naylor’s new book, Unsilencing Slavery: Telling Truths about Rose Hall Plantation, Jamaica (University of Georgia Press, 2022, Gender and Slavery Series).
Read MoreRemaindered Life
Author Neferti Tadiar in Conversation with Erica Edwards, Paul Nadal, and Jasbir Puar
In Remaindered Life (Duke, 2022) Neferti X. M. Tadiar offers a new conceptual vocabulary and framework for rethinking the dynamics of a global capitalism maintained through permanent imperial war. Tracking how contemporary capitalist accumulation depends on producing life-times of disposability, Tadiar focuses on what she terms remaindered life—practices of living that exceed the distinction between life […]
Read MoreKweli: The Color of Children’s Literature Conference
Presented by Kweli Journal Kweli’s annual Color of Children’s Literature Conference is designed to help emerging writers hone their craft, introduce them to established authors willing to share their experiences and expertise, and connect them with editors, agents and publishers who can introduce their art to the world. Over the years, dozens of writers—including Angeline Boulley, […]
Read MoreEssential to the Public: Libraries at the End of the World
Emily Drabinski
Live transcription is available here. Libraries are among the last funded public spaces open to the public. Anyone can enter a library and borrow a book, join a storytime, learn to read, meet with a friend, use the bathroom, warm up in the winter and cool down in the summer, among the many other resources […]
Read MoreFeminist Architectural Histories of Migration
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi (Barnard College), Armaghan Ziaee (California State University, San Marcos), Eunice Seng (The University of Hong Kong), Ross Exo Adams (Bard College), and S.E. Eisterer (Princeton University), moderated by members of GSAPPX+ and Bryony Roberts
“Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration,” organized by Annoradha Iyer Siddiqi and Rachel Lee, is a multisited project consisting of articles and essays by authors around the world, published from 2019–2022 in the open-access online journals ABE Journal: Architecture Beyond Europe, Canadian Centre for Architecture, and Aggregate.
Read MoreMother Country Radicals
Zayd Ayers Dohrn (CU GSAS '06, Mother Country Radicals creator), Jamal Joseph (Columbia University), and Carol Becker (Columbia University School of the Arts)
Mother Country Radicals creator Zayd Ayers Dohrn ('06 GSAS) discusses the making of the podcast with Film professor Jamal Joseph and Carol Becker, Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts.
Read MoreSurvival and Mobilization: Mutual Aid in Migrant Justice Struggles
Nikki Marín Baena and Dean Spade
In conversation with Dean Spade, Nikki Marín Baena will share her experiences working for migrant justice with Mijente and Siembra NC.
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