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Taking Children: A History of American Terror
Laura Briggs, Dina Francesca Haynes, Valeria Luiselli
The three panelists will address the long history of policies of family separation in light of the current anti-migrant federal policy on the southern border of the United States.
Read More[Postponed] Queer Asylum in Germany: Between Queer Liberalisms and Colonial Sexualities
Mengia Hong Tschalaer
Taking several specific case studies as point of departure, the project illustrates the central role of Eurocentric sexual regimes in determining the parameters of asylum the il/legal.
Read MoreEngaging the Archival Record of Danish Colonial Rule
A conversation featuring La Vaughn Belle, Helle Stenum, and Tiphanie Yanique, moderated by Tami Navarro.
Read MoreEngaging the Archival Record of Danish Colonial Rule: A Conversation
La Vaughn Belle, Helle Stenum, and Tiphanie Yanique, moderated by Tami Navarro
This conversation will highlight engagements with the archival record of the Danish West Indies, the islands now known as the United States Virgin Islands, featuring speakers who work on archival practice, and who are working to address structural inequalities in the ways these documents are situated.
Read MoreBlack Imaginaries, Scandinavian Diasporas: Imagining Race in Scandinavia
Artists discuss how their practices across different media are designed to provoke conversation about colonial legacies and contemporary racial politics on the ground in Sweden, Denmark, and St. Croix.
Read MoreS&F Conference: Archiving Colonialism
Scholar and Feminist Conference panel featuring La Vaughn Belle, Justin Leroy, and Cameron Rowland, moderated by Saidiya Hartman
Read MoreLa Vaughn Belle
La Vaughn Belle is best known for working with the coloniality of the Virgin Islands, both in its past relationship to Denmark and its present one with the United States. She works in a variety of disciplines that include: painting, installation, photography, video and public interventions. Borrowing from elements of architecture, history and archeology Belle […]
Read MoreUndoing the Future: Troubling Time/s, and Ecologies of Nothingness: Re-turning, Re-membering, and Facing the Incalculable
Karen Barad
Karen Barad will consider the ways in which quantum physics troubles modernist conceptions of time, and asks whether quantum temporalities might offer radical political imaginaries for cohabiting this planet more justly.
Read MoreListening to Images: A Salon in Honor of Tina Campt
Tina Campt, Nicole Fleetwood, Jack Halberstam, Saidiya Hartman, and Deborah Thomas
What happens when we shift our way of engaging with photography? When we go beyond looking at images and, instead, listen to them? Tina Campt, director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women, delves into lost archives of historically dismissed photographs to deepen our understanding of the lives of black subjects throughout the black […]
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