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Botany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism

Banu Subramaniam (Wellesley College), Rebecca Jordan-Young (Barnard College), and Natali Valdez (Fordham University)

January 28, 2025

Banu Subramanian, Rebecca Jordan-Young, and Natali Valdez will discuss how botany’s foundational theories and practices were shaped and fortified in the aid of colonial…

Taking Children: A History of American Terror

Laura Briggs, Dina Francesca Haynes, Valeria Luiselli

September 11, 2020

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…

[Postponed] Queer Asylum in Germany: Between Queer Liberalisms and Colonial Sexualities

Mengia Hong Tschalaer

November 25, 2019

Taking several specific case studies as point of departure, the project illustrates the central role of Eurocentric sexual regimes in determining the parameters of…

Engaging the Archival Record of Danish Colonial Rule

September 26, 2019

A conversation featuring La Vaughn Belle, Helle Stenum, and Tiphanie Yanique, moderated by Tami Navarro.

Engaging the Archival Record of Danish Colonial Rule: A Conversation

La Vaughn Belle, Helle Stenum, and Tiphanie Yanique, moderated by Tami Navarro

May 30, 2019

This conversation will highlight engagements with the archival record of the Danish West Indies, the islands now known as the United States Virgin Islands,…

Black Imaginaries, Scandinavian Diasporas: Imagining Race in Scandinavia

May 5, 2019

Artists discuss how their practices across different media are designed to provoke conversation about colonial legacies and contemporary racial politics on the ground in…

S&F Conference: Archiving Colonialism

February 9, 2019

Scholar and Feminist Conference panel featuring La Vaughn Belle, Justin Leroy, and Cameron Rowland, moderated by Saidiya Hartman

Undoing the Future: Troubling Time/s, and Ecologies of Nothingness: Re-turning, Re-membering, and Facing the Incalculable

Karen Barad

November 17, 2017

Karen Barad will consider the ways in which quantum physics troubles modernist conceptions of time, and asks whether quantum temporalities might offer radical political…

Listening to Images: A Salon in Honor of Tina Campt

Tina Campt, Nicole Fleetwood, Jack Halberstam, Saidiya Hartman, and Deborah Thomas

August 7, 2017

What happens when we shift our way of engaging with photography? When we go beyond looking at images and, instead, listen to them? Tina…
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