Upcoming events on transforming the medical industrial complex, Black feminism, and more
Join BCRW this March and April in a series of critical events from our collaborators and partners. All events are free and open to the public. More information and RSVP links are below.
Lecture
Mapping the Sacred: Transforming the Medical Industrial Complex
Featuring Cara Page
Thursday, March 7, 6–8 PM
The Graduate Center, 365 5th Avenue, Room C198, New York, NY 10016
This talk will ground us in the historical lineage of Healing Justice based on the work Cara has done on the front lines for over 20-plus years within social justice movements, from the Southeast to New York City, building healing justice strategies as a political tool for transformative justice interventions and racial justice. We will explore the impact of the Medical Industrial Complex as an extension of policing & state violence, including: how to ‘unsurveil the surveilled’ by challenging scientific racist notions of ‘blood quota & DNA’; and reimagining our sacred practices and traditions that are integral to our collective survival and liberation.
Organized by the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the CUNY Graduate Center, and co-sponsored by the CUNY Graduate Center PhD Program in Critical Personality Social Psychology, the Public Science Project, IRADAC, the Africana Studies Certificate Program, PublicsLab, CLAGS, the Center for the Humanities, and the GC Library.
Discussion Circle
A Call to Negro Women: A (Little-Known) Black Feminist Manifesto
Featuring Mariame Kaba
Thursday, March 21, 6:30–8:30 PM
The People’s Forum, 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY 10018
In 1951, a short-lived group called Sojourners for Truth and Justice was founded by radical Black women including Louise Thompson Patterson, Beulah (Beah) Richards, Alice Childress, Eslanda Robeson, Shirley Graham Du Bois and more. The founders of the group described Sojourners “as a militant Negro women’s movement…dedicated to the militant struggle for full freedom of the Negro people and an uncompromising fight against white supremacy.”
Join Mariame Kaba during Women’s History Month for a discussion about the Sojourners and their “Call to Negro Women.” As historian Erik McDuffie has explained, “the Sojourners formulated a black left feminist politics that incorporated a sophisticated understanding of African American freedom as a struggle for human rights, one that had global dimensions, during the Cold War.”
Required Reading: Mariame’s new zine about the Sojourners for the discussion and this chapter by Erik McDuffie.
This event is organized by The People’s Forum.
Roundtable
Transnational Feminist Futures
Featuring Laura Briggs, Zillah Eisenstein, Linda Oalican, Premilla Nadasen, and Paige West
Monday, March 25, 4:15–6:15 PM
Columbia University, Jerome Greene Hall, Room 102B, 435 West 116th Street, New York, NY 10027
The Transnational Feminist Futures roundtable brings together scholars and activists to explore the ways that feminist theorizing and practices transform and reimagine contestations over issues such as human rights, constructions of patriarchies, and inclusionary/exclusionary practices of race, sexuality, and class. Participants will engage in a dynamic conversation on a range of issues including labor organizing, social justice in the age of tougher immigration policies, and mass protests in the global North and the global South.
This event is organized by the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Columbia University, and cosponsored by The Institute for Research in African American Studies; The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for Humanities; Barnard Center for Research on Women; The Center for Gender and Sexuality Law; Department of Sociology; The Center for the Study of Social Difference; Department of English and Comparative Literature; and The Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies.
Book Salon
Empire’s Tracks: A Salon in Honor of Manu Karuka
Featuring Manu Karuka, Sandy Grande, Karl Jacoby, and Audra Simpson, moderated by Jack Halberstam
Wednesday, April 10th, 6:30pm
Barnard College, Ella Weed Room, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
This salon will celebrate of Manu Karuka’s new book Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad (University of California Press, 2019). Empire’s Tracks boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes, and the Chinese migrants who toiled on its path. In this meticulously researched book, Manu Karuka situates the railroad within the violent global histories of colonialism and capitalism. Through an examination of legislative, military, and business records, Karuka deftly explains the imperial foundations of U.S. political economy. Tracing the shared paths of Indigenous and Asian American histories, this multisited interdisciplinary study connects military occupation to exclusionary border policies, a linked chain spanning the heart of U.S. imperialism. This highly original and beautifully wrought book unveils how the transcontinental railroad laid the tracks of the U.S. Empire.
The event is being co-sponsored by the Racial Capitalism Working Group, Center for the Study of Social Difference (CSSD); IRWGS at Columbia University; and the American Studies Program at Barnard College. http://www.tb-credit.ru/zaimy-na-kartu.html http://www.tb-credit.ru/microzaim.html