The Zip Code Memory Project: Practices of Justice and Repair (ZCMP), co-directed by Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University) and Diana Taylor (New York University), seeks to find reparative ways to memorialize the devastating losses resulting from the Coronavirus pandemic, while also acknowledging its radically differential effects on different Upper New York City neighborhoods. It is housed at the Center for the Study of Social Difference (CSSD) at Columbia University and is supported by a CSSD Social Engagement grant funded by the Columbia University President’s Office. CSSD is pleased to announce that the Zip Code Memory Project is the recipient of a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation for a two-year term beginning July 1, 2021.
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Episodes, show notes, and transcripts can be found on the Just Three podcast page here.
Insurgent Domesticities Working Group Member Lilian Chee has contributed a chapter, titled “Titled “Domesticity and the Architecture Film: Caring-With Architecture,” to the recently released book: Architectures of Care: From the Intimate to the Common (Routledge, 2023).
To read more about the book launch for this work, as well as its related text, Architecture from Public to Commons (Routledge, 2023), follow this link.
Slated to continue an exciting book tour following her upcoming February 6 event at the Heyman Center, Insurgent Domesticities co-director Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi will be hosted the following week for a discussion of her latest work, Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camp and Humanitarian Settlement (Duke University Press, 2023), at yet another renowned institution.
The discussion will be conducted with Professor Prita Meier, associate professor of African art and architectural history at the Institute of Fine Arts and Department of Art History.
When: 6 PM on Tuesday, February 13
Where: James B. Duke House
The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities will be hosting a discussion of Professor Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi’s new book, Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement (2023). Professor Siddiqi is the co-director of the Insurgent Domesticities Working Group at the Center for the Study of Social Difference and Assistant Professor of Architecture at Barnard College, Columbia University.
Fellow CSSD members and Columbia faculty, Hiba Bou Akar, Anupama Rao, and Miriam Ticktin, will participate as respondents. The event will be followed by a reception.
When: Tuesday, February 6, at 6:15pm.
Where: The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room, Columbia University.
For information and to RSVP, please visit this page.
Insurgent Domesticities working group member Hollyamber Kennedy has a new article coming out in the Winter/Spring 2024 “Territories of Incarceration” special issue of The Journal of Architecture, titled “Wastelands of Empire and ‘Sites of Salvation’: Landscapes of ‘Reform’ in 19th Century Germany.”
More information will be shared when available.
Iulia Stătică, member of the Insurgent Domesticities Working Group, has recently published Urban Phantasmagorias: Domesticity, Production and the Politics of Modernity in Communist Bucharest (Routledge, 2023), as a part of Routledge’s Architext series.
From Routledge: “Urban Phantasmagorias examines the legacies of socialist housing in the city of Bucharest during the period of communist rule in Romania. The book explores the manner in which the socialist state reconfigured the city through concrete acts of demolition and construction, as well as indirectly through legal frameworks aimed at the regulation of women’s reproductive agency, in an attempt to materialize its idea of modernity. It follows the effects of this state agenda with a focus on the period between 1965 and 1989 through an investigation of the transformations, representations, meanings, and uses of domestic spaces.”
Insurgent Domesticities working group member Professor Sarover Zaidi participated in a panel discussion titled “Translation, Memory, and South Asian Cartographies” on the second day of the South Asia in Translation: Geography, Memory, and Textuality conference held in October of this year.
Professor Zaidi’s talk in this panel was entitled “Horizons, Courtyards and the Languages of Architecture” and focused on the evolution of Indian Ocean geographies, centered around the city of Mumbai.
Click this link to read about the fascinating work of Insurgent Domesticities Woking Group member S. E. Eisterer, featured in Princeton Alumni Weekly.
Forthcoming from Duke University Press, Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement (2023) is the latest publication from Professor Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi.
Read Insurgent Domesticities co-director Neferti X. M. Tadiar’s interview about her 2022 book Remaindered Life with Harvard Professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies Durba Mirta.
Article can be found here.
American Comparative Literature Association's 2022 René Wellek Book Award went to Insurgent Domesticities working group co-director Gil Z. Hochberg’s Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future (Duke University Press, 2021).
Spring 2023 Mellon Forum: Spatial Storytelling // April 11 with Ana Ozaki and Keisha-Khan Perry
Boats, Beaches, and Bairros
Apr 11, 2023, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Location: Princeton School of Architecture and Zoom
Event Description
Mellon Forum on the Urban Environment
Spring 2023 || Spatial Storytelling
Boats, Beaches, and Bairros with Keisha-Khan Perry, Presidential Penn Compact Associate Professor of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania and Ana Ozaki, Princeton-Mellon Fellow in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities
This is a hybrid event. Attend in person at the School of Architecture (lunch boxes available while supplies last), or register for the Zoom webinar: https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cr7UGrwqTXSqn5F-HiWufg
Black feminist scholar bell hooks (1952-2021) gave us innumerable conceptual tools to understand the complexities of race, gender, and place. Her critical essay "Homeplace: A Site of Resistance," first published in the 1990 Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural politics, illustrates how the homeplace can represent spaces of oppression as well as liberation. In this presentation, I narrate stories from coastal cities across the Americas to explore the neighborhoods where the cultural imagination and radical politics flourish even as poor and people of color experience the brutality of white supremacist violence and spatial displacement. In hooks' formulation, the oppressed make home in inhospitable places, resist the gendered racial domination of space, and demand a sense of cultural and political belonging. I tell the stories of how social movement activists fight to keep beachlands as Black homespaces, where they have forged communities and survived amidst the violence for generations.
The Spring 2023 Mellon Forum on the Urban Environment is kindly sponsored by the Mellon Foundation and the Princeton University Humanities Council, Program in Latin American Studies, Center for Collaborative History, Departments of Art & Archaeology and English, HMEI, PIIRS, SPIA, and the School of Architecture.
Mellon Forum events are free and open to the public. Boxed lunches are available while supplies last.
Fall 2022 Mellon Forum on the Urban Environment / RACE EMPIRE ENVIRONMENT
Of Milk, Blood, and Bones: Brazil’s Colonial and Postcolonial Plantation "Big House"
with Ana Ozaki, Princeton-Mellon Fellow, and Isadora Mota, History
October 25 at 12pm EST 2022
Attend this discussion in Betts Auditorium, abiding by University event guidelines. Box lunches are provided while supplies last.
Or register in advance for this Zoom webinar:
https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iBApUPu0RxyRoQK1mTrkQg
Gilberto Freyre's influential book Casa Grande e Senzala [The Masters and the Slaves] (1933) has been an international reference in Brazil's historical racial relations. In this equally historiographical and fictional study, a benevolent rendering of the plantation's "big house" stands for Brazil, that is, as the root of its modern, exceptional, and multiculturalist society. In this view, colonial domesticity's openness to "masters" and "slaves" nurtured interracial relations, miscegenation, and transculturation. According to Freyre, spatial practices such as implanted bones and blood in building foundations and breast milk ties between white boys and their Black wet nurses embodied some of Brazil's hybridity matrices.
In this presentation, Ozaki will analyze these historiographical and spatial tropes to contend how the plantation permeated modern frameworks of territory and domesticity. She will argue that Brazil's nation-building process was contingent upon bodily accumulations to forge perceptions of racial fluidity, tropical adaptability, and alternative modernity to Europe's and the US's binary racial dynamics.
The Mellon Forum is sponsored by the Mellon Foundation, Humanities Council, Center for Collaborative History, HMEI, PIIRS, PLAS, Department of Art + Archaeology, Department of English, and the School of Architecture.
Congratulations to Madiha Tahir, member of the Insurgent Domesticities working group, on her new position as Assistant Professor of American Studies at Yale University!
Mignon Moore, member of the Insurgent Domesticities working group and Barnard’s Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Sociology, was interviewed on her forthcoming book, In the Shadow of Sexuality: Social Histories of African American Lesbian and Gay Elders, 1950-1979, which examines the lives of racialized sexual minority elders during the second Great Migration.
Congratulations are in order to Insurgent Domesticities co-director Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi for the selection of her forthcoming book, Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement (Duke University Press, 2024), for the Theory in Forms series edited by Nancy Rose Hunt, Achille Mbembe, and Todd Meyers.
Working group members Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi and S.E. Eisterer participate in Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration on March 20, 2023. Cosponsored by the Barnard Center for Research on Women and GSAPP.
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Hollyamber Kennedy, and S.E. Eisterer from the Insurgent Domesticities working group participated in the Concept Histories of Settlement workshop at ETH Zurich's Department of Architecture on March 10, 2023. The workshop examined how displacement and migration shaped settlement in modernity’s constructed environments in the colonized world.
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, co-director of the Insurgent Domesticities working group, gave the International Womxn’s Week Keynote Address at Harvard University, speaking on the theme of Intersectional Spaces of Care.
Drawing on research from his new book, “The Queerness of Home: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Domesticity After World II” (University of Chicago Press, 2021), Vider will trace the history of two radical experiments of the 1970s—Phyllis Birkby’s lesbian architecture project and Survival House, an early group home for queer and trans homeless youth—to reconsider the place of domestic practices, spaces, and archives in LGBTQ history. While scholars in queer studies have largely emphasized public and commercial spaces as the primary sites of LGBTQ politics and community, Vider will argue that the intimacy of home space has been equally crucial to the history of postwar LGBTQ life.
Stephen Vider is Assistant Professor of History and founding director of the Public History Initiative at Cornell University. His writing has appeared in American Quarterly, Gender & History, and The Public Historian. In 2017, Vider curated the exhibition “AIDS at Home: Art and Everyday Activism” for the Museum of the City of New York.
S.E. Eisterer is Assistant Professor for Architectural History and Theory at the School of Architecture at Princeton University. Her research focuses on spatial histories of dissidence, feminist, queer, and trans theory, as well as the labor of social and ecological movements.
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Anooradha Siddiqi will be participating in a launch of the essay collection Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration at the University of Toronto on November 17, see more information here, and at Princeton University on November 21, 2022.
