Christia Mercer is interviewed in The Harvard Crimson
In the article, the Pedagogies of Dignity co-director discusses the need for university divestment from the private prison industry.
Christia Mercer, Columbia University Philosphy professor and former co-director of the CSSD Pedagogies of Dignity working group, argues for Harvard’s divestment from the private prison industry in The Harvard Crimson article “Harvard and Divestment Advocates Disagree Over How Much the University Puts Into Private Prisons. Here’s Why.”
Pedagogies of Dignity was an interdisciplinary initiative that brought together formerly incarcerated people, activists, faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates from the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Pedagogies of Dignity Director Featured in The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing in the World
Christia Mercer is one of a number of women Janice Kaplan has included in her recently published book.
Christia Mercer, former director of the Pedagogies of Dignity working group, is one of a number of women included in Janice Kaplan’s recently published book The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing in the World.
A description and audio excerpt of the book can be found here.
Pedagogies of Dignity Working Group Hosts Workshop at Lenfest
On September 30th the CSSD working group Pedagogies of Dignity held a workshop bringing together formerly incarcerated students, educators, and activists to discuss prison education.
On September 30, 2018 the CSSD working group Pedagogies of Dignity supported a workshop at Columbia’s Lenfest Center for the Arts, the second such workshop of the Center for New Narratives in Philosophy. The workshop brought together formerly incarcerated students, academics, prison educators, and activists to discuss the benefits of prison education as well as challenges associated with it. The event was hosted by Christia Mercer, Gustave M. Berner Professor of philosophy at Columbia University and Project Director of the working group.
The Pedagogies of Dignity working group has been working with educational staff at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) to organize a series of mini-courses available to men of the MDC. These courses have been attended by over 140 men since February. A full recap of the September 30th workshop can be read here on the CSSD blog.
Christia Mercer Delivers Keynote Address
Christia Mercer delivered the keynote address, "Descartes’ Demons and Debts, or Why We Should Work on Women in the History of Philosophy," at the Dutch Seminar for Early Modern Philosophy.
Christia Mercer, director of the working group Pedagogies of Dignity, delivered the keynote address, "Descartes’ Demons and Debts, or Why We Should Work on Women in the History of Philosophy," at the Dutch Seminar for Early Modern Philosophy at Utrecht University this May.
The Dutch Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy brings together advanced students and established scholars to discuss the latest work in early modern philosophy, broadly conceived.
Videos from the seminar can be viewed here.
Pedagogies of Dignity working group director awarded fellowship
Christia Mercer Awarded Fellowship at Harvard University
Christia Mercer is Gustave M. Berne Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University and Project Director of the new CSSD working group, Pedagogies of Dignity. She has been awarded a fellowship at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study for her project “Feeling the Way to Truth: Women, Reason, and the Development of Modern Philosophy. ” She will be the Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow for 2018-19.
New working groups at CSSD launching AY2018-19
CSSD launches six new projects for the 2018-19 academic year. The projects will address gender, race, sexuality, and other forms of inequality to foster ethical and progressive social change.
CSSD launches six new projects for the 2018-19 academic year. The projects will address gender, race, sexuality, and other forms of inequality to foster ethical and progressive social change.
Racial Capitalism: This working group theorizes the connections between exploitation and expropriation in interlinked political geographies. The Racial Capitalism working group will build on and also expand already existing efforts of the Barnard New Directions in American Studies (NDAS) initiative.
Project Directors: Jordan T. Camp, Christina Heatherton, and Manu Vimalassery
On The Frontlines: Nursing Leadership in Pandemics: The working group On the Frontlines: Nursing Leadership in Pandemics seeks to understand the role of nurses as change agents in the prevention, detection and response to pandemic infectious disease outbreaks.
Project Directors: Jennifer Dohrn, Wilmot James, Steve Nicholas, Victoria Rosner
Geographies of Injustice: Gender and the City: Geographies of Injustice is a working group of interdisciplinary scholars who are interested in asking how spatial politics intersects with inequality and social difference (race, caste, and ethnicity).
Project Directors: Anupama Rao, Ana Paulina Lee
Menstrual Health and Gender Justice: The Menstrual Health and Gender Justice working group seeks to further the nascent field of menstrual studies. This group puts particular emphasis on critically evaluating the current state of research and how interdisciplinary collaboration might help remedy some of these gaps.
Project Director: Inga Winkler
Pedagogies of Dignity: Pedagogies of Dignity is an interdisciplinary initiative that brings together formerly incarcerated people, activists, faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates from the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Project Director: Christia Mercer
Queer Theory: Here, Now, and Everywhere: Queer Theory: Here, There, and Everywhere is a CSSD working group to discuss, debate and investigate the politics of sexuality and gender in a global frame.
Project Director: Jack Halberstam