Tey Meadow and L.A. Paul Co-author New Article Published by Texte Zur Kunst
This piece, by the Queer Aqui working fellow, reflects on life experiences during the pandemic lockdown.
Sociologist and Queer Aqui working group fellow, Tey Meadow and philosopher L.A. Paul co-authored a chronicle of their different experiences during the past year of pandemic lockdown. Among the piece's considerations are the authors' reflections on new attunements to time and subjectivity as well as greater attention to small experiences.
The full piece can be read here.
Elizabeth Povinelli in Virtual Dialogue with Frontier Imaginaries Founder
The Queer Aqui working group fellow member spoke with Vivan Ziherl at the event hosted by SVA NYC.
The School of Visual Arts New York City recently hosted Professor Elizabeth Povinelli, Queer Aqui, Liberalism's Others, and Borders and Boundaries working group fellow, in a virtual dialogue with Vivian Ziherl, curator and founder of Frontier Imaginaries, for a discussion on how colonial norms and forces “appear,” how curating is implicated, and how social gatherings, exhibitions, images, and forms can rebel.
Queer Aqui Working group fellow featured in the Hawai’i Contemporary Art Summit
Elizabeth Povinelli and the Karrabing Film Collective screened a visual essay for the conference
Anthropologist Elizabeth Povinelli, Queer Aqui, Liberalism's Others, and Borders and Boundaries working group fellow and collaborators the Karrabing Film Collective were among the featured artists who participated in the 2021 Hawai'i Contemporary Art Summit. The program explored the theme for Hawai‘i Triennial 2022, Pacific Century – E Ho‘omau no Moananuiākea. On February 11th, Professor Povinelli and the Karrabing Film collective shared a visual essay on toxic sovereignties, reclamation, and the stakes of staying connected to ancestral places, titled: The Jealous One (2017).
Queer Aqui Co-Director Authors New Book
Jack Halberstam’s Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire (2020) is published by Duke University Press.
Jack Halberstam, co-director of the Queer Aqui working group, recently published the new book Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire (2020). In the book, Professor Halberstam offers an alternative history of sexuality by tracing the ways in which wildness has been associated with queerness and queer bodies throughout the twentieth century.
Queer Aqui Working Group Fellow Wins Prestigious Award
Camille Robcis has been announced as a recipient of the 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Camille Robcis, Associate Professor of History and French and Queer Aqui working group fellow, has been announced as a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship winner. The fellowship was awarded to Professor Robcis in the field Intellectual & Cultural History.
View the full list of 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship Winners here.
CSSD Project Directors featured in the Notes on Feminism Series
Jack Halberstam and Saidiya Hartman have contributed essays to the Feminist Art Coalition project.
Queer Aqui co-director Jack Halberstam and Engendering the Archive co-director Saidya Hartman have each contributed essays to the Notes on Feminism series from the Feminist Art Coalition.
“Off Manifesto” by Jack Halberstam can be read here.
“The Plot of Her Undoing” by Saidiya Hartman can be read here.
Macarena Gómez-Barris Featured on Democracy Now
The Queer Theory co-director discusses the recent protests in Chile.
Macarena Gómez-Barris, co-director of the Queer Theory working group, founder and director of the Global South Center, and chairperson of Social Science and Cultural Studies at the Pratt Institute, appeared twice on Democracy Now on October 28 to discuss the recent protests in Chile.
Over a million Chileans have taken to the streets to demonstrate against social inequality, the increasingly high cost of living, and continued privatization. The protests, which started October 19, are the largest in the country since the fall of its military dictatorship in 1990.
Watch the first video here, and the second here.
Tey Meadow Named Finalist for the 2018 C. Wright Mills Award
Queer Theory working group fellow’s book Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century up for prestigious honor.
Tey Meadow, Associate Professor of Sociology and member of CSSD working group Queer Theory, was named a finalist for the 2018 C. Wright Mills Award for her new book Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century (University of California Press, 2018). The Society for the Study of Social Problems gives out the award, established in 1964, to works that best exemplify outstanding social science research.
See the full list of finalists here.
For more on the Queer Theory working group visit their project page.
Jack Halberstam Featured in Politics/Letters
The director of CSSD working group, Queer Theory, publishes piece entitled, “My Struggle: Confessions of a Tall, Aryan White Man – Volume 7.”
Jack Halberstam, director of CSSD working group Queer Theory and Professor of English and Gender at Columbia, recently published an essay in the quarterly journal and webzine, Politics/Letters. The essay, entitled, “My Struggle: Confessions of a Tall, Aryan White Man – Volume 7,” is on the final book of Karl Ove Knausgaard's autobiographical series.
The full piece can be read here.
To learn more about Jack Halberstam’s contributions to CSSD, see selections on ourblog,YouTube channel and theQueer Theory project page.
Tey Meadow Interviewed in a Recent Piece for The Atlantic
Queer Theory: Here, Now, and Everywhere faculty fellow featured in an article on young trans children
Queer Theory: Here, Now, and Everywhere working group faculty fellow Tey Meadow was quoted in a recent piece for The Atlantic on new research findings which demonstrate strong self-knowledge and identity sense of young trans children.
The study by Kristina Olson, a psychologist at the University of Washington, tracked the health and well-being of 85 gender-nonconforming participants, ages 3 to 12, showing, in two separate ways, that those who go on to transition do so because they already have a strong sense of their identity.
According to Professor Meadow, parents contribute greatly to developing this strong self-knowledge and identity in young trans children. Parents are the ultimate arbiters of a child’s access to transition, and they make decisions “in a culture that encourages parents to look for every possible alternative to transness,” says Meadow.
Click here to read the full article.
Tey Meadow is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Columbia. She is the author of Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century, and the coeditor of Other Please Specify: Queer Methods in Sociology.
Professor Jack Halberstam featured in Places Journal
Jack Halberstam, director of CSSD working group Queer Theory: Here, Now, and Everywhere, writes on the interplay between art, architecture and the trans* body, in Places.
Professor Jack Halberstam, director of Center for the Study of Social Difference (CSSD) working group Queer Theory: Here, Now, and Everywhere, publishes “Unbuilding Gender: Trans* Anarchitectures In and Beyond the Work of Gordon Matta-Clark” in Places Journal.
Professor Halberstam explores the interplay between art, architecture and the trans* body and discusses the impact of Matta-Clark’s art and its legacy to young trans* artists.
Click here to read the full article.
Professor Jack Halberstam receives honorary doctorate
Director of CSSD working group Queer Theory is awarded an honorary doctorate from Lund University.
Jack Halberstam, Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and English at Columbia University, and Director of the CSSD working group Queer Theory: Here, Now, and Everywhere, has been awarded an honorary doctorate from Lund University in Sweden for his work on the fluid boundaries of gender in society. Professor Halberstam accepted the honorary doctorate in a ceremony on May 25, 2018. More information available here.
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.
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
CSSD Project Director Jack Halberstam Co-Curates Conference at Stedelijk Museum
Professor Jack Halberstam, director of the CSSD project Queer Theory: Here, Now, and Everywhere, recently co-curated a conference and festival at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
Professor Jack Halberstam, director of the CSSD project Queer Theory: Here, Now, and Everywhere, recently co-curated a conference and festival at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. The conference, titled Hold Me Now - Feel and Touch in an Unreal World, was held from March 21-24 2018, and co-curated by Karen Archey, Rizvana Bradley, and Mark Paterson.
Consisting of four single-day “discursive, and at times perforative” programs, each curated by one of the four curators, the conference aimed to examine the ways in which touch operates in contemporary “technologically mediated, dematerialized digital cultures”, further examining touch “in artistic, philosophical, and political terms to conceive how the haptic is thought and experienced in life, art and design, and theory.”
In addition to serving as a CSSD project director and member of the CSSD Executive Committee, Halberstam is also Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
Jack Halberstam Receives a Columbia-PSL Global Humanities Grant
Director of CSSD working group Queer Theory: Here, Now, and Everywhere receives grant for Paris conference on gender and sexuality studies.
Jack Halberstam, director of the CSSD working group Queer Theory: Here, Now, and Everywhere, has received a Columbia-PSL global humanities grant to organize a transnational conference on sexuality and gender theory. The conference, which will take place at Reid Hall in Paris, will address the need to overcome a singular model of gender through cross-cultural interchange and collaboration. The goal is to start a conversation about setting a new path for queer studies, in which ideas flow between cultures and a global model of sexuality studies is displaced by one characterized by diversity of thought.
Jack Halberstam comments on RuPaul’s Drag Race in The New York Times Magazine
CSSD Project Director Jack Halberstam spoke with New York Times staff writer Jenna Wortham for “Is RuPaul’s Drag Race the Most Radical Show on TV?”, published in the January 28th, 2018 edition of The New York Times Magazine.
CSSD Project Director Jack Halberstam spoke with New York Times staff writer Jenna Wortham for “Is RuPaul’s Drag Race the Most Radical Show on TV?”, published in the January 28th, 2018 edition of The New York Times Magazine.
Halberstam spoke about issues of gender, representation, and power dynamics in RuPaul’s Drag Race, pointing out that “there’s no ‘RuPaul’s Drag Kings...we still have this idea that femininity is malleable, and masculinity is a protected domain of real power and privilege. It is not transferable or attainable. The public has no appetite for artificial masculinity.”
Halberstam is the Project Director of CSSD’s Queer Theory: Here, Now, and Everywhere, a working group created to “discuss, debate and investigate the politics of sexuality and gender in a global frame.” Halberstam is also Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.