Jack Halberstam, Director of Past CSSD WG Queer Aquí & ISSG Faculty Director, Announced as 2024 Guggenheim Fellow
The Center for the Study of Social Difference wishes to congratulate Professor Jack Halberstam, the David Feinson Professor of the Humanities, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Director of the Institute the Study of Gender & Sexuality (ISSG), and Director of the past CSSD Working Group Queer Aquí, has been named a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow.
Read the full ISSG article here.
Professor Jack Halberstam to Deliver Public Lectures in Sydney, Australia
Former co-director of the Queer Aquí working group and David Feinson Professor of the Humanities, Jack Halberstam, will be delivering a public lecture as part of the Queer PowerPoint series, held in Sydney, Australia, on December 15, 2023. In anticipation of the forthcoming work entitled The Wild Beyond: Music, Architecture and Anarchy, this lecture will examine the particularities of what Professor Halberstam means by “wildness” as a space of possibility for breaking from binaries such as gender, sexuality and so on. Tickets are still on sale for this wonderful event here.
The event is hosted by the Power Institute at the University of Sydney.
Already sold out is Professor Halberstam’s talk on Thrusday, December 14, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia titled “All Fall Down: Post-Industrial Demolition Projects and the Aesthetic of Collapse.”
Katherine Franke in Vox
Columbia Law Professor Franke commented on new US legislation to combat anti-Asian hate crimes.
In an article on the intent and anticipated implications of the US House of Representatives bill to improve data tracking of anti-Asian hate crimes, Professor Franke told Vox: “Enhancing criminal prosecutions of and requiring greater reporting on hate crimes are interventions that take place after bias incidents have taken place. Education, public messaging — particularly from elected officials — and other community-based programs aimed at reconciliation and repair are more likely to reduce the incidence of hate crimes.” Read the full article here.
Professor Franke, Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, directs the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law and is the faculty director of the Public Rights/Private Conscience Project. She is a member of the current CSSD working groups Queer Aqui and former working groups Reframing Gendered Violence and Science and Social Difference.
Vanessa Agard-Jones Lectures on Ephemera at Wesleyan University
In “Empirical Ephemera,” Professor Agard-Jones used the concept-metaphor of sand to consider how coloniality is made material.
Assistant Professor Vanessa Agard-Jones gave a lecture on “Empirical Ephemera” at Wesleyan University’s Center for the Humanities. She explored the ways that colonality is made material, and how we might use sand as a tool for thinking an ephemeral archive, empirically.
Agard-Jones is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Columbia, co-director of CSSD’s Black Atlantic Ecologies working group, and member of the Queer Aqui and former Reframing Gendered Violence and Science and Social Difference working groups.
Office of the Provost Mid-Career Faculty Grant
Congratulations to Spring 2021 Grant awardees Kevin Fellezs (Music), Natasha Lightfoot (History), and Camille Robcis (French, History).
We are pleased to congratulate CSSD working group members Kevin Fellezs, Natasha Lightfoot and Camille Robcis on receiving a Spring 2021 Columbia Office of the Provost Mid-Career Faculty Grant in recognition of significant contributions to their fields.
Kevin Fellezs received the grant for his work on The Love Song in Black Popular Music, 1945-2000. He is Associate Professor of Music, Ethnomusicology & African American & African Diaspora Studies and former co-director of CSSD’s Pacific Climate Circuits: Moving Beyond Science, Technology, Engineering, and Economics working group.
Assistant Professor Natasha Lightfoot received the grant for work on her project, Fugitive Cosmopolitans and the Making of the Black Atlantic. She teaches Caribbean, Atlantic World, and African Diaspora History, and was a member of CSSD’s former Digital Black Atlantic working group.
Associate Professor Camille Robcis received the grant for her forthcoming project, tentatively titled The Gender Question: Populism, National Reproduction, and the Crisis of Representation, in which she explores the protests against the so-called “theory of gender” and their conceptual links to populism. She teaches modern European intellectual history, and is a member of CSSD working group Queer Aqui.