Zip Code Memory Project Website to be Hosted by SOF/Heyman Center
The Zip Code Memory Project, a Social Engagement project at CSSD, now has a host for its completed website (found here) through The Society of Fellows & Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University.
The project will also be archived in perpetuity through NYU Special Collections.
Follow this link to read more on this announcement as well as the official release from the project itself.
ZCMP Film Featured in News Coverage of Queens World Film Festival
The Zip Code Memory Project’s short film, “Together, Not Alone” was included in press coverage of the Queens World Film Festival, where the film was screened along with other community-made short films about the COVID-19 pandemic. Read the reviews in Broadway World and Queens Chronicle.
Zip Code Memory Project Gathering for Covid
CSSD Social Engagement Project organizes an event for community mourning and healing that will take place on December 5th, 2021.
Join the participants of the CSSD Social Engagement Project, The Zip Code Memory Project, on December 5 on the steps of the Cathedral of St John the Divine for our first public gathering to acknowledge, mourn, and pay tribute to the losses of COVID 19.
Combining the physical and the digital, this community gathering will include candles, music, postcards and a healing community ritual. This event will center postcards participants may have sent, brought, or made at the event that responds to the questions:
What have we lost and learned from Covid?
How can we heal and grow together?
More information about this event can be found on the official Zip Code Memory project page here.
For more information on the work of The Zip Code Memory Project, you can visit the CSSD page here.
Announcing the Zip Code Memory Project, supported by the Center for the Study of Social Difference and The Henry Luce Foundation
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.
Announcing the Zip Code Memory Project, supported by the Center for the Study of Social Difference and The Henry Luce Foundation
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. In partnership with community, arts and academic organizations, and working across the zip codes of Morningside Heights, Harlem, Washington Heights and the South Bronx, this project will gather a group of scholars, artists and activists to develop a series of hands-on artistic practices that can transform and enliven those spaces. Building on the networks of care that local communities have created, this project aims to mobilize memory and repair a sense of trust that will help us all build a sense of shared responsibility and belonging.
The Zip Code Memory Project is housed at the Center for the Study of Social Difference (CSSD) at Columbia University and 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. These funds will serve as crucial support for the work of the ZCMP, including group meetings and discussions, reparative memory workshops, public roundtables featuring the work of reparative memorial artists, the building of an interactive website, and a final exhibition and memorial event.
Professors Hirsch and Taylor are organizing the ZCMP along with project co-conveners Susan Meiselas (Magnum Foundation), Lorie Novak (NYU), and Laura Wexler (Yale). George Emilio Sánchez (College of Staten Island) will direct the project’s participatory workshops and Maria Jose Contreras Lorenzini, Noni Carter, Jordan Cruz, Kamal Badhey, and Carina Del Valle Schorske will be among the project’s workshop leaders. Lee Xie is project manager.
The ZCMP will collaborate with local academic, arts, and community organizations including, among others, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; The Museum of the City of New York; El Museo del Barrio; The Bronx Documentary Center; City College of New York Black Studies Program and Rifkind Center for the Humanities and the Arts; Centro Civico Cultural Dominicano; The Cathedral of St. John the Divine; and Magnum Foundation.
Public Humanities and Arts Graduate Fellows working with the project include Luis Rincon Alba (NYU), Linda Aristondo (Columbia), Gabriel Carle (NYU), Bárbara Pérez Curiel (NYU), Mia Cecily Florin-Sefton (Columbia), Fadila Habchi (Yale), Kristin Hankins (Yale), Nancy Ko (Columbia), Leah Kogen-Elimeliah (CCNY), Aya Labanieh (Columbia), Guilherme Meyer (NYU/SSHRC,Canada) , Amanda Parmer (NYU), Laura Salvatore (CCNY).
With thanks for additional funding from Columbia School of the Arts; The Society of Fellows and the Heyman Center for the Humanities; Institute for Religion and Public Life; Yale University Public Humanities; City College of New York Rifkind Center for the Humanities and the Arts; Public Humanities Initiative of GSAS, NYU; Institute of Performing Arts, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU
More information about the Zip Code Memory Project can be found on the CSSD website here and on the official Zip Code Memory project HERE.
Applications now open: ZIP Code Public Humanities Fellowships
All proposals must be submitted by May 24, 2021. Applicants will be informed of decisions by June 1, 2021.
Public Humanities Fellowships for the ZIP Code Memory Project
Sponsored by the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities
and the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life
All proposals must be submitted by May 24, 2021.
The Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life (IRCPL) and the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities (SoF/Heyman) invite applications from advanced graduate students throughout the university in support of the ZIP Code Memory Project: Practices of Justice and Repair at The Center for the Study of Social Difference (CSSD). Led by Marianne Hirsch (Columbia) and Diana Taylor (NYU), The ZIP Code Memory Project seeks to find reparative ways to memorialize the devastating losses resulting from the COVID pandemic while also acknowledging its radically differential effects on different Upper New York City neighborhoods. In partnership with community, arts, religious, and academic organizations, and working across the ZIP Codes of Morningside Heights, Harlem, Washington Heights and the South Bronx, the ZCMP will gather with a group of scholars, artists, and activists to develop a series of humanities and arts practices that aim to build a sense of shared responsibility and belonging. ZCMP will comprise group meetings and discussions, reparative memory workshops, larger public roundtables and memorial events, the building of an interactive website, and a final exhibition.
Public Humanities Fellows will each work closely with one of the community, arts, or religious organizations participating in the project, as well as with a small group of participants selected by that organization.
Fellows receive a stipend of $4000. The fellowship is for 2021-2022, with the possibility of renewal.
Duties include:
Assisting with event and workshop organization
Liaising with workshop leaders and community groups about needs and goals
Assisting in writing workshop description with the community group in mind, outlining aims and requirements.
Attending all ZCMP community group activities and writing up summaries of each meeting
Working with project organizers, workshop leaders, and other PH Fellos to analyze the methods and the reparative/theoretical implications of the project
Attending ZCMP team meetings and coordinating with other PH fellows
Assisting in organizing materials for inclusion in the website
Qualifications:
Commitment to publicly engaged scholarship
Knowledge of Spanish and/or other neighborhood languages preferred
Familiarity with the participant communities preferred
Contact:
Please contact Marianne Hirsch (mh2349@columbia.edu) with any questions about the project.
Application:
A statement of interest (750 words), including qualifications for the position
1-2 page CV, including languages spoken and names and contact information of three references
Submission Guidelines:
Applications must be submitted as a single PDF document, containing Statement of Interest and CV. Label the file thus: Last Name, First Name—ZCMP Public Humanities Fellowship Send the application file as an attachment in an email to: heymanfellowships_applications@columbia.edu
All proposals must be submitted by May 24, 2021. Applicants will be informed of decisions by June 1, 2021.
ABOUT IRCPL: The Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life supports academic research, teaching, and scholarship on the study of religion, culture, and social difference at Columbia University. In addition, it convenes academic conferences, public forums, and collaborative programming to support and extend academic and scholarly understanding of these topics, and to disseminate and distribute such new understandings to broader publics and communities.
ABOUT THE SOF/HEYMAN: Founded in 1975 to support postdoctoral research in the humanities, the Society of Fellows in the Humanities is today the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities--dedicated not only to fostering innovative scholarship, but also to applying the critical, reflective, and interpretive practices of the humanities to address real-world challenges. Through workshops, conferences, lectures, seminars, performances, and public humanities collaborations, the SOF/Heyman offers opportunities for faculty, postdoctoral scholars, students, artists, practitioners, and community members to participate in cross-disciplinary inquiry intent on illuminating the past, engaging the present, and imagining new ways to produce knowledge that promotes the public good.
ABOUT CSSD: The Center for the Study of Social Difference is an interdisciplinary research center supporting collaborative projects that address gender, race, sexuality, and other forms of inequality to foster ethical and progressive social change.
New Social Engagement Projects at the Center for the Study of Social Difference
These new groups will build on established CSSD projects in alignment with Columbia University's Fourth Purpose.
The Center for the Study of Social Difference is proud to announce the inaugural recipients of CSSD’s Social Engagement Grants, The Zip Code Memory Project: Practices of Repair and Reconstructing History in Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro and Dharavi, Mumbai. Each of these new projects are lead by current and former CSSD working directors and to build on the work of CSSD groups, moving that work toward new forms of public engagement and partnerships, in alignment with Columbia University's Fourth Purpose. To learn more about each of these projects visit their project pages linked above.