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Medical Humanities and Pandemic Urbanisms – Keynote: The Future Repeats Itself: Historical Roots of Anti-Chinese Animus in the time of COVID

[Registration is Required] // Registration opens Tuesday, February 16

The Future Repeats Itself: Historical Roots of Anti-Chinese Animus in the time of COVID
March 23, 6 PM EST

Welcome from Rishi Goyal and Arden Hegele (Columbia University)

Speaker Ari Larissa Heinrich (Australian National University), introduction by Lydia Liu, and respondent Eugenia Lean.

To mark the launch of the Medical Humanities major at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, we are proposing an inaugural virtual series, “Medical Humanities and Pandemic Urbanisms,” which will serve as an essential rallying point for Columbia faculty, current students, and alumni of the Medicine, Literature and Society track. While urban life has been overturned by the pandemic, this crisis invites us to think more broadly how the urban is an emergent form that can be redesigned to promote life and human flourishing. Featuring scholars, activists and artists from a range of fields—from epidemiology to science fiction to urban planning—the series will both illustrate the imaginative possibilities of the Medical Humanities, while also grounding its activities in the community-building work of students at Columbia University in the City of New York.

Medical Humanities engages with humanities and social sciences disciplines like history, English, anthropology, and sociology, as well as scientific fields like biology, genetics, neuroscience and biomedical engineering to emphasize the vulnerability of human bodies, the heterogeneity of anti- essentialist approaches to biology, and the social and cultural determinants of health. The work of humanities students in fields like reproductive justice, gender studies or race and ethnicity directly benefits from an understanding of biologic concepts such as gametogenesis, CRISPR technology, and mRNA platforms. Meanwhile, the study of science and medicine benefits from a sensitivity to rhetoric, structure, narrative and ambiguity. The intersection of medicine and the humanities provides a meaningful opportunity to engage humanities students with the problems of the world and practical knowledge, while introducing would-be scientists to the habits of mind and structures of feeling of the humanities.

Such interdisciplinary thinking has become even more pressing in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, which provides an unexpected backdrop for the launch of the Medical Humanities major. Thinking with this context, “Medical Humanities and Pandemic Urbanisms” will take on the challenge of building our community of scholars and students in a virtual, dislocated environment.

The pandemic has reactivated hidden circuits of racialization and social differentiation. The very conditions of living with the virus have posed new questions about the limits of the human, and the possibility of sociability. As an early epicenter, New York City has been forced to question anew its contested globality—both global capital and its dependence on labor and precarity. Over six weeks, the series will pick up these themes related to New York City and its global peers; pandemic urbanisms; race, climate, and housing; and utopian/dystopian imaginaries.

The series begins with opening keynotes by Ari Larissa Heinrich on the long history of anti-Asian bias in epidemic—culminating with Covid-19. Zeynep Tufekci will present a second keynote on the pandemic and the city. Over the following weeks, we will host a series of events, such as panels on indoor/outdoor urban spaces and indigenous urban activism, and a book panel that considers the Covid-19 pandemic in its historical and imperial context. We will host a design challenge led by guest faculty facilitators and alumni of Medicine, Literature and Society, with a prize for the best student contribution. And lastly, we will elaborate on the theme of utopian imagination with a final roundtable event featuring BIPOC fantasy writers in the academy.

Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society

03/23/2021 by Work Study

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Understanding Systemic Racism: On Passing and Identity

The Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University in the City of New York presents as part of the Ambedkar Initiative, the Spring 2021 web series
Understanding Systemic Racism: Art and Politics

Register here.

“On Passing and Identity”
Joel Lee (Williams College) and K. Satyanarayana (EFL University, Hyderabad)
moderated by Balmurli Natarajan (William Patterson University)

The Ambedkar lecture series is cosponsored by the Office of EVP of Arts and Sciences; Barnard Provost’s Office; Office of the Deans of Humanities and Social Sciences; IRAAS; AAADS; IRCPL; MESAAS; CSER; CU Libraries; and CU Press

Watch the archive of the Fall 2020 web series here.

EVENT CO-SPONSOR(S):
The Ambedkar lecture series is cosponsored by the Office of EVP of Arts and Sciences; Barnard Provost’s Office; Office of the Deans of Humanities and Social Sciences; IRAAS; AAADS; IRCPL; MESAAS; CSER; CU Libraries; and CU Press

02/04/2021 by Work Study

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Building Solidarities: Environmental Reclamations

Guests: Alishine Osman, Anisa Salat, and Huma Gupta

The series is supported by the course “Colonial Practices,” taught by Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi. Web/podcasts are hosted by community organizations. To receive a research guide and link to attend, register by emailing the event title and date to buildingsolidarities@gmail.com.

Environmental diasporas and ecological reclamation in the ‘Somalias’ of Dadaab, Minneapolis, and Mogadishu. Web/podcast by Jadaliyya, “Environment in Context” (www.jadaliyya.com Environment page) and Status podcast (www.statushour.com).

About Building Solidarities: Racial Justice in the Built Environment

Building Solidarities is a form of mutual pedagogy between the campus and the public, through dialogues on urgent questions about constructed environments, urban life, and ecologies.

Building Solidarities: Racial Justice in the Built Environment foregrounds the communities of Minneapolis, Nairobi, and New York, in dialogues between students, activists, artists, and academics.

While building mutual solidarities between our campus and our partners, we aim to extend the political imaginaries, community futures, and solidarities that our partners may build with each other. As we study racial and environmental complexities and injustices, we remain vigilantly reflexive about the relationship between our campus and our neighbors, in Harlem and elsewhere.

The series is supported by the course “Colonial Practices,” taught by Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi. Web/podcasts are hosted by community organizations. To receive a research guide and link to attend, register by emailing the event title and date to buildingsolidarities@gmail.com.

12/09/2020 by Work Study

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