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ICM SYMPOSIUM SERIES SPRING 2023

“Reparations for Colonization/Carbonization”
Friday, March 3, 2023
A.D. White House, Room 110
10:00 a.m —5:30 p.m.


Given the intertwined history of industrial capitalism, extraction and colonialism, this symposium will explore the pending reparations to their victims from a multidisciplinary perspective. Acknowledging the accountability of the first industrializing countries of the Global North to the previously colonized countries of the Global South, the symposium will address the importance of material and moral reparations in bringing justice to the residual inequalities caused by slavery and racism, environmental extraction and pollution. The intention is to explore the intersections between colonialism and climate change, de-colonization and de-carbonization, transitional justice and energy transition.

This symposium will continue the discussion from the “Repair and Reparations” panel series organized by Esra Akcan as director of the Institute for European Studies, at the Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell. Information and links to the recordings of the panels are included below.

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December 15-17 2022 the Africa Institute Reimagining Mobilities/ Immobilities in the Indian Ocean with black and white photo of person taking photography, water, boat

The Africa Institute, directed by Cornell History of Art Professor Salah Hassan, opens the third edition of the annual country-focused season highlighting Africa's Indian Ocean Islands on December 15, 2022

"Reimagining Mobilities/Immobilities in the Indian Ocean," will be the first of four multi-disciplinary conferences as part of the larger theme, "Thinking the Archipelago: Africa’s Indian Ocean Islands" for 2022-2023.

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Southeast Now Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia cover with fabric art image

Amanda Rath, PhD '11, co-edits special issue of SOUTHEAST OF NOW: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art

This special issue on “Experimentation and Experiment in Southeast Asian Art” (Volume 6, Number 2) guest edited by Amanda Katherine Rath and Wulan Dirgantoro seeks to address the issues and questions around experimentation and the experimental in Southeast Asian arts between the 1950s and late 1990s.

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Shirley Samuels

Shirley Samuels named the Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies

On Oct. 17th, Cornell University’s Board of Trustees appointed Prof. Shirley Samuels as Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies.

This professorship, inaugurated by Prof. Glenn Altschuler in 1998, honors the Litwins’ passion for the study of literature, culture, and American heritage.

Earning her B.A, M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, Samuels began her career as an Assistant Professor of English at Princeton University in 1985. In 1986, she started teaching in what is now Cornell’s Department of Literatures in English. After serving in different administrative roles, such as Chair of History of Art and the Flora Rose House Professor, in 2017, she was appointed Director of Undergraduate Studies for American Studies and in 2021 she became Director of American Studies.

Samuels will teach American Voices: Performing America (ENGL 1158) in the upcoming spring semester, which focuses on drama.

Samuels’ work extends beyond the scope of the classroom as she has written or edited multiple books such as Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War. Her current work in progress is titled “Haunted by the Civil War: Cultural Testimony in the Nineteenth-Century United States.”

“I’ve always worked at a boundary, or set of boundaries, that includes literature, politics, history, visual culture, photography,” she notes. Samuels’ focus on the Civil War involves noticing its similarity to the current political divide in the United States. “I have the sense of being haunted by the resurgence of polarization in the United States resembling the north south polarization during the Civil War.” In developing arguments about the nineteenth century she notices, “Not only the resistance to ending the practice of slavery but also the resistance to thinking about different ideologies in the United States. It seems that almost 200 years later, we’re still doing that,” she adds.

The professorship will be effective Jan 1, 2023

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Free as they want to be: artists committed to memory announcement, statue with grafitti

Cheryl Finley co-curates exhibition at National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

"‘Free as they want to be’: Artists Committed to Memory" considers the historic and contemporary role that photography and film have played in remembering legacies of slavery and its aftermath and examines the social lives of Black Americans within various places including the land, at home, in photographic albums, at historic sites, and in public memory.

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Navina Haider

Stoikov Lecture on Asian Art: Navina Haidar 9.29.22

Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 5:15pm, Johnson Museum of Art, Wing lecture room. Navina Najat Haidar is the Nasser Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah Curator in Charge of the Department of Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is currently marking ten years of its permanent galleries. This talk will be a visual introduction to the spaces, objects, and ideas that constitute the galleries, as well as new directions ahead.

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Kanitra Fletcher

Kanitra Fletcher PhD ‘19, co-curates landmark exhibition “Afro-Atlantic Histories” at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

For centuries, artists have told and retold the complex histories of the African Diaspora. Afro-Atlantic Histories (April 10 – July 17, 2022) takes an in-depth look at the historical experiences and cultural formations of Black and African people since the 17th century.

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