April 15, 4-5 PM ET

Public Lecture by Hazel V. Carby: “Imperial Accounting”

Register at http://dartgo.org/imperial_accounting

May 20-21

Work: An Asia/America Studies Symposium

• May 20, 4-6 PM ET Keynote by Neferti Tadiar (Barnard)
• May 21, 4-6 PM ET Panel discussion with Anna Storti (Dartmouth); Carolyn Areum Choi (Dartmouth); Bobby Benedicto (McGill); and Ren-yo Hwang (Mount Holyoke).

Register at http://dartgo.org/work

Visit the symposium webpage for more information.

June 3, 4-6 PM ET

A Roundtable: State of the Field Discussion

Register at http://dartgo.org/institute_roundtable

week 1

April 1, 4-6 PM ET

Jennifer L. Morgan is Professor of History in the department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University where she also serves as Chair.  She is the author of Laboring Women: Gender and Reproduction in the Making of New World Slavery (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004) and the co-editor of Connexions: Histories of Race and Sex in America (University of Illinois Press, 2016).  Her research examines the intersections of gender and race in in the Black Atlantic world. Her newest work, Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic considers colonial numeracy, racism and the rise of the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in the seventeenth-century English Atlantic world and is forthcoming in Spring, 2021 with Duke University Press.

Her recent journal articles include “Partus Sequitur Ventrem: Law, Race, and Reproduction in Colonial Slavery,” in Small Axe; “Accounting for ‘The Most Excruciating Torment’: Trans-Atlantic Passages” in History of the Present and “Archives and Histories of Racial Capitalism” in Social Text.  In addition to her archival work as an historian, Morgan has published a range of essays on race, gender, and the process of “doing history,” most notably “Experiencing Black Feminism” in Deborah Gray White’s edited volume Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower (2007).

Morgan serves as the Council Chair for the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture.  She is the past-Vice President of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians and is a lifetime member of the Association of Black Women Historians.  She lives in New York City.

week 2

April 8, 4-6 PM ET

Marisa J. Fuentes is the Presidential Term Chair in African American History and Associate Professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Professor Fuentes is the author of Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016), which won awards from Association of Black Women Historians, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians and the Caribbean Studies Association. She is also the co-editor of Scarlet and Black: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History, Volume I-III (Rutgers University Press, 2016-2021), and the ‘Slavery and the Archive’ special issue in History of the Present (November 2016). Fuentes’s most recent publications are forthcoming from Small Axe, English Language Notes, and Diacritics. Her next project will explore the connections between capitalism, the transatlantic slave trade and the disposability of black lives in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with support from Oxford University, The McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the Library Company of Philadelphia.  She has served a number of professional organizations including as councilmember for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Secretary for the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians and as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians.

week 3

April 15, 4-6 PM ET

4-5 PM Public Lecture: “Imperial Accounting” OPEN TO ALL

Register at http://dartgo.org/imperial_accounting.

5-6 PM Debriefing RMS Fellows ONLY

Hazel V. Carby is the Charles C. and Dorothea S. Dilley Professor Emeritus of African American Studies and Professor Emeritus of American Studies Yale University and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts.  She is currently a Visiting Research Professor & Humanities Institute Faculty at Dartmouth College.

She is the author of Imperial Intimacies, A Tale of Two Islands (Verso, 2019) selected as one of the “Books of the Year for 2019,” by the Times Literary Supplement.  Winner of the British Academy’s Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, 2020. Finalist John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, ASA, 2020. Highly Commended PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize, 2020.

Imperial Intimacies is a history of British empire, told through one woman’s search through generations of family stories. It moves between Jamaican plantations, the countryside of Devon, the port cities of Bristol, Cardiff and Kingston, and the working-class estates of South London. An intimate personal history and a sweeping summation of the violent entanglement of two islands, it charts the British empire’s interweaving of capital and bodies, public language and private feeling.

Author of Cultures in Babylon: Black Britain and African America (1999); Race Men (1998); Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist (1987); Hazel Carby is also a co-author of The Empire Strikes Back: Race and Racism in 70s Britain (1982).

In 2019 Hazel Carby was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from Wesleyan University and the Stuart Hall Outstanding Mentor Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association.  In 2016 she received the Jay B. Hubbell Medal for lifetime achievement in American Literature, awarded by the Modern Language Association.

Recent articles:

• “Imperial Intimacies – further thoughts,” Small Axe, 64, March 2021: 198-203.
• “Between Black and White,” London Review of Books, 43, 2, January 2021
• “Black Futurities: Shapeshifting Beyond the Limits of the Human” Invisible Culture, 31, November 2020
• “The National Archives,” Invisible Culture, 31, November 2020
• “Peine forte et dure: Punishment by Pressing,” London Review of Books 30 July 2020: 10.
• “Safe? At Home? Feminist Review, 06 July 2020
• “A war half won,” The Guardian (Weekend) 16 November 2019, pp. 62-63

week 4

April 22, 4-6 PM ET

Lisa Lowe is Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies at Yale University, and affiliated with the programs in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, and in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her book,The Intimacies of Four Continents (Duke UP, 2015), is a study of settler colonialism, transatlantic slavery, and the East Indies and China trades as the conditions for modern liberalism and empire. The Intimacies of Four Continents was Finalist for the 2016 John Hope Franklin Award from American Studies Association, and it received the 2018 Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association.

An interdisciplinary scholar whose work is concerned with the analysis of race, immigration, colonialism, and capitalism, Lowe is also the author of Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics (Duke UP, 1996) and Critical Terrains: On French and British Orientalisms (Cornell UP, 1991), and coeditor (with David Lloyd) of The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (Duke UP, 1997).

In 2018, the American Studies Association awarded her the Carl Bode – Norman Holmes Pearson Award for contributions to the field, and the Richard A. Yarborough Prize for outstanding mentorship of underrepresented scholars.

week 5

April 29, 4-6 PM ET

Kimberly Juanita Brown is Co-Director of RMS and Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. Her research and teaching gather at the intersection of African American/African diaspora literature and visual culture studies. In particular, she is interested in the relationship between visuality and black subjectivity. Her first book, The Repeating Body: Slavery’s Visual Resonance in the Contemporary (Duke University Press, 2015) examines slavery’s profound ocular construction and the presence and absence of seeing in relation to the plantation space. She is currently at work on her second book, tentatively titled “Mortevivum: Photography and the Politics of the Visual.” This project examines images of the dead in the New York Times in 1994 from four overlapping geographies: South Africa, Rwanda, Sudan and Haiti. “Mortevivum” explores the relationship between photography and histories of antiblackness on the cusp of the twenty-first century.

week 6

May 6, 4-6 PM ET

Saidiya Hartman is the author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route, and Scenes of Subjection. A MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, she has been a Guggenheim Fellow, Cullman Fellow, and Fulbright Scholar. She has published articles in journals such as South Atlantic Quarterly, Brick, Small Axe, Callaloo, The New Yorker and The Paris Review. She is a professor at Columbia University and lives in New York.

Week 7

May 13, 4-6 PM ET

Iyko Day is Leslie Center William H. Morton Distinguished Senior Fellow, Associate Professor of English and Critical Social Thought at Mount Holyoke College and Faculty Member in the Five College Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program. Her research focuses on Asian North American literature and visual culture; settler colonialism and racial capitalism; Marxist theory and queer of color critique. She is the author of Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism (Duke, 2016) and she co-edits the book series Critical Race, Indigeneity, and Relationalityfor Temple University Press. Her current projects examine the cultures of global Sinophobia; nuclear colonialism in North America, Africa, and Asia; and the aesthetics of racial capitalism.

Week 8

May 20-21

Work: An Asia/America Studies Symposium

• May 20, 4-6 PM ET Keynote by Neferti Tadiar (Barnard)
• May 21, 4-6 PM ET Panel discussion with Anna Storti (Dartmouth); Carolyn Areum Choi (Dartmouth); Bobby Benedicto (McGill); and Ren-yo Hwang (Mount Holyoke)

Register at http://dartgo.org/work

OPEN TO ALL

What work is left to do in Asian American studies? What is the work that must be done not to define but to question and expand the imagined disciplinary bounds of Asian American studies? Taking up multiple feminist, queer, and transnational modes of Asian Americanist critique, we will turn to what has “fallen away” from the identities/regions, forms of labor/work/capital, objects of study, and methods that have been centered in the field. “Work” is linked closely with the recuperative criticism that Asian American Studies performs within the university, from the migrant worker of the 19th century to the flexible global citizens of finance capital today.

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week 9

May 27, 4-6 PM ET

Eng-Beng Lim is Director of RMS, Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Dartmouth College, and author of Brown Boys and Rice Queens: Spellbinding Performance in the Asias (NYU, 2014). The book was recognized with two national awards, one by CLAGS (Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, CUNY Grad Center), and the other AAAS (Association of Asian American Studies).

week 10

June 3, 4-6 PM ET

A Roundtable: State of the Field Discussion

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OPEN TO ALL