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  • Authors join peers, scholars, and friends in conversation. Topics include environment, humanities, race, social justice, cultural studies, art, literature and literary criticism, media studies, sociology, anthropology, grief and loss, mental health, and more.
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  • Knowing Silence: How children understand and negotiate immigration status and its impact on their lives.

    Knowing Silence: How children understand and negotiate immigration status and its impact on their lives.
    Apr 24 2024
    Educators who underestimate children’s knowledge about citizenship and immigration status can marginalize or misunderstand these students and their families. In Knowing Silence: How Children Talk about Immigration Status in School, author Ariana Mangual Figueroa models new ways scholars might collaborate with educators, children, and families—and makes audible the experiences of immigrant-origin students in their own terms, ultimately offering teachers and researchers a crucial framework for understanding citizenship in the contemporary classroom. Here, the author is joined in conversation with collaborators Dra. Aurora Chang, Claudia Rolando, and Lumari Sosa Garzón.Ariana Mangual Figueroa is author of Knowing Silence and associate professor of urban education and Latin American, Iberian, and Latino cultures at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). She is a co-principal investigator at the CUNY Initiative on Immigration and Education (CUNY IIE).Dra. Aurora Chang is associate professor of higher education at Loyola University and incoming Director of Faculty Development and Career Advancement at George Mason University. Chang is founder of Academic Life Simplified.Claudia Rolando is a graduate of Brooklyn College and an educator in New York.Lumari Sosa Garzón is a Mexican student in the Macaulay Honors program with a TheDream.US scholarship at Brooklyn College, majoring in psychology and minoring in anthropology. Lumari is a co-author of the Afterword appearing in Knowing Silence.Episode references:-Published research of Michael Fix and Wendy Zimmerman (“All under One Roof: Mixed-Status Families in an Era of Reform,” International Migration Review)-The Struggles of Identity, Education, and Agency in the Lives of Undocumented Students (Dra. Aurora Chang)-The Undocumented Americans (Karla Cornejo Villavicencio)-The New York State Youth Leadership Council-Lives in Limbo (Roberto G. Gonzales)-concept of Community Cultural Wealth / Dr. Tara Yosso-Plyler v. Doe, Supreme Court decision, 1982-The New School’s Parsons Scholars ProgramRecommended reference:-Areli is a Dreamer / Areli MoralesKnowing Silence: How Children Talk about Immigration Status in School is available from University of Minnesota Press."No words can express all that I think and feel about this beautiful, brilliant book. Narrated innovatively and with the utmost of care, with rich analyses of language data and thought-provoking insights drawn from a longitudinal and intimate ethnographic research relationship, Knowing Silence will surely make you think, wonder, laugh, cry—and see and hear young people who are growing up in contexts of immigration in new ways."—Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, UCLA"Using child-centered methodologies, Ariana Mangual Figueroa unveils the critical yet often invisible aspects of students' lives and highlights unintended chilling effects of school practices. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this is an important and compelling contribution to the field."—Carola Suárez-Orozco, Harvard Graduate School of Education
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    57 mins
  • Art, time, nonlinearity with Manuela Infante and Mandy-Suzanne Wong (Art after Nature 5)

    Art, time, nonlinearity with Manuela Infante and Mandy-Suzanne Wong (Art after Nature 5)
    Mar 26 2024

    Estado Vegetal is Manuela Infante’s riveting experimental performance art through which plants are charged with an agency capable of uprooting culturally grounded conceptions of the world. The book Estado Vegetal: Performance and Plant-Thinking, edited by Giovanni Aloi, is the first book dedicated to this performance and features essays from scholars and artists, including a fictional continuation of Infante’s work by Mandy-Suzanne Wong. Here, Infante and Wong join Art after Nature series editors Giovanni Aloi and Caroline Picard in conversation.

    Manuela Infante is a Chilean playwright, director, screenwriter, and musician who creates her own performances and tours in America, Europe, and Asia. Her works include Estado Vegetal and Metamorphosis.



    Mandy-Suzanne Wong is a Bermudian writer of fiction and essays. She is an award-winning author whose books include The Box and Drafts of a Suicide Note.



    Giovanni Aloi teaches art history, theory, and criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is author or editor of many books on the nonhuman and art.



    Caroline Picard is a writer, cartoonist, curator, and founder of the Green Lantern Press.


    A performance of Manuela Infante’s Estado Vegetal (Vegetative State), performed by Marcela Salinas, is available to watch on YouTube.

    Art after Nature is a series edited by Giovanni Aloi and Caroline Picard that explores epistemological questions that emerge from the expanding, environmental consciousness of the humanities.

    Estado Vegetal: Performance and Plant-Thinking is available from University of Minnesota Press and includes pieces by Maaike Bleeker, Lucy Cotter, Prudence Gibson, Michael Marder, Dawn Sanders, Catriona Sandilands, Sibila Sotomayor Van Rysseghem, and Mandy-Suzanne Wong.


    Episode references:

    The Conquest of America / Tzvetan Todorov

    Capitalist Realism / Mark Fisher

    Horizon / Manuela Infante
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    54 mins
  • Tracing the roots of toxic masculinity.

    Tracing the roots of toxic masculinity.
    Mar 21 2024
    Masculinity in Transition is a book that moves the study of masculinity away from an overriding preoccupation with cisnormativity, whiteness, and heteronormativity, and toward a wider and more generative range of embodiments, identifications, and ideologies. Author K. Allison Hammer’s bold rethinking of masculinity and its potentially toxic effects lays bare the underlying fragility of normative masculinity. Here, Hammer is joined in conversation with Kale Bantigue Fajardo. This episode was recorded in late fall of 2023.K. Allison Hammer (they/them) is assistant professor and coordinator of women, gender, and sexuality studies at Southern Illinois University. Hammer is author of Masculinity in Transition.Kale Bantigue Fajardo (he/him) is associate professor of American studies and Asian American studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Fajardo is author of Filipino Crosscurrents: Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities, and Globalization.REFERENCES:The Politics of Friendship / Jacques DerridaThe Feeling of Kinship / David EngMen in Place / Miriam J. AbelsonTrue Sex / Emily SkidmoreMasculinities in Theory / Todd ReeserGertrude SteinFemale Masculinity / Jack HalberstamSons of the Movement / Bobby NobleThe Future of Whiteness / Linda Martín AlcoffDisturbing Attachments / Kadji AminEmily DickinsonWilla CatherStone Butch Blues / Leslie FeinbergMinnie Bruce PrattAndrea GibsonReinaldo ArenasMarlon RiggsPresidential masculinity (Reagan, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden)The Color Pynk / Omise’eke Natasha TinsleyNao BustamanteJudith ButlerThe Crying Game (film, 1992)Disclosure (film, 2020)BuddhismCare Work / Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-SamarasinhaTrans Care / Hil MalatinoNormal Life / Dean SpadeMutual Aid / Dean SpadeWorkers in Industrial America / David BrodyMasculinity in Transition and Filipino Crosscurrents are available from University of Minnesota Press.MORE: Listen to more talks with K. Allison Hammer on the University of Minnesota Press YouTube page (with Greta Olson and Christopher Breu), the Gender Stories podcast, and on In Conversation with Frank Schaeffer."A major intervention into masculinities studies, Masculinity in Transition brilliantly and consistently pushes the field toward a critical understanding of masculinity as a complex gender formation."—Christopher Breu, author of Hard-Boiled Masculinities"How might we understand masculinity if we turn toward culture rather than biology? K. Allison Hammer uncover(s) remakings of masculinity that center care, porosity, and unruly alliances—uplifting models for the precarious now."—Amber Jamilla Musser, author of Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance
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    54 mins
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