New World Orders: Coloniality, Racial Intimacies, and Disability

image credit: Candice Li

The symposium pairs recent work in critical indigenous and race studies with disability and queer theories. We will work through important provocations by recent humanists and artists who have turned to the formation of the New World in order to better understand our contemporary moment. These turns force us to account for a deeper sense of history, along with the aftermath of racial logics, colonization, enslavement, resource extraction, the policing of intimacy, and the disablement of bodies/communities. We will explore how to imagine new world orders and futures. What is the responsibility of the humanities and the arts to move forward with the reverberations of the New World? What new world orders can emerge by contending with the “old” New World?

Participants:

Artists Candice Lin and Xandra Ibarra

Mel Chen (UC Berkeley)          C. Riley Snorton (Cornell)       Aimee Bahng (Dartmouth)

Jasbir Puar (Rutgers)               Mark Rifkin (UNCG)                  Ivan Ramos (UC Riverside) 

Friday, January 27th, 1pm - 6pm

NYU Law School, 108 W 3rd St., Lipton Hall (Accessible Entrance: 110 W 3rd St.)

Please e-mail AskNewWorldOrders@gmail.com with requests for accommodations.

Sponsors include NYU's Art & Public Policy; Dean's Office at Tisch; Asian/Pacific/American Institute; Council for the Study of Disability; Center for the Humanities; Vice Provost's Office for Faculty, Arts, Humanities, and Diversity; and NYU Law's Center for Human Rights and Global Justice.

Co-sponsors include Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality; Center for Media, Culture and History; Social and Cultural Analysis; Performance Studies; Spanish and Portuguese; Center for Multicultural Education and Programs; Media, Culture, and Communication; and the Hemispheric Institute.