PS Alum Allen Baylosis Completes Summer Fellowship at The New School’s Institute for Critical Social Inquiry

PS alum Allen Baylosis (M.A. '21) recently completed his summer fellowship at The New School’s Institute for Critical Social Inquiry (ICSI) under the seminar “Systemic and Traumatic: Agonisms of Racial Injury and Social Justice," convened by the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Homi K. Bhabha (Harvard). ICSI 2025 is in its 11th year, curated and organized by Founding Director Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor Ann Laura Stoler (The New School for Social Research). 

The seminar engaged with passing moments of time in which large systemic harms are constellated in the horror of brief traumatic moments. Without occupying the temporal threshold of strangeness and astonishment, contemporary history is in danger of becoming presentist, while monumental history becomes vulnerable to the celebration of the archaic and the anticipated. In re-drawing the relationship between territories of “systemic racism” and the temporalities of traumatic racism, the seminar re-thought problems of time, place and social justice.