2021–2022 Lunchtime Talk Series
Over the past year, our relationship to the home has been profoundly transformed. For those of us who could retreat into our homes for safety, homemaking and worldmaking were elided, lives reduced to fit the space of a screen. The home became a place of survival and regeneration, of care and community, as well as one of fear and decay, of anxiety and isolation. No house is a fortress, and not every house is a “home.” Nor is every “home” a house. All year long we missed our homes away from home: “What makes a house a home? Unfortunately: revolution alone” (Sophie Lewis).
The home gives but it also takes away. Viewing the pandemic from a place of privilege reminds us that capitalism offers security in a private house to some at the expense of collaborative homemaking in the world we all share. Coming face to face with both the advantages and inadequacies of the home, might we be ready to imagine new possibilities of homemaking? Of worldmaking? Might we be ready to “dwell on ‘this earth of mankind’ not as a stranger or a trespasser… but as home” (Silvia Federici)?
Fall 2021
September 24
Graduate Workshop, 3:00 - 4:00 pm Zoom
Kutay Onayli
October 27
Workshop, 12:00 - 1:30 pm Zoom
Kubra Khademi, Artist
November 5
Graduate Workshop, 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Malina Buturovic & Junnan Chen
November 10
Workshop, 12:00 - 1:30 pm Zoom
Michael Rakowitz, Artist
November 17
IHUM Open House 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Spring 2022
February 2
Workshop, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Sophie Lewis, Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and Visiting Scholar, GSWS Penn
February 11
Graduate Workshop, 3;00 - 5:00 pm
Lina Abushouk & Gemma Peacocke
March 30
Workshop, 12:00 - 1:30 pm Zoom
Ariella Aisha Azoulay, Brown University
April 13
Faber Lecture 4:30-6:00 pm Zoom
Joy James, Williams College
