Nuance and Instability: On Mona Hatoum

By Maya Masa’deh on November 22, 2022

She grew into “an artist whose life experience is anything but clean and neat,” experiences which would then translate into her art.

Arts WorkshopCriticism art identity performance

 

Slaughterhouse Walls and Animal Eyes

By Abney Turner on November 21, 2022

When we look into the eyes of an animal, we do not just see but are seen.

Interdisciplinary SeminarResearch animals anthropocene psychoanalysis

 

Black Femininity Through Social Media

By Aaliyah Green on November 18, 2022

The question of “What is the right way for Black women to be feminine?” has become a crucial point of debate in recent years, especially on social media where people showcase their femininity in various ways.

Interdisciplinary SeminarResearch blackness gender politics

 

A Museum of Mannequins

By Nisa Danitz on November 16, 2022

A Museum of Mannequins: A Study of Mimicry considers New York City spaces that are traditionally and newly seen as commercial by raising the oddities of inconspicuous spaces' grandeur. 

Arts WorkshopPortfolio authenticity commodity New York City photography

 

The Celebrity of Laika

By Sophie Tananbaum on November 14, 2022

We need a story we can release our pain and anguish on, a story that allows us to reckon with this new coming of the Cold War, and reckon with a Cold War we never really put to rest, without ...

First-Year Research SeminarResearch celebrity cold war perspective

 

Ethno-Linguistic Identity in Russia and Ukraine

By Leana Rutt on November 11, 2022

This essay will focus on the mechanisms of establishing these identities and their relation to each other, specifically through the lens of language use and policy.

First-Year Research SeminarResearch identity language russia ukraine

 

Choking on a Cry

By Laura Zhang on November 9, 2022

To look at children is to see the differences between violence and resistance as a means to an end by the economic, colonial, state framework and the embodiment of life and survival.

Interdisciplinary SeminarResearch civil rights feminism race

 

The Structural Violence that Defines Chicago

By Zoe Scourtes on November 7, 2022

The South Side of Chicago is known throughout the world for the direct violence that occurs there. However, the direct violence results from the structural violence occurring through institutions and policies that have taken away the lives of thousands of ...

First-Year Research SeminarResearch chicago politics transit

 

Hello Professor Rebecca Karl, Professor Mae Ngai, Professor…

By Audrey Hui on November 5, 2022

A collage reaction to neoliberal knowledge-production and sell-out professors' betrayal of the community.

PortfolioUncategorized community gentrification New York City

 

Mise en Abyme

By Ari Peritz-Means on November 4, 2022

Misrecognition and Injustice in Melville’s Benito Cereno.

First-Year Research SeminarResearch literature philosophy race

 

Colonial Impacts: Yorùbá Gender and Sexuality

By Brianna Bellamy on November 2, 2022

In West Africa, specifically within the Yorùbá society, the constructs of gender and sexuality as understood in the West did not exist there before European encounters.

Independent ProjectResearch gender indigenous peoples sexuality

 

Certain Silence

By Nadine Rousseau on October 31, 2022

Jove loved the mountainside’s illicit joys, the bathing nymphs beside the riverbed.

MA ProgramPoetry modernity myth