Othered Grounds

may 6, 2021

 

This conversation will focus particularly on the body and its relationship to the ground, specifically those bodies that negotiate the ground outside what have been deemed “normative” frameworks. It will consider how the ground is structured by dominant systems to which Others must conform. Queer, gendered, disabled, and racialized bodies, as well as non-human bodies are all distinct in their ground negotiations but share their exclusion from hegemonic structures of ground formation. Grouping these categories of variant bodies is not intended to exaggerate the process of Othering, but to discuss ways to mobilize across difference to upend structures of exclusion.

MODERATOR: Gail Dubrow

Professor, University of Minnesota, School of Architecture

speaker: Heather Davis

Assistant Professor, Culture and Media, The New School

Speaker: Aroussiak Gabrielian

Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism and Director of the Landscape Futures Lab, USC School of Architecture

Speaker: Jack Halberstam

Professor of Gender Studies and English, Columbia University

speaker: aimi hamraie

Associate Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt University

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