Insurgent Domesticities
Roundtable, The Society of Fellows / Heyman Center for the Humanities
Date: Thursday, March 27, 2025
Time: 5:00pm
Location: 2nd floor Common Room
Directions
‘Home’ has been used as a boundary-forming device to identify, homogenize, normalize and exclude. Composed of family and nation, and attendant notions of their sanctity, ‘home’ is no longer open to reinterpretation and reconfiguration; it is pressured as a lived space. Insurgent Domesticities brings into focus the insurgent environments, objects, and practices that make up the maintenance, creation, labor, and intimacies of home. Our collective investigates the more processual aspects of domesticity, to interrogate the politics of ‘home,’ through histories of solidarity, disobedience, stealth, and militancy, from the scale of the clothesline to that of the state.
Discussants
Ana Ozaki, University of Pennsylvania
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Barnard College, Columbia University
Barbara Penner, University College London
Hollyamber Kennedy, Northwestern University
Lilian Chee, National University of Singapore
Madiha Tahir, Yale University
Neferti Tadiar, Barnard College, Columbia University
Rishav Kumar Thakur, Columbia University
S. E. Eisterer, Princeton University
