Emily Holloway & Amber Jamilla Musser [Lecture & Discussion]
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Emily Holloway & Amber Jamilla Musser [Lecture & Discussion]
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The Place Memory and Culture Incubator at Spitzer is pleased to invite all students, faculty, staff, and guests to the upcoming Presentation & Discussion / Q&A featuring Amber Jamilla Musser and Emily Holloway and moderated by jah elyse sayers.
Using Kara Walker’s A Subtlety (previously exhibited at the former Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn), Amber and Emily will discuss their work in relation to the spatial, historical, and Afrodiasporic histories embedded in Walker’s previous intervention.
This event will be held in person at the Spitzer School of Architecture, first floor, Sciame Auditorium (Room 107) and will occur this Thursday April 10th, 2025 at noon.
Amber Jamilla Musser is a professor of English and Africana studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. She writes and researches at the intersections of race, sexuality, and aesthetics. In addition to writing art reviews for The Brooklyn Rail. She has published widely in queer studies, black feminism, psychoanalysis, and critical theory. She is the author of Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism (NYU Press, 2014), Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance (NYU Press,
2018), and Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined (Duke University Press, 2024).
Emily Holloway, PhD, is the Associate Managing Editor of Urban Affairs Review and a postdoctoral fellow at Drexel University. Her book project, “Domino in the Longue Durée: Racial Capitalism and the Urban Question,” reconstructs the prehistory of the Domino Sugar Refinery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, through the site’s connections to the Caribbean sugar plantation complex. She has a PhD in Geography from Clark University and a master’s degree in urban policy from Hunter College. She has worked with several different community development and urban research institutes in New York City and Philadelphia, including the Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative, the Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center, and the Urban Heritage Project at the University of Pennsylvania.
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2024-04-10
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Lecture
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Holloway, Emily
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Musser, Amber Jamilla
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sayers, jah elyse
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Art
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Capitalism
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Reflection
