"Skin / Matters. Gendered and Racial Economies of Skin Color" (Aug 29-30), CUNY GC & Columbia University

29 - 30 August 2013

Thursday, August 29
The Graduate Center City University of New York (CUNY)
365 5th Avenue, C Fl, C205
New York, NY 10016

Friday, August 30
Columbia University Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality
(IRWGS)
754 Schermerhorn Extension, 7th Fl
1200 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027

SKIN / MATTERS
GENDERED AND RACIAL ECONOMIES OF SKIN COLOR

Thursday, 29 August 2013 at The Graduate Center, CUNY, C205
5:00pm Welcome to the Symposium & Introduction
DOMINIQUE GRISARD, MARGRIT VOGT & KATYAYANI DALMIA

5:15 – 6:45pm Shadeism
Documentary short by NAYANI THIYAGARAJAH, an exploration of the roots,
realities and ramifications of skin tone-based beauty 'ideals' through
young women of colour in Toronto, Canada followed by Q&A with filmmaker
NAYANI THIYAGARAJAH, York University


Friday, 30 August 2013 at IRWGS, Columbia University
9:30 – 10am Introduction to the Symposium
MARGRIT VOGT, DOMINIQUE GRISARD & KATYA DALMIA

10 – 12:30pm In / Visibilizing Skin Color, Race, and Gender
The Erasure of Colour: Examining the Practices of Skin-Bleaching
LAHOMA THOMAS, University of Toronto

Gendered Perspective on Colorism in the US Music Industry
KENDRA ROSS / ABBY DOBSON, New School for Social Research

What is the Color of a Ghost? – Films from the Asian Minority Population
in Germany
FENG-MEY HEBERER, University of Southern California

"Forever Foreign": Nikki S. Lee's The Ohio Project
COREY DZENKO, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

2 – 4:30pm Coloring Race and Gender
Who's the Fairest of them All? Pink Princess Culture and its Imperial Legacy
DOMINIQUE GRISARD, Columbia / CUNY Graduate Center / Basel

Showing by Hiding: The Omitted Skin Color Theme in Carl Einstein's
"Negerplastik"
MARGRIT VOGT, Humboldt University Berlin / Frankfurt Oder

The Melanin Chronicles: Situating the Sciences of Skin Color and Utopic
Visions of Post-Color Worlds
J. CECILIA CÁRDENAS-NAVIA, Yale University

"Fifty Shades of Bruins/Brown": Zoë Wicomb's Playing in the White in Pre-
and Post-Apartheid South Africa
THERESE STEFFEN, University of Basel / Harvard University

5 – 7pm Keynote: Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Transnational
Indonesia
AYU SARASWATI, University of Hawaii
Chair: DOMINIQUE GRISARD


Concept and organization: Dominique Grisard, Margrit Vogt & Katyayani Dalmia

The symposium is free of charge and open to everyone. Please RSVP to
dg2755@columbia.edu