Description:

Winter Keynote of the Kaplan Humanities Institute's SOVEREIGNTIES Dialogue:

Bodies, Biopolitics, & Belonging

A conversation that will engage the long historical scope and global geographic scale of threats to bodily safety and reproductive justice, with an eye as well to the forms of resistance and belonging forged nonetheless. 

Jennifer L. Morgan (New York University, Social and Cultural Analysis and History)

Michelle Murphy (University of Toronto, History + Women and Gender Studies Institute)

Moderator: Katie Watson (Associate Professor of Medical Education, Medical Social Sciences [Determinants of Health], and Obstetrics and Gynecology, Feinberg School of Medicine)

About the Sovereignties Dialogue

SOVEREIGNTIES is a year-long conversation that mobilizes humanities research to question, understand, and reimagine sovereignties—bodily, artistic, intellectual, geopolitical—and their global histories, contemporary challenges, and possible futures.

This Dialogue series seeks to examine Sovereignties in many dimensions. Restrictions on bodily autonomy—from borders to identity to reproductive rights—are pressing in familiar and unfamiliar ways. Collectives and individuals are practicing sovereignty beyond state formations—in gardens, on floating cities, in activist solidarities—even while confronting the consequences of pollution that seeps into bodies and foods. The Kaplan Humanities Institute Sovereignties Dialogue will contend with these contradictions, the histories that re-emerge in the present, and the forms of belonging forged against, within, and beyond the state.