Author Archives: Keith Miyake

About Keith Miyake

Keith Miyake is a graduate of the Earth and Environmental Sciences Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. His work crosses the fields of political economic geography, environmental justice and environmental governance, critical race and ethnic studies, American studies, and Asian American studies. His dissertation examined the institutionalization of environmental and racial knowledges within the contemporary capitalist state.

Friday, February 7th: Imperial Debris: Roundtable with Ann Laura Stoler

February 07, 2014
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
CUNY Graduate Center, Skylight Room

Friday, February 7th: Imperial Debris: Roundtable with Ann Laura Stoler A Roundtable with Ann Laura Stoler (New School for Social Research) on the publication of Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination (Duke University Press, 2013) In conversation with Uday Mehta (The Graduate Center, CUNY) , Chelsea Shields (The Graduate Center, CUNY), Neferti Tadiar (Barnard College), Megan Vaughan (The Graduate [read more»]

Fall 2013 Public Events

Print this schedule September 9/13 10:00-2:00Bodies, Histories, & Empire in Africa: Symposium
Antoinette Burton (History Global and Transnational Studies, University of Illinois), Julie Livingston (History, Rutgers University) and Megan Vaughan (History, the Graduate Center, CUNY)A symposium 9/20 4:00-6:00Before Globalization
Leela Gandhi, Suvir Kaul, Ania Loomba, and Feisal MohamedDiscussion moderated by Kim Hall 9/27 7:00-9:00Said [read more»]

Becoming Global: The Renaissance and the World

March 14, 2013 - March 15, 2013
All Day
CUNY Graduate Center, Elebash Recital Hall & Room 5111

The transoceanic voyages of the fifteenth century began a transformation of the planet’s ecology, economy, culture, and politics that produced the globalized world we live in today. From the exchange of capital to land use, from religious practice to cultural production, contact with hitherto separated peoples and places sparked ongoing changes worldwide. [read more»]

Shalah Talebi: Narrating Transformation and Transforming through Storytelling

March 14, 2013
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
CUNY Graduate Center, Room 6496

In Ghosts of Revolution (2011), Shalah Talebi’s haunting account of her years as a political prisoner in Iran, she engages two interrelated premises put forth by Walter Benjamin: that telling stories of lived experiences opens the possibility of a true human connection, the transmission of wisdom, and individual and social transformation; and, to paraphrase Benjamin, that death sanctions everything the storyteller can tell, for the storyteller borrows her authority from death. [read more»]

Structural Violence at the Global Frontier

October 04, 2012 - October 06, 2012
All Day

A reflection about the impact of anti-immigration legislation and the dangers that surround in-transit migrants. We will finish with a March of Silence and Vigil to remember the missing migrants [read more»]