{"id":15175,"date":"2022-03-04T12:17:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T17:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=15175"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:45:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:45:14","slug":"my-heart-makes-my-head-swim-a-conversation-with-katherine-mckittrick","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/event\/my-heart-makes-my-head-swim-a-conversation-with-katherine-mckittrick\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMy Heart Makes My Head Swim\u201d:  A Conversation with Katherine McKittrick"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<p class=\"xxmsonormal\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: black;\">The Pauline Jewett Institute of Women\u2019s and Gender Studies <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: black;\">presents&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: black;\">Florence Bird Lecture 2022&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"xxmsonormal\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: black;\">\u201cMy Heart Makes My Head Swim\u201d:&nbsp; A Conversation with Katherine McKittrick&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"xxmsonormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: black;\">Join us for the return of the Flo Bird lecture after a two-year pandemic hiatus.&nbsp; We will host an open conversation with Katherine McKittrick, who will discuss her recent book, <i>Dear Science and Other Stories<\/i>, as well as her institutional work to build Black Studies at Queen\u2019s University, including her appointment as a Canada Research Chair.&nbsp; McKittrick\u2019s presentation as the 2022 Flo Bird lecturer coincides with the Institute\u2019s launch of the Critical Race Studies Minor in 2021-22, the 15<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the Sexuality Studies Minor at Carleton, and the pending change of the Institute\u2019s name to the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"xxmsonormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: black;\">Katherine McKittrick is Professor of Gender Studies, and Geography and Social Planning at Queen\u2019s University and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies.&nbsp; <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; color: #212529; background: white;\">She researches in the areas of Black studies, anti-colonial studies, and critical-creative methodologies. She is the author of&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upress.umn.edu\/book-division\/books\/demonic-grounds\"><b><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; color: #2f579b; background: white; text-decoration: underline;\">Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; color: #212529; background: white;\">, editor of&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/read.dukeupress.edu\/books\/book\/199\/Sylvia-WynterOn-Being-Human-as-Praxis\"><b><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; color: #2f579b; background: white; text-decoration: underline;\">Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; color: #212529; background: white;\">, and co-editor, with Clyde Woods,&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/btlbooks.com\/book\/black-geographies-and-the-politics-of-place\"><b><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; color: #2f579b; background: white; text-decoration: underline;\">Black Geographies and&nbsp;the Politics of Place<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; color: #212529; background: white;\">. Her most recent monograph,&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/dear-science-and-other-stories\"><b><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; color: #2f579b; background: white;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Dear Science and Other Stories<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; color: #212529; background: white;\">&nbsp;is an exploration of Black methodologies.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"xxmsonormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: black;\">Sponsored by the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women\u2019s and Gender Studies.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: black;\">ASL interpretation will be provided.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[60],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-15175","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry","cu_event_type-florence-bird"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2022-03-22T10:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2022-03-22T11:30:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":false,"cu_event_meeting_room":"","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/15175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/15175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15185,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/15175\/revisions\/15185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=15175"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=15175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}