Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Homi K. Bhabha (Harvard) with GRSJ PhD candidate Allen Baylosis.
GRSJ PhD candidate, Allen Baylosis recently completed a summer fellowship (June 8 – 14) at The New School’s Institute for Critical Social Inquiry (ICSI) in Manhattan, New York.
Allen’s ICSI fellowship was under the seminar “Systemic and Traumatic: Agonisms of Racial Injury and Social Justice,” convened by the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Homi K. Bhabha (Harvard).
The seminar explored the process of re-thinking the problems of time, place and social justice to re-draw the relationship between territories of “systemic racism” and the temporalities of traumatic racism. Without occupying the temporal threshold of strangeness and astonishment, contemporary history is in danger of becoming presentist, while monumental history becomes vulnerable to the celebration of the archaic and the anticipated.
ICSI marked its 11th year in 2025 and was curated and organized by Founding Director Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor Ann Laura Stoler (The New School for Social Research).
Allen Baylosis’s research examines how contemporary aesthetic practices facilitate transnational and transformative discourses on queer, racial, cultural, and sexual politics within the Filipinx Canadian diaspora.
