Fall 2011 | Issue 21

News from the Hans Arnhold Center | Life & Letters | N13
Pfeiffer is the recipient
of numerous awards and fellowships,
most notably the
inaugural Bucksbaum Award,
given by the Whitney Museum
of American Art (2000), as well
as the Alpert Award in the Arts
for Visual Arts (2009). Pfeiffer
was an artist-in-residence at
the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Art Pace, and
exhibition at the Museo de Arte
Centemporáneo de Castillia y
León, the Hamburger Bahnhof
in Berlin, and currently at the
Sammlung Goetz in Munich.
ELIZABETH POVINELLI
Multiculturalism and liberalism
are currently in crisis, believes
Elizabeth Povinelli, this semester’s
German Transatlantic
Worlds in the New Media and Late
Liberalism, is intended to be the
third and last volume of Dwelling
in Late Liberalism. The three
volumes examine the shattered
lives, exhausting struggles, and
enduring difference of alternative
social worlds in late liberalism.
Povinelli’s second project is a
graphic memoir, which examines
the “impossibility of memory,”
Culture. Povinelli is the author of
Economies of Abandonment: Social
Belonging and Endurance in Late
Liberalism (Duke University Press,
2011), The Empire of Love: Toward
a Theory of Intimacy, Geneology,
and Carnality (Duke University
Press, 2006), The Cunning of
Recognition: Indigenous Alterities
and the Making of Australian
Multiculturalism (Duke University
© HORNISCHER
CLASS OF FALL 2011 (L TO R): JAMES DER DERIAN, JENNIFER CULBERT, PAUL PFEIFFER, SUSAN MCCABE, LELAND DE LA DURANTAYE,
ELIZABETH POVINELLI, JOHN VAN ENGEN, TOM SLEIGH, ADAM HASLETT, ALICE EAGLY, DANIEL HOBBINS (NOT PICTURED: GEOFFREY O’BRIEN)
the Atlantic Center for the Arts.
His work has been exhibited
at the Museum of Modern Art,
the Whitney, the Guggenheim,
P.S.I. Contemporary Art Center,
the Studio Museum in Harlem,
San Francisco Art Institute,
Thomas Dane Limited, Kunst-
Werke, carlier | gebauer, the
Cairo Biennial, the Museum of
Contemporary Art in Shanghai,
and the Singapore Art Museum,
among others. Pfeiffer was
also subject of a major solo
Program Fellow. Povinelli wishes
to develop an “anthropology of
the otherwise” in order to grasp
the transformations that have
taken place in how liberal regimes
recognize and govern social difference
in the wake of the anticolonial
and postcolonial movements
– and in the face of the
continual emergence of alternative
social worlds. Povinelli hopes
to engage these themes with
two Academy projects. The first,
titled Geontologies: Indigenous
and how the collapse of one world
can lead to the expansion of
another.
Povinelli is a professor of
anthropology and gender studies
at Columbia University, where
she has also been the director
of the Institute for Research
on Women and Gender and the
co-director of the Center for the
Study of Law and Culture. She is
the author of numerous books
and essays and a former editor
of the academic journal Public
Press, 2002), and Labor’s Lot:
The Power, History, and Culture of
Aboriginal Action (University of
Chicago Press, 1994).
TOM SLEIGH
“The stone could have wept if
stone could weep,” begins one
of Tom Sleigh’s new poems,
“Face,” sweeping the reader into
instantaneous rhythm, emotion,
and dream. While at the
American Academy in Berlin, the
Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow hopes