All Events
February 11, 2013
Join us for a book discussion and celebration for "The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust" (Columbia University Press, 2012) Roundtable with Marianne Hirsch, Andreas Huyssen, Kellie Jones, Leo Spitzer and Marita Sturken, Moderated by Diana Taylor
February 5, 2013
Please join us in celebrating the launch of Women Creating Change, the new global initiative of the Center for the Study of Social Difference. The evening’s program features a screening of the award-winning Women, War, and Peace, and a discussion with producer Abigail Disney, ’94 GSAS.
Reception to follow.
January 7, 2013
Join us for Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co-Chair, Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University, speaking on the "Global Street" followed by a discussion on "Comparative Urbanism and the Politics of Form" with Arjun Appadurai, Paulette Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University moderated by Anupama Rao, Associate Professor of History, Barnard College, Columbia University. This talk will use the concept of The Global Street to open up a larger conceptual field to understand the complex interactions between power and powerlessness as they get shaped in urban space. Sassen will argue that the city makes visible the limits of superior military power and, most importantly, that cities enable powerlessness to become complex, not simply elementary. In this complexity lies the possibility of making history and remaking the political.
December 4, 2012
FALL 2009 MEETING DATES AND INFORMATION
November 30, 2012
"Forms of Life" panel discussion featuring: João Costa Vargas, University of Texas on “Taking Back the Land: Contested Geographies and Sport Mega Events in Rio de Janeiro” and Denise Da Silva, Queen Mary University of London on "PoEthic Polis: Notes on the Ethico-Political Possibilities of the Urban Imagination"
