The Bandung Spirit: Reflections on Afro-Asian Solidarity
The Bandung Humanisms working group presents its culminating workshop, titled "The Bandung Spirit: Reflections on Afro-Asian Solidarity."
Democracy and the Welfare State: The Two Wests in the Age of Austerity
Columbia University Press in partnership with the Centre d'histoire de Sciences Po presents:
“Democracy and the Welfare State: The Two Wests in the Age of Austerity,” a book presentation at the Columbia Global Centers-Paris.
Syrian Refugees in Turkey: How Legislation and Practices Influence Integration
At this talk, Dr. Yükseker will provide an overview of the Turkish state's responses to recent inflows in terms of legislation, the delivery of public services and social policy.
The Rural-Urban Interface: Gender and Poverty in Ghana and Kenya, Statistics and Stories
The Center for the Study of Social Difference invites you to a conference discussing a work in progress on “The Rural-Urban Interface: Gender and Poverty in Ghana and Kenya, Statistics and Stories.”
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Envisioning Change
In recognition of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, CSSD working group Reframing Gendered Violence co-sponsors an interactive panel exploring lessons learned from the past 40 years in the field of sexual violence, examine the current landscape, and identify key strategies for the future.
Tough Enough: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil
Women Creating Change co-sponsors: A book talk on "Tough Enough" by author Deborah Nelson.
Frontiers of Debt in the Caribbean and Afro-America
CSSD working group Unpayable Debt: Capital, Violence, and the New Global Economy presents Frontier of Debt in the Caribbean and Afro-America.
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ENVIRONMENTAL VIOLENCE AGAINST INDIGENOUS WOMEN
CSSD co-sponsors an international symposium focused on advancing research and assessing impacts of Environmental Violence on Indigenous Women and Girls.
Urban Floods: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
CSSD co-sponsors Urban Floods: Interdisciplinary Perspectives conference.
"The Afro-Asian 'Silk Road' and the Rhetoric of Connected History"
CSSD working group Bandung Humanism cosponsors "The Afro-Asian 'Silk Road' and the Rhetoric of Connected History" talk by Tamara Chin (Brown University).
Dalit Feminisms and Dalit Futures
CSSD working group Geographies of Injustice co-sponsors discussion on Dalit Feminisms and Dalit Futures.
DOCUMENTARY STORYTELLING AND COLLABORATIVE PRACTICES: A conversation with photographers Nina Berman and Susan Meiselas
CSSD working group Reframing Gendered Violence co-sponsors DOCUMENTARY STORYTELLING AND COLLABORATIVE PRACTICES: A conversation with photographers Nina Berman, An Autobiography of Miss Wish, and Susan Meiselas, A Room of Their Own.
"Ask but Don’t Tell: The Stubborn Alienation of Research Participants in the Twenty-first Century"
CSSD working group Precision Medicine: Ethics, Politics and Culture presents "Ask but Don’t Tell: The Stubborn Alienation of Research Participants in the Twenty-first Century," a talk by Dr. Misha Angrist (Duke University).
Democracy after the Welfare State: a Conversation
The CSSD working group Social Justice After the Welfare State presents:
"Democracy after the Welfare State: a Conversation," a book launch event for Democracy and the Welfare State: The Two Wests in the Age of Austerity, edited by Alice Kessler-Harris and Maurizio Vaudagna.
On South-South Circulations, Histories, and Possibilities in the Arab World
CSSD Bandung Humanisms project co-sponsors: On South-South Circulations, Histories and Possibilities in the Arab World
We are all Fast Food Workers Now: the Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages
CSSD co-sponsors a roundtable of scholars and activists celebrating the publication of Annelise Orleck's new book, "We are all Fast Food Workers Now: the Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages.”
Sexuality, Disability, and Aging: Queer Temporalities of the Phallus with Jane Gallop
CSSD co-sponsors lecture by Prof. Jane Gallop, Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee.
Second Annual Queer Disruptions conference at Columbia University
Celebrate the launch of CSSD's newest working group, Queer Theory: Here, Now, and Everywhere, with the Queer Disruptions conference on March 1-2, 2018.
Consumers, Citizens, and Crowds in the Age of Precision Medicine
CSSD working group Precision Medicine: Ethics, Politics and Culture presents Consumers, Citizens, and Crowds in the Age of Precision Medicine: a talk by Cinnamon Bloss, Ph.D (University of California, San Diego).
Interrogating Culture-Based Explanations for Violence Against Women
The Reframing Gendered Violence project at CSSD presents a panel discussion with Fiona Hukula (PNG National Research Institute), Mary Fairio (PNG National Research Institute), and Melissa Demian (University of St. Andrews).
The Genomic Revolution, Genetic Counselors, and "Doing Ethics": a talk by Dr. Susan Markens
CSSD working group Precision Medicine: Ethics, Politics and Culture presents The Genomic Revolution, Genetic Counselors, and "Doing Ethics": a talk by Dr. Susan Markens (CUNY-Lehman College).
100 Tikis: An Appropriation Video by Dan Taulapapa McMullin
CSSD working group Pacific Climate Circuits, with support from the Barnard College Department of Anthropology, presents a free film screening and Q&A with Dan Taulapapa McMullin.
Fairness in Precision Medicine
CSSD working group Precision Medicine: Ethics, Politics and Culture presents Fairness in Precision Medicine: a talk by Kadija Ferryman from the Data & Society Research Institute.
Gender and the Technologies of State Violence: Innocence-Disposability-Resilience
A panel with Sherene Razack (Department of Gender Studies, UCLA), Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian (Law School, Hebrew University; International Visitor, Columbia Law School), and Miriam Ticktin (Department of Anthropology, New School University), moderated by Lila Abu-Lughod (Columbia University)
Complex Issues: Carolee Schneemann
Carolee Schneemann discusses her boundary-breaking practice and creative process, on the occasion of Carolee Schneemann: Kinetic Painting at MoMA/PS1, the first comprehensive retrospective of her work.
The Economics of Precision Medicine: Medicine and Disparities in Health
CSSD working group Precision Medicine: Ethics, Politics and Culture presents The Economics of Precision Medicine: Medicine and Disparities in Health: a talk by Kristopher Hult (University of Chicago).
Beyond Prevalence: The Next Generation of Research on Campus Sexual Assault
As part of the Reframing Gendered Violence project at the Center for the Study of Social Difference, BEYOND PREVALENCE brings together a nationwide group of scholars for a panel based on the consensus that campus sexual assault is a serious public health problem, and that innovative and effective prevention requires research that both includes and extends beyond simply measuring the scope of the problem
Cells, Genes, and Stories: HeLa and the Patenting of Life
CSSD working group Precision Medicine: Ethics, Politics and Culture presents Cells, Genes, and Stories: HeLa and the Patenting of Life: a talk by Priscilla Ward (Duke University).