Join us for the release of the report on the proceedings of the third colloquium of the History and Future of Planetary Threats series held on March 31, 2021. Special guest speaker Tom Frieden, report contributor Chinwe Lucia Ochu, and panelist Youssef Charif will reflect on the report’s critical lessons for crisis communications and vaccine uptake.

Jun 22, 2021

Spring 2021

Jun 10

Jun 10, 2021

Spring 2021

Maya Lin

Jun 10, 2021

Spring 2021

Renowned artist and designer Maya Lin presents new and major works.

Jun 10, 2021

Spring 2021

Conversations on Transnational Black Feminisms

Apr 28

Apr 28, 2021

Spring 2021

Conversations on Transnational Black Feminisms

Apr 28, 2021

Spring 2021

The inaugural public event of the Transnational Black Feminisms Working Group of the Center for the Study of Social Difference (CSSD)

Apr 28, 2021

Spring 2021

Rethinking Nature and Society Conference | Session 1

Apr 9

Apr 9, 2021

Spring 2021

Rethinking Nature and Society Conference | Session 1

Apr 9, 2021

Spring 2021

This conference brings together experts in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities from Columbia and outside institutions to participate in a highly interdisciplinary discussion of nature and society in Latin America. Engaging varied disciplinary and national perspectives, the conference takes a regional approach to land and natural resource use policies and politics on the premise that there are important social, economic, political, human rights and environmental interlinkages between different countries in the region that can provide the foundation for productively rethinking nature in Latin America.

Apr 9, 2021

Spring 2021

Virtual US Book Launch | Knowing Women: Same Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Post-Colonial Ghana

Apr 6

Apr 6, 2021

Spring 2021

Virtual US Book Launch | Knowing Women: Same Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Post-Colonial Ghana

Apr 6, 2021

Spring 2021

Join the Transnational Black Feminisms working group for the U.S. virtual book launch of Knowing Women: Same Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Post Colonial Ghana by serena o. dankwa. serena o. dankwa is an Associate Researcher in the Institute of Social Anthropology and the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies at the University of Bern and is affiliated with the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon. Knowing Women is an ethnography on friendship, desire, and same-sex intimacy among urban, working-class women in southern Ghana.

Apr 6, 2021

Spring 2021

Crisis communications and vaccine uptake in fragile African settings: What Works?

Mar 31

Mar 31, 2021

Spring 2021

Crisis communications and vaccine uptake in fragile African settings: What Works?

Mar 31, 2021

Spring 2021

As the COVID-19 vaccine campaign moves worldwide, innovative approaches to vaccine campaigns are badly needed. How to build trust in vaccines among a weary, anxious and often skeptical public? Join us for a conversation among African and US policymakers, activists, nursing leaders and academics to dissect the elements of effective risk communications campaigns, with an emphasis on empowering individuals and communities to lead the charge.

Mar 31, 2021

Spring 2021

Mar 22

Mar 22, 2021

Spring 2021

Barbara Penner Appears on the Know Show Podcast, episode “Feminist Architecture: The Case of Female Public Toilets”

Mar 22, 2021

Spring 2021

Mar 22, 2021

Spring 2021

Travesti and Trans Latina Activism - From the Streets to the Screen

Mar 11

Mar 11, 2021

Spring 2021

Travesti and Trans Latina Activism - From the Streets to the Screen

Mar 11, 2021

Spring 2021

Mar 11, 2021

Spring 2021

Frontline Nurses: Leaders in Pandemic Response

Mar 10

Mar 10, 2021

Spring 2021

Frontline Nurses: Leaders in Pandemic Response

Mar 10, 2021

Spring 2021

You are invited to meet, listen to, and engage with frontline nurses and midwives at our launch event on Wednesday, March 10th, 2021 at 12:00 pm EST. We’ll share the website and hear from project contributors and interviewees.

Mar 10, 2021

Spring 2021

Explorations in the Medical Humanities: Parenting in Pandemic with Jessica Calarco and Meryl Alper

Mar 8

Mar 8, 2021

Spring 2021

Explorations in the Medical Humanities: Parenting in Pandemic with Jessica Calarco and Meryl Alper

Mar 8, 2021

Spring 2021

The coronavirus pandemic inaugurated a global shift to online learning, working, and socializing. This event considers the immediate and longterm effects such a move has on parents and on forms of mothering in particular.

Mar 8, 2021

Spring 2021

From Menstrual Moment to Menstrual Movement

Feb 25

Feb 25, 2021

Spring 2021

From Menstrual Moment to Menstrual Movement

Feb 25, 2021

Spring 2021

Periods are having their moment – in this Society for Menstrual Cycle Research (SMCR) webinar we hear from people who are turning it into a movement.

Feb 25, 2021

Spring 2021

Feb 25

Feb 25, 2021

Spring 2021

Travesti and Trans Latina Activism - From the Streets to the Screen

Feb 25, 2021

Spring 2021

Feb 25, 2021

Spring 2021

Explorations in the Medical Humanities Book Launch Roundtable Alison Piepmeier’s Unexpected: Parenting, Prenatal Testing, and Down syndrome

Feb 15

Feb 15, 2021

Spring 2021

Explorations in the Medical Humanities Book Launch Roundtable Alison Piepmeier’s Unexpected: Parenting, Prenatal Testing, and Down syndrome

Feb 15, 2021

Spring 2021

Join the new Motherhood and Technology working group for the Unexpected: Parenting, Prenatal Testing, and Down Syndrome virtual book launch.

Feb 15, 2021

Spring 2021

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Dec 3

Dec 3, 2020

Abolishing Carceral Technologies

Dec 3, 2020

Join the Data, Algorithms, and Social Justice working group for an online event featuring Dr. Jackie Wang (New School, Culture and Media Studies, author of Carceral Capitalism).

Dec 3, 2020

Black Transfeminism, Afro-Brazilian Religions, and Resistance in 2020

Nov 20

Nov 20, 2020

Black Transfeminism, Afro-Brazilian Religions, and Resistance in 2020

Nov 20, 2020

This event is a part of the Afro-Americas in Dialogue Series: Brazilian Black Awareness Month.

Nov 20, 2020

Personalized Yet Public? Genomic Medicine's Implications for Precision Public Health

Nov 16

Nov 16, 2020

Personalized Yet Public? Genomic Medicine's Implications for Precision Public Health

Nov 16, 2020

Favela Live Tours: Rocinha Live Tour with Erik Martins and Antônio Firmino

Nov 10

Nov 10, 2020

Favela Live Tours: Rocinha Live Tour with Erik Martins and Antônio Firmino

Nov 10, 2020

In our first tour, we would like to invite you to visit favela of Rocinha with professional guides tours, Erik Martins from ‘Rocinha by Rocinha’ Tours and Antônio Firmino from Sankofa Museum. Erik’s tour provides a genuine experience in a favela with local people, but also with information about tour origins, trajectories, their struggles, culture, and the dynamics of Favela of Rocinha.

Nov 10, 2020

Nov 10

Nov 10, 2020 – Dec 15, 2020

Favela Live Tours - Nov. 10th - Dec. 15th

Nov 10, 2020 – Dec 15, 2020

Oct 29

Oct 29, 2020

AI Bias and the Law

Oct 29, 2020

Join the Data, Algorithms, and Social Justice working group for a workshop with the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (Urban Justice Center, NYC).

Oct 29, 2020

Oct 23

Oct 23, 2020

Urban Democracy: Caste and the City

Oct 23, 2020

Co-sponsored by the Geographies of injustice: Gender and the City working group and featuring working group co-directors Ana Paulina Lee and Anupama Rao

Oct 23, 2020

Sexuality, Tech, and Social Justice in Pandemic Times: A Conversation with SX Noir

Oct 15

Oct 15, 2020

Sexuality, Tech, and Social Justice in Pandemic Times: A Conversation with SX Noir

Oct 15, 2020

On Thursday, October 15th, 4:00-5:30 PM EST the Data, Algorithms, and Social Justice working group at Columbia’s Center for the Study of Social Difference welcomes SX Noir—vice president of Women of Sex Tech, sex worker advocate, and host of the “Thot Leader” podcast—for a thought-provoking exploration of sexuality, technology, and activism today.

Oct 15, 2020