Insights on the Movement of Plant Propagules by Indigenous People, Other People, and Others in the Landscape that became New York (Welikia)
Eric Sanderson has been working for nearly twenty-five years to understand the historical ecology of New York City, deriving insights relevant to conservation, urban planning, resilience, and epistemological issues, such as: what does it mean to be a New Yorker? How do you get here? How do you get away? Here we take the seed’s perspective on these questions and examine the processes by which we can understand the historical landscape before New York, what it meant for seeds and their movement, and how those movements changed in a landscape long stewarded by the Indigenous Lenape people to one controlled by the Dutch and English settlers to the our modern American metropolis.
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Queer Aqui: Together in Hard Times (Queer Aqui: Juntos em Tempos Difíceis) focuses upon questions about the reliance of new right-wing populist regimes on homophobic, transphobic and misogynist ideologies
Human Rights in the Menstrual Movement: Reductionism and Renewed Potential from Below
Two Day-Conference: Conception and Its Discontents: Public Humanities, Explorations in the Medical Humanities organized by the Motherhood and Technology Working Group
Lecture by Frédéric Keck, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales co-organized by the Recovery working group.
The second piece of a two-part event, the Beyond Dystopia Roundtable follows the Dry Ground Burning film screening on Friday, April 28.
This film screening is the first piece of a two-part event, and will be followed by the Beyond Dystopia Roundtable on Saturday, April 29.
Conference Panel: With and Against Technoscience in the Aftermath
The Refugee Cities Working Group at the Center for the Study of Social Difference, Columbia University, presents an interdisciplinary public symposium, “Refugee Cities: Urban Dimensions of Forced Displacement.”
Join us for our first Feminist Intersectional Science and Technology Studies Conference
Camera South Asia celebrates the launch of two new anthologies on South Asian photography and cinema
Book Discussion: Putting Race to Work: Neoliberal Development in the US Virgin Islands
Celia E. Naylor (Professor of Africana Studies and History, Barnard College) will be joined by Natasha Lightfoot (Associate Professor of History, Columbia University) to discuss Naylor’s new book,
Join the Institute for a book talk with Michael Frank, author of One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World, in conversation with Holocaust survivor Stella Levi. This event is in-person at IIJS.
As part of its Period of Life: Improving Menstrual Health and Knowledge in India project, Columbia Global Centers | Mumbai is organizing a virtual workshop
Please join us as we wrap up and reflect on our project and meet related New York City Pandemic Initiatives.
Artist Talk with Paromita Vohra: Gardens of Pleasure Feminism, Desire and Doing Documentary Work in (for) South Asia
What World Is This? An Afternoon discussion with philosopher Judith Butler about the pandemic, our shared vulnerability and how to repair forward.
Jewish Female Mental–Health Professionals between Poland, the Nazis, and America: Memory, History, and Interpretation
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.
Renowned artist and designer Maya Lin presents new and major works.
The inaugural public event of the Transnational Black Feminisms Working Group of the Center for the Study of Social Difference (CSSD)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Join the new Motherhood and Technology working group for the Unexpected: Parenting, Prenatal Testing, and Down Syndrome virtual book launch.
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).
This event is a part of the Afro-Americas in Dialogue Series: Brazilian Black Awareness Month.
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.
Join the Data, Algorithms, and Social Justice working group for a workshop with the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (Urban Justice Center, NYC).
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
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.
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in women in the United States and India, and yet women are less likely to seek healthcare for themselves for a variety of social and economic reasons. Join our panel of experts as they discuss the challenges and approaches in providing care for women's heart disease during the current COVID-19 crisis.
Presented by the Center for the Study of Social Difference working group, On the Frontlines: Nursing Leadership in Pandemics.
Mary Marshall Clark, director of the Center for Oral History Research at Columbia University, will lead a workshop on how to plan and conduct oral histories in communities affected by disasters and pandemics.
The Environmental Justice, Belief Systems and Aesthetic Experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean working group present a film screening of Antonio & Piti, followed by a Q&A with the film’s directors, Vincent Carelli and Wewito Piyãko.
The Precision Medicine: Ethics, Politics, and Culture Project welcomes Dr. Barbara Prainsack (University of Vienna) to give a talk on “The Value(s) of Precision Medicine: Societal, Political, and Ethical Aspects.”
The Precision Medicine: Ethics, Politics, and Culture Project welcomes Dr. Dan Navon (University of California, San Diego) to give a talk on “Mobilizing Mutations: Remaking Illness in Genomic Medicine.”
The Precision Medicine: Ethics, Politics, and Culture Project welcomes Dr. Shirley Sun (Nanyang Technological University) to give a talk on “Should You Be Worried about Racialization of Precision Medicine? Insights from Asia and North America.”
Lila Abu-Lughod discusses how agendas to combat violence against women and gender-based violence have been taken up as tools of state sovereignty and global security.
Please join the Menstrual Health and Gender Justice Working Group, the Center for the Study of Social Difference, and the Institute for the Study of Human Rights for an interdisciplinary workshop on November 22, 2019 entitled "Multifaceted Menstruation".
The Women Mobilizing Memory working group presents Reclaiming Collective Memories in Contemporary Turkey, a panel discussion and book presentation.
The Precision Medicine: Ethics, Politics, and Culture Project welcomes Dr. Stephen Latham (Yale University) to give a talk on “Genomics in the Classroom: Disability, Giftedness and Enhancement.”
Please join us in celebrating the recent publication of Gender, Governance and Islam, with an introduction by Lila Abu-Lughod.
CSSD working group Women Mobilizing Memory will be celebrating the recent publication of their eponymous book Women Mobilizing Memory with a reception and brief presentations from some of the book’s contributors.
Join us for a discussion on ways to improve women’s health on an individual and societal/structural level. Registration is required.
The 6th Georg Arnhold Symposium will explore the relationship between refugee hosting and refugee education in large refugee hosting states in the Global South in light of global policy shifts that attempt to stem secondary movement.
A two-day event organized by the Environmental Justice working group including a screening of the film Ushui and workshop and discussion with the film makers.
Join us for a lively discussion of the #Me Too movement, with contributors to Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement. Moderated by Davia Temin.
We regret the conflict with Yom Kippur and will share documentation of the event at a later date and continue the important #MeToo conversation.
This panel will engage five emerging LGBTQ filmmakers from the Arab world in a meaningful discussion on the role of Arab queer cinema in shaping and giving voice to the Arab LGBTQ community.
The pop-up exhibition “Arts of Intervention” brings together an international group of artists connected to the working group on “Women Mobilizing Memory” of Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Social Difference in the context of the Third Annual Memory Studies Association Conference in Madrid, June, 2019.
The Walther Collection and CSSD present a two-day symposium on vernacular photography.
Erna Brodber and Nicole Dennis-Benn will discuss issues including the Caribbean and its diaspora, method, feminism, and gender in their work.
A workshop presented by the CSSD working group Geographies of Injustice.
On Sunday September 30th 2018, the Center for New Narratives in Philosophy at Columbia University will host its second Pedagogy of Dignity workshop at Columbia’s Lenfest Center for the Arts, in connection with the Pedagogies of Dignity working group at the Center for the Study of Social Difference.
CSSD invites you to an All-Day Symposium to celebrate 10 Years of the Center for the Study of Social Difference and 5 Years of Women Creating Change!
2018 marks the 5th Anniversary of Columbia Women Creating Change!
To celebrate this momentous year a reception and panel discussion will take place featuring women leaders in media.
In conversation with Hannah Arendt’s discussion of the “dark times,” this talk will present a critical reflection of the possibilities and challenges of doing feminism and gender studies in Turkey today.
This one-day conference recovers the histories and possible futures of anti-imperialist struggle.
This panel will bring together experts on menstrual health – established and emerging
scholars as well as practitioners. While research on menstruation is not new, the current
momentum creates new opportunities.
