The Zip Code Memory Project: Practices of Justice and Repair (ZCMP), co-directed by Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University) and Diana Taylor (New York University), seeks to find reparative ways to memorialize the devastating losses resulting from the Coronavirus pandemic, while also acknowledging its radically differential effects on different Upper New York City neighborhoods. It is housed at the Center for the Study of Social Difference (CSSD) at Columbia University and is supported by a CSSD Social Engagement grant funded by the Columbia University President’s Office. CSSD is pleased to announce that the Zip Code Memory Project is the recipient of a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation for a two-year term beginning July 1, 2021.
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The third and final book launch event for for The Cunning of Gender Violence: Geopolitics and Feminism (Duke University Press 2023), originating out of the Religion and Global Framing of Gender Violence Working Group.
This third event was hosted by the Barnard Center for Research on Women, and a video recording of the event, as well as transcripts and more, are available through their website here.
Visit the Audio section of our Media tab, or click on the hyperlink, to check out the audio recording from the (9-14-23) Book Launch for The Cunning of Gender Violence (Duke University Press), titled “State Violence is Gender Violence,” hosted by the UC Berkeley Center for Race and Gender.
This publication came out of the work of the Religion and the Global Framing of Gender Violence Working Group at CSSD.
CSSD has published a recording of "Civilizing Interventions: Humanitarianism and Gender Violence," a book launch event for The Cunning of Gender Violence: Geopolitics and Feminism (Duke University Press 2023), originating from the Religion and Global Framing of Gender Violence Working Group.
This event features scholars and experts crucial to the production of this work, including Jelani Cobb, Lila Abu-Lughod, Nina Berman, Rema Hammami, Sima Shakhsari, Dina M. Siddiqi, and Shenila Khoja-Moolji. It addresses the core question: "What happens when a visionary feminist project is integrated into contemporary world affairs?"
Please click the link here to watch the video recording of this book launch, or click the Video tab in the Header under Media.
The video is also available on our YouTube channel, accessible here.
Former co-director of the Religion and Global Framing of Gender Violence working group, Lila Abu-Lughod, will be presenting with Rema Hammami and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian on their forthcoming book with Duke University Press. Friday, February 25, 2022, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Virtual Event. Registration required.
https://watson.brown.edu/cmes/events/2022/gender-violence-geopolitics-and-feminism
Former CSSD working group Religion and the Global Framing of Gender Violence published an article about their project in the 50th Anniversary Special Issue of Feminist Studies. Read it here.
Former CSSD working group Religion and the Global Framing of Gender Violence's book, The Cunning of Gender Violence: Geopolitics and Feminism, is available for preorder! Use code SPRING23 for 50% until April 1, 2023.
Our core mission at CSSD is to create the conditions for understanding and being able to challenge inequality and oppression in all its forms. We understand all forms of oppression are interconnected and so our commitment to solidarity with Palestinians is rooted in our commitment to imagining racial, gender, economic, and environmental justice globally.
The former Reframing Gendered Violence co-director’s Do Muslim Women Need Saving? was referenced in a review of a new book on 21 Women Across the History of Islam.
CSSD working group RGFGV hosts twenty-five scholars, journalists, lawyers and activists for a two day intensive workshop of collaborative research sharing and brainstorming at Columbia University in New York City
Lila Abu-Lughod, co-director of CSSD working group Religion and the Global Framing of Gender Violence, shares her thoughts on two new books in the publication Public Books.
Religion and the Global Framing of Gender Violence media fellow Yasmin El-Rifae publishes “What the Egyptian Revolution Can Offer #MeToo” in The Nation.
CSSD Project Religion and the Global Framing of Gender Violence held an international competition and selected three Media Fellows to receive reporting grants. They joined the project, supported by the Henry Luce Foundation, and did research in the Middle East to produce innovative media stories.
Nafeesa Syeed's article ‘Women Flee a Hellscape in Yemen. Here are Their Lives Now’, highlights the way refugee women are using entrepreneurship to adapt to their new realities.
