Video Available from RGV Event “Beyond Prevalence: The Next Generation of Research on Campus Sexual Assault”
Video from "Beyond Prevalence: The Next Generation of Research on Campus Sexual Assault," part of the CSSD project Reframing Gendered Violence, is now available on the CSSD YouTube channel.
On October 5, 2017, leading researchers from across the country presented at the panel, “Beyond Prevalence: The Next Generation of Research on Campus Sexual Assault.” Organized and moderated by Jennifer S. Hirsch, co-Principal Investigator of Columbia’s ground-breaking Sexual Health Initiative to Foster Transformation, the panelists presented new and emerging work on environmental drivers of campus sexual assault, and discussed the institutional challenges of conducting research on campus sexual violence at universities seeking to comply with Title IX guidance.
The October 5 forum was part of the CSSD Reframing Gendered Violence series of panels and seminars applying critical perspectives from the social sciences and humanities to gender violence. Reframing Gendered Violence is a two-year-long project of Columbia’s Center for the Study of Social Difference and is supported by a grant from the University’s Dean of Humanities.
Video is available here.
Anupama Rao publishes Gender, Caste and the Imagination of Equality
CSSD project co-director Anupama Rao has published the edited volume Gender, Caste, and the Imagination of Equality.
CSSD project co-director Anupama Rao has published the edited volume Gender, Caste, and the Imagination of Equality. This volume, published by Women Unlimited, features essays that examine the relationship between gender, caste, class, and political agency in the context of ongoing, rapid social transformation in contemporary India.
Anupama Rao is a current member of the Center for the Study of Social Difference Executive Committee, as well as co-director of CSSD projects Reframing Gendered Violence and Gender & the Global Slum. Rao is associate professor of History at Barnard College, and Associate Director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University.
New blog post from Precision Medicine working group about research of Dr. Kadija Ferryman
On November 20, 2017, Kadija Ferryman discussed her Fairness in Precision Medicine project with the Precision Medicine: Ethics, Politics, and Culture CSSD working group
Kadija Ferryman’s talk on November 30, 2017 for the Precision Medicine: Ethics, Politics, and Culture CSSD working group drew from her post-doctoral project, “Fairness in Precision Medicine,” a study on which she is co-PI with danah boyd at the Data and Society Institute.
You can read the full post, written by Precision Medicine graduate fellows Larry Au and Jade H. Tan, here.