Frances Negron-Muntaner Speaks with El Diario
Frances Negron-Muntaner, co-director of the working group Unpayable Debt, spoke with El Diario about their donation of photographic archives to Columbia.
Frances Negron-Muntaner, co-director of the working group Unpayable Debt and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, spoke with El Diario about the photographic archive that they recently donated to Columbia Libraries. The full interview can be read here.
She was also featured on The Takeaway, where she spoke with film critic Rafer Guzman about the film Sicario: Day of the Soldado. The full episode can be listened to here.
CSSD Director Marianne Hirsch Speaks in Chile
Marianne Hirsch, co-director of CSSD group Women Mobilizing Memory, spoke on memory studies at several events.
CSSD Director and William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature Marianne Hirsch visited Chile in early June to speak at several events, including a colloquium on Postmemory and a seminar entitled “The Future of the Past,” organized by Universidad Católica.
During the seminar, Hirsch, together with Leo Spitzer, Professor Emeritus of History at Dartmouth, presented a lecture entitled “School Pictures in Troubled Times,” in which they examined several aspects of school photos taken during periods of persecution and resistance in history.
In addition, at the colloquium “Postmemory: Conversations on Human Rights and Migrations,” Hirsch discussed the role of feminism in memory studies as well as the ways in which memories of violent histories can be utilized for a better future.
A complete report from Columbia Global Center | Santiago can be read here.
Kevin Fellezs speaks about Ethnomusicology with Columbia College Today
Kevin Fellezs, member of the CSSD working group Pacific Climate Circuits, spoke about teaching and his love of music with Columbia College Today.
Kevin Fellezs, member of the CSSD working group Pacific Climate Circuits and Associate Professor of music at Columbia University, was featured in the Summer 2018 issue of Columbia College Today. In the interview he talks about how he grew to love music and his experiences both as a student and a teacher.
The full interview can be read here.
CSSD Fellow Yasmin El-Rifae discusses how the #MeToo movement can learn from the Egyptian revolution
Religion and the Global Framing of Gender Violence media fellow Yasmin El-Rifae publishes “What the Egyptian Revolution Can Offer #MeToo” in The Nation.
Yasmin El-Rifae, journalist and media fellow for the Center for the Study of Social Difference working group, Religion and the Global Framing of Gender Violence, has been featured in The Nation with an article entitled “What the Egyptian Revolution Can Offer #MeToo.” In the article she shares her experience protecting women from sexual assault and discusses what the #MeToo movement can learn from feminists in other parts of the world. She writes, “...by separating out the struggles and experiences of Arab women we exclude them from the wider conversation and, in doing so, make their experiences less available and less useful to the rest of the world—most importantly, to women elsewhere who are thinking about similar problems.”
Christia Mercer Delivers Keynote Address
Christia Mercer delivered the keynote address, "Descartes’ Demons and Debts, or Why We Should Work on Women in the History of Philosophy," at the Dutch Seminar for Early Modern Philosophy.
Christia Mercer, director of the working group Pedagogies of Dignity, delivered the keynote address, "Descartes’ Demons and Debts, or Why We Should Work on Women in the History of Philosophy," at the Dutch Seminar for Early Modern Philosophy at Utrecht University this May.
The Dutch Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy brings together advanced students and established scholars to discuss the latest work in early modern philosophy, broadly conceived.
Videos from the seminar can be viewed here.