Book discussion and reception for Image Matters: Archive, Photography and the African Diaspora in Europe by Tina M. Campt. Hosted by The International Center of Photography, 1114 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street, Friday, April 13, 2012 - 7pm
Lila Abu-Lughod, Anu Rao and Katherine Ewing's "Islamic Feminists, Islamist Women, and the Women Between," the pilot project of CCASD's new global initiative "Women Creating Change," has been awarded a 2012 Blinken European Institute grant.
Rites of Return: Diaspora Poetics and the Politics of Memory published by Columbia University Press
Congratulations to Fred Harris, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies, and Frances Negron-Muntaner, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, for being honored with the 2011-2012 Lenfest Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award.
CCASD Project Director Barbara Savage wins 2012 Louis Graweyer Award in Religion
NEW CCASD journal SocialDifference-Online launched December 2011
CCASD Project Director Rachel Adams in The Columbia Record
CCASD Director Lila Abu-Lughod on "Cultures of Violence"
CCASD Keywords Interdisciplinary Roundtable Conversations: MOVEMENTS, Wednesday, September 21, 5-7pm, 754 Schermerhorn Extension
CCASD Liberalism and its Others Project hosted "Women's Rights, Muslim Family Law, and the Politics of Consent" at the new Columbia University Middle East Center in Amman, Jordan, April 9-10, 2011. Conference report now AVAILABLE.
SAVE THE DATE--October 14-15, 2011: Injured Cities/Urban Afterlives, an international conference featuring panel discussions, performances, exhibitions and other events on the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001. Organized in partnership with the Columbia University Oral History Research Office, the Columbia University Office of the President, the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics, and the Yale University Public Humanities Program. Conference Website: http://socialdifference.org/injuredcities/
RITES OF RETURN: DIASPORA POETICS AND THE POLITICS OF MEMORY (Columbia University Press)
TOWARD AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF BLACK WOMEN: AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE. Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference, Columbia University, April 28-30, 2011. CONFERENCE WEBSITE: http://www.iraas.org/node/202
CCASD announces the launch of a NEW working project: "The Future of Disability Studies" directed by Rachel Adams.
Joan Scott and Mary Louise Pratt on "Social Difference and Contact Zones"
The National Council for Research on Women has recognized the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia for its instrumental role in the foundation of the Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference.
CCASD's Engendering the Archive inspires three new courses at Columbia, Duke, NYU: Haunted Visualities; Feminism and Diaspora; Trauma, Terror and Performance
Saba Mahmood, Lila Abu-Lughod and Wael Hallaq: A Roundtable Discussion on "Secular Liberalism and Islamic Reform"
Mary E. John: "Reframing Globalisation and Internationalism: Feminism in India and the Question of Asia"
Lila Abu-Lughod and Marianne Hirsch named CCASD Co-Directors
Borders & Boundaries: A conference and roundtable discussion on the connections between international borders and social boundaries in the contemporary world. Keynote address: NINA BERNSTEIN of the New York Times.
Clive van den Berg: "Excessive Narratives, Secret Histories: Art, Design, and the South African Archive." Tuesday, April 7th, 6pm.
CCASD Faculty Fellows Lila Abu-Lughod, Katherine Franke and Carol Sanger featured in the Columbia University Record's "Profiles in Human Rights."
CCASD and the Institute for Research in African-American Studies, the Columbia University Libraries, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and the Barnard Center for Research on Women co-sponsor the conference "Archiving Women." Friday, January 30th, 2009, 9:15-4pm.
CCASD and the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics present a one-day conference: "Performing the Archive." Featured speakers include Anna Deveare Smith, Tavia Nyong'o and Diamela Eltit. Keynote address by Tara McPherson (University of Southern California). Friday, December 5th, 10am-5pm.
CCASD sponsors the panel "Seeing Race: The Photographic Archive," featuring Elizabeth Abel (University of California, Berkeley), Jonathan Beller (Pratt Institute) and Tina Campt (Duke University). Moderated by Marianne Hirsch (Columbia). Thursday, October 30th, 3-5pm. VIDEO AVAILABLE!
CCASD and the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life co-sponsor "Who's Afraid of Shari'a?: A Conversation about War, Law and Humanitarian Intervention" with Naz Modirzadeh (Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research, Harvard School of Public Health) and Mahmood Mamdani (Columbia University). Moderated by Katherine Franke (Columbia Law School).
CCASD sponsors the forum "Torture & Truth: The Image as War," featuring Pardiss Kebriaei (Center for Constitutional Rights), Nicholas Mirzoeff (NYU), Rosalind Morris (Columbia) and Saadiya Hartman (Columbia). Thursday, October 2nd, 6-8pm. VIDEO AVAILABLE
CCASD takes the lead in the affiliation of Columbia University and the Hemispheric Institute of Performance & Politics
The 2009 Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics is to be held in Bogotá, Colombia, with the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, August 21-30.
CCASD co-sponsors “Rites of Return,” a two-day symposium featuring prominent scholars, artists and cultural critics, including New Orleans photographers Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick, novelist Eva Hoffman, and Israeli journalist Amira Hass.
CCASD co-sponsors Cabaret Masivo: political cabaret, a lecture/presentation in English and Spanish by Jesusa Rodriguez
Columbia University launches The Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference.
