Our News & Events

• Alfredo Jaar will present a selection he has created in response to conflicts around the world.  This will be followed by a conversation between Alfredo Jaar and Carol Becker, dean of the School of the Arts.  A question and Asnwer session with the audience will conclude the program.  Thursday, October 1, 2009 6:30 p.m. Miller Theater 2960 Broadway (at West 116th Street) Columbia University.  

 

• CCASD, the Institute for Social and Economic Policy Research (ISERP) and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender bring Mary E. John to Columbia for a talk and discussion on "Reframing Globalisation and Internationalism: Feminism in India and the Question of Asia" 

 

• Lila Abu-Lughod and Marianne Hirsch named CCASD Co-Directors 

 

• CCASD and the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race co-organize Borders & Boundaries: A conference and roundtable discussion on the connection between international borders and social boundaries in the contemporary world.  Keynote address: Nina Bernstein of the New York Times.

 

• CCASD and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society cosponsor "Art, Archive, Opera and the Purge": William Kentridge in Conversation with David Levin.  Tuesday, March 3, 7pm.

 

• CCASD brings artist, filmmaker and writer Renée Green to Columbia for film screening and discussion.  Thursday, February 26.

 

• 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 Columbia University Libraries, the Institute for Research in African-American Studies, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and the Barnard Center for Research on Women co-sponsor "Archiving Women," a one-day conference bringing together scholars and archivists to examine feminist practices in the archive.

  

• 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 co-sponsors "Who's Afraid of Shari'a?: Rethinking Gender, Rights, and the Practices of Law," a workshop organized by CCASD Project Director Lila Abu-Lughod and featuring Khaled Fahmy, Brinkley Messick, Naz Modirzadeh, Arzoo Osanlo and Dina M. Siddiqi.  By invitation only.  Friday, October 3rd, 9:30am-3pm.  

• 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).  Thursday, October 2nd, 4-6pm.

• CCASD sponsors the forum "Torture & Truth: The Image as War," featuring Pardiss Kebriaei (Center for Constitutional Rights), Nicholas Mirzoeff (NYU), Rosalind Morris (Columbia), and Saidiya Hartman (Columbia).  Thursday, October 2nd, 6-8pm. VIDEO AVAILABLE!

  

•  "True North," a film installation by CCASD Visiting Fellow Isaac Julien, at the Barnard Center for Research on Women, 7pm, Thursday, November 20th, 2008CCASD takes the lead in the affiliation of Columbia University and the Hemispheric Institute of Performance & Politics

  

• 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.