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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.
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 Keywords Interdisciplinary Roundtable Conversations: MOVEMENTS, Wednesday, September 21, 5-7pm, 754 Schermerhorn Extension
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/Injured Cities, Urban Afterlives Conference. October 14-15, 2011.
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.
TOWARD AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF BLACK WOMEN: AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE April 28-30, 2011, Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference, Columbia University
Movements: Politics, Performance, and Disability. The Scholar & Feminist Conference XXXVI, Saturday, 2/26, 9 am - 5 pm, Barnard College
CCASD announces the launch of a NEW working project: The Future of Disability Studies, directed by Rachel Adams
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
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"
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!
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.
