News and Updates
Heritage, Politics and the Modern State: Free Online Seminar Fall 2021
Begins Tuesday, October 19, 2021; 12:00pm-2:00pm EDT / 18:00-20:00 CEST
Abolish ICE? Virtual Conference
September 21 – 23, 2021 What is at stake when people call to transform the immigration enforcement system? In recent years, immigration enforcement has been gaining increasing attention from the media, policy-makers, scholars, and the general public. Immigration and Customs…Continue reading→
“You Cannot Force Me to Look and Not to See” Large-scale repression against students and the academic community in Belarus continues
Text originally published via Public Seminar on September 13, 2021. A liberty to follow my own will in all things where that rule prescribes not,not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary will of another man,as freedom of…Continue reading→
New Blog Post: “September 11: An Iranian In New York: My Witness, Lament and Hope from 20 years ago”
September 9, 2021 By: Kian Tajbakhsh, Professor of Urban Planning and Urban Studies at Columbia Senior Advisor to the Executive Vice President for Global Centers and Global Development Fellow, Committee on Global Thought In remembrance of 9/11, Tajbakhsh reflects on…Continue reading→
2021 New University in Exile Consortium Spring Scholars Conference – The Academy, Politics, and Society: How a Troubled World Affects Universities and Activism
The Academy, Politics and Society: How a Troubled World Affects Universities and Activism was the 2021 New University in Exile Consortium online conference about the global attacks on academic freedom. The webinar featured a keynote address by Éric Fassin, Professor of sociology and Co-chair…Continue reading→
Call for the Mellon Fellowship Program for At-Risk Scholars Extended to August 30, 2021
In collaboration with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Columbia Global Centers | Amman Mellon has created the Mellon Fellowship Program, designed to assist at-risk and scholars. Call for applications linked here. The deadline has been extended to August 30, 2021,…Continue reading→
Will China Democratize? Contending Forces in a Changing China: Free Online Seminar Fall 2021
Hosted on Zoom – register for link September 24th-December 3th 10:00am-11:30am Eastern Time Daylight savings time in the U.S. has ended. Please double check the time difference in your area! Description: China has played a growing role on the international stage…Continue reading→
Call for submissions: “Isolation, Exile and the Everyday Pandemic”
Reading Period: August 1st, 2021 – October 1st, 2021 Consortium scholar Simten Cosar, in patnership with the publication Sampsonia Way is calling for submissions for an upcoming project tackling the consequences of the pandemic experience.
Feminist Research Methodologies and Digital Feminist Research: Free Online Seminar Fall 2021
DUE TO OVERWHELMING DEMAND (THANK YOU!) THE REGISTRATION LINK HAS CHANGED https://event.newschool.edu/feministresearchmethodologiesa IF YOU HAVE ALREADY REGISTERED, PLEASE REGISTER AGAIN USING THE BUTTON ABOVE. Hosted on Zoom – register for link September 30th-December 9th Every Thursday, 9:00-10:30am Eastern Time Description:…Continue reading→
New Blog Post: “Why Not Voting Means Different Things in Tehran and New York City”
July 16th, 2021 By: Kian Tajbakhsh, Professor of Urban Planning and Urban Studies at Columbia University; Fellow, Committee of Global Thought at Columbia University Tajbakhsh discusses and compares the voter turnout, or lack thereof, in the recent New York City…Continue reading→