News and Updates
Kaveh Madani awarded American Geophysical Union’s Ambassador Award for 2020
Kaveh Madani, the Henry Hart Rice Senior Fellow at the MacMillan Center, has been awarded the American Geophysical Union’s Ambassador Award for 2020. The award is given annually to one to five honorees in recognition of outstanding contributions to one…Continue reading→
2020 New University in Exile Consortium Spring Scholars Conference – Repression and Resistance: Inside and Outside the Academy
Professor Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley, presents, “The Human, Humanities, and Human Rights,” a presentation focused on the shutting down of gender studies programs globally and how this connects to the issue of human rights. The…Continue reading→
Webinar: Outsiders in One’s Own Country featuring Binalakshmi Nepram
October 27, 12:50pm PT
“Linking Local to Global Peace Building”
“Local Ownership makes peace stick.” Watch this webinar featuring Binalakshmi Nepram to support the launch of the Peace Science Digest Special Issue on Local, National & International Peacebuilding.
Academic Freedom in the MENA Region: Free Online Seminar
November 4, 2020 – February 16, 2021 Wednesdays 12:00pm (EST) / 6:00pm (CET) for 14 weeks Seminar description: Since the Arab Spring began in early 2010s, countless academics in the Middle East and North Africa (the MENA region) have been fired…Continue reading→
Marx’s Materialism: Free Online Seminar
November 4, 2020 – February 12, 2021 Wednesdays 12.15 pm (CET) / 6.15 pm (EST) Seminar Description: Marx’s critical project has arguably been the most influential body of philosophical work since Lao Tzu and Aristotle. At the heart of Marx’s critical philosophy is…Continue reading→
Forced Migration in a Post-Pandemic World
A year-long multidisciplinary series presented by Columbia’s Committee on Forced Migration Since 2018, the Committee on Forced Migration, an initiative of the Columbia Global Centers, has focused on providing an institution-wide space to advance discourse, both internal and public, on forced…Continue reading→
India and China are clashing. Northeast India is caught in the middle — again.
September 22, 2020 Binalakshmi Nepram, founder-director of the Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network and the Control Arms Foundation of India and the co-founder of the Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples, Gender Justice and Peace published an opinion piece in the…Continue reading→