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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→
The Political Economy of Natural Resources and Rentier States: Free Online Seminar
Online Seminar Tuesdays 9:00AM – 11:00AM EDT beginning October 13 for 10 weeks. Cosponsored by: The New University in Exile Consortium & Off-University Seminar Description: Natural resources can generate vast sums, in many cases, sums larger than official development assistance…Continue reading→
Law, Justice and Human Rights in China: Free Online Seminar
Hosted on Zoom – register for linkSeptember 16 – November 18, 2020Every Wednesday, 2:00-4:00pm Eastern Time This series will introduce the legal system of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) – in practice as well as theory – with an emphasis…Continue reading→
See to Believe
In this, the fourth article of the series on the pandemic and the senses, Gaudêncio Fidelis discusses vision as the most established of the senses in epistemology. To a great extent, the accuracy of our ocular system has been credited…Continue reading→
Virtual Lecture on Academic Freedom in the MENA Region
Register here: https://frama.link/DfxgMXKT Please join us for an online discussion on Academic Freedom in Libya and the wider MENA region with Dr. Mabruk Derbash on Monday, June 29th at 12:00pm EST/6:00pm CET. Since the Arab Spring began in early 2010s,…Continue reading→
The Speech Regained
In his 3rd article on the pandemic and the senses, Gaudêncio Fidelis addresses hearing, its correlation with voice, and the role it plays in the construction of personal identity. He notes, “made out of breath, the human voice is one…Continue reading→
“The Hindered Touch”
In the second installment of a three-part series, Gaudêncio Fidelis writes about how one of our most urgent senses, touch, has been stigmatized during the COVID-19 pandemic. Fidelis starts with an emblematic image, Michalangelo’s “The Creation of Adam,” wherein God’s…Continue reading→