Director of CSSD working group Queer Theory: Here, Now, and Everywhere receives grant for Paris conference on gender and sexuality studies.
Lila Abu-Lughod Delivers Geertz Commemorative Lecture at Princeton University
Lila Abu-Lughod, former director of CSSD and co-director of CSSD projects Gender, Religion and Law in Muslim Societies, Reframing Gendered Violence, and Religion and the Global Framing of Gender Violence, delivered the Clifford Geertz Commemorative Lecture at Princeton University on February 22, 2018.
CSSD Project Co-Director Frances Negrón-Muntaner Publishes “Blackout: What Darkness Illuminated in Puerto Rico”
Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Co-Director of the CSSD Project Unpayable Debt: Capital, Violence, and the New Global Economy, recently published the essay “Blackout: What Darkness Illuminated in Puerto Rico” in both English and Italian as part of the exhibit “Blackout: Allora & Calzadilla” at the Maxxi Museum in Rome.
CSSD Project Co-Director Kevin Fellezs to Give Two Lectures in China
Kevin Fellezs, Co-Director of the CSSD Project Pacific Climate Circuits: Moving beyond Science, Technology, Engineering, and Economics, will give two upcoming lectures in China, entitled “Fusion, Then…And Now: Thoughts on the Persistence of the Broken Middle”.
RGFGV announces second Media Fellowship Competition
Co-Director of CSSD project Social Justice After the Welfare State, Alice Kessler-Harris, is featured in a NYTimes article
Alice Kessler-Harris is featured in a NYTimes article on workplace power dynamics and the slow progress for women in traditionally 'masculine' fields. CSSD will host a book event with Kessler-Harris on April 4, 2018.
Blog Post Now Available for CSSD Precision Medicine Event The Genomic Revolution, Genetics Counselors, and “Doing Ethics”
On January 22, CSSD/PM&S project Precision Medicine: Ethics, Politics, and Culture welcomed Dr. Susan Markens (CUNY-Lehman College) for its first talk of the semester, titled The Genomic Revolution, Genetics Counselors, and Doing Ethics.
Essay Conceived in IRWGS seminar inspired by CSSD Project is Published in the New York Times Modern Love Column
Columbia University senior Bindu Bansinath wrote the first version of the newest Modern Love essay in the IRWGS undergraduate seminar Narrating Rape, taught by CSSD Director Marianne Hirsch.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Delivers Keynote Lecture at Dhaka Art Summit
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, co-director of the CSSD project The Rural-Urban Interface: Gender and Poverty in Ghana and Kenya, recently delivered the keynote lecture at the 2018 Dhaka Art Summit.
CSSD project Gender & The Global Slum featured at the inaugural “She Opened The Door” Conference
CSSD executive committee members Anupama Rao and Ana Paulina Lee presented research from the CSSD working group Gender and the Global Slum at the inaugural She Opened the Door: Columbia University Women's Conference.
Alice Kessler-Harris named to the Board of Governors of the Edward M. Kennedy Prize
CSSD Project Co-Director Alice Kessler-Harris has been named to the Board of Governors of the Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History.
Jack Halberstam comments on RuPaul’s Drag Race in The New York Times Magazine
CSSD Project Director Jack Halberstam spoke with New York Times staff writer Jenna Wortham for “Is RuPaul’s Drag Race the Most Radical Show on TV?”, published in the January 28th, 2018 edition of The New York Times Magazine.
New Yorker article about the work of Jennifer Hirsch on the SHIFT project at Columbia
The work of Jennifer Hirsch, co-director of the CSSD project Reframing Gendered Violence, is featured in an article by New Yorker staff writer Jia Tolentino. This work was discussed at the October 5, 2017 CSSD event Beyond Prevalence.
RGFGV Media Fellows Yasmin El-Rifae and Samira Shackle Publish Articles on TheNation.com and ProspectMagazine.co.uk
CSSD Project Religion and the Global Framing of Gender Violence held an international competition and selected three Media Fellows to receive reporting grants. They joined the project, supported by the Henry Luce Foundation, and did research in the Middle East to produce innovative media stories.
Video Available from RGV Event “Beyond Prevalence: The Next Generation of Research on Campus Sexual Assault”
Anupama Rao publishes Gender, Caste and the Imagination of Equality
CSSD project co-director Anupama Rao has published the edited volume Gender, Caste, and the Imagination of Equality.
New blog post from Precision Medicine working group about research of Dr. Kadija Ferryman
On November 20, 2017, Kadija Ferryman discussed her Fairness in Precision Medicine project with the Precision Medicine: Ethics, Politics, and Culture CSSD working group
RGFGV Media Fellow Nafeesa Syeed Publishes Article on Bloomberg.com
Nafeesa Syeed's article ‘Women Flee a Hellscape in Yemen. Here are Their Lives Now’, highlights the way refugee women are using entrepreneurship to adapt to their new realities.
Marianne Hirsch delivers keynote address at Memory Studies Association Conference
CSSD Director Marianne Hirsch delivered the keynote address at the second annual Memory Studies Association Conference, December 15, 2017.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak delivers inaugural lecture for International Colloquium on Creative Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
CSSD project co-director Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak delivered the inaugural lecture at the International Colloquium on Creative Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, at Sullamussalam Science College, December 12, 2017.