CSSD launches six new projects for the 2018-19 academic year. The projects will address gender, race, sexuality, and other forms of inequality to foster ethical and progressive social change.
Women Creating Change Leadership Council meets for the second time
The Women Creating Change Leadership Council met for the second time in New York on April 12, 2018.
Democracy and The Welfare State: The Two Wests In The Age of Austerity will be presented at the Columbia Global Centers - Paris
Columbia Global Centers - Paris, in partnership with Columbia University Press and Centre d'histoire de Sciences Po will host a book presentation for Democracy and the Welfare State: The Two Wests in the Age of Austerity, edited by CSSD project director Alice Kessler-Harris and Maurizio Vaudagna.
CSSD project director Inga Winkler receives grant to support her work on menstrual health
Professor Inga Winkler, co-director of the new CSSD project, Menstrual Health and Gender Justice, receives grant to support her work on menstrual health.
Professor Saidiya Hartman Awarded a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship
Professor Anupama Rao comments on the stereotype of South Asians as "good immigrants" on NPR
Gender & the Global Slum project director Anupama Rao spoke with NPR Podcast Code Switch about Caste discrimination in the United States.
Lisa Carnoy elected to serve as co-chair of the Columbia University Board of Trustees
Women Creating Change Leadership Council member Lisa Carnoy has been elected to serve as co-chair of the Columbia University Board of Trustees.
Diana Taylor elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Diana Taylor, project director of the CSSD working group Women Mobilizing Memory, has been elected as an American Academy of Arts and Sciences fellow.
Puerto Rico Underwater exhibition featured on NY1
Frances Negron-Muntaner, a project director of the CSSD working group Unpayable Debt, was on NY1 with several of the artists in the Puerto Rico Underwater exhibition that is on display now in connection with the Frontiers of Debt conference.
CSSD Project Co-Director Lydia Liu Collaborates on Global Justice for Indigenous Languages Symposium
Professor Lydia H. Liu, co-director of the CSSD project Bandung Humanisms, recently collaborated on the Global Justice for Indigenous Languages Symposium.
Farah Griffin interviewed for NPR's The Record about Kendrick Lamar's Pulitzer Prize win
CSSD project director Farah Griffin was interviewed for NPR's The Record about Kendrick Lamar's unprecedented Pulitzer Prize win for "DAMN." and her experience on the judging committee.
CSSD project director Paige West discussed the UN Sustainable Development goals at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York
Paige West, project director of the CSSD working group Pacific Climate Circuits: Moving Beyond Science, Technology, Engineering, and Economics discussed the UN Sustainable Development goals at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York.
CSSD Project Co-Director Farah Griffin Lectures at Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series
Professor Farah Griffin, co-director of the CSSD Project Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women, recently spoke as part of the Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series at Rutgers University, Newark.
Professor Cinnamon Bloss Speaks with Precision Medicine Working Group
Professor Bloss of UC San Diego gave a talk on how bioethics must adapt to the rise of Precision Medicine.
Los Angeles Central Library hosts exhibits inspired by the work of Marianne Hirsch
The Los Angeles Central Library is currently hosting two exhibits inspired by the work of CSSD Director Marianne Hirsch, both examining the generational trauma of the Armenian Genocide. The main exhibit, entitled “Nonlinear Histories”, is co-curated by Isin Önol, member of the Working Group for the CSSD Project Women Mobilizing Memory.
CSSD Project Director Jack Halberstam Co-Curates Conference at Stedelijk Museum
Professor Jack Halberstam, director of the CSSD project Queer Theory: Here, Now, and Everywhere, recently co-curated a conference and festival at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
Jean Howard Delivers the Dean Family Lecture at Wake Forest University
CSSD project director Jean Howard gave the Dean Family Lecture at Wake Forest University on "Edward Bond's Bingo: Shakespeare Revisited."
Jack Halberstam Receives a Columbia-PSL Global Humanities Grant
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.