WELCOME TO MESAAS
WELCOME TO MESAAS
WELCOME TO MESAAS
WELCOME TO MESAAS
News & Announcements
- MESAAS Graduate Student Conference 2023: Decolonizing Cartographies [20–21 April 2023]February 16, 2023
- Allison Busch Memorial Language Study Fellowship Open for Summer 2023February 6, 2023
- Wael Hallaq delivers Dean’s Foresight Lecture at Hamad Bin KhalifaFebruary 1, 2023
- Celebrating Recent Work by Isabel Huacuja AlonsoJanuary 13, 2023
- Mouradian’s The Resistance Network Awarded Prize for Excellence in Armenian StudiesJanuary 11, 2023
Events
march 2023
april 2023
7apr6:30 pm- 9:30 pmSt. Omer Film Screening

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Saint Omer FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 6:30-9:30 PM Film Screening followed by Q&A with director Alice Diop and Prof. Maboula Soumahoro. French with English subtitles PULITZER HALL, COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM RSVP
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Time
(Friday) 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Location
PULITZER HALL, COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM
20apr - 21apr 2010:00 amapr 21MESAAS Graduate Student Conference 2023: Decolonizing Cartographies
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The Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University is pleased to announce its annual Graduate Student Conference on the 20th and 21st of April,
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The Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University is pleased to announce its annual Graduate Student Conference on the 20th and 21st of April, 2023. This conference is a space for graduate scholars, activists, artists, and others to think through and confront colonial systems.
The conference this year is interested in “Decolonizing Cartographies” – or, stated broadly, how do we challenge colonial regimes of knowledge and the ways they divide the world?
In order to pursue these questions, we must also ask what ‘decoloniality’ means and looks like across various settings: academic, artistic, practical, etc. In what ways does the decolonial contrast with the anti-colonial, what does each position offer, and what possibilities are opened and foreclosed by reorienting from one to the other?
For example, cartography as science and practice implies a focus on issues of knowledge production while at the same time involving acts of representation. Humanistic and social scientific practice, more broadly, especially within the university, continues to operate out of an epistemology that complicates efforts to decolonize it. How can we shift our pedagogy and practice to begin producing decolonial knowledge and engendering decolonial practice?
We encourage papers and presentations which speak to our theme. Topics may include, but are not limited to:
• Human Geography
• Technopolitics & Expert Knowledge
• Alternative Lifeworlds
• Racialization
• Colonial gendering
• (Re)presentation
• Textual Landscapes
• Translation
• Non-Modern Epistemologies and Ontologies
• Peripheries
• Critical Ecologies
• Decolonial Aesthetics
• Critical Approaches to Sexuality
• Transnational Cinema and Media
• Colonial and Decolonial Temporalities
• Settlement/Unsettlement
• Conceiving Ruptures & Continuities
This is a hybrid conference. This conference will be held predominately on Zoom, with some in-person components for those in the New York City area. Please submit your abstracts for a 20-minute presentation by the 27th of February, 2023 to this link: https://docs.google.com/ forms/d/1Yqh5_ ZS3zOHNwUMVQLOLlchohCn4zdIQ1j0 0nvvvEFc/edit
They should be no longer than 350 – 400 words. Please include a short biography of no more than 100 words in your submission. Notification of paper acceptance will be sent by mid-March. Your final papers should be submitted by April 10th. You can follow the conference on our Twitter page: https://twitter.com/MESAAS_GSA
Please direct any questions to the following email: mesaasgraduateconference@ gmail.com
Time
20 (Thursday) 10:00 am - 21 (Friday) 12:00 pm
may 2023
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Recent Books
Anis: 111 marsiye, edited by Timsal Masud
Beginning Armenian: A Communicative Textbook By Charry Karamanoukian
Radio for the Millions, by Isabel Huacuja Alonso published by Columbia University Press
The End of Two Illusions by Hamid Dabashi, University of California Press
Arabic Disclosures by Muhsin Al-Musawi, University of Notre Dame Press