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march 2024
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Registration for the following event can be found at this link. Memory Wars and Memory Work: Relational Remembrance in Pınar Öğrenci's Aşît [The Avalanche] During the last few years, a series of
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Registration for the following event can be found at this link.
Memory Wars and Memory Work: Relational Remembrance in Pınar Öğrenci’s Aşît [The Avalanche]
During the last few years, a series of acrimonious debates has taken place in Germany about Holocaust memory, antisemitism, and Israel/Palestine. In one of the most visible of those disputes, an enormous scandal rocked the 2022 Documenta 15 international art exhibit in Kassel. Set against the backdrop of Documenta, this lecture will review the recent memory wars in Germany and then turn to a work that was displayed at Documenta but was not part of the controversy swirling around the exhibit: Pınar Öğrenci’s film Aşît [The Avalanche]. This film, which concerns the tangled histories of violence directed against Armenians and Kurds in a remote town in eastern Turkey, does not address the terms of the German debate directly. However, as Rothberg will argue, in weaving together multiple histories of exile, trauma, and catastrophe, Aşît offers a mode of relational remembrance that suggests alternative possibilities for coming to terms with the past in contemporary Germany—and beyond.
Following his lecture, Prof. Rothberg will be joined in conversation by Prof. Sonali Thakkar of NYU, whose work focuses on postcolonial literature and theory and anticolonial thought and politics. A reception will conclude the evening.
This event is free and open to the public. Please register to reserve your spot.
Time
(Thursday) 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
Deutsches Haus
420 W. 116 St
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For more information and to register, click here: https://sofheyman.org/events/celebrating-recent-work-by-hamid-dabashi
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For more information and to register, click here: https://sofheyman.org/events/celebrating-recent-work-by-hamid-dabashi
Time
(Wednesday) 6:15 pm
Location
Heyman Center for the Humanities, Second Floor Common Room
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Artist Khaled Jarrar Speak, O Stone. A child's dream to be a pilot, making little objects from stones with a knowledge that he learned from an ex Palestinian prisoner. Reflections on militarism, bodies, masculinity,
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(Wednesday) 4:00 pm
Location
403 Knox Hall
18mar6:15 pmOutcasting ArmeniansTanzimat of the Provinces
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For more information click here: https://events.columbia.edu/go/suciyan This lecture will reassess the pivotal Ottoman era of Tanzimat, which has a reputation in the historiography as a period of reform and
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This lecture will reassess the pivotal Ottoman era of Tanzimat, which has a reputation in the historiography as a period of reform and equality. It does this not just through use of the Ottoman Archives, but also a far less known but just as important source, that of the Armenian Patriarchate. This rarely consulted archive presents a radically different view of Tanzimat, one in which policies of oppression were set in motion which disenfranchised Armenians in every respect and set the foundation for the policies of governance throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.
Talin Suciyan is Associate Professor (Privat Dozentin) of Turkish Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Outcasting Armenians: Tanzimat of the Provinces is her recently published second book, which was her habilitation thesis accepted by her home university LMU Munich in 2019. She received her doctoral degree in 2015 with her book The Armenians in Modern Turkey: Post-Genocide Society, History and Politics (I. B. Tauris), which has been translated into Turkish (Aras Publ., 2018), German (De Gruyter, 2021) and soon will be released in Russian. Her research focuses on Ottoman inter-communal relations, Armenian ecclesiastical law, labor, gender, peasantry, Armenian literature of the Ottoman provinces, and medical practices of the 19th and 20th century Middle East.
The event is co-sponsored by the Columbia University Armenian Center, the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS), and the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research NAASR).
Time
(Monday) 6:15 pm
Location
208 Knox Hall
february 2024
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Upon the death of her father, a Jewish man originally from Oran, Algeria, who was naturalized as a French and then Israeli citizen, Ariella Azoulay discovers in a document
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Upon the death of her father, a Jewish man originally from Oran, Algeria, who was naturalized as a French and then Israeli citizen, Ariella Azoulay discovers in a document that her grandmother’s name was Aïcha. In this book she interweaves two genres– autobiography and political theory– rummaging through catalogues of jewels, found photographs, and collections of pillaged objects, and combines these fragments to tell her family’s history in parallel with the histories of French colonialism in Algeria and Zionist colonialism in Palestine. She notes continuities, beginning with the obstinate efforts to destroy the secular entanglements of Jewish, Arab and Berber worlds, whose interlaced patterns she wishes to see restored.
For more information and to register, click here: https://maisonfrancaise.columbia.edu/events/resistance-jewels-against-colonial-geographies
Ariella Aïsha Azoulay is a writer, researcher, experimental filmmaker, and commissioner of anticolonial archives. Born in 1962 in Israel, which she views as a Zionist colony in Palestine, Azoulay is a professor at Brown University where she teaches political theory, resistance to imperialism, and anticolonial imaginaries calling for return, restitution, and Tikkun Olam, repair of the world. The author of 10 books which have appeared in multiple languages, she published among other works Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism, and From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, and La Résistance des bijoux.
Jill Jarvis is Assistant Professor of French at Yale University. Jill Jarvis specializes in the aesthetics and politics of North Africa. Her forthcoming book, Decolonizing Memory : Algeria and the Politics of Testimony, brings together close readings of fiction with analyses of juridical, theoretical, and activist texts to illuminate both the nature of violence and the stakes of literary study in a time of unfinished decolonization.
Emmanuelle Saada is Professor of French and History and the Chair of the Department of French and the author of Empire’s Children: Race, Filiation and Citizenship in the French Colonies.
Time
(Wednesday) 6:00 pm
Location
Maison Française
Buell Hall
january 2024
31jan6:00 pmPolitics of MemoryAnti-semitism in Contemporary Western Europe
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A Roundtable discussion with Fabien Théofilakis, Stefanos Geroulanos, Gil Hochberg, Mark Mazower, and Andrew Port This roundtable will explore the contemporary politics of anti-semitism in western Europe in historical perspective. Focusing on
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A Roundtable discussion with Fabien Théofilakis, Stefanos Geroulanos, Gil Hochberg, Mark Mazower, and Andrew Port
This roundtable will explore the contemporary politics of anti-semitism in western Europe in historical perspective. Focusing on the cases of postwar France and Germany, discussants will ask how a set of debates that emerged out of consideration of the Holocaust have been transformed in recent years and affected most recently by events in the Middle East.
The discussants are Stefanos Geroulanos, Gil Hochberg, Andrew Port and Fabien Theofilakis. The discussion will be moderated by Mark Mazower.
for more information and to register, click here: https://maisonfrancaise.columbia.edu/events/politics-memory-anti-semitism-contemporary-western-europe
Time
(Wednesday) 6:00 pm
Location
Maison Française
Buell Hall
december 2023
november 2023
15nov8:00 am- 6:00 pmConference: Visions of World Society Beyond the West
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For more information, follow the link: https://sofheyman.org/events/visions-of-world-society Keynote Speakers: Prof. Robbie Shilliam (Johns Hopkins University) and Prof. Ayse Zarakol (Cambridge University) Introduction: Dr Marina Calculli (Columbia
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For more information, follow the link: https://sofheyman.org/events/visions-of-world-society
Keynote Speakers: Prof. Robbie Shilliam (Johns Hopkins University) and Prof. Ayse Zarakol (Cambridge University)
Introduction: Dr Marina Calculli (Columbia University & SciencesPo Paris)
Concluding Remarks: Prof. Hamid Dabashi (Columbia University)
Time
(Wednesday) 8:00 am - 6:00 pm
Location
Heyman Center for the Humanities, Second Floor Common Room
10nov6:00 pmInaugural Nina Garsoïan Memorial Lecture: The Return of the Kingdom
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Inaugural Nina Garsoïan Memorial Lecture: The Return of the Kingdom: The Armenian Capital of Ani, c. 1000
Time
(Friday) 6:00 pm
Location
Low Library Rotunda
october 2023
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Armenian Palimpsests before the First Millennium: Material Evidence for Translations from Greek and Early Original Armenian Writings Emilio
Time
(Monday) 4:10 pm
Location
208 Knox Hall
september 2023
25sep6:00 pmBook Launch: After The OttomansGenocide’s Long Shadow and Armenian Resilience
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Book Launch After The Ottomans: Genocide’s Long Shadow and Armenian Resilience Featuring co-editors: Hans-Lukas Kieser (Newcastle University, Australia) Seyhan Bayraktar (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Khatchig Mouradian (Columbia University, USA) Time: Monday,
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Book Launch
After The Ottomans: Genocide’s Long Shadow and Armenian Resilience
Featuring co-editors:
Hans-Lukas Kieser (Newcastle University, Australia)
Seyhan Bayraktar (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Khatchig Mouradian (Columbia University, USA)
Time: Monday, Sept. 25 at 6pm
Place: CSSW, Room C03, Columbia University
Address: 1255 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY, New York, NY 10027
Cosponsors:
MESAAS
Institute for the Study of Human Rights,
Columbia University Armenian Center
Book description:
This book deals with the lasting impact and the formative legacy of removal, dispossession and the politics of genocide in the last decade of the Ottoman Empire. For understanding contemporary Turkey and the neighboring region, it is important to revisit the massive transformation of the late-Ottoman world caused by persistent warfare between 1912 and 1922.
This fourth volume of a series focusing on the “Ottoman Cataclysm” looks at the century-long consequences and persistent implications of the Armenian genocide. It deals with the actions and words of the Armenians as they grappled with total destruction and tried to emerge from under it. Eleven scholars of history, anthropology, literature and political science explore the Ottoman Armenians not only as the major victims of the First World War and the post-war treaties, but also as agents striving for survival, writing history, transmitting the memory and searching for justice.
Time
(Monday) 6:00 pm
Location
School of Social Work Room C03
1255 Amsterdam Ave
august 2023
may 2023
april 2023
27apr4:00 pm- 7:00 pmCamera South Asia Symposium
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This symposium celebrates the launch of two new anthologies on South Asian photography and cinema. Unframed: Discovering Image Practices in South Asia (Alkazi Foundation for the Arts & HarperCollins Publishers
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This symposium celebrates the launch of two new anthologies on South Asian photography and cinema. Unframed: Discovering Image Practices in South Asia (Alkazi Foundation for the Arts & HarperCollins Publishers India) and Bombay Talkies: An Unseen History of Indian Cinema (Alkazi Collection of Photography & Mapin Publishing) provoke a renewed look at questions of artistic practice and its relations to collaborative worldmaking, knowledge production, and archival memory.
Join our esteemed panel of speakers–artists, scholars, curators, and filmmakers-as they discuss the histories and futures of lens-based practice in and on South Asia.
SPEAKERS
Annu Palakunnathu
Matthew
Bakirathi Mani
Chitra Ganesh lIftikhar Dadi
Noam MElcott
Sudhir Mahadevan
Closing remarks Mira Nai
MODERATORS/Book Editors
Debashree Mukherjee, Columbia University
Rahaab Allana, Alkazi Foundation
Time
(Thursday) 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location
Lehman Auditorium
20apr - 21apr 2010:00 amapr 21MESAAS Graduate Student Conference 2023: Decolonizing Cartographies
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For more information click here: https://mesaasgraduateconference.wordpress.com/ The Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University is pleased
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For more information click here: https://mesaasgraduateconference.wordpress.com/
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.
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
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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(Friday) 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
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PULITZER HALL, COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM