EVENTS
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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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Time
(Friday) 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Location
PULITZER HALL, COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM
march 2023
february 2023

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This interdisciplinary conference brings together doctoral students and scholars working on issues related to urbanism and the production of space in Middle Eastern and North African cities. We
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This interdisciplinary conference brings together doctoral students and scholars working on issues related to urbanism and the production of space in Middle Eastern and North African cities. We believe that the panels and paper presentations throughout the conference will be of interest to your students and faculty.
Register here: Middle East Urbanism Beyond Conflict: Current Research, Ongoing Debates, and Next Directions
Time
16 (Thursday) 9:30 am - 17 (Friday) 5:00 pm
Location
East Gallery, Buell Hall
Organizer
GSAPP
6feb6:15 pmCelebrating Recent Work by Muhsin Al-Musawi

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Join us for our New Book Series event honoring Arabic Disclosures: The Postcolonial Autobiographical Atlas by Muhsin J. al-Musawi. Arabic Disclosures presents readers with a comparative analysis of Arabic postcolonial autobiographical writing and draws
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Join us for our New Book Series event honoring Arabic Disclosures: The Postcolonial Autobiographical Atlas by Muhsin J. al-Musawi. Arabic Disclosures presents readers with a comparative analysis of Arabic postcolonial autobiographical writing and draws a map of Arab thought and culture in its multiple engagements with other cultures.
Professor Muhsin J. al-Musawi will be joined by panelists Roger Allen, Hamid Dabashi, Madeleine Dobie, and Yasmine Khayyat.
Time
(Monday) 6:15 pm
Location
Zoom
january 2023
26jan4:30 pmCelebrating Recent Work by Isabel Huacuja Alonso

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Join us for our New Book Series event honoring Radio for the Millions: Hindi-Urdu Broadcasting Across Borders by Isabel Huacuja Alonso. Radio for the Millions examines the history of Hindi-Urdu radio during the height of
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Time
(Thursday) 4:30 pm
Location
Zoom
november 2022
9nov5:15 pmThe New Humanities Faculty Salons
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Wednesday, November 9, at 5:15pmHeyman Center for the Humanities, 2nd Floor Common Room Featuring: Marcos Balter, Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical
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Wednesday, November 9, at 5:15pmHeyman Center for the Humanities, 2nd Floor Common Room
Featuring:
Marcos Balter, Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition, Department of Music
Subhashini Kaligotla, Barbara Stoler Miller Associate Professor of Indian and South Asian Art, AHAR
Lu Kou, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Alison Vacca, Gevork M. Avedissian Associate Professor of Armenian History and Civilization, MESAAS
Moderated by:
Sarah Cole, Dean of Humanities and Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Please join Division of Humanities Dean Sarah Cole in welcoming our newest colleagues from across the division.
Hosted by the Division of Humanities in the Arts and Sciences and co-sponsored by the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities, the New Humanities Faculty Salons are an opportunity to meet new faculty members as they join the Columbia Humanities community. Learn about their current work while you enjoy conversation, drinks, and snacks with faculty and graduate students. By bringing together scholars from across the Division, we hope to open conversations across the wider Humanities community.
All salons will be held at the Society of Fellows / Heyman Center for the Humanities, in the Common Room on the second floor.
Faculty and graduate students from all divisions are welcome to attend. Wine and snacks will be served. Events are 100% in-person.
Time
(Wednesday) 5:15 pm EST
Location
Heyman Center
october 2022