Faculty News and Annoucements

MESAAS is pleased to announce that Prof. Hamid Dabashi has won the Hamid Dabashi is the recipient of the Lionel Trilling Award  for his book The End of Two Illusions: Islam after the West. The announcement may be read here.

Debashree Mukherjee has been elected to the Board of Directors of SCMS—the Society for Cinema and Media Studies—the leading scholarly organization in the United States dedicated to promoting and supporting the study of film and media. View the announcement here  

  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

Please view the application below. Application Due March 15, 2023.  https://sites.asit.columbia.edu/mesaas-v2/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2021/10/Allison-Busch-Memorial-Fellowship-Application-2023.pdf

As part of a series of intellectual engagements between January 8 and 10 (2023), Wael Hallaq delivered the distinguished Dean’s Foresight Lecture at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, entitled “What Is Post-Orientalism?”. The lecture may be accessed below or at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFf1KBHNDI4