CSSD Blog
Formerly “Social Difference Online”
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March 2024
- Mar 27, 2024 Transforming Prison Education from the Inside: How a Columbia Initiative is Impacting Change Mar 27, 2024
- Mar 6, 2024 Extraction, Waste, and Security Mar 6, 2024
- February 2024
- September 2022
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April 2022
- Apr 27, 2022 Prison Education and Teaching Incarcerated Students Apr 27, 2022
- Apr 25, 2022 Reflecting on the Body in George & Maria’s Workshops Apr 25, 2022
- Apr 12, 2022 Representing Covid through Boal’s Image-Theater Apr 12, 2022
- Apr 4, 2022 An email after a visit to La Morada Apr 4, 2022
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March 2022
- Mar 28, 2022 Mapping Out Mar 28, 2022
- Mar 7, 2022 Music and the (re)making of territory: A commentary on the Silvio Luiz de Almeida and MC Carol Panel Mar 7, 2022
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August 2020
- Aug 5, 2020 Bombay and Indian Ocean Urbanisms Workshop: Themes, Logistical Challenges, and Opportunities Aug 5, 2020
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July 2020
- Jul 29, 2020 Introducing The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies Jul 29, 2020
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March 2020
- Mar 6, 2020 Feminist Curious Steps Through History: Illumination in Dark Times Mar 6, 2020
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February 2020
- Feb 11, 2020 Shirley Sun: "Should We Be Worried About Racialization of Precision Medicine?" Feb 11, 2020
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January 2020
- Jan 27, 2020 Do Menstrual Health and Hygiene Policies Matter? – A Human Rights Assessment Jan 27, 2020
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October 2019
- Oct 25, 2019 Women Mobilizing Memory in Harlem Oct 25, 2019
- September 2019
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May 2019
- May 23, 2019 Statement of Support for Ayse Gül Altinay from the Columbia University Center for the Study of Social Difference and Women Creating Change May 23, 2019
- May 20, 2019 Disrupting Money: Puerto Rican Community Currency Project Makes Its Way to New York for the 2019 Loisaida Festival May 20, 2019
- May 3, 2019 RGFGV Conference Report on “Global Governance of the Intimate” May 3, 2019
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March 2019
- Mar 29, 2019 Women Creating Change Hosts Corporate Feminism & Its Discontents Round Table Mar 29, 2019
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February 2019
- Feb 4, 2019 Reframing Transgender Violence: Notes from a Two-Day Workshop Feb 4, 2019
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November 2018
- Nov 20, 2018 The Pedagogy of Dignity: Prison Education, Part 2 Event Recap Nov 20, 2018
- Nov 13, 2018 Unpayable Debt: A Student’s Reflections on the Launch of Max Haiven’s Art After Money, Money After Art and Caribbean Debt Syllabus, Second Edition Nov 13, 2018
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October 2018
- Oct 25, 2018 CSSD Working Group Unpayable Debt launch of Caribbean Syllabus: Second Edition and Max Haiven’s "Art After Money, Money After Art" Oct 25, 2018
- Oct 25, 2018 First Women Creating Change Leadership Council Meeting of the 2018 - 2019 Academic Year Oct 25, 2018
- Oct 19, 2018 Women Creating Change (WCC) Celebrates Fifth Anniversary Oct 19, 2018
- Oct 16, 2018 Of Waves, Tides and (Feminist) Tsunamis: a Student Response to What We CAN Do When There’s Nothing To Be Done Oct 16, 2018
- Oct 16, 2018 Introduction to “Arts of Intervention” panel featuring Ricardo Dominguez, Sama Alshaibi, Miya Masaoka, and Saidiya Hartman Oct 16, 2018
- September 2018
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July 2018
- Jul 12, 2018 Professor Inga Winkler Speaks at UN Event on Menstrual Health Jul 12, 2018
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March 2018
- Mar 30, 2018 Cinnamon Bloss: "Consumers, Citizens, and Crowds in the Age of Precision Medicine" Mar 30, 2018
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February 2018
- Feb 16, 2018 Dr. Susan Markens talks about ethics and genetic counseling with the CSSD/PM&S Precision Medicine group Feb 16, 2018
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January 2018
- Jan 3, 2018 Kadija Ferryman: “Fairness in Precision Medicine” Jan 3, 2018
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December 2017
- Dec 20, 2017 Reframing Gendered Violence presented "Gender and the Technologies of State Violence" in November Dec 20, 2017
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November 2017
- Nov 10, 2017 CSSD Project on Religion and the Global Framing of Gender Violence Convenes Workshop in Amman Nov 10, 2017
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October 2017
- Oct 23, 2017 “The Economics of Precision Medicine and Disparities in Health,” a talk by Dr. Kristopher Hult Oct 23, 2017
- Oct 9, 2017 A Human Origin Story in the Age of Biotech, Race, and Science: A Talk with Priscilla Wald Oct 9, 2017
- Oct 2, 2017 PUBLISHED: "A Room of Their Own" by Susan Meiselas. Oct 2, 2017
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July 2017
- Jul 22, 2017 Frances Negrón-Muntaner Profiled on Univision Jul 22, 2017
- Jul 7, 2017 Reframing Gendered Violence Project Featured in EuropeNow Journal Jul 7, 2017
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June 2017
- Jun 12, 2017 Alice Kessler-Harris Launched Second Half of MOOC Jun 12, 2017
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May 2017
- May 25, 2017 Susan Meiselas' "A Room of Their Own" featured in The Guardian May 25, 2017
- May 25, 2017 Narratives of Debt Conference Surveys Puerto Rican Debt and Beyond May 25, 2017
- May 11, 2017 Rural-Urban Interface Working Group Uses Humanities to Analyze Interviews with Migrants in Accra and Nairobi May 11, 2017
- May 11, 2017 CSSD's Unpayable Debt Working Group Releases Digital Syllabus Explaining Puerto Rican Debt Crisis May 11, 2017
- May 11, 2017 PUBLISHED: Rebecca Jordan-Young Publishes on Current Debates Around Sex and Neuroscience in The Guardian May 11, 2017
- May 11, 2017 CSSD Announces Media Fellows for Religion and Global Framing of Gender Violence Project May 11, 2017
- May 11, 2017 PUBLISHED: Marianne Hirsch Publishes Op-ed on truthout.org about Growing Up in an Autocracy May 11, 2017
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April 2017
- Apr 27, 2017 FORTHCOMING: Tina Campt's "Listening to Images" Investigates Archive of Photos of Black Diaspora Apr 27, 2017
- Apr 27, 2017 PANEL DISCUSSION: Gender Roles, Violence and the Refugee Experience in Mexico, the United States, and the European Union Apr 27, 2017
- Apr 27, 2017 PANEL DISCUSSION: Photographers and Journalists Document Gendered Refugee Experience Apr 27, 2017
- Apr 27, 2017 Jackie Leach Scully Discusses Precision Medicine, Embodiment, Self & Disability Apr 27, 2017
- Apr 27, 2017 KEYWORDS PANEL DISCUSSION: "Justice" defined in legal, institutional, and environmental terms Apr 27, 2017
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March 2017
- Mar 15, 2017 DISCUSSION: Refugees and Gender Violence: Media and the Arts on Thursday, March 30 Mar 15, 2017
- Mar 15, 2017 Jacqueline Chin Presents on "Precision Medicine: Privacy & Family Relations" Mar 15, 2017
- Mar 12, 2017 Alice Kessler-Harris' "Women Have Always Worked" MOOC Launched Mar 12, 2017
- Mar 8, 2017 DISCUSSION: Keyword: Justice — Interdisciplinary Conversation on Thursday, March 23! Mar 8, 2017
- Mar 7, 2017 CSSD Call for Proposals for Fall 2017 Projects Extended to March 20 Mar 7, 2017
- Mar 3, 2017 Jackie Leach Scully Speaks on Precision Medicine, Ethics, Politics, and Culture on March 9 Mar 3, 2017
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January 2017
- Jan 31, 2017 CONFERENCE: "China and Africa at a Crossroads: Revisiting the Legacy of Bandung Humanisms" Jan 31, 2017
- Jan 31, 2017 Jacqueline L. Chin Discusses "Precision Medicine, Privacy, and Family Relations" on February 9 Jan 31, 2017
- Jan 31, 2017 David Scott Wins Distinguished Editor Prize from the Council of Learned Journals Jan 31, 2017
- Jan 31, 2017 Anupama Rao Publishes New York Times Opinion Piece on Indian Supreme Court Ruling Jan 31, 2017
- Jan 24, 2017 Refugees and Gender Violence: Vulnerability and Resistance Jan 24, 2017
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December 2016
- Dec 14, 2016 Lila Abu-Lughod Reviews Katherine Zoepf's "Excellent Daughters: The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are Transforming the Arab World" Dec 14, 2016
- Dec 14, 2016 Ruha Benjamin on “Can the Subaltern Genome Code? Reimagining Innovation and Equity in the Era of Precision Medicine” Dec 14, 2016
- Dec 11, 2016 Paige West and J.C. Salyer Discuss Dispossession and Capital Accumulation in the Context of Papua New Guinea Dec 11, 2016
- Dec 11, 2016 Laura Ciolkowski Discusses Rape Culture and "Locker Room Talk" on WFUV Podcast "Issues Tank" Dec 11, 2016
- Dec 6, 2016 DISCUSSION: Framing Religion and Gender Violence—Beyond the Muslim Question Dec 6, 2016
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November 2016
- Nov 30, 2016 Aditya Bharadwaj Discusses Cultivated Cures: Ethnographic Encounters with Contentious Stem Cell Regenerations in India Nov 30, 2016
- Nov 30, 2016 Laura Ciolkowski's Rape Culture Syllabus in Public Books Nov 30, 2016
- Nov 30, 2016 Katherine Franke Writes about #BlackLivesMatter and the Question of Palestinian Genocide Nov 30, 2016
- Nov 18, 2016 James Tabery Traces History of The Human Genome Project with CSSD's Precision Medicine Working Group Nov 18, 2016
- Nov 15, 2016 CSSD Co-sponsors Dissent Issue Launch Concerning the Feminist Movement's Response to Trump Presidency Nov 15, 2016
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October 2016
- Oct 26, 2016 DISCUSSION: Is Gender Violence Governable? A Panel on International Feminist Regulation Oct 26, 2016
- Oct 21, 2016 Frances Negrón-Muntaner on CBS Sunday Morning Discussing "Latinos and the Vote" Oct 21, 2016
- Oct 18, 2016 China and Africa at a Crossroads: Revisiting the Legacy of Bandung Humanisms Oct 18, 2016
- Oct 18, 2016 Rachel Adams Publishes Article about Japanese Massacre and Ambivalence Toward People With Disabilities Oct 18, 2016
- Oct 18, 2016 Josef Sorett Interviewed about "Spirit in the Dark: A Religious History of Racial Aesthetics" Oct 18, 2016
- Oct 18, 2016 Alice Kessler-Harris Receives American Historical Association Award Oct 18, 2016
- Oct 11, 2016 Reframing Gendered Violence Group Holds "Is Gender Violence Governable? A Panel on International Feminist Regulation" on October 13th Oct 11, 2016
- Oct 11, 2016 Precision Medicine Working Group Presents Aditya Bharadwaj, October 13, on "Cultivated Cures: Ethnographic Encounters with Contentious Stem Cell Regenerations in India" Oct 11, 2016
- Oct 11, 2016 Rachel Adams Directs New CSSD Group Addressing the Ethical, Cultural, Political, and Historical Questions Around Precision Medicine Oct 11, 2016
- Oct 5, 2016 Lila Abu-Lughod Directs New Project on "Religion and the Global Framing of Gender Violence" Oct 5, 2016
- Oct 5, 2016 "Concept Histories of the Urban" Workshop Concludes Gender and the Global Slum Project Oct 5, 2016
- Oct 5, 2016 CSSD Releases 2015-16 Annual Report Oct 5, 2016
- Oct 5, 2016 JUST PUBLISHED: "Vulnerability in Resistance" Edited by Judith Butler and CSSD Project Members Zeynep Gambetti and Leticia Sabsay Oct 5, 2016
- Oct 4, 2016 Frances Negrón-Muntaner Appears on HBO's "Habla y Vota" Oct 4, 2016
- August 2016
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July 2016
- Jul 19, 2016 Gayatri Spivak Discusses Violence and the Marginalized in New York Times Interview Jul 19, 2016
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June 2016
- Jun 13, 2016 Frances Negrón-Muntaner Directs Video Series on Aging Former Inmates Reentering Society Jun 13, 2016
- Jun 13, 2016 Katherine Pratt Ewing Awarded Grant by American Council of Learned Societies for Sufi/Salafi Research Jun 13, 2016
- Jun 1, 2016 Marianne Hirsch Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences Jun 1, 2016
- Jun 1, 2016 Jean Howard Awarded Honorary Doctorate from Brown University Jun 1, 2016
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May 2016
- May 31, 2016 CSSD Fellow Susan Meiselas Receives Honorary Doctorate from Columbia May 31, 2016
- May 12, 2016 CSSD Funds New Working Group Addressing the Politics of Unpayable Debt and Its Effect on Social Mobilization May 12, 2016
- May 9, 2016 Keywords: Roundtable Discussion on "Choice" May 9, 2016
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April 2016
- Apr 19, 2016 Laura Ciolkowski Teaches Literature Humanities at Women's Prison Apr 19, 2016
- Apr 19, 2016 Rachel Adams Talks to Al Jazeera about Arthur Miller's Treatment of his Disabled Son Apr 19, 2016
- Apr 19, 2016 Caribbean Digital II Surveys the Past and Future of Diasporic Communications Apr 19, 2016
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February 2016
- Feb 26, 2016 Josef Sorett Publishes HuffPost Piece on Black Churches and Social Activism Feb 26, 2016
- Feb 25, 2016 Premilla Nadasen Publishes Article on the Clinton Administration's Criminalization and Racialization of the Poor Feb 25, 2016
- Feb 14, 2016 Rachel Adams Publishes Huffington Post Article on Disability Literacy for Children Feb 14, 2016
- Feb 3, 2016 Marianne Hirsch on "Democracy Now" Defends Turkish Academics Feb 3, 2016
- Feb 3, 2016 Premilla Nadasen's "Household Workers Unite" Draws Positive Reviews in Feminist, Trade, Mainstream Press Feb 3, 2016
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January 2016
- Jan 28, 2016 Lila Abu-Lughod Publishes Forum on "The Politics of Feminist Politics" Jan 28, 2016
- Jan 28, 2016 CSSD Condemns Turkish Government's Censure of Scholars Jan 28, 2016
- Jan 22, 2016 "Difference of Caste" Workshop Convenes in New Delhi Jan 22, 2016
- Jan 22, 2016 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Translates New Edition of Derrida's "Of Grammatology" Jan 22, 2016
- Jan 8, 2016 Lila Abu-Lughod Delivers Edward Said Memorial Lecture at the American University in Cairo Jan 8, 2016
- Jan 8, 2016 CSSD Member Amina Tawasil Publishes on the Emancipatory Effects of Marriage and Motherhood on Shi'i Women in Iran Jan 8, 2016
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December 2015
- Dec 22, 2015 Lila Abu-Lughod's "Do Muslim Women Need Saving" Reviewed in "Ethnicities" Journal Dec 22, 2015
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November 2015
- Nov 24, 2015 The Caribbean Digital II: Histories, Cartographies, Narratives Nov 24, 2015
- Nov 18, 2015 Farah Griffin Joins White House Research Initiative to Advance Equity for Women and Girls of Color Nov 18, 2015
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October 2015
- Oct 30, 2015 Working Group Members Edit Women's Studies Journal on Gender and Genocide Oct 30, 2015
- Oct 23, 2015 Working Group Member Publishes on Lack of Support for Disabled in Indonesian Education Oct 23, 2015
- Oct 23, 2015 Alisa Solomon Examines the Historic Theater of "Hamilton" in The Nation Oct 23, 2015
- Oct 23, 2015 HEMI Publishes "Art, Migration, and Human Rights" Dossier Oct 23, 2015
- Oct 23, 2015 Keywords for Disability Studies Symposium Explores Key Questions for the Future Oct 23, 2015
- Oct 13, 2015 Women Mobilizing Memory Member on Democracy Now Oct 13, 2015
- Oct 11, 2015 Digital Black Atlantic Project Attracts Grants and Honors Oct 11, 2015
- Oct 11, 2015 Lila Abu-Lughod's "Do Muslim Women Need Saving?" Reviewed in Public Books Oct 11, 2015
- Oct 7, 2015 Working Group Helps Produce "An Historic Victory for Women's Equality in Sport" Oct 7, 2015
- Oct 7, 2015 CSSD Releases 2014-15 Annual Report Oct 7, 2015
- Oct 4, 2015 WOMEN MOBILIZING MEMORY IV: A Week of Workshops, Exhibits, and Protest Oct 4, 2015
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August 2015
- Aug 4, 2015 JUST PUBLISHED: Rachel Adams' Keywords for Disability Studies Aug 4, 2015
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July 2015
- Jul 28, 2015 Gayatri Spivak Awarded Honorary Doctorate from Yale Jul 28, 2015
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June 2015
- Jun 21, 2015 JUST PUBLISHED: Rachel Adams on Access to Aid for the Disabled Jun 21, 2015
- Jun 21, 2015 PUBLISHED: Debating a Testosterone "Sex Gap" in Science Magazine Jun 21, 2015
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May 2015
- May 14, 2015 CSSD Project's Digital Publishing Platform Wins NEH Grant May 14, 2015
- May 13, 2015 INTERVIEW: Farah Griffin Speaks with Toni Morrison in "Essence" Magazine May 13, 2015
- May 1, 2015 PUBLISHED: Mobilizing Memory Curators Interviewed by "n.paradoxa" May 1, 2015
- May 1, 2015 Jean Howard Discusses Diversity Initiative in Columbia Spectator May 1, 2015
- May 1, 2015 DISCUSSION: Shoshana Magnet on Feminism, Robots, and Roaches May 1, 2015
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April 2015
- Apr 27, 2015 JUST PUBLISHED: Farah Griffin's "Intellectual History of Black Women" Apr 27, 2015
- Apr 27, 2015 ROUNDTABLE Keywords: Trans Apr 27, 2015
- Apr 21, 2015 ROUNDTABLE: Women Mobilizing Memory "Keywords" Apr 21, 2015
- Apr 2, 2015 LECTURE: Ron Suskind on "Narratives of Earned Hope: Or the Ways Adversity Can Build Compensatory Strengths" Apr 2, 2015
- Apr 2, 2015 ART EXHIBIT: "Die Presse" Reviews "Mobilizing Memory" in Vienna Apr 2, 2015
- Apr 1, 2015 SYMPOSIUM: Caribbean Queer Visualities, April 2-3, 2015, Co-sponsored by Digital Black Atlantic Project Apr 1, 2015
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March 2015
- Mar 21, 2015 WOMEN MOBILIZING MEMORY: Effective Activism for Human Rights Mar 21, 2015
- Mar 21, 2015 CSSD Announces Two New Working Groups for Fall 2015 Mar 21, 2015
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January 2015
- Jan 27, 2015 Banu Karaca in The New York Times Jan 27, 2015
- Jan 26, 2015 CONFERENCE REPORT: 2014 Caribbean Digital Conference Jan 26, 2015
- Jan 26, 2015 PUBLICATION: Yarimar Bonilla on "#Ferguson: Digital protest, hashtag ethnography, and the racial politics of social media in the United States" Jan 26, 2015
- Jan 9, 2015 Lila Abu-Lughod's new book named "Best Book of 2014 on the Middle East" Jan 9, 2015
- Jan 5, 2015 Christian Lammert on "Welfare and Citizenship: The Pillars of Social Cohesion" Jan 5, 2015
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December 2014
- Dec 11, 2014 CONFERENCE REPORT: Debating the “Woman Question” in the New Middle East: Women’s Rights, Citizenship, and Social Justice Dec 11, 2014
- Dec 5, 2014 WOMEN MOBILIZING MEMORY: Patricia Ariza on Culture as a "form of resistance" Dec 5, 2014
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November 2014
- Nov 29, 2014 Women Leaders in Changing India Nov 29, 2014
- Nov 17, 2014 CALL FOR PROJECTS: Women Creating Change Nov 17, 2014
- Nov 14, 2014 Nancy Kricorian Published in Guernica Magazine Daily Nov 14, 2014
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October 2014
- Oct 29, 2014 Female Leadership, Labor, and Women's Lives in India Oct 29, 2014
- Oct 29, 2014 VIDEO: "Gender, Memory, Activism" Oct 29, 2014
- Oct 29, 2014 VIDEO: "Art, Performance, and Memory" Oct 29, 2014
- Oct 29, 2014 VIDEO: "Creating Alternative Archives" Oct 29, 2014
- Oct 14, 2014 Columbia Global Centers Showcases Women Mobilizing Memory Oct 14, 2014
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September 2014
- Sep 26, 2014 PUBLIC ROUNDTABLE: Women and Politics: A Turning Point? Sep 26, 2014
- Sep 23, 2014 DAY FIVE REPORT: "Women Mobilizing Memory" Workshop in Istanbul, Turkey Sep 23, 2014
- Sep 22, 2014 DAY FOUR REPORT: "Women Mobilizing Memory" Workshop in Istanbul, Turkey Sep 22, 2014
- Sep 21, 2014 DAY THREE REPORT: "Women Mobilizing Memory" Workshop in Istanbul, Turkey Sep 21, 2014
- Sep 20, 2014 DAY TWO REPORT: "Women Mobilizing Memory" Workshop in Istanbul, Turkey Sep 20, 2014
- Sep 17, 2014 DAY ONE REPORT: "Women Mobilizing Memory" Workshop in Istanbul, Turkey Sep 17, 2014
- Sep 15, 2014 "Mobilizing Memory: Women Witnessing" EXHIBITION CATALOGUE Sep 15, 2014
- Sep 5, 2014 PUBLIC ROUNDTABLES: “Coming to Terms” with Gendered Memories of Genocide, War, and Political Repression," Istanbul, Turkey Sep 5, 2014
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August 2014
- Aug 21, 2014 Lila Abu-Lughod & Susanna Ferguson: On "Debating the 'Woman Question' in the New Middle East | Women’s Rights, Citizenship, and Social Justice" Aug 21, 2014
- Aug 20, 2014 WORKSHOP: Shifting Notions of Social Citizenship: The “Two Wests” Aug 20, 2014
- Aug 19, 2014 Women Mobilizing Memory Workshop II Aug 19, 2014
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July 2014
- Jul 30, 2014 Rachel Adams, Director of the Future of Disability Studies Working Group, Won the 2014 Educators Award Jul 30, 2014
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June 2014
- Jun 7, 2014 CSSD Announces Two New Working Groups Jun 7, 2014
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April 2014
- Apr 25, 2014 PUBLIC LECTURE: Beyond Masculinity: Testosterone, Sexual Desire, and Gender/Sex Apr 25, 2014
- Apr 21, 2014 KEYWORDS: Interdisciplinary Roundtable Conversations Apr 21, 2014
- Apr 13, 2014 REFLECTIONS: Debating the “Woman Question” in the New Middle East: Women’s Rights, Citizenship, and Social Justice Apr 13, 2014
- Apr 10, 2014 NY TIMES OP-ED: "The Trouble with Too Much T" Apr 10, 2014
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March 2014
- Mar 10, 2014 Memory for the Future: Collaborative Witnessing in Post- Dictatorship Chile Mar 10, 2014
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January 2014
- Jan 27, 2014 Parenting, Narrative, and our Genetic Futures Jan 27, 2014