Join the Harriman Institute for a book talk with Kathleen Collins to discuss her new book, Politicizing Islam in Central Asia (Oxford University Press 2023).

When: Monday December 11th, 2023

12 PM - 1:30 PM

Where: International Affairs Building, 420 W 118th St. New York, NY 10027

Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room 1219

Projecting Tradition Into the Future in Three Solo Works 

Jen Shyu 

When: Thursday December 7th, 2023

3 PM - 5 PM

Where: Fayerweather Hall, 1180 Amsterdam Ave. New York, NY 10027 (Room 513) or Online

Rita Charon, MD, PhD

Noémie Elhadad, PhD

Aimee Payne, MD, PhD

When: Wednesday December 6th, 2023

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Where: College of Physicians and Surgeons, 630 W. 168 St. New York, NY 10032 

Alumni Auditorium

Rachel Corbman 

Camille Robcis

When: Tuesday, December 5th  

4:30 PM - 6 PM

Where: Fayerweather 513

Anti-Racism Speaker Series featuring Dr. Timiya S. Nolan

When: Thursday November 30th,

10 AM - 11 AM

Where: Via zoom

Segregation and the Spatial Externalities of Inequality: A Theory of Interdependence and Public Goods in Cities 

Alice Xu

When: Wednesday November 29th, 2023

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Where: International Affairs Building, 420 W. 118th St, New York, NY 10027

Room 707

Oct 11, 2023 | 6:00pm
Book Talk
934 Schermerhorn Hall

Extractive Media presents a book talk with renowned historian Jo Guldi as she discusses her recent book, The Dangerous Art of Text Mining (Cambridge University Press, 2022). This talk will include pre-circulated readings.

About the Speaker:

Jo Guldi completed her PhD in History at the University of California, Berkeley (2008) and is currently Professor (in Practice) of Quantitative Theory and Methods at Emory University.  Previously, Dr. Guldi held positions mainly in Departments of History at the University of Chicago, the Harvard Society of Fellows, Brown University, and Southern Methodist University.  Dr. Guldi's research into quantitative methods focuses on improving AI approaches to understanding our past. Her historical research concerns the history of property rights, the origins of eminent domain, and the story of rent control.  Her articles have been published in the American Historical Review, Journal of Modern History, and Annales. From 2015-2021 she was PI of a $1 million NSF grant entitled "The Unaffordable World." Her award winning books have been covered in The Atlantic Monthly, Wall Street Journal, Boston Review, and Guardian.

Oct 11, 2023 | 6:00pm
Lecture
934 Schermerhorn Hall

Reinhold Martin, an Extractive Media working group member and historian of architecture and media, presents a lecture on oil’s value in terms of its use as well as its utility. As a member at the Center for Comparative Media, the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society, and the Committee of Social Thought, as well as former the chair of the Society of Fellows/Heyman Center for the Humanities, Martin’s latest venture into the medium of oil is sure to be of interest to any and all working in the social sciences.

Lecture response by Extractive Media project co-director Zeynep Çelik Alexander.

Lila Abu-Lughod, Shenila Khoja-Moolji, Karen Engle, Janet R. Jakobsen, Vasuki Nesiah, and Rafia Zakaria

Oct 11, 2023 | 6:00pm
Panel Discussion
Online
Co-Sponsors: Barnard Center for Research on Women and the Center for the Study of Muslim Societies, Columbia University

The Cunning of Gender Violence (Duke University Press, 2023) examines how a previously visionary feminist initiative has become integrated into contemporary global affairs. Addressing the issue of violence against women and gender-based violence has become a prominent and influential agenda within international governance and legal frameworks, as well as being entwined with state violence and global security measures. Through the use of case studies involving Palestine, Bangladesh, Iran, India, Pakistan, Israel, and Turkey, as well as an examination of UN and US policies, the book uncovers the gaps and exclusions in this agenda. It also delves into the experiences of those who have endured such violence, ultimately challenging the narrative that portrays this agenda as a resounding "feminist success story."

About the speakers

Lila Abu-Lughod is the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science and Director of the Center for the Study of Social Difference at Columbia University where she teaches anthropology and gender studies. Her scholarship, strongly ethnographic and mostly based on long-term research in Egypt, has focused on the relationship between cultural forms and power; the politics and ethics of knowledge and representation of the Arab and Muslim worlds; and the dynamics of gender politics and the international circulation of women’s rights talk. She has written many books, including Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society (1986/2006/2016) and Do Muslim Women Need Saving? (2013). She is the Co-Editor with Rema Hammami and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian of The Cunning of Gender Violence: Feminism and Geopolitics.

Shenila Khoja-Moolji is the Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Associate Professor of Muslim Societies at Georgetown University. She is an interdisciplinary scholar with research interests in the fields of Muslim studies, feminist theory, South Asia, and migration. Professor Khoja-Moolji is the author of award-winning books which include Forging the Ideal Educated Girl: The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia and Sovereign Attachments: Masculinity, Muslimness, and Affective Politics in Pakistan. Her latest book, Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality, was recently published by Oxford University Press.

Karen Engle is Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law and Founder and Co-director of the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice. She is also an affiliated faculty member of Latin American Studies and of Women’s and Gender Studies. Professor Engle writes on the interaction between social movements and law, particularly in the fields of international human rights law, international criminal law, and Latin American law. She is author of numerous scholarly articles and of The Grip of Sexual Violence in Conflict: Feminist Interventions in International Law (2020) as well as The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development: Rights, Culture, Strategy (2010), which received the Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association Section on Human Rights. 

Janet R. Jakobsen is Claire Tow Professor of Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University, and Co-Director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW). Her most recent book is The Sex Obsession: Perversity and Possibility in American Politics (2020), which was a 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. With Ann Pellegrini she co-wrote Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance (2003) and coedited Secularisms (2008), and with Elizabeth Castelli she coedited Interventions: Academics and Activists Respond to Violence (2004). 

Vasuki Nesiah teaches human rights, legal and social theory at NYU Gallatin where she is also faculty director of the Gallatin Global Fellowship in Human Rights. She has published on the history and politics of human rights, humanitarianism, international criminal law, reparations, global feminisims, and decolonization. Nesiah was awarded the Jacob Javits Professorship (2022), Gallatin Distinguished Teacher Award in 2021 and the NYU Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Faculty Award in 2020. Her current book projects include International Conflict Feminism (forthcoming from University of Pennsylvania Press) and Reading the Ruins: Colonialism, Slavery, and International Law. A founding member of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), she is also co-editing TWAIL: A Handbook with Anthony Anghie, Bhupinder Chimni, Michael Fakhri, and Karin Mickelson (forthcoming from Elgar). 

Rafia Zakaria is an author, editor, and attorney. She is a fellow at the African American Policy Institute and is a weekly columnist at The Baffler in the United States as well as for dawn, Pakistan’s largest and oldest English language daily, since 2009. Her column is syndicated in newspapers all over the world and is regularly republished in the Deccan Chronicle, The Wire India, Kathmandu Post, Sri Lanka Guardian, and New Straits Times, among others. Her latest book Against White Feminism (2021) was one of NPR’s “Most Favorite Books of 2021” In Fall 2016 she was part of the “How Should Journalism Cover Terrorism” Project at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. Rafia is also the author of The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan (2015) and Veil (2017).

Accessibility

ASL Interpretation will be provided. For additional accessibility needs please email skreitzb@barnard.edu.

This is an online event, free and open to all. Registration is preferred.

Book Launch of The Cunning of Gender Violence: Geopolitics and Feminism (Duke University Press) edited by Lila Abu-Lughod, Rema Hammami, and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian.

Introduction by Lila Abu-Lughod with panelists Nina Berman (Columbia Journalism School), Rema Hammami (Birzeit U), Dina Siddiqi (NYU), Sima Shakhsari (U of Minnesota), and Jelani Cobb (Columbia Journalism School). Moderated by Shenila Khoja-Moolji (Georgetown U).

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The book emerged from the CSSD project Religion and the Global Framing of Gender Violence, supported by the Henry Luce Foundation.