Souleymane Bachir Diagne in Christian Science Monitor
Professor Diagne commented on the Nairobi National Museum’s new exhibit highlighting the Kenyan art stolen in the colonial era.
Professor Souleymane Bachir Diagne commented on the Nairobi National Museum’s new “Invisible Inventories” exhibit highlighting the European colonial-era theft of Kenyan art. Professor Diagne told Christan Science Monitor: “The movement is snowballing. There’s a public pressure now that wasn’t there before.”
Professor Diagne, a Senegalese philosopher and Columbia professor of Philosophy and French, was a member of CSSD’s working group Bandung Humanisms.
Professor Lydia Liu Writes Review in Artform
Co-director of working group Bandung Humanisms, Lydia Liu, discusses contemporary Chinese artist Xu Bing’s exhibition “Thought and Method”
Wun Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities, and co-director of the CSSD Bandung Humanisms working group, Lydia Liu describes artist Xu Bing’s Beijing retrospective multimedia exhibition as both “transformative” and “executed with disciplined craftsmanship”. She goes on to write that, “The tension between sensory stimulation and intellectual rigor is one of the works' strongest animating forces, leading to a sequence of revelations about the place of 'truth' in moments of suspended sensory certainties."
Professor Liu’s review can be found here.
More on “Xu Bing: Thought and Method” can be read here.
CSSD Project Co-Director Lydia Liu Collaborates on Global Justice for Indigenous Languages Symposium
Professor Lydia H. Liu, co-director of the CSSD project Bandung Humanisms, recently collaborated on the Global Justice for Indigenous Languages Symposium.
Professor Lydia H. Liu, co-director of the CSSD project Bandung Humanisms, recently collaborated on the Global Justice for Indigenous Languages Symposium, working alongside Professor Elsa Stamatopolou of the Columbia Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. The symposium will take place on Saturday, April 21st in the Jerome Greene Annex at Columbia University.
Presented as part of the Sawyer Seminar on Global Language Justice, a two-year seminar initiated by Columbia’s Institute for Comparative Literature and Society and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Global Justice for Indigenous Languages Symposium seeks to “bring to the forefront the critical work done by researchers, educators, institutions, organizations, and communities; work that is necessary to make meaningful headway in actualizing language justice.” In addition to collaborating on the symposium, Professor Liu will moderate a panel during the event entitled “Indigenous Languages: Strengthening and Revitalization”.
Along with serving as a project co-director and member of the Executive Board for CSSD, Liu is currently Wun Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and Director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society.
China and Africa at a Crossroads: Revisiting the Legacy of Bandung Humanisms
The CSSD working group Bandung Humanisms hosted the conference “China and Africa at a Crossroads: Revisiting the Legacy of Bandung Humanisms.” Read the full blog entry on the conference here and see photos from the day.
China and Africa at a Crossroads: Revisiting the Legacy of Bandung Humanisms
The CSSD working group Bandung Humanisms hosted the conference “China and Africa at a Crossroads: Revisiting the Legacy of Bandung Humanisms.” Read the full blog entry on the conference here and see photos from the day here
