Discover unique and beautiful tales by women from the Arab world! Award-winning actress Yasmine Al Massri (Miral and ABC’s hit TV show Quantico) brings to life traditional Syrian and Lebanese folktales, passed down through generations of women, and collected by Najla Khoury in Pearls on a Branch: Oral Tales. Khoury originally published these tales in Arabic in 2014, having collected them…
Judith Surkis, Associate Professor, Rutgers University presents an excerpt from “Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria”. This is part of the European History & Politics Workshop, supported by the European Institute and GSAC at Columbia University. The workshop will meet on select Mondays over the course of the academic year at Columbia University (Philosophy 302) from 11:30am-12:45pm. Participants will…
On Monday, March 5th please join us for “Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941″, a book talk by Stephen Kotkin (Princeton University). In 1929, Joseph Stalin, having already achieved dictatorial power over the vast Soviet Empire, formally ordered the systematic conversion of the world’s largest peasant economy into “socialist modernity,” otherwise known as collectivization, regardless of the cost. What it cost, and…
To RSVP please click here. Jane Gallop talks about adult-onset disability, middle-aging, and sexuality. The project brings together crip theory, feminist aging studies, queer temporality, psychoanalysis, and anecdotal theory. It considers how disability that begins in midlife and/or the entrance to middle age are lived as a threat to one's sexuality and one's gender, but also how these perspectives can supply…
As migrants embark on perilous journeys across oceans and deserts in pursuit of sanctuary and improved living conditions, what is the responsibility of those safely ensconced in the nations they seek to enter? Moved by repeated tragedies among immigrants attempting to enter eastern and southern Europe, Patrick Chamoiseau assails the hypocrisy and detachment that allow these events to happen. --…