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Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, and the Question of Palestine
Dec
8
1:30 PM13:30
History of the Present

Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, and the Question of Palestine

 

LOCATION
Lynn Chu Classroom,
Milstein Hall
3009 Broadway,
New York, NY 10027

SPEAKERS

Seth Anziska Mohamed S. Farsi-Lindenbaum Associate Professor of Jewish-Muslim Relations at University College London. (Columbia College ‘06, GSAS ‘15)

Rebecca Vilkomerson Former Executice Director, Jewish Voice for Peace

MODERATOR
Joseph Howley Associate Professor of Classics, Columbia University

INTRODUCTION
Nadia Abu El-Haj Ann Whitney Olin Professor in the Departments of Anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University and Co-Director of the Center for Palestine Studies

Organized by Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University and the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University.

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On Feminism and Palestine: A Faculty Roundtable Discussion
Dec
4
6:00 PM18:00
History of the Present

On Feminism and Palestine: A Faculty Roundtable Discussion

Join us for a faculty roundtable discussion, “On Feminism and Palestine,” on Monday, 4 December 2023.

Please RSVP.

LOCATION
Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
Joseph D. Jamail Lecture Hall in Pulitzer Hall

PRESENTERS

  • Professor Lila Abu-Lughod (Columbia University, Anthropology and ISSG)

  • Professor Jafari Sinclaire Allen (Columbia University, African American and African Diaspora Studies)

  • Professor Jack Halberstam (Columbia University, English & Comparative Literature and ISSG)

  • Professor Premilla Nadasen (Barnard College, History and BCRW)

  • Professor Neferti Tadiar (Barnard College, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies)

MODERATOR

  • Professor Sarah Haley (Columbia University, History and ISSG)

Co-presented by Columbia University's Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender, Institute for Research in African-American Studies, Center for Palestine Studies, Center for the Study of Ethnicity & Race, and the Barnard Center for Research on Women.

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Machines with Ali Musleh | GSAPP Teach-In
Nov
17
12:00 PM12:00
History of the Present

Machines with Ali Musleh | GSAPP Teach-In

 

Machines with Ali Musleh and Caitlin Blanchfield
Friday, 10 Nov 2023, 12pm

Join the Post-Conflict Cities Lab and GSAPP MS and PhD Students for a talk with Ali Musleh (Center for Palestine Studies) and Caitlin Blanchfield (GSAPP).

Ali Musleh is the Ibrahim Abu-Lughod post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University. He is a political theorist who studies settler colonial warfare, arms and automation. Ali is currently working on his first book project, To What Abyss Does This Robot Take the Earth? Using his dual background in design and political theory, he focuses on Israel's design, development and deployment of drones, autonomous weapons and artificial intelligence, treating them as technological processes of managing and differentiating forms of life. Read more. 

Caitlin Blanchfield is a Doctoral Candidate in Architecture at Columbia GSAPP, where she also received an M.S. in Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices in Architecture. Caitlin is a founding editor of the Avery Review, and her recent book Modern Management Methods: Architecture, Historical Value, and the Electromagnetic Image, co-authored with Farzin Lotfi-Jam, was published by Columbia Books on Architecture and the City in 2019. Read more. 

Please note that in-person attendance is limited to GSAPP affiliates and that seating is first come, first served. Other CUID holders and members of the public can attend via Zoom. 

 
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Politics / Space with Nora Akawi | GSAPP Teach-In
Nov
10
10:30 AM10:30
History of the Present, The Arts

Politics / Space with Nora Akawi | GSAPP Teach-In

 

Join the Post-Conflict Cities Lab and GSAPP MS and PhD Students for a talk with Nora Akawi (The Cooper Union) and Léopold Lambert (The Funambulist).

Nora Akawi is a Palestinian architect and an assistant professor at The Cooper Union. She focuses on erasure and bordering in settler colonialism and works at the intersection of architecture with border studies, cartography, and archive theory. Nora previously taught at GSAPP, where she was the director of Studio-X Amman since 2012, and the founding director of the Janet Abu-Lughod Library and Seminar since 2015. Read more. 

Léopold Lambert is the editor-in-chief of The Funambulist,  a platform that engages with the politics of space and bodies. He is a trained architect, as well as the author of four books that examine the inherent violence of architecture on bodies, and its political instrumentalization at various scales and in various geographical contexts. Read more. 

Please note that in-person attendance is limited to GSAPP affiliates and that seating is first come, first served. Other CUID holders and members of the public can attend via Zoom. 

 
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Town Hall: A Conversation with Tareq Baconi, Rashid Khalidi and Ali Musleh
Oct
20
1:00 PM13:00
History of the Present

Town Hall: A Conversation with Tareq Baconi, Rashid Khalidi and Ali Musleh

Join the Center for Palestine Studies for a Town Hall with Tareq Baconi, Rashid Khalidi and Ali Musleh, moderated by Nadia Abu El-Haj.

Please note that this event is open to Columbia and Barnard ID holders only.

LOCATION
807 Schermerhorn Hall

SPEAKERS

Tareq Baconi serves as the president of the board of Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network. He is the former senior analyst for Israel/Palestine and Economics of Conflict at the International Crisis Group, based in Ramallah, and the author of Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance (Stanford University Press, 2018).

Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University. He is the editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies and the author of numerous books, including The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917- 2017 (Macmillan, 2020).

Ali Musleh is the Ibrahim Abu-Lughod post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University. He is a political theorist who studies settler colonial warfare, arms and automation.

MODERATOR

Nadia Abu El-Haj is Ann Whitney Olin Professor in the Departments of Anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University and Co-Director of the Center for Palestine Studies.

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