Join the School of the Art Dean’s Office for a New Faculty Salon. You will have a chance to meet our wonderful new faculty colleagues in the School of the Arts — Minhal Baig (Film), Angie Cruz (Writing), James Ijames (Theatre), and Hilary Leichter (Writing) — and to learn about their work.

Please register here, but drop-ins are also welcome. Hosted by Sarah Cole, Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts and Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature. Refreshments will be served. Questions? Contact Gavin Browning at gdb2106@columbia.edu

Respondents: Sonali Thakkar and Jack Halberstam

Please join the University Seminar on Cultural Memory for a discussion with David L. Eng (University of Pennsylvania) about Reparations and the Human (2025). Eng’s new book investigates a history of reparations across the Transpacific. He analyzes how concepts of reparation established during colonial settlement and the European Enlightenment shape contemporary configurations of the human and human rights, determining who can be recognized as victims, who must be seen as perpetrators, and who deserves repair. As demands for reparations now occupy center stage in debates concerning unresolved legacies of dispossession and Transatlantic slavery, Eng considers how the Cold War Transpacific provides a limit case for the politics of repair and definitions of the human.

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages, the Institute for the Study of Human Rights, the Department of English and Comparative Literature and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Please register for the event here.

ENCUENT(R)OS FALL 2025

Curated by Angie Cruz and Deborah Paredez; Presented by the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Aster(ix) Journal, and Casa Hispánica

Conversation and Dinner with Alex Rivera: Cinema, Cyberpunk, and the Border Mind Virus

Tuesday, November 18th, 6-8PM

Casa Hispánica (612 W 116th St.)

DINNER PROVIDED!

Alex Rivera’s films explore themes of globalization, migration, and technology. They include the cyberpunk thriller set in Mexico, Sleep Dealer, and the documentary/scripted hybrid film set in an immigrant detention center, The Infiltrators. He is a 2021 MacArthur Fellow, Sundance Fellow, and former Rothschild Lecturer at Harvard University. https://alexrivera.com/

Co-sponsored by Barnard College Creative Writing Fellows and The Radio in the Orchard

This roundtable brings together distinguished senior academics from different fields to reflect on their experiences with realizing a vision for academic innovation. By what steps does a shared vision emerge, and what does it take to bring it to fruition? Are there predictable challenges in realizing an innovative academic vision, and how can these be overcome or avoided?

Together, we will brainstorm successful practices for bringing academic visions to life, particularly those grounded in shared governance and academic freedom. Can our past experiences offer insight into today’s challenges? What guidance might we offer younger colleagues striving to realize their own visions.

To help us coordinate access for off-campus guests, please register in advance using this link. Hosted by the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities.

The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race and Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender are hosting a joint Holiday Party! We’d like to cordially invite CSER students and faculty, and their guests, to join us for an evening of food, drinks, music, and fun. Dinner options from Beyond Sushi (vegan) and Tropical Sensation will be provided.

RSVP HERE: https://forms.gle/3SyXfVB3hF9w2gaK9

*Please note that, unfortunately, Deutsches Haus is not wheelchair accessible*

Questions? Email cser@columbia.edu and/or issg@columbia.edu.