“Black Europe: A Field on the Move” is a one-day, interdisciplinary graduate student conference open to the entire Columbia community and members of the public. Scholars across disciplines are increasingly treating “Black Europe” as a pertinent object of study. Yet much disagreement remains on what “Black Europe” is. Does Black Europe describe a place, an identity, an aspiration, or something else? Scholars oscillate between terms such as “Afropean,” “African-European,” and “Black European.” Moreover, the institutionalization of Black European studies remains a work in progress, and views vary on whether Black European studies is an academic field, a subsection of Black Studies or African Diaspora Studies, or a reference point for a set of inquiries and practices that exceed the bounds of academic discipline. See the attached flyer and registration link for panel details.
The conference is free to attend but registration is required. Questions for the organizers? Reach us at blackeurope2025@gmail.com
Organizers: Rochelle Malcolm (PhD candidate, History), Mayaki Kimba (PhD candidate, Political Science), and Zarino Lanni (PhD student, Anthropology)
Sponsors: Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP), The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities, Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Arts and Sciences Graduate Council, European Institute, Department of Political Science, Department of Africana Studies (Barnard College), Department of Anthropology, Department of History, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Department of French, Small Axe Project, Department of Germanic Languages
Current undergraduate students are invited to an informal conversation and lunch with Prof. Qin Gao, who is Acting Director of the Asian American Initiative (AAI) at Columbia University. This is a great opportunity for undergraduate students to meet Dr. Gao and share thoughts and ideas for Columbia’s AAI. Lunch will be provided.
Please scan the QR code on the flyer to RSVP or follow this link. RSVP is required. For more information on AAI, please visit their website.
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
