Please join us Thursday, March 27th at 3:30 for a conversation between RBML’s Head of Archives Processing Kevin Schlottmann and Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities and founding curator of the Latino Arts and Activisms (LAAS) collection.
Founded in 2012, the LAAS collection includes the papers and records of Latinos and Latino organizations in New York and related regions that may be of enduring significance as research resources. Areas of principal interest include the arts, politics, and community-based organizations. The curatorial short will canvass the history and care of the collection and share some highlights from the materials.
Register here: https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-va_wQoORKSZzvzxnmpc3g#/registration
The Asian American Initiative at Columbia is pleased to host The Honorable Goodwin H. Liu, Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court. Following a talk, Justice Liu and Ajay K. Mehrotra, Professor of Law & History at Northwestern University and the American Bar Foundation, will discuss their research on Asian Americans in the Law.
A Portrait of Asian Americans in the Law
Thursday, March 27
Doors open at 5:00pm | Program begins at 5:30pm
Columbia Law School
Jerome Green Hall 103
436 W. 116th Street
Co-sponsored with Columbia Law School, this event is open to the public and is in-person only; registration is required for entry.
How are settlement and migration enacted in relation to one another? What fictions of land and architecture live inside ‘settled’ histories of the colonized world? Through towns and camps, enclaves and ghettos, partitions and borderlands, this symposium studies the conversion of oceans, deserts, and forests into architectures, infrastructures, and territories. These sessions seek to ask how the homes of people and animals, now borderlands, frontiers, and wastelands, have been remembered and narrated. Within these forms and narratives live concept histories of settlement.
Presented by The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities and co-sponsored by CSER.
Full event details here.
Columbia Raaga is pleased to introduce Raaga Mela, a festival of Indian classical music and dance, hosted at Columbia University on March 30, 2025. The performance lineup includes an ethnomusicology lecture-demonstration on Tamil padams by Dr. B. Balasubrahmaniyan, a sitar concert by Ustad Irshad Khan and Sri Anubrata Chatterjee, and a bharatanatyam duet margam by Jeeno Joseph and Sophia Salingaros. Tickets are available at linktr.ee/curaaga and more information can be found on Instagram @curaaga.
The Institute for the Study of Human Rights and the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race invite you to a panel discussion with two Human Rights Advocates, part of ISHR’s Human Rights Advocates Program.
Featuring Adija Adamu (Grants Coordinator Africa, International Indigenous Women’s Forum, Indigenous Women’s Rights to Finance, Cameroon) and Kathia Carrillo (Chairperson, Las Comunes, Decolonizing Advocacy with Arts and Communications, Peru); moderated by Elsa Stamatopoulou (Director, Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Program, ISHR).
Register here: https://bit.ly/41MT0vc
Haiti is often depicted as a place with no future, but Reclaiming Haiti’s Futures tells a different story. Join Professor Dubuisson in conversation with Professor Amelia Herbert as she discusses how Haitian returned intellectuals exercised improvisation, rasanblaj (assembly), and radical imagination to work toward and create future-oriented places of belonging and the lessons for a world now defined by fractures and crises.
RSVP here: bit.ly/cgt_dubuisson
This panel brings together Indigenous scholars to critically examine the historical and ongoing impacts of exploration, scientific research, and anthropology on Indigenous communities in Papua New Guinea and Hawai‘i. Panelists will explore the intersections of Indigenous rights, data sovereignty, and the colonial legacies embedded within scientific knowledge production.
The panelists will reflect on how historical expeditions and research projects extracted knowledge, resources, and data from Indigenous lands and bodies, often without consent or reciprocity. They will interrogate the ways in which scientific and anthropological institutions have upheld colonial power structures, while also considering how Indigenous scholars and communities are reclaiming control over their knowledge and data.
Through discussions of biocultural heritage, climate research, conservation, and food sovereignty, this panel will highlight efforts to establish ethical research frameworks that respect Indigenous sovereignty. Drawing from experiences in both New Guinea and Hawai‘i, the panelists will address contemporary movements toward Indigenous-led research methodologies, legal protections, and data governance models that center Indigenous epistemologies and self-determination.
By placing these diverse yet interconnected histories and struggles in conversation, this panel challenges dominant narratives of scientific exploration and proposes pathways toward decolonial, community-centered knowledge practices that honor Indigenous rights, agency, and futures.
- Hi‘ilei Hobart, Assistant Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University
- Ikaika Ramones, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University
- Nayahamui Rooney, Senior Lecturer in Culture, History, and Language at Australian National University
- Miriam Supuma, Programme Manager at Synchronicity Earth
- Moderated by Paige West, Claire Tow Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University
Hosted by the Center for Science and Society at Columbia University. Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. Registration required.
Founded by Latina immigrants in East Harlem, Movement fights for dignity against displacement. Join the Human Rights Graduate Group at Columbia University, Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender, and Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race for a discussion with MJEB’s community activists about housing justice in East Harlem. Seating is limited and will be first come, first seated.
The Center for African Education (CAE), in collaboration with the Institute for African Studies (IAS) and the Society for International Education (SIE), proudly announces an exciting mini-conference—generously supported by the Office of the Vice President for Diversity & Community Affairs.
Conference Website: (click here to view)
We extend a warm invitation to students and faculty across Columbia University and affiliated schools to participate in this dynamic, multidisciplinary conference. For decades, Pan-Africanist dialogue across Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas has shaped the intellectual foundation for unity and progress. This student-centered mini-conference builds on that tradition, convening students and faculty in interdisciplinary exchanges on the intersections of education and Pan-Africanism.
We are currently inviting students to present their research and/or volunteer for conference support.
Ready to submit an abstract based on the research themes? Click here
Ready to volunteer to support conference activities? Click here
We are committed to ensuring accessibility for all participants. To request disability-related accommodations contact OASID at oasid@tc.edu, (212) 678-3689, (212) 678-3853 TTY (646) 755-3144 video phone, as early as possible.
Panelists:
Rebecca Morgan Frank’s fourth collection of poems is Oh You Robot Saints!, and her poems and criticism appear in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Los Angeles Review of Books, Lit Hub, and elsewhere. She serves on the Board of the National Book Critics Circle and is an assistant professor at Lewis University in Illinois.
