QnA Session for Call for Proposals is happening tomorrow!
Date: Wednesday 12th, 2025
Time: 1pm -2:30pm
Location: Online
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Call for Proposals 2025! 📣
CSSD invites professors from Columbia, Barnard, TC, and CUMC to apply for interdisciplinary research grants on this year's theme "Crisis"
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On November 11, Extractive Media Working Group is holding a seminar at 6:10 pm in Schermerhorn 934.
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Participate in CSSD's #ColumbiaGivingDay 2024 on October 1 and help us continue this vital mission to foster ethical and progressive social change. 🗓️ Save the Date & Donate through the Link in Bio 🔗
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We invite you to explore all of our affiliated publications, past and present, as they engage critically with topics contributing to social justice and more!

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The Recovery WG is hosting Dr. Karen O'Connell from UTS on June 10 to discuss gendered "stress" and trauma's role in compensating women for gendered harms. Check out our bio for event details! #GenderedStress #TraumaResearch #UTS #RecoveryWG

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CSSD wishes to congratulate 🎉 Professor Mana Kia, Director of the New CSSD project, “Alternative Modes of Being,” on receiving a Community Building and Engagement Award 🏅 at the Inaugural Humanities Faculty Recognition Awards on March 6, 2024.

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A kind reminder! 🗓️ The deadline for our Call for ABD Graduate Student Applications is approaching at the CSSD Business Office. Submit by Friday, May 3! 📧 Check our bio for instructions 🔗
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On 4/24, the Extractive Media WG will host Prof. Stephanie O'Rourke to discuss her recent work titled "John Martin: How to Scale a Volcano" 🌋, with a response by Meredith Gamer. 🗓️ Attendance is limited to faculty and doctoral students. Click the link in our bio to RSVP 🔗

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The Recovery Working Group welcomes Prof. Patricia Stuelke from Dartmouth College for an event, titled “The Archive, the Reparative, and the Transnational Curatorial Left,” on April 8.

This event is open to Working Group members and invited guests.

🌍 We're hiring! CSSD is seeking 2 ABD graduate students to join our Business Office! If you're passionate about cross-disciplinary exploration of social difference issues, locally and globally, apply now!

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Reminder: Proposals due tomorrow at 9 AM! Follow the link in our bio for more on the submission process.

The Prison Education WG is holding a panel tomorrow (12:30 PM) in the @sofheyman Center introducing GSAS students to the range of paid opportunities to teach in prison contexts & support justice-impacted students through CU’s JIE Initiative. Follow the link in our bio to RSVP!

Join the Extractive Media Working Group as they host scholars Eleanor Johnson and Jonah Rowen for a discussion on their recent work!

When: March 4th at 6 PM
Where: Schermerhorn Hall, Room 934, CU

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*Open to Group Members and Invited Guests Only*

CSSD's Recovery WG welcomes Kalindi Vora, Professor at Yale University, to discuss how attention to sensitivity can bring for both patients and health care providers.

When: 3/4 @ 6 PM
Where: Schermerhorn Ext., Room 752

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The Seeds of Diaspora Working Group is hosting a screening of fellow group member Naeem Mohaiemen's 2020 film, "Jole Dobe Na," on Fri (2/23) at 3:30 PM in the Lifetime Screening Room (Dodge Hall). Open to all CSSD affiliates!

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The Center for the Study of Social Difference is open to submissions for new working groups to begin in Fall 2024! Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the process.

Deadline: Friday, March 8, 2024 @ 9 AM

Find more provocative and compelling publications like The Cunning of Gender Violence (2023) by following the link in our bio.

Join the Extractive Media Working Group as they host Professor Brian R. Jacobson from CalTech for a discussion on his current work on energy, the environment, art, and film!

When: Jan. 25th at 6 PM
Where: Schermerhorn 934, CU

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CSSD congratulates Afro-Nordic Feminisms Working Group Member Faith Adiele on winning a San Francisco Press Club Award for her piece featured in Smithsonian Folklife!

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CSSD joins Columbia University in welcoming our community back to campus this new year. A year we hope is full of growth, inspiration, and transformation.

This winter break, take a little time to read some of the fascinating publications associated with CSSD.

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CSSD congratulates Interim Director Lila Abu-Lughod on receiving the 2023 Career Award from the Association for Feminist Anthropology at this year's Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association.

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CSSD congratulates Seeds of Diaspora co-director Lynnette Widder on receiving a 2023 Architecture + Design Independent Projects grant.

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Professor Ana Paulina Lee and the Geographies of Injustice Working Group at CSSD have shared their latest collaborative project with the Rio De Janeiro Candomblé temple, Ilê Omolu Oxum.

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On Nov. 15, Extractive Media welcomes Professor Macarena Gómez-Barris for a seminar entitled "Un-Earthing Extractive Architecture." Response by Professor Debashree Mukherjee.

When: 6 P.M. (11/15)
Where: 934 Schermerhorn Hall, CU

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On Oct. 26, Extractive Media will host Professor Jo Guldi to discuss her new book, The Dangerous Art of Text Mining. RSVP for pre-circulated readings.

When: 6 P.M. (10/26)
Where: 934 Schermerhorn Hall

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Columbia Giving Day, scheduled for Wed., Oct. 25, has been postponed.

CSSD has always appreciated your support for the critical work we enable scholars to do and your steadfast giving to the Columbia community. We will provide an update when this event is rescheduled.

Tomorrow, Oct. 11, Extractive Media presents the lecture "The Remediation of Oil: Use-Value or Utility?" with Reinhold Martin. Response by Zeynep Çelik Alexander.

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On Oct. 11, CSSD, @bcrwtweets, and the CU CSMS will co-sponsor a panel discussion on the new book, The Cunning of Gender Violence, centered on the themes of securitization & the violence of law. Please see the linktree in our bio for more information and registration.

CSSD is excited to announce the “Iberian Soundscapes" conference hosted by Yale University's MacMillan Center in collaboration with Columbia University on Oct. 6-7.

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CSSD Interim Director Lila Abu-Lughod has co-edited "The Cunning of Gender Violence" with Rema Hammami and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian. The outstanding volume is released today with Duke University Press. See more and get your copy here:
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Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The CSSD working group is hosting their event "Queer Aqui Rio: Together in Hard Times" in Casa da Glória. For more information see: ow.ly/Myic50Ohm5w