Spearheaded by Society of Fellows A. Véronique Charles, this year's Afro-Francospheres Colloquium, Black Studies x French Studies, fostered intercontinental research forums and public dialogues.

Here is a quick recap
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Our fall 2024 programming is now live!

Register now for our films, lectures, book launches, and more. sofheyman.org/events/upcoming

We wish everyone a restorative spring break. We can't wait to see you at one of our events during the second half of the semester: sofheyman.org/events/upcoming

We sent out our spring preview newsletter yesterday. Did you miss it? Read it here and sign up for some of our upcoming events: mailchi.mp/columbia/meet-…

✨Happy Holidays✨
The SOF/Hyeman office will be closed from December 23 through January 1. We wish you a restful holiday season and can't wait to see you in the new year.

You never know who will show up at our events!

Jo Ann Cavallo invited some of her research subjects to last night's New Book Series panel.

Tonight! A lightning round on the theme of ⚡️change⚡️by @EnglishColumbia faculty.

In person | Wednesday, Oct 18 | 6:00 PM
Register: sofheyman.org/events/keyword…

Tomorrow! Join @Columbia_MF and us for a screening of the first Cambodian film to ever be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars.

In person at Buell Hall
Tuesday, Oct 17 | 6:30 PM

More info: sofheyman.org/events/the-mis…

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Join @ColumbiaGSAPP this afternoon for Dark Blueprints, a collection of multisensory experiences that include a roundtable, collective mapmaking, a picnic, and more.
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Join @IRCPL_Columbia next Monday for a lecture by Kathryn Lofton that will reflect on sensitivity's religious past and argue for its queer political future. @MarcusSharon will chair.

Register: ircpl.columbia.edu/calendar/sensi…

Head down to Low Library steps this evening for a special outdoor screening of 📽️ Dancing the Twist in Bamako, a romance fraught with political change and infused with the musical energy of the '60s.
Organized by @Columbia_MF

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Congratulations to the @Columbia graduating class of 2023! We can't wait to see what you do next.

Did you miss @IRCPL_Columbia and our astrology event last week? Our panel discussed the “timeless” nature of astrology and questioned the limits of ancient knowledge systems.

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What can Palestine teach us abt the global history of race, capital, and dispossession? In tomorrow's talk, @shereneseikaly reflects on Palestine’s lessons in and with the movement for global racial justice.

In person | Thursday, Apr 13 | 6:30 PM
Register sofheyman.org/events/race-an…

We have books for sale by all of our authors today, thanks to @bookculture. They’ll be here until 2:00, and then back from 5:00-6:30.

March 31! Richard Howard was Professor of Professional Practice in Columbia’s Writing Program from 1995 to 2015. Join @ColumbiaSOA and us for a tribute to the widely celebrated poet, translator, educator, and critic.

More info: arts.columbia.edu/events/tribute…

"We never lose our inner freedom—the freedom to do what is right."
@lea_ypi at our first Thursday Lecture Series event of the semester.

Find out more about the series here: sofheyman.org/news/spring-20…

✨ We wish you a restful and restorative holiday break, and more to discover, question, and read in 2023. ✨

The SOF/Heyman will be closed from December 24, 2022, through January 3, 2023.

Our participants literally got their hands dirty at yesterday's Public Humanities Skills Workshop on social practice arts.

Learn about our PHSW series here: sofheyman.org/news/announcin…

Tomorrow via Zoom at 5:30PM!
Presented in partnership with @IRCPL_Columbia, Darren Dochuk explores the links between crude oil and Christianity in the making of modern America. sofheyman.org/events/anoited…

You can now watch this year's Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture featuring @marina_warn online. Her beautiful talk illuminates storytelling's role in living through exile and dislocation, and surviving somewhere that is not home
@ItalianAcademy @ColumbiaSOA
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We loved seeing the fantastic turnout for last night's screening of The Velvet Queen with @Columbia_MF!

There's still so much more to come from the Being in the World film fest.
Full lineup: sofheyman.org/events/all?ser…

Welcome to #Utopia1313! We're thrilled to announce that the first 13/13 seminars of the year are now online!

In partnership with @ColumbiaCCCT
blogs.law.columbia.edu/utopia1313/

This stormy weather should clear by Thursday, just in time for the first screening of the Being in the World film festival.

Check out @Columbia_MF for details on The Velvet Queen and the rest of the films in the series. maisonfrancaise.org/the-velvet-que…

Read SOF Alum @hidehirota's op-ed in the Washington Post on the disturbing precedent of busing migrants to other states

sofheyman.org/news/sof-alum-…

Ahead of @ColumbiaCCCT and our #Utopia1313, spend some time in the 13/13 Seminars archive:

cccct.law.columbia.edu/content/13-13

Revisit @janeohlmeyer's lecture on Ireland’s role in empire through the lens of early modernity. youtube.com/watch?v=Q_a4q0…

Our 2022 Trilling Lecture is now online. Watch Fred Moten deliver his talk on sovereignty, soliloquy, sonnet (sonata), (in)sovereignty, sound, sequence (sequins), syncopation, and self(lessness).
youtube.com/watch?v=Nhhgy4…

Bear witness and respond to the writing and art of those behind bars at Emancipated Stories, an interactive installation at @SignatureTheatr: mailchi.mp/columbia.edu/e…

In celebration of #Pride, we are revisiting our panel on Jack Halberstam's 'Wild Things,' which offers an alternative history of sexuality by tracing the ways in which wildness has been associated with queerness. youtube.com/watch?v=lUK1iV…

Sign up now for tomorrow's free sound walk and presentation based on oral histories of Manhattan's Chinatown. sofheyman.org/events/immigra…

Congratulations to everyone graduating at @Columbia's first in-person Commencement ceremony in two years. 🎓 Today, we celebrate you!

Register for the next Revolution 13/13 seminar, where @sahaley and @BernardHarcourt will discuss works pertaining to abolition feminism. June 1 at 6PM

Sign up here: blogs.law.columbia.edu/revolution1313…

Tonight at 5:30 at @MillerTheatre: catch @SaulWilliams, @SirJoshBennett, and @josefsorett. Register here: sofheyman.org/events/say-it-…

@CARSSColumbiaU @CUArts @ColumbiaULife @IRAASalumni @IRCPL_Columbia @Columbia_SPS

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One week from today! Be sure to register for this year's Max Ritvo Poetry Series, featuring @NobelPrize recipient Louise Glück. Sign up: sofheyman.org/events/max-rit…

Co-sponsored by @ColumbiaSOA

In the early 19th c., why were tropical cyclones financialized through a brisk and thriving underwriting business? Find out at this week's Thursday Lecture Series. Register now: sofheyman.org/events/-2

Save-the-date: May 10. Don't miss this year's Max Ritvo Poetry Series, featuring @NobelPrize in Literature recipient, Louise Glück.

Co-sponsored by @ColumbiaSOA. Register now:
sofheyman.org/events/max-rit…

Join us in-person or online this Friday for a lunchtime celebration of Kate Zambreno's To Write as If Already Dead, which circles around the author's failed attempts to write a study of Hervé Guibert’s To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life.
sofheyman.org/events/celebra…

Tonight at 5PM! It's not too late to register for our virtual celebration of The Jewish Decadence by Jonathan Freedman. sofheyman.org/events/a-celeb…

Register now for our celebration of Jonathan Freedman's The Jewish Decadence: Jews and the Aesthetics of Modernity. Tuesday at 5PM via Zoom sofheyman.org/events/a-celeb…

Tomorrow! Join us in-person or online to celebrate Professor Lydia Goehr's recent book, Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread sofheyman.org/events/celebra…

Next Tuesday, April 19, we will celebrate Professor of Philosophy Lydia Goehr's recent book, Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread. Join us in person or online: sofheyman.org/events/celebra…

Next Wednesday, April 20, join @Columbia_MF for a lecture by Malcom Ferdinand: "A Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World".
Ferdinand will be in conversation with Mohamed Amer Meziane and Madeleine Dobie.

More details: maisonfrancaise.org/a-decolonial-e…

This week's SOF Thursday Lecture by Prof. Jessica Marglin (U of Southern California) focuses on the study of belonging in the nineteenth-century Mediterranean.
Register to attend online or in person:
sofheyman.org/events/contest…

Tomorrow: Join @bcrwtweets for "The Art of Madness: Catastrophe, Memory, Desire" with multimedia artists Mimi Khúc, Jess X. Snow, and Bazeed, moderated by Vani Natarajan.
Details and registration: bcrw.barnard.edu/event/the-art-…

On April 13, join us as we celebrate Mae M. Ngai's new book, The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics.
Virtual event / in person at the Heyman Center (for CU affiliates). See here for registration links: sofheyman.org/events/celebra…

This Friday, join us on Zoom as we celebrate Nicholas Bartlett's new book, Recovering Histories: Life and Labor after Heroin in Reform-Era China.
Register here: columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

This Thursday at 12:15PM, join us for a lecture by Delali Kumavie on "Beyond Airmindedness: Aviation in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon". Prof. Kumavie reads Morrison to propose a genealogy of air and flying that is steeped in Black histories.

Register: columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

This Thursday! Join us as we celebrate Prof. Diane Vaughan's recent book, Dead Reckoning: Air Traffic Control, System Effects, and Risk––a nuanced and engaging look at an essential role that technology will likely never be able to replace.

Register: columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

"Inheritance," a symposium hosted by @publichumans on April 27-30: How do communities and institutions respond to problematic representations of race, indigenous lifeways, and history in public art and architecture?

Register to attend: go.brown.edu/inheritance

This Thursday, April 7, join the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life for a book talk on The Sexual Politics of Black Churches. Featuring former SOF/Heyman Board member Josef Sorett (Columbia, Religion).

Details and registration: ircpl.columbia.edu/calendar/the-s…

Tomorrow: Join us online as we celebrate Prof. Jeremy Dauber's new book, American Comics, where he traces the incredible but little-known history of comics.

Register to attend: columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

On Tuesday, Apr 5, join us as we celebrate Prof. Jeremy Dauber's new book, American Comics! In this book, Dauber shows not only how comics have changed over the decades, but how American politics and culture have changed them.

Register for Zoom link: columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Join us online on Monday for a workshop on inclusion, diversity and equity in the editing and publishing of peer-reviewed journals. Presenters will consider the ways in which journals can foster the diversity of all participants.

Register to attend: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

On April 8th, join us for Kitchen Table Praxis: Recipes for Belonging in Electronic Music. Featuring a keynote by Naomi Walthan-Smith (@auralflaneur) and organized by SOF Fellow Suzanne Thorpe @feminumelectric.

View the full program and register here: columbiauniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Join us for the SOF Thursday Lecture on March 31st: "Collective Listening: Protest, Assemblies, and Digital Platforms" with scholar and sound artist Jessica Feldman.
Register: columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Happening today at 6PM: Join us for a panel discussion on the past, present, and future of voting rights in the US. Featuring Eric H. Holder Jr., 82nd Attorney General of the United States.
Details and registration here: events.columbia.edu/cal/event/show…

On March 29, join Matthew Larsen and Mark Letteney for a lecture on the deep history of incarceration, highlighting the troubling resonances between ancient Mediterranean and modern carceral practices.
Register here: eventbrite.com/e/the-deep-his…

Organized by @bcrwtweets

On March 31st, join the Zip Code Memory Project for a roundtable on Reparative Memory, featuring artists María José Contreras Lorenzini, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, and Kamau Ware. Moderated by Marianne Hirsch and Diana Taylor
Register here: showclix.com/event/reparati…

Next Monday, March 28, join us via Zoom for the first of two Medical Humanities Book Talks: Sarah S. Richardson discusses her book The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects.

Register here: columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Next March 23, join us for a discussion and screening of SHELTER WITHOUT SHELTER, an award-winning documentary film exploring forced migration and refugee housing. Register: columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Co-sponsored by @CSERColumbia and @gsappPCCL

Next Thursday, March 24, join us for "Bobbies in Babylon: Black Resistance to British Policing," a lecture by Adam Elliott-Cooper about Black Lives Matter protest movements in Britain and the changing nature of racism.

Register: columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

On March 23, join us for a screening of selections from SHELTER WITHOUT SHELTER, an award-winning documentary film exploring forced migration and refugee housing.
Followed by a discussion with director Mark Breeze and producer Tom Scott-Smith. Register: columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

This Thursday, Feb. 10, join us as we celebrate Prof. Maria José de Abreu's recent book "The Charismatic Gymnasium: Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil".

Register to attend: columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Tomorrow at 5:30PM: Join us as we celebrate Prof. Hannah Farber's new book: Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding.

See details for online and in-person attendance: sofheyman.org/events/celebra…

Today: Three actors who have recently starred in Othello—Andre Holland, Chukwudi Iwuji, and John Douglas Thompson—discuss the challenges they faced in playing the "Moor of Venice."

3PM at the Miller Theater @Columbia.
Register to attend: events.columbia.edu/cal/event/show…

Join us next Wednesday March 9 at 6PM for a discussion about Didier Fassin and Jake Raynal's graphic book "Policing the City: an Ethno-graphic." Part of the Justice Forum series.

Register to attend virtually or in person: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Tomorrow! Don't miss Fred Moten's Trilling Seminar in collaboration with @Columbia's festival Such Sweet Thunder: Ellington Plays Shakespeare. Join us for "Sonnet, Soliloquy, Insovereignty: Lessons from Hank Cinq."

In person and online. Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Tomorrow, March 3rd, join us for "Negative Belonging," a talk by @heathperson, chaired by SOF Fellow @nylefort, that traces how white supremacy is taking power in southern New Jersey.
Register here to attend: columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

On March 3rd, join us for "How to Write a Transgender History of Sexuality," a talk by @gp_jls that considers problems of method through the nagging gender trouble of trans history.
This event will be held in person at Fayerweather Hall. Details: sofheyman.org/events/how-to-…

Next Friday, March 4, join us for a virtual symposium: “Gendering Africa: Musical Perspectives,” featuring presentations from African and African-descended women ethnomusicologists and performers.

View here the full line-up and register to attend: ethnocenter.org/GenderingAfric…

Fred Moten will give the Trilling Seminar in March 2022 in collaboration with @Columbia's festival Such Sweet Thunder: Ellington Plays Shakespeare.

Join us on March 3rd for "Sonnet, Soliloquy, Insovereignty: Lessons from Hank Cinq"
Details: sofheyman.org/events/fred-mo…

Tomorrow! Join us as we celebrate Prof. Gil Hochberg's recent book, Becoming Palestine: an examination of how contemporary artists are radically imagining Palestine's future.
Register here columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Next Thursday, March 3rd: A talk by @heathperson titled "Negative Belonging" traces how white supremacy is taking power in southern New Jersey through the concerted action of law enforcement and Christian church congregations.
Register here to attend: columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Tomorrow at 6PM! Don't miss a conversation with author Ravi Shankar––the first American academic to be promoted while incarcerated––about his new memoir.
Details + registration: sofheyman.org/events/correct…

@ishrcolumbia @ICLSColumbia @CSERColumbia @LibraryTC @ColumbiaSOA

Feb 28 + March 2: Join us for "Thinking Through Settler Colonialism and Racial Capitalism in the Context of the Nordics," 2 days of roundtables addressing questions around settler colonialism, racial capitalism, and (im)migration regimes in the Nordics.
columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Next Wednesday, Feb. 23, author Ravi Shankar will discuss Correctional, a new memoir about his experience with the criminal justice system.
More info + registration: sofheyman.org/events/correct…

@ICLSColumbia @ishrcolumbia @CSERColumbia @LibraryTC @ColumbiaSOA

On Feb. 24: Join SOF Fellow Nyle Fort (@nylefort ) for Phantom Pain, a talk that offers "an interpretation of African American mourning as a politically charged expression of phantom pain".
Register to attend: columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
(Image credit: Devin Allen)

On Feb. 24, join us as we celebrate Prof. Gil Hochberg's recent book Becoming Palestine, an examination of how contemporary artists are radically imagining Palestine's future.

Register to attend: columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Tomorrow, join SOF Fellow Suzanne Thorpe (@feminumelectric) for a lecture on belonging in technical learning environments. Thorpe will discus TECHNE, an initiative working towards equity in electronic music.
Register: columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

@issgCU @socialdiff @Columbia_Music

Tomorrow, Feb. 15: Join us as we celebrate Arden Hegele's recent book Romantic Autopsy: Literary Form and Medical Reading––the first study of the interconnected literary and medical analytics of British Romanticism.

Register here: columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

On Feb. 17, SOF Fellow Youssef Ben Ismail will speak with Natalie Rothman about her new book, The Dragoman Renaissance: Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism.
Details and registration: events.columbia.edu/cal/event/show…

Today! Acclaimed German-Irish author Hugo Hamilton reads from his new book The Pages, followed by a discussion with novelist and critic Colm Tóibín. Cosponsored by @GIHNYU @IrelandinNY and
@bookculture
Register to attend: columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

This Thursday: Unworlding––a reading and discussion on utopias, dystopias, science fiction, and Afro-Futurism​ with @NKjemisin and @jaynabee at @issgCU
Register here: columbiauniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

On Feb. 9, join us for Producing for Radio:
A conversation with Paola Cossermelli and Scott RC Levy, two practitioners at the intersection of theatre and sound arts, about what it means to tell stories for radio, from design to production.
Registration: columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Next Wednesday, Feb. 9: Acclaimed German-Irish author Hugo Hamilton will read from his new book The Pages, followed by a discussion with novelist and critic Colm Tóibín. Cosponsored by @GIHNYU
Register to attend: columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regist…