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Explorations in the Medical Humanities events explore the enigma of how what we write relates back to the experience of bodies in different stages of health and disease. Our speakers consider how the medical and health humanities build on and revise earlier notions of the “medical arts.”

This series offers discussions, exhibitions, and performances to gather scholars, artists, students, curators, and educators who are working to bridge arts education, humanities research, and incarceration and, in the process, render visible the hidden histories of mass incarceration and radicalize arts pedagogies for a more just society.

Building Publics showcases how our Public Humanities Graduate Fellows bridge humanistic thinking with civic engagement and social justice, scholarly research with public building and communication in order to unleash new, more critical modes of scholarly imaginations. Each year highlights a new, pressing theme.

In the context of the global pandemic, these events maintain and reimagine a conversation long established among humanists and designers, social scientists and health experts, artists, artisans and planners: namely, a conversation on Care for the Polis--on the relationship between medical practices of care, cities, and their publics.

As the world grappled to deal with the fallout from COVID-19, this special series of workshops explored the impact of the pandemic on democracies worldwide. The workshops were organised by the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute in partnership with the SOF/Heyman..

A film and discussion series that explores architectural and territorial planning as instruments of social violence and the activists that use visual and narrative storytelling as a way to reclaim spatial rights

Panel discussions celebrating recent work of Columbia faculty in the Arts and Sciences

Lionel Trilling (1905-75), one of Columbia's most celebrated faculty members, was among the great humanist scholars and public intellectuals of the 20th century. In his memory, the Heyman Center sponsors a series of intellectual conversations, known as the Lionel Trilling Seminars.

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May 10, 2021

On the Possibility and Impossibility of Reparations for Slavery and Colonialism

Monday, 1:00pm EDT Virtual Event

On June 7th 2020, a group of Black demonstrators scaled a statue of King Leopold II in Brussels, Belgium and brandished the flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo; chanting one word repeatedly: “Reparations”. Such demands for reparations for slavery and colonialism are occurring across…

General Programming
May 10, 2021

White Freedom: the Racial History of an Idea

Monday, 6:30pm EDT Virtual Event

The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. America, a nation founded on the principle of liberty, is also a nation built on African slavery, Native American genocide, and systematic racial…

General Programming
May 11, 2021

Medical Humanities and Pandemic Urbanisms– Keynote: Navigating a Pandemic: Between the Social and the Medical

Tuesday, 6:00pm EDT Virtual Event

To mark the launch of the Medical Humanities major at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, we are proposing an inaugural virtual series, “Medical Humanities and Pandemic Urbanisms,” which will serve as an essential rallying point for Columbia faculty, current students, and alumni…

Public Humanities, Explorations in the Medical Humanities
May 10, 2021

On the Possibility and Impossibility of Reparations for Slavery and Colonialism

General Programming
May 10, 2021

White Freedom: the Racial History of an Idea

General Programming
May 11, 2021

Medical Humanities and Pandemic Urbanisms– Keynote: Navigating a Pandemic: Between the Social and the Medical

Public Humanities, Explorations in the Medical Humanities
May 12, 2021

Spirit Sharing: An Interspiritual Conversation on Non-Hegemonic Beliefs and Community Building

Public Humanities, Building Publics
May 13, 2021

Black Anarchism: Anticipation and Ambivalence

Thursday Lecture Series, Ambivalence
May 14, 2021

Celebrating Recent Work by Reinhold Martin

New Books in the Arts and Sciences