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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

A forum for the discussion of books and ideas on justice, equality, and mass incarceration.

Panel discussions celebrating recent works by Columbia faculty in the Arts and Sciences

“Belongings” explores the capacious nature of belonging and belongings in various contexts with particular attention to the many ways in which its meanings intersect and interrogate the modern subject as a nodal point constituted by belongings: regimes of property; community and national identity; affective relationships and the desire to belong.

This lecture series offers a variety of disciplinary and methodological perspectives on the question of ambivalence as it relates to affects, effects, and operations of the aesthetic, modes of political action, forms of belonging, and regimes of governance.

This series is preoccupied with failure: the failure to address the climate crisis, to regulate capitalist greed, to ban guns, to repair systemic racism, to stop wars. Some benefit from these failures, others suffer. At the same time, failure can also be something systematic, structural, or inevitable is antithetical to the ethos of capitalism.

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 SOF/Heyman sponsors a series of intellectual conversations, known as the Lionel Trilling Seminars. Select video and audio of the series are available on our Media page.

Writing Home is an outgrowth of our popular Critical Caribbean Feminisms events, which have been bringing together established and emerging writers from the Caribbean and its diasporas since 2015. Episodes feature contemporary cultural actors in conversation with Kaiama L. Glover & Tami Navarro.

Being in the World: People and the Planet in French and Francophone Cinema

An interdisciplinary series exploring the relationship between climate justice, carbon tech, and climate futures. Climate scientists, engineers, anthropologists, science studies scholars, political ecologists, and historians connect to discuss justice-centered climate futures and engage defining issues of carbon tech/climate justice nexus.

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New Books in the Arts and Sciences
  • April 20, 2023 Celebrating Recent Work by Oliver Simons
  • April 17, 2023 Celebrating Recent Work by Marie Myung-Ok Lee
  • April 6, 2023 Celebrating Recent Work by Carl Wennerlind and Deborah Valenze
  • March 27, 2023 Celebrating Recent Work by Lauren Robertson
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Thursday Lecture Series
  • April 20, 2023 Abandoned or Washed Away?: Make (Big) Opera Listen to You
  • April 13, 2023 On and In Their Bodies: Masculinist Violence, Criminalization, and Black Womanhood in Trinidad
  • April 6, 2023 Failed Kinship and the Brown Commons
  • March 30, 2023 The Manufacture of Failure: How 'Africa' (De)Constructs The 'West
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13/13 Seminar Series
  • February 21, 2023 Utopia 7/13: "Concrete Utopianism” with Nadia Abu El-Haj, Kaiama Glover, and Gary Wilder
  • November 30, 2022 Utopia 5/13: Mutualism with Sara Horowitz
  • November 9, 2022 Utopia 4/13: “Degrowth”: History, Theory, and Praxis
  • October 26, 2022 Utopia 3/13: Unionization and the Future of Work
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Engineers and foremen laying geotextiles for the Hope Canal in Guyana
January 31, 2023

Another Skin: Climate Adaptation and Accountability

Tuesday, 4:15pm EST Virtual Event The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room, Columbia University

Sarah E. Vaughn presents a case study of Guyana to explore how climate adaptation projects shape the process of racialization, while offering a space to imagine alternative modes of accountability and planetary engagement.

Climate Series, Climate Futures/Climate Justice
February 2, 2023

Freedom in Transition

Thursday, 12:15pm–2:00pm EST The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room, Columbia University Virtual Event

Lea Ypi introduces her new book Free: Coming of Age at the End of History, and discusses the idea of freedom that is at its center, its relationship to ideology, and how different conceptions of freedom are reflected in characters and personal histories.

Thursday Lecture Series, Failure
square version of cover of A Case of Ireland superimposed over a zoomed in version of the cover
February 2, 2023

Celebrating Recent Work by James Stafford

Thursday, 6:15pm EST The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room, Columbia University Virtual Event

The Case of Ireland offers a fresh account of Ireland's neglected role in European debates about commerce and empire in what was a global era of war and revolution.

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
Engineers and foremen laying geotextiles for the Hope Canal in Guyana
January 31, 2023

Another Skin: Climate Adaptation and Accountability

Climate Series, Climate Futures/Climate Justice
February 2, 2023

Freedom in Transition

Thursday Lecture Series, Failure
square version of cover of A Case of Ireland superimposed over a zoomed in version of the cover
February 2, 2023

Celebrating Recent Work by James Stafford

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
Book cover of Arabic Disclosures: The Postcolonial Autobiographical Atlas by Muhsin J. al-Musaw set in a square
February 6, 2023

Celebrating Recent Work by Muhsin Al-Musawi

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
February 7, 2023

New Books in Medical Humanities: Culture and Medicine: Critical Readings in the Health and Medical Humanities

Public Humanities, Explorations in the Medical Humanities
Close up of magician Jeanette Andrews as she appears to bend a glass
February 8, 2023

On Wonder: an Evening of Magic with Jeanette Andrews

General Programming
February 9, 2023

The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance

General Programming
February 13, 2023

Naturally Universal: How Aristotle Explains the Success of Medieval French Song

General Programming
February 15, 2023

Celebrating Recent Work by Andreas Huyssen

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
Middle East Cityscape
February 16–17, 2023

Middle East Urbanism Beyond Conflict: Current Research, Ongoing Debates, and Next Directions

General Programming
February 17, 2023

Covid Three Years Later: Together, Not Alone

General Programming
February 17, 2023

Celebrating Recent Work by Rhiannon Stephens

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
February 21, 2023

Utopia 7/13: "Concrete Utopianism” with Nadia Abu El-Haj, Kaiama Glover, and Gary Wilder

13/13 Seminar Series
February 23, 2023

Black Against the Rainbow: An Azanian Afropessimist Critique of Frank Wilderson's South Africa

Thursday Lecture Series, Failure
February 23, 2023

Celebrating Recent Work by Bruce Robbins

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
February 27, 2023

Celebrating Recent Work by Sarah Zukerman Daly

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
Close up of carbon removal valves
February 28, 2023

MRV as a Tool for Achieving Just Outcomes in the Carbon Removal Sector

Climate Series, Climate Futures/Climate Justice
Large pieces of torn paper in orange, yellow green and blue
March 1, 2023

Education as the Practice of Freedom: Two Writers, Teachers, and Friends in Conversation

Public Humanities, Justice Forum
March 2, 2023

The Republic Betrayed

Thursday Lecture Series, Failure
Shepard looking out on flock in b&w
March 9, 2023

The "Failures" of Liberal Capitalism and the Racial Regime of Religion in Late Colonial Algeria

Thursday Lecture Series, Failure
March 22, 2023

Celebrating Recent Work by Annie Pfeifer

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
March 23, 2023

Make Your Own Job: Success and Failure in the Depression-Era United States

Thursday Lecture Series, Failure
March 24, 2023

An Afternoon with Judith Butler

General Programming
square image with Celtic cross in green with text reading "New Irish Fiction"
March 25, 2023

New Irish Fiction: a Symposium

General Programming
Square cover of Entertaining Uncertainty in the Early Modern Theater superimposed over a faded cover
March 27, 2023

Celebrating Recent Work by Lauren Robertson

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
two images combined: horizon with climate plant juxtaposed with bookstore with hanging lightbulbs
March 28, 2023

Climate Tech: Why It Needs the Humanities and Social Sciences

Climate Series, Climate Futures/Climate Justice
March 30, 2023

The Manufacture of Failure: How 'Africa' (De)Constructs The 'West

Thursday Lecture Series, Failure
April 5, 2023

The Black Bibliography Project

Public Humanities, Justice Forum
April 6, 2023

Failed Kinship and the Brown Commons

Thursday Lecture Series, Failure
Cover of 'Scarcity" juxtaposed over empty store shelves
April 6, 2023

Celebrating Recent Work by Carl Wennerlind and Deborah Valenze

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
April 6, 2023

Explorations in the Medical Humanities: Chronic Pain and Personhood

Public Humanities, Explorations in the Medical Humanities
collage titled “Roadblock” produced by Leniqueca Welcome
April 13, 2023

On and In Their Bodies: Masculinist Violence, Criminalization, and Black Womanhood in Trinidad

Thursday Lecture Series, Failure
April 14, 2023

Unsettling the Union: An Interdisciplinary Symposium

General Programming
April 17, 2023

Celebrating Recent Work by Marie Myung-Ok Lee

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
April 20, 2023

Abandoned or Washed Away?: Make (Big) Opera Listen to You

Thursday Lecture Series, Failure
Book cover of Literary Conclusions in a square
April 20, 2023

Celebrating Recent Work by Oliver Simons

New Books in the Arts and Sciences
Three flags promoting climate justice in a climate protest parade
April 25, 2023

Just Transition or Just a Transition? The Importance of Power, Organizing, and Framing in Decarbonization

Climate Series, Climate Futures/Climate Justice
May 8–9, 2023

Conception and Its Discontents

Public Humanities, Explorations in the Medical Humanities
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