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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 27, 2023 Putting Race to Work: Neoliberal Development in the US Virgin Islands
  • 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
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13/13 Seminar Series
  • April 19, 2023 Utopia 13/13: Architecture and Utopia
  • March 17, 2023 Utopia 11/13: Utopier Le Présent
  • March 9, 2023 Utopia 10/13: Critical Theory and Utopian Thought
  • February 21, 2023 Utopia 7/13: "Concrete Utopianism” with Nadia Abu El-Haj, Fred Moten, Kaiama Glover, and Gary Wilder
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Square cover of Entertaining Uncertainty in the Early Modern Theater superimposed over a faded cover
March 27, 2023

Celebrating Recent Work by Lauren Robertson

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

Lauren Robertson's original study shows that the theater of Shakespeare and his contemporaries responded to the crises of knowledge that roiled through early modern England by rendering them spectacular.

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

Tuesday, 4:15pm–6:00pm EDT Virtual Event The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room, Columbia University

This talk makes a case for why humanities and social science practitioners should bother to engage with the development of emerging climate technologies.

Climate Series, Climate Futures/Climate Justice
March 29, 2023

Book Celebration: The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay

Wednesday, 5:00pm–7:00pm EDT The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room, Columbia University Virtual Event

Please join the editors of The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay, Mario Aquilina (The University of Malta), Bob Cowser, Jr. (St. Lawrence University), and Nicole B. Wallack (English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University) for a roundtable followed by informal conversation and refreshments…

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 29, 2023

Book Celebration: The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay

General Programming
March 30, 2023

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

Thursday Lecture Series, Failure
March 30, 2023

Democracy and Public Health: Experiences in New York City

General Programming
March 31, 2023

A Tribute to Richard Howard

General Programming
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
blue white and green streaks of paint
April 7, 2023

Worlds at Waste: The Crisis of Water in the Subcontinent

General Programming, Climate Series
April 7, 2023

Film Screening: Saint Omer

General Programming
View of Utsa Hazarika's Pilgrims/This Is Not That Dawn (2022) and Amit Amin and Naroop Jhooti's Sikh Project series (2016). Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York, photograph by Brad Farwell
April 11, 2023

Curating the “City of Faith” - New Directions in Representing Religion in Contemporary Life

General Programming
two people inside a vinyl bubble with writing on the outside of it
April 12, 2023

What We COULD Do: The Zip Code Memory Project in Conversation

Public 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
Color headshot of Sherene Seikaly
April 13, 2023

Race and Catastrophe: Lessons from Palestine

General Programming
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
Zodiac astronomical Clock Tower in blue against white
April 18, 2023

Astrology: Ancient Symbols in Modern Times

General Programming
April 19, 2023

Utopia 13/13: Architecture and Utopia

13/13 Seminar Series
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
1990s-like computer graphic of multiple purple files on top of each other with the words Reproduction of Possibility
April 27–29, 2023

Reproduction of Possibility

General Programming
1990s-like computer graphic of multiple purple files on top of each other with the words Reproduction of Possibility
April 27–29, 2023

Reproduction of Possibility

General Programming
April 27, 2023

Putting Race to Work: Neoliberal Development in the US Virgin Islands

Thursday Lecture Series, Failure
April 27, 2023

Inaugural Mosse Lecture: George Mosse—The Legacy, The Work, The Human Being

General Programming
May 1, 2023

Days of 2023: A Poetic Symposium on C.P. Cavafy

General Programming
May 6, 2023

Abolitionism and the Arts in the Long Eighteenth Century

General Programming
May 8–9, 2023

Conception and Its Discontents

Public Humanities, Explorations in the Medical Humanities
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