Cohabitations takes seriously the historical interdependencies of built environments and constructed ecologies. As studies of past, present, and future habitats, books in the series collapse the distinctions between architecture, ecology, landscape, and art, and between human and nonhuman worlds.
Please join family, friends, and colleagues to celebrate and honor the life of Kimuli Kasara on Friday, February 27, 2026, at 3:00 pm in St. Paul's Chapel on the campus of Columbia University in the City of New York.
In November, Ime Ekpo (GS '26) brought Afrobeats superstar Asake to the Institute of African Studies (IAS) to kick off the AfroDiaspora Colloquium. Read coverage of the event and Ekpo's reflection's on Africa's place at Columbia.
Check out the new article, "African Coups and the Limits of Electoralism," published in Third World Quarterly by IAS affiliate and independent research scholar Ernest Harsch.
We invite you to listen to Professor Séverine Autesserre's expert commentary on the ARTE Radio podcast Comment faire la paix sans faire l'amour, which investigates the extraordinary success of the Liberian women's movement in ending the country's long civil war.
On 18–19 June 2026, the University of Manchester will host a conference on Histories of African Economic Thought. The conference aims to bring together scholars working on African economic thought (broadly conceived) across disciplines and on all eras and parts of the continent.
Call for Proposals: Seminar - "Atlantic Africa through Art, Letters, and Archives of the Francosphere" at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
Congratulations to Columbia University alumnus, Dr. Wendell Marsh (PhD '18, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies - MESAAS), on the launch of his groundbreaking new book, Textual Life: Islam, Africa, and the Fate of the Humanities.
The Urban Theory Africa-Doing (UTA-Do) African Cities Workshop is an annual critical urban studies week-long (southern hemisphere) ‘summer school,’ which aims to contribute to making African urban scholarship and imagination more inclusive.
Hear from Kiwi Kiwinda '26 (MA/MSc in International and World History, CU & LSE) on his summer abroad in Kenya studying Kiswahili!
This summer, Seneca Forch (SIPA '26) is in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as a fellow of the Institute of International Education’s NextGen Program, working with the New Bright Community Development Center—a grassroots NGO empowering youth through tech, arts, and literacy.
Professor Séverine Autesserre was featured on Questions du Soir, a primetime program on France Culture—France’s most influential public radio network.