MAMADOU DIOUF, HISTORIEN, PROFESSEUR À L’UNIVERSITÉ DE COLUMBIA (USA)
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France 24: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcqCGNGBWss
The Barnard and Columbia Colleges Department of Architecture is currently hiring Teaching Assistants for a Fall 2023 course taught by Professor Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, ARCH UN2530 Life Beyond Emergency: Ecologies and Inhabitation of Migration. This course meets twice a week. One session is a lecture and the other is a small group discussion facilitated separately by the professor and TA(s). Remuneration is $5,000 for the semester. Graduate students from any institution are welcome to apply.
James Maker Atem is originally from South Sudan. He is pursuing a Master of International Affairs ’23 at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.
Lily Ghebrai is currently pursuing an MPA in Economic and Political Development from Columbia SIPA.
The Middle East, South Asian, and African Studies department at Columbia University is pleased to announce its annual Gradual Student Conference. Our theme this year interrogates borders and boundaries and through our conference we hope to complicate the naturalization of these formations as well as the concepts and methodologies that engage them.
Please visit the link below for more information:
https://mesaas.columbia.edu/cfp-for-mesaas-graduate-conference-2022-marc...
Modou Cham is from The Gambia and was raised in Norristown, Pennsylvania. He is currently studying for a Masters of Science in Sustainability Management at Columbia University’s Earth Institute.
Read more about Professor Diagne's membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences:
https://www.amacad.org/person/souleymane-bachir-diagne
https://fas.columbia.edu/diagne-harris-and-jones-elected-american-academ...
On March 25th, The Royal Academy of Belgium elected Souleymane Bachir Diagne as an Associate member of its Class for Letters and Moral and Political Sciences. The official induction ceremony will take place on October 5, 2019 in Brussels at the Palais des Académies.
IAS Director, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, in a discussion with Toyin Ojih Odutola and Cécile Fromont on the fate of artworks stolen from the African continent.
A pivotal report calls for thousands of artworks to leave French museums and return to West Africa. An artist, a historian and a philosopher debate what should happen — and what these objects could mean to young Africans who have never seen them.
When black students at an elite school in South Africa's capital protested over how teachers treated them over their hair, everyone noticed. It's not the same in township schools.
In South Africa ten members of a militant shack dwellers organisation have been assassinated in the past six years. Yet many progressive organisations have distanced themselves from these militants. Jared Sacks exposes the complicity of a mainstream NGO that could have played an important role defending the movement against these political assassinations. Sacks argues that when movements refuse co-optation, repression, including assassination, become necessary to maintain power.