The Committee on Global Thought proudly Co-Sponsors:

Mass Intellectuality?

An Institute for Comparative Literature and Society Annual Conference 2022

April 20 and 22, 2022

Long viewed as an engine of sociality mobility, the university is in crisis. Our day-long convening will inaugurate ongoing reflection on themes regarding the university as infrastructure and ideological apparatus including: the history of the disciplines, infrastructural histories of the university, dissent that have emerged from within and in opposition to the university, global histories of the university in relation to anticolonial activism and postcolonial state formation, the role of academic labor in histories of labor and organizing, and the complex investments in mass intellectuality and education for subaltern communities.

KEYNOTES:
SHAHZIA SIKANDAR
(artist and theorist)
“Thinking Elsewhere: A Conversation with Shahzia Sikandar”
Date: Wednesday, April 20, 2022
Time: 6:30 PM-8:00 PM – REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Location: Virtual and in-person, Heyman Center Common Room. Please note that in-person attendance is only open to CU and BC affiliates with ID.

DENISE FERREIRA DE SILVA
(Professor, Univ. British Columbia)
Title: TBA
Date: Friday, April 22, 2022
Time: 6:30 PM -8:00 PM – REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Location: Virtual only.

Events on April 22, 2022:
10:15AM – 1:15PM – REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Archive and University
Features student researchers—Yosan Alemu; Samantha de Ninno; Vikramaditya Joshi; Suan Lee; Samuel Needleman; Tommy Song— in a moderated discussion with Demetrius Eudell (Dean of Social Science and Professor of History, Wesleyan) and Samip Mallick (cofounder, SAADA) on links between Columbia University, Harlem, and American interwar intellectual culture.
Location: Virtual and in-person, Heyman Center Common Room. Please note that in-person attendance is only open to CU and BC affiliates with ID.

3:15-5:30PM – REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Thinking the Universal: A Roundtable
A discussion about the relationship of intellectual and manual labor, historical comparison, social difference, and global itineraries of social thought with the following scholars: Nahum Chandler (UC Irvine); Simone Pinet (Cornell); Ajay Skaria (University of Minnesota); and Rocio Zambrana (Emory).
Location: Virtual and in-person, Heyman Center Common Room. Please note that in-person attendance is only open to CU and BC affiliates with ID.

Co-sponsored by Columbia Global Thought, the Department of African-American and African Diaspora Studies, and the Institute for Research in African-American Studies.