State-Formation in a ‘Disputed Territory’: The Case of Naya (New) Kashmir Hafsa Kanjwal Moderated by Manan Ahmed November 8, 2018 · 12-1PM Columbia University, Fayerweather Hall, Room 411 The Committee on Global Thought (CGT) Lunchtime Seminars are a forum for Columbia University faculty and visiting scholars to present current research characterizing and assessing issues of global […]
Climate Change and Discursive Change: Tracing Terms and Concepts through International Climate Organizations Ben Orlove Moderated by Lisa Dale November 1, 2018 · 12-1PM Columbia University, Fayerweather Hall, Room 411 The Committee on Global Thought (CGT) Lunchtime Seminars are a forum for Columbia University faculty and visiting scholars to present current research characterizing and assessing issues […]
‘APPROVED BY US FORCES’: Showing and Hiding Art from Guantaìnamo Erin Thompson Moderated by Neil K. Aggarwal October 25, 2018 · 12-1PM Columbia University, Fayerweather Hall, Room 411 The Committee on Global Thought (CGT) Lunchtime Seminars are a forum for Columbia University faculty and visiting scholars to present current research characterizing and assessing issues of global importance. […]
Bernard Duhaime on “Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances in the 21st Century” October 19, 2018 · 12:10-1:30 Columbia University, Hamilton Hall, Room 309 Nearly two weeks ago, journalist Jamal Khashoggi stepped into the consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul. He has not been seen since. Unfortunately, this incident is not a unique phenomenon. There is a long […]
A Workshop with Professor Stefania Pandolfo and Filmmaker Leila Kilani Part of the “Unsettlement” Research Project of the Committee on Global Thought Thursday, October 18, 2018 • 12-2PM Columbia University, Knox Hall, Room 208 In recent years, the Maghreb and the Middle East entered a phase of upheavals and transformations, which shifted from the imagination of possible […]
Cultural Analysis In and Of Mental Health Approaches to the War on Terror with Neil K. Aggarwal October 4, 2018 • 6-7 PM Columbia University, Fayerweather Hall, Room 513 Open only to undergraduates The Talks with Professors series allows undergraduate students to engage in casual and meaningful conversations with distinguished scholars in a laid-back, informal setting. […]
1968 in 2018: Geographies and Temporalities of Mai 68 April 27, 2018 • 1:00-5:00PM Columbia University, Buell Hall, East Gallery Imen Amiri, Ludivine Bantigny, Françoise Blum, Julian Bourg, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Frédéric Gros, Kristin Ross, and Emmanuelle Saada Revolts, revolutions and calls to resistance have shaped the 2010s globally. In this context, the 50th anniversary of Mai 68 calls less for a […]
You(th) be the Change A Special Workshop for Undergraduates in Conjunction with the “Youth in a Changing World” Research Project of the Committee on Global Thought Tuesday, April 10, 2018 • 6-8PM Columbia University, Kent Hall, Room 403 What issues in the world today are of the greatest concern to youth? Can youth “be the change”? This […]
As You Sow, So Shall You Reap: Gender-Role Attitudes and Late-Life Cognition Professor Ursula Staudinger Moderated by Yasmine Ergas April 5, 2018 · 12-1PM Columbia University, Fayerweather Hall, Room 411 The Committee on Global Thought (CGT) Lunchtime Seminars are a forum for Columbia University faculty and visiting scholars to present current research characterizing and assessing issues […]
Climate Change and Urban Heat: Exploring Patterns and Factors of Future Global Vulnerability Professor Peter Marcotullio Moderated by Joel Cohen, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences March 29, 2018 · 12-1PM Columbia University, Fayerweather Hall, Room 411 The Committee on Global Thought (CGT) Lunchtime Seminars are a forum for Columbia University faculty and visiting scholars to […]
Nation Building: Why Some Countries Come Together While Others Fall Apart Andreas Wimmer in conversation with Jack Snyder, Gwyneth McClendron, Deborah Yashar, and Prerna Singh, moderated by Shamus Khan March 27, 2018 • 6:00-7:30PM Columbia University, Buell Hall, East Gallery About the Book Why is national integration achieved in some diverse countries, while others are destabilized […]
From Cells to Society: Rethinking Public Policy in a Changing World Assistant Professor Esteban Calvo Moderated by Ursula Staudinger March 8, 2018 · 12-1PM Columbia University, Fayerweather Hall, Room 411 The Committee on Global Thought (CGT) Lunchtime Seminars are a forum for Columbia University faculty and visiting scholars to present current research characterizing and assessing issues […]
The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against its Own Citizens by Bernard E. Harcourt February 27, 2018 • 6:00-7:30PM Columbia University, Buell Hall, East Gallery About the Book Militarized police officers with tanks and drones. Pervasive government surveillance and profiling. Social media that distract and track us. All of these, contends Bernard Harcourt, […]
Some Philosophical Reflections on Our Political Ideals Professor Akeel Bilgrami February 22, 2018 · 12-1PM Columbia University, Fayerweather Hall, Room 411 The Committee on Global Thought (CGT) Lunchtime Seminars are a forum for Columbia University faculty and visiting scholars to present current research characterizing and assessing issues of global importance. Read more about the CGT Lunchtime […]
Brexit: A Leap in the Dark? Simon Coveney, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Ireland February 21, 2018 • 6:30-7:45PM Columbia University, Low Library Faculty Room About the Event Featured Simon Coveney, Deputy Prime Minister & Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Ireland. Opening remarks by David Madigan, Executive Vice President and Dean […]
What Is To Be Done? After the Illusions, A Critical Practice for the Twenty-First Century Professor Bernard E. Harcourt Moderated by Carol Gluck December 7, 2017 · 12-1PM Columbia University, Fayerweather Hall, Room 411 The Committee on Global Thought (CGT) Lunchtime Seminars are a forum for Columbia University faculty and visiting scholars to discuss current research […]
Undergraduate Committee on Global Thought Design Session: Global 20 Youth in an Interconnected World Thursday November 30, 2017 · 4:30 – 6:00 PM Lerner East Ramp Lounge What does it mean to be 20 years old in today’s rapidly changing, interconnected world? This design session provided a unique platform for students to brainstorm and influence […]
World Leaders Forum featuring Jan Eliasson: Global Leadership in the 21st Century Undergraduate and Graduate Student Workshops Learn how to affect change in your community and in the world November 29, 2017 · 1:30 – 3:00 PM We live at an exciting time: most of the assumptions that underpinned the post war and then the […]
How Much Inequality is Fair? Mathematical Principles of a Moral, Optimal, and Stable Capitalist Society Professor Venkat Venkatasubramanian Moderated by Bernard E. Harcourt November 9, 2017 · 12-1PM Columbia University, Fayerweather Hall, Room 411 The Committee on Global Thought (CGT) Lunchtime Seminars are a forum for Columbia University faculty and visiting scholars to discuss current research […]
Film screening followed by a panel discussion with director Olivier Babinet
Dancers from the Apollo’s International Festival, Breakin Convention, join Mamadou Diouf, Columbia Professor of African Studies, to reflect on music’s impact on their lives and the politics of its local communities.
Film screening followed by a panel discussion with CGT Member Barnard E. Harcourt and Etienne Balibar
Film screening followed by a panel discussion with Alessia Palanti and curator Nora Philippe
Film screening followed by a panel discussion with Professor Richard Pena and Emeritus Professor Robert Paxton
Film screening with introduction by Professor Emmanuelle Saada
Ffilm screening followed by a panel discussion with Professor Madeleine Dobe and curator Nora Philippe
Film screening followed by a panel discussion with Professor Jane Gaines and curator Nora Philippe
Professors Sandro Mezzadra, Etienne Balibar, and Rosalind Morris will discuss “The ‘Migration Crisis’ in Europe and The Current Global Predicament.”
The Rise of the Bolsheviks: Uncovering a Family View Professor Mark Mazower October 12, 2017 · 12-1PM Columbia University, Fayerweather Hall, Room 411 The Committee on Global Thought (CGT) Lunchtime Seminars are a forum for Columbia University faculty and visiting scholars to discuss current research characterizing and assessing issues of global importance. About the speaker Mark […]
The Talks with Professors series allows students to engage in casual and meaningful conversations with distinguished scholars in a laid-back, informal setting. Participation open to Columbia University students only.
UNDERGRADUATE WORKSHOP: In advance of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba’s appearance, the Undergraduate Committee on Global Thought presented a workshop with Professor Mara Green on Wednesday, September 20, from 2:15PM – 3:15PM.
What are your Thoughts on a Changing World? An Open Forum with Columbia Faculty September 13, 2017 • 6-8PM Columbia University, Kent Hall, Room 403 The Undergraduate Committee on Global Thought (UCGT) presented its first event of the semester, a lively discussion among undergraduates and faculty about youth in our changing world. What are YOUR thoughts on a changing world? […]
Thoughts on the Democratization of Information April 19, 2017 • 6-7PM Broadway Hall Lounge, 14th Floor West Of the series Thoughts on a Changing World, an initiative organized by the Committee on Global Thought to gather and access at a local and global scale the issues of current and urgent attention, the Undergraduate Committee on Global Thought’s […]
“Who Gets to Speak?”
“China’s Urban Transformation”
A Book Talk on Akeel Bilgrami’s “Beyond the Secular West”
“The Commander of the Faithful in Islamic History and the Taliban-Islamic State Rivalry”
“The Urban Apparatus: Mediapolitics and the City”
A discourse on Islamist militancy in Africa.
“Differences in Aging Across Cultures: A Global Perspective”
A Global Hot Spot on Turkey
“The Latest Catastrophe: History, the Present, the Contemporary”
“Migrancy and Unsettlement”
Lessons for a deglobalizing world from the last 25 centuries of financial crisis
“Being the Other: The Muslim in India”
A Global Think-in on the global populism phenomenon
“Generators, Electricity and the Infrastructural Life of Cities”
“Hijacking Human Rights: Neoliberalism and the End of the Third World”
“The Limits of Global Thought: Western Social and Human Sciences on Trial”
“Revisiting Palestine’s History”
The University Commencement ceremony of the 262nd Academic Year.
This ceremony celebrates the accomplishments of all MA candidates in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Class of 2016.
A reception to celebrate a decade of activities and research of the Committee on Global Thought with its founder, President Lee C. Bollinger.
A Global Think-in on the past, present, and future of the global monetary system.
Join Professor Jonathan R. Cole, a prominent professor in the sociology of science for a conversation on “Trigger Warnings: Freedom of Academic Inquiry”. The Talks with Professors series allows students to engage in casual and meaningful conversations with distinguished scholars in a laid-back, informal setting. Registration open to Columbia University students only.
The Talks with Professors series allows students to engage in casual and meaningful conversations with distinguished scholars in a laid-back, informal setting. Registration open to Columbia University students only.
The Construction of a Global Institution: International commercial arbitration, 1890-1960
This Global Thought Lab on Global Philanthropy gave students the opportunity to discuss the influences of global philanthropic ventures abroad.
Nation Building: Why some countries came together while others fell apart
Join Professor Geert Somsen, a prominent professor in the history of science, for a conversation on “Science and World Order.” The Talks with Professors series allows students to engage in casual and meaningful conversations with distinguished scholars in a laid-back, informal setting. Registration open to Columbia University students only.
UNDERGRADUATE WORKSHOP: In advance of President Mattarella’s appearance, the Undergraduate Committee on Global Thought presents a workshop with Professor Alessandra Casella on Saturday, February 6, from 10-11AM.
Medical tourism is growing rapidly. The question is whether it represents the future of healthcare, which traditionally, has been a core responsibility of national governments.
Souleymane Bachir Diagne will discuss the ideological formation of the state in various traditions of Islam and indicate what factors have contributed to the range of ways in which Islamic traditions govern, are governed, and ideologically participate in integrating the identities of the faithful as Muslims and as citizens.
Richard W. Bulliet discussed his new book, “The Wheel: Inventions and Reinventions,” focusing on the three major phases in the evolution of the wheel and their relationship to the needs and ambitions of human society.
Exploiting our boundless desire to access everything all the time, digital technology is breaking down whatever boundaries still exist between the state, the market, and the private realm. ‘Global Exposure’ offers a powerful critique of our new virtual transparence, revealing just how unfree we are becoming and how little we seem to care.
Renowned philosophy Professor David Albert joined the UCGT for a conversation on “The Nature of Time: Intersecting Physics and Philosophy.”
The buying and selling of citizenship has become a thriving business in just a few years. Entrepreneurs and libertarians are renouncing America and Europe in favor of tax havens like Singapore and the Caribbean. But as journalist Atossa Araxia Abrahamian discovered, the story of twenty-first-century citizenship is bigger than millionaires seeking their next passport.
In this special conversation organized exclusively for the 1754 Society, senior faculty members and students of Columbia’s Committee on Global Thought (CGT) from across the University and Medical Center discussed what it will mean to think, act, and teach globally over the next four decades.
The Legacy of Bandung
The Question of Intervention
The Identity of Modern Indian Political Thought
Panelists discussed the politics of memory of World War II in this seventieth anniversary year in domestic and geopolitical perspectives. Each panelist made a 7-minute introductory statement, which was then followed by a discussion among the panelists, moderated by Gluck, and finished with some questions from the audience.
We’ve all seen hip-hop dance…but nothing like this! UCGT hosted “It’s A Hip-Hop World”, an event organized in conjunction with the Apollo Theater’s Breakin Convention International Hip-Hop Festival. Our renowned international panel will hold a discussion on the topic of the intersection of hip hop between different global environments, followed by a Q&A and a meet and greet.
Political Transition in East-Central Europe and the End of the Cold War, 1988-1991
Women’s Emancipation and the Rise of Fundamentalism
This World Leaders Forum program featured an address by Her Excellency Michelle Bachelet, President of the Republic of Chile, titled, Challenges of Our Democracy: 25 Years After, followed by a question and answer session with the audience.
This World Leaders Forum and Global Thought Lecture featured an address by The Honorable Kevin Rudd, President of the Asia Society Policy Institute; Former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Australia, titled The Rise of China and its Impact on the Global Order. The discussion was followed by a question and answer session with the audience.
The Enlightenment, Enchantment, and the Mentality of Democracy
“Rethinking Knowledge: Evidence-Based Medicine” addressed how randomized clinical trials provide the highest quality of evidence with regard to the efficacy and safety of medical interventions such as drugs and surgical procedures.
TIME AND TRAUMA: Memory in Global Perspective
Time and Trauma: Memory in Global Perspective
TIME AND TRAUMA: Transgenerational Memories of Mass Suffering
A panel discussion with Marco Magnani on his book “Creating Economic Growth: Lessons for Europe” with Bruce Greenwald, Dominick Salvatore, and moderated by Vishakha N. Desai.
The Undergraduate Committee on Global Thought presents Urgent Issues on Global Urbanism with Saskia Sassen
The Politics of Memory in East Asia and Eastern Europe Today
Remembering Across Time: Psychological Studies of the Two World Wars in Transgenerational Memory
How can Columbia University undergraduates become better equipped to understand and participate in the inter-connected, inter-dependent world of the 21st century? It is widely noted that in the next decade, one in every four jobs will be related to global trade and development. Do you feel you are prepared for this new world? What do you need from your undergraduate education to provide a more nuanced global perspective?
The 7th Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture on “Prices and Decentralization without Convexity” was delivered by Paul Milgrom, Shirley and Leonard Ely professor of Humanities and Sciences in the Department of Economics at Stanford University, with Kenneth J. Arrow, Professor of Economics (Emeritus) at Stanford University; Jay Sethuraman, Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia University; and Joseph Stiglitz, University Professor at Columbia University.
The Kenneth J. Arrow Series Book Launch featured a policy-oriented authors’ roundtable.
Panel discussion as part of The Politics of Memory in Global Context series on the relation between individual and collective memory, between national and global history, between commemoration and information, including the challenge of presenting such difficult pasts as September 11th and the Holocaust.
Panel discussion as part of The Politics of Memory in Global Context series on the relation between individual and collective memory, between national and global history, between commemoration and information, including the challenge of presenting such difficult pasts as September 11th and the Holocaust.
A Global Think-in on the past, present, and future of attempts to “govern the world”
A panel discussion bringing together museum curators and scholars of the humanities to explore how we experience museums.
The 2014 Global Thought Lecture featured an address by Pascal Lamy, former Director-General of the World Trade Organization and Chair of the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations, titled “Global Governance and Future Challenges: Lessons from the Oxford Martin Commission.”
Undergraduate: Meeting on Global Governance with Pascal Lamy
Workshop on the Future of Global Governance April 18, 2014 · 2:00-3:00PM Columbia University, Hamilton Hall, Room 603 José Antonio Ocampo, Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of International and Public Affairs and Member of the Committee on Global Thought José Antonio Ocampo, moderator for the Global Thought Lecture on Global Governance and Future Challenges, will lead […]
The fifth annual conference on global urbanism, hosted by Saskia Sassen.
Catch Up: Developing Countries in the World Economy
A discussion on science and globalization. Lunch provided!
Stefan Jonsson and Andreas Huyssen will discuss Jonsson’s recent volume, Crowds and Democracy: The Idea and Image of the Masses from Revolution to Fascism, (Columbia University Press, 2013), published in the series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts.
This screening of the film Thaumazein was followed by a discussion with director Aleksander Motturi.
The Discipline Series: What are the sources of current forms of inequality in a world of globalized finance?
What happens in our brains when we think about collective memory?
A conference on how to build and sustain robust cultural infrastructure.
What impact did the disasters of 3/11–the earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster–have on Japanese memory?
The fourth annual conference on theoretical and practical approaches to the question of long-term investing.
A conversation on the parallel phenomena of India’s booming economy and widespread poverty.
The nightmare in Syria remains unresolved – and with no end in sight.
The Undergraduate Committee on Global Thought convened this open-format discussion with University President, Lee C. Bollinger.
A forum on education and the environment
This interdisciplinary conversation brings together voices from literature, psychology and cultural and political theory to explore the ways we understand the past.
A lecture celebrating Akeel Bilgrami as the first Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy
Colleagues, admirers, and members of the Hobsbawm family celebrated the life and work of world-renowned historian Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012).
Book launch event for “The Quest for Security: Protection Without Protectionism and the Challenge of Global Governance”, edited by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Mary Kaldor.
How does a traumatic, public event affect the accuracy of our memories?
A panel on the technical and global implications of the expanded surveillance capacity of states and the expanded capacity of people to contest.
Director Brad Evans in a film screening of Ten Years of Terror, which explores the impact of 9/11.
Glenny considered the connections between criminality, commercial espionage and the National Security State.
Homi Bhabha met with the Undergraduate Committee the morning after his Global Thought Lecture to delve more deeply into globalization and post-colonial identity.
In the First Global Thought Lecture, Bhabha used the works of W.E.B. Du Bois, Toni Morrison, Kathleen Battle, artist Zarina Hashmi, and dozens of other thinkers to explore the role of culture and the arts in cultivating an aesthetic of “living side by side” that contributes to our contemporary understanding of “cosmopolitan right”.
The Sixth Annual Arrow Lecture
Current Trends >> Future Possibilities
A conference to discuss the 2013 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Report
The Undergraduate Committee participated in a discussion on sociological fieldwork in urban areas and globalization.
A meeting with the Undergraduate Committee on Global Thought on the tensions between Columbia’s burgeoning role as a “global university” and its expanding place in New York.
The Third Annual Sovereign Wealth Funds Conference examined two critical issues: whether long-term investing is optimal; and if so, are particular mechanisms required to facilitate such investments?
The panel sought to advance alternative governance solutions for essential resources drawing on theory, legal and empirical research.
Churchill’s Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II November 27, 2012 · 6:00-8:00PM Columbia University Business School, Uris Hall, room 141 In 1943, during World War II, the eastern province of Bengal in British India underwent a famine that killed 3 million people or more. The famine has long […]
Panelists discussed “Globalization and Sovereignty: Rethinking Legality, Legitimacy, and Constitutionalism” by Jean L. Cohen bringing perspectives from law, history and political science.
Join Michael Doyle, a prominent SIPA and law professor, for a conversation on the myriad of ways in which issues of foreign policy inform and influence U.S. presidential elections. The Talks with Professors series allows students to engage in casual and meaningful conversations with distinguished scholars in a laid-back, informal setting. Registration open to Columbia University students only.
A conference on how those considered invisible or inconsequential are enabled to ‘make presence’ in urban space.
In an interconnected world, domestic events reverberate globally. Never is that more true than during election season in the United States.
Oil Talk: Thinking and Retelling the Political and Cultural Economy of Oil and Gas April 13, 2012 · 10:00AM – 2:00PM Columbia University Business School, 142 Uris Hall Hannah Appel, Post-doctoral Research Scholar with the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University Keynote lecture with Michael Ross (UCLA), Suzana Sawyer (UC Davis), and Michael Watts (UC Berkeley) […]
Fifth Annual Arrow Lecture
Sustainable Consumption: A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective April 2, 2012 · 10:00-11:30AM Columbia University, 1501 School of International and Public Affairs Partha Dasgupta, Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge Visiting scholar and Professor Emeritus of Economics (Cambridge University), Sir Partha Dasgupta, will lecture on “Sustainable Consumption”. Joining as discussants will be Joseph E. Stiglitz, University Professor […]
A conversation on the relationship between empires and economic development
What is debt? How did we get so much and what can we do about it?
The CGT presented an hour of open global discussion with Columbia’s undergraduates. Columbia’s leading scholars and members of the Committee on Global Thought heard the thoughts of Columbia’s undergraduates on the pressing issues facing the world today including everything from issues of globalization, to Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring.
The third annual conference on the changing landscape of urban spaces, curated by Professor Saskia Sassen.
The Second Annual Sovereign Wealth Fund Conference “From ‘Savings Glut’ to Sustainable Growth” brought together investors from sovereign wealth, pension and other long-term funds with policymakers, academics and leading economic thinkers for an intensive two-day program of plenary sessions, smaller working groups and keynote addresses.
This conference examined the major path-breaking transitions in North Africa and the Middle East, as a continuation of three panels presented in Spring 2011, when the uprisings first broke out.
The Fourth Annual Arrow Lecture
India During and After the Global Financial Crisis March 30, 2011 · 7:00-9:00PM Columbia University Business School, 301 Uris Hall Kaushik Basu, Chief Economic Adviser, Ministry of Finance, Government of India Prabhat Patnaik, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University Amartya Sen, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Department […]
A Symposium Over Two Evenings
Is Private International Law Still a Relevant Tool?
A discussion of democratcy in Egypt and other transitioning countries
A conference exploring individual and social memory of mass trauma
An exploration of the current unrest in Egypt and the Middle East.
Grzegorz W. Kolodko discusses the release of his new book, “Truth, Errors, and Lies: Politics and Economics in a Volatile World”
The First Annual Sovereign Wealth Fund Conference “Sovereign Wealth Funds and Other Long-Term Investors: A New Form of Capitalism?” convened 200 scholars, policymakers, fund managers and economic thinkers to explore how sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and other long-term investors can leverage their unique long-term investment horizons to confront and profit from complex global challenges.
The second annual conference on the changing landscape of urban spaces, curated by Professor Saskia Sassen.
Second Annual Arrow Lecture
Cities and the New Wars September 25-26, 2009 • 1:00PM – 6:45PM Columbia University, Avery Hall, Wood Auditorium How do cities confront conflict? This conference approached this question from two perspective. First, it explored the multiple meanings of the new urban wars: asymmetric armed conflict, US Army training for the “urban enemy,” forms of economic violence […]