The Committee on Global Thought is a proud co-sponsor of: The Ascent of the Middlemen: How middlemen came to be the largest and most powerful companies in the world, why it matters, and what can be done Amazon and Walmart are the two biggest revenue generators and two biggest employers in the United States. Their […]
The Committee on Global Thought is a proud co-sponsor of: PLACE | Land & Geographies of Power This year, as the US surpasses half a million deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic and domestic fascists attempt a coup, the country will also mark the 20th anniversary of the US-led Global War on Terror. How did global […]
The Undergraduate Committee on Global Thought Presents: Global Thought Lab A Conversation on Global Corporate Social Responsibility Thursday, October 7 | 5:30 – 6:30 PM ET Join the UCGT for an interactive discussion on the role of corporations and corporate interests in global social good in order to understand what their social responsibilities are, not […]
Epidemic Empire: Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817-2020 Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb Moderated by CGT Member Joseph Slaughter, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University Monday, October 4 | 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET The CGT Lunchtime Seminars are an informal forum for scholars to discuss current research assessing issues of global importance […]
The Undergraduate Committee on Global Thought presents Talks with Professors Contested Memory and Mass Violence: Understanding the Experience of the Comfort Women Professor Carol Gluck Co-sponsored by the Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability In this second event in the Undergraduate Committee on Global Thought’s exploration of the Politics of Memory, Professor Carol Gluck […]
The Committee on Global Thought is a proud co-sponsor of: Toward Sustainable Corporate Governance: Where Are We Headed? At What Speed? Europe and the United States are moving in the same direction, but at different speeds, toward a model of sustainable corporate governance. In the United States, corporate law is a matter of state law […]
The Committee on Global Thought is a proud co-sponsor of: GEOPOLITICS | What is US Empire? This year, as the US surpasses half a million deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic and domestic fascists attempt a coup, the country will also mark the 20th anniversary of the US-led Global War on Terror. How did global and […]
The Committee on Global Thought is a proud co-sponsor of: Harnessing Our Mutual Responsibilities to Solve Global Challenges 2021 “Rise or Fall Together” Interdependence Summit As the Delta variant spreads across the world, a global end to the pandemic still seems far from clear. A recent climate change report provides a grim prognosis without […]
The Committee on Global Thought is a proud co-sponsor of: Is Global Capitalism Governable?: Exploring the legal, social, and economic complexities of governance in the 21st century After the collapse of the socialist system, there seem to be no viable alternative to capitalism: A system based on private ordering of economic relations backed and arbitered […]
The Committee on Global Thought is a proud co-sponsor of: INTIMACY | The Intimacies of War This year, as the US surpasses half a million deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic and domestic fascists attempt a coup, the country will also mark the 20th anniversary of the US-led Global War on Terror. How did global and […]
CGT at the 2021 Academic Resources Fair Join the Committee on Global Thought at the virtual 2021 Academic Resources Fair on August 31. Learn about our academic programs as well as opportunities for engagement at both the graduate and undergraduate level! Join here between 3 pm and 5 pm ET on August 31! Explore the […]
Join this conversation to explore the book “World As Family” and discuss multi rooted belonging with young people from across the globe! About this event A Vedic phrase asks us to “treat the world as family.” In our age of global crises—pandemics, climate crisis, crippling inequality—this sentiment is more necessary than ever. Through her personal […]
The Columbia Global Book Series Presents In association with the Committee on Global Thought World as Family: A Journey of Multi-Rooted Belongings Monday, June 7 | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM ET REGISTER A Vedic phrase asks us to “treat the world as family.” In our age of global crises—pandemics, climate crisis, crippling inequality—this sentiment […]
The Undergraduate Committee on Global Thought Presents: Talks with Professors ‘Mistakes Were Made’: Apologies and the Politics of Making Amends with Dr. Khatchig Mouradian Friday, May 14 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET Why do we apologize? What are the elements of an effective apology? When is an apology not an apology? Can […]
World As Family: A Journey of Multi-Rooted Belongings Friday, May 7, 2021, 12:00 PM ET REGISTER CGT Chair Vishakha N. Desai will join Professor Fernando Reimers of Harvard University to discuss her new book, “World As Family: A Journey of Multi-Rooted Belongings.” A Vedic phrase asks us to “treat the world as family.” In our […]
One Shared World Presents: Vaccine Equity: The Interdependence Challenge of Our Time Talks with Professors | Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus & Dr. Margaret “Peggy” Hamburg Wednesday, May 5, 2021, 11:00 am-12:00 pm ET Although COVID-19 vaccines are showing tremendous efficacy against the SARS-CoV-2 virus, it’s becoming increasingly clear that a vaccination strategy that does not […]
The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities present: Apocalypse Pending: Religion, Politics, and Social Media Panel 4 Tuesday, April 20, 2021 2:00pm featuring Michael Butte and Marc-André Argentino, moderated by Camille Robcis “Apocalypse Pending: Religion, Politics, and Social Media” explores the growing popularity of conspiracy thinking in our current moment and its […]
The Committee on Global Thought and The Institute for the Study of Human Rights present Historical Dialogue Interpretation and Telling the Story Featuring Banu Pekol, Johann Peiris, Kaltrina Krasniqi; moderated by Sarah C. Bishop NEW DATE: Tuesday, April 20, 2021 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM Register The focus of this panel is to explore the […]
Undergraduate Committee on Global Thought presents Design Session with Professor Laura Neitzel Thursday, April 15, 2021 | 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM ET Register Every Columbia University student needs to know about our interdependent and interconnected world regardless of major or future career goals. What do you need to learn about the world? How should […]
Racism and International Organizations 2021 Speaker Series Miguel Ángel Moratinos | April 14, 2021 | 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET REGISTER About the Speaker H.E. Mr. Miguel Ángel Moratinos is the United Nations Under-Secretary-General holding the post of High Representative for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) since January 2019- present. In February 2020, […]
MASTER CLASS WITH COLUMBIA SOA ALUMNA TALA HADID Friday, April 9 | 3:00 – 5:30 PM ET Hosted by Professors Bette Gordon (Film) and Rosalind Morris (Anthropology) Tala Hadid will discuss her film House in the Fields, a quiet and poetic documentary depicting rural life in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains. The film portrays the close relationship of […]
UCGT Core Committee Information Session Thursday, April 8 | 8:00 PM ET The Undergraduate Committee on Global Thought invites you to join us for an information session about the Core Committee. Come learn how you can engage issues of global relevance to better address the challenges facing our world today; help shape how international affairs are thought […]
A discussion of Radicalizing Her with author Dr. Nimmi Gowrinathan 4:15-5:45 pm EST, Monday, April 5 Respondent: Dipali Mukhodpadhyay (University of Minnesota) Moderator: Lila Abu-Lughod (Anthropology) REGISTRATION Co-sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality and the South Asia Institute Though the female fighter is often seen as an anomaly, women make up […]
Hosted by the Wallach Art Gallery and the Forum The Forum is proud to partner with the Wallach Art Gallery to present a public preview of their summer 2021 exhibition, The Protest and The Recuperation, curated by Betti-Sue Hertz, Director and Chief Curator of the gallery. The exhibit, which features 10 contemporary artists from around the […]
Racism and International Organizations 2021 Speaker Series Noureddine Amir | April 1, 2021 | 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET REGISTER About the speaker: Dr. Noureddine Amir serves as chair of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) and chair of all UN human rights committees, a total of nine treaty bodies that […]
Sex(ism) and the City: Gender bias in urban design Shagun Sethi and Juliana Velez Duque Leading Cities is excited to showcase research fellows’ work on gender bias in urban design and the perception of safety in urban spaces. Tuesday, March 30, 2021 | 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM ET REGISTER This webinar presents the research […]
COVID: Notes From the First Year with a Gender Lens Khara Jabola-Carolus, Susana Martínez-Restrepo, Terry McGovern, and Mignon Duffy Moderated by Yasmine Ergas, Director of the Specialization on Gender and Public Policy, Columbia University Thursday, March 25, 2021 | 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM ET REGISTER As the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic ends […]
The Concept of Adaptation Ben Orlove Moderated by Reinhold Martin, Professor of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University Tuesday, March 23, 2021 | 12:30 to 1:30 PM ET Review Professor Orlove’s Presentation: The CGT Lunchtime Seminars are an informal forum for scholars to discuss current research assessing issues of global importance with members […]
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought Durba Mitra Moderated by Yasmine Ergas, Director of the Specialization on Gender and Public Policy, Columbia University Tuesday, March 16, 2021 | 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM ET The CGT Lunchtime Seminars are an informal forum for scholars to discuss current research assessing […]
The CGT is a proud co-sponsor of: REGISTER The focus of this panel is to explore how to build spaces for reconciliation in narrow or shrinking civic spaces and what are the issues that are not being discussed in the panelists’ fields of work and their approach. Panelists: Dilpreet Bhullar, Associate Editor at the Visual […]
THE CGT IS PROUD TO CO-SPONSOR: Ambedkar Initiative, Spring 2021 Understanding Systemic Racism: Art and Politics Between Radical Promise & Despair: Dalit Literature & Movement in Karnataka Featuring Devanoora Mahadeva (writer) and Prithvi Datta Chandra Shobhi (KREA) Register here Read the introductory statement and watch the archive of the Fall 2020 web series here. The […]
Listen to speaker voice notes at the tab above. Part of the project on Unsettlement, an initiative of the CGT A follow-up discussion to last November’s “Insecure Zones: Reflections from Africa and the Indian Ocean,” hosted by the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University and the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), […]
The Committee on Global Thought is a proud co-sponsor of: REGISTER The focus of this panel is to explore the multiple ways to bring together the affected communities, specifically through oral histories and visual exhibitions. The panelists will discuss how oral history or visual art are used to understand the experiences of perpetrators and survivors […]
THE CGT IS PROUD TO CO-SPONSOR: Ambedkar Initiative, Spring 2021 Understanding Systemic Racism: Art and Politics The Role of the Radical Writer Featuring Meena Kandasamy (writer and activist), moderated by Dhanya Addanki (writer and archivist) Register here Read the introductory statement and watch the archive of the Fall 2020 web series here. The Ambedkar lecture […]
Katharina Pistor presents on her book “The Code of Capital”, available in all bookstores March 4th, on Saturday, February 20 at 6 pm at the Festival Internazionale. Click here for more information.
The Undergraduate Committee on Global Thought presents: Tech for Social Good? The rapid rise of tech giants and information networks has had global consequences, from the information-sharing fueled rise of conspiracy-driven populism, to disparate calls for regulatory responses to disinformation and hate speech, to questions on how AI can be used to infringe upon […]
THE CGT IS PROUD TO CO-SPONSOR: Ambedkar Initiative, Spring 2021 Understanding Systemic Racism: Art and Politics The Dalit Panthers and Literary Insurgence Featuring Suraj Yengde (Harvard University), Yogesh Maitreya (Panther’s Paw Publication), and others TBA Register here Read the introductory statement and watch the archive of the Fall 2020 web series here. The Ambedkar lecture series […]
The CGT is proud to co-sponsor: Ambedkar Initiative, Spring 2021 Understanding Systemic Racism: Art and Politics Web Series Read the introductory statement and watch the archive of the Fall 2020 web series here. Thursday, February 11 10:00-11:45 AM EST “Ambedkarite Aesthetics and Contemporary Art Practice” (WATCH) Yashadatta Alone (JNU) and Prabhakar Kamble (Mumbai-based artist and […]
A panel discussion with CGT Member Manan Ahmed (History) on his new book, The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India Friday, January 29, 10:10am – 12:00pm Panelists: Vishakha N. Desai (Chair, Committee on Global Thought) Purnima Dhavan (History, University of Washington) Ayesha Ramachandran (Comparative Literature, Yale University) Co-sponsored by the Committee on Global […]
The Committee on Global Thought is proud to sponsor: Interdependence in Action: Building a New Framework for Solving Global Problems On Thursday, December 17th from 9:00-10:00am EDT, come hear from distinguished global leaders and experts, including James Mwangi, Executive Director of Dalberg, G. John Ikenberry, Princeton Professor of Politics and International Affairs, and Omar Almutawa, former […]
Americans of all political persuasions fear that “free speech” is under attack. This may seem strange at a time when legal protections for free expression remain strong and overt government censorship minimal. Yet a range of political, economic, social, and technological developments have raised profound challenges for how we manage speech. New threats to political […]
Hosted by The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities At a time when young people are questioning academic studies’ relevance in a dark world, anthropologist Alisse Waterson and artist Charlotte Hollands have teamed up to create a Graphic Novel Light in Dark Times: The Human Search of Meaning – a unique merging of drawing, anthropology, […]
Global Youth Summit Presented by Youth in a Changing World, an initiative of the CGT Outreach Partners: Undergraduate Committee on Global Thought, Columbia Global Centers Rio de Janeiro, Columbia Undergraduate Science Journal REGISTER
Part of the project on Unsettlement, an initiative of the CGT This joint workshop constitutes the inaugural event in the new program of ‘Critical Concepts and Regional Issues’ of the Project on ‘Unsettlement’, hosted by the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, and co-sponsored by the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), and the Department […]
Hosted by the Undergraduate Committee on Global Thought Presented in conjunction with the Alexander Hamilton Society and the Columbia University Journal for Politics & Society Throughout the country, and the world, the coronavirus has devastated small businesses. Thousands have already shuttered their doors, and millions more face closure and bankruptcy in the coming and months. […]
Hosted by the project on Unsettlement, an initiative of the Committee on Global Thought Outreach Partners: Columbia School of the Arts; The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities Today, millions of people are stranded in states of permanent displacement. They live in places that lack infrastructures of permanence, but must often reside there […]
The UCGT presents: A Conversation with Tim Hwang How is the influence of big tech and artificial intelligence on governing systems evolving? What are some of the most pressing associated challenges for liberal democracy? How will these forces shape geopolitics? Join the Undergraduate Committee on Global Thought for a conversation with FiscalNote Founder and CEO […]
Thursday, October 8, 6:30 pm Register This conversation explores the history, form, and process behind the creation of the powerful new Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia. The grounds—designed by Thomas Jefferson and now recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site—were built and maintained by 4000 enslaved men, women, and children. The […]
Part of Politics of Visual Arts in a Changing World, an initiative of the Committee on Global Thought Made possible through the generous support of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts A discussion with scholars and activists on the various issues surrounding the removal of public monuments across the globe in the wake of […]
Event Video https://youtu.be/eMIKtR56-gw — The CGT is excited to share news about its partnership with OneShared.World on their upcoming RISE OR FALL TOGETHER: The OneShared.World Interdependence Summit 2020! CGT Chair Vishakha Desai joins some of the world’s most inspiring people, including World Health Organization COVID-19 coordinator David Nabarro, National Geographic Explorer and leading environmentalist Enric […]
Turning Points: Joseph Stiglitz and Thomas Piketty in Dialogue Moderated by Sylvie Kauffmann A live virtual transatlantic event September, 10th 2020 | 1:00-2:15 pm EST (New York) | 19:00-20:15 GMT+2 (Paris) REGISTER HERE *This is a simulcast event to be broadcast live on Zoom and also on YouTube and Facebook. A simultaneous French translation will be […]
Warfare in the twenty-first century goes well beyond conventional armies and nation- states. In a world of diffuse conflicts taking place across sprawling cities, war has become fragmented and uneven to match its settings. Yet the analysis of failed states, civil war, and state building rarely considers the city, rather than the country, as the […]
Event description courtesy of the Roma Peoples Project at Columbia University. This special event for the Roma Peoples Project’s online educational festival—On Roma Matters & Other Compelling Stories—is a conversation between Dr. Vishakha Desai and Roma Peoples Project founder, Cristiana Grigore. Building on Dr. Desai’s expertise in the field of global thought, the conversation will […]
View the recording of the event: The Committee on Global Thought is proud to participate in the Uptown People’s Assembly hosted by Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery. The event will act as a generative space of listening and sharing as the United States and the world face the two raging pandemics of public health and […]
David Lawler in conversation with Jeffrey D. Sachs. Chaired by Safwan Masri. View the video of the event here. Today’s most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planet wide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But humanity’s story has always been on a global scale. In his […]
Join Professor Jessica Whyte of the University of New South Wales as she discusses her new book, The Morals of the Market. Drawing on detailed archival research on the parallel histories of human rights and neoliberalism, Professor Whyte uncovers the place of human rights in neoliberal attempts to develop a moral framework for a market […]
Every day, litigators in the United States fight against encroachments on people’s human and civil rights. Guest speakers Hannah Flamm, Managing Attorney, Detained Minors Project at The Door’s Legal Services Center, and Alexia D. Korberg, Partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, discussed their career paths and work. Hannah represents detained and non-detained youth […]
On February 7, 2020, the Undergraduate Committee on Global Thought hosted a behind-the-scenes curated tour of Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection to examine the implications of presenting masterworks from Indigenous North American cultures within the Euro-American collections of the museum’s American Wing. Click here to see more pictures from the […]
On February 5, 2020, the Undergraduate Committee on Global Thought (UCGT), GSAlliance, and the Columbia University Science Journal presented a screening of the film Born to Be. This acclaimed documentary from director Tania Cypriano and Producer Michelle Koo Hayashi follows the work of Dr. Jess Ting at the groundbreaking Mt. Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine […]
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The global anti-war movement against the invasion and occupation of Iraq crystallized on February 15, 2003, when millions of people simultaneously demonstrated in six hundred cities around the world. The World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) emerged from this global anti-war movement “to tell and disseminate the truth about the Iraq war.” Between 2003 and 2005, […]
Cultures in Conversation: “Re-Imagining the College Experience” Thursday, December 5, 2019 • 7:30-9PM Columbia University, International Affairs Building, Room 918 Open only to undergraduates On December 5th, the Undergraduate Committee on Global Thought hosted a roundtable discussion on reimagining the college experience, thinking critically about who college is for, what purpose it serves, and whether […]
Politics of Art Museums in a Changing World with Professor Vishakha N. Desai Wednesday, October 30, 2019 • 6-7PM Columbia University, Fayerweather Hall, Room 411 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. Students joined Vishakha […]
Global Think-in: The Code of Capital Monday, October 21, 2019 · 4:30pm – 6:00pm Jerome Greene Annex · 410 West 117 Street Katharina Pistor | Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law Adam Tooze | Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History; Director of the European Institute; Member of the Committee on Global Thought […]
Honorable Just David Smuts of the Supreme Court of Namibia in conversation about his new book Thursday, October 17, 2019 · 6:10 PM Room 753 Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University No registration required Honorable Just David F. Smuts is Namibia’s most renowned human rights lawyer. In the 1980s, Smuts took on South Africa’s apartheid regime, and […]
Arts, Politics, Museums: New Issues, New Actors Tuesday, October 15, 2019 · 6:30pm – 8:00pm Columbia University Journalism School – Pulitzer Hall – World Room Richard Armstrong | Director, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation Betti-Sue Hertz | Director and Chief Curator, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University Alisa LaGamma | Ceil and Michael […]
Sports and Politics in a Time of Political Polarization with Frank Guridy Monday, September 23, 2019 • 6-7PM Columbia University, Fayerweather Hall, Room 411 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. Students joined Frank Guridy, […]
United Nations Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth Jayathma Wickramanayake Tuesday, September 17, 2019 4 – 5 PM Rotunda, Low Memorial Library This World Leaders Forum program featured an address by Jayathma Wickramanayake, United Nations Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth. This was followed by a question and answer session with the audience. Moderated by Vishakha N. Desai, Vice […]
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Attitudes Toward Globalization in Ranked Ethnic Societies Nikhar Gaikwad Moderated by Vishakha N. Desai May 2, 2019 · 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. Learn more […]
World Leaders Forum: Shaping the Future A Conversation with The 2018 Tällberg / Eliasson Global Leaders April 11, 2019 · 6:30-8 PM Italian Academy Teatro Pastor Nicolas Guérékoyame-Gbangou, President of the Evangelical Alliance of the Central African Republic; Founder of the Plateforme des Confessions Religieuses de Centrafrique (PCRC) Professor Rafael Yuste, Professor of Biological Sciences and Neuroscience, Columbia University in […]
Resurgent Heroes and Resistance to State Power: Caste and Politics in South India Tori Gross Moderated by Mamadou Diouf April 4, 2019 · 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 […]
Art in Contested Political and Cultural Terrains, Asia Wednesday March 27, 2019 · 6:30pm – 8:00pm Columbia University – Faculty House – Seminar Room 1, 2nd floor MC Kash, Hip-hop singer from Kashmir Tenzing Rigdol, Painter, poet, visual artist from Tibet Maria Madeira, Painter, visual artist from Timor-Leste Seckon Leang, Painter, performer and visual artist from […]
What Are Iranians Dreaming About Today? Reflections on the Islamic Revolution at 40 Kian Tajbakhsh Moderated by Navid Zarrinnal March 14, 2019 · 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 […]
Leading Change in Our Communities with Rodrigo Rubido Alonso Moderated by Laura Neitzel Friday, March 1, 2019 • 11AM – 12PM Columbia University, Fayerweather Hall, Room 411 About the Speaker Rodrigo Rubido Alonso is an architect, co-founder and executive director of Instituto Elos, a nonprofit organization based in Santos, Brazil dedicated to training and stimulating […]
New Americans in New York City: A Conversation with Activist & Author Sayu Bhojwani Moderated by Laura Neitzel, CGT Academic Director Wednesday, February 13, 2019 • 6-7PM Columbia University, International Affairs Building, Room 707 Open only to Columbia and Barnard students Activist and author Sayu Bhojwani visited Columbia and spoke about immigration in New York […]
Decolonizing the History of Philosophy with Souleymane Bachir Diagne Wednesday, December 5, 2018 • 6-7PM 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. Join Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Professor of French […]
Politics of Visual Arts Workshop Tuesday, December 4, 2018 • 4:30-6PM Columbia University, Low Library, Room 206 (Burden Room) Closed door workshop Politics of Visual Arts in a Changing World: New Actors, New Methods by Vishakha N. Desai, Vice Chair, Committee on Global Thought Arts have been periodically, but consistently, subjected to political pressures. Generally, the […]
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 […]