This spring, the Committee on Global Thought held a series of timely and thought-provoking events that included speakers, panel discussions, and faculty convenings, covering topics from global economics to youth advocacy to relationships between states and universities internationally. Coming to the close of another academic year, we’re excited to reflect
This past March, 2024 Global Thought Scholar Caroline Mendoza celebrated the opening of her exhibit, “Welcome is a Woman: Hawai’i and Tourism in the US Imagination” in Lehman Library. This exhibit is based on her research in the GTS Program, and involved extensive use of library collections and the guidance
CGT faculty Kian Tajbakhsh revisited his piece “A Cowed Normality: On Daily Life in a Fascist America” from The New Republic in light of the inauguration of President Trump.
VOA News | November 28, 2024 CGT Senior Fellow Kevin Funk was quoted by “Voice of America” in a piece about economic ties between the Gulf States and Latin America. To read the article, click here.
CGT Member Rosalind Morris published her new book, Unstable Ground: The Lives, Deaths, and Afterlives of Gold in South Africa. Based on twenty-five years of field research conducted in South Africa’s gold mines, Morris discusses the worlds that gold made possible—and gold’s profound costs for those who have lived in
The 2023-2024 CGT Annual Report is now available! Please click here to read about the Committee’s projects and programming in the past academic year.
The competitive Global Thought Scholars program was established in 2023 to expose undergraduate students to the trans-regional and trans-disciplinary approaches of the CGT and to support students’ collaborative research efforts. We welcomed our third cohort in December. The 2025 GTS cohort includes 12 students representing all four of Columbia’s undergraduate
The Committee on Global Thought’s fall semester featured an engaging line-up of campus talks, panels, and community-building events that covered a breadth of topics relevant to our current global political situation, from climate activism to the US presidential election. As we reflect on the close of another semester, we also
On August 27, Outgoing Chair of the Committee on Global Thought, Reinhold Martin, announced that Adam Tooze, Kathryn and Shelby Collum Davis Professor of History, will transition to Chair of CGT, effective at the start of the Fall 2024 semester. With gratitude to Professor Martin for his leadership, CGT warmly
Spectrum News | April 13th, 2024 CGT Scholar in Practice, Kian Tajbakhsh, joined Dean Meminger Saturday night to discuss the potential impact of the attacks. The attacks are part of an unprecented revenge mission after two Iranian generals were killed in an airstrike in Syria earlier this month, for which
AP News | February 15th, 2024 CGT Member Bernard Harcourt filed a § 1983 civil rights action against Alabama on behalf of his client on death row, David Wilson. They are seeking a declaratory judgment that the nitrogen gas method constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth
The Atlantic | February 2nd, 2024 In an opinion piece, CGT Member Kian Tajbakhsh discusses Iran’s role in the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel. To read the article, click here.