Columbia Humanities

Humanities news and events from across the Columbia University campus. Media Contact: 212-854-6164

[Columbia SPS @Columbia_SPS]

Tomorrow: RSVP for “The Exoneration of Yutico Briley,” the second event in the @Columbia Public Writing Series, featuring @EmilyBazelon, Amy Hungerford, & @BernardHarcourt: https://t.co/b6Pzro5H2V

[Columbia Postbac Premed @ColumbiaPostbac]

"I already have a career I love, but I plan to use my studies to become a better teacher, writer, and advocate for my son and other people with genetic disabilities." @EnglishColumbia Professor Rachel Adams returns to the classroom at @ColumbiaGS. https://t.co/Hbg63exnZw

[Columbia Law School @ColumbiaLaw]

Congratulations to Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks) who received an honorary doctorate from renowned Belgian university @KU_Leuven last week!

[Columbia Humanities @ColumbiaHum]

High school students learn philosophy and find their voices in Columbia's Freedom and Citizenship program. https://t.co/A79bLws1WY

[Columbia University @Columbia]

By now you've heard about the launch of the Shawn "JAY-Z" Carter Lecture Series in our African American and African Diaspora Studies Department. How the AAASD is changing scholarship—and lives: https://t.co/FMQsmGJwUd

[Columbia University @Columbia]

Columbia launched the Shawn “JAY-Z” Carter Lecture Series tonight with an unforgettable first conversation between @s_c_ and @jelani9 at #TheForum. @teamroc @rocnation @IRAASColumbiaU https://t.co/z9UDqajdVg

[CU History Department @CUHistoryDept]

Mamadou Diouf was quoted in the New York Observer about the upcoming “Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara” exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum.

https://t.co/vE9gENXuQK

[SOF/Heyman at Columbia University @sofheyman]

Tomorrow @mcnallyjackson Seaport: "Inventing Tomorrow: Sarah Cole and Colm Tóibín" at 7pm!

[Columbia University @Columbia]

On #DavidBowie's birthday, remembering that time students wrote an op-ed in @ColumbiaSpec calling for Bowie to be named University president. https://t.co/40UoaCXN89

[Columbia University @Columbia]

“How are we going to end mass incarceration? We’re going to have to win hard fights," says @JusticeLab's @VinSchiraldi on expanding juvenile justice reforms across the country. via @sfchronicle https://t.co/eQckjEqVsa

[Columbia University Oral History @CU_OralHistory]

Tomorrow!

#CCOHR Event | Margaretta Jolly on her new book, “Sisterhood and After: An Oral History of the UK Women’s Movement, 1968-Present.”

December 4th, 7-8:30pm

Free and open to the public! Details here:

https://t.co/XgHik42GAR

[Columbia University @Columbia]

One simple solution will not solve the opioid crisis. Four divisions from Columbia—@ColumbiaSSW, @ColumbiaMSPH, @ColumbiaPsych and @DSI_Columbia—are joining forces to reduce opioid-related deaths in New York State by 40%. https://t.co/cR0hisEi46

[Columbia Journalism School @columbiajourn]

On Nov. 21, @nytimes reporters, @katekelly and @rpogrebin, authors of "The Education of Brett Kavanaugh" will talk about the formative years of the Supreme Court Justice and answer the essential question: Who is Brett Kavanaugh?

RSVP via https://t.co/wlRsdGkVnA

[Columbia Humanities @ColumbiaHum]

We're going to be closing this handle! Just wanted to give you a heads up. For Columbia + #Humanities news, follow @columbia and @harrimaninst. Thanks for following!

[Columbia University @Columbia]

Is Twitter's ban on political ads the solution to our media problems? @TowCenter's @samthielman weighs in.https://t.co/ltGMmE30jl

[Columbia Magazine @columbiamag]

Meet the scholars behind @Columbia’s @CU_OralHistory Obama Oral History Project. Over the next 5 years, they’ll be leading interviews with 400 people — from White House insiders to everyday Americans — to chronicle perspectives on the #Obama era. https://t.co/2bBE7WBWfZ

[Columbia Humanities @ColumbiaHum]

H.G. Wells Sparked Modernism and the Literary Imagination | Columbia News https://t.co/Dwmu8gmLIn

[Columbia University @Columbia]

Come to The Forum TONIGHT for a special screening of the film "Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am" followed by a conversation with @IRAASColumbiaU's Farah Jasmine Griffin and director Timothy Greenfield-Sanders CC '74. https://t.co/NAm19QCYLs

[Barnard College @BarnardCollege]

Rest in peace, Toni Morrison. In her 1979 Barnard College commencement address, she urged graduates to balance ambition with a care for others: "Let your might and your power emanate from that place in you that is nurturing and caring."

[Columbia Libraries @columbialib]

#Apollo11 launched its mission to the moon #onthisday in 1969. More than 100 years earlier, in 1865, @Columbia trustee Lewis Rutherford (R) captured a very early photo of the moon (L), which he later donated to the University & is now held by #CUArchives. #Apollo50