Fall 2009 Institute Events
Date: Thursday, September 10, 2009
Time: 5:00-7:00pm
Horace Mann Hall, Room 138
Teachers College
Date: Friday, September 11, 2009
Time: 12:00-1:30pm
Location: Knox Hall, Room 208 (Please note the room change from earlier posters advertising the event)
Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Time: 6:30-8:00pm
Location: 1512 International Affairs Building
'Les Baronnies du Désordre': The Politics of Post-Transition in Eastern DRC, with Koen Vlassenroot
Date: Thursday, October 1, 2009
Time: 3:30-5:00pm
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 1512
Institute of African Studies Fall Welcome Event at Knox Hall (With the Middle East and South Asian Institutes)
Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Location: Knox Hall, 2nd floor
Date: Wednesday October 21, 2009
Time: 6:30-8:00pm
Location: 1512 International Affairs Building
Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Knox Hall, Room 208
Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Time: 6:30-8:00pm
Location: 1512 International Affairs Building
"Ten Years Later: Interpreting the Political Shift in Senegal"
Mamadou Diouf, Columbia UniversityDate: Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Time: 6:00 pm – 8 :00 pm
Location: CEMAf, Centre Malher, 9 rue Malher, 75004 Paris, France
IAS Brown Bag: Summer Internships in Africa Panel
Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2009Time: 12:00pm
Location: Knox Hall, Room 208
Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Time: 6:30-8:00pm
Location: 1501 International Affairs Building
Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009
Time: 6:30 - 9:30pm
Location: 509 Knox Hall
"The Great African War": Congo and Regional Geopolitics, 1996-2006 with Filip Reyntjens
Date: Monday, November 16, 2009Time: 3:30-5:00pm
Location: 207 Knox Hall
Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Knox Hall, Room 208
Date: Friday, November 20, 2009
Time: 1:00-6:00pm
Location: Jerome L. Greene Hall (Columbia Law School), Room 106, 435 West 116th Street, near Amsterdam Avenue; Campus Map
Date: Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Time: 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location: Knox Hall, Room 208
"Madhinga Bucket Boy": Book Reading and Discussion with Philemon Matibe, Founding Member of Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change
Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Time: 12:00pm
Location: Knox Hall, Room 208
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Sebastian Lindstrom presents his journey visiting 23 African NGOs
Date: Monday, September 14, 2009
Time: 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: 227 Milank Hall, Barnard College
"Bridging the Gap" Between the People of African Descent
Date: Saturday, September 16, 2009
Time: 10:00am-5:00pm
Location: Essex County College, Newark, New Jersey
Date: Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Time: 6:00pm
Location: New York University, Eisner & Lubin Auditorium, Kimmel Center, 4th Floor
60 Washington Square South, New York
Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009
Time: 6:00pm
Location: New York University, Kaufman Management Center, Room 11-75
44 West 4th Street, New York
Date: Friday, September 25, 2009
Time: 3:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: New York University, Eisner & Lubin Auditorium, Kimmel Center
60 Washington Square South, 4th Floor
Film Screening: Africa Underground: Democracy in Dakar
Dates: Wednesday, September 23 through Saturday, September 26, 2009
Times: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Maysles Cinema, 343 Malcolm X Blvd / Lenox Ave, New York, NY
AngelAfrica Enterprise Conference
Date: Friday, September 25 and Saturday, September 26, 2009
Time: 7:30am-4:00pm
Location: Desmond Tutu Center, 180 10th Avenue (between 20-21st Streets) New York, NY
"Cities and the New Wars" Conference
Date: Friday, September 25 and Saturday, September 26, 2009
Time: All day
Location: Columbia University, Avery Hall, Wood Auditorium
"Pray the Devil Back to Hell" Film Screening
Date: Sunday, September 27, 2009
Time: 2:00pm
Location: Riverside Theatre (located inside Riverside Church, 91 Claremont Ave at 120th Street)
"Photography & Medicine: Critical and Creative Perspectives" Symposium
Date: Thursday, October 1, 2009
Time: 2:30-6pm
Location: Teleconference Lecture Hall, Alexander Library
169 College Avenue, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick)
"Congo in Harlem" Film Festival
Dates: October 1 through October 24, 2009
Time: 2:00pm
Location: Maysles Cinema, 343 Lenox Avenue, New York, NY
SIPA Pan-African Network African Cultural Night
Date: Thursday, October 8, 2009Time: 6:30pm-9:00pm
Location: International Affairs Building, 6th floor lounge
Film Screening of Min Ye´ (Tell Me Who You Are), Directed by Souleymane Cisse´
With a Q&A with the director moderated by Martin Scorsese to followDate: Thursday, October 8, 2009
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Directors' Guild DGA Theatre, 110 W. 57th Street New York, NY
Drug-Resistant TB and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa: Human Rights, Evidence, and the Public Good
Date: Thursday, October 8, 2009
Time: 6:30 – 8:00pm, Light reception to follow
Location: Pless Hall Lounge - 82 Washington Square East (entrance is on Washington Place)
Dates: Friday, October 9; Thursday October 22; Monday, November 2; Monday, November 16; Thursday, December 10
Locations: Various
ECOGRAM II: Architecture for a Crowded Planet Conference, October 12-15, 2009
Monday, October 12, 2009
Invisible Cities. Innovation and Complexity in Informal Settlements
Time: 6:30 - 8:30pm
Location: Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Informal Urban Economies in the Global South
Time: 6:30 - 8:30pm
Location: Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
"Community Healing in Sierra Leone": A first-person account by John Caulker, Sierra Leonean and executive director of Forum on Conscience and Fambul Tok.
Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: The Tank, 354 W. 45 St., between 8 & 9 Aves.
The Tenth Annual UNESCO Chair & Institute of Comparative Human Rights
Conference: "Human Rights and Health"
Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Time: 9:00 A.M.
Location: University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269
"Corruption, the ANC and South Africa's Uncertain Future" by Andrew Feinstein
Date: Tuesday, October 20
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: NYU, King Juan Carlos Center, Room 324
Black Renaissance Noire Fall 2009/Winter 2010 Issue Release
Date: Friday, October 23, 2009
Time: 7:00 - 9:00pm
Location: Institute of African American Affairs, New York University, 41 East 11th Street, 7th floor
"Female Circumcision: A Multi-Level Dialogue on a Multi-Dimensional Issue" Film Screening and Panel
Date: Monday, October 26, 2009
Time: 6:00 pm - 9:00pm
Location: Room 707, Columbia University School of International & Public Affairs
"African Women and Bronx Art"
Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Room 103, Freeman Hall, Fordham University, Rose Hill Campus
Protection of Civilians in UN Operations: What Does It Mean, What Does It Take?
Date: Wednesday October 28, 2009
Time: 6:00 – 8:00pm
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 1501
John Brown, Slavery, and the Legacies of Revolutionary Violence in Our Own Time: A Conference Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Harpers Ferry Raid Gilder Lehrman Center's 11th Annual International Conference
Date: October 29-31, 2009
Locations: Thursday, October 29, William L. Harkness Hall, Room 201 (Sudler Hall), 100 Wall Street (Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut)
Friday and Saturday, October 30-31, Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue (Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut)
A Special Halloween Event: "Power & Privilege in Anansi Storytelling"
Date: Saturday, October 31, 2009
Time: 1pm-3pm
Location: 552 West 114th Street and Broadway, Columbia University Intercultural Resource Center
Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars: Free Film Screening and Q&A with Zach Niles, Filmmaker and Band Co-Manager
Date: Thursday, November 5, 2009
Time: 6:15pm - 8:30pm
Location: Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs, Room 413
Helen Pond McIntyre '48 Lecture: "Should Religious Ethics Matter to Feminist Politics?" Presented by Saba Mahmood
Date: Thursday, November 5, 2009
Time: 6:30 pm
Location: James Room, 4th Floor Barnard Hall, Barnard College
Peace through Development: Columbia University's Darfur Initiative
Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Time: 12:00-1:00pm
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 901
Book Talk with Uwem Akpan, SJ, Author of Say You're One of Them
Date: Wedneday, November 11, 2009
Time: 4:30-6:00 pm
Location: New York Theological Seminary Interfaith Center (event to be held in the Cafeteria), 475 Riverside Drive New York, NY 10115
"Iron Ladies of Liberia" Film Screening
Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Time: 8:10p.m.
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 413
17th Annual African Diaspora Film Festival
Dates: Friday, November 17 through Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Location: Various
"Children on the Front Line": An Evening With Ishmael Beah
Date: Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
Time of Panel: 6:00p.m.-8:00p.m.
Location: Faculty House- Columbia University, 64 Morningside Drive, MC2301, New York, NY 10027
TEDtalks: Screening and Moderated Discussion
Date: Wednesday, November 18
Time: 7:00 - 8:00pm
Location: Horace Mann Hall, Room 150 (Teachers College)
Growing up with/in Zimbabwe: Living & learning in the postcolony
Date: Thursday, November 19, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 2:00pm
Location: Private Dining Room, Grace Dodge Ground Floor (Teachers College)
"Trauma as a Political Resource: What Victims Do With the Injuries of their Soul" A talk by Didier Fassin
Date: Monday, November 23, 2009
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Location: Maison Française, Buell Hall, East Gallery
Council on Foreign Relations Fall 2009 Academic Conference Call
Date: Thursday, December 3, 2009
Time: 12:00 - 1:00pm (EST)
Film screening: "All the World's a Stage"
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: Teacher College at Columbia University, Cowin Center
First Annual Cote d'Ivoire Diversity Week Festival
Date: Saturday, December 12, 2009
Time: 5:00 - 9:00pm
Location: Aaron Davis Hall, in New York, NY
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