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Recorded February 1, 2013 at the Miller Theatre, Columbia University Daniel Barenboim and Members of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra perform: P. Boulez: Mémoriale P. Boulez: Messagesquisse K. Azmeh: “Prayer, a tribute to Edward Said“ F. Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major D.667, "The Trout" This event is the first in a series of activities at Columbia University in 2013 remembering Edward W. Said on the 10th anniversary of his passing. Co-sponsored by the Department of English and...

Recorded February 1, 2013 at Columbia University. A panel discussion on Edward W. Said's Music, featuring: Kinan Azmeh(a former member of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra), Stathis Gourgouris (Columbia University), Ara Guzelimian(The Julliard School), Ilham Khuri-Makdisi(Northeastern University), and Michael Steinberg(Brown University.) Part of a series of events remembering Edward W. Said in the tenth anniversary of his passing.

Recorded February 1, 2013 at the Miller Theatre, Columbia University A conversation between Maestro Daniel Barenboim and Ara Guzelimian(Provost and Dean of The Julliard School)about Edward W. Said and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. This event was the first in a series of activities at Columbia University in 2013 remembering Edward W. Said on the 10th anniversary of his passing. A 7pm conversation between Daniel Barenboim and Ara Guzelimian (Dean and Provost, The Juilliard School) will...

Panelists Steven Lukes is Professor of Sociology at New York University, and teaches political and social theory. Nadia Urbinati is Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory and Hellenic Studies. She is a political theorist who specializes in modern and contemporary political thought and the democratic and anti-democratic traditions.

Recorded on November 28, 2012 at Columbia University. The Institute for Comparative Literature and Society presents a talk by Dimitris Papanikolaou, University Lecturer in Modern Greek Studies, University of Oxford, and Visiting Fellow, Remarque Institute, NYU. This event is co-sponsored by the Program in Hellenic Studies. Dimitris Papanikolaou engages with recent cultural work produced in Greece in the context of (and as a response to) the current economic and socio-political crisis –...

"In any case, we know only that if there is a really socialist governmentality, then it is not hidden within socialism and its texts. It cannot be deduced from them. It must be invented." Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: 94 This colloquium brings together five organizers and radical thinkers from different corners of the planet who will address the question of Occupy, the Left and the new governmentality. Brief presentations will be followed by a discussion open to the general...

Recorded October 19, 2012 at the Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University. Giacomo Marramao discusses his new book The Passage West: Philosophy After the Age of the Nation State. He will be introduced by Jean L. Cohen and Étienne Balibar. Giacomo Marramao is a Professor of Political and Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Rome III and Director of the Fondazione Basso. His publications also include Kairos: Towards an Ontology of Due Time and La passione del...

Recorded November 19, 2012 at Columbia University. In the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, television icon of the North American religious right, Reverend Jerry Falwell, made a guest appearance on the Christian Broadcasting Network's 700 Club in which he claimed that feminists, among others, were at least partially to blame for ‘God’s wrath descending on America’. As outrageous as Falwell’s remarks may have been, they made an explicit...

Presented at ICLS at Columbia University on March 20, 2012. Minata Koné writes: Mahatma Ghandi wrote about Indian contribution to the Kenyan struggle in The Young India. The relationship between India and Kenya should be extended to the literary level. In that perspective, I have chosen to examine the work of radical thinker Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and acclaimed East African writer Ngugi Wa Thiong’o. Spivak’s Can the subaltern Speak? and what I term Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s “Trilogy” will be...

Moderated by Gergely Romsics of the Hungarian Cultural Center and with an introduction by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Co-sponsored by the Harriman Institute at Columbia University and the Hungarian Cultural Center. Hungarian Imre Kertész was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 for “writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history.” His conversation with literary historian Thomas Cooper that is presented here speaks...