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“The power to narrate, or to block other narratives from forming and emerging, is very important to culture and imperialism, and constitutes one of the main connections between them.” Edward ...

https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/global-studies/2024/05/14/nakba-day-anniversary-2024-archives-libraries-memory-and-narrative/

Columbia University Libraries is pleased to announce the launch of a new component of the: “New and Featured Books” in the Butler Library Lounge, Room 214. This display will include a set of ...

https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/global-studies/2024/03/05/democracy-in-india/

This week is the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Fittingly, Columbia University and Barnard College recently hosted (from Nov. 27th through Dec. 8th, 2023) the Ambe...

https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/global-studies/2023/12/12/ambdekar-digital-bookmobile-project/

Thanks to a grant from the Columbia Libraries’ ADEI Program, colleagues at Columbia, Cornell, NYPL, Harvard and Princeton have compiled a 1,066-entry indexed checklist of print and electronic h...

https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/global-studies/2023/11/16/checklist-of-lgbtq-resources-from-eastern-europe/

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https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/global-studies/2023/10/25/open-access-week-2023-south-asia-resources/

On Tuesday, August 29, 2023, the CUL Wikidata Group (Taylor Baker, Mollie Echeverria, Matthew Haugen, Kalliopi Mathios, Ryan Mendenhall, and Melanie Wacker) organized an in-person Wikidata edit-a...

https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/global-studies/2023/09/18/wikidata-edit-a-thon/

  Columbia University Libraries is pleased to announce the launch of a new component of the: “New and Featured Books” in the Butler Library Lounge, Room 214. This display will now include a...

https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/global-studies/2023/09/11/literary-afro-futures/

Coinciding with Human Rights Day 2022, a two day virtual conference took place December 9-10, 2022 on the topic “Afterlives of Babri Masjid: Thirty Years Later. For contextual background on the...

https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/global-studies/2022/12/10/babri-masjid-afterlives-on-human-rights-day/

“Science, Nature and Beauty: Harmony and Cosmological Perspectives in Islamic Science” is an exhibit which showcases over 90 manuscripts, instruments and objects focused on the Islamic scienc...

https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/global-studies/2022/10/25/exhibit-on-islamic-science-on-display-at-the-rare-book-and-manuscript-library-october-18th-2022-march-3rd-2023/

A new exhibition is currently on view in Knox Hall, 2nd Floor Hallway, 606 West 122nd Street, New York. Open to Columbia affiliates only. Curated by Dr. Yuusuf Caruso, African Studies Librarian, ...

https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/global-studies/2022/10/18/hopes-and-dreams-of-modern-africa-1960-1965-selected-photographs-from-the-marc-evelyne-bernheim-collection/