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Sayantani DasGupta profiled by Columbia Spectator
Apr 16, 2026 | Achievements

The Caste Pod – ICLS Director Anu Rao featured on first episode
Apr 15, 2026 | Topics of Interest

Ambedkar Initiative Launches Zine: “A Speculative Map of New York”
Apr 15, 2026 | Topics of Interest

Dennis Tenen receives Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award
Mar 19, 2026 | Achievements

ICLS heads “Animalia” film event at Maison Française
Feb 17, 2026 | Topics of Interest

UPCOMING EVENTS

Apr. 23 2026

In Celebration of Mahasweta Devi’s Centenary – “Talking Writing”
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Apr. 30 2026

“All Men Are Strangers”: The Failure of Peripatetic Rulership and the Birth of the Private Self
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Global Racisms, Cold War Humanism, and the Imagination of Just Futures

Étienne Balibar Prize in Cultural and Political Thought

Increasing COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence

Trans/Formations of Arabic Literary Theory

Global Language Justice

Bandung Humanisms

Ambedkar Initiative

Humanities Connections: Medicine, Literature and Society

A Safer Online Public Square

Columbia’s Group for Experimental Methods in the Humanities

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