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RECENT NEWS

Sayantani DasGupta’s Book an NYT Bestseller!
May 4, 2026 | Achievements

ICLS director Anu Rao interviewed for The Blue and White
May 1, 2026 | Topics of Interest

Spring 2026 ICLS PBK awards!
Apr 27, 2026 | Achievements

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

UPCOMING EVENTS

May. 5 2026

ICLS Senior Thesis Presentations
Lectures

CURRENT INITIATIVES

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

The Heyman Center for the Humanities, Room B-101

74 Morningside Drive

New York, NY, 10027

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