Heyman Center Common Room
Institute for Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS)
The University in/and Crisis Working Group invites you to attend a symposium featuring research and activism by students at Barnard College, Teachers College, and Columbia University. Students will present work that adopts methods drawn from the field of “critical university studies,” and that draws on archives and repositories held on campus and across the Harlem neighborhood to investigate the enduring effects of social difference and spatial segregation in shaping histories of democratic education and mass intellectuality. The evening will culminate with a celebration with music and snacks.
Spearheaded by Professors Anupama Rao (Barnard College) and C. Riley Snorton (Columbia University), the University in/and Crisis Working Group probes, through reading meetings and public programs, the state of the university today and aims to contextualize it within longer histories of its entanglement with wider socioeconomic and political structures. The working group is an initiative of Columbia’s Center for the Study of Social Difference, the Barnard Center for Research on Women, and the Edmund W. Gordon Institute for Advanced Study at Teachers College.
