Colonial ambitions spawned imperial attitudes, theories, and practices that remain entrenched within botany and across the life sciences. Banu Subramaniam, an interdisciplinary plant biologist and Luella LaMer Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Wellesley College, draws on fields as disparate as queer studies, Indigenous studies, and the biological sciences to explore the labyrinthine history
Legacy of Blood explores the afterlife of the two most extreme manifestations of tsarist antisemitism—pogroms and blood libels—in the Soviet Union, from the Revolution of 1917 to the early 1960s.
We invite you for a conversation with James Q. Whitman, Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale Law School; Jed Shugerman, professor of law at Fordham University; and Magda Teter, Shvidler Chair in Judaic Studies, about Whitman's book Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law.
The IIHA is hosting an exciting upcoming event, "Tackling the Complexity of the Yemeni Crisis" on April 24th at 6pm at the Fordham Law School. Our very own Innovation Fellow, Giulio Coppi will be sharing his experience as a humanitarian. Also speaking are human rights defender Radhya al-Mutawakel and activist/fellow-in-residence at Columbia Law, Waleed Alhariri.
Speaker: Professor Joel K. Goldstein, Professor of Law, Saint Louis University School of Law, author: The White Sponsor: Feerick Center for Social Justice.
Speaker: Luca Matone, PhD, adjunct associate research scientist in the Columbia University astrophysics laboratory, will discuss the recent observation of a black hole merger by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO). Sponsored by the Department of Natural Sciences and the Science Club.
