During the Spring Semester, HIA is running a Clinic course with various guest speakers leading the sessions. This is a registered course, but we do want to host students who want to attend stand-alone sessions. If you are not registered for the course, but would like to attend individual sessions, please sign up here. You are required to sign up at least one week prior to the sessions, because of space constraints in the room. Details:
Each of these invited guests will lead two sessions where they will workshop the processes and guide the students on the group projects. In the first week of the course, the students will divide themselves into groups and begin preparing the group project which they will continue to work on throughout the semester.
Writer, Gaiutara Bahadur, author of Coolie Woman – a finalist for the UK’s prestigious Orwell Book Prize, for political writing that is artful, and won the 2014 Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Prize, awarded by scholars of the Caribbean to the best book about the Caribbean published in the previous three years.
Publisher and Senior editor and publisher, Andrew Hsiao, with Verso Books. Formerly the executive editor of The New Press and a staff writer for The Village Voice, he is the editor of The Verso Book of Dissent and the author of a deck of playing cards, Regime Change Begins at Home. He produces The Communique on WNYE 91.5FM and Asia Pacific Forum on WBAI 99.5FM in New York, and is the board chair of the Asian American Writers Workshop.
Journalist and Documentarian, Anjali Kamat, with Frontline Al-Jazeera. Kamat spent four years as a producer at “Democracy Now!”, spending 2011 covering the uprisings in Egypt and Libya. Her writings have appeared in several publications in the US and India. She has an MA in Near Eastern Studies from NYU and a post-graduate diploma from the Asian College of Journalism. Anjali is a book review editor at the Arab Studies Journal and on the editorial committee of the Middle East Research and Information Project.
Curator and Art Historian, Navina Najat Haidar, with The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The curator of the Islamic Galleries at The Met and author of Sultans of the South Arts of India’s Deccan Courts, 1323-1687.
Senior Analyst, Jean-Herve Jezequel, with International Crisis Group since March 2013. Based in Dakar, this role requires extensive research and advocacy on the prevailing political and security issues in the Sahel region including Niger and Mali, in order to work towards promoting stability, security and development. Jezequel was an Assistant Professor at the University of Bordeaux and as Researcher at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, also in Bordeaux. Prior to that he worked as a Visiting Professor, teaching History and African Studies at the Emory University in Atlanta, University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago.
Historian Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History. He taught history at Cambridge (Christ’s College), (1966-76) Oxford (Brasenose College) (1976-1980) and art history and history at Harvard (1980-1993) before coming to Columbia. His books have been translated into fifteen languages and include Patriots and Libeators: Revolution and Government in the Netherlands 1780-1813 (1977); Two Rothschilds and the Land of Israel (1979); The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age (1987); Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution (1989); Landscape and Memory (1995); Rembrandt’s Eyes (1999); the History of Britain trilogy (2000-2002); Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution (2006); and The Power of Art (2007).
Feb 2: Gaiutra Bahadur
Feb 9: Gaiutra Bahadur
Feb 16: Navina Haider
Feb 23: Navina Haider
Mar 2: Jezequel
Mar 9: Jezequel
Mar 23: Andrew Hsiao
Mar 30: Andrew Hsiao
April 6: Anjali Kamat
April 13: Anjali Kamat
April 20: Simon Schama
April 27: Simon Schama
May 4: Conclusions