What We Brought with Us is an exhibit featuring photographs of the things that Academy in Exile fellows took with them when fleeing, and most recently traveled to University of Cincinnati’s Philip M. Meyers Jr. Memorial Gallery.
Rosinka Chaudhuri: On Cultural Studies, Her Role in CHCI, and the Location of Thought
An interview with Rosinka Chauduri, Professor and Director of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Chaudhuri explores her perspectives on academia within the Global South, on pedagogy, and her relationship with CHCI.
Anupama Rao on Interdisciplinarity, the Conceptions of Race and Caste, and Global Racisms
An interview with Anupama Rao, Professor of History and MESAAS (Middle East, South Asia, Africa Studies) at Columbia University and Barnard College and the Director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. We discussed her research, pedagogy, the Ambedkar Initiative, and her work as a 2023 Global Humanities Institute awardee for the current project "Global Racisms, Cold War Humanism, and the Imagination of Just Futures”. In our interview Rao discussed interdisciplinarity, the work of ICLS, and the thinking around global racisms. What follows is a lightly edited version of our conversation.
Creating Care and Space in Humanities Administration: Katharine Wallerstein
Aaron Fai asks Katharine Wallerstein what is at stake in the current administration of humanities centers and institutes, and the near future of the newly regrouped network.
Critical Race Conversations at the Folger Shakespeare Library
An interview with Dr. Kathleen Lynch, Executive Director of the Folger Institute, about the events that motivated the creation of the Critical Race Conversations series, its relationship to the Folger Institute’s mission of setting agendas and standards for research in the humanities, and the challenges involved in addressing both public and academic audiences.