Past Events

• Online Library Workshop on "International Studies"
  September 20, 2021, 12:00--1:30pm
  
• International Studies Research Workshop --- Online
  Monday, September 14, 2020, 12:00-1:30pm
  
• Documenting Human Rights Advocacy: An Open House with Archivists, Archives and Librarians
  October 20, 2017, 12:00-2:00pm
  Part of NYC Archives Week
  
• Documenting Human Rights Advocacy -- Open House, October 26, 2016, 12-2pm, Lehman Social Sciences Library Lobby, 420 W. 118th St., International Affairs Building
  --Part of NYC Archives Week   |    more info
• Event:   Spanish Fever: Stories by the New Spanish Cartoonists
  September 20, 2016
  6:00-8:30 PM
  
• Event:  "We Cannot Remain Silent"
  Life Stories of International Human Rights Activism
  January 27, 2016
  6:00-8:00p.m.
  The Burke Library Reading Room (3rd Floor)
  Union Theological Seminary, 3041 Broadway
• "Missionaries, Meshumadim, and Maskilim: An Entangled History of Christians, Jews, and Those in between in 19th-Century Europe"   David Ruderman, Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History, University of Pennsylvania  Annual Norman E. Alexander Lecture in Jewish Studies.
  Date: November 12, 6:00-8:30 p.m.
  follow link for more information.
• Event:  Social Media and the Quality of Freedom of Expression in Indonesia: Evidence from the Field
  Speaker:  Usman Hamid, Founder of the Indonesian branch of Change.org
  Date:  September 8, 12:10 p.m. -1:10 p.m.
  Location: 624 Kent Hall
  No RSVP required.
• Event: Second Annual South (and Southeast) Asian Studies Library Tour at Columbia University
  Date:  Monday, September 14^th, 2:30 pm.
  Location:  Meet at Global Studies, 309 Lehman Library (in the SIPA building), 420 West 118^th Street, New York, NY 10027
  [Presentation and tour 2:30 – 3:45 pm.; reception and snacks 3:45 – 4:30 pm.]  Contact Gary Hausman, South Asian Studies Librarian for more info.
• November 19, 2014.  Social Hall, Union Theological Seminary, 3041 Broadway, 6:00pm
  Behind the Biblical Story of Joseph, OR: The Divine Travel Agent, a lecture by Professor James Kugel, more info
  
• November 13, 2014. 523 Butler Library, 6:00pm
  Catalogue as Map in the Library of Ferdinand Columbus, talk by Prof. Seth Kimmell,  RBML Book History Colloquium
• October 9, 2014.  523 Butler Library, 12:30pm
  Archives in the Aftermath: Processing the Records of Human Rights Advocacy at the Center for Human Rights Documentation & Research
• October 6, 2014.  522/523 Butler Library 6:30pm
  Manuel Ramos Otero | Panel Discussion (RBML)
• June 8-29th, 2014, NEH Summer Institute
  America's East Central Europeans: Migration & Memory
• April 17, 2014, Visualizing Universalism:  The UNESCO Human Rights Exhibition, 1949-53  Symposium and Exhibit.  more info
  
• April 10, 2014,  Defying Injustice:  Lessons from Defeating Apartheid to the Arab Spring, An Interactive Dialogue among Activists and Scholars  more info
  
• December 9, 2013  6:15PM
  A Talk by Sharon Sliwinski, author of Human Rights in Camera, on the 1949 UNESCO Human Rights Exhibition.  More info
  602 Hamilton Hall
• December 3, 2013 12:30-2:00PM
  Forensics, Archives, and Transitional Justice in Guatemala
  A talk by María Carrera, 2013 Human Rights Advocate, and Kate Doyle of the National Security Archive
  Room 801, Institute of Latin American Studies, IAB Building
• November 12, 6:00pm, Butler Library Room 203:
  Selling Russia's Treasures:  The Soviet Trade in Naionalized Art, 1917-1938
• November 7-9, 2013
  Arabic Literature: Migration, Diaspora, Exile, Estrangement
• November 7, 2013, 6:15pm:
  Visual Culture of Human Rights, A Conversation with Thomas Keenan
• October 16, 2013, 6:00pm:
  How (and why) the Jews Invented Hollywood
• October 11, 2013, 8:30-7:00pm:
  Brazil: Amnesty, Transitional Justice and the Legacies of Dictatorship
• October 2, 2013, 6:15pm:
  The Human Rights Restoration-Revolution, a Lecture by Dr. Marco Duranti
• September 17, 2013, 6:00pm:
  Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, Panel with the Book Artists
• July16 - October 4, 2013 Exhibit
  Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here