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#AviAlpert on #freethought: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What we misunderstand in the debate over free speech | Avram Alpert
Freedom of speech requires freedom of thought – and the American political climate poses a serious threat to it
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October 23, 2025 at 9:32 PM
New #IRCPL series on Zoom! First event #AftabJassal and #RajbirSinghJudge 11/6 at noon: www.ircpl.columbia.edu/calendar/irc... #ColumbiaUP
IRCPL Authors In Conversation: New Directions in Religion, Culture, and Public Life — Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life
Topics at the intersection of religion, culture, and public life have taken on special urgency in our current moment of social and political upheaval. Join us for an online conversation with recent IR...
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October 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Big news! #RajbirSinghJudge's Prophetic Maharaja: Loss, Sovereignty, and the Sikh Tradition in Colonial South Asia is the Winner of the 2025 Best First Book in the History of Religions from the #AmericanAcademyofReligion (AAR). #ColumbiaUP
October 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Save the date***November 15 6 pm EST***Zoom book launch of #SantiagoZabala #SignsfromtheFuture at #IDSVA: www.e-flux.com/announcement... #ColumbiaUP
Signs from the Future. A Philosophy of Warnings by Santiago Zabala - Announcements - e-flux
Launch of Signs from the Future. A Philosophy of Warnings by Santiago Zabala.
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October 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Happy to announce that #JonathanJudaken's Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism and #MatthewSommer's The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China are #AHA award winners! #ColumbiaUP #CaelynCobb
October 15, 2025 at 7:31 PM
In the Plan Ahead if We Are Still Alive category: #MarkCladis on #TheDemocracyProject April 23, 2026. #ColumbiaUP
October 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Save the date—2:00 pm EST December 8 #MarkCladis with #JonathonKahn on #ThePhilosopher: www.tickettailor.com/events/theph... #ColumbiaUP
Select tickets – "On Radical Romanticism": Mark Cladis in conversation with Jonathon Kahn – Zoom
"On Radical Romanticism": Mark Cladis in conversation with Jonathon Kahn – Zoom, Mon 8 Dec 2025 - Romanticism is often reduced to nostalgic pastoralism and solitary contemplation of the sublime. But a...
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October 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Announcing #SunilaKalé and #ChristianNovetzke at #KulaYogaProject (481 Broadway, NYC), 6:30 pm 10/20/25 discussing #TheYogaofPower and yoga’s integral political relevance! #ColumbiaUniversityPress
October 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Friends in NY near #ColumbiaUniversity: don’t miss #DanielWyche in conversation with #BernardHarcourt at #BookCulture TODAY at 7:00 pm: www.bookculture.com/event/112th-... #columbiauniversitypress
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October 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
News flash! #AdrianJohnston just won the 2024 Symposium book prize from the #CanadianSocietyforContinentalPhilosophy for his book #InfiniteGreed. #ColumbiaUP
October 2, 2025 at 8:27 PM
pleased to announce that #SharmanAptRussell's What Walks This Way: Discovering the Wildlife Around Us Through Their Tracks and Signs is the Winner of the #2025NewMexicoBookAwards in the category of Nature / Environment / Animals / Pets. Congrats, #MirandaMartin #columbiaUP
October 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Big news! #MaebhLong and #MatthewHayward's The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonization, Radical Campuses, and Modernism is the Winner of the 2025 #ModernistStudiesAssociation Book Prize! Congrats, #PhilipLeventhal #columbiauniversitypress
September 30, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Fascinating interview with #ArthurBradley on #AmericanPhilosophicalAssociation blog:

blog.apaonline.org/2025/08/22/r...
Recently Published Book Spotlight: Staging Sovereignty: Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy
Arthur Bradley is Professor of Comparative Literature in the School of Arts at Lancaster University. His most recent books are Unbearable Life: A Genealogy of Political Erasure (Columbia UP, 2019) and...
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September 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
By total accident I just saw this fantastic interview with #JehanneDubrow on @publicbooks.bsky.social!

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Frivolity Is Not Unserious - Public Books
“When we try to write about trauma, no matter what the trauma we wish to explore, it’s the poet’s job to do their homework.”
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September 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Where Minouche Shafik ended up: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Blame migrants, or blame the rich? That’s the populist divide in Britain’s politics now | Gaby Hinsliff
Taxing the ultra-rich may be a vote winner, but it’s just as important to shift the conversation away from Reform’s immigration doom loop, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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September 2, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Hey @avramalpert.bsky.social nice to see you in @theguardian.com again!
September 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Two fantastic new YouTube videos on #TheYogaofPower by #SunilaKale#ChristianNovetzke: @columbiaup.bsky.social
Keen on Yoga: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rtpm...

Yogic Studies: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qn2...
The Yoga of Power: Yoga as Political Thought and Practice in India
YouTube video by Keen on Yoga
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August 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Columbia author #CarloInvernizziAcetti in www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @columbiaup.bsky.social
Some Democrats want to use gerrymandering. That’s a bad idea | Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti
When a house is on fire, more fire won’t help
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August 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Smart take on #ThePassionofPedroAlmódovar by #JamesMiller in #LosAngelesReviewofBooks: lareviewofbooks.org/article/dres... @columbiaup.bsky.social
Dress It Up with Reality | Los Angeles Review of Books
Amelia Anthony aims to separate the art from the artist while reading James Miller’s “The Passion of Pedro Almodóvar: A Self-Portrait in Seven Films.”
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August 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Happy to announce that #AlbertoSiani's cup.columbia.edu/book/landsca... won the 2025 International Original Work Award from the Italian Society for Aesthetics.
Landscape Aesthetics | Columbia University Press
Winner, 2025 International Original Work, Italian Society for AestheticsThe notion of landscape typically seems innocuous, associated with leisure and contem... | CUP
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July 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Huge congratulations to #NeenaMahadev on her new position at #DukeUniversity in #ReligiousStudies!
July 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Another rave review of #StagingSovereignty by #ArthurBradley in #TextualPractice: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/33BBH...
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June 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Rave review in #TheaterCultureandSociety of #StagingSovereignty by #ArthurBradley: www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/review-...
Review: Arthur Bradley, ‘Staging Sovereignty: Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy’ — Theory, Culture & Society | Global Public Life
Reviewed by K. Daniel Cho
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June 9, 2025 at 1:58 PM
If you’re in Toronto on June 10 (and even if you’re not—it’s also online) don’t miss #Dr.MuhannadAyyash discuss his new book: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/file:///Users/wl2003/Documents/Dr.%20Ayyash-Panel-TMU%20(1).pdf
June 2, 2025 at 6:36 PM
#ThomasWinn on the #SantiagoZabala exhibition #TheGreatestEmergency in the @stanforduniversity.bsky.social digital salon #Arcade: shc.stanford.edu/arcade/inter... @columbiaup.bsky.social
Reflections on Santiago Zabala’s Exhibition "The Greatest Emergency" | Stanford Humanities Center
Santiago Zabala’s curated exhibition “The Greatest Emergency,” presented at the renowned Círculo de Bellas Artes (CBA) in Madrid this past winter, featured ten significant works of art by ten separate...
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May 31, 2025 at 8:30 PM