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Borderlines JournalCassettes and mass culture in EgyptIn our third conversation here at the Borderlines series History Sounds, Andrew Simon tells us about the history of cassette culture in Egypt from the 1970s through the 1990s and beyond, and gives us a chance to listen to some of the music that started to fill cassettes.Make sure to check out Andrew’s 2022 book Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt published by Stanford University Press and forthcoming in Arabic with Dar El Shorouk (more below).You can listen to the conversation also on Spotify and Apple Music.The so...
2023-01-2546 min
CBRL SoundBRISMES – CBRL mentoring event: Getting published in an academic journal I Panel I April 2022The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) together with the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) are pleased to announce their second joint mentoring webinar for our members. Targeting postgraduate students and early career researchers, these on-line events offer practical advice and support from specialists, equipping the next generation of Middle East scholars with the insights needed to get ahead in their research and careers.
This event features a line-up of academic journal editors from diverse disciplinary backgrounds providing insight and feedback on the process of getting published in today’s competitive academic environment.
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2022-11-101h 14
Borderlines JournalRadio and resistance in AfghanistanIn the second conversation of the Borderlines series History Sounds, we learn about the history of radio broadcasting, live performances, and resistance in Afghanistan in the 1960s and 1970s with doctor Mejgan Massoumi.Check out Massoumi’s recent article “Soundwaves of Dissent: Resistance Through Persianate Cultural Production in Afghanistan” in the Iranian Studies journal.You can also listen to the conversation on Spotify and Apple.Coming up: Andrew Simon will tell us about cassettes and mass culture in Egypt.The songs and recordings you heard during the conversation are:* History So...
2022-11-0231 min
Borderlines JournalThe recording industry in North AfricaIn the first conversation of the Borderlines series History Sounds, we learn about the history of the recording industry in North Africa from the colonial period through decolonization with professor Christopher Silver.Check out Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa and Gharamophone: Preserving North Africa’s Jewish musical past, one record at a time.Coming up: Mejgan Massoumi will tell us about radio and popular culture in modern Afghanistan.The songs and recordings you heard during the conversation are:* History Sounds Intro: Huna al-Qahira, Munir Murad ( هنا القاهرة - محدش شاف) * Arjaa leblad...
2022-07-0741 min
High TheoryTheory from the South with BorderlinesOlga Verlato and Antara Chakrabarti, contributing editors at Borderlines, talk about the concept of theory from the south, which critiques the notion that theory originating from the global north exhausts the possibilities of critical theoretical understanding.Olga Verlato is a PhD candidate at New York University in History and Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, and a Contributing Editor for the Middle East at Borderlines. She works on the modern history of Egypt and the Mediterranean, focusing on the impact of multilingual practices and language ideologies on politics, society, and culture.Antara Chakrabarti is a Doctoral Stu...
2022-06-1524 min
Borderlines JournalEconomies, life and otherwise: Elizabeth Povinelli in Conversation with Amit BaishyaIn this podcast organized by Borderlines South Asia editor Rishav Thakur, Professor Amit Baishya poses questions to Elizabeth Povinelli —whose works have influenced his own writing — to draw out and think through some of these themes of mutual interest. Elizabeth Povinelli is the Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies in Columbia University in the City of New York. Her research has focused on developing a critical theory of late settler liberalism, that would support an anthropology of the otherwise. This thinking has unfolded across several books, numerous essays, and a thirty-five year long collaboration with her...
2021-04-191h 20
Borderlines JournalPart II: "Where is the working class? It's all over the world today": Jairus Banaji in conversation with Sheetal Chhabria and Andrew LiuThis is the second part of the conversation between Jairus Banaji, Sheetal Chhabria and Andrew Liu. The following conversation took place in December 2020. On the occasion of Jairus Banaji’s latest publication, A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism, Sheetal Chhabria and Andrew B. Liu spoke to contextualize his work within a multi-decade trajectory of history, theory, and labor organization, across Europe and Asia. They noted the particular significance of an original intervention developed by Banaji in the 1970s, taking aim at the orthodox Marxist equation between capitalism and ‘free wage labor.’ Whereas the wage constitutes a particular ‘mode of exploitati...
2021-01-2949 min
Borderlines JournalPart I: "Where is the working class? It's all over the world today": Jairus Banaji in conversation with Sheetal Chhabria and Andrew LiuThe following conversation took place in December 2020. On the occasion of Jairus Banaji’s latest publication, A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism, Sheetal Chhabria and Andrew B. Liu spoke to contextualize his work within a multi-decade trajectory of history, theory, and labor organization, across Europe and Asia. They noted the particular significance of an original intervention developed by Banaji in the 1970s, taking aim at the orthodox Marxist equation between capitalism and ‘free wage labor.’ Whereas the wage constitutes a particular ‘mode of exploitation,’ he argued in 1977, ‘capitalism’ points toward an epochal ‘mode of production,’ which is more capacious and universal. The d...
2021-01-2254 min
Borderlines JournalAmbedkar Initiative Podcast Series - Episode 7Duration: 19:25In this episode of the Ambedkar Initiative's podcast series, Columbia College senior Yosan Alemu interviews Kyle Zarif on his work on Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association, as well as the affinities between Pan-Islamic and Pan-African colonial projects in interwar London and New York. Kyle is a student in the Dual MA/MSc in International History at Columbia and the London School of Economics, studying trade unionism in the British defense industry in the contexts of Thatcherism and arms exports to the Persian Gulf. The Ambedkar Initiative Podcast Series is a project...
2021-01-2119 min
Borderlines JournalAmbedkar Initiative Podcast Series - Episode 6Duration: 17:09In this episode of the Ambedkar Initiative’s podcast series, Columbia College graduate Augustus O’Connor interviews Columbia College junior Sam Needleman on his work this summer curating a narrative map of New York based on the Ambedkar Initiative team’s archival research. Sam studies History and Latin American and Iberian Cultures, with an interdisciplinary focus on the urban. Twentieth-century New York is one of his primary research interests.The Ambedkar Initiative Podcast Series is a project of the Ambedkar Initiative at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University, with support from the Of...
2021-01-0417 min
Borderlines JournalAmbedkar Initiative Podcast Series - Episode 5Duration: 15:56In this episode of the Ambedkar Initiative Podcast Series, recent Columbia College graduate Augustus O’Connor interviews classmate Tommy Song on his work this summer creating the Ambedkar Digital Archive, which will make all the documents from his and others' research thus far available to the public. Tommy graduated from Columbia this past May, where he majored in history and political science. He has been working for the Ambedkar Initiative since last June, conducting archival research in several repositories for Dr. Ambedkar's letters, essays, and more. The Ambedkar Initiative Podcast Series is a project of...
2021-01-0415 min
Borderlines JournalAmbedkar Initiative Podcast Series - Episode 4Duration: 20:51In this episode of the Ambedkar Initiatives Podcast Series, Ph.D. student Rohini Shukla interviews Layla Varkey on her work this summer examining the reception of Gandhian politics in Black intellectual circles in the postwar period. Layla is a student in the Dual MA/MSc in International History at Columbia and the London School of Economics, studying 20th century histories of communism, gender and sexuality in Kerala.The Ambedkar Initiative Podcast Series is a project of the Ambedkar Initiative at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University, with support from the Office...
2021-01-0420 min
Borderlines JournalAmbedkar Initiative Podcast Series - Episode 3Duration: 13:16In this episode of the Ambedkar Initiative Podcast Series, Master's student Kyle Zarif interviews Rohini Shukla on her work this summer examining the experience of Indian students (including Ambedkar) as they shaped and were shaped by Columbia’s institutional and intellectual history. Rohini is a second-year Ph.D. student in Columbia’s Department of Religion, hailing from Pune, India. She is currently preparing to study the American Marathi Mission archives at The Burke Library. The Ambedkar Initiative Podcast Series is a project of the Ambedkar Initiative at the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Colu...
2021-01-0413 min
Borderlines JournalAmbedkar Initiative Podcast Series - Episode 2Duration: 13:52In this episode of the Ambedkar Initiative Podcast Series, Columbia College graduate Tommy Song interviews Augustus O’Connor on Gus’s experience annotating Ambedkar’s 1916 essay “Castes in India.” Gus paid close attention to the ways in which the contemporary social sciences affected and influenced Ambedkar’s thinking. Gus hails from Sewickley, Pennsylvania, and he graduated from Columbia College in May with a degree in English. He is particularly interested in post-conflict and postcolonial literature and theory. Gus was recently awarded a Fulbright, which will take him to Vietnam, where he will travel in January to teach Englis...
2021-01-0413 min
Borderlines JournalAmbedkar Initiative Podcast Series - Episode 1Duration: 18:02In this episode of the Ambedkar Initiative Podcast Series, Master's student Layla Varkey interviews Columbia College senior Yosan Alemu on Yosan’s experience annotating Ambedkar’s 1916 essay “Castes in India.” At Columbia, Yosan studies Comparative Literature, focusing on the African Diaspora and Blackness as a category for thought and thinking. She was drawn to Ambedkar’s analysis of caste in relation to race, gender, and sexuality. In her annotations of “Castes in India,” she pays close attention to Ambedkar’s analysis of casteism through the lens of gender and sexuality, as well as the notion of ‘surplus man and wo...
2021-01-0418 min
Borderlines JournalAmbedkar Initiative Podcast Series - IntroductionIn this introduction to the Ambedkar Initiative Podcast Series, Barnard College senior Khadija Hussain interviews History Professor Anupama Rao and recent Columbia College graduate Priya Pai about what the Ambedkar Initiative seeks to accomplish with this series. Professor Rao, who founded the Ambedkar Initiative, is Associate Professor of History and MESAAS; Associate Director, ICLS; and Senior Editor of Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Priya Pai, who has been co-leading the digital efforts of the Ambedkar Initiative, graduated from Columbia in May with a degree in Computer Science and English Literature, with a focus on...
2021-01-0420 min
Pedagogy of Integrity with Diba Tuncer#5 Dengbêjî: Voice and Education with Dr. Marlene SchäfersVoice/Track Support: Plamen Mirchev
Content Feedback: Silvena Garelova
The 5th Episode of Pedagogy of Integrity Podcast is about the topic of learning and teaching to comprehend and to explain a specific culture: Dengbêjî
Our guest is Dr. Marlene Schäfers
Marlene Schäfers is a social anthropologist and holder of a Newton International Fellowship awarded by the British Academy. Her research focuses on the impact of state violence on intimate and gendered lives, the politics of death and the afterlife, and the intersections of affect and politics. She spec...
2020-09-221h 08