Coinciding with Human Rights Day 2022, a two day digital convention came about December 9-10, 2022 on the subject “Afterlives of Babri Masjid: Thirty Years Later. For contextual background on the Babri Masjid, see within the library catalog topics: “Babari Masjid (Faizabad, India)“ and “Communalism India Faizabad.” For consultant publications of the convention audio system, see: -Ahmad,…
Columbia College Libraries is happy to announce the launch of a brand new part of the: “New and Featured Books” within the Butler Library Lounge, Room 214. This show will now embody a set of circulating objects from our collections which might be curated round a subject of worldwide relevance. Show themes rotate each semester,…
Earlier than deciding to pursue greater research in international universities, a question that encroaches on college students is whether or not it’s the proper determination, whether or not will it’s a bonus in getting a level, and can learning abroad profit oneself. And for all these doubts, we are saying it’s a massive YES….
In at present’s interconnected and quickly evolving world, the crucial for younger youngsters to be taught concerning the various cultures, landscapes, and ecosystems throughout the globe has by no means been extra essential. From the bustling streets of Tokyo, the rock-hewn church buildings of Ethiopia, or the serene jellyfish-filled lake in Palau, our planet affords…
On Tuesday, August 29, 2023, the CUL Wikidata Group (Taylor Baker, Mollie Echeverria, Matthew Haugen, Kalliopi Mathios, Ryan Mendenhall, and Melanie Wacker) organized an in-person Wikidata edit-a-thon in Studio@Butler, which centered on collections with worldwide and/or multilingual content material, or these with attraction to worldwide audiences and students, in an effort to make them extra…
This week is the 75th anniversary of the Common Declaration of Human Rights. Fittingly, Columbia College and Barnard Faculty not too long ago hosted (from Nov. 27th by way of Dec. 8th, 2023) the Ambedkar Digital Bookmobile challenge designed by Smita Rajmane and Somnath Waghmare. This challenge paperwork and collects materials regarding singers of anti-caste songs…
Columbia College Libraries is happy to announce the launch of a brand new part of the: “New and Featured Books” within the Butler Library Lounge, Room 214. This show will embrace a set of circulating gadgets from our collections which might be curated round a subject of worldwide relevance. Show themes rotate each semester, and…
53 Elevate your hand when you’ve got full confidence in at the moment’s leaders. Now, increase your hand if you’re hopeful that the following technology can do a greater job. As educators, we are able to do extra than simply hope. We will work with our college students to assist them turn out to be…
Gaza Strip, Between 1950 and 1977. Library of Congress, Matson Photograph Service, photographer. https://www.loc.gov/merchandise/2019705547/. © UNRWA Destruction in northern Gaza, 2024, posted at this hyperlink: UN Information, https://information.un.org/en/story/2024/03/1147272 “The facility to relate, or to dam different narratives from forming and rising, is essential to tradition and imperialism, and constitutes one of many principal connections between…