Four years after publishing our digital critical edition, Secrets of Craft and Nature, we are thrilled to share its Research and Teaching Companion! These resources and tools help bring history to life in any classroom. teaching640.makingandknowing.org

In fall 2024, CSS and Making And Knowing Project hosted expert textile dyers Bertha Estrada Huipe and Mateo Rodriguez Estrada from Ahuirán, Mexico. Learn more about their decades of experience and experimentation in our new video! youtu.be/95KdMq72SXk

'American Idol' and 'Shark Tank' are significantly influencing how Americans think about the economy, according to this eye-opening study from Eunji Kim. It's a troubling assessment of propaganda in pop culture. Princeton University Press buff.ly/4brl2Bb

The authors find that declines in r* reduce trend output and propose a model of liquidity scarcity as an explanation. Just Accepted new paper by Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé and Martín Uribe zurl.co/rLVTi

On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank talk to David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz about their new book, BUILDING THE WORLDS THAT KILL US: DISEASE, DEATH AND INEQUALITY IN AMERICAN HISTORY. buff.ly/kQfDF5d #ListenUP #PublicHealth

The Cambridge Companion to Ottoman History is now out! Edited by Dr. Alexis Wick, this essential guide features cutting-edge research from the new generation of Ottomanists and explores diverse methods and approaches to studying Ottoman history. bit.ly/4f9uOI9

🧵 How do criminal organizations expand to strong states? My paper in Journal of Politics @[email protected] explains how mafias successfully moved to Northern Italy—by striking deals with local actors and exploiting migrant labor. Thread: ⬇️

Professor of Anthropology Rosalind Morris was interviewed for a recent episode of the Conflict & Development in Africa podcast where discussed illegal mining, migration, and state accountability in South Africa. buff.ly/P43WR1e

Friday, March 28 10:00am-6:30pm Social Study of Disappearance Lab presents Disappearance in Syria: A Moment of Truth Registration required disappearance-in-syria.eventbrite.com Co-presented by Columbia Center for Political Economy, Incite Institute at Columbia University, ISERP Further details below:

Monday, March 24 5:30pm-7:00pm chris elliott presents: Theorizing Liberation: Third Worldism and the Legacy of Gary Okihiro at CSER RSVP and further information below

ICYMI: the first plenary of Center for Justice's 2025 Beyond the Bars conference is available to view here: youtube.com/watch?v=34LLaV… Plenary #1: Healing & Rest in These Political Times & Beyond with Esperanza Martell, Cara Page, & Vincent Duarte Pinedo.

Don't miss Professor Kim Phillips-Fein on April 24th at LaGuardia Community College, where she will present on her book "Fear City: New York's Financial Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics," for which she was awarded the 2025 Fiorello LaGuardia Book Prize.

Next Tuesday, April 1, at 4:00pm Harriman Institute Visiting Assistant Professor Serhiy Bilenky will present: "Ukraine Between Empire and Nation, 1772-1917: Lessons for Today" moderated by Mark Andryczyk Registration required by 4:00pm on March 31 ow.ly/NZlp50VnGnF

📢 #EdWorkingPapers: College isn’t just a student investment—it reshapes family finances, affecting parents’ debt, borrowing decisions, and credit scores. 🔍 Authors: Palaash Bhargava, Sandy Black, Jeff Denning, Robert Fairlie, & Oded Gurantz 📄 buff.ly/wlKC2fX

Este viernes a las 6PM se abre al público la muestra "En memoria del barrio", en que se expone el diezmo de la juventud que han sufrido los barrios de Zacatecas y Guadalupe, así como la forma en que los barrios recuerdan a quienes ya no están.

James Y. Chu, w/ Jan G. Voelkel and Michael N. Stagnaro, is an equal lead author/organizer of a research article in the Interventions section of Science Magazine "Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity" science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Happening this evening, April 2, from 6:30pm-8:00pm

Registration is now open for the Lemann Dialogue 2025! Presented by ILAS | Columbia University in collab with DRCLAS @ Harvard, LemannCenterStanford, the Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies at UniversityofIllinois, and Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies, Columbia Univ. More information and details available here: eventbrite.com/e/lemann-dialo…

Today, 4/8 As part of the Borton-Mosley Distinguished Lecture Series, Harriman Institute & WEAI present: The Cold War, Russia-China Relations, and the Making (and Unmaking?) of Southeast Asia ft Bilahari Kausikan, @CooleyonEurasia, & Andrew Nathan ow.ly/SHku50VrF1E

Professor of Anthropology Rosalind C. Morris was interviewed about her new book, Unstable Ground: The Lives, Deaths, and Afterlives of Gold in South Africa, in a piece for @columbia news: buff.ly/U8UKpVf