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Judith Butler & Cornel West in Conversation

  • Low Library Rotunda, Columbia University (map)

Palestine & The Public Intellectual: Honoring Edward Said

Moderated by James Schamus, CEO of Focus Features & Professor of film, Columbia University

Introduction by Lila Abu Lughod, Director, Middle East Institute & Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University

Doors open at 6pm. 

Registration Required. Seating is on a first come, first-seated basis. 

Sponsored by the Center for Palestine Studies (CPS) with the generous support of the Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS) and the Anthropology Department, as well as the Middle East Institute (MEI), Heyman Center for the Humanities, Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWAG), Center for International History (CIH), Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER) and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS).