

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Keynote Roundtable: Contours of Thought
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 16 Apr, 2026 at 05:00 pm – Thu, 16 Apr, 2026 at 06:30 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: A public panel discussion for the symposium "Contours of Thought: The Humanities and the Possibilities of Anti-Discipline"About this EventIf you are a Columbia/Barnard affiliate with campus access, please use your Columbia/Barnard email when registering.Each attendee must have their OWN registration and email address.Registration for external guests closes at 4PM on April 15. Registration will automatically close at that time. Columbia/Barnard affiliates may register at the door.The symposium will bring together scholars working across and beyond Middle East and North Africa studies to explore how discursive fields are constituted, and to ask what becomes possible when we read across and against established disciplinary and regional boundaries. Rather than simply juxtaposing area studies frameworks (e.g., Syria or Palestine), we aim to theorize “the regional” anew. This conversation began as an exchange around Syro-Palestine, reflecting on how regional fields—particularly those of Lebanon, Turkey, Tunisia, and Algeria—have been positioned in relation to the Question of Palestine. This positioning has tended to circumscribe the terrain of inquiry, foreclosing other narratives, epistemologies, and questions. Our symposium aims to explore a conceptual vocabulary that resists colonial inheritances and disciplinary segmentation, and that reimagines scholarly methods through forms of relation not yet captured by dominant frameworks.The two-day program will include a Thursday evening keynote panel featuring four speakers, open to the public and the Columbia community, followed by three closed-door sessions on Friday with a cohort of invited scholars.THURSDAY KEYNOTE ROUNDTABLE SPEAKERSNadia Abu El-HajProfessor of Anthropology, Columbia University &amp; Barnard CollegeKhaled FuraniProfessor of Anthropology, Tel Aviv UniversityUssama MakdisiProfessor of History, University of California, BerkeleyHelga Tawil-SouriAssociate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York UniversitySYMPOSIUM CO-ORGANIZERS:Aamer IbraheemAssistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis, and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia UniversityAdrien ZakarAssistant Professor of Middle East Studies and the History of Science and Technology, University of TorontoEsmat ElhalabyAssistant Professor in History, University of TorontoIheb GuermaziThe Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia UniversityPlease email disability@columbia.edu to request disability accommodations. Advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs. This event will be recorded. By being present, you consent to the SOF/Heyman using such video for promotional purposes.
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## Event venue details

- **city**: New York
- **state**: NY
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Heyman Center for the Humanities
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- **full address**: Heyman Center for the Humanities, East Campus Residence Hall, New York, United States

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  - **A:** Thu, 16 Apr, 2026 at 05:00 pm (-04:00)
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