Preventing Palestine: A Political History From Camp David to Oslo
A book launch and conversation with Dr. Seth Anziska and Professor Rashid Khalidi
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Exile, Statelessness, and Migration: Playing Chess with History from Hannah Arendt to Isaiah Berlin
Seyla Benhabib, Nadia Urbinati, Jeremy Waldron, Bernard Harcourt, Adam Tooze

Wanted! Crime, Punishment, And The State in Habsburg Central Europe, C. 1750-1820

Please join the East Central European Center and the Harriman Institute for a talk with Dr. Stephan Sander-Faes, István Deák Visiting Professor at the Harriman Institute.

This talk features the more or less criminal deeds of individuals in the Austrian monarchy around the turn of the nineteenth century. Continuity and change, widely understood, as well as an increasingly activist central government were the hallmarks of the Josephi(ni)st state during an era characterised by the French Revolution (1789), the ensuing Napoleonic wars, the end of the Holy Roman Empire (1806), and the incipient industrialization.

Dr. Sander-Faes will investigate a largely overlooked source type: wanted notes from Lower Austria during these momentuous decades. In looking at the communication, circulation, and modification of the relevant media, he will also touch upon the construction of ‘the criminal’, what he or she looked like, and how state officials described these offenders. Analysis of these (written) wanted notes further enables us to consider three additional aspects: the diffusion of body knowledge among a mostly illiterate peasantry, which highlights how judicial-bureaucratic sources may be used to analyze shifts in media use, and, finally, allows for insights into the material culture of the rural underclasses.

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World Leaders Forum: Can the EU be True to its Values? First Vice-President of the European Commission H.E. Frans Timmermans

Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World 
Adam Tooze, Katharina Pistor, Charles F. Sabel, Tano Santos
Moderated by Mark Mazower

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New Books in the Arts & Sciences:
Celebrating Recent Work by Adam Tooze

Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
By: Adam Tooze

From a prizewinning economic historian, an eye-opening reinterpretation of the 2008 economic crisis (and its ten-year aftermath) as a global event that directly led to the shockwaves being felt around the world today.

In September 2008 President George Bush could still describe the financial crisis as an incident local to Wall Street. In fact it was a dramatic caesura of global significance that spiraled around the world, from the financial markets of the UK and Europe to the factories and dockyards of Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, forcing a rearrangement of global governance. In the United States and Europe, it caused a fundamental reconsideration of capitalist democracy, eventually leading to the war in the Ukraine, the chaos of Greece, Brexit, and Trump. 

It was the greatest crisis to have struck Western societies since the end of the Cold War, but was it inevitable? And is it over? Crashed is a dramatic new narrative resting on original themes: the haphazard nature of economic development and the erratic path of debt around the world; the unseen way individual countries and regions are linked together in deeply unequal relationships through financial interdependence, investment, politics, and force; the ways the financial crisis interacted with the spectacular rise of social media, the crisis of middle-class America, the rise of China, and global struggles over fossil fuels. 

Finally, Tooze asks, given this history, what now are the prospects for a liberal, stable, and coherent world order?

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Ten Years On: Reflections on the Economic and Political Legacy of the Financial Crisis for Europe

Join us for a conversation between Pierre Moscovici and Adam Tooze, followed by a Q&A.

Pierre Moscovici is the European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation, and Customs, and the former French Minister for Economy and Finance.

Adam Tooze is the Kathryn and Shelby Cullon Davis Professor of History and the Director of the European Institute.

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Event co-sponsored by The European Institute and The Columbia University Maison Française.

Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel & the Arab World
Maha Nassar (The University of Arizona)
Introduced by Rashid Khalidi (Department of History)

Maha Nassar is an Associate Professor in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Arizona. She specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of the modern Arab world. 

Her book, Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World, examines how Palestinian intellectuals in Israel have connected to global decolonization movements through literary and journalistic writings. This book has been shortlisted for the 2018 Palestine book Awards. 

Prof. Nassar is a 2018 Public vocies Fellow with the OpEd Project and a Policy Member of Al-Shabaka – The Palestinian Policy Network. 

Les Historiennes

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 6-7:30 P.M.

Marriage and Slavery in the Early Portuguese Atlantic World

Charlotte de Castelnau-L’Estoile, in conversation with Amy Chazkel and Natasha Lightfoot

Marriage played a crucial role in the making of a Catholic slavery-based society such as that of Brazil from the 16th century to the 19th century. Historical sources such as legal documents and petitions from slaves can shed light on the topic. In this Catholic world, marriage was accessible to slaves, in theory at least, without their master’s permission. The point is to understand how the ecclesiastical institution made possible some marital freedom within the slavery system and how slaves used this real but limited right to claim some area of autonomy. Attentive to slaves’ voices, this lecture is an invitation to think about the functioning of the long-standing slavery-based Brazilian society, developed between Africa, America and Europe.

Charlotte de Castelnau is Professor of Early Modern History at the Université de Paris 7 – Diderot.  Her research interests include the history of slavery and the history of Catholicism in the modern era.

Amy Chazkel is Associate Professor of History at CUNY Graduate Center. Natasha Lightfoot is Associate Professor of History at Columbia.

Event co-sponsored by the Columbia Maison Française and the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities.  Made possible with support from the Institut Français.

Les Historiennes – Biography and the Social Sciences: the Case of Claude Levi-Strauss

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 6-7:30 P.M.

Biography and the Social Sciences: the Case of Claude Lévi-Strauss

Emmanuelle Loyer, in conversation with Emmanuelle Saada and Camille Robcis

In French, with English translation

Biography, a genre which has long been considered illegitimate as historiography, can be considered today as a laboratory for the writing of the social sciences, including, paradoxically, a way of understanding the social sciences themselves.  Drawing on her recently published, critically acclaimed biography of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Emmanuelle Loyer discusses Lévi-Strauss through the double lenses of biography and the social sciences.

Emmanuelle Loyer is Professor of Contemporary History at Sciences Po Paris. Her books include Paris à New York, Intellectuels et artistes français en exil, 1940-1947 ; Mai 68 dans le texte; and Lévi-Strauss, for which she won the Prix Femina in 2015.  It is being released in English translation as Lévi-Strauss: A Biography by Wiley in October 2018.

Emmanuelle Saada is Professor of French and History at Columbia.

Camille Robcis is Associate Professor of French and History at Columbia.

Event co-sponsored by the Columbia Maison Française and Alliance Program.  Event made possible with support from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy

Restating Orientalism: A Critique of Modern Knowledge

Making Art, Making Meaning in 15th-Century Flanders: 

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