NEWS

Colombia University promotes Vietnamese studies program, initiated by Lien Hang Nguyen and John Phan.

May 17, 2022

Vietnam+ published an article about Columbia University introducing a Vietnamese studies program, initiated by Lien Hang Nguyen and John Phan.

Lien-Hang Nguyen has been elected onto the Board of Trustees of Fulbright University Vietnam (FUV).

May 16, 2022

Lien-Hang Nguyen has been elected onto the Board of Trustees of Fulbright University Vietnam (FUV).

Lien-Hang Nguyen met with the Prime Minister of Vietnam, PHAM Minh Chinh, on May 15th in an private event hosted by Vietnam Ambassador to the UN, DANG Hoang Giang. The ceremony, in which Prof. Nguyen gave a short speech to the PM, announced Vietnamese Studies at Columbia’s upcoming conferences in Hanoi and HCMC this summer.

May 16, 2022

Lien-Hang Nguyen met with the Prime Minister of Vietnam, PHAM Minh Chinh, on May 15th in an private event hosted by Vietnam Ambassador to the UN, DANG Hoang Giang. The ceremony, in which Prof. Nguyen gave a short speech to the PM, announced Vietnamese Studies at Columbia’s upcoming conferences in Hanoi and HCMC this summer.

After the Zeitenwende: Jürgen Habermas and Germany’s new identity crisis

May 16, 2022

Adam Tooze wrote “After the Zeitenwende: Jürgen Habermas and Germany’s new identity crisis” for The New Statesman.

Tracing the Romance Genre’s Radical Roots, from Derided “Sex Novels” to Bridgerton

May 16, 2022

Hilary Hallett published “Tracing the Romance Genre’s Radical Roots, from Derided “Sex Novels” to Bridgerton” in LitHub.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

may 2022

18may9:00 am- 11:00 amNINO-EOL Spring Lecture: Before Babel and After. Scriptures and Languages in the Ancient Near East (Marc Van De Mieroop)

19may4:30 pm- 7:30 pmReimagining Educational Work for Collective Freedom (Sarah Haley)

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Original artwork courtesy of Carmen L. Petit

A group of faculty at the University of Pittsburgh is convening a series of symposia and a study group entitled “Reimagining Educational Work for Collective Freedom: The Labor Strike as a Portal.” The interdisciplinary, globally-focused effort is a partnership between faculty members at the School of Education and the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, and received funding support from the Spencer Foundation.

The project involves:

Engaging in deep study, creating dialogue partnerships, and building potential for activism
Convening a symposium series with three gatherings for a public audience and study group participants
Conducting a student-focused study group that will meet monthly from May 2022 – December 2022

Symposium Series

The symposia are open to all and are designed for a global audience of anyone interested in organizing for freedom and/or reimagining educational praxes. Please click the links below to register.

May 19-20, 2022 – Symposium #1: “The longue durée of freedom work: Bridging history and the current moment through the agricultural mass strike”

Day One, Thursday, May 19, 2022
- 2:30-4:00 p.m. Eastern US, Study group
- 4:30-6:00 p.m. Eastern US, Keynote Dialogue: Sarah Haley & Damien Sojoyner, moderated, open to public through registration.
- 7:00 p.m. Eastern US, Study group dinner: Seminar participants with Sarah Haley, facilitated, open only to study group members
Day Two, Friday, May 20, 2022
- Noon-2:00pm Eastern US, Plenary: Keisha-Khan Perry & Ana Cristina da Silva Caminha, moderated, open to public through registration.
- 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Eastern US, Study group workshop: Seminar participants convene with Keisha-Khan Perry
- 4:30-6:00 p.m. Eastern US, Plenary: Damien Sojoyner & Yusef Omowale, moderated, open to public through registration.
- 6:30-7:30 p.m. Eastern US, Study group: convenes

September 22-23, 2022 – Symposium #2: “Women, gender, and labor: reframing the work and refusing femicide”

Day One, Thursday, September 22, 2022
- 4:00-6:00 p.m. Eastern US, Keynote Dialogue: Connie Wun & Arussi Unda moderated, open to public through registration
- 7:00 p.m. Eastern US, Dinner with Study Group: Arussi Unda and Las Brujas Del Mar
Day Two, Friday, September 23, 2022
- 2:00-4:00 p.m., Eastern US, Plenary Dialogue: TBA, moderated, open to public through registration
- 4:30-6:00 p.m., Eastern US, Plenary Dialogue: Connie Wun & TBA, moderated, open to public through registration
- 7:00 p.m. Eastern US, Dinner with Study Group: TBA

Late November/early December, TBD, Symposium #3

Study Group

Students and post-doctoral fellows may submit the online application to join the study group prior to the April 6, 2022 deadline.
The study group will participate in the symposium series and meet monthly from May – December 2022 as follows:
- May 23, 2022, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. (Eastern US)
- June 20, 2022, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. (Eastern US)
- July 25, 2022, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. (Eastern US)
- August 22, 2022, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. (Eastern US)
- September 19, 2022, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. (Eastern US)
- October 17, 2022, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. (Eastern US)
- November 14, 2022, Noon – 3 p.m. (Eastern US)
- December 12, 2022, Noon – 3 p.m. (Eastern US)

Project Background

The effort is shaped around two praxes of freedom core to multiple knowledge traditions: the study group and the dialectic.

[View Program Overview (PDF) for full background]

In her now oft-quoted essay, Arundhati Roy called on us to understand the pandemic as “a portal, a gateway between one world and the next” and to move through it deliberately, “with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it”.

Just months later, not far from where she penned those very words, Indian farmers, agricultural workers, and other laborers undertook the largest labor strike known to history—one that is ongoing.The labor strike itself, as form and function, is a portal of sorts. It is the agentive assertion of moving from one set of conditions through transformation to a future imagined by workers.

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(Thursday) 4:30 pm - 7:30 pm

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24may12:15 pm- 2:00 pmFrom Political Wife to Woman Politician: Frances Balfour in Parliament in the 1890s

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From Political Wife to Woman Politician: Frances Balfour in Parliament in the 1890s

Seminar Series Parliaments, Politics and People

Online- via Zoom
Susan Pedersen (Columbia University)

24 May 2022, 5:15PM – 7:00PM UK TIME
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Lady Frances Campbell, tenth child and fifth daughter of the landed politician the 8th Duke of Argyll, married Eustace Balfour, architect and youngest brother of A.J. Balfour and nephew of Lord Salisbury, in 1879. Frances’s father had been in every Liberal cabinet for two decades; her mother and grandmother had been important political hostesses – and she herself aspired to a life at the heart of politics. Her early ambitions were frustrated, not only because Eustace was not interested in a political career but still more because of the way the political system changed in the wake of the Third Reform Act. She adjusted to those changed circumstances first by promoting the career and acting as the “political wife” for her (then-unmarried) brother-in-law, later Chief Secretary for Ireland Gerald Balfour, but then by carving out a less dynastic and more individual political role. Between 1885 and 1905 Frances Balfour helped to found a number of women’s philanthropic and cross-party organizations (the Women’s Liberal Unionist Association, Travelers’ Aid, Freedom of Labour Defense), but she also became the women’s movement’s most effective parliamentary lobbyist and Millicent Fawcett’s right hand in the constitutionalist women’s suffrage cause. After 1906, suffrage would become a vibrant, popular and out-of-doors movement, but in the 1890s it relied on these more personal political connections. This paper uses the figure of Frances Balfour, arguably the most effective woman politician of the late-Victorian period, to track how women’s political roles and the political system more broadly changed in these decades.

Susan Pedersen is Morris Professor of British History at Columbia University, where she teaches British and international history. She is the author of Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State: Britain and France, 1914-1945 (1993), Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience (2004), and The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire (2015), which was awarded the 2015 Cundill Prize for Historical Literature. She is currently writing a book about marriage and politics in the Balfour family. She is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books.

The seminar will take the form of a question and answer session based on a pre-circulated paper. The paper will be available to download here and History of Parliament website two weeks prior to the seminar, and will be sent to everyone who has signed up to this event.

If you have any further questions, or you have not received a copy of the paper ahead of the seminar, please contact the conveners at seminar@histparl.ac.uk

We acknowledge that work commitments, caring responsibilities and time zones may make attendance at the seminar difficult. If you find that you can only attend part of the session, please contact the convenors and we will do our best to prioritise your involvement. Likewise, if you find that you are unable to attend you can submit a question to seminar@histparl.ac.uk and the convenors will put you in touch with the speaker.

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(Tuesday) 12:15 pm - 2:00 pm

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june 2022

1jun - 5julAll DayWomen & The Silent Screen: Women, Cinema, and World Migration

1jun6:00 pm- 7:30 pmRevolution 13/13: Abolition Feminism (Sarah Haley)

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FACULTY PUBLICATIONS

Marc Van De Mieroop. The Practice of Ancient Near Eastern History – Opera Minora. 2022: Ugarit-Verlag.

Rebecca Kobrin, editor. Salo Baron: The Past and Future of Jewish Studies in America. 2022: Columbia University Press.

Michael John Witgen. Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America. 2022: Omohundro Institute.

James Stafford. The Case of Ireland: Commerce, Empire and the European Order, 1750–1848. 2022: Cambridge University Press.

Hannah Farber. Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding. 2021: University of North Carolina Press.

Mae Ngai. The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics. 2021: W.W. Norton & Company.

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FEATURED RESOURCES

Confluence: A History of North American Rivers

Rivers have always been the lifeblood of the continent, yet their human histories have remained largely hidden from public view. Our goal is to create a publicly accessible digital platform for mapping and narrating lived history along North American rivers.

Columbia Research Initiative on the Global History of Sexualities

The Columbia Research Initiative on the Global History of Sexualities fosters collaborative transnational research on the global history of sexualities and supports such research at Columbia.

History in Action

History in Action is one of four pilot programs comprising the Career Diversity for Historians Initiative, funded by the American Historical Association and the Mellon Foundation.

Mapping Historical New York City

Mapping Historical New York City is a collaboration to map immigration and neighborhood change in New York City during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The Columbia University Historical Justice Initiative

The Columbia University Historical Justice Initiative offers a self-guided, interactive walking tour of CU's Morningside campus through an iOS app and eventually an Android one as well.

Featured Podcasts

FACULTY HOSTED PODCASTS: Global Thought Podcast (co-hosted by Carol Gluck) People Doing Interesting Stuff (hosted by Samuel Roberts) STUDENT HOSTED PODCASTS: New Books in Middle Eastern Studies (co-hosted by Joshua Donovan) The Sounds of Caliban (hosted by Mariana Katz) New Books in Latin American Studies (co-hosted by Rachel Newman) FACULTY FEATURED PODCASTS: Manan Ahmed discussed his path to historian academia in The Dean’s Table podcast. Frank Guridy discussed how he came to study history and his research on popular sports in The Dean's Table podcast.

Colombia University promotes Vietnamese studies program, initiated by Lien Hang Nguyen and John Phan.

Lien-Hang Nguyen has been elected onto the Board of Trustees of Fulbright University Vietnam (FUV).

After the Zeitenwende: Jürgen Habermas and Germany’s new identity crisis

Tracing the Romance Genre’s Radical Roots, from Derided “Sex Novels” to Bridgerton

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Reimagining Educational Work for Collective Freedom

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Revolution 13/13: Abolition Feminism
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Sarah Haley and Bernard E. Harcourt read and discuss No Mercy Here by Sarah Haley and Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Angela Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie.

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Confluence: A History of North American Rivers

Columbia Research Initiative on the Global History of Sexualities

History in Action

Mapping Historical New York City

The Columbia University Historical Justice Initiative

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Revolution 13/13: Abolition Feminism In-Person at The People’s Forum @ 6:00pm Sarah Haley and Bernard E. Harcourt read and discuss No Mercy Here by Sarah Haley and Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Angela Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie.

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Revolution 13/13: Abolition Feminism
In-Person at The People’s Forum @ 6:00pm
Sarah Haley and Bernard E. Harcourt read and discuss No Mercy Here by Sarah Haley and Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Angela Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie.