Date: Thursday, February 2nd, 2023

Location: Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room, 74 Morningside Drive, New York, NY 10027 and online via Zoom.

Time: 6:15 PM EST

Register here (for both in-person and virtual attendance)

Hosted by James Stafford (Columbia University) with panelists Isaac Nakhimovsky (Yale University), Susan Pedersen (Columbia University), Pablo Piccato (Columbia University), and Nadia Urbinati (Columbia University).

Join us for our New Book Series event honoring The Case of Ireland: Commerce, Empire, and the European Order by James Stafford. The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries have long been seen as a foundational period for modern Irish political traditions such as nationalism, republicanism, and unionism. The Case of Ireland (Cambridge University Press, 2022) offers a fresh account of Ireland’s neglected role in European debates about commerce and empire in what was a global era of war and revolution. Drawing on a broad range of writings from merchants, agrarian improvers, philosophers, politicians, and revolutionaries across Europe, this book shows how Ireland became a field of conflict and projection between rival visions of politics in commercial society associated with the warring empires of Britain and France. It offers a new perspective on the crisis and transformation of the British Empire at the end of the eighteenth century and restores Ireland to its rightful place at the center of European intellectual history.

This event is organized by the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy and cosponsored by the Office of the Divisional Deans in the Faculty of Arts and Science and the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities.

Friday, February 3rd, 2023
• New York City Latin American History Workshop (Co-Sponsored by Dept., Hosted by Baruch College) – Stephanie Huezo-Jefferson (Fordham), “Continuity in the ‘Promised Land’: Resistance as Embodied Memory in San José las Flores, El Salvador”
11AM-1PM
Baruch College, Newman Vertical Campus, 55 Lexington Ave, Room 8-210
To register and obtain workshop paper please email: Mark Rice, mark.rice@baruch.cuny.edu

Date: Monday, February 6th, 2023

Location: Jerome Greene Hall, 435 W 116th Street, New York, NY 10027

Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EST

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U.S. Senator Senator Sheldon Whitehouse will be making a special visit to the Community University community on Monday. February 6, 2023 to connect and speak to students, staff and faculty regarding Climate Change, U.S policy and give a special in-depth discussion on his new book : “The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court, and the damage the Court is doing to the fight against climate change.”

This event is sponsored by the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia’s Center for the History & Ethics of Public Health, and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law.

Feburary 8th from 4:20pm – 6:00pm  Workshop with Jungwon Kim (Columbia, Legal History). “Who Triggered My Death: Suicide and Punishment in Early Modern Korea” Comment by Pablo Piccato (Columbia, History).

Workshop location will be circulated closer to event date

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See full calendar of Legal History Workshop schedule here

Date: Wednesday, February 8th, 2023

Location: Low Memorial Library Rotunda, 535 West 116th Street, New York, NY 10027

Time: 4:30 PM – 7:00 PM EST (Event runs from 4:30 – 6:00 PM, followed by a reception from 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM)

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SPEAKER: Chinh Chu, Founder & President of CC Capital

HOST: Professor Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Founder, Vietnamese Studies, Director, Weatherhead East Asian Institute

INTRODUCTIONS: Naja Pham Lockwood, Founder and CEO, RYSE Media Ventures

MODERATOR: Anh Do, Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times

Chinh Chu has had an illustrious 30-plus-year career as a private-equity investor and executive. He is the former Co-Chair of Blackstone Private Equity. He joined Blackstone in the early 1990s and spent 25 years at the firm, becoming head of the Software and Technology, Financial Services, Chemicals and Healthcare groups. He served on Blackstone’s Executive Committee, co-chaired its Private Equity group, and was a member of its Investment Committee. Mr. Chu led some of the most prominent and successful private equity deals at Blackstone. Mr. Chu founded CC Capital in 2016 and has since spearheaded both traditional private-equity investments as well as a series of SPACs (special purpose acquisition companies). He led the $7.2 billion going-private transaction of Dun & Bradstreet in February 2019  — and less than 18 months later, Dun & Bradstreet was taken public at a 3.5x return for CC Capital’s equity investors. CC Capital has created 5 SPACs since 2016, 3 in partnership with Neuberger Berman. Its SPACs have invested in high-quality businesses including Getty Images ($4.8 billion), the global leader in photo imaging and distribution; UTZ ($1.6 billion), the 100 year-old leading manufacturer of salty snacks; E2 Open ($2.6 billion), the leading supply chain software company; and FG Insurance ($2.1 billion), the life and annuities insurer. Mr. Chu has served on over 20 public and private corporate boards including: City Harvest, Getty Images, E2 Open, Dun & Bradstreet, NCR Corporation, Catalent, Kronos, SunGard Data Systems, Biomet, Celanese Corporation, Nalco, Nycomed, Alliant Insurance Services, London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE), Graham Packaging, AlliedBarton, and BankUnited. Before joining Blackstone, Mr. Chu worked at Salomon Brothers in the Mergers & Acquisitions department. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Buffalo’s School of Management.  

Mr. Chu was born in Vietnam and emigrated to America at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. He is the eldest of 6 children born to Dennis and Linda Chu.  Mr. Chu currently lives in New York City and is passionate about philanthropy, music, mountaineering, and, most importantly, his two daughters.

Lien-Hang Nguyen is the Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia, Director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, and co-founder of Vietnamese Studies at Columbia University. She is author of Hanoi’s War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam (2012), which won the Society for Military History Edward M. Coffman Prize and the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Stuart L. Bernath Prize. Professor Nguyen serves as the general editor of the Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, 3 vols., as well as co-editor of the Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations. She is currently working on a comprehensive history of the 1968 Tet Offensive with Random House. She has appeared on numerous documentaries including PBS History with David Rubenstein, CNN Documentary, and MSNBC’s A Rachel Maddow Special Report. Professor Nguyen received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania and her MA, MPhil, and PhD from Yale University.

Naja Pham Lockwood has produced multiple documentary and narrative films focusing on social justice issues including 76 Days, Try Harder!, Coming Home Again, Gook and Cries From Syria. She is the co-founder of RYSE Media Ventures, which supports stories of diverse voices, and an investor in Impact Partners Films, where she has financed the Academy Award winning documentary, Icarus as well as Won’t You Be My Neighbor and Audrie and Daisy. She served on the Sundance Utah Advisory Board and partnered with Sundance Institute to build and fund the Sundance Screenwriters Fellowships for Asian American filmmakers. She currently serves on the Board of the Utah Film Commission and Center for Asian American Media (CAAM). Naja is an associate instructor at the University of Utah teaching the Power of Storytelling: Asia and the Global Cinema. She is the Founder and CEO of www.najalockwooddesigns.com to support female artisans of Southeast Asia. Born in Vietnam, Naja immigrated to Massachusetts during the Fall of Saigon. She was the first Vietnamese-American to be appointed by Mayor Willie Brown and Mayor Gavin Newsom to be Arts Commissioner of San Francisco with a focus on community and diversity and the expansion and capital campaign development of the Asian Art Museum. Throughout Naja’s life, there has always been a commitment to social justice and making sure the voices of the under-represented, the minority and the oppressed are heard.

Anh Do is a Metro reporter covering Asian American issues and general assignments at the Los Angeles Times. A second-generation journalist, she has worked at the Seattle Times, the Orange County Register and Nguoi Viet Daily News, the largest Vietnamese-language newspaper in the US, based in California and founded by her late father. Born in Saigon, Do is a graduate of the University of Southern California with degrees in journalism and English and she has reported from Cuba, India, Mexico, Peru and Vietnam, elevating on-the-ground storytelling with cultural research and techniques honed from five years of living in Mexico City. Her writing on diaspora, race and trauma has won awards from Columbia University, Freedom Newspapers Sweepstakes and the Asian American Journalists Association. She is a recipient of Yale’s Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, and in 2016, she was part of the team that won a Pulitzer Prize for its breaking news coverage of the San Bernardino terrorist attacks. Apart from words, she’s passionate about all things canine, spending 27 years volunteering in dog rescue campaigns around the globe.

This event is sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University.

Talk in French by Patrick Boucheron with English text available.

Date: Wednesday, February 8th

Location: Maison Française, 515 West 116th Street New York, NY 10027

Time: 6:00 – 7:00 PM EST

Held by Patrick Boucheron (History of Powers in Western Europe from 7th to 16th century, Collège de France)

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How do we tell the history of the Black Death today? A global history of humanity’s largest demographic catastrophe over the longue durée, from our present pandemic times? Drawing from his teachings at the Collège de France and his Theatre of the Plague production with the Théâtre National de Bretagne, acclaimed medievalist Patrick Boucheron reflects back on his long standing engagement with the plague and its contagious, overflowing metaphors.

Patrick Boucheron is a Professor and Chair of the History of Powers in Western Europe from the 7th to the 16th century at Collège de France. He specializes in the Middle Ages, particularly in Italy. His work also concerns the writing of history and changes in the discipline. It was in this spirit that he wrote Histoire mondiale de la France (Seuil, 2017). Since 2017, he has partnered with the Théatre National de Bretagne (TNB) headed by actor and stage director Arthur Nauzyciel. For each program, he invites associates, academics, and artists to imagine and create with him a monthly gathering, “Rencontrer l’Histoire” (“A Rendez-vous with History”), based on the program’s themes or current affairs.

This performance is co-sponsored by Columbia Maison Française, ICLS Medical Humanities, Department of French, and Department of History.