Columbia University
UPCOMING EVENTS
january 2020
28jan5:30 pm- 7:00 pmIcons and Images: Objects of Commemoration and Presence
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Icons and Images: Objects of Commemoration and Presence Tuesday, January 28 @ 5:30 PM Deutsches Haus, 420 W 116th Street
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Icons and Images: Objects of Commemoration and Presence
Tuesday, January 28 @ 5:30 PM
Deutsches Haus, 420 W 116th Street
Time
(Tuesday) 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Location
Deutsches Haus, New York, NY 10003, USA
Deutsches Haus, New York, NY 10003, USA
29jan4:30 pm- 7:00 pmIn That Time: Michael O'Donnell And the Tragic Era of Vietnam
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In That Time: Michael O'Donnell And the Tragic Era of Vietnam An evening with Daniel Weiss
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In That Time: Michael O’Donnell And the Tragic Era of Vietnam
An evening with Daniel Weiss
Featuring Daniel Weiss
(CEO and President of the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Hosted by Lien-Hang Nguyen
(Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia)
Time
(Wednesday) 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Location
Joseph D. Jamail Lecture Hall, Pulitzer Hall, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
2950 Broadway New York, NY 10027
30jan6:00 pm- 8:00 pmCritical Global Studies: What, Why, and How
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Critical Global Studies: What, Why, and How
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Critical Global Studies: What, Why, and How
Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event
An informal conversation with graduate students in East Asian, European, and transnational history with:
Jie-hyun Lim, Sogang University, Seoul
Director, Critical Global Studies Institute
Moderated by:
Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History, Columbia University
Professor Lim, a renowned historian of East Asia and Eastern Europe, is the Founding Director of the Critical Global Studies Institute at Sogang University. He is a visiting professor in January-February at Columbia.
This is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event.
Pizza will be served.
Please RSVP to Sydnei Easley at se2500@columbia.edu
Time
(Thursday) 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
918 International Affairs Building
february 2020
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The Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies and The Urban and Social Policy Concentration at the School of International and
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The Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies and The Urban and Social Policy Concentration at the School of International and Public Affairs presents
Book Panel: “San Francisco Year Zero: Political Upheaval, Punk Rock, and a Third-Place Baseball Team” (New Brunswick: NJ, Rutgers University Press, 2019)
The book will be available for purchase and signing
Lincoln Mitchell, Author
Research Scholar, Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University
Frank Guridy
Associate Professor of History and of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Department of History, Columbia University
Jennifer Blowdryer
Author, Journalist, Filmmaker, Musician, Actress
Moderated by Ester R. Fuchs
Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
12:10pm-2:00pm
1512 International Affairs
Advance registration suggested via the Columbia or SIPA events calendars
Abstract
San Francisco is a city of contradictions. It is one of the most socially liberal cities in America, but it also has some of the nation’s worst income inequality. It is a playground for tech millionaires, with an outrageously high cost of living, yet it also supports vibrant alternative and avant-garde scenes. So how did the city get this way?
In San Francisco Year Zero, San Francisco native Lincoln Mitchell traces the roots of the current situation back to 1978, when three key events occurred: the assassination of George Moscone and Harvey Milk occurring fewer than two weeks after the massacre of Peoples Temple members in Jonestown, Guyana, the explosion of the city’s punk rock scene, and a breakthrough season for the San Francisco Giants. Through these three strands, Mitchell explores the rifts between the city’s pro-business and progressive-left politicians, the emergence of Dianne Feinstein as a political powerhouse, the increasing prominence of the city’s LGBT community, punk’s reinvigoration of the Bay Area’s radical cultural politics, and the ways that the Giants helped unify one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse cities in the nation.
Written from a unique insider’s perspective, San Francisco Year Zero deftly weaves together the personal and the political, putting a human face on the social upheavals that transformed a city.
Bios
Lincoln Mitchell is a writer, pundit and specialist in political development based in New York City and San Francisco. Lincoln has worked on democracy and governance related issues in the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. He also works with businesses and NGOs globally, particularly in the former Soviet Union. Lincoln writes and speaks about US politics as well, and was the national political correspondent for The New York Observer from 2014-2016. Lincoln was on the faculty of Columbia University’s School of International Affairs from 2006-2013 and worked for years as a political consultant in New York City advising and managing domestic political campaigns.
Frank A. Guridy specializes in sport history, urban history, and the history of the African Diaspora in the Americas. He is the author of Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow (University of North Carolina Press, 2010), which won the Elsa Goveia Book Prize from the Association of Caribbean Historians and the Wesley-Logan Book Prize, conferred by the American Historical Association. He is also the co-editor of Beyond el Barrio: Everyday Life in Latino/a America (NYU Press, 2010), with Gina Pérez and Adrian Burgos, Jr. His articles have appeared in the Radical History Review, Caribbean Studies, Social Text, and Cuban Studies. His fellowships and awards include the Scholar in Residence Fellowship at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award from the University of Texas at Austin, and, most recently, the Mark Van Doren Award For Teaching at Columbia. In 2014-15 he held the Ray A. Billington Professorship in American History at Occidental College and the Huntington Library. He is completing a book on the intersections between sport, capitalism and the Black Freedom and Second-Wave feminist movements entitled The Athletic Revolution in Texas: A History of Sport and Society in the Lone Star State and is working on another entitled, Assembly in the Fragmented City: A History of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Jennifer Blowdryer got her name from her SF punk band, the Blowdryers, in 1977. She remains a band singer/writer, recent releases include Blowdryer Punk Soul: Pinot Grigio and 4 Essays – The most harmless person you are ever going to meet in your life (Bent Boy Press, SF, 2018). Blowdryer’s books include: White Trash Debutante; Modern English: A slang dictionary; The Laziest Secretary in the World; Where’s My Wife; and Good Advice for Young Trendy People of All Ages. She has written columns for Maximin Rock’n’Roll, New York Press, and Downtown, among others She is also an actress – credits include for Vegas in Space (1991), Kamikaze Hearts (1986) and Once and Future Queen (2000).
Ester R. Fuchs is Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science and is the Director of the Urban and Social Policy Program at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She served as Special Advisor to the Mayor for Governance and Strategic Planning under New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg from 2001 to 2005. Previously, Professor Fuchs served as chair of the Urban Studies Program at Barnard College and Columbia College and founding director of the Columbia University Center for Urban Research and Policy.
Time
(Wednesday) 12:10 pm - 2:00 pm
Location
1512 International Affairs Building
1512 International Affairs Building
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Victoria Phillips Book Launch: Martha Graham's Cold War: The Dance of American Diplomacy Monday, February 10th,
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Victoria Phillips Book Launch:
Martha Graham’s Cold War: The Dance of American Diplomacy
Monday, February 10th, 2020
6:30PM
Maison Française
Join us for a book launch and panel discussion for Martha Graham’s Cold War: the Dance of American Diplomacy (Dec 20, 2019, Oxford University Press).
The panel will include:
Victoria Phillips, author of Martha Graham’s Cold War: the Dance of American Diplomacy
Victoria de Grazia, Moore Collegiate Professor of History, Columbia University
Lynn Garafola, Professor Emerita of Dance, Barnard College
Richard R. John, Professor of Journalism, Columbia University
Whitney Laemmli, Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Martha Graham’s Cold War is the first book to frame the story of Martha Graham and her particular brand of dance modernism as pro-Western Cold War propaganda used by the United States government to promote American democracy. Representing every seated president from Dwight D. Eisenhower through Ronald Reagan, Graham performed politics in the global field for over thirty years. Why did the State Department consistently choose Martha Graham? As with other art forms such as jazz or avant-garde paintings, modern dance was seen to demonstrate American values of individualism and freedom; the choreographer used the freed body to make a new dance technique that could find the essence of human narratives. Graham targeted elites and its youth with modern dance to propound the ‘universalism’ of human rights under the banner of American democracy. In her choreography, argues author Victoria Phillips, Graham recast the stories of the Western canon through female protagonists whom she captured as timeless, seemingly beyond current politics, and in so doing implied superior political and cultural values of the Free World. Centering on powerful yet not demonstrably American female characters, the stories Graham danced seduced and captured the imaginations of elite audiences without seeming to force a determinedly American agenda. When her characters grew mythic on stage, they became the stories of all mankind, as Graham termed it. “My dances are ages old in meaning,” she declared. But Graham took the pro-American argument one step further than her artistic compatriots. She added the trope of the frontier to her repertory.
In the Cold War, Graham’s particular modernism and the woman herself ossified, as did political aims of a cultural diplomacy based on an appeal to foreign elites. Phillips lays bare the side-by-side trajectories between the aging of Graham’s choreography, her work as an ambassador, and the political dominance of the United States as a global power. With her tours and Cold War modernism, she demonstrated the power of the individual, immigrants, republicanism, and freedom from walls and metaphorical fences through cultural diplomacy with the unfettered language of movement and dance.
Free and open to the public
Registration required
First come, first seated
Sponsors: European Institute, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities
Time
(Monday) 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
Maison Française
28feb9:00 am- 6:30 pmIraqi Studies: Past, Present, and Future (Day 1)
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Iraqi Studies: Past, Present, and Future February 28-29, 2020 This
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Iraqi Studies: Past, Present, and Future
February 28-29, 2020
This two-day conference brings together a diverse group of established and emerging scholars working on the history of modern Iraq from the Ottoman period to the present to interrogate Iraqi studies; taking stock of its past, reflecting on the present, and looking towards its future. Studies of modern Iraq have grown qualitatively and quantitatively in recent years. There is now a critical mass of innovative scholars in the US, Europe, and the Middle East who work on Iraq and are exploring new lines of inquiry in a number of different directions. It is common to see Iraq-themed panels and round tables at international conferences. Given this volume of scholarly activity connected to modern Iraq, it is an opportune time to critically reflect on and examine Iraqi studies and its status as a burgeoning sub-field of Middle East Studies.
We aim to discuss research trends, to identify promising new questions and sources, to exchange experiences and insights, and to encourage networking across period-specializations and field boundaries. Each panel will comprise a discussant and several speakers. A keynote panel of senior scholars will critically reflect on the state of Iraqi studies. Confirmed speakers for the Keynote Panel: Dr. Dina Khoury (George Washington University); Dr. Orit Bashkin (University of Chicago); Dr. Eric Davis (Rutgers University); Dr. Sara Pursley (New York University).
Among the questions we seek to explore are: How do we define Iraqi studies? What various methodological approaches inform our study of Iraq? Is Iraqi studies an inherently nationalist endeavor? How do different frameworks support or break with nationalist conventions? How has Iraq’s recent turbulent history affected how scholars access sources to study the country, its geography, its people, its history, its literature, etc.? How can we move past the sectarian and ethnic narratives of understanding the Iraqi past and present?
Organisers:
Zeinab Azarbadegan (Columbia University)
Amnah Almukhtar (Columbia University)
Natasha Pesaran (Columbia University)
Sponsors:
Department of History
Center for International History
Center for the Study of Muslim Societies
Seminar on Ottoman and Turkish Studies
Department of Art History and Archaeology
Middle East Institute (MEI)
Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies
The Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP)
In order to attend and to be added to our mailing list for updates related to the conference, please register here.
Preliminary Program
Friday
9:00-9:30 Registration and Opening Remarks by Zainab Bahrani (Columbia University)
9:30- 11:00 Panel 1: Methods and Approaches: Writing Iraqi History
Discussant: Dina Rizk Khoury (George Washington U.)
Wisam Alshaibi (UCLA), The Dark Archive of the Wars in Iraq: Introducing the Kanan Makiya Papers
Nadje Al-Ali (Brown U.), Feminist Approaches to Iraqi Studies: Beyond an add-women- and- stir approach
Sara Farhan (American U. of Sharjah), Towards a History of Medicine of Modern Iraq
Orcun Okan (Columbia U.), Reflections on the Use of First-Person Narratives for Writing Histories of Modern Iraq
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-12:45 Panel 2: The Iraqi Nahda
Discussant: Marwa Elshakry (Columbia U.)
Annie Greene (College of William and Mary), The Nahda in Iraq
Camille Cole (Yale U.), “The Last Vestiges of Arab Independence”: Khaz‘al Khan and the Making of Gilded Age Basra and Khuzestān, 1897-1914
Kevin Michael Jones (U. of Georgia), Baghdad Days and Cairo Nights: The Arab Nahda and the Construction of Iraqi National Identity
Gabriel Young (NYU), On India’s Path: Transnational Histories of Iraq and the Political Economy of ʿAbd al-Fattah Ibrahim
12:45-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:00 Panel 3: State Formation and Resistance
Discussant: Sara Pursley (NYU)
Mélisande Genat (Stanford U.), State Justice and Tribal Law in the Sinjar Region (1932-1958)
Carl Shook (Loyola U., Chicago), Imperialist Invention or Uncertain Enterprise? Understanding British power through the political geography of Iraq
Huma Gupta (MIT), The Architecture of Dispossession and State-Building in Iraq
Amir Taha (Utrecht U.), War and Insurgency in Southern Iraq: The Case Study of Shinafiyah, 1979-1991
15:00-15:15 Break
15:15-16:45 Panel 4: Beyond Sectarianism
Discussant: Eric Davis (Rutgers U.)
Michael Degerald (Lund U., Sweden), Race in modern Iraqi History: Questioning the not-so-sectarian dimensions of social tensions
Christopher Cooper-Davies (Cambridge U.), Between sectarian populism and anti-sectarianism: mechanisms for Shi’i national integration in Hashemite Iraq
Joseph Edward Kotinsly (U. of Texas at Austin), The Politics of Suffering: An examination of the Iraqi Shi’i Opposition Movement’s response to the 1991 March Uprisings
Jinan Al-Habbal (LSE), The Evolution of the Iraqi Army
16:45-17:00 Break
17:00-18:30 Keynote Panel: Prof. Orit Bashkin (U. of Chicago), Prof. Dina Rizk Khoury (George Washington U.), Prof. Eric Davis (Rutgers U.), Prof. Sara Pursley (NYU)
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Saturday
10:00- 11:30 Panel 5: State Power and Natural Resource Development
Discussant: Natasha Pesaran (Columbia U.)
Dale Stahl (U. of Colorado, Denver), The Third River: Oil, Water, and the Iraqi Development Board
Tiffany Floyd (Columbia U.), “He who saw the Deep:” Petromodernity, Deep Time, and Dia Al-Azzawi as Gilgamesh
Isacar Bolaños (Loyola U., Maryland), The French Connection: Informal Empire, Environmental Management, and Foreign Technocrats in Hamidian Iraq
Şehnaz İyibaş (Koç U., Istanbul), Irrigation in the Late Ottoman Iraq: The Hindiya Barrage 1890-1914
11:30-11:45 Break
11:45-13:15 Panel 6: Formation of Iraqi Identities and Social Classes
Discussant: Orit Bashkin (U. of Chicago)
Hala Fattah (Independent Scholar), The Invisible Iraqis: Georgian, Daghistani and Circassian Families in Early Twentieth Century Iraq
Pelle Valentin Olsen (U. of Chicago), Iraqi Jews and the Production and Consumption of Leisure
Andrew Alger (CUNY), Clinical Behavior: Institutionalized Medicine and Urban Space in Baghdad, 1917 – 1958
Zachary Sheldon (U. of Chicago), The Cosmopolitan National: Development and Crisis in the Iraqi Diaspora
13:15-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Panel 7: Beyond the Nation: Iraq in Global Perspective
Discussant: Nadje Al-Ali (Brown U.)
Esmat Elhalaby (NYU Abu Dhabi), India in Iraq/Iraq in India
Noga Efrati (Open University of Israel),, Revisiting early women’s activism in Iraq: a transnational perspective
Hilary Falb Kalisman (U. of Colorado, Boulder), Global Iraq: Gender, Education and Travel
Kate Tietzen (Kansas State U.), Iraqis in Russia: The Organizations of Iraqis Outside the Region-Moscow in the 1990s
15:30-15:45 Break
15:45-17:15 Roundtable
Time
(Friday) 9:00 am - 6:30 pm
Location
Faculty House
64 Morningside Dr, New York, NY 10027
29feb10:00 am- 5:15 pmIraqi Studies: Past, Present, and Future (Day 2)
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Iraqi Studies: Past, Present, and Future February 28-29, 2020 This
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Iraqi Studies: Past, Present, and Future
February 28-29, 2020
This two-day conference brings together a diverse group of established and emerging scholars working on the history of modern Iraq from the Ottoman period to the present to interrogate Iraqi studies; taking stock of its past, reflecting on the present, and looking towards its future. Studies of modern Iraq have grown qualitatively and quantitatively in recent years. There is now a critical mass of innovative scholars in the US, Europe, and the Middle East who work on Iraq and are exploring new lines of inquiry in a number of different directions. It is common to see Iraq-themed panels and round tables at international conferences. Given this volume of scholarly activity connected to modern Iraq, it is an opportune time to critically reflect on and examine Iraqi studies and its status as a burgeoning sub-field of Middle East Studies.
We aim to discuss research trends, to identify promising new questions and sources, to exchange experiences and insights, and to encourage networking across period-specializations and field boundaries. Each panel will comprise a discussant and several speakers. A keynote panel of senior scholars will critically reflect on the state of Iraqi studies. Confirmed speakers for the Keynote Panel: Dr. Dina Khoury (George Washington University); Dr. Orit Bashkin (University of Chicago); Dr. Eric Davis (Rutgers University); Dr. Sara Pursley (New York University).
Among the questions we seek to explore are: How do we define Iraqi studies? What various methodological approaches inform our study of Iraq? Is Iraqi studies an inherently nationalist endeavor? How do different frameworks support or break with nationalist conventions? How has Iraq’s recent turbulent history affected how scholars access sources to study the country, its geography, its people, its history, its literature, etc.? How can we move past the sectarian and ethnic narratives of understanding the Iraqi past and present?
Organisers:
Zeinab Azarbadegan (Columbia University)
Amnah Almukhtar (Columbia University)
Natasha Pesaran (Columbia University)
Sponsors:
Department of History
Center for International History
Center for the Study of Muslim Societies
Seminar on Ottoman and Turkish Studies
Department of Art History and Archaeology
Middle East Institute (MEI)
Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies
The Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP)
In order to attend and to be added to our mailing list for updates related to the conference, please register here.
Saturday
10:00- 11:30 Panel 5: State Power and Natural Resource Development
Discussant: Natasha Pesaran (Columbia U.)
Dale Stahl (U. of Colorado, Denver), The Third River: Oil, Water, and the Iraqi Development Board
Tiffany Floyd (Columbia U.), “He who saw the Deep:” Petromodernity, Deep Time, and Dia Al-Azzawi as Gilgamesh
Isacar Bolaños (Loyola U., Maryland), The French Connection: Informal Empire, Environmental Management, and Foreign Technocrats in Hamidian Iraq
Şehnaz İyibaş (Koç U., Istanbul), Irrigation in the Late Ottoman Iraq: The Hindiya Barrage 1890-1914
11:30-11:45 Break
11:45-13:15 Panel 6: Formation of Iraqi Identities and Social Classes
Discussant: Orit Bashkin (U. of Chicago)
Hala Fattah (Independent Scholar), The Invisible Iraqis: Georgian, Daghistani and Circassian Families in Early Twentieth Century Iraq
Pelle Valentin Olsen (U. of Chicago), Iraqi Jews and the Production and Consumption of Leisure
Andrew Alger (CUNY), Clinical Behavior: Institutionalized Medicine and Urban Space in Baghdad, 1917 – 1958
Zachary Sheldon (U. of Chicago), The Cosmopolitan National: Development and Crisis in the Iraqi Diaspora
13:15-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Panel 7: Beyond the Nation: Iraq in Global Perspective
Discussant: Nadje Al-Ali (Brown U.)
Esmat Elhalaby (NYU Abu Dhabi), India in Iraq/Iraq in India
Noga Efrati (Open University of Israel),, Revisiting early women’s activism in Iraq: a transnational perspective
Hilary Falb Kalisman (U. of Colorado, Boulder), Global Iraq: Gender, Education and Travel
Kate Tietzen (Kansas State U.), Iraqis in Russia: The Organizations of Iraqis Outside the Region-Moscow in the 1990s
15:30-15:45 Break
15:45-17:15 Roundtable
Time
(Saturday) 10:00 am - 5:15 pm
Location
Faculty House
64 Morningside Dr, New York, NY 10027
march 2020
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The Center for American Studies at Columbia University presents: Anti-Intellectualism and the Paranoid Style in American Politics: Revisiting Richard Hofstadter
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The Center for American Studies at Columbia University presents:
Anti-Intellectualism and the Paranoid Style in American Politics: Revisiting Richard Hofstadter in the Time of Trump
Panel discussion with:
Eric Foner, Columbia University
Arlie Hochschild, University of California-Berkeley
Sean Wilentz, Princeton University
Casey N. Blake, Columbia University (moderator)
Time
(Tuesday) 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
Italian Academy at Columbia University
1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027
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The Center for American Studies at Columbia University presents: "Anti-Intellectualism and the Paranoid Style in American Politics: Revisiting Richard Hofstadter in
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The Center for American Studies at Columbia University presents:
“Anti-Intellectualism and the Paranoid Style in American Politics: Revisiting Richard Hofstadter in the Time of Trump”
Panel discussion with:
Eric Foner, Columbia University
Arlie Hochschild, University of California-Berkeley
Sean Wilentz, Princeton University
Casey N. Blake, Columbia University (moderator)
Time
(Tuesday) 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
Italian Academy at Columbia University
1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027