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october 2022
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Dr. Sailakshmi Ramgopal: "'Civis Romanus Sum': The Roman Businessmen of Sicily." Sailakshmi Ramgopal,
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(Friday) 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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University of Pennsylvania
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Friday, October 28th, 2022 • New York City Latin American History Workshop (Co-Sponsored by Dept., Hosted by Baruch College) - Pedro
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Friday, October 28th, 2022
• New York City Latin American History Workshop (Co-Sponsored by Dept., Hosted by Baruch College) – Pedro Cantisano (John Jay), “Confronting the Common Good: Public Health, Urban Reform, and the Law in Modern Brazil”
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
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(Friday) 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
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Baruch College, Newman Vertical Campus, 55 Lexington Ave, Room 8-210
28oct - 11novoct 284:00 amnov 11IRAAS: "Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party"
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LiveStream: https://bit.ly/3CPna5I
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October 28 (Friday) 4:00 am - November 11 (Friday) 5:30 pm
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Buell Hall, Maison Française
515 West 116th Street, New York, NY, United States)
27oct6:00 pm- 7:30 pmAlumniTALK: "Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood" with John D’Emilio CC’70
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AlumniTALK: Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood: Coming of Age in the Sixties with John D’Emilio CC’70
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(Thursday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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East Gallery, Buell Hall (Maison Française)
East Gallery, Buell Hall (Maison Française)
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The Greatest Beer Run Ever – Film screening and panel discussion
The Greatest Beer Run Ever is based on a true story of an Inwood resident and former Marine and Merchant Seaman named Chickie Donohue who goes to Vietnam in 1967-1968 to show support for his neighborhood buddies who are serving in the war by bringing them Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. After the film screening, there will be a panel discussion and Q&A featuring members of the film crew: director Peter Farrelly (a Columbia MFA graduate), producer Andrew Muscato, costume designer Bao Tranchi, Chickie Donohue, and Columbia’s Director of WEAI and the Dorothy Borg Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia, Lien-Hang Nguyen, who served as historical advisor on the film. Her role is highlighted in this article on the Columbia news site.
Cosponsored by WEAI, Teachers College, MilVets, and the Center for Veteran Transition and Integration at Columbia University; and Pabst Blue Ribbon.
Open to the public; non-Columbia University guests must present proof of vaccinations or a negative covid test result.
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(Thursday) 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location
Teachers College Horace Mann Hall Cowin Auditorium, 3040 Broadway
26oct6:00 pm- 7:30 pmAbolitionist Feminism in the Archive (Sarah Haley)
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Abolitionist Feminism in the Archive Presented by the Barnard College Archives and Special Collections, co-sponsored by BCRW
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Abolitionist Feminism in the Archive
Presented by the Barnard College Archives and Special Collections, co-sponsored by BCRW
A conversation with Sarah Haley and Emily Thuma, moderated by Eve Glazier (BC ’23)
Over the past year, archivists at Barnard have been processing the collections of the New York Coalition for Women Prisoners, a formation led by formerly incarcerated people organizing against the gendered violence of the carceral state. Working with the materials of the CWP and its members has sparked significant reflection about the relationship between archives and the carceral state and, in turn, the implications of incorporating stories, narratives, and histories of anti-carceral organizing into the institutional archive as it currently exists. As scholars like Saidiya Hartman, Marisa Fuentes, and Jarrett Drake teach us, the archive—much like the prison—is a site of containment, one which confines, controls, and exerts ownership over knowledge to discipline our collective understanding of history and the present towards the needs and desires of the racial capitalist state.
With this in mind, what does it mean to archive the histories and narratives of incarcerated people when the archive itself is, in many ways, a carceral enclosure? What are the implications of holding collections of materials documenting anti-carceral struggles within universities like Columbia, which are deeply invested in maintaining systems of carcerality and fueling carceral expansion in their surrounding neighborhoods?
This panel brings together scholar-activists who have gone against the grain of the carceral archive to construct historical accounts that deepen geneaologies of anti-carceral organizing and propel today’s abolitionist feminist movements forward. Through grappling with these questions, we’ll begin to imagine the possibilities (or impossibilities) of an abolitionist feminist archive.
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This event is free and open to all. RSVP is preferred.
Image credit: Rikers Island Laundry Site, cell blocks, September 20, 1939. Joseph Shelderfer, Department of Public Works Collection, NYC Municipal Archives.
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(Wednesday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
26oct6:00 pm- 7:30 pmEuropean Institute Booklaunch: The Swedish Theory of Love (Wennerlind, Tooze)
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(Wednesday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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Buell Hall, Maison Française
515 West 116th Street, New York, NY, United States)
26oct5:00 pm- 6:15 pmCGT: Reimagining Global: Are Extreme Crises the Only Way Forward?
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Please join us for a stimulating discussion as global thinkers at Columbia help us reimagine the concept of global in the current moment.
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Please join us for a stimulating discussion as global thinkers at Columbia help us reimagine the concept of global in the current moment.
About this event
The world today is more turbulent, more polarized, and more at-risk than in decades. Paradoxically, the many existential threats to our universe—natural and manmade—require global collaboration if we have any chance of success. How, then, should we think about the concept of “global” today? What do we need to do to create a more collective vision of the world that will lead to a greater commitment to our mutual responsibilities?
Reception to Follow.
Moderator:
Vishakha N. Desai: Chair of the Committee on Global Thought; Senior Advisor for Global Affairs to the President; Senior Research Scholar, School of International and Public Affairs
Panelists:
Manan Ahmed: Associate Professor of History
Mamadou Diouf: Leitner Family Professor of African Studies and Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern South Asian, and African Studies
Yasmine Ergas: Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of International and Public Affairs, Director, Gender and Public Policy Specialization, SIPA.
Linda Fried: Dean, Mailman School of Public Health and De Lamar Professor of Public Health Practice; Professor of Epidemiology and of Medicine; Senior Vice President, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Jean-Marie Guéhenno: Arnold A. Saltzman Professor of Professional Practice in the School of International and Public Affairs and Director of the Kent Global Leadership Program on Conflict Resolution
Saskia Sassen: Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology
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(Wednesday) 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm
Location
Faculty House, Skyline Room 64 Morningside Drive New York, NY 10027
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(Wednesday) 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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617 Kent Hall
25oct7:00 pm- 8:30 pmOnes and Tooze Live
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Ones and Tooze Live Tuesday, October 25, 2022 | 7:00 p.m. EDT
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Foreign Policy economics columnist Adam Tooze, a history professor and a popular author, is encyclopedic about basically everything: from the COVID shutdown, to climate change, to pasta sauce. On our new podcast, Tooze and FP deputy editor Cameron Abadi will look at two data points each week that explain the world: one drawn from the week’s headlines and the other from just about anywhere else Tooze takes us.
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Foreign Policy economics columnist Adam Tooze, a history professor and a popular author, is encyclopedic about basically everything: from the COVID shutdown, to climate change, to pasta sauce. On our new podcast, Tooze and FP deputy editor Cameron Abadi will look at two data points each week that explain the world: one drawn from the week’s headlines and the other from just about anywhere else Tooze takes us.
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New York, NY 10002
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Time
(Tuesday) 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location
Caveat 21 A Clinton Street New York, NY 10002
25oct3:30 pm- 5:00 pmLCAH: Book Talk with Annemarie Sammartino, "Freedomland"
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Book Talk with Annemarie Sammartino, "Freedomland" Tuesday, October 25, 2022 3:30
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Book Talk with Annemarie Sammartino, “Freedomland”
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
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(Tuesday) 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Location
International Affairs Building, 420 W. 118 St., New York, NY 10027 Lehman Suite, IAB Room 406
24oct12:10 pm- 1:10 pmThe Legacy of Frances Perkins, Pioneer for Social Justice (Kim Philips Fein)
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Register at: https://events.columbia.edu/go/francesperkins
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(Monday) 12:10 pm - 1:10 pm
Location
Jerome Green Hall 102B
20oct6:00 pm- 7:30 pmFordham U: How Capitalism Invented the Care Economy - Premilla Nadasen
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O'Connell Initiative on the Global History of Capitalism How Capitalism
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O’Connell Initiative on the
Global History of Capitalism
How Capitalism Invented the Care Economy
Premilla Nadasen
Professor of History, Barnard College
Thursday, October 20, 2022 (6 pm)
McNally Amphitheatre
Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus
140 West 62nd Street, New York
Carework has gained unprecedented attention with the Covid-19 pandemic but it’s place in the economy is not well understood. Both unpaid and paid carework provide crucial labor for human wellbeing, and paid careworkers form a substantial part of our economy.
What is the relationship between care for those in need, capital accumulation, and the labor of social reproduction in the context of the neoliberal U.S. economy? Professor Premilla Nadasen will offer a genealogy of carework, and set out its central place in the history of capitalism. Analyzing the politics of care requires distinguishing between the care discourse and the labor of social reproduction; between the care economy and radical care politics. Professor Nadasen dives into neoliberal systems of care to illuminate how the care economy is wedded to capitalist profit, how the contemporary care discourse obscures inequities, and how models of radical care offer alternative ways of imagining and practicing care.
Premilla Nadasen is a Professor of History at Barnard College, Columbia University. She has been involved in social justice organizing for many decades and published extensively on the multiple meanings of feminism, alternative labor movements, and grass-roots community organizing. She has a forthcoming book, Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism.
The O’Connell Initiative for the Global History of Capitalism is a forum for intellectual exploration. It brings together scholars of every aspect of capitalism, from its earliest medieval manifestations to its twenty-first-century consequences across the globe. It supports groundbreaking research and teaching on global capitalism and engages with the public through lectures, debates, and workshops. The O’Connell Initiative in the Global History of Capitalism is supported by generous gifts from Fordham alumnus Robert J. O’Connell, FCRH ’65.
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History Department | Fordham University
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email: historydept@fordham.edu
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(Thursday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Location
McNally Amphitheatre Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus 140 West 62nd Street, New York
20oct6:00 pm- 7:30 pmIRAAS: Where Sea Meets Sky: Infinity
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(Thursday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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612 Schermerhorn Hall
19oct6:30 pm- 9:30 pmNEH: 2022 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities with Andrew Delbanco
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2022 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities Andrew Delbanco will deliver the 2022 Jefferson Lecture in the
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2022 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities
Andrew Delbanco will deliver the 2022 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities.
Wed, October 19, 2022, 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM EDT
President Lincoln’s Cottage 140 Rock Creek Church Road Northwest Washington, DC 20011
See Andrew Delbanco deliver the 2022 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities in D.C., on October 19.
Ticket registration for the event opens September 14, at noon EST.
Andrew Delbanco, the Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies at Columbia University, President of the Teagle Foundation, and 2011 National Humanities Medalist, will deliver the 2022 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities on October 19 at President Lincoln’s Cottage historic site and museum in Washington, D.C., at 6:30 p.m.
In his lecture, “The Question of Reparations: Our Past, Our Present, Our Future,” Delbanco will address reparations for slavery in the United States, using history, philosophy, and literature to examine a wide range of perspectives on the debate. The lecture is free and open to the public and will stream online at neh.gov.
NEH’s Jefferson Lecture is the highest honor the federal government bestows for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities. The Jefferson Lecture was established by NEH in 1972, and this year will mark the 50th anniversary of the honorary lecture series.
A renowned scholar of American literary, religious, and cultural history, Delbanco has taught at Columbia University since 1985, where he teaches and writes on the history of American education, colonial and classic American literature, and American culture past and present.
Among his many accolades, Delbanco was named by Time magazine as “America’s Best Social Critic” in 2001 and is the recipient of a Great Teacher Award from the Society of Columbia Graduates. Additionally, President Barack Obama presented him with the National Humanities Medal for his writings on higher education and the place classic authors hold in history and contemporary life. Read more about the NEH Jefferson Lecture and Andrew Delbanco.
Tickets to the lecture are free of charge and distributed on a first-come, first-served basis. Tickets will be available on September 14, 2022. All tickets will be general admission and seating is first-come first-served.
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(Wednesday) 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Location
President Lincoln's Cottage 140 Rock Creek Church Road Northwest Washington, DC 20011
19oct6:00 pm- 7:30 pm"WE ARE ONE" CELEBRATING OUR ROOTS CONFERENCE (Panel moderated by Mae Ngai)
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“WE ARE ONE” —
CELEBRATING OUR ROOTS CONFERENCE – WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 19, 2022 6PM – NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED – OPEN TO THE PUBLIC PANEL DISCUSSION AND SPECIAL MUSICAL PERFORMANCES TO COMMEMORATE THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE HISTORIC STRIKE OF CHINATOWN GARMENT WORKERS. MODERATED BY MAE NGAI (OF CSER AND HISTORY)
PLUS: PHOTO EXHIBIT AT CSER’S GALLERY OPEN M-TH, 11A TO 3P, THROUGHOUT THE SEMESTER. |
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(Wednesday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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Buell Hall, Maison Française
515 West 116th Street, New York, NY, United States)
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October 19th from 4:20pm - 6:00pm Workshop with Jose E. Argueta Funes (Columbia, Law & History). "The Common Law Goes to Hawai’i: Customary Order, Legislation, and the
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October 19th from 4:20pm – 6:00pm Workshop with Jose E. Argueta Funes (Columbia, Law & History). “The Common Law Goes to Hawai’i: Customary Order, Legislation, and the Meaning of Property Reform” Comment by Shyam Balganesh (Columbia, Law).
Workshop location will be circulated closer to event date
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(Wednesday) 4:20 pm - 6:00 pm
18oct6:00 pm- 8:00 pmExhibit of Manuscripts on Islamic Science: Opening Reception
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Exhibit of Manuscripts on Islamic Science: Opening Reception Tuesday, October 18, 2022
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Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Science, Nature and Beauty: Harmony and Cosmological Perspectives in Islamic Science” is an exhibit that showcases over 90 manuscripts, instruments and objects from the Muslim World Manuscript collection housed in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the Columbia University Libraries. It is a collective curatorial effort that has involved students, faculty members, librarians and library staff working hand-in-hand.
The items exhibited help to bring into clear relief the complex and dynamic ways in which sciences permeated almost all aspects of life within the Muslim world, not only during the so-called “golden age” or “classical” centuries of Islamic history but until at least the middle of the 18th century. The exhibit also contributes to an understanding of Islamic science as a robust, diverse and lively scholarly endeavor, and as a central and non-reducible component of larger and non-linear histories, cultures and traditions of the arts and sciences.
We will gather in Butler 203 at 6:00 p.m. for opening remarks, before moving on to a viewing in the Kempner Gallery, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 6th floor, Butler Library.
This event is open to all: visitors and members of the public, please be aware of the University COVID compliance requirements, and be prepared to show proof of vaccination and government-issued ID in order to enter Butler Library, on the day of the event.
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(Tuesday) 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Butler Library, 535 W. 114 St., New York, NY 10027 Room/Area: Room 203, then Kempner Gallery, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 6th floor, Butler Library
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(Tuesday) 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Please note the room change to IAB 1512 for this event; it will also start at 4:15PM.
Today Vietnam is one of America’s strongest international partners, with a thriving economy and a population that welcomes American visitors. How that relationship was formed is a twenty-year story of daring diplomacy and a careful thawing of tensions between the two countries after a lengthy war that cost nearly 60,000 American and more than two million Vietnamese lives.
Ted Osius, former ambassador during the Obama administration, offers a vivid account, starting in the 1990s, of the various forms of diplomacy that made this reconciliation possible. He considers the leaders who put aside past traumas to work on creating a brighter future, including senators John McCain and John Kerry, two Vietnam veterans and ideological opponents who worked together for a greater cause, and Pete Peterson—the former POW who became the first US ambassador to a new Vietnam. Ambassador Osius also draws upon his own experiences working first-hand with various Vietnamese leaders and traveling the country on bicycle to spotlight the ordinary Vietnamese people who have helped bring about their nation’s extraordinary renaissance.
A diplomat for thirty years, Ambassador Osius served from 2014 to 2017 as US Ambassador to Vietnam. Leading a team of 900, he devised and implemented strategies to deepen economic, security and cultural ties between the two countries. Since his departure from government, he joined Google Asia-Pacific as Vice President for Government Affairs and Public Policy. Earlier, he was a senior advisor at the Albright-Stonebridge Group, and the first Vice President of Fulbright University Vietnam. Osius was associate professor at the National War College and Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Osius was the first openly gay American ambassador in East Asia. He co-founded Gays and Lesbians in Foreign Affairs Agencies in 1992.
Ambassador Osius earned a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, a Master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, and an Honorary Doctorate from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Education. He was the first US ambassador to receive the Order of Friendship from the President of Vietnam.
Weatherhead East Asian Institute’s incoming director Lien-Hang Nguyen, Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia, will moderate the talk. China and the World Program’s director Professor Tom Christensen will make introductory remarks.
This event is cosponsored by the WEAI, the School of International and Public Affairs, and CWP at Columbia University.
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(Monday) 4:15 pm - 6:15 pm
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IAB 1512
14oct4:00 pm- 5:30 pmIRAAS: Black Counter Cartographies
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Akin to the way that racial thinking marks and makes human difference, geographic knowledge and its modes of representation mark differences—above from below ground, land from water, here from there, mine from yours. The field of Black Geographies challenges and reimagines modernity’s production of space (and time), one that has been abstracted by the metrics of markets and politics. Black Counter Cartographies brings together diverse scholars, artists, and designers in a series of conversations exploring the spatial practices of Black life across the diaspora and how they construct “counter cartographies” of sociality, imagination and liberation.
Donette Francisis the founding co-director for the Center for Global Black Studies and past director the American Studies Program at the University of Miami. An Associate Professor of English and inaugural member of the Hemispheric Caribbean Studies Collective, her research and writing investigate place, aesthetics and cultural politics in the African Diaspora. Professor. Francis is the author ofFictions of Feminine Citizenship: Sexuality and the Nation in Contemporary Caribbean Literature. She is currently working on two book projects: “Illegibilities:Caribbean Cosmopolitanisms and the Problem of Form”,an intellectual history of the Anglophone Caribbean’s transnational literary culture, 1940-1970; andCreole Miami: Black Arts in the Magic City, a sociocultural history of black arts practice in Miami from 1970s to present.
Faren Humesis an artist + filmmaker from Florida whose work has screened with jury recognition at Berlinale, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, SXSW, AFI Fest, Chicago International Film Festival and Miami Film Festival. Faren has held fellowships with United States Artists, Guggenheim Foundation, Oolite and Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute. Faren is currently furthering a body of work concerning the continuation and interconnectedness of Black Miami.
Fall Semester Events Co-Sponsors
Center for the Study of Ethnicity & Race-Columbia University
Department of Art History & Archaeology -Columbia University
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation- Columbia University
Institute for Comparative Literature & Society-Columbia University
Institute for the Study of Sexuality & Gender-Columbia University
The School of the Arts-Colombia University
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(Friday) 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
13oct7:00 pm- 8:15 pmNYU: JAMES STAFFORD, “SOVEREIGNTY AND COMMERCE: THE CASE OF IRELAND.”
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James Stafford: Sovereignty and Commerce: The Case of Ireland
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Glucksman Ireland House NYU
One Washington mews New York, NY 10003
This lecture offers a new account of Irish thinking about the relationship between sovereignty and commerce during the global ‘age of revolutions’ (1770s-1840s). Considering key thinkers and politicians associated with the Volunteers, the United Irishmen, and Young Ireland, the lecture will explore how successive Irish national movements thought about Ireland’s place in Europe, the British Empire, and the world at large. Irish thinkers, it argues, were participants in a European debate about whether or not the apparent benefits of long-distance trade could be separated from the dangers of violence, luxury and corruption–in short, the excesses of the ‘mercantile system’ condemned by the Scottish philosopher Adam Smith.
James Stafford is an Assistant Professor in the History Department at Columbia University, specialising in the political and intellectual history of Ireland, Britain and Europe since 1750. His book The Case of Ireland: Commerce, Empire and the European Order, 1750-1848 was published by Cambridge University Press this year. He also writes on contemporary British and European politics for outlets including Dissent, Political Quarterly, The Nation, The Guardian and OpenDemocracy, and is a contributing editor at Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy (Lawrence & Wishart, UK).
In accordance with University policy, all guests to Glucksman Ireland House in-person events must be fully vaccinated for COVID-19.
To attend in-person events, please follow the NYU Covid Safety Precautions:
All guests will be required to show proof of being fully vaccinated and boosted (or, if eligible, proof of exemption) at the door. Vaccine documentation must include your name, birthdate, vaccine name or manufacturer, and the dates of each dose. Excelsior passes are not valid.
- Negative tests will not be accepted at the door.
- Guests must show a valid government-issued photo ID.
- Masks are optional (but please check for updates).
For more information on NYU’s COVID-19 vaccination protocol, please see here.
For assistance, please contact Glucksman Ireland House at ireland.house@nyu.edu or by phone at (212) 998-3955.
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(Thursday) 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm
Location
Glucksman Ireland House NYU One Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003
13oct3:00 pm- 4:30 pmU of Toronto: Book Talk with Mae Ngai
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Book Talk with Mae Ngai (Columbia University) - The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics
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Book Talk with Mae Ngai (Columbia University) – The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics
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In roughly five decades, between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been mined in the 3,000 preceding years, bringing untold wealth to individuals and nations. But friction between Chinese and white settlers on the goldfields of California, Australia, and South Africa catalyzed a global battle over “the Chinese Question”: would the United States and the settler colonies of the British Empire outlaw Chinese immigration? Professor Ngai offers a new history of the Chinese diaspora in the West, situating it in the history of global capitalism, in which a feverish alchemy of race and money brought Chinese people to the West and reshaped the nineteenth-century world.
This talk is based on Professor Ngai’s recent book The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics (W. W. Norton, 2022).
Speaker: Mae Ngai (Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies; Professor of History and Co-Director, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Columbia University)
Chair: Takashi Fujitani (Dr. David Chu Chair in Asia-Pacific Studies, Professor of History, and Director of the Dr. David Chu Program in Asia-Pacific Studies)
Organized by the Dr. David Chu Program in Asia-Pacific Studies and co-sponsored by the Department of History, University of Toronto
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(Thursday) 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Location
Campbell Conference Facility (CCF), Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, U of T 1 Devonshire Place Toronto, ON M5S 3K7 Canada
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Join us for the inaugural Grace Lee Boggs ‘35 Lecture, “The Only Way To Survive Is By Taking Care of One Another: Reflections on Care Work,” given by keynote speaker Ai-jen Poo, President of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, followed by a conversation with Premilla Nadasen, Professor of History and co-Director of the Barnard Center for Research On Women.
The conversation will take place from 4:30-5:30 p.m., followed by a reception from 5:30-6:00 p.m.
Note: This event is in-person only. Please review our COVID safety guidelines.
About the Speakers
Ai-jen Poo is a next-generation labor leader, award-winning organizer, author, and a leading voice in the women’s movement. As President of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Director of Caring Across Generations, Co-Founder of SuperMajority and Trustee of the Ford Foundation, Ai-jen is a nationally recognized expert on elder and family care, the future of work, gender equality, immigration, narrative change, and grassroots organizing. She is the author of the celebrated book, The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America.
Premilla Nadasen has published extensively on the multiple meanings of feminism, alternative labor movements, and grass-roots community organizing and is most interested in visions of social change, and the ways in which poor and working-class women of color fought for social justice. Her most recent book, Household Workers Unite, examines how African American domestic workers in the U.S. strategically used storytelling to develop a political identity and through their organizing reshaped the landscape of labor organizing.
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This event is free and open to all. RSVP is preferred.
This event is in-person only. Please review our COVID safety guidelines.
Time
(Wednesday) 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Location
Event Oval, Diana Center Barnard College 117th and Broadway New York, NY 10027
12oct4:00 pm- 5:00 pmCAS: Talking Across the Divide: Communication in a Polarized Time
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Talking Across the Divide: Communication in a Polarized Time.Date & Location: Wednesday Oct. 12th from 4:00 to 5:30pm in-person at Hamilton Hall Room 703
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(Wednesday) 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Hamilton Hall 703
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(Monday) 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
7oct2:00 pm- 3:30 pmJosephine Baker's Cinematic Prism
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Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism REGISTER HERE
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Josephine Baker’s Cinematic Prism
Presented by The Center for American Studies and the Film and Media Studies Program at the School of the Arts.
Lecture by Terri Francis, Associate Professor, Associate Dean for Inclusion and Outreach, University of Miami
Response by Professor Racquel Gates, Film and Media Studies, School of the Arts, Columbia University
Co-Sponsors
Arts and Sciences Committee on Equity and Diversity
Department of History
Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
Institute for Research in African-American Studies
Time
(Friday) 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Location
Dodge Hall 511
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Our Unfinished March: The Violent Past and Imperiled
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Our Unfinished March: The Violent Past and Imperiled Future of the Vote
Please join Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. CC’73, LAW’76, and Professor Frank A. Guridy, newly appointed executive director of the Holder Initiative, as they discuss Attorney General Holder’s new book, Our Unfinished March: The Violent Past and Imperiled Future of the Vote. You will also have the opportunity to hear from the new dean of Columbia College, Josef Sorett.
The first 100 students to check in will receive a signed copy of Eric Holder’s book. (Valid CUID required)
Thursday, October 6, 2022
7:00 – 8:00 p.m. | Frank Guridy in Conversation with Eric Holder
on Our Unfinished March: The Violent Past and Imperiled Future of the Vote & Audience Q & A
8:00–9:00 p.m. | Reception
Registration for this event is required.
Please Note: This event is open to CU affiliates only.
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535 W. 116th Street
New York, NY 10027
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(Thursday) 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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Low Memorial Library - Rotunda 535 W. 116th Street New York, NY 10027
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(Thursday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
6oct5:00 pm- 6:30 pmLehman Center: Book Talk with John Wood Sweet, "The Sewing Girl's Tale"
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Book Talk with John Wood Sweet, "The Sewing Girl's Tale" Thursday, October 6, 2022
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Book Talk with John Wood Sweet, “The Sewing Girl’s Tale”
Thursday, October 6, 2022
Join the Lehman Center for American History and the Columbia Research Initiative on the Global History of Sexualities for a conversation with historian and author John Wood Sweet on his new book, The Sewing Girl’s Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America (2022).
“Excellent and absorbing … Sweet’s book … provides an opportunity … to reflect on the power we give today to legal authorities whose views about basic matters – like what it means for a man to sexually assault women – are so different from what we think, or want to think we think, now.” – New York Times Book Review
On a moonless night in the summer of 1793 a crime in the back room of a New York brothel transformed Lanah Sawyer’s life. It was the kind of crime that even victims usually kept secret. Instead, the seventeen-year-old seamstress did what virtually no one else dared to do: she charged a gentleman with rape. The trial rocked the city and nearly cost Lanah her life. And that was just the start.
Based on extraordinary historical detective work, Lanah Sawyer’s story takes us from a chance encounter in the street into the squalor of the city’s sexual underworld, the sanctuaries of the elite, and the despair of its debtors’ prison—a world where reality was always threatened by hope and deceit. It reveals how much has changed over the past two centuries—and how much has not.
John Wood Sweet is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and former director of UNC’s Program in Sexuality Studies. He graduated from Amherst College (summa cum laude) and earned his Ph.D. in History at Princeton University. His first book, Bodies Politic: Negotiating Race in the American North, was a finalist for the Frederick Douglass Prize. He has served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians, and his work has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, the National Humanities Center, the Institute for Arts and Humanities at UNC, the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale, the McNeil Center at Penn, and the Center for Global Studies in Culture, Power, and History at Johns Hopkins. He lives in Chapel Hill with his husband, son, and daughter.
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(Thursday) 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Location
International Affairs Building, 420 W. 118 St., New York, NY 10027 Room/Area: Lehman Suite, IAB Room 406
5oct7:00 pm- 8:30 pmAdam Tooze in Conversation with Jacobin - Inflation Issue Release Party
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Adam Tooze in Conversation with Jacobin - Inflation Issue Release Party
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Adam Tooze in Conversation with Jacobin – Inflation Issue Release Party
An important conversation between Adam Tooze and Jacobin’s Samir Sonti on inflation and the cost-of-living crisis, followed by drinks and music at Mayday Space in Brooklyn.
Recent signs are promising, but the threat of inflation is real, and it’s hurting workers more than anyone. In our latest issue, we show how inflation management is fundamentally about political choices and class priorities. Join us for a discussion about what causes inflation and ways to combat it that don’t put the needs of capital before everyone else.
RSVP is required. Admission is FREE, but $10 solidarity tickets will support our work and earn you a free copy of The Socialist Manifesto.
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(Wednesday) 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location
Mayday Space 176 Saint Nicholas Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11237
september 2022
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Friday, September 30th, 2022 • New York City Latin American History Workshop (Co-Sponsored by Dept., Hosted by Baruch
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Friday, September 30th, 2022
• New York City Latin American History Workshop (Co-Sponsored by Dept., Hosted by Baruch College) – Rojo Robles (Baruch), “Out of Pietri: Radical Nuyorican Poetry, 1970s-1990s”
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
Time
(Friday) 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Location
Baruch College, Newman Vertical Campus, 55 Lexington Ave, Room 8-210
29sep7:00 pm- 8:30 pmMae Ngai | BU 2022 Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture
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2022 Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture
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2022 Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture
This year’s Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture will be presented by Dr. Mae Ngai, Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History at Columbia University. The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic there has been a shocking rise in racism against Chinese and Asian Americans, including violence assaults and killings. This lecture discusses the origins of anti-Chinese racism in the U.S., locating it in the gold rushes from the middle of the nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, in the American west, Australia and South Africa. Anti-Chinese movements in the anglophone world led to laws excluding Chinese from immigration and citizenship, a product of an alchemy of race and money, capitalism and colonialism, and the rise of Great Britain and the United States as global hegemons and the concurrent isolation of China on the global stage.
About the Speaker:
Mae M. Ngai is Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History, and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University. She received her PhD from Columbia in 1998. She is a U.S. legal and political historian interested in questions of immigration, citizenship, and nationalism. She is author of the award-winning Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (2004); The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America (2010); and The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics (2021), which won the 2022 Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the LA Times book prize in history. She has been a Guggenheim Fellow and has received fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study, the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the NY Public Library, and the Library of Congress, among others. Ngai has written on immigration history and policy for the Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic, and the Nation. Before becoming a historian she was a labor-union organizer and educator in New York City. She is now writing Nation of Immigrants: A Short History of an Idea (forthcoming from Princeton University Press). This annual lecture was endowed through the generosity of Alex H. MacDonald, Esq., CAS’72 and his late wife Maureen A. Strafford, M.D., MED’76.
Price: Complimentary
Directions
BU Tsai Performance Center
685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
Time
(Thursday) 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location
BU Tsai Performance Center 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
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Mongolian Climate and History: An Experiment in Collaboration (Co-chaired by Rhiannon Stephens) September 29,
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Mongolian Climate and History: An Experiment in Collaboration (Co-chaired by Rhiannon Stephens)
September 29, 2022
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Fayerweather Hall (Room 411), Columbia University, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York
Event Description
Historians and paleoclimatologists approach the past from vastly different traditions and experiences but share a passion for past environments and peoples. In this presentation, three scholars will discuss how a cold call in 2011 initiated a dialogue between a historian (Nicola Di Cosmo) and a group of paleoclimatologists (Amy Hessl, Caroline Leland, Neil Pederson, Oyunsanaa Byambasuren, Baatarbileg Nachin, and Kevin Anchukaitis) that would change our understanding of steppe empires and the role of climate in their evolution. The collaboration led to the development of new ideas that would not have emerged without a mutual understanding of their respective fields. They each learned new tools and approaches, and how to interpret new data sources, while at the same time recognizing their limitations. This joint understanding allowed the collaborators to identify novel connections between climate, ecology, political innovations, and trade.
Event Speakers
- Nicola Di Cosmo, Luce Foundation Professor in East Asian Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study
- Amy Hessl, Professor of Geology and Geography at West Virginia University
- Caroline Leland, Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Columbia University
Event Information
Free and open to Columbia University ID holders; registration required.
Part of the History and Climate Change workshop series hosted by the Environmental Sciences and Humanities Research Cluster and co-funded by the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy.
The Center for Science and Society makes every reasonable effort to accommodate individuals with disabilities. If you require disability accommodations to attend a Center for Science and Society event, please contact us at scienceandsociety@columbia.edu or (212) 853-1612 at least 10 days in advance of the event. For more information, please visit the campus accessibility webpage.
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(Thursday) 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
28sep7:00 pm- 8:30 pmWORD Presents Hilary A. Hallett and Sarah MacLean (In-Person)
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WORD Presents Hilary A. Hallett and Sarah MacLean (In-Person)
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Join history professor Hilary A. Hallett and romance author Sarah MacLean to discuss Hilary’s new book Inventing the It Girl, a biography of early 20th century Hollywood tastemaker, Elinor Glyn. Seating is limited.
Location: WORD Bookstore, 126 Franklin Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222
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(Wednesday) 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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WORD Bookstore, 126 Franklin Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222
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September 28th from 4:20pm - 6:00pm Workshop with Craig Green (Temple, Law & History). "A Constitutional History of Territory, Statehood, and Nation-Building." Comment by Gillian Metzger (Columbia, Law).
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September 28th from 4:20pm – 6:00pm Workshop with Craig Green (Temple, Law & History). “A Constitutional History of Territory, Statehood, and Nation-Building.” Comment by Gillian Metzger (Columbia, Law).
Workshop location will be circulated closer to event date
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(Wednesday) 4:20 pm - 6:00 pm
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Envisioning reparations: historical and comparative approaches 28 Sep 2022
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| 28 Sep 2022 | Møller Institute, Storey’s Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DE | ||
| 2.40 – 4.00 PM | Panel 6: Slavery and Its Afterlives in the Caribbean
Chair: Michael Joseph Natasha Lightfoot (Columbia University) Christopher P. Todd (University of North Texas) Theodore Francis (Abilene Christian University) |
Convenor
- Sabine Cadeau (Cambridge Legacies of Enslavement Inquiry, University of Cambridge)
Keynotes
- Opening: Thomas Holt (University of Chicago)
- Closing: Sir Hilary Beckles (University of the West Indies)
Speakers
- Antonio Sergio Alfredo Guimaraes (Universidade de Sao Paulo)
- Malik Al Nasir (University of Cambridge)
- Michael Banner (University of Cambridge)
- Caree Ann Marie Banton (University of Arkansas)
- Marlene Daut (Yale University)
- Michael Dawson (University of Chicago)
- Theodore Francis (Abilene Christian University)
- Kodzo Gavua (University of Ghana)
- Edward González Tennant (University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley)
- Kamm Howard (First Repair)
- Jovan Lewis (University of California, Berkeley)
- Natasha Lightfoot (Columbia University)
- Toussaint Losier (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
- Constant Méheut (New York Times)
- Guy Mount (Wake Forest University)
- Kai Parker (Universty of Virginia)
- Winston F. Phulgence (University of West Indies)
- Alderwoman Robin Rue Simmons (First Repair)
- Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan (University of Cambridge)
- Philippe Sands (University College London)
- Alphonso Saville (Princeton University)
- Verene Shepherd (University of West Indies, Mona Campus)
- Christopher Todd (University of North Texas)
Summary
In light of Cambridge’s exploration of its historical connections to colonialism and slavery, this conference proposes to bring together scholars of Africa and the African diaspora in order to generate a broad discussion on the concept of ‘reparation’ as it relates to Black history and Black movements for freedom and equality. Rather than focusing exclusively on the UK, the US, or English-speaking Caribbean countries, this conference invites the broadest possible discussion of the black populations throughout the Americas as well as the formerly colonised nations of Africa.
Sessions will specifically address the origins and evolution of reparations movements from the period of slavery until the present, and the conference invites debates on the horizons of possibility for this controversial and embattled cause. Calls for varying forms of reparations have raised questions about the place of morality, politics, economics and law in evolving interpretations of the past.
This conference proposes to contribute to the University of Cambridge legacies of enslavement inquiry through dialogue with world-leading scholars on Black history while also creating a forum to advance the rapidly evolving public debate on slavery’s long legacies and the idea of historical reparation.
In the years before independence people were beaten, their land was stolen, women were raped, men were castrated and their children were killed. I do not hold her [the Queen] personally responsible but I would like the wrongs which were done to me and other Kenyans to be recognised by the British Government so that I can die in peace.-Wambugu Wa Nyingi
Supported by:
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(Wednesday) 2:40 pm - 4:00 pm
Location
Møller Institute, Storey’s Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DE,
22sep5:00 pm- 7:00 pmBrotherhood of Barristers: Gender, Space and the Culture of the Bar
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(Thursday) 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location
Heyman Center for the Humanities East Campus Residential Center
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September 21st from 4:20pm - 6:00pm Workshop with Gary Gerstle (University of Cambridge, History). "The Rise of the Neoliberal Order" Co-sponsored with the
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September 21st from 4:20pm – 6:00pm Workshop with Gary Gerstle (University of Cambridge, History). “The Rise of the Neoliberal Order”
Co-sponsored with the Law & Econ Workshop and the Center of Political Economy
Workshop location will be circulated closer to event date
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(Wednesday) 4:20 pm - 6:00 pm
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(Wednesday) 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Location
Faculty House, Garden Room #1
64 Morningside Drive
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REGISTER HERE Institute for Research in African
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Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University (IRAAS)
presents
CONVERSATIONS – ” THE VIRAL UNDERCLASS:THE HUMAN TOLL WHEN INEQUALITY & DISEASE COLLIDE”
with author, Steven W. Thrasher, Northwestern University in discussion w/Samuel K. Roberts, Columbia University
presented virtually via Zoom , Registration required
Registration: https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oISClq9XT1qBmX6iUNbVxg
STEVEN W. THRASHER, PhDholds the inaugural Daniel H. Renberg chair at Northwestern University’s Medill School, the first journalism professorship in the world created to focus on LGBTQ research. He is also a faculty member of Northwestern’s Institute of Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing. He holds a PhD in American Studies and divides his time between Chicago and New York.The Viral Underclassis his first book. Twitter: @thrasherxy.
SAMUEL K. ROBERTS, PhD, is Associate Professor of History (Columbia University School of the Arts and Sciences) and Sociomedical Sciences (Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health), and is also a former Director of Columbia University’s Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS). Dr. Roberts writes, teaches, and lectures widely on African-American urban history, especially medicine, public health, and science and technology. His widely acclaimed book, Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation (University of North Carolina Press, 2009), is an exploration of the political economy of race and the modern American public health state between the late nineteenth century and the mid-twentieth century, a period which encompasses the overlapping and mutually-informed eras of Jim Crow segregation and modern American public health practice.
Roberts currently is researching and writing a book-length project on the United States’s troubled history of race and recovery, examining the social and political history of heroin addiction treatment from the 1950s to the early 1990s. This project traces urban policy at the beginning of the postwar heroin epidemic, the emergence of therapeutic communities, the politics of state-run addiction rehabilitation facilities, the adoption of methadone maintenance treatment in the 1960s and 1970s, the emergence of “radical recovery” movements and harm reduction and syringe exchange in the 1980s and 1990s. Twitter: @SamuelKRoberts
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(Monday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
14sep6:00 pm- 7:30 pmFeaturedIRAAS: There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life
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Please see the below event of interest, which ISSG is co-sponsoring, from our colleagues at IRAAS. The event will be this Wednesday, September 14th at 6:00pm.
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“There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life”
with Jafari S. Allen, University of Miami
and discussants Sarah Haley, Columbia University & Mignon Moore, Barnard College.
“In There’s a Disco Ball Between Us, Jafari S. Allen offers a sweeping and lively ethnographic and intellectual history of what he calls “Black gay habits of mind.” In conversational and lyrical language, Allen locates this sensibility as it emerged from radical Black lesbian activism and writing during the long 1980s. He traverses multiple temporalities and locations, drawing on research and fieldwork conducted across the globe, from Nairobi, London, and Paris to Toronto, Miami, and Trinidad and Tobago. In these locations and archives, Allen traces the genealogies of Black gay politics and cultures in the visual art, poetry, film, Black feminist theory, historiography, and activism of thinkers and artists such as Audre Lorde, Marsha P. Johnson, Essex Hemphill, Colin Robinson, Marlon Riggs, Pat Parker, and Joseph Beam. Throughout, Allen re-narrates Black queer history while cultivating a Black gay method of thinking and writing. In so doing, he speaks to the urgent contemporary struggles for social justice while calling on Black studies to pursue scholarship, art, and policy derived from the lived experience and fantasies of Black people throughout the world.” – Duke University Press
Presented in co-sponsorship with the Institute for the Study of Sexuality & Gender at Columbia University (ISSG )
REGISTRATION: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/iraas-conversations-w-jafari-allen-theres-a-disco-ball-between-us-tickets-412222397287
Event Admission Policy
General Public: Virtual /Online attendance via Live Stream
In Person: Columbia University, Barnard College & Affiliates only ;
Masks required ROOM 754 Schermerhorn Extension -ISSG Seminar Room
Room Capacity Limited. Ticket does not Guarantee admission – Room will close at capacity
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(Wednesday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Location
754 Schermerhorn Extension
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Panel Discussion: Engineering Education for the 21st Century
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Panel Discussion: Engineering Education for the 21st Century
- 1014 5th Avenue, New York, NY, 10028 (map)
When designing a curriculum, there is and always will be competition for the limited number of courses a student successfully can master, which begs the question: What should the minimum requirement for graduation include and what should the proportion be between a narrow job training and a broader education? In the field of engineering, this question is even more pressing because the toolbox for solving problems – this is what engineers are meant to do professionally – is vast and very complex in and of itself. But in the globalized world of the 21st century, solving problems alone seems no longer sufficient and cultural and inter-cultural competencies are being added to the target specifications of a successful engineer.
Moreover, engineering and the natural sciences are just one expression of human curiosity and culture, others being music, art, literature, philosophy, the social sciences and even religion. Of course, historians of science and technology know this and are exploring different stages of human development from this angle. The opposite case might not be as obvious and the argument for an inclusion of humanities and social sciences in engineering often “goes without saying.“ With the insights of our distinguished experts we would like to fill in some blanks and maybe even provide an answer to the question: Does it really have to be Shakespeare, Goethe, and Bach?
Our panel includes the distinguished speakers Julika Griem, Myles W. Jackson, Jelena Kovačević, and Pamela H. Smith, and will be moderated by Kurt Becker.
This panel ist presented by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) and co-hosted by 1014 – space for ideas.
Julika Griem is Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI Essen) and since 2016, she has been Vice President of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG). Her research interests are, among others, the analysis of the contemporary literary industry, its changing forms and rituals as well as the assessment of its methodologies; Science Policy; and the institutions and frameworks which enable literature and literary studies. Dr Griem has been Full Professor for English Literature at Darmstadt University of Technology (2005 – 2012) and at Goethe University Frankfurt (2012-2018). She completed her doctorate at the University of Freiburg and her habiliation at the University of Stuttgart.
Myles W. Jackson is the Albers-Schönberg Professor in the History of Science at Princeton University’s Institute for Advance Study (IAS). He explores the intersections between science, technology, aesthetics, history, and society. The breadth of Dr Jackson’s research extends from the artisanal production of scientific knowledge in nineteenth-century Germany to molecular biology and physics, intellectual property and privacy issues, knowledge sharing, race and genomics, bioengineering, and the interactions between musicians, natural scientists, and radio engineers. His scholarship is noted for its cross-disciplinary methodology and interweaves economic, commercial, and scientific insights, pushing the boundaries of the field to establish fresh lines of inquiry.
Jelena Kovačević became the Dean of the NYU Tandon School of Engineering in August 2018. She is the first woman to head the school and she is committed to getting more women interested in technology. Tandon’s freshman class has more than double the national average of women in engineering and a quarter of its faculty are women, but Jelena works to make that number grow. Dr Kovačević received the Dipl. Electrical Engineering degree from the EE Department, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1986, and the MS and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University, New York, NY, in 1988 and 1991, respectively. From 1991-2002, she was with Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ. She was a co-founder and Technical VP of xWaveforms, based in New York City, NY. She was also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University. In 2003, she joined Carnegie Mellon University, where she was the Hamerschlag University Professor, Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Professor of Biomedical Engineering.
Pamela H. Smith is Seth Low Professor of History at Columbia University, Director of the Center for Science and Society and specializes in early modern European history and the history of science. Her current research focuses on attitudes to nature in early modern Europe and the Scientific Revolution, with particular attention to craft knowledge and historical techniques. Dr Smith is founding director of The Making and Knowing Project, founding director of The Center for Science and Society, and chair of Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience. She holds a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University and is the author of The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire (Princeton 1994; 1995 Pfizer Prize), The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution (Chicago 2004; 2005 Leo Gershoy Prize), and From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World (Chicago 2022). Dr Smith’s work on alchemy, artisans, and the making of vernacular and scientific knowledge has been supported by prestigious fellowships such as the Wissenschafts-Kolleg, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Getty Foundation, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and the National Science Foundation.
Kurt Becker is Vice Dean for Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering and was part of a group of pioneering scientists who determined the ionization cross sections for atoms and molecules, which are critical to understanding the charge carrier formation in plasmas. Additional areas of interest include atomic, molecular and chemical physics, the development of new experimental techniques and processes, technology transfer, and IP commercialization. He earned a Diplom in Physik (MS) and Dr. rer. Nat. at the Universität des Saarlandes in 1978 and 1981, respectively. Dr Becker is the recipient of the Dr. Eduard-Martin Prize for Excellence in Research, American Physical Society Fellow, Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award (with Erich Kunhardt), and an honorary professorship from the Leopold-Franzens-Universität.
Unfortunately, 1014 Fifth Avenue is in the process of being refurbished, and is not fully accessible in its current state. We apologize to our guests and kindly ask you to contact j.stubbs@1014.nyc if you need further information or assistance. We will do our best to enable everyone to join us.
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(Wednesday) 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location
1014 5th AvenueNew York, NY, 10028
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BSO and GBH Host 'An Evening With Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, And Sarah Botstein' at Symphony Hall Next Month The event
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BSO and GBH Host ‘An Evening With Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, And Sarah Botstein’ at Symphony Hall Next Month
The event is on Monday, September 12, 2022 at 7 p.m. at Symphony Hall, Boston.
Boston public media producer GBH and the Boston Symphony Orchestra will host THE U.S. AND THE HOLOCAUST: An Evening with Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein on Monday, September 12, 2022 at 7 p.m. at Symphony Hall, Boston.
This special event is being presented in connection with the release of THE U.S. AND THE HOLOCAUST, a new three-part documentary directed and produced by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein. The film explores America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises in history.
THE U.S. AND THE HOLOCAUST: An Evening with Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein will feature clips from the film, followed by a behind-the-scenes conversation with the filmmakers. Music from the film will be performed live by musicians Kyle Sanna and Johnny Gandelsman, who performed the music in the documentary. The discussion will be moderated by Pam Johnston, general manager of GBH News. Tickets are $15-$25 and are available now at bso.org/events and at the box office at Symphony Hall, Boston.
Inspired in part by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s “Americans and the Holocaust” exhibition and supported by its historical resources, THE U.S. AND THE HOLOCAUST examines the rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany in the context of global antisemitism and racism, the eugenics movement in the United States, and race laws in the American South.
The film features interviews with some of the country’s leading scholars on the period, including Daniel Greene, Rebecca Erbelding, Peter Hayes, Deborah Lipstadt, Daniel Mendelsohn, Daniel Okrent, Nell Irvin Painter, Mae Ngai, and Timothy Snyder. On-camera witnesses include Susan Hilsenrath Warsinger, Eva Geiringer [Schloss], Joseph Hilsenrath, Marlene Mendelsohn, Sol Messinger, and Guy Stern, who recently turned 100 years old.
THE U.S. AND THE HOLOCAUST will air September 18, 19, and 20, at 8-10 p.m. ET on GBH 2, PBS.org, and the PBS Video app. Funding for THE U.S. AND THE HOLOCAUST was provided by Bank of America; David M. Rubenstein; the Park Foundation; the Judy and Peter Blum Kovler Foundation; Gilbert S. Omenn and Martha A.Darling; The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations; and by members of The Better Angels Society. Funding was also provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and by public television viewers.
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(Monday) 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location
Symphony Hall, Boston
301 Massachusetts Ave
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6:00 PM–7:30 PM EAST GALLERY, MAISON FRANÇAISE, BUELL HALL PANEL DISCUSSION:
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6:00 PM–7:30 PM EAST GALLERY, MAISON FRANÇAISE, BUELL HALL
PANEL DISCUSSION:
Free Market: The History of an Idea
Jacob Soll, in conversation with Pierre Force, John Shovlin, Carl Wennerlind, and Emmanuelle Saada
RSVP HERE
After two government bailouts of the U.S. economy in less than twenty years, free market ideology is due for serious reappraisal. In Free Market: the History of an Idea, Jacob Soll details how we got to this current crisis, and how we can find our way out by looking to earlier iterations of free market thought. Contrary to popular narratives, early market theorists believed that states had an important role in building and maintaining free markets. But in the eighteenth century, thinkers insisted on free markets without state intervention, leading to a tradition of ideological brittleness. That tradition only calcified in the centuries that followed. Tracing the intellectual evolution of the free market from Cicero to Milton Friedman, Soll argues that we need to go back to the origins of free market ideology in order to truly understand it—and to develop new economic concepts to face today’s challenges.
Jacob Soll is professor of history and accounting at the University of Southern California. He has been awarded numerous prestigious prizes including two NEH Fellowships, the Jacques Barzun Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and, in 2011, the MacArthur Fellowship. He also advises political and financial leaders across the globe to promote accounting standards and financial transparency.
Joining Jacob Soll to discuss his book will be: Pierre Force, Professor of French and History at Columbia; John Shovlin, Professor of History at NYU; and Carl Wennerlind, Professor of History at Barnard College. Emmanuelle Saada, Professor of History and French at Columbia, will moderate the discussion.
Time
(Monday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Location
East Gallery, Buell Hall (Maison Française)
East Gallery, Buell Hall (Maison Française)
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NYU C+M Silver Center Speaker Series: Dr.
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(Monday) 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
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Date and time
Sat, September 10, 2022
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Location
Outside of Chocolat Restaurant
120th Street and Frederick Douglass Blvd.
New York, NY 10027
Screening of Becoming Frederick Douglass, directed by Stanley Nelson, 90m, 2022, USA, preceded by a talkback with the director.
About this event
This Special Advance Screening will be preceded by a talk with director Stanley Nelson and Professor Natasha Lightfoot, Columbia University, Department of History.
Using Frederick Douglass’ own words, this documentary film tells the story of how a man born and raised in slavery became one of the most prominent elder statesmen and powerful voices for freedom in America.
This ImageNation x FDBA program is co-presented with Firelight Films.
ABOUT IMAGENATION
Led by Moikgantsi Kgama (Founder & Executive Director) and Gregory Gates (Executive Producer), ImageNation has hosted film screenings, live music performances and other cultural events for more than 150,000 people worldwide since its inception in New York City in 1997. In addition to hosting year-round programs at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the world-famous Apollo Theater, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and in New York City Parks, ImageNation has presented internationally in South Africa, Scotland and Canada and domestically at Harvard University, MASS MOCA, and in Dallas, TX, Los Angeles, CA, Baltimore, MD and Washington DC. Programs have featured appearances by leading filmmakers such as Spike Lee, Lee Daniels, Stanley Nelson and Ava Duvernay.
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(Saturday) 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location
Outside of Chocolat Restaurant 120th Street and Frederick Douglass Blvd. New York, NY 10027
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Money and Empire: A Conversation on Charles Kindleberger and the Dollar System
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Speakers
Professor Perry Mehrling
Professor of International Political Economy, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
Professor Michael Pettis
Professor of Finance, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University
Professor Adam Tooze
Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History, Columbia University
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Professor Linda Yueh, Visiting Professor at LSE IDEAS, Fellow in Economics at Oxford University
Click here to register for the webinar.
For any queries email ideas.events@lse.ac.uk.
Meet the speakers and chair
Professor Perry Mehrling is a Professor of International Political Economy at the Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University, where he teaches courses on the economics of money and banking, the history of money and finance, and international money, the first of these is available online. Mehrling is the author of ‘The New Lombard Street: How the Fed became the dealer of last resort’ (Princeton, 2011), ‘Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance’ (Wiley, 2005), and ‘The Money Interest and the Public Interest’ (Harvard, 1997). His most recent book is ‘Money and Empire: Charles P. Kindleberger and the Dollar System’ (Cambridge, 2022) He currently serves on the Academic Council of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (New York) and the Committee on Global Thought (Columbia University) and has served as visiting professor at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, University of Nice, Paris X (Nanterre), and the Sloan School of Management, MIT.
Professor Michael Pettis is a finance professor at Peking University and a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment. Prior to 2002, Pettis spent fifteen years on Wall Street running fixed-income trading and capital markets desks at JP Morgan, First Boston, and Bear Stearns, where he advised Latin American, Asian and Eastern European governments on debt and balance sheet strategies. During the last nine of these years he also taught finance at Columbia University. He has published over 200 articles in various leading periodicals along with six books, the most recent of which, ‘Trade Wars Are Class Wars’ (Yale University Press, 2020), was awarded the Lionel Gelber Prize. His previous book, ‘Avoiding the Fall: China’s Economic Restructuring, (Carnegie Endowment, 2013), was selected by the Financial Times as one of the top ten books on business and economics in 2013, while the one before that, ‘The Great Rebalancing’ (Princeton University Press, 2013), was selected in 2018 among Barron’s The 7 Best Books about the Financial Crisis.
Professor Adam Tooze holds the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Chair of History and is the director of the European Institute at Columbia University. Prior to joining Columbia, he was the Barton M. Biggs Professor at Yale University and Reader in Modern History at the University of Cambridge. In February 2011, he was the Thomas Hawkins Johnson Visiting Professor in Military History at West Point.
Tooze is the author of several books, including ‘The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of Global Order, 1916-1931’ (Viking, 2014) and ‘The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy’ (Penguin, 2006). His history of the financial crisis of 2008 and after, ‘Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World’ appeared in 2018, and his most recent book is ‘Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy’ (Penguin, 2021). His books have received prizes from the Leverhulme Trust and Longman History Today as well as the Wolfson Prize and the LA Times History Prize. They have been shortlisted for the Duff Cooper and Hessel Tiltman Prizes and featured in the annual best-book lists of the Financial Times, LA Times, Kirkus Review, Foreign Affairs, and The Economist.
Tooze’s writing has appeared in the Financial Times, Guardian, Sunday Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement, London Review of Books, New left Review, New Statesman, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, New York Review of books, Dissent, Die Zeit, Spiegel, Die Tageszeitung, and Sueddeutsche Zeitung. He maintains the influential subscription blog ‘Chartbook’ on Substack.
Professor Linda Yueh, is an economist, writer and broadcaster. She is a Visiting Professor at LSE IDEAS and serves on the Policy Committee of the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE. She is Fellow in Economics at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford and Adjunct Professor of Economics at London Business School. She was a Visiting Professor of Economics at Peking University. Dr Yueh is the Editor of the Routledge Series on Economic Growth and Development and the author of numerous books, including China’s Growth: The Making of an Economic Superpower and The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today.
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This event is hosted by LSE IDEAS
Event hashtags: #GlobalEconomicGovernance #LSEGEGC
LSE IDEAS (@lseideas) is LSE’s foreign policy think tank. Through sustained engagement with policymakers and opinion-formers, IDEAS provides a forum that informs policy debate and connects academic research with the practice of diplomacy and strategy.
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(Thursday) 7:00 am - 9:00 am
1sep10:30 am- 12:00 pmHealth for Everyone Zoom Meeting (Merlin Chowkwanyun)
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An exciting Zoom launch coming up on 9/1/22, Thursday, 10:30A Eastern, for #HealthForEveryone. Featuring as special guest Merlin Chowkwanyun, author of
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An exciting Zoom launch coming up on 9/1/22, Thursday, 10:30A Eastern, for #HealthForEveryone. Featuring as special guest Merlin Chowkwanyun, author of All Health Politics is Local.
RSVP here! http://ow.ly/gRWt50KgRfP
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(Thursday) 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
august 2022
4aug7:30 pm- 8:30 pmBook Talk with Merlin Chokwanyun at WordUp Bookstore
july 2022
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Women and Gendered Violence, a plenary panel of the 2022 Memory Studies Association Conference in Seoul will be held online on July 5, 8-10
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(Tuesday) 8:00 am - 10:00 am
june 2022
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Movement Building in Media Danny Vazquez • Naib
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Danny Vazquez • Naib Mian • Meher Divya Manda • Manan Ahmed
Industry veterans, editors, journalists, and organizers speak to the highs and lows of organizing in the workplace, sharing practical advice from their work in the field, and ways to get involved with labor justice work in the publishing and media industries. With Danny Vazquez, Naib Mian, and Meher Divya Manda, moderated by Manan Ahmed.
Our panelists welcome audience questions to tackle in their conversation on this emerging, and important, sphere. Submit your questions here!
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(Saturday) 10:30 am - 11:30 am
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BOOK PRESENTATION | PSYCHIATRY AND POLITICS IN POST-WAR FRANCE
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BOOK PRESENTATION | PSYCHIATRY AND POLITICS IN POST-WAR FRANCE
PSYCHIATRY AND POLITICS IN POST-WAR FRANCE
BOOK PRESENTATION
by Camille ROBCIS ,
Disalienation. Politics, Philosophy,
and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France,
Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2021.
Sciences Po History Center, 1 Place Saint-Thomas-d’Aquin, 75007 Paris
Anatole LE BRAS (post-doctoral fellow at the University of Strasbourg) and
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(Monday) 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
7junAll DayWomen & Silent Screen XI Online
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Women & Silent Screen XI Online: Zoom Webinar link: bit.ly/WomenAndTheSilentScreenRegistration Tuesday, June 7 — 8 (New York
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Women & Silent Screen XI Online:
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Tuesday, June 7 — 8 (New York Time) June 7 — 9 CST (China time)
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2jun8:30 am- 9:45 amWSS XI Conference: Women, Cinema, and World Migration
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Columbia University COVID Policy **Bring ID, COVID vaccine proof, & mask indoors** General Public Registration and Ticket
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**Bring ID, COVID vaccine proof, & mask indoors**
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Women in Film History International
Columbia University — Morningside Hts & Manhattanville campuses
Thursday, June 2: Lenfest Center for the Arts/KOB Screening room 2nd fl. — single-strand
8:30 — 9:45 am — Registration + COVID check — Lenfest Lobby
Friday, June 3 — AM: Dodge Hall & PM: Lenfest Center for the Arts/KOB Screening Room
Saturday, June 4 — AM: Dodge Hall & PM: Lenfest Center for the Arts/KOB Screening Room
Sunday, June 5 — AM: Dodge Hall & PM: Lenfest Center for the Arts/KOB Screening Room
Monday, June 6 — Domitor all day screenings – KOB Screening Room
10:00 am – 9:00 pm – Register – FREE:
https://www.showclix.com/event/domitor-conference
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Women & Silent Screen XI Online:
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Tuesday, June 7 — 8 (New York Time) June 7 — 9 CST (China time)
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(Thursday) 8:30 am - 9:45 am
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Lenfest Center for the Arts/KOB Screening room 2nd fl.
1jun6:00 pm- 7:30 pmRevolution 13/13: Abolition Feminism (Sarah Haley)
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(Wednesday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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The People's Forum
320 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018
1jun6:00 pm- 8:00 pmWSS XI Conference: Women, Cinema, and World Migration
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Columbia University COVID Policy **Bring ID, COVID vaccine proof, & mask indoors** General Public Registration and Ticket
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**Bring ID, COVID vaccine proof, & mask indoors**
General Public Registration and Ticket information:
Women in Film History International
Wednesday, June 1, 2022: Museum of Modern Art — 11 West 53rd st.
6:00 pm — FREE Archivists panel + screening. Titus 2 Theater
Columbia University — Morningside Hts & Manhattanville campuses
Thursday, June 2: Lenfest Center for the Arts/KOB Screening room 2nd fl. — single-strand
8:30 — 9:45 am — Registration + COVID check — Lenfest Lobby
Friday, June 3 — AM: Dodge Hall & PM: Lenfest Center for the Arts/KOB Screening Room
Saturday, June 4 — AM: Dodge Hall & PM: Lenfest Center for the Arts/KOB Screening Room
Sunday, June 5 — AM: Dodge Hall & PM: Lenfest Center for the Arts/KOB Screening Room
Monday, June 6 — Domitor all day screenings – KOB Screening Room10:00 am – 9:00 pm – Register – FREE:
https://www.showclix.com/event/domitor-conference
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Women & Silent Screen XI Online:
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Tuesday, June 7 — 8 (New York Time) June 7 — 9 CST (China time)
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(Wednesday) 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
may 2022
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From 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)
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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
19may4:30 pm- 7:30 pmReimagining Educational Work for Collective Freedom (Sarah Haley)
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Reimagining Educational Work for Collective Freedom
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Reimagining Educational Work for Collective Freedom
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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Mellon Foundation Event: Chinese American History, Asian American Experiences Thursday, May 19 at
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Mellon Foundation Event: Chinese American History, Asian American Experiences
Thursday, May 19 at 4:00 PM ET
Chinese immigrants and their descendants have shaped the United States, but their experiences are not always acknowledged as part of our collective history.
Chinese American stories touch on every facet of the American experience: from those of immigrants who arrived at the US via the Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco; to builders of the transcontinental railroad connecting America’s east and west; drivers of urban development and access to public education; and subjects of discrimination and anti-Chinese legislation. In sharing these histories, we can cultivate a fuller understanding of our current moment and promote truthful narratives about Chinese American histories and Asian American experiences.
Join us as we celebrate under-told Chinese American stories and understand their place in our rich tapestry. Mellon Foundation President Dr. Elizabeth Alexander hosts a virtual livestream that is part history lesson and part conversation, featuring three leading authors, scholars, and advocates: Dr. Erika Lee, Dr. Mae Ngai, and Helen Zia.
Dr. Erika Lee
REGENTS PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
Dr. Erika Lee is an award-winning historian, author, and advocate. She is a Regents Professor of History and Asian American Studies, Director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota, and President of the Organization of American Historians. The granddaughter of Chinese immigrants, Lee was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the American Antiquarian Society and testified before Congress in its historic hearings on anti-Asian discrimination and violence. She is the author of four award-winning books including The Making of Asian America and America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in America, which won the American Book Award and the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, as well as other honors. Named to many best books lists and identified as an essential book illuminating the Trump era and the 2020 elections, it was recently re-published with a new epilogue on xenophobia and racism during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr. Mae Ngai
LUNG FAMILY PROFESSOR OF ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES AND PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Dr. Mae Ngai is a US legal and political historian interested in questions of immigration, citizenship, and nationalism. She is the author of several books, including the award-winning Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (2004) and The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America (2010). Dr. Ngai’s latest book, The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics (2021), won the 2002 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy and was a finalist for the LA Times book prize in history. The book studies how Chinese migration to the world’s goldfields upended global power and economics and forged modern conceptions of race. Ngai is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Society of American Historians, and the American Antiquarian Society. She has written on immigration history and policy matters for The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and The Atlantic. Before becoming a historian, she was a labor-union organizer and educator in New York City, working for District 65-UAW and the Consortium for Worker Education.
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(Thursday) 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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NINO-EOL Spring Lecture: Before Babel and After. Scriptures and Languages in the Ancient Near East The numerous
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NINO-EOL Spring Lecture: Before Babel and After. Scriptures and Languages in the Ancient Near East
The numerous texts of the Ancient Near East give us a wide palette of scripts and languages, which make the history of the region one of the most interesting in Antiquity. This lecture is based on the book Before and After Babel. Writing as Resistance in Ancient Near Eastern Empires , forthcoming with Oxford University Press. She outlines how the use of languages and scripts changed radically between the second and the first millennium BC. – before Babel and afterwards – and explains how we can interpret the explosion of new writing systems in relation to the growing threat of the infamous empires of Mesopotamia.
Marc Van de Mieroop is professor of Ancient Near Eastern History at Columbia University, New York.
This is a hybrid reading. Come to the National Museum of Antiquities (Leemanszaal) and have a drink with us afterwards. Or follow the lecture online via Zoom: register here for the Zoom link.
No recording is made; it is not possible to review the lecture later.
RMO: Leemans room (ground floor)
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(Wednesday) 9:00 am - 11:00 am
16may5:00 pm- 6:00 pmThen & Now: Drug Policy And Harm Reduction Services (Samuel K. Roberts)
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This is a virtual event. Login information with be included in your confirmation email. The event is free; a donation of $10 is
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This is a virtual event. Login information with be included in your confirmation email. The event is free; a donation of $10 is suggested.
About the Speakers
Michele Calvo, MPH, is Program Officer in the Community Programs and Policy Solutions Department at the New York Academy of Medicine. As NYAM’s lead for drug policy and criminal-legal system reform, she collaborates with advocates on campaigns and conducts research to inform changes to policies that contribute to structural racism and marginalization of communities, such as the recent reforms in New York to expand access to medication assisted treatment in jails and prisons, decriminalize syringes, and implement supervised consumption sites. Michele has led multiple initiatives to advance equity in the New York City and State response, including a data partnership with Metropolitan Hospital and NYAM’s COVID-19 vaccine equity action collaborative. She also serves as Project Director of a PCORI-funded COVID-19 research study examining the impact of the Medicaid Health Home program on access to health care and social services among patients with diabetes in NYC during the pandemic. NYAM tweets from @nyamnyc.
Terrell Jones works in outreach and advocacy for marginalized low-income persons who use drugs. He is Senior Co-chair, Peer Network of New York, and Community Engagement Manager of New York Harm Reduction Educators. He is a leader in VOCAL-NY (Voices of Community Activists & Leaders) and a Partner with the Drug Policy Alliance. He served on the Expert Advisory Panel for the 2017 report prepared by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, “Overdose Prevention in New York City: Supervised Injection as a Strategy to Reduce Opioid Overdose and Public Injection.” Terrell Jones tweets from @terrellPNNY.
Sam Rivera currently serves as the Executive Director of New York Harm Reduction Educators and Washington Heights Corner Project, two merging harm reduction organizations that provide services to active drug users and sex workers in Northern Manhattan and The South Bronx, many of whom are low-income or homeless as well as of color and LGBTQ. With over 29 years of progressive experience in social services, his expertise lies in Criminal Justice/Reentry, HIV/AIDS, Harm Reduction, Addiction/Recovery, and Mental Health. He has dedicated his professional career to ameliorating the harms associated with the War on Drugs, racism/sexism, structural inequality, and mass incarceration and will continue to work to end systemic as well as systematic barriers to populations that are most vulnerable. Sam Rivera tweets from @samrivera111.
Samuel Kelton Roberts, Jr., PhD, is Associate Professor of History at Columbia University and of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. He is a former Director of Columbia University’s Institute for Research in African American Studies. Dr. Roberts writes, teaches, and lectures widely on African-American urban history, especially medicine, public health, and science and technology. His widely acclaimed book, Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation (University of North Carolina Press, 2009), is an exploration of the political economy of race and the modern American public health state between the late nineteenth century and the mid-twentieth century. Roberts currently is researching and writing a book-length project on the United States’s troubled history of race and recovery, examining the social and political history of heroin addiction treatment from the 1950s to the early 1990s. In 2018, Dr. Roberts launched the podcast series People Doing Interesting Stuff (PDIS) in which he speaks with people working in public health and social justice, especially harm reduction, HIV/AIDS work, reproductive justice, and criminal justice reform. He tweets from @SamuelKRoberts.
Maia Szalavitz is a journalist and the author of Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction (2021), the first history of the harm reduction movement. She has written for numerous publications from High Times to the New York Times, where she is currently a contributing opinion writer. She is author or co-author of five other books, including the New York Times bestseller, Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction, which is widely recognized as an important advance in thinking about the nature of addiction and how to cope with it, personally and politically. Her book, Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids was the first to expose the damage caused by the “tough love” business that dominates adolescent addiction treatment. With Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD, she co-wrote the classic work on child trauma, The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog and Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential—And Endangered. She has won awards from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Drug Policy Alliance, the American Psychological Association, and the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology for her 30 years of groundbreaking writing on addiction, drug policy, and neuroscience. Maia Szalavitz tweets from @maiasz.
Paul Theerman, PhD, has served as Director of the NYAM Library and Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health since 2018. In this capacity he oversees library operations, including cataloging and description, digitization, collection development, preservation and conservation, user services, with a special emphasis on public engagement. Over a 40+ year career in museums, archives, libraries and academia he has focused his efforts on connecting the interested and knowledgeable pubic with contemporary issues in sciences, technology, and medicine. He is a co-organizer of the Medicine and Health Working Group of the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, and regularly teaches the history of public health in the graduate program in public health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The NYAM Library tweets from @nyamhistory.
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(Monday) 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
13may10:00 am- 12:00 am30th Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI (Prize Winner: Tamar Menashe)
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MAY 13, 2022 | 10AM ET Award of the 2022 Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize at the
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MAY 13, 2022 | 10AM ET
Award of the 2022 Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize at the GHI | Prize Winner: Tamar Menashe (University of Pennsylvania)
The Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize is kindly sponsored by the Friends of the German Historical Institute.
Prize Winner: Tamar Menashe: The Imperial Supreme Court and Jews in Cross-Confessional Legal Cultures in Germany, 1495-1690 (Columbia University, 2022)
COVID-19 Policy: You will have to show proof of vaccination at the door. The GHI enforces a mask mandate throughout the building regardless of CDC guidelines.
Tamar Menashe’s dissertation reconstructs Ashkenazi and Sephardi German Jews’ intensive pursuit of civil and religious rights before Germany’s Imperial Supreme Court (Reichskammergericht, the Imperial Chamber Court) in the context of the wide-ranging religious and legal reforms in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The dissertation reveals that the study of Jews’ surprising strategies of interconnecting law and religion in defense of themselves and their religious laws promited Jews’ civil rights in radical ways, and attained a de facto status of imperial citizenship for Ashkenazi and Sephardi-Portugese Jews.
Selection committee for the 2022 Fritz Stern Prize: Prof. Daniel Riches (Chair), Prof. Barnet Hartston, Prof. Philipp Nielsen.
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(Friday) 10:00 am - 12:00 am
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(Friday) 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
5may7:00 pm- 8:30 pmA Long Cold War: The Remaking of Latin American Cold War Studies (Amy Chazkel)
5may4:00 pm- 5:30 pmA Discussion on Building a Climate and History Network (Rhiannon Stephens)
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Historians and climate scientists are increasingly collaborating with each other. These interactions are helping us to better understand our past climate at local or regional scales over seasonal to annual timescales. While we know much about how the climate has changed over the course of human history at a global or hemispheric level, the complicated dynamics at regional and sub-regional levels mean there is much still to learn and historical evidence can help by anchoring climate events in time. Conversely, we may be able to better understand history through our knowledge of the climate by bringing paleoclimatology into historical research, especially before the twentieth century.
The speakers’ specific collaborative research has worked to understand multi-decadal droughts in East Africa in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. They will use the preliminary work on this project to discuss the challenges and benefits of collaborations in this space and what needs to be done to cultivate and amplify climate and history collaborations more generally across Columbia University. They will review other efforts in this space and why we think there is great potential to pursue similar interdisciplinary efforts at Columbia. This presentation will thus be used to seed an open discussion on the interest, capacity, and logistics of building a climate and history network at Columbia.
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- Rhiannon Stephens, Associate Professor of History, Columbia University
- Jason Smerdon, Lamont Research Professor, Columbia University
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Free and open to Columbia University ID holders; registration required.
This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Center for Science and Society, and Columbia Interdisciplinary Research on Climate Workshop.
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(Thursday) 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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513 Fayerweather Hall
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Third session of the lecture cycle: PATRICIOS AND PLEBEYOS: CLASSES AND CLASSISM IN THE NATIONAL IMAGINARY (Coordinated
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(Wednesday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
april 2022
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Sakip Sabanci Center for Turkish Studies Dissertation Fellow Showcase Featuring: Deborah Sokolowski
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Sakip Sabanci Center for Turkish Studies Dissertation Fellow Showcase
Featuring: Deborah Sokolowski and Joshua Donovan | REGISTER HERE
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Ararat Sekeryan
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(Friday) 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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Trace and Aura: The Recurring Lives of St. Ambrose of Milan | A Talk by Patrick Boucheron
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Trace and Aura: The Recurring Lives of St. Ambrose of Milan | A Talk by Patrick Boucheron
6:00 PM–7:00 PM EAST GALLERY, MAISON FRANÇAISE
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Patrick Boucheron, one of the foremost medievalists of our time, will present his groundbreaking work on history and memory that goes well beyond the life of this influential saint, Trace and Aura: The Recurring Lives of St. Ambrose of Milan recently translated in English and published by Other Press. Elected bishop of Milan by popular acclaim in 374, Ambrose went on to become one of the four original Doctors of the Church. There is much more to this book, however, than the captivating story of the bishop who baptized Saint Augustine in the fourth century. Trace and Aura investigates how a crucial figure from the past can return in different guises over and over again, in a city that he inspired and shaped through his beliefs and political convictions. His recurring lives actually span more than ten centuries, from the fourth to the sixteenth.
In the process of following Ambrose’s various reincarnations, Patrick Boucheron draws compelling connections between religion, government, tyranny, the Italian commune, Milan’s yearning for autonomy, and many other aspects of this fascinating relationship between a city and its spiritual mentor who strangely seems to resist being manipulated by the needs and ambitions of those in power.
This event is free and open to the public. Proof of vaccination is required and masks are to be worn over the mouth and nose at all times. To register for this in person event, please click here. You can also follow the discussion live on Facebook.
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(Tuesday) 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall
26apr6:00 pm- 7:30 pmFeaturedThe 2022 Bancroft Prize Award Ceremony (Mae Ngai)
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Columbia University Libraries, in partnership
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Columbia University Libraries, in partnership with the Department of History and The Forum, are delighted to invite you to a celebration of the Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy. We will honor the awardees from 2020 and 2021 in addition to featuring the 2022 winners, Professors Mia Bay (University of Pennsylvania) and Mae Ngai (Columbia University). Please see the winners’ profiles below.
We have special plans this year to re-launch this important award with a new format and venue. We will be hosting an in-person program in the auditorium at The Forum on Tuesday, April 26, as well as live-streaming the festivities for a virtual audience. We will then celebrate with a reception following the ceremony at The Forum.
Whether you would prefer to be with us in person or online, we very much hope that you will join us! The program will take place from 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. You may bring one guest; use the ticket drop down to register your guest.
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Please note, Columbia University requires proof of full vaccination and presentation of a government-issued ID for entry to all campus facilities.
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(Tuesday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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The Forum
601 W 125th St, New York, NY 10027
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THERE WILL BE A RECEPTION AT 5:00 P.M. EVENT PAGE HERE
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How did sport become a national obsession in the United States during the 1960s and 70s? How was the growth of the sport industry during this period shaped by the Civil Rights and feminist movements? Dr. Guridy’s lecture will tell the story of the decisive role of Texas-based sports entrepreneurs and athletes in the growth of big-time professional and college sports during this revolutionary era. His lecture will show how sport and society were changed by the unlikely alliance of entrepreneurs, coaches, and athletes while underscoring the limits of those transformations.
Frank Andre Guridy is an award-winning historian and a professor of History & African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. His recent book, The Sports Revolution: How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics was published by the University of Texas Press in 2021. His first book, Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow (University of North Carolina Press, 2010), 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 has written and lectured widely on sports and social justice. He has received a number of fellowships and awards throughout his career, including the Scholar in Residence Fellowship at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award from the University of Texas at Austin, the Ray A. Billington Professorship in American History at Occidental College and the Huntington Library, and the Mark Van Doren Award for Teaching at Columbia.
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(Monday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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University of New England Portland Campus, Innovation Hall, 716 Stevens Avenue, Portland, Maine 04103
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(Friday) 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
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Maison Française
22apr12:00 pm- 1:30 pmSakıp Sabancı Lecture 2022 (Zeynep Çelik)
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(Friday) 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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Lerner Hall, Room 555, Columbia University
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(Thursday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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April 21,
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20apr6:00 pm- 7:15 pmNazi Billionaires - Adam Tooze in conversation with David de Jong
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(Wednesday) 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm
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1180 Amsterdam Avenue, Room 411 Fayerweather
20apr6:00 pm- 7:30 pmConducting Research in and About China in a Time of Uncertainty Danping Wang)
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Conducting research in China today presents mounting challenges from many different directions. Please join our panel of experienced scholars as they discuss recent strategies for pursuing their work in a time of heightened anxiety and controls.
About the Speakers
Benjamin L. Liebman is Robert L. Lieff Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and the director of the Hong Yen Chang Center for Chinese Legal Studies, the first institution of its kind at a US law school. The Center prepares students to take on leadership roles in Chinese law and provides them with the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in China’s rapidly changing legal environment.
Widely known as a preeminent scholar of contemporary Chinese law, Liebman studies Chinese court judgments, the roles of artificial intelligence and big data in the Chinese legal system, Chinese tort law, Chinese criminal procedure, and the evolution of China’s courts. His research has covered diverse topics in Chinese law over the years, ranging from leniency in criminal law to medical dispute resolution and securities markets.
Nicholas Allyn Bartlett is an anthropologist and assistant professor in the department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College. His research interests include addiction, labor, and psychoanalytic approaches to group life in China. He is the author of Recovering Histories: Life and Labor after Heroin in Reform-era China (University of California and Columbia Weatherhead 2020).
Junyan Jiang is an assistant professor in the department of political science at Columbia University. He studies comparative politics and political economy, focusing on the politics of elites, organizations, and ideas. Some of his current research projects explore the formation and transformation of political elite networks in China, the interplay between formal rules and informal power in bureaucratic systems, and the dynamics of ideology in changing societies. His work has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, the British Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the Journal of Public Economics, and the Journal of Development Economics, among others. Prior to teaching at Columbia, he was an assistant professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his PhD in political science from the University of Chicago and BA in economics and finance from the University of Hong Kong.
Danping Wang is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Columbia University. Her dissertation traces the anti-cancer efforts of the Chinese Communist Party and the experience of Chinese cancer patients, with a special focus on the case study of esophageal cancer in Linxian, Henan province. Drawing on both Chinese and the US archival sources, oral history interviews, and an array of published sources, her research explores how political, social, technological and medical infrastructure shaped the Chinese anti-cancer efforts, and how the anti-cancer efforts, in turn, helped the CCP consolidate its regime.
For Columbia students and faculty. Interested PhD students should please write to sj3185@columbia.edu.
This event is sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
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(Wednesday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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918 International Affairs Building
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Adab Colloquium with Helen Pfeifer,
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Adab Colloquium with Helen Pfeifer, University Lecturer in Early Ottoman History, University of Cambridge and Discussant Tunç Şen, Assistant Professor, Columbia University
The Art of Conversation in the Ottoman Empire
Today, we often associate adab with the written word. However, in the pre-modern period, the true adib, or litterateur, was one who could perform the literary tradition. This session examines the expectations for gentlemanly conversation in the Ottoman Empire, and how these shaped relations between Turkish speakers and Arabic speakers in the sixteenth century.
Learn more about the Adab Colloquium at MEI here.
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(Friday) 1:10 pm - 3:00 pm
15apr12:00 pm- 1:15 pmBook Launch: The New Atlantic Order
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April 15, 2022
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Book launch for “The New Atlantic Order: The Transformation of International Politics – 1860-1933” by Patrick O. Cohrs (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
Presenter: Patrick O. Cohrs, University of Florence
Moderator: Adam Tooze, Columbia University
Welcome remarks: Anders Stephanson, Columbia University
The event is free and open to the public. Proof of vaccination is required, and masks are to be worn over the mouth and nose at all times.
Seating is limited and available on a first come, first served basis.
Please register via Zoom if you would like to follow the event live online
Sponsored by the Department of History and the European Institute
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(Friday) 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
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1180 Amsterdam Avenue, Room 411 Fayerweather
14apr5:00 pm- 6:30 pmManan Ahmed Asif | The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India (UC Berkeley)
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Manan Ahmed Asif | The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India Lecture: Center on Contemporary India |
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Manan Ahmed Asif | The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India
Lecture: Center on Contemporary India | April 14 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 3401 Dwinelle Hall
Manan Ahmed Asif, Associate Professor of History at Columbia University
Abhishek Kaicker, Associate Professor of History
Institute for South Asia Studies, The Center on Contemporary India, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Department of History
A talk by Manan Ahmed Asif, Associate Professor of History at Columbia University on his new book, The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India, a field-changing history of how the subcontinent lost its political identity as the home of all religions and emerged as India, the land of the Hindus.
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Did South Asia have a shared regional identity prior to the arrival of Europeans in the late fifteenth century? This is a subject of heated debate in scholarly circles and contemporary political discourse. Manan Ahmed Asif argues that Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the Republic of India share a common political ancestry: they are all part of a region whose people understand themselves as Hindustani. Asif describes the idea of Hindustan, as reflected in the work of native historians from roughly 1000 CE to 1900 CE, and how that idea went missing.
This makes for a radical interpretation of how India came to its contemporary political identity. Asif argues that a European understanding of India as Hindu has replaced an earlier, native understanding of India as Hindustan, a home for all faiths. Turning to the subcontinent’s medieval past, Asif uncovers a rich network of historians of Hindustan who imagined, studied, and shaped their kings, cities, and societies. Asif closely examines the most complete idea of Hindustan, elaborated by the early seventeenth century Deccan historian Firishta. His monumental work, Tarikh-i Firishta, became a major source for European philosophers and historians, such as Voltaire, Kant, Hegel, and Gibbon during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Yet Firishta’s notions of Hindustan were lost and replaced by a different idea of India that we inhabit today.
The Loss of Hindustan reveals the intellectual pathways that dispensed with multicultural Hindustan and created a religiously partitioned world of today.
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Manan Ahmed Asif is an Associate Professor of History at Columbia University. He is a historian of South Asia and the littoral western Indian Ocean world from 1000-1800 CE. His areas of specialization include intellectual history in South and Southeast Asia, and critical philosophy of history, colonial and anti-colonial thought. He is interested in how modern and pre-modern historical narratives create understandings of places, communities, and intellectual genealogies for their readers. His first monograph, A Book of Conquest: Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia (Harvard University Press, 2016), is on the intellectual life of an early thirteenth-century Persian historyChachnama also known as Fathnama-i Sind (Book of the Conquest of Sindh). The book delves into how Muslim polities in Sindh addressed sacral differences, created new ethics of rule, and articulated a political theory of power in the thirteenth century Indian Ocean World. His second monograph, The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India (Harvard University Press, 2020), tells a history of the historians of the subcontinent from the tenth to the early twentieth century. The book is a concept-history of “Hindustan,” focusing specifically on the work of the seventeenth century Deccan historian Firishta (fl. 1570-1620). Broadly, this book is doing a concept-history of “Hindustan,” a political and historiographic category that was subsumed by the colonial project of creating British India and the subsequent polities of “Republic of India” and “Islamic Republic of Pakistan.” It is also a broad examination of philosophy of history for the Muslim historians of the subcontinent.
He is the co-founder of the Group for Experimental Methods in the Humanistic Research, which focuses on “mobilized humanities” and innovations in scholarly methodologies. One of the recent projects, Torn Apart/Separados focused on the humanitarian crisis on the southwestern border in Summer 2018.
He has broad interests, and projects, in the history of archives in the global south and the problems of access and control to digitized materials. He is working on a project of spatial visualization in medieval Arabic and Persian histories— including “Mapping Mughal Hindustan, 1500-1600” and “Delivering Post by Foot in Medieval North India”. He is one of the faculty conveners for the five year supranational project funded by Mellon, “Decolonization, the Disciplines and the University” (2019-2024) and the “Manuscripts of the Muslim World”.
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(Thursday) 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm PST
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3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
13apr4:00 pm- 5:30 pmFeaturedCelebrating Recent Work by Mae M. Ngai
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- The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities
- The Dean of the Division of Social Science
- The Department of History
- The Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy
- Free and open to the public
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(Wednesday) 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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Join the Lehman Center for American History in a Conversation with Professor Michael Witgen about his New Book, Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America.
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(Tuesday) 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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406 International Affairs Building (420 West 118th street)
406 International Affairs Building (420 West 118th street)
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Long Odds Struggles in East and Southeast Asia, the 1910-1920s and 2010-2020s
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Long Odds Struggles in East and Southeast Asia, the 1910-1920s and 2010-2020s
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Speaker: Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine
Introduction by: Lien-Hang Nguyen, Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia
Moderated by: Manan Ahmed, Associate Professor of history at Columbia University
During the first decades of the last century, activists with ties to various parts of Asia embraced and then discarded different ideologies and found varying ways to connect with one another, sometimes in exile. What linked them were some shared grievances, such as a dislike of the way their community was being bullied or controlled by people in a distant capital and of the limits on their freedom to speak out on issues that concerned them and organize to bring about change. We have been seeing something similar in some ways but different in others take place now, as activists in and exiles from Hong Kong, Thailand and Burma take part in what is sometimes called “Milk Tea Alliance” struggles. There are obvious contrasts: importance of online connections now is novel; the Chinese state was a weak force a century ago, but is a strong one today; Vietnamese activists were a more central part of the earlier story than the current one; ties between South Asian and East Asian exiles were more notable a century ago; and there is no contemporary counterpart to the Comintern on the scene connecting radicals. And yet, this talk will argue, there are important echoes of the earlier period to be heard today, as well as much to learn about how different struggles in East and Southeast Asia influenced one another at other points in time, such as the 1980s. This talk will focus on Chinese activists of the early 1900s and Hong Kong ones now but place both groups in comparative and transnational perspectives, will move between the two eras with an eye toward reoccurrences, ruptures, and reversals.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom is Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, where he also holds courtesy appointments in the Law School and in the Literary Journalism Program. He has written, co-written, edited, or co-edited a dozen books, the most recent of which are Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink (Columbia Global Reports, 2020), which he wrote, and The Oxford History of Modern China (2022), which he edited. In addition to contributing to academic journals, he often writes for newspapers (including the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times), magazines (such as the Atlantic), and literary reviews (e.g., the TLS and the Los Angeles Review of Books).
Manan Ahmed is a specialist in South Asia. He is an executive editor for the Journal of the History of Ideas and the author of works such as A Book of Conquest: Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia (Harvard University Press, 2016) and The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India (Harvard University Press, 2020), a book that was shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize in 2021.
This event is sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
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(Friday) 10:30 am - 11:00 pm
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School of International and Public Affairs, 420 West 118th Street, Room 918, New York, NY 10027
7apr5:00 pm- 6:30 pmPETRO-SEXUALITY: Histories of Oil and Intimacy
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PETRO-SEXUALITY: Histories of Oil and Intimacy
Thursday, Apr. 7, 2022 | 5:00-6:30 PM | 411 Fayerweather Hall
In recent years, energy humanities scholars have highlighted how the ability to do biopolitical work – to discipline the body and regulate populations – has relied on the availability of fossil fuels. The Caribbean has played a vital if also understudied role in the hydrocarbon age, transforming intimate selves and sensibilities in the process. This talk explores the interconnections among the histories of sexuality and the age of oil. Focusing on Aruba and Curaçao, islands that once housed the world’s largest oil refineries, it charts how transnational oil companies introduced peculiar forms of sexual and reproductive regulation intended to maximize oil revenues and discipline Caribbean subjects. Building on extensive archival research in the Caribbean, Europe, and the United States, Schields insists that global energy systems cannot be understood without attention to the sexual and racialized interventions that fueled their emergence.
Chelsea Schields is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. Her scholarship explores the histories of sexuality, race, and the politics of oil and empire in the Caribbean and Europe. With Dagmar Herzog, she is co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialism (2021). Her book, Offshore Attachments: Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean, is forthcoming with the University of California Press.
This event will be held in person. Visitors are permitted and are required to follow the visitor policy. They also must have proof of vaccination and a booster as well as complete the attestation form prior to accessing a Columbia facility. For the latest on Columbia COVID-19 policy and building access, please visit covid19.columbia.edu.
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(Thursday) 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
4apr6:30 pm- 7:30 pmIRAAS | Zora Neale Hurston Lecture - Tera Hunter
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Lecture Title-I"s Marriage the Answer? Ideas about African-American Marriage from W.E. B. Du Bois to Our Own Times"
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Prof. Tera W. Hunter will deliver the 2022 Zora Neale Hurston Lecture. Hurston started her career as an anthropologist as a doctoral student at Columbia University. Her skills as an ethnographer during the Harlem Renaissance attended to people and culture in a way that captured the rich daily experiences of African-American life in the South and in the Caribbean. Her literary contributions have greatly changed the landscape in American literature and African-American literature through her characterizations of class disparities in Black working poor and rural communities. Your scholarship and practice exemplify the intellectual fierceness and talent of Sister Zora; thus, we would be honored for you to convene and share with us.
Tera W. Hunter is the Edwards Professor of American History and Professor of African-American Studies, a specialist in the 19th and 20th centuries at Princeton University. Her research focuses on gender, race, labor, and Southern histories. Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017) is her latest book.
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(Monday) 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
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For a Few Cryptos More: The Wild West of Decentralized Finance
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March 25 (Friday) 1:00 pm - April 20 (Wednesday) 2:00 pm
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International Affairs Building 420 West 118th Street Room 1501, 15th floor
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Thursday, March 31st, 6pm Virtual America on Fire: A Conversation on Police Violence & Black Rebellion
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Join the Lehman Center for American History for a discussion of America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s with Elizabeth Hinton, Jelani Cobb, and Frank Guridy.
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(Thursday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding with
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Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding
with Hannah Farber
Thursday, March 31, 2022, 2 pm EDT
Approx. 1 hour
This program is free but requires advanced registration.
Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the new nation. The international information they gathered and the capital they generated enabled them to play central roles in state building and economic development. During the Revolution, they helped the U.S. negotiate foreign loans, sell state debts, and establish a single national bank. Afterward, they increased their influence by lending money to the federal government and to its citizens. Even as federal and state governments began to encroach on their domain, maritime insurers adapted, preserving their autonomy and authority through extensive involvement in the formation of commercial law. Leveraging their claims to unmatched expertise, they operated free from government interference while simultaneously embedding themselves into the nation’s institutional fabric. By the early nineteenth century, insurers were no longer just risk assessors. They were nation builders and market makers.
Deeply and imaginatively researched, Underwriters of the United States uses marine insurers to reveal a startlingly original story of risk, money, and power in the founding era.
Hannah Farber is an assistant professor of history at Columbia University. Her research focuses on politics and economy in colonial North America, the early American republic, and the Atlantic world. Her first book, Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding, was published in November 2021 by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and UNC Press. Professor Farber holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a series editor of “American Beginnings, 1500-1900” at the University of Chicago Press, and she held a NEH fellowship at the New-York Historical Society during 2020-2021.
Order this book directly from the publisher at https://www.uncpress.org/
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(Thursday) 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
28mar4:00 pm- 5:30 pmOceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World (Stephanie McCurry)
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Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World Conflicts over
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Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World
Conflicts over the paths traveled by grain transformed the balance of world power. Early in the nineteenth century, imperial Russia fed Europe through the port of Odessa. But during the US Civil War, America created grain corridors to feed Union troops, facilitating postwar exports. As these exports flooded across the Atlantic, European food prices plummeted. Cheap foreign grain helped spur the rise of Germany and Italy, the decline of the Habsburgs and the Ottomans, and Europe’s scramble for empire. Contests over this foreign grain contributed to World War I and the Russian Revolution.
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Conflicts over the paths traveled by grain transformed the balance of world power. Early in the nineteenth century, imperial Russia fed Europe through the port of Odessa. But during the US Civil War, America created grain corridors to feed Union troops, facilitating postwar exports. As these exports flooded across the Atlantic, European food prices plummeted. Cheap foreign grain helped spur the rise of Germany and Italy, the decline of the Habsburgs and the Ottomans, and Europe’s scramble for empire. Contests over this foreign grain contributed to World War I and the Russian Revolution.
Scott Reynolds Nelson is the Georgia Athletic Association Professor of the Humanities at the University of Georgia and was a Guggenheim fellow in 2019. His book Steel Drivin’ Man (2006), about the life and legend of John Henry won four national awards including the Merle Curti Prize for best book in US history. He has written widely on the history of capitalism including A Nation of Deadbeats (2012), an international history of US financial crises.
The Washington History Seminar is co-chaired by Eric Arnesen (George Washington University and the National History Center) and Christian Ostermann (Woodrow Wilson Center) and is organized jointly by the National History Center of the American Historical Association and the Woodrow Wilson Center’s History and Public Policy Program. It meets weekly during the academic year. The seminar thanks its anonymous individual donors and institutional partners (the George Washington University History Department and the Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest) for their continued support.
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(Monday) 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
26mar5:30 pm- 6:45 pmMemory Wars: World War II at 75 and Beyond (Carol Gluck)
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Memory Wars: World War II at 75 and Beyond The National WWII Museum's Memory Wars: World War II at 75 and
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Memory Wars: World War II at 75 and Beyond
The National WWII Museum’s Memory Wars: World War II at 75 and Beyond virtual conference has been rescheduled! The all-virtual conference will now take place on March 24–26, 2022. A first-of-its-kind international conference to discuss the shifting landscapes of popular memories of this world-altering conflict, Memory Wars will explore World War II’s place in public memory through a global prism, examining how museums, filmmakers, media, memorials, and historians (both academic and public) help shape memories of the conflict.
Free Virtual Registration Now Open
To share this important program with the widest possible audience, the Museum will livestream all Memory Wars sessions at no cost to participants. Register below to receive free access to the virtual program on March 24–26, 2022.
4:30 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. (CT)
Session Fourteen
Conference Closing Session
Day of Infamy-Public Memory of WWII in Japan and the U.S. – A Conversation with Carol Gluck, PhD, Columbia University
Two events and dates stand out most in American memory for disaster and devastation, Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and the attacks of September 11, 2001. More than 20 years after the more recent attack, this conversation will discuss how these two events were reacted to, how they are remembered, and both the differences and similarities between the two.
- Chair: James Grossman, PhD, Executive Director, American Historical Association
- Interviewer: Robert M. Citino, PhD, Senior Historian, The National WWII Museum (In-Studio)
- Carol Gluck, PhD, Professor, Columbia University Audience Q&A
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(Saturday) 5:30 pm - 6:45 pm
25mar10:00 am- 11:30 amSoft Power Internationalism (Book Launch, co-edited by Victoria de Grazia)
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”Soft Power Internationalism” is a global comparative history of how soft power came to define the interregnum between
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Join us on Friday, March 25, 10 AM (New York) | 12 PM (Rio) | 5 PM (Istanbul) | 10 PM (Beijing)
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(Friday) 10:00 am - 11:30 am
25mar10:00 am- 12:00 pmSurveying Borders | MESAAS Graduate Conference (Manan Ahmed)
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(Friday) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
24mar12:00 pm- 1:30 pmCounting Land (Alma Steingart)
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March 24, 12PM EDT, Zoom Event page here
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There has never been a way to account for land—its size, location, or monetary value—without also counting people. From 17th Century cadastral surveys to contemporary gerrymandering, the questions of what to build, for whom, and where, have always depended on the question: “for how many?” This event will address a postwar moment when spatial overlaps between physical and political boundaries were deliberately redesigned in the United States. Alma Steingart (Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Columbia University) will present on the impact of digital algorithms on redistricting in the 1960s; Benedict Clouette (Doctoral Student in Architecture at Columbia GSAPP) will discuss the role of electoral maps in political negotiations over large-scale urban projects in Chicago in the 1950s.
Benedict Clouette is a doctoral candidate in architectural history at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. His writings and interviews have appeared in Harvard Design Magazine, Volume, Domus, The Architect’s Newspaper, and San Rocco, and he is the author, with Marlisa Wise, of Forms of Aid: Architectures of Humanitarian Space (2017).
Alma Steingart, an assistant professor in the Department of History at Columbia University, researches the interplay between American politics and mathematical rationalities. Professor Steingart’s current project, Accountable Democracy, examines how mathematical thought and computing technologies have impacted electoral politics in the United States in the twentieth century. Her first book, Axiomatic: Mathematical Thought and High Modernism, is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press (Fall 2022). Before joining Columbia University, Steingart was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows and a predoctoral fellow of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. She earned her PhD in 2013 in the Program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Steingart’s work has appeared in Social Studies of Science, Grey Room, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Her work is supported by a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.
This event will be presented virtually, please register in advance for the Zoom webinar link.
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(Thursday) 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
23mar12:00 pm- 1:30 pmReading, Commenting, and Interpreting (Organized by Zeynep Çelik)
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Reading, Commenting, and Interpreting Register for Zoom here
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Nihan Soyöz, Ph.D. Candidate, Binghamton University
Aram Ghoogasian, Ph.D. Candidate, Princeton University
Merisa Sahin, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Michigan, Ann ArborDiscussant:
Mehmet Fatih Uslu, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Koç University
Organized by:
Zeynep Çelik, Sakıp Sabancı Visiting Professor, Columbia University
Merve İspahani, Ph.D., Academic Programs Coordinator, Columbia Global Centers | Istanbul
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(Wednesday) 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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(Tuesday) 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
15mar6:30 pm- 7:30 pmWomen, Family, and War, Featuring Lien-Hang T. Nguyen
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New York Historical Society Women, Family, and War
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Women, Family, and War
Bernard and Irene Schwartz Distinguished Speakers Series
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In honor of Women’s History Month, Professors Drew Gilpin Faust and Lien-Hang Nguyen discuss the changing roles of women in wartime. Professor Faust sheds light on the shift in women’s work during the Civil War and the subsequent impact it had on the concept of the American family. Professor Nguyen’s expertise on U.S.-East Asia relations, specifically the Vietnam War, opens the conversation about women’s participation in the fight for peace in Vietnam.
Drew Gilpin Faust served as 28th president of Harvard University and is currently Harvard’s Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor. Lien-Hang T. Nguyen is the Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia at Columbia University and general editor of the forthcoming Cambridge History of the Vietnam War.
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The Robert H. Smith Auditorium at the New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024
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(Tuesday) 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
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The pandemic has both resulted in exacerbating states and corporations’ care washing and heightened public sensibilities to the gendered, classed and racialised divisions of reproductive work. Bringing together activists and academics who have organised, participated and researched care strikes and other forms of mobilisation across three continents, the seminar will shift conversations on the theories and praxis of care strikes and re-imagine what a global postpandemic wave of care strikes could look like.
This virtual symposium seeks to initiate a transnational and cross sectoral conversation about care strikes that centres ‘race’ and migration. We bring social reproduction, critical race theories and migration studies to ask new questions about future care strikes in a (post)pandemic world:
- How can care strikes tackle the racial divisions of reproductive work?
- How do migrant and racialised workers’ organising praxis bring to the question of postpandemic care strikes?
- To what extent does privileging strikes in the informal sector mean other forms of organising-such as mutual aid, community organising, testimonials or labour rights’ reform – are sidelined?
- What are the possibilities for international and cross sectoral care strikes in a postpandemic world?
This event is part of the Sociological Review Seminar Series and has been funded by the Sociological Review Foundation.
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(Thursday) 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
9mar12:00 pm- 1:30 pmLALS Bridge to Faculty Panel (Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez)
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Zoom https://go.uic.edu/Bridge2FacultyZoomLinkJ
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(Wednesday) 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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Book Talk — La Nijinska: Choreographer of the Modern by Lynn Garafola