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march 2023
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Date: Thursday, March 30th, 2023 Location: Fayerweather Hall, Room 513, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York,
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Date: Thursday, March 30th, 2023
Location: Fayerweather Hall, Room 513, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027
Time: 5:00 – 6:00 PM EST
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Presenter: Mark Ponte, City Archives Amsterdam
Moderator: Arnoud Visser, Queen Wilhelmina Visiting Professor, Columbia University, and Professor of Textural Culture in the Renaissance, University of Utrecht
In the seventeenth century, steadily more people of African descent came to the Dutch Republic, as servants (whether enslaved or free) or as seafarers. Recent research has revealed that from c. 1630 onward a small free black community emerged in Amsterdam, which can be located in the area around the Jodenbreestraat (‘Jewish Broad Street’). This was an area where also many painters lived, among whom Rembrandt. This new research is based on combining marriage registers with new archival findings, made possible by the progress of All Amsterdam Acts, a large-scale digital humanities project that aims to unlock the complete notary archives of Amsterdam.
Through a combination of presentation and interactive work, this workshop will explore the opportunities and challenges of this type of research, focusing on three components: archival research, digital humanities, and public history (public debates, social media, and exhibitions about the history of slavery).
Mark Ponte is a historian at the Amsterdam City Archives. He has been (co-)curator of recent exhibitions in Amsterdam (‘Black in Rembrandt’s Time’, Museum Rembrandthuis, 2020. ‘Amsterdammers and Slavery’, Amsterdam City Archives, 2020) and Alkmaar (‘Plantation Alkmaar’, Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar, 2022-23).
Preparation:
Mark Ponte, ‘Black in Amsterdam around 1650‘ in: Kolfin and Runia ed., Black in Rembrandt’s Time (W Books/Museum Rembrandthuis 2020) 44-61.
Further literature for those who read Dutch
Mark Ponte, ‘Zwarte vrouwen in het midden van de zeventiende eeuw’, in: Maarten Hell ed., Amstelodomum. Alle Amsterdamse Akten. Ruzie, rouw en roddels bij de notaris, 1578-1915 (Amsterdam 2022) 130-143.
Mark Ponte, ‘Al de swarten die hier ter stede comen’ Een Afro-Atlantische gemeenschap in zeventiende-eeuws Amsterdam’, TSEG/ Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, 15(4), pp.33–62. DOI: https://lnkd.in/eEvRw32X
This workshop is cosponsored by the Studies of the Dutch-Speaking World and the European Institute.
Time
(Thursday) 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location
513 Fayerweather Hall
513 Fayerweather Hall
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March 22nd from 4:20pm -6:00pm Workshop with Kunal Parker. (U Miami, History). "The Turn to Process: Legal, Political, and Economic Thought in America, 1870-1970" Commenter Alma Steingart
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March 22nd from 4:20pm -6:00pm Workshop with Kunal Parker. (U Miami, History). “The Turn to Process: Legal, Political, and Economic Thought in America, 1870-1970” Commenter Alma Steingart (Columbia)
Workshop location will be circulated closer to event date
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(Wednesday) 4:20 pm - 6:00 pm
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Date: Thursday, March 9th, 2023 Location: 411 Fayerweather Hall, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027
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Date: Thursday, March 9th, 2023
Location: 411 Fayerweather Hall, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027
Time: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM EST
As part of the current upsurge of authoritarian politics and blood-and-soil ethnonationalism, U.S. Christians have rediscovered in Holy Russia an unlikely polestar. But this surge in the international “family values” movement is only the most recent iteration of a century-long relationship. From the Bolshevik Revolution through the present bromance with Putin, U.S. theocrats have used Russia as a resource for promoting sexual conformity, racial purity, and gender rigidity. Far from serving as mere “culture wars” distractions from law and economics, these theocratic ambitions are meant to secure a free market under God. This history suggests that when Christian nationalists tell us what they want, we should take them at their word.
Bethany Moreton is Professor of History at Dartmouth College and a series editor for Columbia University Press’s Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism. Her first book, To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise (Harvard University Press, 2009), won the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize for best first book in U.S. history and the John Hope Franklin Award for the best book in American Studies. Her most recent book is Entre Dios y el capital (Txalaparta, 2022).
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(Thursday) 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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Date: Tuesday, March 7th, 2023 Location: International Affairs Building, Room 1501, 420 West 118th
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Date: Tuesday, March 7th, 2023
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 1501, 420 West 118th Street, New York, NY 10027
Time: 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EST
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Every year, the U.S. government creates tens of millions of new secrets. Top secret documents have been turning up in the strangest places, triggering Justice Department investigations of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden. What are the consequences for national security and democratic accountability? And what can possibly be done to advance a more rational, risk-management approach to safeguarding dangerous information while accelerating the release of public records?
Join us for a panel discussion about the history, and future, of official secrecy. It will feature new discoveries from Columbia’s History Lab, which has been using artificial intelligence to analyze the world’s largest database of declassified documents. Participants will also bring fresh perspectives from the frontlines of law, journalism, and data science, and discuss whether it would be possible – and wise – to build a “Declassification Engine.”
Panelists:
Emily Bazelon, Senior Research Scholar in Law and Truman Capote Fellow at Yale Law School
Matthew Connelly, Professor of History at Columbia; author of The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals about America’s Top Secrets
Barton Gelman, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner; staff writer at The Atlantic
Timothy Naftali, founding director of the Nixon Presidential Library; clinical associate professor of public service at NYU
Chris H. Wiggins, Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics at Columbia; Chief Data Scientist of The New York Times
Time
(Tuesday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Location
IAB 1501
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Friday, March 3rd, 2023 • New York City Latin American History Workshop (Co-Sponsored by Dept., Hosted by Baruch College) -
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Friday, March 3rd, 2023
• New York City Latin American History Workshop (Co-Sponsored by Dept., Hosted by Baruch College) – Andrei Guardarrama (Columbia), “Automobiles, Urban Business, and Industrialization in Mexico City, 1920-1940”
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
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Date: Thursday, March 2nd, 2023 Location: Fayerweather Hall, Room 411, 1180 Amsterdam
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Date: Thursday, March 2nd, 2023
Location: Fayerweather Hall, Room 411, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027
Time: 4:00 PM EST
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Presenter: Riva Kastoryano, Senior Research Fellow at the CNRS and Professor at Sciences Po Paris
Moderator: Adam Tooze, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History, and Director of the European Institute, Columbia University
How to reconcile diversity and integration in the multi-level European public space? This particular issue pertains to the settlement of ethno-religious groups along with their expression of collective identities, participation and recognition. Taking as a point of departure four normative approaches – multiculturalism, interculturalism, transnationalism and cosmopolitanism – the goal is to develop a new normativity based on their similarity, differences and/or complementarity empirically evaluated by minorities themselves and political actors.
This event is co-sponsored by the European Institute and by the Alliance Program.
Time
(Thursday) 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
february 2023
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Date: February 21st, 2023 Location: 1219 International Affairs Building, 420 W 118th Street, 12th floor Time: 12:00PM -1:30PM Register here (for both in-person and virtual attendance) The arctic climate is currently changing
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Date: February 21st, 2023
Location: 1219 International Affairs Building, 420 W 118th Street, 12th floor
Time: 12:00PM -1:30PM
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The arctic climate is currently changing faster than the climate of the planet; this phenomenon is known as ‘Arctic amplification.’ However, even before the beginning of the anthropogenic global climate change, the Arctic climate was quite changeable. The observations of the rapid warming of the Arctic caused by natural factors in the 1920s-1940s led scientists to acknowledge the possibility of short-term changes of the climate in general. This talk, on the one hand, illustrates climate as a driver for changes in abundance and migrations patterns of fish species important for the ecosystems of these seas and for the economy. On the other hand, the talk focuses on Russian scientists and their international networks, through which new knowledge on the changes of Arctic climate circulated. In addition, the legacy of this period for the Soviet / Russian climate science is discussed.
Julia Lajus received her degree in the history of science (the Russian equivalent of Ph.D. degree) from the Institute for the History of Science and Technology in Moscow in 2004 with a dissertation devoted to the history of relations between fisheries science and fisheries in the European North of Russia/Soviet Union. She is now working on a book manuscript, “Linking People through Fish, Climate and Environment: Transnational Connections of Russian/Soviet Science and Their Mediators,“ which explores encounters between international and national interests at governmental, institutional and individual levels, in which all parties needed to craft strategies for successful scientific cooperation.
Time
(Tuesday) 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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Date: Friday, February 17th, 2023 Location: Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room,
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Date: Friday, February 17th, 2023
Location: Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room, 74 Morningside Drive, New York, NY 10027 and online via Zoom.
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM EST
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In Poverty and Wealth in East Africa, Rhiannon Stephens offers a conceptual history of how people living in eastern Uganda have sustained and changed their ways of thinking about wealth and poverty over the past two thousand years. This history serves as a powerful reminder that colonialism and capitalism did not introduce economic thought to this region and demonstrates that even in contexts of relative material equality between households, people invested intellectual energy in creating new ways to talk about the poor and the rich. Stephens uses an interdisciplinary approach to write this history for societies without written records before the nineteenth century. She reconstructs the words people spoke in different eras using the methods of comparative historical linguistics, overlaid with evidence from archaeology, climate science, oral traditions, and ethnography. Demonstrating the dynamism of people’s thinking about poverty and wealth in East Africa long before colonial conquest, Stephens challenges much of the received wisdom about the nature and existence of economic and social inequality in the region’s deeper past.
Rhiannon Stephens is an Associate Professor of History at Columbia University and specializes in the history of precolonial and early colonial East Africa from the late first millennium CE through the twentieth century. She is the author of Poverty and Wealth in East Africa: A Conceptual History (Duke University Press, 2022), an interdisciplinary history of how people living in eastern Uganda have sustained and changed their ways of thinking about wealth and poverty over the past two thousand years. Her first monograph, A History of African Motherhood: The Case of Uganda, 700-1900 (Cambridge University Press, 2013), traced the history of motherhood as a social institution and an ideology across over a millennium of Ugandan political, economic and social change.
About the Speakers
Laura Fair is a historian of twentieth-century urban East Africa and the author of several award-winning books. She teaches in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies. Her scholarship focuses on gendered social and economic change, and urban popular culture in Swahili-speaking communities. Her first book, Pastimes and Politics: Culture, Community and Identity in Post-Abolition Urban Zanzibar, 1890–1945 (Ohio University Press, 2001), illustrates how former slaves used the social and cultural tools at their command to demonstrate their freedom from slavery and articulate alternative visions of justice under colonialism.
Raevin Jimenez is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan. Her work examines the gender history of Nguni-speakers in southern Africa between the 9th-20th century. Over a millennium, Nguni-speakers innovated and reconfigured masculine propriety and male relationships. Changing ideas of gender allowed Nguni-speakers to congregate young men into vast networks, define male identity, establish obligations of men as sons and husbands, and orient junior men towards political and economic opportunities.
Pablo Piccato is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University. He is the author of City of Suspects: Crime in Mexico City, 1900–1931, published by Duke University Press, and a co-editor of True Stories of Crime in Modern Mexico. His research and teaching focus on modern Mexico, particularly on crime, politics, and culture. He has taught as visiting faculty in universities in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and France.
Caterina Pizzigoni is Associate Professor of History at Columbia University. She specializes in the colonial history of Latin America. Her interests include indigenous populations and the study of sources in Nahuatl (indigenous language of central Mexico), social history, household and material culture, religion and gender. Her current research focuses on household saints in colonial Mexico.
Time
(Friday) 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Location
Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room
Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room
16feb6:30 pm- 7:30 pmHilary A. Hallett on Elinor Glyn: In Conversation with David Nasaw
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Date: Thursday, February 16th, 2023 Location: The Skylight Room, 9100 Graduate Center, CUNY 365 5th Avenue New York, NY 10016
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Date: Thursday, February 16th, 2023
Location: The Skylight Room, 9100 Graduate Center, CUNY 365 5th Avenue New York, NY 10016
Time: 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM EST
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In this groundbreaking portrait of a courageous icon of independence, Hilary A. Hallett traces Elinor Glyn’s meteoric rise from a depressed society darling to a world-renowned celebrity author who consorted with world leaders from St. Petersburg to Cairo to New York. After reporting from the trenches during World War I, Glyn was lured by American movie producers from Paris to Los Angeles for her remarkable third act. Weaving together years of deep archival research, Hallett movingly conveys how Glyn, more than any other individual during the Roaring Twenties, crafted early Hollywood’s glamorous romantic aesthetic. She taught the screen’s greatest leading men to make love in ways that set audiences aflame, and coined the term “It Girl,” which turned actress Clara Bow into the symbol of the first sexual revolution.
Hilary A. Hallett is the Mendelson Family Professor and director of American studies and associate professor of history at
Columbia University. The author of Go West, Young Women! The Rise of Early Hollywood, she has written for the Los Angeles Times.
David Nasaw is the Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of History Emeritus at the CUNY Graduate Center and a past president of the Society of American Historians. His most recent book is The Last Million: Europe’s Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War. He is also the author of The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy, a New York Times “Ten Best Books of the Year” and a Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Biography. His bestseller Andrew Carnegie was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist and the winner of the New-York Historical Society’s American History Book Prize. The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst was honored with several awards, include the Bancroft Prize for History.
Time
(Thursday) 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Location
The Skylight Room, 9100 Graduate Center, CUNY
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Date: Tuesday, February 14th, 2023 Location: Margaret Liebman Berger Forum, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street New York,
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Date: Tuesday, February 14th, 2023
Location: Margaret Liebman Berger Forum, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street New York, NY 10018
Time: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM EST
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This Valentine’s Day, discover the story behind the modern romance novel and its connection to the life of celebrity author Elinor Glyn. From rose petals and silken lingerie to smoldering looks and lingering caresses, Elinor Glyn’s work in fiction and film laid the foundations for much of modern romance on the page and the screen. Her scandalous, sexually charged 1907 novel, Three Weeks, was simultaneously a bestseller and one of the most denounced books of its time. Working in early Hollywood films, she coined the term “It Girl” and turned actor Clara Bow into a symbol of America’s first sexual revolution.
Hilary A. Hallett’s biography, Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood, traces Glyn’s sensational life. She wrote it during her 2016–2017 Fellowship at the Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. She will be discussing the book with historian Alice Kessler-Harris.
Hilary A. Hallett is the Mendelson Family Professor and director of American Studies and Associate Professor of History at Columbia University. She is also the author of Go West, Young Women! The Rise of Early Hollywood, and has written for the Los Angeles Times.
Alice Kessler-Harris is the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor Emerita of American History at Columbia University and Professor Emerita at Columbia’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She is the author of many books, most recently A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman.
Time
(Tuesday) 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street New York, NY 10018
8feb6:00 pm- 7:00 pmJust an Illness: The Black Death, Without its Metaphors (Patrick Boucheron)
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Talk in French by Patrick Boucheron with English text available. Date: Wednesday, February 8th Location: Maison Française, 515 West
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Talk in French by Patrick Boucheron with English text available.
Date: Wednesday, February 8th
Location: Maison Française, 515 West 116th Street New York, NY 10027
Time: 6:00 – 7:00 PM EST
Held by Patrick Boucheron (History of Powers in Western Europe from 7th to 16th century, Collège de France)
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How do we tell the history of the Black Death today? A global history of humanity’s largest demographic catastrophe over the longue durée, from our present pandemic times? Drawing from his teachings at the Collège de France and his Theatre of the Plague production with the Théâtre National de Bretagne, acclaimed medievalist Patrick Boucheron reflects back on his long standing engagement with the plague and its contagious, overflowing metaphors.
Patrick Boucheron is a Professor and Chair of the History of Powers in Western Europe from the 7th to the 16th century at Collège de France. He specializes in the Middle Ages, particularly in Italy. His work also concerns the writing of history and changes in the discipline. It was in this spirit that he wrote Histoire mondiale de la France (Seuil, 2017). Since 2017, he has partnered with the Théatre National de Bretagne (TNB) headed by actor and stage director Arthur Nauzyciel. For each program, he invites associates, academics, and artists to imagine and create with him a monthly gathering, “Rencontrer l’Histoire” (“A Rendez-vous with History”), based on the program’s themes or current affairs.
This performance is co-sponsored by Columbia Maison Française, ICLS Medical Humanities, Department of French, and Department of History.
Time
(Wednesday) 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location
Maison Française
515 West 116th Street New York, NY 10027
8feb4:30 pm- 7:00 pmRise from the Fall: Profile of a Vietnamese American Leader (Chinh Chu)
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Date: Wednesday, February 8th, 2023 Location: Low Memorial Library Rotunda, 535 West 116th Street,
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Date: Wednesday, February 8th, 2023
Location: Low Memorial Library Rotunda, 535 West 116th Street, New York, NY 10027
Time: 4:30 PM – 7:00 PM EST (Event runs from 4:30 – 6:00 PM, followed by a reception from 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM)
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SPEAKER: Chinh Chu, Founder & President of CC Capital
HOST: Professor Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Founder, Vietnamese Studies, Director, Weatherhead East Asian Institute
INTRODUCTIONS: Naja Pham Lockwood, Founder and CEO, RYSE Media Ventures
MODERATOR: Anh Do, Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times
Chinh Chu has had an illustrious 30-plus-year career as a private-equity investor and executive. He is the former Co-Chair of Blackstone Private Equity. He joined Blackstone in the early 1990s and spent 25 years at the firm, becoming head of the Software and Technology, Financial Services, Chemicals and Healthcare groups. He served on Blackstone’s Executive Committee, co-chaired its Private Equity group, and was a member of its Investment Committee. Mr. Chu led some of the most prominent and successful private equity deals at Blackstone. Mr. Chu founded CC Capital in 2016 and has since spearheaded both traditional private-equity investments as well as a series of SPACs (special purpose acquisition companies). He led the $7.2 billion going-private transaction of Dun & Bradstreet in February 2019 — and less than 18 months later, Dun & Bradstreet was taken public at a 3.5x return for CC Capital’s equity investors. CC Capital has created 5 SPACs since 2016, 3 in partnership with Neuberger Berman. Its SPACs have invested in high-quality businesses including Getty Images ($4.8 billion), the global leader in photo imaging and distribution; UTZ ($1.6 billion), the 100 year-old leading manufacturer of salty snacks; E2 Open ($2.6 billion), the leading supply chain software company; and FG Insurance ($2.1 billion), the life and annuities insurer. Mr. Chu has served on over 20 public and private corporate boards including: City Harvest, Getty Images, E2 Open, Dun & Bradstreet, NCR Corporation, Catalent, Kronos, SunGard Data Systems, Biomet, Celanese Corporation, Nalco, Nycomed, Alliant Insurance Services, London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE), Graham Packaging, AlliedBarton, and BankUnited. Before joining Blackstone, Mr. Chu worked at Salomon Brothers in the Mergers & Acquisitions department. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Buffalo’s School of Management.
Mr. Chu was born in Vietnam and emigrated to America at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. He is the eldest of 6 children born to Dennis and Linda Chu. Mr. Chu currently lives in New York City and is passionate about philanthropy, music, mountaineering, and, most importantly, his two daughters.
Lien-Hang Nguyen is the Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia, Director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, and co-founder of Vietnamese Studies at Columbia University. She is author of Hanoi’s War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam (2012), which won the Society for Military History Edward M. Coffman Prize and the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Stuart L. Bernath Prize. Professor Nguyen serves as the general editor of the Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, 3 vols., as well as co-editor of the Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations. She is currently working on a comprehensive history of the 1968 Tet Offensive with Random House. She has appeared on numerous documentaries including PBS History with David Rubenstein, CNN Documentary, and MSNBC’s A Rachel Maddow Special Report. Professor Nguyen received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania and her MA, MPhil, and PhD from Yale University.
Naja Pham Lockwood has produced multiple documentary and narrative films focusing on social justice issues including 76 Days, Try Harder!, Coming Home Again, Gook and Cries From Syria. She is the co-founder of RYSE Media Ventures, which supports stories of diverse voices, and an investor in Impact Partners Films, where she has financed the Academy Award winning documentary, Icarus as well as Won’t You Be My Neighbor and Audrie and Daisy. She served on the Sundance Utah Advisory Board and partnered with Sundance Institute to build and fund the Sundance Screenwriters Fellowships for Asian American filmmakers. She currently serves on the Board of the Utah Film Commission and Center for Asian American Media (CAAM). Naja is an associate instructor at the University of Utah teaching the Power of Storytelling: Asia and the Global Cinema. She is the Founder and CEO of www.najalockwooddesigns.com to support female artisans of Southeast Asia. Born in Vietnam, Naja immigrated to Massachusetts during the Fall of Saigon. She was the first Vietnamese-American to be appointed by Mayor Willie Brown and Mayor Gavin Newsom to be Arts Commissioner of San Francisco with a focus on community and diversity and the expansion and capital campaign development of the Asian Art Museum. Throughout Naja’s life, there has always been a commitment to social justice and making sure the voices of the under-represented, the minority and the oppressed are heard.
Anh Do is a Metro reporter covering Asian American issues and general assignments at the Los Angeles Times. A second-generation journalist, she has worked at the Seattle Times, the Orange County Register and Nguoi Viet Daily News, the largest Vietnamese-language newspaper in the US, based in California and founded by her late father. Born in Saigon, Do is a graduate of the University of Southern California with degrees in journalism and English and she has reported from Cuba, India, Mexico, Peru and Vietnam, elevating on-the-ground storytelling with cultural research and techniques honed from five years of living in Mexico City. Her writing on diaspora, race and trauma has won awards from Columbia University, Freedom Newspapers Sweepstakes and the Asian American Journalists Association. She is a recipient of Yale’s Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, and in 2016, she was part of the team that won a Pulitzer Prize for its breaking news coverage of the San Bernardino terrorist attacks. Apart from words, she’s passionate about all things canine, spending 27 years volunteering in dog rescue campaigns around the globe.
This event is sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University.
Time
(Wednesday) 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Location
Low Library Rotunda
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Feburary 8th from 4:20pm - 6:00pm Workshop with Jungwon Kim (Columbia, Legal History). "Who Triggered My Death: Suicide and Punishment in Early Modern Korea" Comment by Pablo
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Feburary 8th from 4:20pm – 6:00pm Workshop with Jungwon Kim (Columbia, Legal History). “Who Triggered My Death: Suicide and Punishment in Early Modern Korea” Comment by Pablo Piccato (Columbia, History).
Workshop location will be circulated closer to event date
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(Wednesday) 4:20 pm - 6:00 pm
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Date: Monday, February 6th, 2023 Location: Jerome Greene Hall, 435 W 116th Street,
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Date: Monday, February 6th, 2023
Location: Jerome Greene Hall, 435 W 116th Street, New York, NY 10027
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EST
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U.S. Senator Senator Sheldon Whitehouse will be making a special visit to the Community University community on Monday. February 6, 2023 to connect and speak to students, staff and faculty regarding Climate Change, U.S policy and give a special in-depth discussion on his new book : “The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court, and the damage the Court is doing to the fight against climate change.”
This event is sponsored by the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia’s Center for the History & Ethics of Public Health, and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law.
Time
(Monday) 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location
Jerome Green Hall
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Friday, February 3rd, 2023 • New York City Latin American History Workshop (Co-Sponsored by Dept., Hosted by Baruch College) - Stephanie
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Friday, February 3rd, 2023
• New York City Latin American History Workshop (Co-Sponsored by Dept., Hosted by Baruch College) – Stephanie Huezo-Jefferson (Fordham), “Continuity in the ‘Promised Land’: Resistance as Embodied Memory in San José las Flores, El Salvador”
11AM-1PM
Baruch College, Newman Vertical Campus, 55 Lexington Ave, Room 8-210
To register and obtain workshop paper please email: Mark Rice, mark.rice@baruch.cuny.edu
Time
3 (Friday) 11:00 am - 23 (Thursday) 1:00 pm
Location
Baruch College, Newman Vertical Campus, 55 Lexington Ave, Room 8-210
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Date: Thursday, February 2nd, 2023
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Date: Thursday, February 2nd, 2023
Location: Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room, 74 Morningside Drive, New York, NY 10027 and online via Zoom.
Time: 6:15 PM EST
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Hosted by James Stafford (Columbia University) with panelists Isaac Nakhimovsky (Yale University), Susan Pedersen (Columbia University), Pablo Piccato (Columbia University), and Nadia Urbinati (Columbia University).
Join us for our New Book Series event honoring The Case of Ireland: Commerce, Empire, and the European Order by James Stafford. The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries have long been seen as a foundational period for modern Irish political traditions such as nationalism, republicanism, and unionism. The Case of Ireland (Cambridge University Press, 2022) offers a fresh account of Ireland’s neglected role in European debates about commerce and empire in what was a global era of war and revolution. Drawing on a broad range of writings from merchants, agrarian improvers, philosophers, politicians, and revolutionaries across Europe, this book shows how Ireland became a field of conflict and projection between rival visions of politics in commercial society associated with the warring empires of Britain and France. It offers a new perspective on the crisis and transformation of the British Empire at the end of the eighteenth century and restores Ireland to its rightful place at the center of European intellectual history.
This event is organized by the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy and cosponsored by the Office of the Divisional Deans in the Faculty of Arts and Science and the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities.
Time
(Thursday) 6:15 pm - 7:15 pm
Location
Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room
Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room
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9dec1:10 pm- 3:00 pmTwo Medieval Muslim Anthologists Reading Christian Arabic Poetry
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Two Medieval Muslim Anthologists Reading Christian Arabic Poetry Date: Friday, December 9 Location: Online
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Two Medieval Muslim Anthologists Reading Christian Arabic Poetry
Date: Friday, December 9
Location: Online via Zoom. Register here.
Time: 1:10 PM – 3 PM
Hosted by Sarah R. bin Tyeer (Columbia Middle East Institute) and Matthew L. Keegan (Barnard Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures) with presenter Nathaniel Miller (NYU) and discussant Salam Rassi (Edinburgh University).
ABSTRACT:
Several new poems by sixth-/twelfth-century Christian poets are now available in the recently rediscovered manuscript of Abū al-Maʿālī’s Zīnat al-Dahr. It is now possible to triangulate between ʿImād al-Dīn, who used Abū al-Maʿālī as a source, and several poems by Christians addressed to Muslims and vice versa, to reconstruct the space for Christian participation in late Abbasid literary discourse.
Time
(Friday) 1:10 pm - 3:00 pm
Location
Online
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SAI: Afterlives of Babri Masjid: Thirty Years Later - Moderated by Manan Ahmed Date: Friday – Saturday, December 9-10
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SAI: Afterlives of Babri Masjid: Thirty Years Later – Moderated by Manan Ahmed
Date: Friday – Saturday, December 9-10
Time: 8:30am (December 9) – 12:45pm (December 10)
Online Only – Register Here
DAY ONE: Friday, December 9
8:30am – 8:45am: Introduction by Katherine Ewing (Religion; Director of South Asia Institute, Columbia)
8:45am-10:45am: Roundtable One: Historical Legacies and Re-imaginings
Moderator: Manan Ahmed (History, Columbia)
Irfan Habib (Prof. Emeritus, Aligarh Muslim University)
Peter van der Veer (University Professor, Utrecht University; Director Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Ethnic and Religious Diversity)
Audrey Truschke (History, Rutgers at Newark)
David Ludden (History, NYU)
Christine Marrewa-Karwoski (MESAAS, Columbia)
Anand Patwardhan (Filmmaker)
11:15am-12:45pm: Roundtable Two: Reaching Publics: Technologies of Representation and Performance
Moderator: Isabel Huacuja Alonso (MESAAS, Columbia)
Dheepa Sundaram (Religious Studies, Colorado at Boulder)
Rohit Chopra: (Communication, Santa Clara Univ.)
Arvind Rajagopal (Media Studies, NYU)
Jaclyn Michael (Religion, Univ. of Tennessee, Chattanooga)
DAY TWO: Saturday, December 10
8:30am-10:00am: Roundtable Three: Tracing Gender, Caste, and Minority Status
Moderator: Zehra Mehdi (Doctoral candidate, Religion, Columbia)
Kancha Ilaiah Shepard (Past Director, Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy (CSSEIP), Maulana Azad National Urdu University)
Tanika Sarkar (Emeritus Prof., History, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Khalid Anis Ansari (Associate Prof. of Sociology, Azim Premji University)
Deepak Mehta (Sociology, Ashoka University)
10:30am-12pm: Roundtable Four: Forging Religion, Secularism and the Nation within India and Beyond
Moderator: to be announced
Sarover Zaidi (Assoc. Prof., Jindal School of Architecture)
Hilal Ahmed (Assoc. Prof., Centre for the Study of Developing Societies)
Irfan Ahmad (Anthropology-Sociology, Ibn Haldun University)
Thomas Blom Hansen (Anthropology, Stanford)
12:00pm-12:45pm: Concluding conversation with all roundtable presenters and organizers.
Time
9 (Friday) 8:30 am - 10 (Saturday) 12:45 pm
Location
Online
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The Minbar in the Mosque of the Andalusīs in Fez: An Object Lesson in Interconnected Histories Date:
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The Minbar in the Mosque of the Andalusīs in Fez: An Object Lesson in Interconnected Histories
Date: Thursday, December 8
Location: Knox Hall, Room 207
Time: 4:10 PM – 6:00 PM
Held by Abigail Balbale (Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University)
ABSTRACT
This discussion draws from Balbale’s new book in progress, Al-Andalus: A History of Islamic Spain in Fifty Objects and Spaces, which uses material objects to illuminate a history of al-Andalus. These objects and spaces show al-Andalus’ integration into the broader Islamic world, and highlights the networks that link al-Andalus to points south and east. Rather than seeing al-Andalus as exceptional or peripheral, Balbale explores how texts and objects, together, can reveal the competition and interdependence that linked North Africa and Iberia, as well as the eastern and western sides of the Mediterranean.
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(Thursday) 4:10 pm - 6:00 pm
Location
Knox Hall - Room 207
7dec6:00 pm- 7:30 pmIRAAS: Tiffany Nichols - Finding Stillness
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Tiffany Nichols - Finding Stillness December 7, 2022
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Tiffany Nichols – Finding Stillness
As astrophysics experiments become increasingly precise, where they are sited is of greater importance to ensuring the sensitivities of the instruments. This talk focuses on LIGO’s over one decade endeavor from 1981 to 1994 to find locations for its two twin laser interferometers that would provide the ability to detect faint gravitational waves produced from cataclysmic events in our universe such as the collision of two black holes. Tiffany Nichols will focus on approaches used by LIGO physicists to locate and investigate candidate locations and negotiate existing land uses present on the sites that were in conflict with the specifications of their experiment through a process Tiffany Nichols calls “finding stillness.”
Event Speaker
Tiffany Nichols, Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University
Event Information
This event is free and open to the public; Registration required. Please contact scienceandsociety@columbia.edu with any questions.
This event is part of the New York History of Science Lecture Series.
Sponsoring Organizations:
- The University Seminars at Columbia University
- Columbia University in the City of New York
- NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study
- The Graduate Center, City University of New York
- The New York Academy of Medicine
- The New York Academy of Sciences
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Time
(Wednesday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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Friday, December 2nd, 2022 • New York City Latin American History Workshop (Co-Sponsored by Dept., Hosted by Baruch College) - Rossana
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Friday, December 2nd, 2022
• New York City Latin American History Workshop (Co-Sponsored by Dept., Hosted by Baruch College) – Rossana Dent (Rutgers-Newark/NJIT(, “Studying Indigenous Brazil: Moral Economies of Research in A’uwe Territory”
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
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(Thursday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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BCRW Conference Room, 614 Milstein Center Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
november 2022
30nov6:15 pm- 7:30 pmFeaturedSOF/Heyman Center: Celebrating Recent Work by Hilary Hallett
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Celebrating Recent Work by Hilary Hallett NEW BOOKS IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCES
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Wednesday, 6:15pm–7:30pm EST, The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room, Columbia University + Virtual Event
REGISTER FOR ZOOM LIVESTREAM HERE
- Free and open to the public
- Registration required. See details.
Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Invented Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood
by Hilary Hallett
The modern romance novel is elevated to a subject of serious study in this addictively readable biography of pioneering celebrity author Elinor Glyn (1864–1943). In elegant prose, Hilary A. Hallett traces Glyn’s meteoric rise from a depressed society darling to a world-renowned celebrity author who consorted with world leaders from St. Petersburg to Cairo to New York. After reporting from the trenches during World War I, the author was lured by American movie producers from Paris to Los Angeles for her remarkable third act. Weaving together years of deep archival research, Hallett movingly conveys how Glyn, more than any other individual during the Roaring Twenties, crafted early Hollywood’s glamorous romantic aesthetic. She taught the screen’s greatest leading men to make love in ways that set audiences aflame, and coined the term “It Girl,” which turned actress Clara Bow into the symbol of the first sexual revolution.
With Inventing the It Girl, Hallett has done nothing less than elevate the origins of the modern romance genre to a subject of serious study. In doing so, she has also reclaimed the enormous influence of one of Anglo-America’s most significant cultural tastemakers while revealing Glyn’s life to have been as sensational as any of the characters she created on the page or screen. The result is a groundbreaking portrait of a courageous icon of independence who encouraged future generations to chase their desires wherever they might lead.
This event will be in person at the Heyman Center and livestreamed online. Please register for both in-person and virtual attendance via the link. Registration is mandatory for in-person attendance.
Please email disability@columbia.edu to request disability accommodations. Advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs.
About the Author:
Hilary Hallett is the Mendelson Family Professor and Director of American Studies, and Associate Professor of History where she teaches modern American cultural and social history. Her areas of specialization include women and gender history; histories of popular and mass culture from a transatlantic perspective; and histories of American culture industries, particularly theater, music, film, and Hollywood’s history. She is interested in mass media’s relationship to social change and to the big stories they tell about America and Americans over time.
About the Speakers:
Farran Smith Nehme has written about film and film history for the New York Post, Barron’s, the Wall Street Journal, Film Comment, the Village Voice, and Sight & Sound, as well as for her blog, Self-Styled Siren. Her novel, Missing Reels, was published in 2014.
Sharon Marcus teaches at Columbia University, where she is the Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature, specializing in nineteenth-century British and French culture. Her scholarship analyzes the cultural assignment of value in domains as diverse as architecture, social relationships, literary criticism, and performance culture. Her most recent book is The Drama of Celebrity (Princeton University Press 2019).
Pablo Piccato is a Professor and the Chair of the Department of History at Columbia University. His research and teaching focus on modern Mexico, particularly on crime, politics, and culture. He has taught as visiting faculty in universities in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and France, and has been director of Columbia’s Institute of Latin American Studies, Vice Chair of the Department of History, and University Senator.
Alice Kessler-Harris is the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor Emerita of American History at Columbia University, and former president of the Organization of American Historians. She is a specialist in American labor and comparative and interdisciplinary explorations of women and gender. Her most recent book is A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman (Bloomsbury Press 2012).
Time
(Wednesday) 6:15 pm - 7:30 pm
Location
The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room, Columbia University
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November 21, 2022 6:30 PM
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IRAAS Conversation Lecture
In Celebration of Saidiya Hartman’s
“Scenes of Subjection: Slavery, Terror,
and Self-Making in 19th Century America”
Hybrid Event
Location: Wood Auditorium in Avery Hall
Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Online: Event Link sent with Registration
Registration is required . Space capacity is limited.
Registration does not guarantee seating.
Seating will be first come, first seated basis
Registration: https://forms.gle/cFp2Abk1H79Fk4As9
In Discussion
Saidiya Hartman, Columbia University
Torkwase Dyson, Artist & Scholar
Marisa Fuentes, Rutgers University
Sarah Haley, Columbia University
Cameron Rowland, Artist & Scholar
Alex Weheliye, NorthWestern University
In Scenes of Subjection, Saidiya Hartman’s first book, now revised and expanded—her singular talents and analytical framework turn away from the “terrible spectacle” and toward the forms of routine terror and quotidian violence characteristic of slavery, illuminating the intertwining of injury, subjugation, and selfhood even in abolitionist depictions of enslavement. By attending to the withheld and overlooked at the margins of the historical archive, Hartman radically reshapes our understanding of history, in a work as resonant today as it was on first publication, now for a new generation of readers. This 25th anniversary edition features a new preface by the author, a foreword by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, an afterword by Marisa J. Fuentes and Sarah Haley, notations with Cameron Rowland, and compositions by Torkwase Dyson.
Presented in co-sponsorship Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Fall Semester Events Co-Sponsors
Center or 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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Time
(Monday) 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
Wood Auditorium in Avery Hall, Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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Absent Words? Sciences, Scientists, and Scientific Expertise in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
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A. Tunç Şen is an Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University, specializing in the history of the Ottoman world from its beginnings in the 14th century through the early 20th century. His past and future publications focus on the history of sciences and divination, manuscript culture, the history of emotions, and the social history of scholarship. His forthcoming first book, based on his award-winning dissertation and tentatively titled Forgotten Experts: Astrologers and Scientific Expertise in the Ottoman Empire, 1450-1600, examines what “scientific authority” and “expertise” meant in the early modern context. Şen is a member of an international research project, Geographies and Histories of the Ottoman Supernatural Tradition (GHOST): Exploring Magic, the Marvelous, and the Strange in Ottoman Mentalities, funded by the European Research Council.
Time
(Monday) 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Location
202 Jones Hall
Princeton University
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SEEING THE VALLEY, FACING THE ACROPOLIS: A SYMPOSIUM IN HONOR OF STEVEN GREGORY
November 18,2022 – 1:00pm – 7:00p EDT.
Hybrid Event ( In-Person & Online)
Location : Columbia University Faculty House -President’s Ballroom
64 Morningside Drive, New York, NY 10027
Registration: https://forms.gle/s3FVjwAsuXyNVFUHA
In- Person registrants, Space is limited, registration does not guarantee seating. Masking is suggested in indoor spaces. If you require disability accommodations, please contact Columbia Disability Services at 212-854-2388 or disability@columbia.edu
Online Registrants please visit our Livestream
https://bit.ly/3D2QEft
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Introduction – 1p.
Kellie E. Jones, Chair Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Columbia University
1. Seeing the Valley – Black Urban Spaces
Listening to Lives, Seeing Livelihoods – 1p
Diedra Kelley (The Romare Bearden Foundation)
Elizabeth Chin (ArtCenter College of Design)
Patricia Zavella (University of California at Santa Cruz)
Jerry Philogene (Dickinson College)
Obery Hendricks (Columbia University)
Spatial Politics Against Global Anti-Blackness – 2:20p
Jacqueline Nassy Brown (Hunter College and the Graduate Center CUNY)
Anthony Johnson (Independent Writer and Scholar)
Brandi T. Summers (University of California at Berkeley)
Frank A. Guridy (Columbia University)
Coffee Break – 3p
2. Facing the Acropolis – Infrapolitical Practices of Resistance
Dialogic Encounters in Black Studies – 3:20p
Eric Tang (University of Texas at Austin)
Oneka LaBennet(University of Southern California)
Vanessa Agard-Jones (Columbia University)
Robert Gooding Williams (Columbia University)
Posthumous Futurity: Roundtable Introduction toThe Valley & the Acropolis– 4:10p
Jafari Allen (University of Miami)
Farah Jasmine Griffin (Columbia University)
Arlene Davila (New York University)
Vanessa Agard-Jones (Columbia University)
Closing Reflections – 5p
Mabel O. Wilson, Director Institute for Research in African American Studies
Invited guests
Exhibition – 5:30p
The Photography of Steven Gregory: Meditations on People and Place
Curated by Diedra Harris Kelly, Susan Gregory, and Mabel O. Wilson
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Time
(Friday) 1:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location
Columbia University Faculty House -President’s Ballroom, 64 Morningside Drive, New York, NY 10027
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The Clements Bookworm: Online Event for History Lovers
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The Clements Bookworm: Online Event for History Lovers
November 18 Author Conversation “Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America” with Michael Witgen. A U-M Native American Heritage Month (NAHM) event
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(Friday) 10:00 am - 11:30 am
17nov3:00 pm- 4:30 pmUni of Glasgow: James McCune Smith Annual Lecture: Professor Natasha Lightfoot
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James McCune Smith Annual Lecture: Professor Natasha Lightfoot Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies, University of Glasgow
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James McCune Smith Annual Lecture: Professor Natasha Lightfoot
Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies, University of Glasgow
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About this event
This year we are honoured to welcome Professor Natasha Lightfoot as the seventh James McCune Smith Speaker, titled:
“I Determined to Effect My Escape”: The 1855 Flight of John Ross and Fugitive Cosmopolitan Routes to Freedom
Natasha Lightfoot is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Faculty Fellow in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. Her research and teaching interests include Atlantic slavery and emancipation, Black community formation and acts of resistance, and daily practices of freedom in the nineteenth-century British Caribbean. She is the author of Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation (Duke University Press, 2015), which focuses on black working people’s struggles and everyday forms of liberation in British colonial Antigua after slavery’s end. She has also been published in The New York Times, as well as a number of academic journals including The CLR James Journal, Slavery & Abolition, Small Axe, and most recently the William and Mary Quarterly. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society, the Ford Foundation, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and most recently from the American Council of Learned Societies. She is currently writing a book titled Fugitive Cosmopolitans about enslaved people’s mobility, imperial subjecthood and struggles for freedom between empires in the Caribbean.
Her first book is available from Duke University Press, here: https://www.dukeupress.edu/Troubling-Freedom/?viewby=title
Time
(Thursday) 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
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Early Modern History Workshop | Pamela H. Smith, Columbia University
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Early Modern History Workshop | Pamela H. Smith, Columbia University
Wednesday, November 16
4:30 p.m. | 211 Dickinson Hall & Zoom
“Making and Knowing in Sixteenth-Century Europe”
Pamela H. Smith, Columbia University
This workshop will be offered in hybrid format both on Zoom and in-person. Registration is only required for those who plan on attending via Zoom.
Zoom Registration(link is external)
We kindly ask that all in-person attendees please follow the current University Covid-19 guidelines(link is external).
Time
(Wednesday) 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
16nov2:00 pm- 3:30 pmJames McCune Smith Annual Lecture: Professor Natasha Lightfoot
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Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies, University of Glasgow
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This year we are honoured to welcome Professor Natasha Lightfoot as the seventh James McCune Smith Speaker, titled:
“I Determined to Effect My Escape”: The 1855 Flight of John Ross and Fugitive Cosmopolitan Routes to Freedom
Natasha Lightfoot is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Faculty Fellow in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. Her research and teaching interests include Atlantic slavery and emancipation, Black community formation and acts of resistance, and daily practices of freedom in the nineteenth-century British Caribbean. She is the author of Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation (Duke University Press, 2015), which focuses on black working people’s struggles and everyday forms of liberation in British colonial Antigua after slavery’s end. She has also been published in The New York Times, as well as a number of academic journals including The CLR James Journal, Slavery & Abolition, Small Axe, and most recently the William and Mary Quarterly. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society, the Ford Foundation, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and most recently from the American Council of Learned Societies. She is currently writing a book titled Fugitive Cosmopolitans about enslaved people’s mobility, imperial subjecthood and struggles for freedom between empires in the Caribbean.
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(Wednesday) 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
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(Tuesday) 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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Low Library Rotunda
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Then & Now: The Opportunities And Challenges Of Healthy Aging In New York City
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Then & Now: The Opportunities And Challenges Of Healthy Aging In New York City
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
5:00PM-6:00PM
This is a virtual event. Login information will be included in your confirmation email.
The event is free; a donation of $10 is suggested.
As part of NYAM’s 175th anniversary and our “Then & Now” series, this event will focus on a discussion of the politics and history of aging through the voices of older New Yorkers. Our guest historians will contextualize the experiences of today’s older adults through the lens of New York City history, seeking to understand pathways to better, healthier lives and strengthen generational, cultural, and community ties. Discussion themes will center on the 8 Domains of Healthy Aging in the World Health Organization’s Age-friendly Cities Framework.
NYAM gratefully acknowledges the Drs. Barry and Bobbi Coller Programming Fund for support of this program.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Elana Kieffer, MBA, is the Director of NYAM’s Center for Healthy Aging. She has nearly 15 years of experience working in a wide range of older adult services, with a focus on project management, program development, and sales and marketing. Prior to her time at the Academy, Elana worked at The New Jewish Home and at MJHS Hospice and Palliative Care. She also worked in affordable and market-rate senior housing for two Boston-based organizations, The Community Builders and Hebrew SeniorLife. Elana has an MBA in nonprofit management with a concentration in aging services from the Heller School at Brandeis University.
Mario Rubano, MPH, is a Policy Associate at The New York Academy of Medicine’s Center for Healthy Aging. He has a decade of experience in aging services and has worked in a variety of capacities including clinical service provision, community-life development, and program management. He plays a role in implementation and evaluation for several Center initiatives including Age-friendly Neighborhoods, digital inclusion, the ACL-funded Older Adults’ Equity Collaborative, and nursing home infection prevention and control. Before NYAM, Mario worked in New York City independent senior housing at The New Jewish Home, a non-profit, mission-driven healthcare system serving older adults. He entered the aging services field as a Board-Certified Music Therapist leading individual and group music therapy programs in long-term skilled nursing facilities in The Bronx. He holds an MPH from the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy with a concentration in Health Policy and Management.
Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, PhD, is Associate Professor of History at Columbia University and of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. She is a historian of public health and science, focusing on the politics of health and disease crises and lifecourse and aging in the global South, with a focus on South Asia and comparative research, with South Africa, SE Asia, and New York City. Her most recent research is supported by an NSF RAPID grant on COVID-19 in NYC, the global politics of aging, which she published in As the World Ages: Rethinking a Demographic Crisis (Harvard University Press, 2018). Her prior research has focused on the politics of ‘indigenous’ Ayurvedic medicine in late colonial India; social histories of epidemics; and cultures of aging and cognitive decline in India and South Africa. Prior to joining Columbia University, she graduated with a Tripos at Trinity College, Cambridge, and held fellowships at Harvard University and University College London. Her formal training in history and experience in archival work, policy debates, and public health practice provide a rich interdisciplinary perspective anchored in rigorous historical method.
Paul Theerman, PhD, serves as Director of the NYAM Library and Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health, a role he took up in 2018. In this capacity he oversees library operations, including cataloging and description, digitization, collection development, preservation and conservation, and 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 public with contemporary issues in science, technology, and medicine. He regularly teaches the history of public health in the Graduate Program in Public Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
David G. Troyansky, PhD, is Professor of History at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is author of Old Age in the Old Regime: Image and Experience in Eighteenth-Century France (Cornell University Press, 1989) and Aging in World History (Routledge, 2016), as well as a book to be published next year on career and retirement in post-Revolutionary France (forthcoming from Oxford University Press). He has published numerous articles on the history of old age and aspects of French cultural history and co-edited three books on French history and Francophone culture. He is currently co-editing, with Tim Parkin of the University of Melbourne, a 6-volume Cultural History of Old Age for Bloomsbury Press. As a native New Yorker who, in 2005, returned to the city after thirty years away, he is delighted to be bringing his scholarly expertise to an event that is focusing on aging in the city.
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(Tuesday) 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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November 15th from 4:20pm - 6:00pm Workshop with Helen Kinsella. (Minnesota, Political Science and Law). "No Comfort in the Historical Context”: US-Native Wars and Unlawful Combatancy." Commenter
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November 15th from 4:20pm – 6:00pm Workshop with Helen Kinsella. (Minnesota, Political Science and Law). “No Comfort in the Historical Context”: US-Native Wars and Unlawful Combatancy.” Commenter TBD
Workshop location will be circulated closer to event date
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(Tuesday) 4:20 pm - 6:00 pm
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Alvin Baltrop's Voyeurism: Sexual Perversity,
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Alvin Baltrop’s Voyeurism: Sexual Perversity, Race, and the Historical Uses of Photography
Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022 | 5:00–6:30 pm | 411 Fayerweather Hall
Since the 2019 solo exhibition The Life and Times of Alvin Baltrop at the Bronx Museum, black gay photographer Alvin Baltrop, known for his portraits of the gay sexual subcultures and abandoned warehouses at New York’s West Side Piers, has received increased scholarly and popular attention. However, Baltrop has been primarily discussed as a gay artist who focused on gay subcultures. Though Baltrop’s race, class, gender, and sexuality shaped his artistry, few scholars have analyzed how these identity markers shaped his life and times. This talk explores how Baltrop’s identification as a black gay voyeur shaped his artistic practice and life experiences in the 1970s. Since Baltrop viewed his photography as historical documentation of a fleeting gay subculture, the talk also considers how his voyeuristic approach to photography might intervene in the practice of queer history.
Darius Bost is Associate Professor of Black Studies and Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the co-principal investigator of the Provost’s Initiative on the Racialized Body. He is also co-editor of Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. Bost is the author of the award-winning book, Evidence of Being: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence (Chicago, 2019).
Co-sponsored by the Institute for Research in African American Studies
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(Thursday) 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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Arthur J. Viseltear Prize Award Presentation for 2022 Recipient: Dr. Merlin Chowkwanyun Evening with Adam Gaffney,
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Arthur J. Viseltear Prize Award Presentation for 2022
Recipient: Dr. Merlin Chowkwanyun
Evening with Adam Gaffney, M.D.
Westin Boston Convention Center, Marina 1
425 Summer Street, Boston, MA
Tuesday, November 8, 2022
6:00 – 8:30 pm
Recipient: Dr. Merlin Chowkwanyun, Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University for his book, All Health Politics Is Local: Community Battles for Medical Care and Environmental Health (UNC Press, 2022)
Dr. Adam Gaffney, M.D. M.P.H. is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a pulmonary and critical care physician at the Cambridge Health Alliance. His research focuses on national healthcare reform, healthcare equity, and disparities in lung health. He has authored or co-authored more than 50 journal articles, and is the author of the 2017 book To Heal Humankind: The Right to Health in History. The immediate past-president of the nonprofit research and advocacy organization Physicians for a National Health Program, Dr. Gaffney is also a frequent writer and commentator on matters of health policy in the media. He recently testified at a Hearing of the Budget Committee of the US Senate on Medicare for All legislation. Dr. Gaffney received his MD from New York University and his MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He completed his residency at the Columbia University Medical Center, where he served as chief resident, and his fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Woman’s Hospital, and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Program
6:0 0 – 7:00 pm Reception: Hors d’oeuvres and Cash Bar
7:00 – 7:15 pm Introduction and Welcome
Oliver Fein, M.D.
Weill Cornell Medicine
Rosa Rodriguez-Monguio, Ph.D.
Department of Clinical Pharmacology, UCSF
Chair, Medical Care Section
7:15 – 7:20 pm Presentation of Viseltear Award for Public Health History
Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
7:20 – 7:40 pm Viseltear Awardee for Public Health History
Merlin Chowkwanyun, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor, Sociomedical Sciences
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
Author of: “All Health Politics is Local”
7:40 – 8:15 pm Adam Gaffney, M.D., M.P.H.
Pulmonary Specialist, Cambridge Health Allianee
Harvard Medical School
Past President
Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP)
Time
(Tuesday) 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location
Westin Boston Convention Center, Marina 1 425 Summer Street, Boston, MA
7nov7:15 pm- 1:30 pmPablo Piccato at Queens College: All Violence is Gender Violence
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Event date: November 7, 2022 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm
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Colonial & Revolutionary Americas Workshop | Michael Witgen, Columbia University
Michael Witgen, Columbia University
Please note: Registration is not required to attend this workshop. We kindly ask that you please follow the current University Covid-19 guidelines(link is external).
Time
(Monday) 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall, Princeton University
5nov6:00 pm- 7:30 pmBK Museum Roundtable: Cultural Erasure of Islamic History in India (Manan Ahmed)
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Roundtable: Cultural Erasure of Islamic History in India
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Roundtable: Cultural Erasure of Islamic History in India
Saturday, November 5, 2022
6–7:30 pm
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11238
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor
Learn about the erasure of Islamic monuments and history in contemporary India at this roundtable copresented by Guernica magazine. Writer Madhuri Sastry moderates a discussion about politics, art, and cultural memory among historian Manan Ahmed, author and photographer Suchitra Vijayan, and artist Jaishri Abichandani. Joan Cummins, Lisa and Bernard Selz Curator of Asian Art at the Brooklyn Museum, introduces the conversation with an overview of our newly reopened Arts of South Asia gallery.
Time
(Saturday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Location
Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Museum, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor, 200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY
4nov2:00 pm- 6:00 pmSOF/Heyman: Ottoman Algiers Beyond 1800
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(Friday) 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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Buell Hall, Maison Française
515 West 116th Street, New York, NY, United States)
2nov6:00 pm- 7:30 pmIRAAS: "Black is the Journey, Africana the Name"
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Wednesday , November 2nd, 2022 – 6:00pm
Location: Columbia University Faculty House – Garden Room
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(Wednesday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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Faculty House- Garden Room
64 Morningside Drive
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Marking 50 years of Ireland’s EU Membership Minister of State Thomas Byrne in conversation with Adam
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(Tuesday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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Room 1501, International Affairs Building 420 West 118 Street
28oct - 11novoct 284:00 amnov 11IRAAS: "Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party"
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Fri. Oct 28 4PM EST In-Person Registration:
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Fri. Oct 28 4PM EST
In-Person Registration: https://bit.ly/3eKN15Q
LiveStream: https://bit.ly/3CPna5I
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October 28 (Friday) 4:00 am - November 11 (Friday) 5:30 pm
Location
Buell Hall, Maison Française
515 West 116th Street, New York, NY, United States)
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
Location
Baruch College, Newman Vertical Campus, 55 Lexington Ave, Room 8-210
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
Location
East Gallery, Buell Hall (Maison Française)
East Gallery, Buell Hall (Maison Française)
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REGISTER The Greatest
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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 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)
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
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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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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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
Location
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
Location
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
Location
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
Location
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.
Time
(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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(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.
Low Memorial Library – Rotunda
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.
Time
(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.
Time
(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
Location
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
Time
(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
Time
(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.
Time
(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.
Time
(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.
Time
(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
&
Professor Linda Yueh, Visiting Professor at LSE IDEAS, Fellow in Economics at Oxford University
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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
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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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