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february 2021
25feb5:30 pm- 7:30 pmFeaturedColumbia History Department Open House & Career Session
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The History Department will hold its annual undergraduate Open House & Career Session Thursday, February 25th from 5:30pm to 7:30pm. The
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The History Department will hold its annual undergraduate Open House & Career Session Thursday, February 25th from 5:30pm to 7:30pm.
The event will be via Zoom and will include Sarah Goldberg of Columbia’s Center for Career Education, a panel of History alumni, and current faculty and fellow History majors. Each group will be discussing the uses of studying History on a personal, intellectual and professional level, the kind of careers available for History majors and concentrators, and alumni advice and tips for the job market.
To RSVP, please email (undergraduate-history@columbia.edu) with the subject “Career Session RSVP”. With your RSVP you can also provide any questions or areas that you would like to have covered.
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(Thursday) 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
24feb4:00 pm- 5:30 pmAbortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the present (Mary Ziegler)
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(Wednesday) 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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Water, Sewage, and Horses: The Infrastructure of Istanbul
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11 AM (New York) 7 PM (Istanbul)
Columbia Global Centers Istanbul invites you to a series of webinar workshops to highlight the research of emerging scholars in the late Ottoman and early Turkish Republican history. Led by Professor Zeynep Çelik, our second workshop, “Water, Sewage, and Horses: The Infrastructure of Istanbul” explores the infrastructure of Istanbul in the 19th century.
Sharon Mizbani, Ph.D. Student, Yale University: The Art of Infrastructure: Hamidiye Fountains in Ottoman Istanbul
Emir Küçük, Ph.D. Candidate, Boğaziçi University: Horses of the Constantinople Tramway Company in 1871 – 1914
Mehmet Kentel, Ph.D., Istanbul Research Institute: Pera, Kasımpaşa, Sewers, and Maps: Representing Infrastructural Entanglements in the Nineteenth-Century Istanbul
Discussant: Christopher Low, Assistant Professor of History at Iowa State University
Led by:
Zeynep Çelik, Adjunct Professor, History Department, Columbia University and Distinguished Professor Emerita, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Merve İspahani, Ph.D., Columbia Global Centers | Istanbul
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(Wednesday) 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
23feb6:30 pm- 7:30 pmUnforgetting: Central American Migration, Gangs, and Revolution
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Unforgetting: Central American Migration, Gangs, and Revolution
In conversation with Author Roberto Lovato.
In Unforgetting, Roberto interweaves his father’s complicated history of survival in El Salvador and his own with first-hand reportage on gang life, state violence, and the heart of the immigration crisis in both El Salvador and the United States.
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(Tuesday) 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
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As educators and students, our panelists will discuss their teaching methodologies, their research interests, and
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(Tuesday) 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
22feb7:00 pm- 8:30 pmSocial Conversations Webinar: "Athlete Activism" (Frank Guridy)
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Social Conversations Webinar: "Athlete Activism" Set For February 22
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Social Conversations Webinar: “Athlete Activism” Set For February 22
NEW YORK — Columbia Athletics is set to hold Social Conversations: Athlete Activism, on Monday, February 22 at 7 p.m. ET. The webinar will be moderated by Dr. Frank Guridy of the Columbia University Department of History along with a panel featuring Alton Byrd ’79CC, Nzingha Prescod ’15CC and Tyler Holmes ’18CC discussing the importance of activism in sports. This is the first webinar in a series of social conversations taking place this winter and spring.
Click here to register for the event. For more information contact lionstickets@columbia.edu.
About the participants
Dr. Frank Guidry
Specializes in sport history, urban history, and the history of the African Diaspora in the Americas. His forthcoming book, The Sports Revolution: How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics (University of Texas Press, 2021) explores how Texas-based sports entrepreneurs and athletes from marginalized backgrounds transformed American sporting culture during the 1960s and 1970s, the highpoint of the Black Freedom and Second-Wave feminist movements. His first book, Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow (University of North Carolina Press, 2010), won the Elsa Goveia Book Prize from the Association of Caribbean Historians and the Wesley-Logan Book Prize, conferred by the American Historical Association.
Alton Byrd
As Vice President of Growth Properties for the Long Island Nets and Nets GC, Alton Byrd oversees strategic and operational activities for the NBA G League’s Brooklyn Nets and Nets GC of the NBA 2K League. Byrd led the launch of the team’s inaugural season at Barclays Center in Brooklyn and the team’s permanent move to NYCB LIVE, home of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, on Long Island. He now also works on the strategic business operations of NBA 2K team Nets GC.
Nzingha Prescod
Founder of Fencing in the Park, a community-based, outdoor summer series introducing the less visible sport of fencing to children of color in Brooklyn neighborhoods that are unlikely to access it, otherwise. Olympic, national team, and NCAA athletes joined together to lead the sessions and we enrolled more than 40 kids from underrepresented neighborhoods such as East Flatbush, Flatbush, Brownsville, Bed-Stuy, and Crown Heights. Parents reported noticeable improvement in their child’s discipline, teaming, and focus abilities. Many also believe FITP lifted their kids’ spirits in an unprecedented period of isolation and provided them with a productive outlet to develop confidence, optimism, and sense of purpose.
Tyler Holmes
Tyler Holmes graduated from Columbia College in 2018 with a major in Political Science and was a member of the Football Team during his 4 years. He currently is a full-time elementary teacher in the Bronx, a business owner of T. Holmes Photography, a photography and videography company, and an aspiring film director. He is also a member of Strategy For Black Lives, a youth led civil rights group in NYC focused on improving the lives of those impacted by systemic racism through protest and policy reform.
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(Monday) 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
22feb7:00 pm- 8:00 pmSocial Conversations | A Panel on Athlete Activism (with Frank Guridy)
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Come join Professor Frank Guridy, and Columbia Athletics Alumni for a discussion surrounding Athlete Activism.
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About this Event
In an effort to engage our Columbia Athletics community in a number of social conversations this winter and spring, we invite you to join us for a panel discussion surrounding Athlete Activism. The webinar will be moderated by Dr. Frank Guridy of the Columbia University Department of History along with a panel of Athletics Alumni. Men’s basketball alum Alton Byrd ‘79CC, women’s fencing alum Nzingha Prescod ‘15CC, and football alum Tyler Holmes ‘18CC.
Monday, February 22, 2021
7:00pm-8:00pm EST.
The official Webinar link will be sent out the morning of the event.
Please submit any questions when registering for the event.
With further questions contact Athletics Development and Alumni Relations Coordinator Emily Maury – egm2141@columbia.edu
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(Monday) 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
18feb1:30 pm- 2:30 pmCoffee Chat with ILAS: Amy Chazkel
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Join us for another Coffee Chat with ILAS! This time, we will have Amy Chazkel, Bernard Hirschhorn Associate Professor of Urban Studies in Columbia’s History Department and Director of Undergraduate Studies for Urban Studies.
This series hopes to connect students with different faculty members at Columbia working on research pertaining to the Latin America. We hope that this space can provide students with the opportunity to engage with different Latin American scholars in a more interactive way.
This event will be livestreamed on Zoom. Register here.
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(Thursday) 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
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Thursday, February 18 Outsider Art (Art Brut): Symbolism of Body Adornments
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Thursday, February 18
Outsider Art (Art Brut): Symbolism of Body Adornments
Lucienne Peiry in conversation with Camille Robcis
Self-taught Outsider artists (“Art Brut”) develop personal systems of expression to produce paintings, sculptures, drawings or textile works outside of official artistic circles. Sometimes unaware of social conventions, often resistant to cultural rules, they transgress (sometimes involuntarily) established codes and invent highly personal symbolic universes. In their works, Outsider artists invent subjects, modes of representation, systems of perspective, and technical means, often resorting to used, humble, or discarded materials.
In this conversation with Camille Robcis, Lucienne Peiry explores artists who use their own bodies as medium of expression in the isolation and exclusion of psychiatric hospitals. These artists create real or dreamlike clothes and bodily chimeras: a wedding dress created from threads pulled from used bed sheets, asylum outfits transformed and adorned with embroidered writings, costumes woven with frayed rags; the adornments are part of an extravagant ingenuity. Marguerite Sirvins, Agnes Richter, Anghus McPhee, and Arthur Bispo do Rosario create clothes that they feel are endowed with magical and healing virtues. Seeing their works triggers in the spectator a strong bodily reaction.
Lucienne Peiry is an art historian, specialist of Art Brut, curator of exhibitions in Europe and Japan, especially “Intextricabilia, enchevêtrements magiques” at la Maison rouge, Paris, 2017, and “Ecrits d’Art Brut”, at the Tinguely Museum, in Basel, in 2021. From 2001 to 2011, she was the Director of the Collection de l’Art Brut in Lausanne. Lecturer at the EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) since 2015, she has written extensively on Art Brut, particularly L’Art Brut (translated into English, German and Chinese), and in 2020 Écrits d’Art Brut: Graphomanes extravagants. Lucienne Peiry also hosts a website called Notes d’Art Brut.
Camille Robcis is Associate Professor of History and French at Columbia University.
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(Thursday) 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
17feb4:00 pm- 5:30 pmCelebrating Recent Work by Margaret Schabas and Carl Wennerlind
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New Books in the Arts & Sciences Celebrating Recent Work by Margaret Schabas and Carl Wennerlind Wednesday, February
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New Books in the Arts & Sciences
Celebrating Recent Work by Margaret Schabas and Carl Wennerlind
Wednesday, February 17, 2021 4:00pmVirtual Event at 4:00pm (EST)
New Books in the Arts & Sciences:
Celebrating Recent Work by Margaret Schabas and Carl Wennerlind
A Philosopher’s Economist: Hume and the Rise of Capitalism
By: Margaret Schabas and Carl Wennerlind
Although David Hume’s contributions to philosophy are firmly established, his economics has been largely overlooked. A Philosopher’s Economist offers the definitive account of Hume’s “worldly philosophy” and argues that economics was a central preoccupation of his life and work. Margaret Schabasand Carl Wennerlind show that Hume made important contributions to the science of economics, notably on money, trade, and public finance. Hume’s astute understanding of human behavior provided an important foundation for his economics and proved essential to his analysis of the ethical and political dimensions of capitalism. Hume also linked his economic theory with policy recommendations and sought to influence people in power. While in favor of the modern commercial world, believing that it had and would continue to raise standards of living, promote peaceful relations, and foster moral refinement, Hume was not an unqualified enthusiast. He recognized many of the underlying injustices of capitalism, its tendencies to promote avarice and inequality, as well as its potential for political instability and absolutism.
Hume’s imprint on modern economics is profound and far reaching, whether through his close friend Adam Smith or later admirers such as John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek. Schabas and Wennerlind’s book compels us to reconsider the centrality and legacy of Hume’s economic thought—for both his time and ours—and thus serves as an important springboard for reflections on the philosophical underpinnings of economics.
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Please email disability@columbia.edu to request disability accommodations. Advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs.
About the Authors:
Margaret Schabas is professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia and the author of A World Ruled by Number and The Natural Origins of Economics. With Carl Wennerlind, she previously co-edited David Hume’s Political Economy.
Carl Wennerlind is professor of history at Barnard College, Columbia University and the author of Casualties of Credit: The English Financial Revolution, 1620-1720. He coedited David Hume’s Political Economy with Margaret Schabas.
About the Speakers:
Emma Rothschild is Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History at Harvard University, Honorary Professor of History and Economics at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. She is the author of Paradise Lost: The Decline of the Auto-Industrial Age, The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History, and many articles in scholarly and other journals.
Victoria de Grazia is Moore Collegiate Professor of History at Columbia University. She is the author of The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality and the forthcoming Soft Power Internationalism, 1990-2020, with Burcu Baykurt.
Turkuler Isiksel is Associate Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. Her research has appeared in Human Rights Quarterly, the European Journal of International Law, International Journal of Constitutional Law (I*CON), Global Constitutionalism, the European Law Journal, and Constellations.
Lisa Tiersten is Professor and Chair of History at Barnard College. Professor Tiersten’s research and teaching interests include modern European cultural history, the cultural history of capitalism, modern France, feminist theory, gender history, and comparative colonialisms. She has received the Emily Gregory Award for Excellence in Teaching from Barnard College.
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(Wednesday) 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
12feb9:00 am- 11:00 amPolish Archives: A Sweeping View
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Friday 12 March, 2-4pm GMT via Zoom RSVP: History.OnLine2021@gmail.com • Franciszek Dąbrowski PhD, archivist in the Institute
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Friday 12 March, 2-4pm GMT via Zoom
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• Franciszek Dąbrowski PhD, archivist in the Institute of National Remembrance Archives (digital resources branch),
deputy editor-in-chief of the “Institute of National Remembrance Review”, lecturer with the Institute of Military
History, War Studies University in Warsaw.
• Marek Dąbrowski, archivist in the Institute of National Remembrance Archives (digital resources branch), coordinates
the archival on-line publication projects.
• Jan Annusewicz, archivist in Central Archives of Modern Records in Warsaw (social and family archives
support branch).
Archiwum Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej
Institute of National Remembrance Archives (AIPN)
The records of the former security police of the Communist dictatorship in Poland, among others. Minutes of the
Warsaw Pact Political Advisory Committee, as well as its Defense Ministers’ Committee meetings, and collections
of the security police intelligence branch and military intelligence.
Archiwum Akt Nowych, Central Archives of Modern Records (AAN):
Records of government and central institutions, including the vast collection of the Central Committee of
Communist party, and many other decision-making bodies in Communist-ruled Poland.
The first seminars took us to the Rockefeller Archive Center in Tarrytown, NY, the Open Society Archives in Budapest, Hungary, the FRUS
Collection with the US State Department Office of the Historian and the CIA Reading Room, the Cold War collections at the British
National Library, and to Latin American Resources. For recordings of these sessions, visit https://www.victoria-phillips.global/history-
online. Please address questions to Dr. Victoria Phillips, V.Phillips2@lse.ac.uk or History.OnLine2021@gmail.com.
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(Friday) 9:00 am - 11:00 am
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Mental health during a pandemic From CALLING ALL ANTIGUANS
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(Saturday) 11:00 am - 12:01 pm
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(Thursday) 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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Soviet Judgment At Nuremberg: A New History Of The International Military Tribunal After WWII By Francine Hirsch
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Soviet Judgment At Nuremberg: A New History Of The International Military Tribunal After WWII By Francine Hirsch
This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event.
Click here to purchase the book from Book Culture NYC.
Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live.
Please join the Harriman Institute and the Columbia Department of History for a discussion with Francine Hirsch (University of Wisconsin-Madison), author of Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II (Oxford University Press, 2020), in conversation with Miriam Schulz (Department of Yiddish Studies, Columbia University). Moderated by Alexander Cooley (Harriman Institute).
Organized in the immediate aftermath of World War Two by the victorious Allies, the Nuremberg Trials were intended to hold the Nazis to account for their crimes — and to restore a sense of justice to a world devastated by violence. As Francine Hirsch reveals in this immersive, gripping, and ground-breaking book, a major piece of the Nuremberg story has routinely been omitted from standard accounts: the part the Soviet Union played in making the trials happen in the first place.
Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg offers the first complete picture of the International Military Tribunal (IMT), including the many ironies brought to bear as the Soviets took their place among the countries of the prosecution in late 1945. Everyone knew that Stalin had allied with Hitler before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact hung heavy over the courtroom, as did the suspicion that the Soviets had falsified evidence in an attempt to pin one of their own war crimes, the mass killing of Polish officers in the Katyn Forest, on the Nazis. Moreover, key members of the Soviet delegation, including the Soviet judge and chief prosecutor, had played critical roles in Stalin’s infamous show trials of the 1930s. For the American prosecutor Robert H. Jackson and his colleagues in the British and French delegations, Soviet participation in the IMT undermined the credibility of the trials and indeed the moral righteousness of the Allied victory.
Yet without the Soviets Nuremberg would never have taken place. Soviet jurists conceived of the legal framework that treated war as an international crime, giving the trials a legal basis. The Soviets had borne the brunt of the fighting against Germany, and their almost unimaginable suffering gave them moral authority. They would not be denied a place on the tribunal and moreover were determined to make the most of it. However, little went as the Soviets had planned. Stalin’s efforts to steer the trials from afar backfired. Soviet war crimes were exposed in open court. As relations among the four countries of the prosecution foundered, Nuremberg turned from a court of justice to an early front of the Cold War.
Hirsch’s book provides a front-row seat in the Nuremberg courtroom, while also guiding readers behind the scenes to the meetings in which secrets were shared, strategies mapped, and alliances forged. Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg offers a startlingly new view of the IMT and a fresh perspective on the movement for international human rights that it helped launch.
Francine Hirsch is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she teaches Soviet and Modern European history. Her first book, Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union (2005), received several prizes, including the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Association.
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(Tuesday) 12:00 pm - 1:30 am
january 2021
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Friday, January 29
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Friday, January 29
A panel discussion with Manan Ahmed (History)
On his new book, The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India
Panelists:
Vishakha Desai (Chair, Committee on Global Thought)
Purnima Dhavan (History, University of Washington)
Ayesha Ramachandran (Comparative Literature, Yale University)
Time: 10:10am – 12:00pm
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Co-sponsored by the Committee on Global Thought, the Heyman Center for the Humanities, and the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy
Manan Ahmed is Associate Professor in the History Department at Columbia University. He is an historian of South Asia and the littoral western Indian Ocean world from 1000-1800 CE. His areas of specialization include intellectual history in South and Southeast Asia; critical philosophy of history, colonial and anti-colonial thought. He is interested in how modern and pre-modern historical narratives create understandings of places, communities, and intellectual genealogies for their readers. Prof. Ahmed’s second book, The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India (Harvard University Press, 2020), tells a history of the historians of the subcontinent from the tenth to the early twentieth century. The core of the book is the history Tarikh-i Firishta which was written by Muhammad Qasim Firishta (b. ca. 1570) in the Deccan in the early seventeenth century. Broadly, the book presents a concept-history of “Hindustan,” a political and historiographic category that was subsumed by the colonial project of creating British India and the subsequent polities of “Republic of India” and “Islamic Republic of Pakistan.”
Dr. Vishakha N. Desai is Chair, Committee on Global Thought; Senior Advisor for Global Affairs to the President of Columbia University; and a Senior Research Scholar for the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. She also serves as Senior Advisor for Global Programs to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. From 2004 through 2012, Dr. Desai served as President and CEO of the Asia Society, a global organization dedicated to strengthening partnerships between Asia and the U.S. In 2012, in recognition of Dr. Desai’s leadership in the museum field, President Barack Obama appointed her to serve on the National Museum and Library Services Board. An internationally renowned scholar of Asian art, she has published and lectured extensively on the intersection of traditional and contemporary arts and policy in diverse countries of Asia. Dr. Desai holds a B.A. in Political Science from Bombay University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Asian Art History from the University of Michigan, in addition to honorary degrees from Williams College, Centre College, Pace University, The College of Staten Island, and Susquehanna University.
Purnima Dhavan is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Washington. Her Fields of Interest include Comparative Gender; Environmental History; Islamic Studies; Literature; Science and Technology; and South Asia. Her research interests encompass the social and cultural history of early modern South Asia, 1500-1800. The ways in which religious, linguistic, and status identities shaped the political and cultural institutions of the Mughal period are central to her work. Prof. Dhavan’s first book, When Sparrows Became Hawks: the Making of Khalsa Martial Tradition (2011) examined the transformation of North Indian peasants into high-status warriors as they became members of the Sikh warrior order, the Khalsa. Her second book project, The Lords of the Pen: Literary Associations in Early Modern South Asia, examines the literary activities of poets in emerging urban centers of the Mughal Empire to understand how participation in literary associations shaped understandings of caste, gender, and religious identity, to engage with larger questions of how notions of the “public” and “common good” emerged in different parts of the world.
Ayesha Ramachandran is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University. Her research interests include Early modern European literature and cultural history; Renaissance poetry; history of science and technology (sixteenth and seventeenth century); cartography and literature; early modern empires and international law; history of philosophy; Europe and the Indo-Islamic world. Her recent work focuses on Europe’s relations with an expanding world. Her first book, The Worldmakers (University of Chicago Press, 2015) charts transnational encounters and the early mechanisms of globalization from the late fifteenth to the early eighteenth centuries. It was awarded the MLA’s Scaglione prize in Comparative Literary Studies (2017), the Milton Society of America’s Shawcross Prize for the best book chapter on Milton (2016), and the Sixteenth Century Studies Association’s Founder’s Prize for the best first book manuscript (2015). In addition to literary and intellectual historical questions, Prof. Ramachandran is interested in early modern maps (particularly world mapping), the history of science and technology, early modern empires, and the rich visual archive of illustrated books in the period). Her current book project, Lyric Thinking: Humanism, Selfhood, Modernity, argues for the central importance of lyric form and language in shaping new intellectual possibilities for the self in the early modern period and beyond.
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(Friday) 10:10 pm - 12:00 pm
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Registration link: https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUuceGgrD0jGN2zb8yrZzh-TfqtQMR5_cmz
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(Friday) 10:10 am - 12:00 pm
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For many, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. But this overwhelmingly white women’s movement did not win the vote for most Black women. Acclaimed historian Martha S. Jones, in conversation with Eric Foner, recounts how Black women defied both racism and sexism to fight for the ballot from the earliest days of the republic through the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and beyond, and how they wielded political power to secure the equality and dignity of all persons.
Martha S. Jones, Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University and co-president of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, is the author of Vanguard: How Black Women Broke the Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All. Eric Foner (moderator) is DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University.
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(Thursday) 6:00 pm - 7:35 pm
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Join us for an organic discussion about teaching against the institutional and canonical grain, cultivating inclusive classroom environments, gender dynamics in academia, the importance of tying lived experiences and scholarly work, and related topics.
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Anupama Rao is a TOW Associate Professor of History, Barnard and MESAAS (Columbia) in the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, History, Human Rights departments. She has research and teaching interests in gender and sexuality studies; caste and race; historical anthropology; social theory; comparative urbanism; and colonial genealogies of human rights and humanitarianism.
Frank Guridy is an associate professor in the Columbia history department. He specializes in sport history, urban history, and the history of the African Diaspora in the Americas.
Luz Colpa is a doctoral student in African history in the Columbia History department. Her interests include the history of household, family and gender in twentieth century West Africa and late-imperial France. Colpa’s research is centered on interracial, transnational and intercultural marriage in the Francophone world (1945-1974).
Rhiannon Stephens is an Associate Professor in the Columbia history department. She specializes in the history of precolonial and early colonial East Africa from the late first millennium CE through the twentieth century.
Johanna Fernández is a native New Yorker. She received a PhD in History from Columbia University and an AB in Literature and American Civilization from Brown University. Fernández is an Associate Professor of history at Baruch College of the City University of New York where she teaches 20th Century U.S. History, the history of social movements, the political economy of American cities, and African-American history. Fernández published her most recent manuscript, The Young Lords: A Radical History.
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(Wednesday) 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
22jan6:00 pm- 8:00 pmLife in an Age of Conflicts and Extremes
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Keynote address for In Service to the New Nation: The Life & Legacy of John Jay
Friday, January 22, 6:00-7:30 p.m. EST
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The Forum is proud to join Columbia Libraries in hosting the keynote address of the 2021 John Jay Papers Conference. The keynote, entitled “Life in an Age of Conflicts and Extremes,” will be given by Prof. Joanne Freeman and livestreamed by The Forum.
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Prof. Freeman, whose work illuminates the legacy of Congressional violence and polarizing partisan politics in United States history, is the Class of 1954 Professor of American History and American Studies at Yale University. Her research focuses on the politics and culture of the revolutionary and early national periods, leading into the Civil War era and its aftermath. Her keynote address will examine recent Congressional conflicts and violence through the lens of these powerful historical precedents. Following her address, Columbia History Department Prof. Stephanie McCurry, R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History in Honor of Dwight D. Eisenhower, will moderate a discussion, including questions from the audience.
Register for Friday’s keynote address here. A livestream link will be sent to registrants prior to the event.
Prof. Freeman’s address launches a virtual conference taking place January 23 from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. EST. The conference, presented by The John Jay Papers Project, marks the completion of the extensive series of The Selected Papers of John Jay, edited over decades by the Rare Book and Manuscript Library within Columbia Libraries. The conference is free and open to the public. Advance registration is required.
Joanne Freeman: Class of 1954 Professor of American History and of American Studies, Yale University
Joanne Freeman specializes in early American politics and political culture. Her interest in political violence and political polarization—dirty, nasty, politics—has made her work particularly relevant in recent years. Her most recent book, The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War (2017), focuses on physically violent clashes in the House and Senate chambers, and how they shaped and savaged the nation. The book won National Public Radio’s Best Book of the Year award in 2018.
Stephanie McCurry: R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History in Honor of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Columbia University
Stephanie McCurry specializes in the American Civil War and Reconstruction, the nineteenth century United States, the American South, and the history of women and gender. Her current work focuses on the epic human drama of Reconstruction in the U.S. and the comparative history of postwar societies and processes of reconstruction in the 19th and 20th centuries. Her book Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South won the Frederick Douglass Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
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(Friday) 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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The Cold War, Technopolitics and Disciplinarity: Reexamining Cold War Humanism
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Please join us for a panel discussion with new research by Arvind Rajagopal, S.M. Amadae, and Jenny Andersson. Matt Connelly will comment and chair the discussion.
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(Friday) 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
14jan6:00 pm- 7:00 pmAnn Snitow Prize 2020 Ceremony and Conversation with Premilla Nadasen
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Ann Snitow Prize 2020 Ceremony and Conversation with Premilla Nadasen Register
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Please join us to celebrate Premilla Nadasen, winner of the 2020 Ann Snitow Prize for an extraordinary feminist intellectual and activist. After a short ceremony, Dr. Nadasen will be joined by Dr. Barbara Ransby for a conversation, The Politics of Care: Feminism, Race, and Grassroots Organizing. For more information about the prize, visit www.annsnitowprize.com.
Premilla Nadasen is a professor of history at Barnard College. From 2018–2020 she served as president of the National Women’s Studies Association. She has published extensively on the multiple meanings of feminism, alternative labor movements, and grassroots 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. She is the author, most recently, of Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement (Beacon 2015) and is currently writing a biography of South African singer and anti-apartheid activist Miriam Makeba.
Dr. Barbara Ransby is Distinguished Professor in the Departments of African American Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, and History at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), where she directs the campus-wide Social Justice Initiative, a project that promotes connections between academics and community organizers doing work on social justice. She is the author of many books, most recently Making All Black Lives Matter: Re-imagining Freedom in the 21st Century (2018).
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(Thursday) 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
14jan1:00 pm- 2:30 pmEric Foner - AAPSS Fellows Webinar: Can Democracy Survive Growing Inequality?
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The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) will host a virtual conversation “Can Democracy Survive Growing Inequality?” on Thursday, January 14, 2021
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The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) will host a virtual conversation “Can Democracy Survive Growing Inequality?” on Thursday, January 14, 2021 at 1:00 pm EST. New York Times columnist David Leonhardt will moderate a conversation with the 2020 AAPSS Fellows: Katherine Cramer, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Eric Foner, Columbia University; Helen Milner, Princeton University; Mario Luis Small, Harvard University and Bruce Western, Columbia University. The discussion will take stock of the current state of racial and socioeconomic inequality in the United States and around the world, and suggest public policy opportunities for the Biden administration. Please register here.
Katherine Cramer, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Eric Foner, Columbia University
Helen Milner, Princeton University
Mario Luis Small, Harvard University
Bruce Western, Columbia University
The discussion will take stock of the current state of racial and socioeconomic inequality in the United States and around the world, and suggest public policy opportunities for the Biden administration. How did we arrive at our current state of racial and socioeconomic inequality, and how can we understand this moment in historical context? How does inequality destabilize American democracy and has it exacerbated political instability around the world?
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(Thursday) 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
10jan3:30 pm- 4:30 pmAn Evening with Simon Schama: The War on Knowledge
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The Lyons Learning Project is proud to present 'An Evening with
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(Sunday) 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
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Karwaan: The Heritage Exploration Initiative presents The Loss of Hindustan – The Invention
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(Sunday) 9:00 am - 11:00 am
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January 8 @ 12:30 PM via Zoom Register Here: https://bit.ly/3bCK3u2
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January 8 @ 12:30 PM via Zoom
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A virtual conference exploring issues of globalization and its opponents from various disciplinary perspectives. The conference will take place online on the second Friday of the month, from November 2020 to February 2021. The second session “Deglobalizing Capitalism” will take place January 8, 2021.
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(Friday) 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
december 2020
22dec7:00 pm- 8:00 pmRadical Thinkers: Manan Ahmed & Shahzia Sikander
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2020 7:00 PM
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2020
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Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ8u9gX4TsQ&feature=youtu.be
Presented by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, this new series, Radical Thinkers, places radical academics directly in conversation with trailblazing writers, poets, and artists, creating and nurturing two-way dialogues that will interrogate some of the most pressing issues facing Asian and Asian diasporic communities today. Featuring an interdisciplinary lineup of scholars and creatives, these unexpected pairings will center revolutionary discourse and scholarship in an effort to demystify intellectual debates, collapse the divide between the ‘ivory tower’ and the public sphere, and ultimately envision a radical new future.
The first installment of this series presents historian, professor, and AAWW Board Member Manan Ahmed in conversation with acclaimed visual artist Shahzia Sikander.
This event will be broadcast live on the Asian American Writers’ Workshop YouTube channel.
Manan Ahmed is a historian of South Asia and the littoral western Indian Ocean world from 1000-1800 CE. His areas of specialization include intellectual history in South and Southeast Asia; critical philosophy of history, colonial and anti-colonial thought. He is interested in how modern and pre-modern historical narratives create understandings of places, communities, and intellectual genealogies for their readers. In A Book of Conquest: Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia (Harvard University Press, 2016), he writes on the intellectual life of an early thirteenth-century Persian history Chachnama also known as Fathnama-i Sind (Book of the Conquest of Sindh). The book delves into how Muslim polities in Sindh addressed sacral differences, created new ethics of rule, and articulated a political theory of power in the thirteenth century Indian Ocean World. In The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India (Harvard University Press, 2020), he tells a history of the historians of the subcontinent from the tenth to the early twentieth century. The book is a concept-history of “Hindustan,” focusing specifically on the work of the seventeenth century Deccan historian Firishta (fl. 1570-1620). It argues for a decolonized philosophy of history for the subcontinent. He is currently working on a book, under contract with The New Press, on memory, history, Lahore, Pakistan.
He has extensive background in digital history, in the history of archives in the global south and the problems of access and control to digitized materials. He is the co-founder of the Group for Experimental Methods , which focuses on “mobilized humanities” and innovations in scholarly methodologies. One recent project: Torn Apart/Separados focused on the humanitarian crisis on the southwestern border in Summer 2018. He is interested in spatial visualization in medieval Arabic and Persian histories— see, e.g., “Delivering Post by Foot in Medieval North India”. He is one of the lead faculty in two major international research projects: “Decolonization, the Disciplines and the University” (2019-2023) funded by the Mellon Foundation and the second, “Muslims in India” (2020-2023) funded by the Luce Foundation.
Born in Lahore, Pakistan, Shahzia Sikander received her BFA in 1991 from the National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan, where she underwent rigorous training under master miniaturist Bashir Ahmed. The first student Ahmed invited to teach alongside him, she subsequently became the first artist from the Miniature Painting Department at the NCA to challenge the medium’s technical and aesthetic framework. In addition, she was the first woman to teach miniature painting at the school. Sikander moved to the United States in 1993 to pursue her MFA at the Rhode Island School of Design, which she completed in 1995.
Sikander’s thesis project, The Scroll (1989-90), launched what has come to be called the neo-miniature. This breakthrough project received national critical acclaim in Pakistan, winning the prestigious Shakir Ali and Haji Sharif awards for excellence in miniature painting and launching the medium into the forefront of the NCA’s program. Sikander’s innovative work led to her meteoric rise internationally in the mid-nineties with survey exhibitions at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (1998), the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (1998), the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (1999), and the Whitney Museum of American Art (2000).
Shahzia Sikander’s pioneering practice takes classical Indo-Persian miniature painting as its point of departure and challenges the strict formal tropes of the genre by experimenting with scale and various media including painting, drawing, animation, installation, video and film. Informed by South Asian, American, Feminist and Muslim perspectives, Sikander has developed a unique, critically charged approach to this time-honored medium – employing its continuous capacity for reinvention to interrogate ideas of language, trade and empire, and migration.
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(Tuesday) 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
17dec1:00 pm- 2:00 pmPablo Piccato - Book Presentation: National History of Infamy
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Le invitamos a la presentación del libro "Historia Nacional de la Infamia".
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Le invitamos a la presentación del libro “Historia Nacional de la Infamia”.
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- Pablo Piccato (autor)
- Dr. Jorge Trujillo
- Mtra. Alejandra Diaz
- Dra. Claudia Gamiño
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- Dra. Elisa Cárdenas
Evento se llevara acabo a las 12pm (Mexico) o 1pm (NYC). Transmisión en directo por https://www.facebook.com/SocioloUdeG. ;
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(Thursday) 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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Free Speech Norms in the 21st Century: Regardless of Frontiers or Guarded by Borders?
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Free Speech Norms in the 21st Century: Regardless of Frontiers or Guarded by Borders?
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(Wednesday) 10:00 am - 11:30 am
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Debating the Future of Europe
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The Perilous Public Square: Structural Threats to Free Expression Today
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The Perilous Public Square: Structural Threats to Free Expression Today
Americans of all political persuasions fear that “free speech” is under attack. This may seem strange at a time when legal protections for free expression remain strong and overt government censorship minimal. Yet a range of political, economic, social, and technological developments have raised profound challenges for how we manage speech. New threats to political discourse are mounting—from the rise of authoritarian populism and national security secrecy to the decline of print journalism and public trust in experts to the “fake news,” trolling, and increasingly subtle modes of surveillance made possible by digital technologies.
The Perilous Public Square brings together leading thinkers to identify and investigate today’s multifaceted threats to free expression. They go beyond the campus and the courthouse to pinpoint key structural changes in the means of mass communication and forms of global capitalism. Beginning with Tim Wu’s inquiry into whether the First Amendment is obsolete, Matthew Connelly, Jack Goldsmith, Kate Klonick, Frederick Schauer, Olivier Sylvain, and Heather Whitney explore ways to address these dangers and preserve the essential features of a healthy democracy. Their conversations with other leading thinkers, including Danielle Keats Citron, Jelani Cobb, Frank Pasquale, Geoffrey R. Stone, Rebecca Tushnet, and Kirsten Weld, cross the disciplinary boundaries of First Amendment law, internet law, media policy, journalism, legal history, and legal theory, offering fresh perspectives on fortifying the speech system and reinvigorating the public square.
The essays included in “The Perilous Public Square” were commissioned by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and first published as part of a Knight Institute series that David Pozen edited in his capacity as the Institute’s inaugural Visiting Scholar.
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(Monday) 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Huamanquiquia: Making an Intercommunal Peasant Alliance against the Shining Path in Peru (1983-1992) Thursday, December 10, 2020 12:45pm
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Huamanquiquia: Making an Intercommunal Peasant Alliance against the Shining Path in Peru (1983-1992)
Conventional views portray indigenous peasants as helpless victims of warring sides in armed conflicts. However, they are often resistant actors who switch support from one side to another to protect their community. This talk examines Peru’s internal armed conflict (1980-1992) between Maoist Shining Path insurgents and government forces from a micro-dynamic of wartime violence and resistance in the Andean village of Huamanquiquia. It asserts that the Shining Path’s brutal attack on peasant leaders and their community affairs was the breaking point in Huamanquiquia, prompting the switch in support from insurgency to counterinsurgency. This led Huamanquiquia, along with its neighboring communities, to organize a large multi-communal coalition, called the Pacto de Alianza entre Pueblos, to defend their communities against incursions by the Shining Path guerrillas. Although encouraged by the Peruvian state and its agents, but often on their own initiative, around a dozen peasant communities embraced this anti-guerrilla coalition from 1983 to 1992. This peasant coalition and the concomitant resistance–combined with the armed forces’ strategy–ultimately defeated the Shining Path in the early 1990s.
Click here to register via Zoom. Please note that registering for this event will sign you up for the entire Thursday Lecture Series for the Fall 2020 semester.
Talks in this series will be followed by discussion, including a Q&A session with the audience.
Chair: Karl Jacoby, Allan Nevins Professor of American History
Please email disability@columbia.edu to request disability accommodations. Advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs.
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10 (Thursday) 12:45 pm - 12 (Saturday) 2:00 pm
8dec6:00 pm- 7:30 pmHubert Harrison: A Harlem Radical's Struggle for Equality
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Hubert Harrison: A Harlem Radical's Struggle for Equality Tuesday, Dec. 8, 6pm Register Here For
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Hubert Harrison: A Harlem Radical’s Struggle for Equality
- Jeffrey B. Perry, Author of Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918-1927
- Brent Hayes Edwards, Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
- Moderated by Thai Jones, Herbert H. Lehman Curator for American History, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University
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(Tuesday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
2dec4:00 pm- 5:00 pmNew Books in the Arts & Sciences Celebrating Recent Work by Eugenia Lean
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New Books in the Arts & Sciences: Celebrating Recent Work by Eugenia Lean
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Vernacular Industrialism in China: Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900–1940
By: Eugenia Lean
In early twentieth-century China, Chen Diexian (1879–1940) was a maverick entrepreneur—at once a prolific man of letters and captain of industry, a magazine editor and cosmetics magnate. He tinkered with chemistry in his private studio, used local cuttlefish to source magnesium carbonate, and published manufacturing tips in how-to columns. In a rapidly changing society, Chen copied foreign technologies and translated manufacturing processes from abroad to produce adaptations of global commodities that bested foreign brands. Engaging in the worlds of journalism, industry, and commerce, he drew on literati practices associated with late-imperial elites but deployed them in novel ways within a culture of educated tinkering that generated industrial innovation.
Through the lens of Chen’s career, Eugenia Lean explores how unlikely individuals devised unconventional, homegrown approaches to industry and science in early twentieth-century China. She contends that Chen’s activities exemplify “vernacular industrialism,” the pursuit of industry and science outside of conventional venues, often involving ad hoc forms of knowledge and material work. Lean shows how vernacular industrialists accessed worldwide circuits of law and science and experimented with local and global processes of manufacturing to navigate, innovate, and compete in global capitalism. In doing so, they presaged the approach that has helped fuel China’s economic ascent in the twenty-first century. Rather than conventional narratives that depict China as belatedly borrowing from Western technology, Vernacular Industrialism in China offers a new understanding of industrialization, going beyond material factors to show the central role of culture and knowledge production in technological and industrial change.
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Please email disability@columbia.edu to request disability accommodations. Advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs.
About the Author:
Eugenia Lean is Professor of Chinese History at Columbia University. She is the author of Public Passions: The Trial of Shi Jianqiao and the Rise of Popular Sympathy in Republican China and, most recently, Vernacular Industrialism in China: Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900–1940, among other published works.
About the Speakers:
Deborah Coen is Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at Yale University. Among her publications, she has authored Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life; The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter; and, most recently, Climate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale.
Jing Tsu is John M. Schiff Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University. She is the author of Failure, Nationalism, and Literature: The Making of Modern Chinese Identity, 1895–1937; and Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora, among other published works.
Kavita Sivaramakrishnan is Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University. She is the author of As the World Ages: Rethinking a Demographic Crisis and Old Potions, New Bottles: Recasting Indigenous Medicine in Colonial Punjab 1850–1945, among other publications.
Wei Shang is Du Family Professor of Chinese Culture at Columbia University. Among his published works, he has authored “Rulin waishi” and Cultural Transformation in Late Imperial China and, most recently, Writing on Landmarks: From Yellow Crane Tower to Phoenix Pavilion.
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(Wednesday) 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
november 2020
30nov5:00 pm- 6:00 pmDwaipayan Banerjee - Enduring Cancer: Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi
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In Enduring Cancer: Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi, Dwaipayan Banerjee explores the efforts of Delhi’s urban poor to create a livable life with cancer as patients and families negotiate an overextended health system unequipped to respond to the disease. Owing to long wait times, most urban poor cancer patients do not receive a diagnosis until it is too late to treat the disease effectively. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the city’s largest cancer care NGO and at India’s premier public health hospital, Banerjee describes how, for these patients, a cancer diagnosis is often the latest and most serious in a long series of infrastructural failures. In the wake of these failures, Banerjee tracks how the disease then distributes itself across networks of social relations, testing these networks for strength and vulnerability. Banerjee demonstrates how living with and alongside cancer is to be newly awakened to the fragility of social ties, some already made brittle by past histories, and others that are retested for their capacity to support.
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- Dwaipayan Banerjee, Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Discussant: Durba Mitra, Carol K. Pforzheimer Assistant Professor at Harvard University
- Discussant: Uponita Mukherjee, PhD Candidate in the Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department at Columbia University
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Free and open to the public. RSVP required via Eventbrite. Registered attendees will receive an event link on the day of the event.
Hosted by the Global Histories of Science Research Cluster at the Center for Science and Society.
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(Monday) 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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As the COVID-19 pandemic deepens across South Asia, it has exposed challenges relating to public trust in pandemic preparedness, containment, and questioned the power and limits of expert knowledge. How has the political and public health leadership in India projected pandemic related interventions, and what are the fluid borders between public health facts, lived experiences, and media propaganda? The pandemic crisis also has significant antecedents over the past decades. The COVID-19 pandemic follows decades of neoliberal policies and health systems reforms in India and across the world, which have had severe implications for affordable access to health services and enlarged the private health sector. How has this shaped access to care and the ethics of accountability during a crisis? How do pandemic politics distract and deploy ‘history’ and deepen ‘other’ forms of social stigma and virulent marginalization, and how has the media been critical in these debates? What futures can we see in a post-pandemic world, to rebuild and overcome some of these fractures?
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- Rama V. Baru, Professor in the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health at Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Siddharth Varadarajan, Founding Editor of The Wire
- Moderated by Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and Co-Leader of the Global Histories of Science Research Cluster at Columbia University
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Free and open to the public. RSVP required via Eventbrite. Registered attendees will receive an event link on the day of the event.
Hosted by the Global Histories of Science Research Cluster at the Center for Science and Society.
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(Monday) 10:00 am - 11:00 am
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The US and the Israeli –Palestinian Conflict: One-state solution, two-state solution or no solution at all? 25.11.2020 16:30 - 18:00 https://www.oiip.ac.at/events/the-us-and-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict-one-state-solution-two-state-solution-or-no-solution-at-all/
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The US and the Israeli –Palestinian Conflict: One-state solution, two-state solution or no solution at all?
25.11.2020
16:30 – 18:00
https://www.oiip.ac.at/events/the-us-and-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict-one-state-solution-two-state-solution-or-no-solution-at-all/
Zoom link will be sent to registered participants, please register below
ONLINE DISCUSSION
THIS EVENT IS PART OF THE “A BRAND NEW WORLD? SHIFTING POWERS IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS OIIP ONLINE SERIES”
The online discussion will explore the situation on the ground, elaborate on whether and how the Trump administration’s policies have impacted the conflict in the long-run, its repercussions on the broader Middle East region, and assess the role a Biden administration might play in the next future?
Participants:
Raffaella A. Del Sarto
(Associated Professor of Middle East Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, SAIS Europe)
Rashid Khalidi
(Edward Said Professor Columbia University NY)
Gideon Levy
(Journalist, Haaretz)
Moderated by:
Cengiz Günay
(Austrian Institute for international Affairs)
In cooperation with the U.S. Embassy Vienna and the Ministry of Defense.
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All Day (Wednesday)
20nov7:00 pm- 8:30 pmPablo Piccato - "Historia Nacional de la Infamia" Book Talk
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On November 20, a conversation about Pablo Piccato's book with students at the Universidad de las Américas Puebla.
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On November 20, a conversation about Pablo Piccato’s book with students at the Universidad de las Américas Puebla.
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(Friday) 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
20nov5:00 pm- 6:30 pmFeaturedIn Conversation with Historians: Immigration Activism
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(Friday) 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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Book Talk with Ira Katznelson (Columbia University) "Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy after Reconstruction"
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Southern Nation examines how southern members of Congress shaped national public policy and American institutions from Reconstruction to the New Deal—and along the way remade the region and the nation in their own image. The central paradox of southern politics was how such a highly diverse region could be transformed into a coherent and unified bloc—a veritable nation within a nation that exercised extraordinary influence in politics. Southern Nation reveals how southern members of Congress gradually won for themselves an unparalleled role in policymaking, and left all southerners—whites and blacks—disadvantaged to this day.
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(Thursday) 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
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1:00 PM–2:00 PM ONLINE EVENT PANEL DISCUSSION:
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Denaturalized. How Thousands Lost Their Citizenship and Lives in Vichy France
Claire Zalc in Conversation with Rebecca Kobrin and Emmannuelle Saada
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Thousands of naturalized French men and women had their citizenship revoked by the Vichy government during the Second World War. Once denaturalized, these men and women, mostly Jews who were later sent to concentration camps, ceased being French on official records and walked off the pages of history. As a result, we have for decades severely underestimated the number of French Jews murdered by Nazis during the Holocaust. In Denaturalized, Claire Zalc unearths this tragic record and rewrites World War II history.
At its core, this is a detective story. How do we trace a citizen made alien by the law? How do we solve a murder when the body has vanished? Faced with the absence of straightforward evidence, Zalc turned to the original naturalization papers in order to uncover how denaturalization later occurred. She discovered that, in many cases, the very officials who granted citizenship to foreigners before 1940 were the ones who retracted it under Vichy rule.
The idea of citizenship has always existed alongside the threat of its revocation, and this is especially true for those who are naturalized citizens of a modern state. At a time when the status of millions of naturalized citizens in the United States and around the world is under greater scrutiny, Denaturalized turns our attention to the precariousness of the naturalized experience—the darkness that can befall those who suddenly find themselves legally cast out.
More about the book here.
Claire Zalc is Professor of History at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Research Director at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, and Director of the Institute of Modern and Contemporary History at the École normale supérieure.
Rebecca Kobrin is the Russell and Bettina Knapp Associate Professor of American Jewish History at Columbia University.
Emmanuelle Saada is Professor of French and of History, and Director of the Center for French and Francophone Studies at Columbia University.
This event is organized by the Maison Française. It is co-sponsored by the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, Department of History, and Alliance Program. This event is made possible with the support of the Knapp Family Foundation.
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(Thursday) 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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"Mind the Gap": New Directions in Culture, History and Diplomacy in a Time of COVID
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“Mind the Gap”: New Directions in Culture, History and Diplomacy in a Time of COVID
Thursday 19 November 2020, 12PM-1:30PM EST
Hosted by the Department of International History, London School of Economics and Political Science
Blanche Weisen Cook, the acclaimed biographer of Eleanor Roosevelt, will be discussing her new paper ‘Doctors Divided: The AMA’s war against National Health care for ALL, 1935-2020’. Margaret Peacock (Innocent Weapons: The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War), Audra Wolfe (Freedom’s Laboratory: The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science), and Patryk Babiracki (Soviet Soft Power in Poland: Culture and the Making of Stalin’s New Empire, 1943-1957) will discuss new directions and their future publications, and reflect on moving forward in a time of COVID.
The panel sets the stage for on-campus lectures by each scholar in the 2021-2022 academic year.
Piers Ludlow, Chair, Department of International History, will introduce the programme and Victoria Phillips, Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics, will moderate the discussion.
Margaret Peacock is Associate Professor of History at the University of Alabama.
Audra J. Wolfe (@ColdWarScience) is a Philadelphia-based writer, editor, and historian. She is the author of Competing with the Soviets: Science, Technology, and the State in Cold War America.
Patryk Babiracki is Associate Professor in Russian and East European history at the University of Texas-Arlington.
Blanche Wiesen Cook is Distinguished Professor of History and Women’s Studies at the John Jay College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Victoria Phillips is LSE Visiting Fellow in the Department of International Histroy at LSE. She is the author of Martha Graham’s Cold War: The Dance of American Diplomacy. A Lecturer in History at the European Institute and Department of History at Columbia University in the City of New York, Dr. Phillips is also Associated Faculty at the Harriman Institute, director of the Cold War Archival Research project (CWAR), and Visiting Fellow in the Department of International History at the London School of Economics
Piers Ludlow is Head of Department in International History at LSE. His main research interests lie in the history of Western Europe since 1945, in particular the historical roots of the integration process and the development of the EU.
The Department of International History (@lsehistory) teaches and conducts research on the international history of Britain, Europe and the world from the early modern era up to the present day. Sponsored by the department’s Contemporary International History and the Global Cold War research cluster.
This event series is co-hosted by the Cold War Studies Project at LSE IDEAS
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(Thursday) 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
18nov4:00 pm- 5:30 pm"Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America" with Marcia Chatelain
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Lecture by Marcia Chatelain (Georgetown University) "Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America"
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(Wednesday) 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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Taming Capitalism before its Triumph: Author meets critics online
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The history of capitalism has seen a renaissance over the last decade, but relatively fewer works have focused on its early phases, including the early modern period in which England began evolving into the ‘first industrial nation’.
Koji Yamamoto’s book Taming Capitalism before its Triumph: Distrust, Public Service, and “Projecting” in Early Modern England (Oxford, 2018) offers a fresh reappraisal.
This online symposium brings together renowned scholars from across medieval history, early modern history, historical sociology and political science to discuss the book.
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Wenkai He | HKUST Hong Kong
Cultural History as the Antidote to Whiggish Histories of Capitalism
Martha Howell | Medieval European history, Columbia University
Projects, Intoxicants, and Early-modern Capitalism
Phil Withington | Social and cultural history, University of Sheffield
Projectors, Petitioners, and One-Dimensional Theories of Power
David Zaret | Early modern British history and historical sociology, Indiana University, Bloomington
“Whiggish History”, Projectors and Corporate Capitalism
Steve Pincus | British history and British empire, University of Chicago
Capitalism: The Means or the End to Common Good
Wenkai He | Comparative history and political science, HKUST Hong Kong
‘Reply by the Author’
Koji Yamamoto | Early modern Britain and business history, University of Tokyo
Open Discussion
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(Tuesday) 8:00 am - 10:00 am
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American Society for Legal History (ASLH) 2020 ANNUAL MEETING
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American Society for Legal History (ASLH) 2020 ANNUAL MEETING
November 13–14, 2020
Virtual Mini-Conference
Friday, November 13, 2020
(All times are U.S. Eastern Standard Time)
2:45-4:15: Panel 3 – The Preyer Prize Panel
“‘Los Hijos Son La Riqueza Del Pobre:’ Postwar Mexican Child Migration and the Making of Domestic (Im)migrant Exclusion, 1940-1965”
Ivón Padilla-Rodriguez, Columbia University
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Barbara Welke, University of Minnesota
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(Friday) 2:45 pm - 4:15 pm
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Migration in crisis: Insights on Covid-19 from past pandemics The second in a new series of virtual
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Migration in crisis: Insights on Covid-19 from past pandemics
The second in a new series of virtual events, “The South Asia Development Dialogues: Economic Policy Lessons from History” – a collaboration between the Economic Growth Center and the South Asian Studies Council
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- Migration in crisis: Insights on Covid-19 from past pandemics – the second in the series, “South Asia Development Dialogues: Economic Policy Lessons from History”
- Date and time: Friday November 13, 2020, 10AM EST (15:00 GMT, 20:30 IST)
- Advance registration is required: click here
- Hosts: Yale Economic Growth Center and the South Asian Studies Council
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Across South Asia, migrant workers have been among those most affected by the pandemic. In India the initial lockdown was imposed with only hours’ notice, leading to a mass exodus of migrant workers from major cities – an exodus that in turn proved to be a major conduit of infection. At the same time, South Asian migrant workers abroad found themselves subject to deportation, or else stranded and unable to return home.
This has happened before. During the plague epidemic of the 1890s – far more lethal than Covid-19 – and again during the “Asian influenza” of 1957-58, migrant workers were the subject of intensive scrutiny, and their movements posed challenges to health policy. This virtual panel discussion will bridge insights from research into past pandemics in South Asia, and current research on the impact of Covid-19 on migrant workers. How can the interests of migrant workers be better protected? In times of crisis, what sorts of interventions have been most, and least, effective in balancing the interests of workers, their families, employers, and the interests of public health?
The event is the second in a new series, “The South Asia Development Dialogues: Economic Policy Lessons from History.” A collaboration between the Economic Growth Center and the South Asian Studies Council at Yale University, the series convenes economists, historians, journalists, and policymakers to apply insights from history and economics to the most pressing policy issues confronting contemporary South Asia.
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Sunil Amrith is the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History, and current chair of the South Asian Studies Council. His research focuses on histories of environment, migration, and public health across South and Southeast Asia.
Charity Troyer Moore is Director for South Asia Economics Research at Yale MacMillan Center. Her research has included large-scale phone surveys of women, migrant workers, and other vulnerable groups affected by the Covid-19 crisis.
Kavita Sivaramakrishnan Is Associate Professor, Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University. She is a scholar focused on global public health history and South Asian history, with interests in the history of epidemics, and the politics of health.
Rory Stewart is a Senior Fellow at Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, where he focuses on contemporary politics in crisis and on international development and intervention in fragile and conflict affected states. Stewart served as the UK Secretary of State for International Development where he doubled the U.K.’s investment in international climate and environment.
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Catherine Cheney ‘10 is a Senior Reporter for Devex, covering the West Coast of the U.S., focusing on the role of technology, innovation, and philanthropy in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
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(Friday) 10:00 am - 11:30 pm
12nov6:00 pm- 7:00 pmCelebrating Recent Work by Casey Blake, Daniel H. Borus, and Howard Brick
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Celebrating Recent Work by Casey Blake, Daniel H. Borus, and Howard Brick
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New Books in Arts and Sciences Presents:
Celebrating Recent Work by Casey Blake, Daniel H. Borus, and Howard Brick
At the Center: American Thought and Culture in the Mid-Twentieth Century
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Howard Brick, Louis Evans Chair in U.S. History, University of Michigan
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(Thursday) 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
12nov5:00 pm- 7:00 pmAdam Tooze: "2020: A World Crisis?"
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A lecture from world leading historian
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ADAM TOOZE is the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History at Columbia University. From a start in modern German history with a special focus on the history of economics and economic history his interests have widened to take in a range of themes in political, intellectual and military history, across a canvass stretching from Europe across the Atlantic. He is the author of Statistics and the German State 1900-1945: The Making of Modern Economic Knowledge, Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy, The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931, and most recently, Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World.
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(Thursday) 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
12nov4:00 pm- 6:00 pmManan Ahmed: The Loss of Hindustan - The Humanities Institute UC Santa Cruz
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(Thursday) 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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Book Talk with Simon Balto (University of Iowa) "Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to
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(Thursday) 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
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Monday, November 2nd, 2020 All Water Has a Memory: Rivers and American History Series
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Monday, November 2nd, 2020
All Water Has a Memory: Rivers and American History Series
“Rivers and the Environmental Movement”
Chris Manganiello, Janisse Ray, and Fred Tutman
6PM – 7:30PM EST
All panels will be held over zoom, registration is free and open to all.
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(Monday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
october 2020
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A Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Event This event is being held as part of a series
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A Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Event
This event is being held as part of a series of high-level webinars that will be livestreamed on our website.
For the first time, the general public is invited to virtually attend the Per Jacobsson Lecture, a high-level academic event that is held at the BIS every two years to commemorate the BIS’s first Economic Adviser, Per Jacobsson (1894-1963). The lecture is organised in partnership with the International Monetary Fund.
The event will be livestreamed on this page on Friday 30 October 13:00-14:30 CET.
This year’s Per Jacobsson Lecture will be given by Professor Catherine Schenk on “Central bank cooperation and US dollar liquidity: what can we learn from the past?”, followed by an academic panel discussion moderated by Guillermo Ortiz.
About the lecturer
Catherine Schenk is Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Oxford.
Professor Schenk was appointed as the Alexandre Lamfalussy Senior Research Fellow for 2018-19. She has held academic positions at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, Royal Holloway, University of London and the University of Glasgow. Professor Schenk is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, the Royal Historical Society and the Academy of Social Sciences. Outside academia, she has spent time as a visiting Research Fellow at the International Monetary Fund and at the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research.
She has a distinguished record of publications, with several books and journal articles on the history of central banking, international monetary systems and global finance. Her research interests focus primarily on international economic relations, international monetary system and international banking and finance.
Academic Panel
Moderator: Guillermo Ortiz, Chairman of the Per Jacobsson Foundation and Partner and Board Member of BTG Pactual, Mexico
- Adam Tooze, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History and Director of the European Institute at the Columbia University
- Brad Setser, Steven A Tananbaum Senior Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations
- Linda Goldberg, Senior Vice President at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
- Ricardo Reis, AW Phillips Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics
- Harold James, Professor of History and International Affairs and Claude and Lore Kelly Professor of European Studies at the Princeton University
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(Friday) 7:00 am - 8:30 am
28oct12:30 pm- 2:00 pmSamuel K. Roberts - "By the Book" Author Talk Series
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David Herzberg, author of White Market Drugs: Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America, will be joined
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David Herzberg, author of White Market Drugs: Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America, will be joined in conversation with Nancy Campbell, Jeremy Greene, and Samuel K. Roberts.
By showing how the twenty-first-century opioid crisis is only the most recent in a long history of similar crises of addiction to pharmaceuticals, White Market Drugs forces us to rethink our ideas about drug policy and addiction itself—ideas that have been failing us catastrophically for over a century.
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(Wednesday) 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
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Monday, October 26th, 2020 All Water Has a Memory: Rivers and American History Series
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Monday, October 26th, 2020
All Water Has a Memory: Rivers and American History Series
“Rivers and Indigenous Resistance”
Ashley Smith, Zachary Bennett, Dustin Mack
6:30PM – 7:30PM EST
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(Monday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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At various points in history, journalists and pundits, politicians, cultural critics, and even some public health professionals have talked about so-called “epidemics” of drug use among Black Americans. For most of them, the term was less technically descriptive of actual measurable epidemics than evocative of common anxieties — moral panics regarding so-called “drug epidemics” actually were plague narratives, referencing general confusion regarding what historically in the United States was called “the race question” or “the urban problem.” Postwar liberals and the nascent New Right both argued that Black and Latinx urbanites were predisposed to drug use. Of course, they did so with different political aims (one to point out the psychic costs of continuing racism, the other to imply the wrongheadedness of indulgent Civil Rights and coddling antipoverty measures).
This talk describes evidence which showed that neither of these two positions were informed by a particularly astute understanding of the drug problem or of epidemic theory. The lack of understanding is important because both sides left many other options unexplored and each played its role in the nation’s road to the War on Drugs and mass incarceration.
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Samuel K. Roberts, Associate Professor of History, Sociomedical Sciences and of African American and African Diaspora Studies and Leader of the Historical Study of Race, Inequality, and Health Research Cluster at Columbia University
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This event is free and open to the public, RSVP to receive Zoom link. 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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(Wednesday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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The Revolution Looks Inward: Internal Reflections on Elites and the Countryside in Atatürk’s Turkey, 1931-1938 Wednesday, October 21, 2020
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The Revolution Looks Inward: Internal Reflections on Elites and the Countryside in Atatürk’s Turkey, 1931-1938
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EDT
ONLINE via Zoom
(Zoom meeting link to be sent after RSVP)
We are delighted to welcome Ryan Gingeras (Naval Postgraduate School) for a talk jointly organized by The Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies & The Department of History.
By 1931, the men who governed the Republic of Turkey were confident that they had built a strong, centralized state upon the wreckage of the Ottoman Empire. Yet doubts within the inner circle of Atatürk’s government remained. Beginning in 1931, ruling party officials in Ankara commissioned a series of investigative surveys of political, economic, and social life in the Turkish countryside. These surveys reveal much about how Turkey’s leaders genuinely perceived both the achievements and limits of the revolution inaugurated by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. This talk takes a critical look at these internal reports and places them in the context of other revolutionary and post-imperial states in the aftermath of the First World War.
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(Wednesday) 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
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Crime, justice and prisons in Mexico: an agenda under construction
October 21, 22 and 23, 2020, virtual modality
Event supported by CONACYT
PROGRAM OCTOBER 21, 2020
Inauguration and words of welcome:
- Dr. José Antonio Serrano Ortega, President of El Colegio de Michoacán.
- Dr. José Luis Alcauter Guzmán, Coordinator of the Center for the Study of …
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COLMICH The Mercy.
Table 1. Crime administration: from public spaces to prisons
- Moderator. Dr. Rafael Diego Fernández Sotelo, Center for Historical Studies, El Colegio de Michoacán.
Keynote conference: “A historical perspective on contemporary violence in Mexico”
- Dr. Pablo Piccato, Columbia University, United States.
COLMICH The Mercy.
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All Day (Wednesday)
20oct2:00 pm- 3:30 pmStephanie McCurry - Apocalypse Pending: Religion, Politics, and Social Media
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Apocalypse Pending: Religion, Politics, and Social Media (Panel 1) Click here to register. This event will also be
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This event will also be livestreamed on our YouTube page.
As the historian Richard Hofstadter famously pointed out more than half a century ago, conspiracy thinking or “the paranoid style” runs deep in the American political psyche. With an eclectic religious population (many of whose ancestors fled persecution in Europe for their beliefs: Puritans, Quakers, Anabaptists, Huguenots, Catholics, Jews), the United States may be exceptional in its political DNA—a combination of religious fervor and persecutory fear that, while generally latent, sporadically erupts in the body politic. The right-wing fear of social welfare policies as godless and unholy is one current manifestation of this particular political psychology. Another is the increasing online presence of apocalyptic religious sects, of which QAnon is an articulation.
“Apocalypse Pending: Religion, Politics, and Social Media” explores the growing popularity of conspiracy thinking in our current moment and its place in the history of millenarian movements, particularly in the US context. It considers how new media technologies have made it possible for the dissemination of such thinking on a scale unimaginable in the past, how the moral panic it generates is impacting social and political life worldwide, and whether there are measures available to control its spread or mitigate its effects.
Sponsored by The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities, The Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life, The Brown Institute for Media Innovation, Committee on Global Thought, Columbia Global Centers, and the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought.
Owing to limited capacity for this event, we will be sending registration confirmation and a Zoom webinar access link the day before the event. If you do not receive the access link, that means we were not able to accommodate you for this event, but we will notify you should the recording later become available online.
Speakers:
Stephanie McCurry, Professor of History at Columbia University, specializes in the American Civil War and Reconstruction, the nineteenth century United States, the American South, and the history of women and gender. Her most recent book is Women’s War: Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War (2019).
Brandy Zadrozny is an award-winning investigative and features reporter for NBC News where she covers misinformation, extremism, and the internet. Previously, Brandy was at The Daily Beast where she covered politics and the internet as a senior reporter. She has an MLIS and in a former life, worked as a librarian and instructor in news, college, and public libraries.
Moderator: Matthew L. Jones teaches history of science and technology at Columbia University. With Chris Wiggins, he will soon be publishing How Data Happened, which tells the story of the growth of data and the ways it changed power, and asks what to do now.
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(Tuesday) 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
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Monday, October 19th, 2020 All Water Has a Memory: Rivers and American History Series
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Monday, October 19th, 2020
All Water Has a Memory: Rivers and American History Series
“Rivers of Slavery and Freedom”
J.T. Roane, Tony Curtis Perry, Adrienne Troy-Frazier
6:30PM – 7:30PM EST
All panels will be held over zoom, registration is free and open to all.
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(Monday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
16oct10:30 am- 12:00 pmHow the Irish Became White (Panel and Book Discussion)
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In collaboration with our colleagues at Teachers College and Barnard, the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement invites the Columbia community to attend a panel discussion on historian Noel Ignatiev’s How the Irish became White. This book traces how Irish immigrants, who fled oppression in their country in the 18th century, achieved acceptance among an initially hostile US population by proving that they could be more brutal in their oppression of African Americans than the nativists had been.
Our panel will consist of Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History and Interim Vice Provost Ira Katznelson, PhD, as well as Rebecca A Kobrin, PhD, Russell and Bettina Knapp Associate Professor of American Jewish History and Director of the Institute for Jewish Studies, and Timothy Patrick McCarthy, PhD, Lecturer and Core Faculty at Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University. June Cross, Professor of Journalism, will serve as introlocutor.
The format will be 90 minutes long, with a 45-minute panel discussion followed by a 45-minute breakout book club conversation. Faculty, students, and staff are invited to participate in the book discussion, which will take place in separate breakout rooms.
NOTE: There will be an informal book discussion following the panel at 11:15. If you wish to attend, please register for the panel (in bold above) AND the discussion.
ZOOM REGISTRATION for students/staff:
https://tinyurl.com/staff-student-discussion-Irish
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https://tinyurl.com/faculty-book-discussion-Irish
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Ira Katznelson is Columbia University’s Interim Provost, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, and Deputy Director, Columbia World Projects. His 2013 Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time was awarded the Bancroft Prize in History and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award in Political Science. Other books include Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy After Reconstruction (2018; co-authored with David Bateman and John Lapinski), and Liberal Beginnings: A Republic for the Moderns (2008; co-authored with Andreas Kalyvas). Professor Katznelson, a fellow of the British Academy, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society, is a former president both of the American Political Science Association and the Social Science Research Council. He earned his BA at Columbia College and his PhD in History at the University of Cambridge, where he served in 2017-2018 as Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions. Prior to his arrival at Columbia in 1994, where he also had been an assistant and associate professor, he had taught at the University of Chicago, where he served as Chair of the Department of Political Science, and the New School for Social Research, where he was Dean of the Graduate Faculty.
Rebecca Kobrin works in the fields of immigration history and American Jewish History. Professor Kobrin served as the Hilda Blaustein Post-Doctoral Fellow at Yale University (2002-2004) and the American Academy of Jewish Research Post-Doctoral Fellow at New York University (2004-2006). Her areas of specialty include American Jewish history, immigration history, international history, and Jewish economic history. Her research, teaching and publications engage in the fields of international history, urban history, Jewish history, American religion and diaspora studies.
Timothy Patrick McCarthy is an award-winning historian, educator, and human rights activist who has taught on Harvard’s faculty since 2005. The adopted only son and grandson of public school teachers and factory workers, Dr. McCarthy currently holds a joint appointment in the undergraduate honors program in History and Literature, Graduate School of Education, and Kennedy School of Government, where he is Core Faculty at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. He is also Academic Director emeritus and now Stanley Paterson Professor of American History in the Boston Clemente Course, a free college course for lower income adults in Dorchester, where he has taught since its founding in 2001. The Clemente Course was co-recipient of the 2015 National Humanities Medal.
June Cross is an award-winning producer and writer with over thirty years of television news and documentary experience. She is currently in pre-production on a film about HIV in rural America, and researching a story in Pakistan. Her latest documentary, “The Old Man and the Storm,” followed the travails of an extended New Orleans family for three years post-Katrina, aired on PBS’ “Frontline” in early 2009.
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(Friday) 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
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Book Talk with Martha Jones (Johns Hopkins University) "Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers,
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(Thursday) 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
14oct4:10 pm- 5:30 pmThe Government of Religious Life in Idi Amin’s Uganda
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The Government of Religious Life in Idi Amin’s Uganda A lecture by Derek Peterson (University of Michigan) Wednesday, October 14 @
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The Government of Religious Life in Idi Amin’s Uganda
A lecture by Derek Peterson (University of Michigan)
Wednesday, October 14 @ 4:10pm EST
On Zoom: register here to receive the webinar link
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(Wednesday) 4:10 pm - 5:30 pm
8oct5:00 pm- 6:30 pmSex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930
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Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930 Judith Surkis, in conversation
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Judith Surkis, in conversation with Stephanie McCurry, Karuna Mantena, and Emmanuelle Saada, moderated by Camille Robcis and Stefanos Geroulanos
During more than a century of colonial rule over Algeria, the French state shaped and reshaped the meaning and practice of Muslim law by regulating it and circumscribing it to the domain of family law, while applying the French Civil Code to appropriate the property of Algerians. In Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830–1930, Judith Surkis traces how colonial authorities constructed Muslim legal difference and used it to deny Algerian Muslims full citizenship.
Judith Surkis is Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is the author of Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930 (Cornell, 2019) which has been awarded the Association of Middle East Women’s Studies 2020 book prize; Sexing the Citizen: Morality and Masculinity in France, 1870-1920 (Cornell, 2006), and is currently working on a project, The Intimate Life of International Law: Childhood, Development, and Decolonization.
Stephanie McCurry is R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History at Columbia. Karuna Mantena is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. Emmanuelle Saada is Professor of French and History at Columbia. Camille Robcis is Associate Professor of History and French at Columbia. Stefanos Geroulanos is Professor of History at NYU.
Event co-sponsored by the Columbia Maison Française, NYC Consortium for Intellectual & Cultural History and the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality.
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(Thursday) 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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Book Talk with Geraldo Cadava (Northwestern University) "The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon
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(Thursday) 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
7oct7:00 pm- 8:30 pmBlack Athletes in Full Dissidence Book Discussion (with Frank Guridy)
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Join historians Dr. Amira Rose Davis and Dr. Frank Guridy in a conversation with award-winning sportswriter & cultural critic,
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(Wednesday) 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
2oct1:00 pm- 2:30 pmNew Books in the Arts & Sciences Celebrating Recent Work by Mana Kia
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New Books in the Arts & Sciences: Celebrating Recent Work by Mana Kia Persianate Selves: Memories
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New Books in the Arts & Sciences:
Celebrating Recent Work by Mana Kia
Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism
By: Mana Kia
For centuries, Persian was the language of power and learning across Central, South, and West Asia, and Persians received a particular basic education through which they understood and engaged with the world. Not everyone who lived in the land of Iran was Persian, and Persians lived in many other lands as well. Thus to be Persian was to be embedded in a set of connections with people we today consider members of different groups. Persianate selfhood encompassed a broader range of possibilities than contemporary nationalist claims to place and origin allow. We cannot grasp these older connections without historicizing our conceptions of difference and affiliation.
Mana Kia sketches the contours of a larger Persianate world, historicizing place, origin, and selfhood through its tradition of proper form: adab. In this shared culture, proximities and similarities constituted a logic that distinguished between people while simultaneously accommodating plurality. Adab was the basis of cohesion for self and community over the turbulent eighteenth century, as populations dispersed and centers of power shifted, disrupting the circulations that linked Persianate regions. Challenging the bases of protonationalist community, Persianate Selves seeks to make sense of an earlier transregional Persianate culture outside the anachronistic shadow of nationalisms.
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Please email disability@columbia.edu to request disability accommodations. Advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs.
About the Author:
Mana Kia Associate Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. Her interests include the early modern and modern connective social, cultural, intellectual histories of West, Central and South Asia from the 17th – 19th centuries, with a particular focus on Indo-Persian literary culture and social history. She is at work on a second book, Sensibilities of Belonging: The Transregional Persianate between Iran and India, which outlines how a shared sense of aesthetic and ethical form (as culture) was socially enacted in the transregional circulation of people, texts, and ideas between Iran and India.
About the Speakers:
Kathryn Babayan is Professor in the Department of History and in the Department of Middle East Studies at University of Michigan. Her publications include Mystics, Monarchs, and Messiahs: Cultural Landscapes of Early Modern Iran; and Islamicate Sexualities: Translations Across Temporal Geographies of Desire, co-edited with Afsaneh Najmabadi. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled “The City as Anthology.”
Manan Ahmed is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Columbia University. He is the author of A Book of Conquest: The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia, among other publications. His forthcoming book is The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India.
David Lurie is Wm. Theodore and Fanny Brett de Bary and Class of 1941 Collegiate Professor of Asian Humanities and Associate Professor of Japanese History and Literature at Columbia University. Among his published works, he has authored Realms of Literacy: Early Japan and the History of Writing, and has recently co-edited the Cambridge History of Japanese Literature with Haruo Shirane and Tomi Suzuki. He is currently at work on a book provisionally entitled “The Emperor’s Dreams: Reading Japanese Mythology.”
Gil Hochberg is Ransford Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, and Middle East Studies at Columbia University. She is the author of In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination; and, most recently, Visual Occupations: Vision and Visibility in a Conflict Zone, among other published works.
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(Friday) 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
september 2020
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Speaker: Manuel Barcia (University of Leeds) with Professor Christopher L. Brown and Grant Kleiser Date: September 30, 2020
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(Wednesday) 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
29sep6:00 pm- 7:30 pmBook launch and panel discussion: The Perfect Fascist by Victoria de Grazia
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Book launch and panel discussion: The Perfect Fascist by Victoria
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(Tuesday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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For general public: Livestream on Facebook and YouTube! For Columbia affiliates:
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For general public: Livestream on Facebook and YouTube!
For Columbia affiliates: register and attend via Zoom
This panel will cover immigration justice issues including xenophobia, ICE, CBP and their presence at BLM protests, the US-Mexico border, histories of borders and immigration, histories of state violence, and related current events!
Organized and moderated by Saeeda Islam (Faculty Affairs Coordinator) and Emma Sheinbaum (Communications & Development Coordinator)
Brianna Nofil is an Assistant Professor of History at the College of William and Mary. She earned her PhD from Columbia University (GSAS ’20). Nofil’s research areas focus on immigration, borders and borderlands, carceral state, and legal.
Pablo Piccato, professor, specializes in Mexican history. He has worked on the political and cultural history of Mexico, and on the history of crime. He is currently working on an overview of crime in Mexico during the twentieth century.
Mae M. Ngai, Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History, is a U.S. legal and political historian interested in questions of immigration, citizenship, and nationalism. Before becoming a historian she was a labor-union organizer and educator in New York City, working for District 65-UAW and the Consortium for Worker Education.
Karl Jacoby is a specialist in environmental, borderlands, and Native American history. His books include Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves and the Hidden History of American Conservation and Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History.
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(Tuesday) 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
24sep4:00 pm- 5:00 pmInvisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
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Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color Speaker: Andrea Ritchie (attorney,
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Speaker:
Andrea Ritchie (attorney, author, activist, and Researcher-in-Residence at the Barnard Center for Research on Women)
Date: Thursday, September 24th
Time: 4:00 – 5:30 PM
Location: Zoom
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Invisible No More examines issues of racial profiling, police violence, criminalization, and mass incarceration through the lens of women’s experiences. How do women, trans, and gender nonconforming people experience policing in ways that are similar to other members of communities of color, and how are their experiences unique? What do their experiences teach us about the shape and scope of police violence, and how do they expand our framing of the issues and our demands for justice? How do they call on us to radically reimagine our visions of safety and the means we devote to achieving it? A unique perspective on one of the central issues of our time, rooted in over two decades of experience on the front lines of movements to end police violence.
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Lehman Center for American History, “Policing America” series
Co-sponsors:
Center for Gender and Sexuality Law
Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought
Institute for Research in African American Studies
Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Institute for the Study of Human Rights
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(Thursday) 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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PANEL DISCUSSION: 20/20 Vision in a Time of Crisis
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PANEL DISCUSSION: 20/20 Vision in a Time of Crisis
To sign up for this virtual transatlantic event, RSVP here.
The Covid-19 pandemic and public health crisis; economic collapse; waves of anti-racist protests; threats to democracy and rising authoritarianism in the U.S. and elsewhere, all against a backdrop of an ever-worsening climate crisis… how can we make sense of the current moment in history? Bernard Harcourt engages Etienne Balibar, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Adam Tooze, and Emmanuelle Saada in a wide-ranging discussion about these destabilizing developments that bring into focus fundamental fault lines in the world today.
Etienne Balibar teaches at Columbia every Fall semester. He is Professor Emeritus of moral and political philosophy at Université de Paris X – Nanterre and Professor Emeritus of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. Emmanuelle Saada is Professor of French and of History, and Director of the Center for French and Francophone Studies at Columbia. Adam Tooze is the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History at Columbia. Souleymane Bachir Diagne is the Director of the Institute of African Studies, Professor of French and of Philosophy at Columbia. Bernard Harcourt is the Isidore and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Columbia.
This event is presented by the Columbia Maison Française. It is co-sponsored by the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia Global Centers | Paris, the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought, the European Institute, and the Alliance Program.
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(Thursday) 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
21sep12:00 pm- 1:30 pmBook Talk: Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps
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The Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, the Weather East Asian Institute, and the Department of History, Columbia
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The Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, the Weather East Asian Institute, and the Department of History, Columbia University, present:
Book Talk: Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps
Cambridge:Harvard University Press (release date 9/15/2020)
With Sarah Kovner, Author and Senior Research Scholar, Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies
Moderated by Barak Kushner, Professor of East Asian History, Chair of Japanese Studies, Department of East Asian Studies/Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge
Monday, September 21, 2020
12:00pm – 1:30pm
Via Zoom
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Abstract
Sarah Kovner offers a pathbreaking account of World War II POW camps, challenging the longstanding belief that the Japanese Empire systematically mistreated Allied prisoners. In only five months, from the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 to the fall of Corregidor in May 1942, the Japanese Empire took prisoner more than 140,000 Allied servicemen and 130,000 civilians from a dozen different countries. From Manchuria to Java, Burma to New Guinea, the Japanese army hastily set up over seven hundred camps to imprison these unfortunates. In the chaos, 40 percent of American prisoners of war did not survive. More Australians died in captivity than were killed in combat. Sarah Kovner offers the first portrait of detention in the Pacific theater that explains why so many suffered. She follows Allied servicemen in Singapore and the Philippines transported to Japan on “hellships” and singled out for hard labor, but also describes the experience of guards and camp commanders, who were completely unprepared for the task. Much of the worst treatment resulted from a lack of planning, poor training, and bureaucratic incoherence rather than an established policy of debasing and tormenting prisoners. The struggle of POWs tended to be greatest where Tokyo exercised the least control, and many were killed by Allied bombs and torpedoes rather than deliberate mistreatment. By going beyond the horrific accounts of captivity to actually explain why inmates were neglected and abused, Prisoners of the Empire contributes to ongoing debates over POW treatment across myriad war zones, even to the present day.
Bio
Sarah Kovner is a Senior Research Scholar at the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. She has been a Fellow in International Security Studies at Yale University and a tenured Associate Professor of History at the University of Florida. Kovner’s first book, Occupying Power: Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan, was a Choice Outstanding Academic Title, and won the best book prize of the Southeast Conference Association for Asian Studies. Her work has been published in the Journal of Asian Studies, the Journal of Women’s History, and Diplomatic History. Her work has also been translated into Japanese and Chinese. Kovner received her A.B. from Princeton University and her Ph.D. from Columbia, and also studied at Kyoto University and the University of Tokyo. She is an active member of the Association of Asian Studies, the American Historical Association, and the Society for Historians of Foreign Relations.
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(Monday) 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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What can history teach us about the current moment? Saturday, September 12, Weeksville Weekends returns with “Community As Classroom.” Join us as we discuss the impact of COVID-19, examine the history of racialized inequity in the public health system in the U.S, and bear witness to the work of documenting the current pandemic in our communities.
As we’ve watched COVID-19 disproportionately affecting African Americans, the disease has revealed the ugly truth about health inequality in the U.S. To learn more about this history and the present moment, Weeksville Heritage Center is excited to welcome back Harriet A. Washington, a medical ethicist and author of Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present and Dr. Samuel Kelton Roberts, Director of Columbia University’s Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS), Associate Professor of History & Sociomedical Sciences, and Cluster leader of “Bearing Witness: The Covid-19 & Inequality History Documentation Project,” for a conversation with Weeksville’s Oral History Project Manager, Obden Mondésir.
As the pandemic in the U.S. continues to reveal health inequities in the African American community, how do we document our experiences to discover new modes of thinking about public health and our relationship to society? Tune in from 12:30 to 3 p.m. for this virtual teach-in and participate in the Q&A following the discussion.
Invited Speakers:
Harriet A. Washington has delivered more than 200 invited lectures/Grand Rounds, mostly to universities and schools of medicine, including John Hopkins University, Harvard Medical School, the Harvard School of Public Health, Columbia University, Stanford Law School, the University of Chicago, Vassar College, The Mayo Clinic, ETH Zürich Zentrum, Universität zu Lübeck Geschichte, Theorie, Ethik der Medizin, the XVIth European Conference on Computational Biology in Vienna, Austria and the Brocher Institüt of Hermance and Geneva.
Samuel Kelton Roberts, PhD, is Associate Professor of History, Sociomedical Sciences, and African-American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. At Columbia, he also leads the Research Cluster on the Historical Study of Race, Inequality, and Health, and co-directs the Lehman Center for American History. Roberts is a former director of Director of Columbia University’s Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS). He writes, teaches, and lectures widely on African-American social history, medical and public health history, harm reduction and drug policy, and criminal justice, policing, and social policy.
Dr. Roberts is the author of the widely acclaimed Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation, and is currently writing a book tentatively titled To Enter a Society Which Doesn’t Want Them”: Race, Recovery, and America’s Misadventures in Drug Policy, a project covering the history of addiction treatment, harm reduction, and political inclusion from the 1950s to the 1990s.
In 2018, Dr. Roberts launched the podcast series People Doing Interesting Stuff (PDIS) (available on iTunes and other podcasting platforms) in which he speaks with people working in public health and social justice, especially harm reduction, HIV/AIDS work, reproductive justice, and criminal justice reform. He is also the co-host of the podcast series, Black Lives: In the Era of COVID-19.
He tweets from @SamuelKRoberts.
Obden Mondesir is an Outreach Archivist and Adjunct Lecturer at Queens College, City University of New York, and an Oral Historian working at the Weeksville Heritage Center, a multidisciplinary house museum dedicated to preserving the history of the 19th century Free Black community in Weeksville,Brooklyn, New York.
At Queens College, he’s recently worked on developing an OER based curriculum in archival theory and practice at the Graduate School and Library and Information Studies.
He also collects interviews on the SEEK program. The SEEK program which stands for “Search for Education, Elevation, and Knowledge” and was legislated into being in 1966, as a vehicle to integrate CUNY’s senior colleges and provide comprehensive academic support to assist capable students who otherwise might not be able to attend college.
At the Weeksville Heritage Center, he developed public programming and he has conducted and presented on several community-based oral history projects that have focused on education, Black joy, and Black-owned restaurants in Central Brooklyn.
Obden has a dual M.A. in Library Science and History from Queens College and is the recipient of a West African Research Center Library Fellowship and the Citi Center for Culture + Queens Library Fellowship.
Community as Classroom: Bearing Witness to COVID-19 and Examining the History of Public Health and the Impact of Infectious Diseases on the Black Community in the United States Virtual Teach-In Saturday, September 12, 2020, 12:30PM-3PM
Opening Remarks: 12:30PM-12:35PM Zenzelé Cooper, Weeksville Heritage Center Program Manager gives opening remarks and welcomes the community back to Weeksville Weekends.
VICE TV presents “A Day in Weeksville: Brooklyn’s Historic, Free Black Town”: 12:35PM-12:45PM In this edition of Black Trademarked Photo Editing Software History, VICELAND’s Messiah Rhodes finds out why a town in the middle of Brooklyn, founded in 1838 by fugitive slaves and freed Black people escaping racial violence, almost disappeared from history.
Virtual Teach-In Intro: 12:45PM-12:50PM Obden Mondésir, Weeksville Heritage Center Oral History Project Manager & Moderator, introduces the format of the program Community as Classroom: Bearing Witness to COVID-19 and Examining the History of Public Health and the Impact of Infectious Diseases on the Black Community in the United States, our invited speakers Harriet A. Washington and Dr. Samuel Roberts.
Community as Classroom: Bearing Witness to COVID-19 and Examining the History of Public Health and the Impact of Infectious Diseases on the Black Community in the United States: 1-2PM; Q&A 2PM-3PM Obden Mondésir, Weeksville Heritage Center Oral History Project Manager moderates a discussion between Harriet A. Washington and Dr. Samuel Roberts. The discussion will include the impact of COVID-19, examining the history of racialized inequity in the public health system in the U.S, and the work of documenting this current pandemic in our communities. Invited speakers will take questions and discuss comments from the community in the second part of the program.
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(Saturday) 12:30 pm - 3:00 pm
august 2020
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The Saigon Sisters shares the stories of nine Vietnamese women who as childhood friends studied at a premier French school in Saigon and as adults chose to support Vietnam’s fight for independence. Through many interviews, letters, and exchanges, Patricia Norland traces these women’s individual stories as they follow different paths in pursuit of a shared ideal and how their stories converge again after the war.
- August 20, 2020
- 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST
- Virtual Book Launch
Speakers
- Patricia “Kit” Norland, author of The Saigon Sisters and a former public diplomacy officer with the U.S. Department of State
- Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Dorothy Borg Chair in the History of the United States and East Asia, Columbia University
This event is supported by the War Legacies Working Group.
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(Thursday) 10:00 am - 11:00 am
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Faculty & Instructor Roundtable: Partnering with Columbia University Libraries on Remote Research-Assignment Design and Learning
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Faculty & Instructor Roundtable: Partnering with Columbia University Libraries on Remote Research-Assignment Design and Learning
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(Tuesday) 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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Thurs. Aug. 13 @ 4 pm EDT Dr. Stephanie McCurry: The Confederate States of
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Thurs. Aug. 13 @ 4 pm EDT
Dr. Stephanie McCurry: The Confederate States of America
What was the Confederacy and what did it stand for? These are important questions in both history classrooms and public debate. Dr. McCurry will discuss what Confederate leaders believed they were doing; the challenges they faced both from within the South and outside it; the experiences of Black and white women in the Confederacy; and the role of women in the history of war.
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(Thursday) 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Register Here Monday, August 10, 2020 6:00pm
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Monday, August 10, 2020 6:00pm
Originally scheduled as an in-person walk to explore the history of the Harlem River and celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, this Digital Harlem River Walk has been rescheduled to take place over Zoom at 6pm on Monday, August 10th. With a discussion led by Scot McFarlane, this walk will feature the photography of Nathan Kensinger and Duane Bailey-Castro.
The Harlem River has been shaped by tide patterns and climate change, and like the Hudson River it contains a legacy of toxic pollution. Despite the fact that the Harlem River is a man-made river–New York City engineers rerouted its channel–most people who live along the river have no access to the waterfront. This digital walk, free and open to the public, will spatially explore the ways people have been disconnected from the river and the role river history can play in rebuilding the connections between people and their river. By taking an interdisciplinary approach, with speakers experienced in urban planning, climate change, photography, and community activism, we will come away with an inclusive and compelling history of the Harlem River. This event is sponsored by the Columbia University SOF/Heyman’s Public Humanities Initiative. Click here to register for this event.
This event will be recorded. By being electronically present, you consent to the SOF/Heyman making the video publicly available.
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(Monday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
4aug10:00 am- 11:00 amHistory of Ottoman History: A Master Class
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History of Ottoman History: A Master Class
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Columbia Global Centers | Istanbul, Columbia Global Centers | Tunis and the Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies invite you to a live online master class on the “History of Ottoman History” with Zeynep Çelik and A. Tunç Şen, on August 4 at 5 pm GMT+3 (10AM EST).
About the Talk
This workshop follows up on the seminar taught by Zeynep Çelik and Tunç Şen at Columbia University in fall 2019. The seminar was designed to discuss the formation of the Ottoman-Turkish historiography in the late Ottoman and early Republican Turkey. The main goal was to familiarize the students with the foundational works, trends, institutions, and names of the rigorous and essential scholarship in Ottoman-Turkish studies from a multi-disciplinary approach. The online master class will revisit these issues. In addition to the instructors, some of the fall 2019 seminar students will share their perspectives and takeaways with the online master class participants.
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(Tuesday) 10:00 am - 11:00 am
3aug6:00 pm- 7:30 pmFreedom, Critical Caribbean Perspectives (Omohundro Institute at W&M)
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FREEDOM, CRITICAL CARIBBEAN PERSPECTIVES
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FREEDOM, CRITICAL CARIBBEAN PERSPECTIVES
LAURENT DUBOIS AND NATASHA LIGHTFOOT
Conversation #3 in the “Slavery and Freedom in the Era of Revolution” series
AUGUST 3, 2020 AT 6:00 PM EST
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Natasha Lightfoot (Columbia University) specializes in slavery and emancipation studies, and black identities, politics, and cultures in the fields of Caribbean, Atlantic World, and African Diaspora History.
She is the author of Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation (Duke University Press). Called “a major contribution to the burgeoning literature on the aftermath of emancipation” (Eric Foner, author of Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877), Troubling Freedom tells the story of how Antigua’s newly freed black working people struggled to realize freedom in their everyday lives, prior to and in the decades following emancipation.
Professor Lightfoot is currently at work on Fugitive Cosmopolitans, a study of enslaved people born in the British Caribbean but illegally traded to islands of other empires who attempted to use their British subjecthood to emancipate themselves after the 1834 British abolition.
Laurent Dubois (Duke University) specializes in the history and culture of the Atlantic world, with a focus on the Caribbean and particularly Haiti.
Professor Dubois is the co-author, editor, or translator of over a dozen books and the author of seven monographs, including A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean (Omohundro Institute with partner UNC Press) which won the 2005 Frederick Douglass Book Prize. Called “a milestone in the ever-expanding historiography of Atlantic slave emancipation” (The International Journal of African Historical Studies), A Colony of Citizens examines the profound effect the struggle over slavery and citizenship in the French Caribbean had on concepts of universal rights. His most recent book is Freedom Roots: Histories from the Caribbean, co-authored with Richard Turits (UNC Press).
He is currently beginning work on a history of the French Atlantic. He served on the OI Council 2008-2011.
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(Monday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
july 2020
29jul4:00 pm- 5:00 pmFeaturedIn Conversation with Historians: Black Lives Matter, Part Two
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For general public: live-stream on Facebook and YouTube! For Columbia affiliates:
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For general public: live-stream on Facebook and YouTube!
For Columbia affiliates: register and attend via Zoom
This panel discussion will go into the history of abolition, the Reconstruction Era, Black resistance, white supremacy, and the Black Lives Matter movement. A live Q&A will be integrated into the panel, which makes this an interactive conversation.
- Christopher L. Brown, professor, specializes in the history of eighteenth century Britain, the early modern British Empire, and the comparative history of slavery and abolition, with secondary interests in the age of revolutions and the history of the Atlantic world. He is now at work on two projects, one on British experience along the West African coast in the era of the Atlantic slave trade, and a second on the decline and fall of the British Planter class in the era of abolition and emancipation.
- Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History, specializes in the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and 19th-century America. His book, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer, Bancroft, and Lincoln prizes for 2011. His latest book is Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad.
- Stephanie McCurry, Professor of History, specializes in the American Civil War and Reconstruction, the nineteenth century United States, the American South, and the history of women and gender. She is also interested in the study of Confederate Monuments and memory, and Slavery and its Legacy in U.S.
- Bailey Yellen is a doctoral student at Columbia University studying History who studies slavery, the transatlantic antislavery movement and emancipation. Bailey’s research interests include black resistance in the Atlantic World and the circulation of abolitionist literature between the United States and the British Empire during the 19th century.
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(Wednesday) 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
23jul12:00 pm- 1:05 pmRacism as a Determinant to Health
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Objectives:
1. Explore racism as a trigger of stress and physiological changes impacting health.
2. Discuss ways that racism affects reproductive health in Black women resulting in disproportionate maternal and infant mortality.
3. Explore the unique ways that racism impacts the health of black Men.
4. Identify the impact of racism on the developmental health of children of color.
Speakers:
1. Samuel Roberts, PhD, Associate Professor of History and Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University
2. Thomas LaVeist, PhD, Dean of the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University
3. Monica McLemore, RN, PhD, FAAN, Associate Professor, Family Health Care Nursing, University of California San Francisco
4. Walter Gilliam, PhD, Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor in the Child Study Center and Professor of Psychology; Director, The Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy
Facilitators:
-Samuel Roberts, PhD, Associate Professor of History and Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University
-Mekbib Gemeda, NADOHE HPC Chair, Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion, Eastern Virginia Medical School
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(Thursday) 12:00 pm - 1:05 pm
8jul5:30 pm- 7:00 pmCOVID in Queens: Public Trust & Justice
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COVID in Queens: Public Trust & Justice
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COVID in Queens: Public Trust & Justice
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Event Description:
A major challenge during the COVID-19 pandemic has centered on the public’s attitude toward and reception of the guidance and advice of public health experts and government leaders. We would like to expand this discussion to critical issues of health justice and deepening racial disparities that have been laid bare by the COVID-19 crisis and its deadly toll among communities of color, and the ongoing social and psychological trauma that has been exacerbated by recent police killings. These issues raise questions about structural inclusion and exclusion that affect the ways that communities put their trust in leaders during a pandemic, and the vision of reform that we seek going forward.
One of the hardest hit areas has been in central Queens, where inequity in jobs, precarious housing, poor working conditions, and lack of access to healthcare and other services, are fueling both the spread and the lethality of the virus. The dislocation and fears associated with immigration status, ethnicity, and race pose a sharp challenge to local communities and their needs. This panel will bring together elected officials and community leaders to help change the narrative around the virus to also focus on ways we can build public trust, reimagine stronger social solidarities, and secure social justice during this time of COVID-19 and for the future.
Event Speakers:
- Jeffrion Aubry, Assembly member for the 35th district in Queens and New York State Speaker Pro Tempore, New York State Assembly
- Saeeda L. Dunston, Executive Director at Elmcor Youth and Services Activities, Inc.
- Annetta Seecharran, Executive Director at Chhaya Community Development Corporation
- Moderated by Samuel Kelton Roberts, Associate Professor of History, Sociomedical Sciences, and African-American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University
Event Information:
Free and open to the public; RSVP required via Eventbrite. Registered attendees will be sent event link shortly before the panel begins.
Hosted by the Center for Science and Society. Please contact scienceandsociety@columbia.edu with any questions.
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(Wednesday) 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm