PAST EVENTS
july 2022
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Women and Gendered Violence, a plenary panel of the 2022 Memory Studies Association Conference in Seoul will be held online on July 5, 8-10
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(Tuesday) 8:00 am - 10:00 am
june 2022
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Movement Building in Media Danny Vazquez • Naib
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Danny Vazquez • Naib Mian • Meher Divya Manda • Manan Ahmed
Industry veterans, editors, journalists, and organizers speak to the highs and lows of organizing in the workplace, sharing practical advice from their work in the field, and ways to get involved with labor justice work in the publishing and media industries. With Danny Vazquez, Naib Mian, and Meher Divya Manda, moderated by Manan Ahmed.
Our panelists welcome audience questions to tackle in their conversation on this emerging, and important, sphere. Submit your questions here!
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(Saturday) 10:30 am - 11:30 am
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BOOK PRESENTATION | PSYCHIATRY AND POLITICS IN POST-WAR FRANCE
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BOOK PRESENTATION | PSYCHIATRY AND POLITICS IN POST-WAR FRANCE
PSYCHIATRY AND POLITICS IN POST-WAR FRANCE
BOOK PRESENTATION
by Camille ROBCIS ,
Disalienation. Politics, Philosophy,
and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France,
Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2021.
Sciences Po History Center, 1 Place Saint-Thomas-d’Aquin, 75007 Paris
Anatole LE BRAS (post-doctoral fellow at the University of Strasbourg) and
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(Monday) 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
7junAll DayWomen & Silent Screen XI Online
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Women & Silent Screen XI Online: Zoom Webinar link: bit.ly/WomenAndTheSilentScreenRegistration Tuesday, June 7 — 8 (New York
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Women & Silent Screen XI Online:
Zoom Webinar link: bit.ly/WomenAndTheSilentScreenRegistration
Tuesday, June 7 — 8 (New York Time) June 7 — 9 CST (China time)
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All Day (Tuesday)
2jun8:30 am- 9:45 amWSS XI Conference: Women, Cinema, and World Migration
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Columbia University COVID Policy **Bring ID, COVID vaccine proof, & mask indoors** General Public Registration and Ticket
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Women in Film History International
Columbia University — Morningside Hts & Manhattanville campuses
Thursday, June 2: Lenfest Center for the Arts/KOB Screening room 2nd fl. — single-strand
8:30 — 9:45 am — Registration + COVID check — Lenfest Lobby
Friday, June 3 — AM: Dodge Hall & PM: Lenfest Center for the Arts/KOB Screening Room
Saturday, June 4 — AM: Dodge Hall & PM: Lenfest Center for the Arts/KOB Screening Room
Sunday, June 5 — AM: Dodge Hall & PM: Lenfest Center for the Arts/KOB Screening Room
Monday, June 6 — Domitor all day screenings – KOB Screening Room
10:00 am – 9:00 pm – Register – FREE:
https://www.showclix.com/event/domitor-conference
Schedule on Domitor drop down menu above
Women & Silent Screen XI Online:
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Tuesday, June 7 — 8 (New York Time) June 7 — 9 CST (China time)
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(Thursday) 8:30 am - 9:45 am
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Lenfest Center for the Arts/KOB Screening room 2nd fl.
1jun6:00 pm- 7:30 pmRevolution 13/13: Abolition Feminism (Sarah Haley)
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(Wednesday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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The People's Forum
320 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018
1jun6:00 pm- 8:00 pmWSS XI Conference: Women, Cinema, and World Migration
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Columbia University COVID Policy **Bring ID, COVID vaccine proof, & mask indoors** General Public Registration and Ticket
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**Bring ID, COVID vaccine proof, & mask indoors**
General Public Registration and Ticket information:
Women in Film History International
Wednesday, June 1, 2022: Museum of Modern Art — 11 West 53rd st.
6:00 pm — FREE Archivists panel + screening. Titus 2 Theater
Columbia University — Morningside Hts & Manhattanville campuses
Thursday, June 2: Lenfest Center for the Arts/KOB Screening room 2nd fl. — single-strand
8:30 — 9:45 am — Registration + COVID check — Lenfest Lobby
Friday, June 3 — AM: Dodge Hall & PM: Lenfest Center for the Arts/KOB Screening Room
Saturday, June 4 — AM: Dodge Hall & PM: Lenfest Center for the Arts/KOB Screening Room
Sunday, June 5 — AM: Dodge Hall & PM: Lenfest Center for the Arts/KOB Screening Room
Monday, June 6 — Domitor all day screenings – KOB Screening Room10:00 am – 9:00 pm – Register – FREE:
https://www.showclix.com/event/domitor-conference
Schedule on Domitor drop down menu above
Women & Silent Screen XI Online:
Zoom Webinar link: bit.ly/WomenAndTheSilentScreenRegistration
Tuesday, June 7 — 8 (New York Time) June 7 — 9 CST (China time)
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(Wednesday) 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
may 2022
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From Political Wife to Woman Politician: Frances Balfour in Parliament in the 1890s
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From Political Wife to Woman Politician: Frances Balfour in Parliament in the 1890s
Seminar Series Parliaments, Politics and People
Online- via Zoom
Susan Pedersen (Columbia University)
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Lady Frances Campbell, tenth child and fifth daughter of the landed politician the 8th Duke of Argyll, married Eustace Balfour, architect and youngest brother of A.J. Balfour and nephew of Lord Salisbury, in 1879. Frances’s father had been in every Liberal cabinet for two decades; her mother and grandmother had been important political hostesses – and she herself aspired to a life at the heart of politics. Her early ambitions were frustrated, not only because Eustace was not interested in a political career but still more because of the way the political system changed in the wake of the Third Reform Act. She adjusted to those changed circumstances first by promoting the career and acting as the “political wife” for her (then-unmarried) brother-in-law, later Chief Secretary for Ireland Gerald Balfour, but then by carving out a less dynastic and more individual political role. Between 1885 and 1905 Frances Balfour helped to found a number of women’s philanthropic and cross-party organizations (the Women’s Liberal Unionist Association, Travelers’ Aid, Freedom of Labour Defense), but she also became the women’s movement’s most effective parliamentary lobbyist and Millicent Fawcett’s right hand in the constitutionalist women’s suffrage cause. After 1906, suffrage would become a vibrant, popular and out-of-doors movement, but in the 1890s it relied on these more personal political connections. This paper uses the figure of Frances Balfour, arguably the most effective woman politician of the late-Victorian period, to track how women’s political roles and the political system more broadly changed in these decades.
Susan Pedersen is Morris Professor of British History at Columbia University, where she teaches British and international history. She is the author of Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State: Britain and France, 1914-1945 (1993), Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience (2004), and The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire (2015), which was awarded the 2015 Cundill Prize for Historical Literature. She is currently writing a book about marriage and politics in the Balfour family. She is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books.
The seminar will take the form of a question and answer session based on a pre-circulated paper. The paper will be available to download here and History of Parliament website two weeks prior to the seminar, and will be sent to everyone who has signed up to this event.
If you have any further questions, or you have not received a copy of the paper ahead of the seminar, please contact the conveners at seminar@histparl.ac.uk
We acknowledge that work commitments, caring responsibilities and time zones may make attendance at the seminar difficult. If you find that you can only attend part of the session, please contact the convenors and we will do our best to prioritise your involvement. Likewise, if you find that you are unable to attend you can submit a question to seminar@histparl.ac.uk and the convenors will put you in touch with the speaker.
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(Tuesday) 12:15 pm - 2:00 pm
19may4:30 pm- 7:30 pmReimagining Educational Work for Collective Freedom (Sarah Haley)
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Reimagining Educational Work for Collective Freedom
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Reimagining Educational Work for Collective Freedom
A group of faculty at the University of Pittsburgh is convening a series of symposia and a study group entitled “Reimagining Educational Work for Collective Freedom: The Labor Strike as a Portal.” The interdisciplinary, globally-focused effort is a partnership between faculty members at the School of Education and the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, and received funding support from the Spencer Foundation.
The project involves:
- Engaging in deep study, creating dialogue partnerships, and building potential for activism
- Convening a symposium series with three gatherings for a public audience and study group participants
- Conducting a student-focused study group that will meet monthly from May 2022 – December 2022
Symposium Series
The symposia are open to all and are designed for a global audience of anyone interested in organizing for freedom and/or reimagining educational praxes. Please click the links below to register.
May 19-20, 2022 – Symposium #1: “The longue durée of freedom work: Bridging history and the current moment through the agricultural mass strike”
- Day One, Thursday, May 19, 2022
- 2:30-4:00 p.m. Eastern US, Study group
- 4:30-6:00 p.m. Eastern US, Keynote Dialogue: Sarah Haley & Damien Sojoyner, moderated, open to public through registration.
- 7:00 p.m. Eastern US, Study group dinner: Seminar participants with Sarah Haley, facilitated, open only to study group members
- Day Two, Friday, May 20, 2022
- Noon-2:00pm Eastern US, Plenary: Keisha-Khan Perry & Ana Cristina da Silva Caminha, moderated, open to public through registration.
- 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Eastern US, Study group workshop: Seminar participants convene with Keisha-Khan Perry
- 4:30-6:00 p.m. Eastern US, Plenary: Damien Sojoyner & Yusef Omowale, moderated, open to public through registration.
- 6:30-7:30 p.m. Eastern US, Study group: convenes
September 22-23, 2022 – Symposium #2: “Women, gender, and labor: reframing the work and refusing femicide”
- Day One, Thursday, September 22, 2022
- 4:00-6:00 p.m. Eastern US, Keynote Dialogue: Connie Wun & Arussi Unda moderated, open to public through registration
- 7:00 p.m. Eastern US, Dinner with Study Group: Arussi Unda and Las Brujas Del Mar
- Day Two, Friday, September 23, 2022
- 2:00-4:00 p.m., Eastern US, Plenary Dialogue: TBA, moderated, open to public through registration
- 4:30-6:00 p.m., Eastern US, Plenary Dialogue: Connie Wun & TBA, moderated, open to public through registration
- 7:00 p.m. Eastern US, Dinner with Study Group: TBA
Late November/early December, TBD, Symposium #3
Study Group
- Students and post-doctoral fellows may submit the online application to join the study group prior to the April 6, 2022 deadline.
- The study group will participate in the symposium series and meet monthly from May – December 2022 as follows:
- May 23, 2022, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. (Eastern US)
- June 20, 2022, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. (Eastern US)
- July 25, 2022, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. (Eastern US)
- August 22, 2022, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. (Eastern US)
- September 19, 2022, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. (Eastern US)
- October 17, 2022, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. (Eastern US)
- November 14, 2022, Noon – 3 p.m. (Eastern US)
- December 12, 2022, Noon – 3 p.m. (Eastern US)
Project Background
The effort is shaped around two praxes of freedom core to multiple knowledge traditions: the study group and the dialectic.
[View Program Overview (PDF) for full background]
In her now oft-quoted essay, Arundhati Roy called on us to understand the pandemic as “a portal, a gateway between one world and the next” and to move through it deliberately, “with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it”.
Just months later, not far from where she penned those very words, Indian farmers, agricultural workers, and other laborers undertook the largest labor strike known to history—one that is ongoing.The labor strike itself, as form and function, is a portal of sorts. It is the agentive assertion of moving from one set of conditions through transformation to a future imagined by workers.
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(Thursday) 4:30 pm - 7:30 pm
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Mellon Foundation Event: Chinese American History, Asian American Experiences Thursday, May 19 at
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Mellon Foundation Event: Chinese American History, Asian American Experiences
Thursday, May 19 at 4:00 PM ET
Chinese immigrants and their descendants have shaped the United States, but their experiences are not always acknowledged as part of our collective history.
Chinese American stories touch on every facet of the American experience: from those of immigrants who arrived at the US via the Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco; to builders of the transcontinental railroad connecting America’s east and west; drivers of urban development and access to public education; and subjects of discrimination and anti-Chinese legislation. In sharing these histories, we can cultivate a fuller understanding of our current moment and promote truthful narratives about Chinese American histories and Asian American experiences.
Join us as we celebrate under-told Chinese American stories and understand their place in our rich tapestry. Mellon Foundation President Dr. Elizabeth Alexander hosts a virtual livestream that is part history lesson and part conversation, featuring three leading authors, scholars, and advocates: Dr. Erika Lee, Dr. Mae Ngai, and Helen Zia.
Dr. Erika Lee
REGENTS PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
Dr. Erika Lee is an award-winning historian, author, and advocate. She is a Regents Professor of History and Asian American Studies, Director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota, and President of the Organization of American Historians. The granddaughter of Chinese immigrants, Lee was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the American Antiquarian Society and testified before Congress in its historic hearings on anti-Asian discrimination and violence. She is the author of four award-winning books including The Making of Asian America and America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in America, which won the American Book Award and the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, as well as other honors. Named to many best books lists and identified as an essential book illuminating the Trump era and the 2020 elections, it was recently re-published with a new epilogue on xenophobia and racism during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr. Mae Ngai
LUNG FAMILY PROFESSOR OF ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES AND PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Dr. Mae Ngai is a US legal and political historian interested in questions of immigration, citizenship, and nationalism. She is the author of several books, including the award-winning Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (2004) and The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America (2010). Dr. Ngai’s latest book, The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics (2021), won the 2002 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy and was a finalist for the LA Times book prize in history. The book studies how Chinese migration to the world’s goldfields upended global power and economics and forged modern conceptions of race. Ngai is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Society of American Historians, and the American Antiquarian Society. She has written on immigration history and policy matters for The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and The Atlantic. Before becoming a historian, she was a labor-union organizer and educator in New York City, working for District 65-UAW and the Consortium for Worker Education.
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(Thursday) 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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NINO-EOL Spring Lecture: Before Babel and After. Scriptures and Languages in the Ancient Near East The numerous
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NINO-EOL Spring Lecture: Before Babel and After. Scriptures and Languages in the Ancient Near East
The numerous texts of the Ancient Near East give us a wide palette of scripts and languages, which make the history of the region one of the most interesting in Antiquity. This lecture is based on the book Before and After Babel. Writing as Resistance in Ancient Near Eastern Empires , forthcoming with Oxford University Press. She outlines how the use of languages and scripts changed radically between the second and the first millennium BC. – before Babel and afterwards – and explains how we can interpret the explosion of new writing systems in relation to the growing threat of the infamous empires of Mesopotamia.
Marc Van de Mieroop is professor of Ancient Near Eastern History at Columbia University, New York.
This is a hybrid reading. Come to the National Museum of Antiquities (Leemanszaal) and have a drink with us afterwards. Or follow the lecture online via Zoom: register here for the Zoom link.
No recording is made; it is not possible to review the lecture later.
RMO: Leemans room (ground floor)
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(Wednesday) 9:00 am - 11:00 am
16may5:00 pm- 6:00 pmThen & Now: Drug Policy And Harm Reduction Services (Samuel K. Roberts)
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This is a virtual event. Login information with be included in your confirmation email. The event is free; a donation of $10 is
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This is a virtual event. Login information with be included in your confirmation email. The event is free; a donation of $10 is suggested.
About the Speakers
Michele Calvo, MPH, is Program Officer in the Community Programs and Policy Solutions Department at the New York Academy of Medicine. As NYAM’s lead for drug policy and criminal-legal system reform, she collaborates with advocates on campaigns and conducts research to inform changes to policies that contribute to structural racism and marginalization of communities, such as the recent reforms in New York to expand access to medication assisted treatment in jails and prisons, decriminalize syringes, and implement supervised consumption sites. Michele has led multiple initiatives to advance equity in the New York City and State response, including a data partnership with Metropolitan Hospital and NYAM’s COVID-19 vaccine equity action collaborative. She also serves as Project Director of a PCORI-funded COVID-19 research study examining the impact of the Medicaid Health Home program on access to health care and social services among patients with diabetes in NYC during the pandemic. NYAM tweets from @nyamnyc.
Terrell Jones works in outreach and advocacy for marginalized low-income persons who use drugs. He is Senior Co-chair, Peer Network of New York, and Community Engagement Manager of New York Harm Reduction Educators. He is a leader in VOCAL-NY (Voices of Community Activists & Leaders) and a Partner with the Drug Policy Alliance. He served on the Expert Advisory Panel for the 2017 report prepared by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, “Overdose Prevention in New York City: Supervised Injection as a Strategy to Reduce Opioid Overdose and Public Injection.” Terrell Jones tweets from @terrellPNNY.
Sam Rivera currently serves as the Executive Director of New York Harm Reduction Educators and Washington Heights Corner Project, two merging harm reduction organizations that provide services to active drug users and sex workers in Northern Manhattan and The South Bronx, many of whom are low-income or homeless as well as of color and LGBTQ. With over 29 years of progressive experience in social services, his expertise lies in Criminal Justice/Reentry, HIV/AIDS, Harm Reduction, Addiction/Recovery, and Mental Health. He has dedicated his professional career to ameliorating the harms associated with the War on Drugs, racism/sexism, structural inequality, and mass incarceration and will continue to work to end systemic as well as systematic barriers to populations that are most vulnerable. Sam Rivera tweets from @samrivera111.
Samuel Kelton Roberts, Jr., PhD, is Associate Professor of History at Columbia University and of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. He is a former Director of Columbia University’s Institute for Research in African American Studies. Dr. Roberts writes, teaches, and lectures widely on African-American urban history, especially medicine, public health, and science and technology. His widely acclaimed book, Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation (University of North Carolina Press, 2009), is an exploration of the political economy of race and the modern American public health state between the late nineteenth century and the mid-twentieth century. Roberts currently is researching and writing a book-length project on the United States’s troubled history of race and recovery, examining the social and political history of heroin addiction treatment from the 1950s to the early 1990s. In 2018, Dr. Roberts launched the podcast series People Doing Interesting Stuff (PDIS) in which he speaks with people working in public health and social justice, especially harm reduction, HIV/AIDS work, reproductive justice, and criminal justice reform. He tweets from @SamuelKRoberts.
Maia Szalavitz is a journalist and the author of Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction (2021), the first history of the harm reduction movement. She has written for numerous publications from High Times to the New York Times, where she is currently a contributing opinion writer. She is author or co-author of five other books, including the New York Times bestseller, Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction, which is widely recognized as an important advance in thinking about the nature of addiction and how to cope with it, personally and politically. Her book, Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids was the first to expose the damage caused by the “tough love” business that dominates adolescent addiction treatment. With Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD, she co-wrote the classic work on child trauma, The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog and Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential—And Endangered. She has won awards from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Drug Policy Alliance, the American Psychological Association, and the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology for her 30 years of groundbreaking writing on addiction, drug policy, and neuroscience. Maia Szalavitz tweets from @maiasz.
Paul Theerman, PhD, has served as Director of the NYAM Library and Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health since 2018. In this capacity he oversees library operations, including cataloging and description, digitization, collection development, preservation and conservation, user services, with a special emphasis on public engagement. Over a 40+ year career in museums, archives, libraries and academia he has focused his efforts on connecting the interested and knowledgeable pubic with contemporary issues in sciences, technology, and medicine. He is a co-organizer of the Medicine and Health Working Group of the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, and regularly teaches the history of public health in the graduate program in public health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The NYAM Library tweets from @nyamhistory.
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(Monday) 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
13may10:00 am- 12:00 am30th Annual Symposium of the Friends of the GHI (Prize Winner: Tamar Menashe)
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MAY 13, 2022 | 10AM ET Award of the 2022 Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize at the
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MAY 13, 2022 | 10AM ET
Award of the 2022 Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize at the GHI | Prize Winner: Tamar Menashe (University of Pennsylvania)
The Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize is kindly sponsored by the Friends of the German Historical Institute.
Prize Winner: Tamar Menashe: The Imperial Supreme Court and Jews in Cross-Confessional Legal Cultures in Germany, 1495-1690 (Columbia University, 2022)
COVID-19 Policy: You will have to show proof of vaccination at the door. The GHI enforces a mask mandate throughout the building regardless of CDC guidelines.
Tamar Menashe’s dissertation reconstructs Ashkenazi and Sephardi German Jews’ intensive pursuit of civil and religious rights before Germany’s Imperial Supreme Court (Reichskammergericht, the Imperial Chamber Court) in the context of the wide-ranging religious and legal reforms in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The dissertation reveals that the study of Jews’ surprising strategies of interconnecting law and religion in defense of themselves and their religious laws promited Jews’ civil rights in radical ways, and attained a de facto status of imperial citizenship for Ashkenazi and Sephardi-Portugese Jews.
Selection committee for the 2022 Fritz Stern Prize: Prof. Daniel Riches (Chair), Prof. Barnet Hartston, Prof. Philipp Nielsen.
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(Friday) 10:00 am - 12:00 am
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(Friday) 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
5may7:00 pm- 8:30 pmA Long Cold War: The Remaking of Latin American Cold War Studies (Amy Chazkel)
5may4:00 pm- 5:30 pmA Discussion on Building a Climate and History Network (Rhiannon Stephens)
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About this event
Historians and climate scientists are increasingly collaborating with each other. These interactions are helping us to better understand our past climate at local or regional scales over seasonal to annual timescales. While we know much about how the climate has changed over the course of human history at a global or hemispheric level, the complicated dynamics at regional and sub-regional levels mean there is much still to learn and historical evidence can help by anchoring climate events in time. Conversely, we may be able to better understand history through our knowledge of the climate by bringing paleoclimatology into historical research, especially before the twentieth century.
The speakers’ specific collaborative research has worked to understand multi-decadal droughts in East Africa in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. They will use the preliminary work on this project to discuss the challenges and benefits of collaborations in this space and what needs to be done to cultivate and amplify climate and history collaborations more generally across Columbia University. They will review other efforts in this space and why we think there is great potential to pursue similar interdisciplinary efforts at Columbia. This presentation will thus be used to seed an open discussion on the interest, capacity, and logistics of building a climate and history network at Columbia.
Speakers
- Rhiannon Stephens, Associate Professor of History, Columbia University
- Jason Smerdon, Lamont Research Professor, Columbia University
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Free and open to Columbia University ID holders; registration required.
This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Center for Science and Society, and Columbia Interdisciplinary Research on Climate Workshop.
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(Thursday) 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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513 Fayerweather Hall
513 Fayerweather Hall
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Third session of the lecture cycle: PATRICIOS AND PLEBEYOS: CLASSES AND CLASSISM IN THE NATIONAL IMAGINARY (Coordinated
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(Wednesday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
april 2022
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Sakip Sabanci Center for Turkish Studies Dissertation Fellow Showcase Featuring: Deborah Sokolowski
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Sakip Sabanci Center for Turkish Studies Dissertation Fellow Showcase
Featuring: Deborah Sokolowski and Joshua Donovan | REGISTER HERE
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Ararat Sekeryan
9177758805
as5440@columbia.edu
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(Friday) 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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Trace and Aura: The Recurring Lives of St. Ambrose of Milan | A Talk by Patrick Boucheron
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Trace and Aura: The Recurring Lives of St. Ambrose of Milan | A Talk by Patrick Boucheron
6:00 PM–7:00 PM EAST GALLERY, MAISON FRANÇAISE
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Patrick Boucheron, one of the foremost medievalists of our time, will present his groundbreaking work on history and memory that goes well beyond the life of this influential saint, Trace and Aura: The Recurring Lives of St. Ambrose of Milan recently translated in English and published by Other Press. Elected bishop of Milan by popular acclaim in 374, Ambrose went on to become one of the four original Doctors of the Church. There is much more to this book, however, than the captivating story of the bishop who baptized Saint Augustine in the fourth century. Trace and Aura investigates how a crucial figure from the past can return in different guises over and over again, in a city that he inspired and shaped through his beliefs and political convictions. His recurring lives actually span more than ten centuries, from the fourth to the sixteenth.
In the process of following Ambrose’s various reincarnations, Patrick Boucheron draws compelling connections between religion, government, tyranny, the Italian commune, Milan’s yearning for autonomy, and many other aspects of this fascinating relationship between a city and its spiritual mentor who strangely seems to resist being manipulated by the needs and ambitions of those in power.
This event is free and open to the public. Proof of vaccination is required and masks are to be worn over the mouth and nose at all times. To register for this in person event, please click here. You can also follow the discussion live on Facebook.
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(Tuesday) 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall
26apr6:00 pm- 7:30 pmFeaturedThe 2022 Bancroft Prize Award Ceremony (Mae Ngai)
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Columbia University Libraries, in partnership
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Columbia University Libraries, in partnership with the Department of History and The Forum, are delighted to invite you to a celebration of the Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy. We will honor the awardees from 2020 and 2021 in addition to featuring the 2022 winners, Professors Mia Bay (University of Pennsylvania) and Mae Ngai (Columbia University). Please see the winners’ profiles below.
We have special plans this year to re-launch this important award with a new format and venue. We will be hosting an in-person program in the auditorium at The Forum on Tuesday, April 26, as well as live-streaming the festivities for a virtual audience. We will then celebrate with a reception following the ceremony at The Forum.
Whether you would prefer to be with us in person or online, we very much hope that you will join us! The program will take place from 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. You may bring one guest; use the ticket drop down to register your guest.
- To register your attendance for the in-person program, please click here.
- To register for the virtual program, please click here.
Please note, Columbia University requires proof of full vaccination and presentation of a government-issued ID for entry to all campus facilities.
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(Tuesday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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The Forum
601 W 125th St, New York, NY 10027
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THERE WILL BE A RECEPTION AT 5:00 P.M. EVENT PAGE HERE
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How did sport become a national obsession in the United States during the 1960s and 70s? How was the growth of the sport industry during this period shaped by the Civil Rights and feminist movements? Dr. Guridy’s lecture will tell the story of the decisive role of Texas-based sports entrepreneurs and athletes in the growth of big-time professional and college sports during this revolutionary era. His lecture will show how sport and society were changed by the unlikely alliance of entrepreneurs, coaches, and athletes while underscoring the limits of those transformations.
Frank Andre Guridy is an award-winning historian and a professor of History & African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. His recent book, The Sports Revolution: How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics was published by the University of Texas Press in 2021. His first book, Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow (University of North Carolina Press, 2010), won the Elsa Goveia Book Prize from the Association of Caribbean Historians and the Wesley-Logan Book Prize, conferred by the American Historical Association. He has written and lectured widely on sports and social justice. He has received a number of fellowships and awards throughout his career, including the Scholar in Residence Fellowship at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award from the University of Texas at Austin, the Ray A. Billington Professorship in American History at Occidental College and the Huntington Library, and the Mark Van Doren Award for Teaching at Columbia.
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(Monday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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University of New England Portland Campus, Innovation Hall, 716 Stevens Avenue, Portland, Maine 04103
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(Friday) 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
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22apr12:00 pm- 1:30 pmSakıp Sabancı Lecture 2022 (Zeynep Çelik)
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(Friday) 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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Lerner Hall, Room 555, Columbia University
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(Thursday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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20apr6:00 pm- 7:15 pmNazi Billionaires - Adam Tooze in conversation with David de Jong
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20apr6:00 pm- 7:30 pmConducting Research in and About China in a Time of Uncertainty Danping Wang)
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Conducting research in China today presents mounting challenges from many different directions. Please join our panel of experienced scholars as they discuss recent strategies for pursuing their work in a time of heightened anxiety and controls.
About the Speakers
Benjamin L. Liebman is Robert L. Lieff Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and the director of the Hong Yen Chang Center for Chinese Legal Studies, the first institution of its kind at a US law school. The Center prepares students to take on leadership roles in Chinese law and provides them with the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in China’s rapidly changing legal environment.
Widely known as a preeminent scholar of contemporary Chinese law, Liebman studies Chinese court judgments, the roles of artificial intelligence and big data in the Chinese legal system, Chinese tort law, Chinese criminal procedure, and the evolution of China’s courts. His research has covered diverse topics in Chinese law over the years, ranging from leniency in criminal law to medical dispute resolution and securities markets.
Nicholas Allyn Bartlett is an anthropologist and assistant professor in the department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College. His research interests include addiction, labor, and psychoanalytic approaches to group life in China. He is the author of Recovering Histories: Life and Labor after Heroin in Reform-era China (University of California and Columbia Weatherhead 2020).
Junyan Jiang is an assistant professor in the department of political science at Columbia University. He studies comparative politics and political economy, focusing on the politics of elites, organizations, and ideas. Some of his current research projects explore the formation and transformation of political elite networks in China, the interplay between formal rules and informal power in bureaucratic systems, and the dynamics of ideology in changing societies. His work has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, the British Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the Journal of Public Economics, and the Journal of Development Economics, among others. Prior to teaching at Columbia, he was an assistant professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his PhD in political science from the University of Chicago and BA in economics and finance from the University of Hong Kong.
Danping Wang is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Columbia University. Her dissertation traces the anti-cancer efforts of the Chinese Communist Party and the experience of Chinese cancer patients, with a special focus on the case study of esophageal cancer in Linxian, Henan province. Drawing on both Chinese and the US archival sources, oral history interviews, and an array of published sources, her research explores how political, social, technological and medical infrastructure shaped the Chinese anti-cancer efforts, and how the anti-cancer efforts, in turn, helped the CCP consolidate its regime.
For Columbia students and faculty. Interested PhD students should please write to sj3185@columbia.edu.
This event is sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
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(Wednesday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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918 International Affairs Building
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Adab Colloquium with Helen Pfeifer,
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Adab Colloquium with Helen Pfeifer, University Lecturer in Early Ottoman History, University of Cambridge and Discussant Tunç Şen, Assistant Professor, Columbia University
The Art of Conversation in the Ottoman Empire
Today, we often associate adab with the written word. However, in the pre-modern period, the true adib, or litterateur, was one who could perform the literary tradition. This session examines the expectations for gentlemanly conversation in the Ottoman Empire, and how these shaped relations between Turkish speakers and Arabic speakers in the sixteenth century.
Learn more about the Adab Colloquium at MEI here.
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(Friday) 1:10 pm - 3:00 pm
15apr12:00 pm- 1:15 pmBook Launch: The New Atlantic Order
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April 15, 2022
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Book launch for “The New Atlantic Order: The Transformation of International Politics – 1860-1933” by Patrick O. Cohrs (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
Presenter: Patrick O. Cohrs, University of Florence
Moderator: Adam Tooze, Columbia University
Welcome remarks: Anders Stephanson, Columbia University
The event is free and open to the public. Proof of vaccination is required, and masks are to be worn over the mouth and nose at all times.
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Sponsored by the Department of History and the European Institute
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(Friday) 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
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1180 Amsterdam Avenue, Room 411 Fayerweather
14apr5:00 pm- 6:30 pmManan Ahmed Asif | The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India (UC Berkeley)
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Manan Ahmed Asif | The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India Lecture: Center on Contemporary India |
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Manan Ahmed Asif | The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India
Lecture: Center on Contemporary India | April 14 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 3401 Dwinelle Hall
Manan Ahmed Asif, Associate Professor of History at Columbia University
Abhishek Kaicker, Associate Professor of History
Institute for South Asia Studies, The Center on Contemporary India, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Department of History
A talk by Manan Ahmed Asif, Associate Professor of History at Columbia University on his new book, The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India, a field-changing history of how the subcontinent lost its political identity as the home of all religions and emerged as India, the land of the Hindus.
About the Book
Did South Asia have a shared regional identity prior to the arrival of Europeans in the late fifteenth century? This is a subject of heated debate in scholarly circles and contemporary political discourse. Manan Ahmed Asif argues that Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the Republic of India share a common political ancestry: they are all part of a region whose people understand themselves as Hindustani. Asif describes the idea of Hindustan, as reflected in the work of native historians from roughly 1000 CE to 1900 CE, and how that idea went missing.
This makes for a radical interpretation of how India came to its contemporary political identity. Asif argues that a European understanding of India as Hindu has replaced an earlier, native understanding of India as Hindustan, a home for all faiths. Turning to the subcontinent’s medieval past, Asif uncovers a rich network of historians of Hindustan who imagined, studied, and shaped their kings, cities, and societies. Asif closely examines the most complete idea of Hindustan, elaborated by the early seventeenth century Deccan historian Firishta. His monumental work, Tarikh-i Firishta, became a major source for European philosophers and historians, such as Voltaire, Kant, Hegel, and Gibbon during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Yet Firishta’s notions of Hindustan were lost and replaced by a different idea of India that we inhabit today.
The Loss of Hindustan reveals the intellectual pathways that dispensed with multicultural Hindustan and created a religiously partitioned world of today.
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Speaker Bio
Manan Ahmed Asif is an Associate Professor of History at Columbia University. He is a historian of South Asia and the littoral western Indian Ocean world from 1000-1800 CE. His areas of specialization include intellectual history in South and Southeast Asia, and critical philosophy of history, colonial and anti-colonial thought. He is interested in how modern and pre-modern historical narratives create understandings of places, communities, and intellectual genealogies for their readers. His first monograph, A Book of Conquest: Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia (Harvard University Press, 2016), is on the intellectual life of an early thirteenth-century Persian historyChachnama also known as Fathnama-i Sind (Book of the Conquest of Sindh). The book delves into how Muslim polities in Sindh addressed sacral differences, created new ethics of rule, and articulated a political theory of power in the thirteenth century Indian Ocean World. His second monograph, The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India (Harvard University Press, 2020), tells a history of the historians of the subcontinent from the tenth to the early twentieth century. The book is a concept-history of “Hindustan,” focusing specifically on the work of the seventeenth century Deccan historian Firishta (fl. 1570-1620). Broadly, this book is doing a concept-history of “Hindustan,” a political and historiographic category that was subsumed by the colonial project of creating British India and the subsequent polities of “Republic of India” and “Islamic Republic of Pakistan.” It is also a broad examination of philosophy of history for the Muslim historians of the subcontinent.
He is the co-founder of the Group for Experimental Methods in the Humanistic Research, which focuses on “mobilized humanities” and innovations in scholarly methodologies. One of the recent projects, Torn Apart/Separados focused on the humanitarian crisis on the southwestern border in Summer 2018.
He has broad interests, and projects, in the history of archives in the global south and the problems of access and control to digitized materials. He is working on a project of spatial visualization in medieval Arabic and Persian histories— including “Mapping Mughal Hindustan, 1500-1600” and “Delivering Post by Foot in Medieval North India”. He is one of the faculty conveners for the five year supranational project funded by Mellon, “Decolonization, the Disciplines and the University” (2019-2024) and the “Manuscripts of the Muslim World”.
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(Thursday) 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm PST
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3401 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
13apr4:00 pm- 5:30 pmFeaturedCelebrating Recent Work by Mae M. Ngai
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(Wednesday) 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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(Tuesday) 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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406 International Affairs Building (420 West 118th street)
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Long Odds Struggles in East and Southeast Asia, the 1910-1920s and 2010-2020s
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Long Odds Struggles in East and Southeast Asia, the 1910-1920s and 2010-2020s
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Speaker: Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine
Introduction by: Lien-Hang Nguyen, Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia
Moderated by: Manan Ahmed, Associate Professor of history at Columbia University
During the first decades of the last century, activists with ties to various parts of Asia embraced and then discarded different ideologies and found varying ways to connect with one another, sometimes in exile. What linked them were some shared grievances, such as a dislike of the way their community was being bullied or controlled by people in a distant capital and of the limits on their freedom to speak out on issues that concerned them and organize to bring about change. We have been seeing something similar in some ways but different in others take place now, as activists in and exiles from Hong Kong, Thailand and Burma take part in what is sometimes called “Milk Tea Alliance” struggles. There are obvious contrasts: importance of online connections now is novel; the Chinese state was a weak force a century ago, but is a strong one today; Vietnamese activists were a more central part of the earlier story than the current one; ties between South Asian and East Asian exiles were more notable a century ago; and there is no contemporary counterpart to the Comintern on the scene connecting radicals. And yet, this talk will argue, there are important echoes of the earlier period to be heard today, as well as much to learn about how different struggles in East and Southeast Asia influenced one another at other points in time, such as the 1980s. This talk will focus on Chinese activists of the early 1900s and Hong Kong ones now but place both groups in comparative and transnational perspectives, will move between the two eras with an eye toward reoccurrences, ruptures, and reversals.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom is Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, where he also holds courtesy appointments in the Law School and in the Literary Journalism Program. He has written, co-written, edited, or co-edited a dozen books, the most recent of which are Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink (Columbia Global Reports, 2020), which he wrote, and The Oxford History of Modern China (2022), which he edited. In addition to contributing to academic journals, he often writes for newspapers (including the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times), magazines (such as the Atlantic), and literary reviews (e.g., the TLS and the Los Angeles Review of Books).
Manan Ahmed is a specialist in South Asia. He is an executive editor for the Journal of the History of Ideas and the author of works such as A Book of Conquest: Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia (Harvard University Press, 2016) and The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India (Harvard University Press, 2020), a book that was shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize in 2021.
This event is sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
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(Friday) 10:30 am - 11:00 pm
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School of International and Public Affairs, 420 West 118th Street, Room 918, New York, NY 10027
7apr5:00 pm- 6:30 pmPETRO-SEXUALITY: Histories of Oil and Intimacy
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PETRO-SEXUALITY: Histories of Oil and Intimacy
Thursday, Apr. 7, 2022 | 5:00-6:30 PM | 411 Fayerweather Hall
In recent years, energy humanities scholars have highlighted how the ability to do biopolitical work – to discipline the body and regulate populations – has relied on the availability of fossil fuels. The Caribbean has played a vital if also understudied role in the hydrocarbon age, transforming intimate selves and sensibilities in the process. This talk explores the interconnections among the histories of sexuality and the age of oil. Focusing on Aruba and Curaçao, islands that once housed the world’s largest oil refineries, it charts how transnational oil companies introduced peculiar forms of sexual and reproductive regulation intended to maximize oil revenues and discipline Caribbean subjects. Building on extensive archival research in the Caribbean, Europe, and the United States, Schields insists that global energy systems cannot be understood without attention to the sexual and racialized interventions that fueled their emergence.
Chelsea Schields is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. Her scholarship explores the histories of sexuality, race, and the politics of oil and empire in the Caribbean and Europe. With Dagmar Herzog, she is co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialism (2021). Her book, Offshore Attachments: Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean, is forthcoming with the University of California Press.
This event will be held in person. Visitors are permitted and are required to follow the visitor policy. They also must have proof of vaccination and a booster as well as complete the attestation form prior to accessing a Columbia facility. For the latest on Columbia COVID-19 policy and building access, please visit covid19.columbia.edu.
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(Thursday) 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
4apr6:30 pm- 7:30 pmIRAAS | Zora Neale Hurston Lecture - Tera Hunter
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Lecture Title-I"s Marriage the Answer? Ideas about African-American Marriage from W.E. B. Du Bois to Our Own Times"
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Prof. Tera W. Hunter will deliver the 2022 Zora Neale Hurston Lecture. Hurston started her career as an anthropologist as a doctoral student at Columbia University. Her skills as an ethnographer during the Harlem Renaissance attended to people and culture in a way that captured the rich daily experiences of African-American life in the South and in the Caribbean. Her literary contributions have greatly changed the landscape in American literature and African-American literature through her characterizations of class disparities in Black working poor and rural communities. Your scholarship and practice exemplify the intellectual fierceness and talent of Sister Zora; thus, we would be honored for you to convene and share with us.
Tera W. Hunter is the Edwards Professor of American History and Professor of African-American Studies, a specialist in the 19th and 20th centuries at Princeton University. Her research focuses on gender, race, labor, and Southern histories. Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017) is her latest book.
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(Monday) 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
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For a Few Cryptos More: The Wild West of Decentralized Finance
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International Affairs Building 420 West 118th Street Room 1501, 15th floor
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Thursday, March 31st, 6pm Virtual America on Fire: A Conversation on Police Violence & Black Rebellion
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Join the Lehman Center for American History for a discussion of America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s with Elizabeth Hinton, Jelani Cobb, and Frank Guridy.
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(Thursday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding with
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Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding
with Hannah Farber
Thursday, March 31, 2022, 2 pm EDT
Approx. 1 hour
This program is free but requires advanced registration.
Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the new nation. The international information they gathered and the capital they generated enabled them to play central roles in state building and economic development. During the Revolution, they helped the U.S. negotiate foreign loans, sell state debts, and establish a single national bank. Afterward, they increased their influence by lending money to the federal government and to its citizens. Even as federal and state governments began to encroach on their domain, maritime insurers adapted, preserving their autonomy and authority through extensive involvement in the formation of commercial law. Leveraging their claims to unmatched expertise, they operated free from government interference while simultaneously embedding themselves into the nation’s institutional fabric. By the early nineteenth century, insurers were no longer just risk assessors. They were nation builders and market makers.
Deeply and imaginatively researched, Underwriters of the United States uses marine insurers to reveal a startlingly original story of risk, money, and power in the founding era.
Hannah Farber is an assistant professor of history at Columbia University. Her research focuses on politics and economy in colonial North America, the early American republic, and the Atlantic world. Her first book, Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding, was published in November 2021 by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and UNC Press. Professor Farber holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a series editor of “American Beginnings, 1500-1900” at the University of Chicago Press, and she held a NEH fellowship at the New-York Historical Society during 2020-2021.
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(Thursday) 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
28mar4:00 pm- 5:30 pmOceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World (Stephanie McCurry)
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Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World Conflicts over
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Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World
Conflicts over the paths traveled by grain transformed the balance of world power. Early in the nineteenth century, imperial Russia fed Europe through the port of Odessa. But during the US Civil War, America created grain corridors to feed Union troops, facilitating postwar exports. As these exports flooded across the Atlantic, European food prices plummeted. Cheap foreign grain helped spur the rise of Germany and Italy, the decline of the Habsburgs and the Ottomans, and Europe’s scramble for empire. Contests over this foreign grain contributed to World War I and the Russian Revolution.
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Conflicts over the paths traveled by grain transformed the balance of world power. Early in the nineteenth century, imperial Russia fed Europe through the port of Odessa. But during the US Civil War, America created grain corridors to feed Union troops, facilitating postwar exports. As these exports flooded across the Atlantic, European food prices plummeted. Cheap foreign grain helped spur the rise of Germany and Italy, the decline of the Habsburgs and the Ottomans, and Europe’s scramble for empire. Contests over this foreign grain contributed to World War I and the Russian Revolution.
Scott Reynolds Nelson is the Georgia Athletic Association Professor of the Humanities at the University of Georgia and was a Guggenheim fellow in 2019. His book Steel Drivin’ Man (2006), about the life and legend of John Henry won four national awards including the Merle Curti Prize for best book in US history. He has written widely on the history of capitalism including A Nation of Deadbeats (2012), an international history of US financial crises.
The Washington History Seminar is co-chaired by Eric Arnesen (George Washington University and the National History Center) and Christian Ostermann (Woodrow Wilson Center) and is organized jointly by the National History Center of the American Historical Association and the Woodrow Wilson Center’s History and Public Policy Program. It meets weekly during the academic year. The seminar thanks its anonymous individual donors and institutional partners (the George Washington University History Department and the Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest) for their continued support.
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(Monday) 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
26mar5:30 pm- 6:45 pmMemory Wars: World War II at 75 and Beyond (Carol Gluck)
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Memory Wars: World War II at 75 and Beyond The National WWII Museum's Memory Wars: World War II at 75 and
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Memory Wars: World War II at 75 and Beyond
The National WWII Museum’s Memory Wars: World War II at 75 and Beyond virtual conference has been rescheduled! The all-virtual conference will now take place on March 24–26, 2022. A first-of-its-kind international conference to discuss the shifting landscapes of popular memories of this world-altering conflict, Memory Wars will explore World War II’s place in public memory through a global prism, examining how museums, filmmakers, media, memorials, and historians (both academic and public) help shape memories of the conflict.
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To share this important program with the widest possible audience, the Museum will livestream all Memory Wars sessions at no cost to participants. Register below to receive free access to the virtual program on March 24–26, 2022.
4:30 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. (CT)
Session Fourteen
Conference Closing Session
Day of Infamy-Public Memory of WWII in Japan and the U.S. – A Conversation with Carol Gluck, PhD, Columbia University
Two events and dates stand out most in American memory for disaster and devastation, Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and the attacks of September 11, 2001. More than 20 years after the more recent attack, this conversation will discuss how these two events were reacted to, how they are remembered, and both the differences and similarities between the two.
- Chair: James Grossman, PhD, Executive Director, American Historical Association
- Interviewer: Robert M. Citino, PhD, Senior Historian, The National WWII Museum (In-Studio)
- Carol Gluck, PhD, Professor, Columbia University Audience Q&A
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(Saturday) 5:30 pm - 6:45 pm
25mar10:00 am- 11:30 amSoft Power Internationalism (Book Launch, co-edited by Victoria de Grazia)
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”Soft Power Internationalism” is a global comparative history of how soft power came to define the interregnum between
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(Friday) 10:00 am - 11:30 am
25mar10:00 am- 12:00 pmSurveying Borders | MESAAS Graduate Conference (Manan Ahmed)
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(Friday) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
24mar12:00 pm- 1:30 pmCounting Land (Alma Steingart)
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March 24, 12PM EDT, Zoom Event page here
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There has never been a way to account for land—its size, location, or monetary value—without also counting people. From 17th Century cadastral surveys to contemporary gerrymandering, the questions of what to build, for whom, and where, have always depended on the question: “for how many?” This event will address a postwar moment when spatial overlaps between physical and political boundaries were deliberately redesigned in the United States. Alma Steingart (Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Columbia University) will present on the impact of digital algorithms on redistricting in the 1960s; Benedict Clouette (Doctoral Student in Architecture at Columbia GSAPP) will discuss the role of electoral maps in political negotiations over large-scale urban projects in Chicago in the 1950s.
Benedict Clouette is a doctoral candidate in architectural history at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. His writings and interviews have appeared in Harvard Design Magazine, Volume, Domus, The Architect’s Newspaper, and San Rocco, and he is the author, with Marlisa Wise, of Forms of Aid: Architectures of Humanitarian Space (2017).
Alma Steingart, an assistant professor in the Department of History at Columbia University, researches the interplay between American politics and mathematical rationalities. Professor Steingart’s current project, Accountable Democracy, examines how mathematical thought and computing technologies have impacted electoral politics in the United States in the twentieth century. Her first book, Axiomatic: Mathematical Thought and High Modernism, is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press (Fall 2022). Before joining Columbia University, Steingart was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows and a predoctoral fellow of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. She earned her PhD in 2013 in the Program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Steingart’s work has appeared in Social Studies of Science, Grey Room, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Her work is supported by a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.
This event will be presented virtually, please register in advance for the Zoom webinar link.
Free and open to the public. Virtual events hosted on Zoom Webinar do not require an account to attend, advanced registration is encouraged. GSAPP is committed to providing universal access to all of our virtual events. Please contact events@arch.columbia.edu to request disability accommodations. Advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs.
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(Thursday) 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
23mar12:00 pm- 1:30 pmReading, Commenting, and Interpreting (Organized by Zeynep Çelik)
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Nihan Soyöz, Ph.D. Candidate, Binghamton University
Aram Ghoogasian, Ph.D. Candidate, Princeton University
Merisa Sahin, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Michigan, Ann ArborDiscussant:
Mehmet Fatih Uslu, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Koç University
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Zeynep Çelik, Sakıp Sabancı Visiting Professor, Columbia University
Merve İspahani, Ph.D., Academic Programs Coordinator, Columbia Global Centers | Istanbul
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(Wednesday) 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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15mar6:30 pm- 7:30 pmWomen, Family, and War, Featuring Lien-Hang T. Nguyen
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New York Historical Society Women, Family, and War
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Women, Family, and War
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In honor of Women’s History Month, Professors Drew Gilpin Faust and Lien-Hang Nguyen discuss the changing roles of women in wartime. Professor Faust sheds light on the shift in women’s work during the Civil War and the subsequent impact it had on the concept of the American family. Professor Nguyen’s expertise on U.S.-East Asia relations, specifically the Vietnam War, opens the conversation about women’s participation in the fight for peace in Vietnam.
Drew Gilpin Faust served as 28th president of Harvard University and is currently Harvard’s Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor. Lien-Hang T. Nguyen is the Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia at Columbia University and general editor of the forthcoming Cambridge History of the Vietnam War.
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The Robert H. Smith Auditorium at the New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024
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The pandemic has both resulted in exacerbating states and corporations’ care washing and heightened public sensibilities to the gendered, classed and racialised divisions of reproductive work. Bringing together activists and academics who have organised, participated and researched care strikes and other forms of mobilisation across three continents, the seminar will shift conversations on the theories and praxis of care strikes and re-imagine what a global postpandemic wave of care strikes could look like.
This virtual symposium seeks to initiate a transnational and cross sectoral conversation about care strikes that centres ‘race’ and migration. We bring social reproduction, critical race theories and migration studies to ask new questions about future care strikes in a (post)pandemic world:
- How can care strikes tackle the racial divisions of reproductive work?
- How do migrant and racialised workers’ organising praxis bring to the question of postpandemic care strikes?
- To what extent does privileging strikes in the informal sector mean other forms of organising-such as mutual aid, community organising, testimonials or labour rights’ reform – are sidelined?
- What are the possibilities for international and cross sectoral care strikes in a postpandemic world?
This event is part of the Sociological Review Seminar Series and has been funded by the Sociological Review Foundation.
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(Thursday) 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
9mar12:00 pm- 1:30 pmLALS Bridge to Faculty Panel (Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez)
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Zoom https://go.uic.edu/Bridge2FacultyZoomLinkJ
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(Wednesday) 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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Book Talk — La Nijinska: Choreographer of the Modern by Lynn Garafola
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1219 International Affairs Building
420 W 118th St, 12th floor
This event is in-person for CUID card holders only. In-person attendees must be in compliance with Columbia University’s health protocols for returning to campus. Pre-registration, valid CUID card, valid green pass, and face covering are required for admittance. All other attendees may participate virtually on Zoom or YouTube.
Please join the Harriman Institute for a book talk with Lynn Garafola, author of La Nijinska: Choreographer of the Modern (Oxford University Press, 2022), moderated by Valentina Izmirlieva, Director of the Harriman Institute. La Nijinska is the first biography of twentieth-century ballet’s premier female choreographer, Bronislava Nijinska.
Overshadowed in life and legend by her brother Vaslav Nijinsky, Bronislava Nijinska had a far longer and more productive career. An architect of twentieth-century neoclassicism, she experienced the transformative power of the Russian Revolution and created her greatest work – Les Noces – under the influence of its avant-garde. Many of her ballets rested on the probing of gender boundaries, a mistrust of conventional gender roles, and the heightening of the ballerina’s technical and artistic prowess. A prominent member of Russia Abroad, she worked with leading figures of twentieth-century art, music, and ballet, including Stravinsky, Diaghilev, Poulenc, Alexandra Exter, Natalia Goncharova, Frederick Ashton, Alicia Markova, and Maria Tallchief. She was also a remarkable dancer in her own right with a bravura technique and powerful stage presence that enabled her to perform an unusually broad repertory. Finally, she was the author of an acclaimed volume of memoirs in addition to a major treatise on movement. Nijinska’s career sheds new light on the modern history of ballet and of modernism more generally, recuperating the memory of lost works and forgotten artists, many of them women. But it also reveals the sexism pervasive in the upper echelons of the early and mid-twentieth-century ballet world, barriers that women choreographers still confront.
Lynn Garafola is Professor Emerita of Dance at Barnard College, Columbia University. A dance historian and critic, she is the author of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance, and the editor of several books, including The Diaries of Marius Petipa, André Levinson on Dance (with Joan Acocella), José Limón: An Unfinished Memoir, and The Ballets Russes and Its World. She has curated several exhibitions, including Dance for a City: Fifty Years of the New York City Ballet, New York Story: Jerome Robbins and His World, Diaghilev’s Theater of Marvels: The Ballets Russes and Its Aftermath, and, most recently, Arthur Mitchell: Harlem’s Ballet Trailblazer.
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(Tuesday) 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
8mar5:30 pm- 7:00 pmFeaturedCelebrating Recent Work by Hannah Farber
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Celebrating Recent Work by Hannah Farber New Books in Arts
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Celebrating Recent Work by Hannah Farber
New Books in Arts and Sciences Presents a panel discussion of
Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding
Tuesday, March 8, 5:30pm | Heyman Center Common Room
Register here for in-person attendance at the Heyman Center Common Room. In-person attendance is for Columbia University affiliates with “green passes” only.
Register here for virtual attendance via Zoom Webinar.
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(Tuesday) 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
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(Tuesday) 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
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Biographies of Interwar -Isms Tuesday 8 March 2022 @ 19-21 (CET)* (1PM EST) Samuel Zipp (Brown University)
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Biographies of Interwar -Isms
Tuesday 8 March 2022 @ 19-21 (CET)* (1PM EST)
Samuel Zipp (Brown University) and Blanche Wiesen Cook (City University New York)
One World: Wendell Willkie, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the quest for a united world
Chair: Victoria Phillips (LSE)
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(Tuesday) 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
3mar7:00 pm- 8:30 pmChristopher L. Brown | Conversations on Franklin: Virtual Event
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March 3: "Franklin and Writing" 7:00 pm ET
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With Ken Burns; Christopher Brown, Professor of History, Columbia University; and Jane Kamensky, Professor of History, Harvard University. Moderated by Bina Venkataraman, Editor-at-Large, The Boston Globe.
Presented by GBH, Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology, and The Boston Globe
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(Thursday) 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
3mar5:00 pm- 6:30 pmHOW TO WRITE A TRANSGENDER HISTORY OF SEXUALITY
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HOW TO WRITE A TRANSGENDER HISTORY OF SEXUALITY Thursday,
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HOW TO WRITE A TRANSGENDER HISTORY OF SEXUALITY
Thursday, Mar. 3, 2022 | 5:00-6:30 PM | 411 Fayerweather Hall
What relationship does transgender history maintain with the history of sexuality? And if history bears no unified trans subject, on what grounds does the trans historian write? This talk considers problems of method through the nagging gender trouble of trans history: the presumptive greater visibility of trans women compared to trans men. Examining transformations in how trans women sex workers in New York City were apprehended by the law over the span of the nineteenth century generates concrete grounds for a transgender history of sexuality.
Jules Gill-Peterson is Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. She earned her PhD from Rutgers University and has held fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Kinsey Institute. She was honored with the Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award from the University of Pittsburgh in 2020.
Jules is the author of Histories of the Transgender Child (University of Minnesota Press, 2018), the first book to shatter the widespread myth that transgender children are a brand new generation in the twenty-first century. Uncovering a surprising archive dating from the 1920s through 1970s, Histories of the Transgender Child shows how the concept of gender relies on the medicalization of children’s presumed racial plasticity, challenging the very terms of how we talk about today’s medical model. The book was awarded a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction and the Children’s Literature Association Book Award.
Jules has also written for The New York Times, CNN, The Lily (by The Washington Post), Jewish Currents, The New Inquiry, The Funambulist, and more. She has been interviewed extensively in The Guardian, CBS, NPR, and Xtra Magazine. She also serves as a General Co-Editor at TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly.
This event will be held in person. Visitors are permitted and are required to follow the visitor policy. They also must have proof of vaccination and a booster as well as complete the attestation form prior to accessing a Columbia facility. For the latest on Columbia COVID-19 policy and building access, please visit covid19.columbia.edu.
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(Thursday) 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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GROWING UP DURING WAR AND POSTWAR: Scholars born in the 1930s and 1940s in East
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Introduction and Moderation: Karen Hagemann (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Presentation by
-Volker R. Berghahn (Columbia University)
-Michael Geyer (University of Chicago)
-Konrad H. Jarausch (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
-Irmgard Steinisch (York University, Toronto) [Invited]
Comment: Andreas Daum (SUNY Buffalo)
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(Wednesday) 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
1mar2:00 pm- 3:30 pmJason Resnikoff Book Launch: Labor's End
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Join Jason Resnikoff (History Department Ph.D. Alum - GSAS '19) and
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Join Jason Resnikoff (History Department Ph.D. Alum – GSAS ’19) and Nelson Lichtenstein for a virtual event celebrating the release of “Labor’s End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work” on March 1 at 11am PT.
Learn more about the book: https://go.illinois.edu/f21resnikoff
Jason Resnikoff is a Core Lecturer in the History Department at Columbia University. He specializes in labor history, the history of global capitalism, intellectual history, and the history of technology. His book, “Labor’s End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work,” explores the ideological origins of automation in the US in the middle of the twentieth century. You can find his work in Labor, International Labor and Working-Class History, Tropics of Meta, Zócalo Public Square, Western Humanities Review, Paris Review Daily, and the Encyclopedia of American Recessions and Depressions. He is affiliated with Columbia University’s American Studies Department, where he advises undergraduate senior theses, as well as Columbia’s Justice in Education initiative, through which he teaches incarcerated students. His time working as an organizer for the United Auto Workers grounds his scholarship. His current research interests include the intersection of racism and technology.
Nelson Lichtenstein is Research Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. An historian of labor and political economy, he is the author or editor of 16 books, including a biography of the labor leader Walter Reuther and State of the Union: A Century of American Labor (2013). With Gary Gerstle and Alice O’Connor he edited Beyond the New Deal Order: From the Great Depression to the Great Recession. (2019); and with Roman Huret and Jean-Christian Vinel he edited a companion volume, Capitalism Contested: the New Deal and Its Legacies (2020). Other publications include, The Right and Labor in America: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination (2012), edited with Elizabeth Shermer.
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(Tuesday) 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
february 2022
28feb6:00 pm- 7:30 pmWhy DNA Doesn't Tell Us Who We Are - Nara Milanich
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Why DNA Doesn't Tell Us Who We Are - Nara Milanich
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(Monday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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University of New England Portland Campus, Innovation Hall, 716 Stevens Avenue, Portland, Maine 04103
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MIT Global Langauges February 28, 2022 5:00 pm Lecture by Camille Robcis
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February 28, 2022 5:00 pm
Lecture by Camille Robcis
Disalienation: the Politics of Madness in Postwar France
This talk traces the history of a psychiatric movement called “institutional psychotherapy” which had an important influence on many intellectuals and activists, including François Tosquelles, Jean Oury, Felix Guattari, Frantz Fanon, Georges Canguilhem, and Michel Foucault.
Anchored in Marxism and Lacanian psychoanalysis, institutional psychotherapy advocated a fundamental restructuring of the asylum in order to transform the theory and practice of psychiatric care. More broadly, for many of these thinkers, the asylum could function as a microcosm for society at large and as a space to promote non-hierarchal and non-authoritarian political and social structures. Psychiatry, they contended, provided a template to better understand alienation and offer perspectives for “disalienation.”
Camille Robcis is Professor of French and History at Columbia University. She specializes in Modern European History with an emphasis on gender and sexuality, France, and intellectual, cultural, and legal history. She is especially interested in the intersections of politics and ideas. She is the author of The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France (Cornell UP, 2013) and of Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France (Chicago UP, 2021). She is currently working on a new project, The Gender Question: Populism, National Reproduction, and the Crisis of Representation. She has received fellowships from the Penn Humanities Forum, LAPA (Princeton Law and Public Affairs), the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
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Open and free to public. MIT Covid Pass users do not need to register, but must present MIT ID or mobile ID at the door. Non-MIT community members must Register in MIT’s Tim Tickets system.
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MIT Global Languages, French+ Initiative
Global France Seminar Spring 2022 series
02/28/22. 5pm. Camille Robcis (Columbia University)
03/29/22. 2pm. Christy Pichichero (George Mason University)
04/11/22. 5pm. François Noudelmann (New York University), April 11, 5pm.
04/25/22. 5pm. Adi Bharat (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor),
05/02/22. 5pm. Jean Casimir (University of Haiti)
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(Monday) 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
25feb1:00 pm- 2:30 pmItalian Power in the World: Panel in Honor of Victoria de Grazia
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SIHS - Italian Power in the World: Panel in Honor of Victoria de Grazia
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SIHS – Italian Power in the World: Panel in Honor of Victoria de Grazia
Friday, February 25, 2022
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
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Molly Tambor - Long Island University Post
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Molly Tambor - Long Island University Post
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Claudia Sbuttoni, Columbia University, New York, NY
Gianluca Podestà, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
Noelle Turtur, Columbia University, New York, NY
Pamela L. Ballinger, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI
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(Friday) 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
23feb6:30 pm- 8:00 pmWillful Subjects: Decolonizing the Psychiatric Institution
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Panel discussion with Liat Ben-Moshe, Emily Ng, Camille Robcis, and Lara Sheehi, moderated by
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About this event
This panel begins the 47th annual Scholar and Feminist Conference, “Living in Madness: Decolonization, Creation, Healing.” Panelists will discuss Institutional histories of psychiatry, focused on anti-institutional movements, radical institution-building, and alternate approaches to psychic life by practitioners and clinicians challenging the use of mental health systems as sites of state power, political oppression, and psychic violence. Our conversation will thread together case studies from the United States, China, France, and Palestine with: Liat Ben Moshe, author of Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition (2020); Emily Ng, author of A Time of Lost Gods: Mediumship, Madness, and the Ghost after Mao (2020); Camille Robcis, author of Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France (2021); and Lara Sheehi, co – author with Stephen Sheehi of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (2022), reflecting on the power of collective imagination, willful subjectivity, and witnessing as forms of resistance.
Join us on YouTube on 2/23 at 6:30 p.m., or visit the event page on our website for an embedded video. RSVP encouraged.
Title references Sara Ahmed’s Willful Subjects (2014).
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The 47th annual Scholar and Feminist Conference organized by BCRW is entitled “Living in Madness: Decolonization, Creation, Healing.” The conference will be virtual and sessions will take place over a period of weeks from February to April, 2022.
This conference will explore experiences of madness, disability, survival, and refusal through the frameworks of mad studies, disability justice, and artistic practice. Scholars, artists, activists, and practitioners will interrogate structures of medicalization and institutionalization, engaging in dialogue about the entanglement of psy-disciplines with colonial and nation-building projects predicated on scientific racism, misogyny, xenophobia, transphobia, and eugenics. We ask how structural violence has both created maddening conditions and established the terms by which survivors are pathologized, criminalized and alienated.
Among the questions we want to explore are those posed by conference panelist Camille Robcis in her intellectual history of institutional psychotherapy, Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France (2021), specifically how movements that have attempted to decolonize and otherwise contest the practices of psychiatry can provide us with frameworks to understand our own positioning vis-à-vis “the permanence of extreme-right movements, fascisms real and ‘in our heads,’ still spreading and gaining force throughout the world.” We take inspiration as well from our Fall 2021 event with La Marr Jurelle Bruce, whose critical discourse about madness encompasses unruliness, radical creativity, and rage in the face of systems that have used the concept of Blackness as disability to foreclose the possibilities of Black freedom. Our conference dialogues will also engage calls for intersectional approaches to abolition and decarceralization address disability and madness, and the imperative to center the experiences of indigenous and Palestinian people resisting psychic oppression while living under occupation.
The impetus for this conference comes as we collectively persist while a virus has exposed structural violence and inadequacy of profit-based systems of care, and we are also confronted with increased ecological fragility. We are now understandably asking questions about the shakiness of human experience, and how to reckon with what might be called “unlivable states of mind.” War, ecological destruction, land dispossession, occupation and policing, precarious access to shelter, and confinement in a total institution are among the conditions that are maddening, and yet upheld by powerful schemas that place value on profit, property, and hierarchy over collective wellbeing.
Gathering together, we explore potential modes of healing. Like seeds we plant without knowing which will root, we pursue collectivity and creativity in order to keep living.
About the Speakers
Liat Ben-Moshe is an interdisciplinary scholar-activist working at the intersection of disability/madness, incarceration/decarceration and abolition. She is the author of Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition (University of Minnesota Press 2020) and co-editor of Disability Incarcerated (Palgrave 2014). Dr. Ben-Moshe is an Associate Professor of Criminology, Law and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago. For more: https://www.liatbenmoshe.com/
Emily Ng is Term Assistant Professor in Asian & Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College, Columbia University, and a member of the RURALIMAGINATIONS project at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam. Her work, ethnographic and otherwise, touches on madness between grammars of spirit mediumship and psychiatry, loss and cosmic reverberations of sovereignty, and political temporalities and aesthetics of rurality in China. She is author of A Time of Lost Gods: Mediumship, Madness, and the Ghost after Mao (University of California Press, 2020).
Ann Pellegrini is Professor of Performance Studies and Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU. They are the author of Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race (Routledge, 1997); co-author, with Janet R. Jakobsen, of Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance (NYU Press, 2003; Beacon Press, 2004); and co-author, with Michael Bronski and Michael Amico, of “You Can Tell Just By Looking” and 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People (Beacon Press, 2013). Pellegrini has published two anthologies: Queer Theory and the Jewish Question, co-edited with Daniel Boyarin and Danial Itzkovitz (Columbia University Press, 2003); and Secularisms, co-edited with Janet R. Jakobsen (Duke University Press, 2008). She is founding co-editor, with José Muñoz, of the “Sexual Cultures” Series, at New York University Press, which she now co-edits with Joshua Chambers-Letson and Tavia Nyong’o. Pellegrini is a licensed psychoanalyst. They and Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou received the first Tiresias Paper Award, in 2021, from the International Psychoanalytic Association for their co-written paper: “A feminine boy: normative investments and reparative fantasy at the intersections of gender, race, and religion.”
Camille Robcis is Professor of French and History at Columbia University. She specializes in Modern European History with an emphasis on gender and sexuality, France, and intellectual, cultural, and legal history. She is especially interested in the intersections of politics and ideas. She is the author of The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France (Cornell, 2013) and of Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in France (Chicago, 2021). She has received fellowships from the Penn Humanities Forum, LAPA (Princeton Law and Public Affairs), the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. She is currently working on a new book tentatively titled The Gender Question: Populism, National Reproduction, and the Crisis of Representation.
Lara Sheehi, PsyD (she/hers), is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the George Washington University’s Professional Psychology Program. She teaches decolonial, liberatory and anti-oppressive theories and approaches to clinical treatment, case conceptualization, and community consultation. She is the president-elect of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (APA Division 39), and the chair of the Teachers’ Academy of the American Psychoanalytic Association. She is co-editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality and co-editor of CounterSpace in Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society. Lara is on the advisory board to the USA–Palestine Mental Health Network and Psychoanalysis for Pride. She is co-author with Stephen Sheehi of the book Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (Routledge, 2022).
Accessibility
Live transcription and ASL interpretation will be provided. Please email any additional access needs to skreitzb@barnard.edu.
This event is free and open to all.
The event will stream on BCRW’s YouTube Channel. RSVP to receive a link to the livestream closer to the date of the event.
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Rather than simply renovate the Israeli military for another function, our project aims to accelerate the process of its destruction and disintegration, no longer used by humans, and instead “returned to nature.”
Credit: Oush Grab: Return to Nature, 2008, DAAR (Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency), Photomontage by Sara Pellegrini.
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(Wednesday) 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
22feb7:00 pm- 8:30 pmLaunch of The End of the End of History, with Adam Tooze
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Live Debate + Book Launch: The End of The End of History
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Live Debate + Book Launch: The End of The End of History
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Join us at The People’s Forum for a live debate to mark the North American launch of The End of the End of History.
Alex Hochuli, host of the global politics podcast, Bungacast, will be in conversation with historian Adam Tooze on the themes of the book: the end of the liberal-democratic consensus, the rise of anti-politics, new culture wars, and more!
This event is hosted in association with our friends at Damage Magazine.
NB: The venue requires that attendees show proof of vaccination and that masks are worn while indoors.
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(Tuesday) 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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People's Forum NYC
17feb6:30 pm- 8:30 pmFeaturedComplex Issues: ‘Pride, 1950s: People Had Parties’
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Complex Issues: Pride: 1950s: People Had Parties Thursday, February 17, 6:30pm
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Complex Issues: Pride: 1950s: People Had Parties
Thursday, February 17, 6:30pm
Director Tom Kalin, Film, and Executive Producer Alex Stapleton, in conversation with George Chauncey, History, and Kendall Thomas, Columbia Law School.
This conversation explores the first episode of Pride, a six-part documentary series chronicling the fight for LGBTQ+ rights in the United States from the 1950s to the 2000s. Each episode is dedicated to a decade and directed by a different director. Kalin’s contribution — “1950s: People Had Parties” — is a “revealing look at the vibrant and full lives lived by queer people in the 1950s amidst a steep rise in governmental regulations against the LGBTQ+ community led by Senator Joseph McCarthy, who ushered in an era of government-sanctioned persecution,” according to FX Networks.
In advance of this conversation, please watch Pride: “1950s: People Had Parties” on FX or Hulu and read Tom Kalin’s article, “Politics and Pride are Central to Building LGBTQ Community,” in Columbia News.
Co-presented by the Studio for Law and Culture and the Department of History.
About Complex Issues:
Complex Issues explores difference, visibility, and representation through recent work by faculty of Columbia University and Columbia University School of the Arts in particular. Conversations invite challenging questions of racial, ethnic, gender, economic, sexual, religious, and cultural complexity, and how they are articulated across discipline and genre today.
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(Thursday) 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
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Racial Capitalism, Segregation, and the Historical Roots of Health Inequities, 1880-1950
Date: February 17, 2022| 12:00-1:30 PM
Description: With the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 and the ensuing pandemic, racial health inequities in infectious disease once again came to the fore. In this lecture, Dr. Roberts provides some historical context and reflects on the roots of our current crisis.
Speaker: Dr. Samuel Kelton Roberts, Jr
Samuel Kelton Roberts, PhD, is Associate Professor of History (Columbia University School of Arts & Sciences) and Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences (Mailman School of Public Health). He is a former Director of Columbia University’s Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS), and also recently has joined Columbia’s new Department of African-American and African Diaspora Studies as Associate Professor. Dr. Roberts writes, teaches, and lectures widely the history of public health and medicine, urban history, movements for social justice, African-American history, and on issues of policing and criminal justice. His widely acclaimed book, Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation (UNC Press, 2009), demonstrates the historical and continuing links between racial segregation and poor health outcomes.
This event is open to McGill students, faculty, staff, and the public. This event is co-sponsored with the McGill School of Population and Global Health.
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(Thursday) 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
15feb6:00 pm- 7:30 pmFeaturedDefining the Age: Daniel Bell, His Time and Ours
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(Tuesday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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11feb12:30 pm- 1:30 pmWhat's at Stake in Ukraine? (NYU) Adam Tooze
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What's at Stake in Ukraine?
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A panel discussion with:
Masha Gessen, The New Yorker
Volodymyr Ishchenko, Free University of Berlin
Sophie Lambroschini, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin
Adam Tooze, Columbia University
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, New York University
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Stefanos Geroulanos, New York University
Convened by the NYU Remarque Institute and co-sponsored by the NYU Brademas Center
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(Friday) 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
10feb12:00 pm- 1:30 pmTechnologies of Power: AFGHANISTAN | Is the War Over?
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(Thursday) 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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What are the possibilities for international and cross-sectoral care strikes in a post-pandemic world?
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Thursday, 10 March 2022
9:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST
The pandemic has both resulted in exacerbating states and corporations’ care washing and heightened public sensibilities to the gendered, classed and racialised divisions of reproductive work. Bringing together activists and academics who have organised, participated and researched care strikes and other forms of mobilisation across three continents, the seminar will shift conversations on the theories and praxis of care strikes and re-imagine what a global postpandemic wave of care strikes could look like.
This virtual symposium seeks to initiate a transnational and cross sectoral conversation about care strikes that centres ‘race’ and migration. We bring social reproduction, critical race theories and migration studies to ask new questions about future care strikes in a (post)pandemic world:
- How can care strikes tackle the racial divisions of reproductive work?
- How do migrant and racialised workers’ organising praxis bring to the question of postpandemic care strikes?
- To what extent does privileging strikes in the informal sector mean other forms of organising-such as mutual aid, community organising, testimonials or labour rights’ reform – are sidelined?
- What are the possibilities for international and cross sectoral care strikes in a postpandemic world?
Keynote:
Premilla Nadasen
Barnard College New York, USA |
Premilla Nadasen is a Professor of History at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is most interested in the activism and visions of liberation of poor and working-class women of color. She has been involved in social justice organising for many decades and published extensively on the multiple meanings of feminism, alternative labor movements, and grass-roots community organising. She is the author of two award-winning books Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States and Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement and is currently writing a biography of South African singer and anti-apartheid activist Miriam Makeba. |
This event is part of the Sociological Review Seminar Series and has been funded by the Sociological Review Foundation.
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10 (Thursday) 9:00 am - 28 (Monday) 12:30 pm
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Wednesday, February 9, 2022 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm EST
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Pamela H. Smith and Naomi Rosenkranz (Columbia University)
Secrets of Craft and Nature from the Making and Knowing Lab: Hands-on History of Science
Hosted by CONSORTIUM FOR HISTORY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE
In 2020, the Making and Knowing Project published Secrets of Craft and Nature in Renaissance France. A Digital Critical Edition and English Translation of BnF Ms. Fr. 640. This sixteenth-century French manuscript contains 340 pages of instructions and observations on artistic techniques. In addition to a transcription and English translation of the entire manuscript, Secrets of Craft and Nature features hands-on investigation and reconstruction by students and scholars in the Making and Knowing Lab. This research, now accessible in the edition’s 130 essays, provides many new insights into sixteenth-century art, craft, technology, and daily life.
This session will give an introduction to using and navigating Secrets of Craft and Nature and its associated teaching resources (hands-on lesson plans, syllabi, and student projects) that the Project has made openly available on its Sandbox. We hope everyone might have a chance before the session to browse the Edition: https://edition640.makingandknowing.org and the Sandbox: https://cu-mkp.github.io/sandbox/), and to come with questions.
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(Wednesday) 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
8feb4:00 pm- 5:30 pmRise and Fall of Technology in Chinese History (organized by Madeline Zelin)
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2022 • Rise and Fall of Technology in Chinese History 4PM -
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2022
• Rise and Fall of Technology in Chinese History
4PM – 5:30PM EST
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(Tuesday) 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
4feb12:00 pm- 1:30 pmTurkey through its Cinema: Beynelmilel (The International)
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(Friday) 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
3feb12:00 pm- 2:30 pmCrossing Borders: Migration, Law, and Global Politics (Mae Ngai)
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Crossing Borders: Migration, Law, and Global Politics Mae Ngai (Columbia University)
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Crossing Borders: Migration, Law, and Global Politics
Mae Ngai (Columbia University)
The Chinese Question. The Gold Rushes and Global Politics (New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2021)
Ian Sanjay Patel (London School of Economics)
We’re Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire (London: Verso Books, 2021)
Moderators: Franziska Exeler (Cambridge/FU Berlin) and Kalyani Ramnath (Harvard)
Please register VIA THIS LINK for a Zoom link and pre-circulated papers.
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(Thursday) 12:00 pm - 2:30 pm
3feb12:00 pm- 1:30 pmCrossing Borders: Migration, Law, and Global Politics (Mae Ngai)
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Crossing Borders: Migration, Law, and Global Politics Mae Ngai (Columbia University) The
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Crossing Borders: Migration, Law, and Global Politics
Mae Ngai (Columbia University)
The Chinese Question. The Gold Rushes and Global Politics (New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2021)
Ian Sanjay Patel (London School of Economics)
We’re Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire (London: Verso Books, 2021)
Moderators: Franziska Exeler (Cambridge/FU Berlin) and Kalyani Ramnath (Harvard)
Please register HERE for a Zoom link and pre-circulated papers.
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(Thursday) 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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Revisiting the Vietnam War: New Insights, Lessons, and Legacies Featuring: Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, David M. Rubenstein
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Revisiting the Vietnam War: New Insights, Lessons, and Legacies
History with David M. Rubenstein
- Wednesday, February 2, 6:30 – 7:30 pm ET
- $38 (Members $24; Chairman’s Council, Free)
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Half a century later, the contested history of the war in Vietnam continues to elicit national debate, deep soul-searching, and purported lessons for America’s role overseas. In a conversation that visits new historical terrain of the Vietnam War past, award-winning historian and former war refugee Lien-Hang T. Nguyen draws on her personal and professional journey researching that war to offer new insights for its significance today.
Lien-Hang T. Nguyen is Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia at Columbia University and general editor of the forthcoming Cambridge History of the Vietnam War. David M. Rubenstein (moderator), co-founder and co-executive chairman of the Carlyle Group, is the author of numerous books, including The American Experiment: Dialogues on a Dream.
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The Robert H. Smith Auditorium at the New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024
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(Wednesday) 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
2feb6:00 pm- 7:30 pmArt as Measure of Civilization: An Ottoman Perspective with Prof. Zeynep Çelik
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Art as Measure of Civilization: An Ottoman Perspective
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Wednesday, February 2, 2022
6 PM
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(Wednesday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
2feb2:00 pm- 3:30 pm"Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy and Radical Psychiatry" Camille Robcis
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Camille Robcis - Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy and Radical Psychiatry Register
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Camille Robcis – Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy and Radical Psychiatry
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From 1940 to 1945, forty thousand patients died in French psychiatric hospitals. The Vichy regime’s “soft extermination” let patients die of cold, starvation, or lack of care. But in Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole, a small village in central France, one psychiatric hospital attempted to resist. Camille Robcis grapples with the historical, intellectual, and psychiatric meaning of the ethics articulated at Saint-Alban by exploring the movement’s key thinkers.
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Camille Robcis, Professor of History and French at Columbia University
Event Information
Free and open to the public; registration required. Please visit the event webpage or contact Megan Wolff at mew2008@med.cornell.edu for additional information.
This lecture is part of the Richardson History of Psychiatry Research Seminar. Hosted by the DeWitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University.
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(Wednesday) 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
january 2022
27jan12:00 pm- 1:30 pmThe State of the Eurozone Governance (Adam Tooze)
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January 27, 2022 12:00 noon to 1:15 pm (ET)
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(Thursday) 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
27jan12:00 pm- 1:30 pmTechnologies of Power: OPACITY
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Part of the series "Technologies of Power: Tracing Empire at Home & Abroad"
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Simone Browne is Associate Professor of Black Studies and Research Director of Critical Surveillance Inquiry with Good Systems, at the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently writing her second book manuscript, Like the Mixture of Charcoal and Darkness, which examines the interventions made by artists whose works grapple with the surveillance of Black life, from policing, privacy, smart dust and the FBI’s COINTELPRO to encryption, electronic waste and artificial intelligence. Together, these essays explore the productive possibilities of rebellious methodologies and creative innovation when it comes to troubling surveillance and its various tactics, and imagining Black life beyond the surveillance state. Simone is the author of Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness.
Ronak K. Kapadia is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Gender and Women’s Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His first book, Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War (Duke University Press, 2019) won the 2020 Surveillance Studies Network Book Award. This book theorizes the world-making power of contemporary art responses to US militarism in the Greater Middle East. His new project, “Breathing in the Brown Queer Commons,” examines race-radical queer and trans migrant futurisms to develop a critical theory of healing justice and pleasure across transnational sites of security, terror, and war in the wilds of ecological chaos and US imperial decline.
Nada Shabout is a Regent Professor of Art History and the Coordinator of the Contemporary Arab and Muslim Cultural Studies Initiative (CAMCSI) at the University of North Texas. She is the founding president of the Association for Modern and Contemporary Art from the Arab World, Iran and Turkey (AMCA). She is a curator and author of numerous essays and books, including Modern Arab Art: Formation of Arab Aesthetics, 2007; coeditor of New Vision: Arab Art in the 21st Century, 2009; and coeditor Modern Art in the Arab World: Primary Documents, Museum of Modern Art, 2018. She is currently working on a new book project, Demarcating Modernism in Iraqi Art: The Dialectics of the Decorative, 1951-1979, under contract with the American University in Cairo Press.
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(Thursday) 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2022 • Angelo Caglioti - Science and Fascism, or Fascist Science? Meteorology, Empire, and Antisemitism in
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2022
• Angelo Caglioti – Science and Fascism, or Fascist Science? Meteorology, Empire, and Antisemitism in Fascist Italy
6PM EST, Virtual
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(Wednesday) 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
26jan5:00 pm- 6:30 pmThe Chinese Question (UPenn), Mae Ngai
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The Chinese Question: EVENT DETAILS Mae M. Ngai, a professor of
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The Chinese Question: EVENT DETAILS
Mae M. Ngai, a professor of Asian American studies and history at Columbia, discusses Chinese exclusion and the laws that prevented immigration and citizenship in the anglophone world.
For more information, visit wolfhumanities.upenn.edu.
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
5:00 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.
Virtual
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(Wednesday) 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
26jan4:00 pm- 5:00 pmCUIMC JERG Presents: A conversation with Guy Stern, PhD (GSAS 1953)
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This event is open to all. Advanced registration is required to attend.
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This event is open to all. Advanced registration is required to attend.
Please register using the link below:
Register Here —– https://columbiacuimc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_seac_ZnWThKNhZPYdCqx1A
On Wednesday, January 26, 2022 from 4:00pm – 5:00pm CUIMC’s Jewish Cultural ERG will host this virtual event titled A Conversation with Guy Stern, PhD, (GSAS 1953) the last surviving member of The Ritchie Boys in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The Ritchie Boys were a highly decorated World War II special military intelligence unit comprised of primarily Jewish, German, Austrian, and Czech refugees and immigrants to the United States who helped provide a significant amount of key intelligence to the allied forces. Dr. Stern will share his remarkable life which he beautifully captured in his memoir titled, Invisible Ink A Memoir.
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(Wednesday) 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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(Wednesday) 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
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Virtual Author’s Talk – Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding January
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Virtual Author’s Talk – Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding
January 13, 2022 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the new nation. As Hannah Farber demonstrates in her new book Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding, the international information insurers gathered and the capital they generated enabled them to play central roles in state building and economic development. During the American Revolution, they helped the new nation negotiate foreign loans, sell state debts and establish a single national bank. Afterward, they increased their influence by lending money to the federal government and to its citizens. Even as federal and state governments began to encroach on their domain, maritime insurers adapted, preserving their autonomy and authority through extensive involvement in the formation of commercial law. Leveraging their claims to unmatched expertise, they operated free from government interference while simultaneously embedding themselves into the nation’s institutional fabric. By the early nineteenth century, insurers were no longer just risk assessors. They were nation builders and market makers.
The talk will last approximately one hour on Zoom. Registration is required to access the virtual author’s talk.
About the Speaker
Hannah Farber is an assistant professor of history at Columbia University. Her research focuses on politics and economy in colonial North America, the early American republic and the Atlantic world. Her first book, Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding, was published in November 2021 by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and University of North Carolina Press. Professor Farber holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a series editor of “American Beginnings, 1500-1900” at the University of Chicago Press, and she held a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship at the New-York Historical Society during 2020-2021.
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- Date:
- January 13, 2022
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6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
- Cost:
- Free
- Event Categories:
- Lectures and Author’s Talks, Livestreams
- Event Tags:
- American Revolution, Banking, Book Talk, Finance, Insurance, Maritime History
Venue
- Virtual
- Website:
- www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org
Organizer
- The American Revolution Institute
- Phone:
- 202-785-2040
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(Saturday) 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
20jan4:00 pm- 5:00 pmNew Ideas in Insurance (Hannah Farber)
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New Ideas in Insurance
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New Ideas in Insurance
In spring 2022, the Insurance Law Center at the UConn School of Law offers a second semester-long series of talks covering new ideas in insurance. Insurance shapes—often decisively—many aspects of our lives, from limiting police misconduct to incentivizing better driving, from regulating self-driving cars to influencing the delivery and pricing of health care. Some of the world’s leading experts from the Academy, the bar and the world of insurance regulators will speak about current developments in their fields and speculate about what the future will look like. These fascinating and important conversations are being recorded and will be available to the public. Videos from the first series, recorded in 2021, are being made available below.
How Insurance Shaped the American Founding
January 20, 2022, 4 -5 p.m. ET
Hannah Farber, Columbia University
American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the new nation. The international information they gathered and the capital they generated enabled them to play central roles in state building and economic development. During the Revolution, they helped the U.S. negotiate foreign loans, sell state debts, and establish a single national bank. Afterward, they increased their influence by lending money to the federal government and to its citizens. By the early nineteenth century, insurers were no longer just risk assessors. Prof. Farber’s new book Underwriters of the United States reveals insurers as nation builders and market makers.
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(Thursday) 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
december 2021
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(Sunday) 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
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Historically Speaking: Black
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NMAAHC Andrew W. Mellon Director Kevin Young moderates a discussion with prominent historians Eric Foner and Henry Louis Gates editors of the Library of America’s reissue of W.E.B. Dubois’ groundbreaking assessment of the impact of Reconstruction on America’s post-civil war black community.
Place an order for W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Reconstruction here.
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(Wednesday) 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
8dec6:00 pm- 7:30 pmPalestine 101 with Rashid Khalidi
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(Wednesday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
7dec12:00 pm- 1:15 pmThe State of the Eurozone Governance (Adam Tooze)
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(Tuesday) 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
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Authors Meet Critics: "The Banks Did It," with Neil Fligstein and Adam Tooze
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(Friday) 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
2dec6:15 pm- 7:30 pmCelebrating Recent Work by Katharina Volk (Pamela H. Smith)
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Celebrating Recent Work by Katharina Volk NEW BOOKS IN
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- Office of the Divisional Deans in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
- The Department of Classics
- The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities
- Free and open to the public
- Registration required. See details.
The Roman Republic of Letters: Scholarship, Philosophy, and Politics in the Age of Cicero and Caesar
by: Katharina Volk
In The Roman Republic of Letters, Katharina Volk explores a fascinating chapter of intellectual history, focusing on the literary senators of the mid-first century BCE who came to blows over the future of Rome even as they debated philosophy, history, political theory, linguistics, science, and religion.
It was a period of intense cultural flourishing and extreme political unrest—and the agents of each were very often the same people. Members of the senatorial class, including Cicero, Caesar, Brutus, Cassius, Cato, Varro, and Nigidius Figulus, contributed greatly to the development of Roman scholarship and engaged in a lively and often polemical exchange with one another. These men were also crucially involved in the tumultuous events that brought about the collapse of the Republic, and they ended up on opposite sides in the civil war between Caesar and Pompey in the early 40s. Volk treats the intellectual and political activities of these “senator scholars” as two sides of the same coin, exploring how scholarship and statesmanship mutually informed one another—and how the acquisition, organization, and diffusion of knowledge was bound up with the question of what it meant to be a Roman in a time of crisis.
By revealing how first-century Rome’s remarkable “republic of letters” was connected to the fight over the actual res publica, Volk’s riveting account captures the complexity of this pivotal period.
Attendance and Registration Policy:
This event will take place virtually over Zoom. Registration is required.
Please email disability@columbia.edu to request disability accommodations. Advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs. This event will be recorded. By being electronically present, you consent to the SOF/Heyman using such video for promotional purposes.
About the Author:
Katharina Volk is Professor of Classics at Columbia University. Professor Volk is the author of The Poetics of Latin Didactic: Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid, Manilius, Manilius and his Intellectual Background (recipient of the 2010 Lionel Trilling Book Award), and Ovid. Her many articles range in topic from Homeric formula and Aratean letter play to Ciceronian poetry, Ovidian time, Senecan dramaturgy, and beyond.
About the Speakers:
Yelena Baraz is Kennedy Foundation Professor of Latin Language and Literature and Professor of Classics at Princeton University. Her first book, entitled A Written Republic: The Cultural Politics of Cicero’s Philosophy, was published by Princeton University Press in 2012. She has written articles on Pliny, Vergil, and both Senecas, and has contributed lexicographical articles to the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae.
Gareth Williams is Anthon Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of Banished Voices: Readings in Ovid’s Exile Poetry, The Curse of Exile: A Study of Ovid’s Ibis, Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, The Cosmic Viewpoint: A Study of Seneca’s Natural Questions, among others.
Pamela Smith is Seth Low Professor of History and Director of the Center for Science and Society at Columbia University. Her current research focuses on attitudes to nature in early modern Europe and the Scientific Revolution, with particular attention to craft knowledge and historical techniques.
Carmela V. Franklin is Professor of Classics at Columbia University. Among her recent publications are The Latin Dossier of Anastasius the Persian: Hagiographic Translations and Transformations, which follows an interdisciplinary approach to early medieval culture, transcending traditional linguistic and geographical boundaries; and Material Restoration: An 11th Century Fragment from Echternach in a 19th Century Parisian Codex, a study in “material philology.”
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(Thursday) 6:15 pm - 7:30 pm