PAST EVENTS
november 2023
1nov11:45 am- 1:00 pmHow We Won: The WGA Writers Strike and the Future of Work
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Date: Wednesday, November 1st, 2023 Time: 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
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(Wednesday) 11:45 am - 1:00 pm
Location
Allan Rosenfield Building 722 W 168th St, New York, NY 10032, Room 532
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Date: Thursday, November 9th Time: 4:10 PM - 6:00 PM Location: 207 Knox Hall (606 W 122nd
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Date: Thursday, November 9th
Time: 4:10 PM – 6:00 PM
Location: 207 Knox Hall (606 W 122nd St, New York, NY 10027)
Featuring Nancy Khalek (Brown University).
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(Thursday) 4:10 pm - 6:00 pm
Location
Knox Hall 207 606 W 122 st
Knox Hall 207 606 W 122 st
9nov5:00 pm- 6:30 pmEroticizing Bloodlust: The Ongoing Legacies of Sexual Prohibition Laws
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Date: Thursday, November 9th, 2023 Time: 5:00 - 6:30 PM (reception following) Location:
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Date: Thursday, November 9th, 2023
Time: 5:00 – 6:30 PM (reception following)
Location: 411 Fayerweather Hall (1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027)
When the first Africans landed at Fort Comfort in 1619, some of the Angolans evidently married their Native American and English counterparts. Using this confounding situation of intermixture upon the 1619 landing as a departure point and foil, as well as Thomas Jefferson’s Enlightenment rationale against miscegenation as a pivot, this paper considers the emergence, entanglement, and ongoing impact of moral, social, and legal codes against miscegenation, sodomy, incest, and bestiality. What is the cultural logic that historically has bound together these laws, and what might this logic tell us about the current cultural warfare over LGBTQIA+ inclusion and rights?
Marlon Ross is Professor of English and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness, Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era, and The Contours of Masculine Desire.
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(Thursday) 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
16nov3:30 pm- 5:00 pmCommunity Discussion: War and Peace in Israel/Palestine
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Date: Thursday, November 16th, 2024 Time: 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Location: Calder Lounge,
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Date: Thursday, November 16th, 2024
Time: 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Calder Lounge, Uris Hall, 3022 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
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Professors Yinon Cohen (Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi Professor of Israel and Jewish Studies) and Rashid Khalidi (Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies)
At times of conflict—when the world is looking with dismay at the devastating loss of life, or when disagreement about politics, policy, or values is dividing communities near and far—many are looking for ways to create common ground on campus. How can we make room for agreement as well as disagreement, discovery, and learning? In this spirit—which is also the spirit of our Core Curriculum—Arts and Sciences is offering a series of Community Discussions that will bring together faculty with relevant expertise and students who want to join the conversation, welcoming diverging perspectives to build greater mutual understanding.
Time
(Thursday) 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Location
Calder Lounge, Uris Hall
3022 Broadway
20nov4:15 pm- 6:00 pmRethinking the Second War in South Asia: Between Theatres and Beyond Battles
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Date: Monday, November 20th, 2023 Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
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Date: Monday, November 20th, 2023
Time: 4:15 PM – 6:00 PM
Location: 208 Knox Hall (606 West 122nd Street, New York, NY 10027 and remotely via Zoom.
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Join Columbia University’s South Asia Institute for a special journal issue of Modern Asian Studies, edited by Andrew Amstutz (Queens College) and Isabel Huacuja Alonso (MESAAS) and featuring presentations by Debashree Mukherjee (MESAAS), Andrew Amstutz, and Shaunna Rodrigues (MESAAS)
This event is co-sponsored by the South Asia Institute and the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies.
Time
(Monday) 4:15 pm - 6:00 pm
Location
Knox Hall (606 West 122nd Street #208)
Knox Hall (606 West 122nd Street #208)
28nov3:30 pm- 5:30 pmCommunity Discussion: Racism, Antisemitism, and Islamophobia
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Date: Tuesday, November 28th, 2023 Time: 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM Location: Calder Lounge, Uris Hall (
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Date: Tuesday, November 28th, 2023
Time: 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Location: Calder Lounge, Uris Hall (3022 Broadway, New York, NY 10027)
More information available here.
At times of conflict—when the world is looking with dismay at the devastating loss of life, or when disagreement about politics, policy, or values is dividing communities near and far—many are looking for ways to create common ground on campus. How can we make room for agreement as well as disagreement, discovery, and learning?
In this spirit—which is also the spirit of our Core Curriculum—Arts and Sciences is offering a series of Community Discussions that will bring together faculty with relevant expertise and students who want to join the conversation, welcoming diverging perspectives to build greater mutual understanding.
Participants: Rebecca Kobrin (Russell and Bettina Knapp Associate Professor of American Jewish History; Co-Director, Institute for Jewish Studies), Emmanuelle Saada (Professor of French; Chair, Department of French ) and Claudia Breger (Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature; Chair, Department of Germanic Languages)
Time
(Tuesday) 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Location
Calder Lounge, Uris Hall
3022 Broadway
december 2023
4dec6:00 pm- 7:30 pmOn Feminism and Palestine: A Faculty Roundtable Discussion
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Date: Monday, December 4th, 2023 Time: 6:00 - 7:30 PM Location: Joseph D. Jamail Lecture Hall, Pulitzer
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Date: Monday, December 4th, 2023
Time: 6:00 – 7:30 PM
Location: Joseph D. Jamail Lecture Hall, Pulitzer Hall (2950 Broadway, New York, NY 10027)
RSVP requested. Please RSVP by clicking here.
Featuring Professor Lila Abu-Lughod (Anthropology and ISSG), Professor Jafari Sinclaire Allen (African American and African Diaspora Studies), Professor Jack Halberstam (English & Comparative Literature and ISSG) Professor Premilla Nadasen (History and BCRW), Professor Neferti Tadiar (Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) and moderated by Professor Sarah Haley (History and ISSG).
Time
(Monday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Location
Joseph D. Jamail Lecture Hall, Pulitzer Hall, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
2950 Broadway New York, NY 10027
january 2024
22jan5:00 pm- 6:30 pmThe Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina
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Date: Monday, January 22nd Time: 5:00 - 6:30 PM
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Date: Monday, January 22nd
Time: 5:00 – 6:30 PM
Location: 411 Fayerweather Hall (1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027)
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Book talk by Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular (Rutgers University) featuring discussants Mark Mazower (Columbia University) and Zeynep Çelik (Columbia University) and moderated by Tunç A. Şen (Columbia University).
The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe examines how Bosnian Muslims navigated the Ottoman and Habsburg domains following the Habsburg occupation of Bosnia Herzegovina after the 1878 Berlin Congress. Prominent members of the Ottoman imperial polity, Bosnian Muslims became minority subjects of Austria-Hungary, developing a relationship with the new authorities in Vienna while transforming their interactions with Istanbul and the rest of the Muslim world. Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular explores the enduring influence of the Ottoman Empire during this period—an influence perpetuated by the efforts of the imperial state from afar, and by its former subjects in Bosnia Herzegovina negotiating their new geopolitical reality. Muslims’ endeavors to maintain their prominence and shape their organizations and institutions influenced imperial considerations and policies on occupation, sovereignty, minorities, and migration.
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(Monday) 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
31jan5:00 pm- 7:00 pmNecessary Trouble: Growing Up At Midcentury
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Date: Wednesday, January 31st Time: 5:00 -
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Date: Wednesday, January 31st
Time: 5:00 – 7:00 PM
Location: 411 Fayerweather Hall (1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027)
Join us for a book talk held by Drew Gilpin Faust (President Emerita, Harvard University) on her publication Necessary Trouble: Growing up at Midcentury featuring Stephanie McCurry and Lien-Hang Nguyen as discussants.
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(Wednesday) 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
31jan6:00 pm- 8:00 pmPolitics of Memory: Anti-semitism in Contemporary Western Europe
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Politics of Memory: Anti-semitism in Contemporary Western Europe - A Roundtable with Fabien
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Politics of Memory: Anti-semitism in Contemporary Western Europe – A Roundtable with Fabien Theofilakis, Stefanos Geroulanos, Andrew Port, and Mark Mazower
Date: January 31st, 2024
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: East Gallery, Maison Française (515 West 116th Street, New York, NY 10027)
More information and registration available here.
This roundtable will explore the contemporary politics of anti-semitism in western Europe in historical perspective. Focusing on the cases of postwar France and Germany, discussants will ask how a set of debates that emerged out of consideration of the Holocaust have been transformed in recent years and affected most recently by events in the Middle East.
The discussants are: Stefanos Geroulanos [Professor of European Intellectual History, NYU], Andrew Port [Professor of History, Wayne State University] and Fabien Theofilakis [Professor of History, Paris-1, Sorbonne]. The chair will be Mark Mazower [Dept of History, Columbia University]
Participant Profiles:
Stefanos Geroulanos is Director of the Remarque Institute at NYU where he teaches modern European intellectual history, specialising in France. His latest book is The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and our Obsession with Human Origins (2024, forthcoming)
Mark Mazower is SNF Director of the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination and Ira D. Wallach Professor of History, Columbia. His books include Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe (2008) and What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home (2017)
Andrew Port is Professor of History and author of the widely acclaimed Never Again: Germans and Genocide After the Holocaust (2023) described by Samuel Moyn as ‘the most important study of memory, politics, and the ongoing construction of public norms written in a long time.’
Fabien Theofilakis is the author of numerous publications on wartime captivity and camps in the Second World War, the Eichmann trial and the memory of the Holocaust.
This event is sponsored by the Maison Francaise, the Alliance Program, and the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, and co-sponsored by the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies and the Department of History.
Time
(Wednesday) 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
Maison Française
515 West 116th Street New York, NY 10027
february 2024
13feb6:00 pm- 7:30 pmWhat if the Economy Worked for Democracy?
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Date: Tuesday, February 13th, 2024 Time: 6:00 - 7:30 PM
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Date: Tuesday, February 13th, 2024
Time: 6:00 – 7:30 PM
Location: The Forum at Columbia University, 601 W. 125th St., New York, NY 10027
More information and registration here.
Columbia’s Center for Political Economy invites you to a discussion by leading scholars who bring their expertise in law, economics, classics, and political science to bear on this pressing question during a time of great uncertainty.
Bridging traditional divisions that separate academic disciplines, this vital conversation will explore structural forces undermining shared prosperity, tradeoffs inherent in economic policymaking, and pathways to a more just and inclusive economy, focusing on preserving and promoting political economy for democracy.
Speakers include Columbia University President Minouche Shafik and Professors Ira Katznelson (Columbia), Amy Kapczynski (Yale), Josiah Ober (Stanford), and James Robinson (University of Chicago).
All who are interested in the connection between scholarly innovation, equitable growth, and constitutional government are encouraged to attend.
By registering for this event, you are agreeing to adhere to Columbia University’s Rules of Conduct.
Time
(Tuesday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Location
The Forum
601 W 125th St, New York, NY 10027
16feb12:00 pm- 1:00 pmThe History of Gaza: The Key to War and Peace in the Middle East
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Date: February 16th, 2024
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM
Location: Via Zoom. Please register for Zoom link.
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Jean-Pierre Filiu, in conversation with Rashid Khalidi
French historian Jean-Pierre Filiu has written a deep history of Gaza in Gaza, a History and has just published Middle East, a Political History, from 395 to the Present with Polity. He provides insights into the past and present importance of Gaza in this virtual conversation with Rashid Khalidi. Gaza, a History reveals that Gaza has been since Antiquity a prosperous oasis and a commercial hub that served as a springboard for any Middle Eastern empire to conquer Egypt and for any Nile Valley-based power to attack the Levant. This imperial pendulum went back and forth for centuries until the British Army, led by Allenby, entered Gaza in 1917, on the very day that the Balfour Declaration was made public in London. But worse was to come in 1948, with Gaza turning into the enclave of a geographical “strip,” and one quarter of the Arab population of Palestine now crowded on only 1% of their historical homeland. Since then, Israel has waged no less than fifteen wars on Gaza, all won militarily, but lost politically, Filiu argues, except for the first Intifada that paved the way for the first Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Any attempt to revive such a peace process should start from Gaza, which remains the key to war and peace in the Middle East.
Jean-Pierre Filiu is professor of Middle East Studies at Sciences Po, Paris. A historian and an Arabist, he has also held visiting professorships at the Universities of Columbia and Georgetown. Hurst and Oxford University Press published his Arab Revolution in 2011, Gaza, a History in 2014 (MEMO Book Award) and From Deep State to Islamic State in 2015, after University of California Press had published in 2011 his award-winning Apocalypse in Islam. His most recent book, Middle East, a Political History, from 395 to the Present has just been published by Polity. His books have been translated in more than fifteen languages, including Arabic and Turkish.
Rashid Khalidi is Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University. He is editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies, and was President of the Middle East Studies Association, and an advisor to the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid and Washington Arab-Israeli peace negotiations from October 1991 until June 1993. He is author of: The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917- 2017 (2020); Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. has Undermined Peace in the Middle East (2013); Sowing Crisis: American Dominance and the Cold War in the Middle East (2009); The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (2006); Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East (2004); Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (1996); Under Siege: PLO Decision-Making During the 1982 War (1986); British Policy Towards Syria and Palestine, 1906-1914 (1980); and co-editor of Palestine and the Gulf (1982) and The Origins of Arab Nationalism (1991), and The Other Jerusalem: Rethinking the History of the Sacred City (2020).
This virtual conversation is co-sponsored by the Department of History, MESAAS, the Columbia Maison Française and the Alliance Program.
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(Friday) 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Zoom
16feb1:30 pm- 4:00 pmWhere is the University?
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Date: Friday, February 16th, 2024 Time: 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
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Date: Friday, February 16th, 2024
Time: 1:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: The Forum, Room 315 (601 West 125th Street)
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Please join the Committee on Global Thought for a workshop that explores the place of the university in today’s society.
The place of universities in today’s world is more uncertain than ever. Broadly, and under dramatically different conditions, universities worldwide have de-emphasized their historical commitment the cultivation of critical thought and the pursuit of basic knowledge in favor of more instrumental priorities. Whereas the planet itself, formerly understood as a patchwork of regions or “areas,” has increasingly become an object of study shared across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. In addition to reshaping teaching and research, these changes have focused renewed attention on universities themselves—and their multiple constituencies—as global, social agents. Arguably, both the internal critique of institutional contradictions and external pressure exerted by hostile interests reflect the new uncertainties.
The Committee on Global Thought is a forum for exploring the implications of such large-scale tendencies in specific terms. In this spirit, “Where Is the University?” inaugurates a multifaceted program on the university as a world where microcosm and macrocosm meet, raising the kinds of questions from which genuine knowledge has long arisen.
Introduction:
Reinhold Martin, Chair, Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University
Response:
Manan Ahmed, Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University
Panelists:
Andrea Cassatella, Makerere University
Senior Research Fellow, Makerere Institute of Social Research
Abigail Huston Boggs, Wesleyan University
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Isaac Kamola, Trinity College
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Sharon Stein, University of British Columbia
Associate Professor, Department of Educational Studies
Time
(Friday) 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Location
The Forum
601 W 125th St, New York, NY 10027
28feb4:10 pm- 6:00 pmEnding History: the Historiography of Persian Chronicle Conclusions
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We eagerly anticipate your participation in the discussion of Professor Sholeh A. Quinn on " Ending History: the Historiography of
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We eagerly anticipate your participation in the discussion of Professor Sholeh A. Quinn on ” Ending History: the Historiography of Persian Chronicle Conclusions”
Read the paper here.
The prefaces or introductions (dibachah/muqaddimah) to early modern Persian chronicles consist of highly conventional elements, in which chroniclers showcased their most elevated writing styles. In these ornate narratives, they introduced themselves, described the circumstances under which they came to write their histories, and introduced their chronicle, sometimes even providing a table of contents and a bibliography for their work. While some scholarly attention has been paid to chronicle dibachahs, we know far less about chronicle conclusions (khatimah). Some historians were unable to conclude their histories and their texts remain unfinished. Others, however, wrote more formal conclusions, thereby creating a book end to their introduction. The Safavid chronicler Iskandar Beg Munshi, for example, in the conclusion to his Tarikh-i ‘alam-ara-yi ‘Abbasi, lamented that he had run out of time and was unable to include additional material in his chronicle. Yet other chroniclers ended their texts with specific types of chapters, such as a tazkirah section, listing categories of poets, scholars, and administrative officials, or a section describing marvels and wonders of the world. The purpose of this paper is to analyze a series of Persian chronicles written under the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals in order to understand better the nature of such conclusions and their place in the larger context of Persianate historiography. Particular attention will be paid to instances of imitative writing and historiographical models.
This is a closed event; attendees may read the paper in advance, which is distributed to members of the Workshops & Colloquiums Email List. Contact da2999@columbia.edu to be added to the list.
Time
(Wednesday) 4:10 pm - 6:00 pm
Location
Knox Hall - Room 207
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Legal History Workshops - Spring 2024 Date: Wednesday, February 28th, 2024 Time: 4:20 - 6:00 PM
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Legal History Workshops – Spring 2024
Date: Wednesday, February 28th, 2024
Time: 4:20 – 6:00 PM
Location: Fayerweather 411 (1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027)
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(Wednesday) 4:20 pm - 6:00 pm
29feb5:00 pm- 6:30 pmOn Lies: Strange Abundance in Slavery's Archive of Sex
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Date: Thursday, February 29th, 2024 Time: 5:00 - 6:30 PM (reception following)
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Date: Thursday, February 29th, 2024
Time: 5:00 – 6:30 PM (reception following)
Location: 411 Fayerweather Hall (1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027)
This talk explores the work of surfacing the history of sex in antebellum slavery. Unlike records from earlier periods of slaveholding in the Atlantic world, the archives of 19th century US slaveholders are abundant, yet that abundance is marked by the fictions and delusions that seduced and gripped the imaginations of slaveholding authors. Taking as a given that black women appear in fleeting and distorted forms in these records, this talk explores methods through which historians might reconstruct histories of black women’s survival on the backdrop of sex and slavery, with attention to the twin legacies of social history and ethical provocation in African American women’s history and black feminist theory.
Emily Owens is the David and Michelle Ebersman Assistant Professor of History at Brown University, and the author of Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women’s Survival in Antebellum New Orleans. Her work broadly considers the ways that racism and misogyny get expressed in ordinary–and intimate–life.
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(Thursday) 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
TILE VIEW
march, 2024
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Date: Friday, March 1st, 2024
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Date: Friday, March 1st, 2024
Time: 12:15 PM
Location: Heyman Center for the Humanities (74 Morningside Dr, New York, NY 10027)
More information available here. Zoom link available here.
by Pamela H. Smith
In From Lived Experience to the Written Word, Pamela H. Smith considers how and why, beginning in 1400 CE, European craftspeople began to write down their making practices. Rather than simply passing along knowledge in the workshop, these literate artisans chose to publish handbooks, guides, treatises, tip sheets, graphs, and recipe books, sparking early technical writing and laying the groundwork for how we think about scientific knowledge today.
Focusing on metalworking from 1400–1800 CE, Smith looks at the nature of craft knowledge and skill, studying present-day and historical practices, objects, recipes, and artisanal manuals. From these sources, she considers how we can reconstruct centuries of largely lost knowledge. In doing so, she aims not only to unearth the techniques, material processes, and embodied experience of the past but also to gain insight into the lifeworld of artisans and their understandings of matter.
About the Author
Pamela H. Smith is the Seth Low Professor of History at Columbia University and founding director of the Center for Science and Society and of its cluster project, the Making and Knowing Project. She is the author of The Business of Alchemy and The Body of the Artisan, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press. She is the co-editor of Ways of Making and Knowing and The Matter of Art and editor of Entangled Itineraries.
About the Speakers
Caroline Bynum works on the religious, cultural, social, and intellectual history of western Europe from late antiquity to the end of the sixteenth century. In the 1980s and 1990s, her work on gender and the history of the body established some of the paradigms still used in medieval studies. Recently her research has focused on devotional practices, especially devotional objects, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. She is currently exploring the paradox of Catholic survivals, including the survival of women’s monasticism, in Protestant Germany. She is member of the Columbia University Senior Scholars and University Professor Emerita, Medieval Europe, in the History Department at Columbia University.
Deborah L. Krohn is an Associate Professor, Chair of Academic Programs, and Coordinator for History and Theory of Museums at Bard Graduate Center. Her research and teaching areas include early modern European cultural history, history and theory of museums, culinary history, and history of the book. She is most interested in exploring the relationships between objects of daily life, including the arts of the kitchen and table, and the dissemination of both learned and practical knowledge through books and prints.
Pablo Piccato is a professor in the Department of History at Columbia University. His research and teaching focus on modern Mexico, particularly on crime, politics, and culture. He has taught as visiting faculty in universities in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and France, and has been director of Columbia’s Institute of Latin American Studies, Vice Chair of the Department of History, and University Senator. His books include City of Suspects: Crime in Mexico City, 1900-1931 (2001), The Tyranny of Opinion: Honor in the Construction of the Mexican Public Sphere (2010), and A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico (2017).
Caterina Pizzigoni is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Columbia University. She specializes in the colonial history of Latin America. Her interests include Indigenous populations, sources in Nahuatl (Indigenous language of central Mexico), social history, household and material culture, religion, and gender. You can listen to her interview with Professor Vicky Murillo (Director of ILAS-Columbia) for the podcast series Unpacking Latin America.
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 present, you consent to the SOF/Heyman using such video for promotional purposes.
Time
(Friday) 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
Location
The Heyman Center for the Humanities (74 Morningside Drive, New York, NY 10032 United States)
The Heyman Center for the Humanities (74 Morningside Drive, New York, NY 10032 United States)
6mar4:20 pm- 6:00 pmThe Slave Manifest: A Legal History
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Legal History Workshops - Spring 2024 Date: Wednesday, March 6th, 2024 Time: 4:20 - 6:00 PM
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Legal History Workshops – Spring 2024
Date: Wednesday, March 6th, 2024
Time: 4:20 – 6:00 PM
Location: Fayerweather 411 (1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027)
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(Wednesday) 4:20 pm - 6:00 pm
25mar6:00 pm- 7:00 pmAfrica in the Time of the World
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Date: Monday, March 25th, 2024. Time: 6:00 - 7:00 PM
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Date: Monday, March 25th, 2024.
Time: 6:00 – 7:00 PM
Location: East Gallery, Maison Française, Buell Hall (515 West 116th Street, New York, NY 10027)
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Mamadou Diouf, in conversation with Manthia Diawara, Emmanuelle Saada, and Gayatri Spivak.
In his new book, L’Afrique dans le temps du monde, historian Mamadou Diouf examines the impact of African historians on the field of history at the turning point when Africa achieved independence from colonial rule. African history asserted the value and importance of a past that had been depreciated under Western imperialism, while also decentering history through the use of libraries such as the Islamic Library and the study of the “Black Atlantic,” a term first coined by British sociologist Paul Gilroy to refer to that hybrid historical reality. This concept aimed to “reinstate Africa to its pioneering role in world history” according to Diouf: “For Africa and the Black diaspora, taking its history into its own hands meant reclaiming cultural, creative, and historiographic parity, and decoupling the concept of the universal from Occidental imperialism.” Mamadou Diouf examines the different currents and schools of African history (those of Dakar, Ibadan, Dar-es-Salaam) and important figures that shaped African historiography, such as Cheikh Anta Diop, and evokes some of its main controversies and debates.
Mamadou Diouf is the Leitner Family Professor of African Studies. His research interests include urban, political, social and intellectual history in colonial and postcolonial Africa. His publications include Tolerance, Democracy, and Sufis in Senegal (ed. 2013), New Perspectives on Islam in Senegal: Conversion, Migration, Wealth, and Power (with Mara A. Leichtman, 2009), and La Construction de l’Etat au Sénégal (with M. C. Diop & D. Cruise O’Brien, 2002), among others.
Manthia Diawara is Professor in the Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies at NYU. He has published widely on the topic of film and literature of the Black Diaspora.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor and a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia.
Emmanuelle Saada is Professor of History and French and Chair of the Department of French at Columbia.
This event is co-sponsored by the Columbia Maison Française, Institute of African Studies, Department of History, and MESAAS.
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(Monday) 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
25mar6:10 pm- 7:30 pmBook Talk - Portraits of Empires
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Date: Monday, March 25th, 2024 Time: 6:10 -
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Date: Monday, March 25th, 2024
Time: 6:10 – 7:30 PM
Location: Room 807, Schermerhorn Hall (1190 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027
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On Monday, March 25th the Sakip Sabinci Center for Turkish Studies will be hosting Robyn Dora Radway (Assistant Professor of History, CEU) for a talk on her new book, Portraits of Empires: Habsburg Albums from the German House in Ottoman Constantinople. She will be joined by discussants Pier M. Tommasino (Columbia) and Nebahat Avcıoğlu (Hunter College and CUNY), and moderator A. Tunç Şen (Columbia).
Time
(Monday) 6:10 pm - 7:30 pm
Location
208 Schermerhorn Hall
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Date: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024 Time: 6:15 PM Location: 411 Fayerweather Hall (1180 Amsterdam
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Date: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024
Time: 6:15 PM
Location: 411 Fayerweather Hall (1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027)
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(Tuesday) 6:15 pm - 8:00 pm
27mar6:00 pm- 8:00 pmMerze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar
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Date: Wednesday, March 27th, 2024
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Date: Wednesday, March 27th, 2024
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Location: Pulitzer World Room, Columbia University School of Journalism (2950 Broadway, New York, NY 10027)
MERZE TATE: THE GLOBAL ODYSSEY OF A BLACK WOMAN SCHOLAR with author BARBARA D. SAVAGE, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought-University of Pennsylvania.
Discussants
Farah J. Griffin, English & Comparative Literature and African-American & African Diaspora Studies- Columbia University
Tiffany Gill, Department of History – Rutgers University- New Brunswick
Premilla Nadasen, Department of History- Barnard College
Susan G. Pedersen, Department of History -Columbia University
Imaobong Umoren, Department of International History-London School of Economics
Location: Columbia University School of Journalism
Pulitzer World Room – 3rd floor
2950 Broadway · New York, NY 10027
No RSVP Necessary – Free & Open To The Public
Barbara D. Savage is an historian from the University of Pennsylvania and the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought in the Department of Africana Studies where she also served from 2013-2017 as inaugural chair. In 2018-19, she was the Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at the University of Oxford and remains a Distinguished Fellow at its Rothermere American Institute. Savage is the author of Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar (Yale, 2023) which won the 2024 ASALH Best Book Prize. She is the author of two other prize-winning books, most recently Your Spirits Walk Beside Us: The Politics of Black Religion which received the 2012 Grawemeyer Prize in Religion. She also co-edited two books: Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women and Women and Religion in the African Diaspora.
Book Synopsis
“A powerful and inspiring biography of Merze Tate, a trailblazing Black woman scholar and intrepid world traveler. Born in rural Michigan during the Jim Crow era, the bold and irrepressible Merze Tate (1905–1996) refused to limit her intellectual ambitions, despite living in what she called a “sex and race discriminating world.” Against all odds, the brilliant and hardworking Tate earned degrees in international relations from Oxford University in 1935 and a doctorate in government from Harvard in 1941. She then joined the faculty of Howard University, where she taught for three decades of her long life spanning the tumultuous twentieth century.
This book revives and critiques Tate’s prolific and prescient body of scholarship, with topics ranging from nuclear arms limitations to race and imperialism in India, Asia, the Pacific, and Africa. Tate credited her success to other women, Black and white, who helped her realize her dream of becoming a scholar. Her quest for research and adventure took her around the world twice, traveling solo with her cameras.
Barbara Savage’s skilled rendering of Tate’s story is built on more than a decade of research. Tate’s life and work challenge provincial approaches to African American and American history, women’s history, the history of education, diplomatic history, and international thought.”
Event Collaborators: African American & African Diaspora Studies Department-Columbia University (AAADS) The Institute for Research in African-American Studies-Columbia University (IRAAS); The Institute For Social And Economic Research And Policy- Columbia University (ISERP)
Time
(Wednesday) 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
Pulitzer Hall, World Room, 3rd Floor
27mar6:15 pm- 8:00 pmBook Talk: When Men Fell From The Sky
Event Details
Date: Wednesday, March 27th, 2024 Time: 6:15 - 8:00 PM Location: 411 Fayerweather Hall (1180
Event Details
Date: Wednesday, March 27th, 2024
Time: 6:15 – 8:00 PM
Location: 411 Fayerweather Hall (1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027)
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Book talk by Claire Andrieu, author of “When Men Fell From The Sky – Civilians And Downed Airmen In Second World War Europe” (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
Speakers:
Claire Andrieu, Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris
Carol Gluck, Columbia University
Adam Tooze, Columbia University
Between 1940 and 1945, more than 100,000 airmen were shot down over Europe, a few thousand of whom survived and avoided being arrested. When Men Fell from the Sky is a comparative history of the treatment of these airmen by civilians in France, Germany and Britain. By studying the situation on the ground, Claire Andrieu shows how these encounters reshaped societies at a local level. She reveals how the fall of France in 1940 may have concealed an insurrection nipped in the bud, that the ‘People’s War’ in Britain was not merely a myth, and that in Germany, the ‘racial community of the people’ had in fact become a social reality with Allied airmen increasingly subjected to lynching from 1943 onwards. By considering why the treatment of these airmen contrasted so strongly in these countries, Andrieu sheds new light on how civilians reacted when confronted with the war ‘at home’.
This event is sponsored by the European Institute and the Department of History.
Time
(Wednesday) 6:15 pm - 8:00 pm
27mar6:30 pm- 9:30 pmThe Zone of Interest
Event Details
Date: Wednesday, March 27th Time: 6:30 - 9:30 PM Location: East Gallery,
Event Details
Date: Wednesday, March 27th
Time: 6:30 – 9:30 PM
Location: East Gallery, Maison Française, Buell Hall (515 W 116th Street, New York, NY 10027)
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Jonathan Glazer, 2023, 105 min.
Screening and discussion with Jane M. Gaines, Fabien Théofilakis, A. Dirk Moses, and Richard F. Wetzell
The year is 1943. Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig strive to build a dream life for their family: their idyllic home, complete with a thriving garden, is separated only by a wall from the horrors of Auschwitz, where Rudolf, a commandant, oversees the Final Solution. As Rudolf’s stature in the government grows, his family remains blissfully ignorant of the atrocities going on just outside their front door – and the fact that their patriarch is a key player in one of history’s darkest chapters. The Zone of Interest transforms Martin Amis’s novel into a chilling and unforgettable treatise on complicity. The film is nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
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Jane Gaines is Professor Emerita of Literature and English, Duke University and currently Professor of Film, Columbia University. She is a founder of the Visible Evidence conference on documentary, and continues to publish on documentary activism, intellectual property in the internet age, and the history of piracy, and has critiqued the “historical turn” in film and media studies.
Fabien Théofilakis is Professor of History at Paris-1, Sorbonne, and the author of numerous publications on wartime captivity and camps in the Second World War, the Eichmann trial and the memory of the Holocaust. He is the Alliance Visiting Professor at Columbia in Spring 2024.
Richard F. Wetzell is a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington DC. His research is situated at the intersection of legal history, political history, and the history of science. His publications include Beyond the Racial State: Rethinking Nazi Germany and Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany. He is currently working on a study of racial science and Nazi biopolitics and a history of penal reform in modern Germany.
A. Dirk Moses is the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of International Relations at the City College of New York, and written about genocide in global history, including the Holocaust, most recently, The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression (2021).
This event is co-sponsored by the Columbia Maison Française, Alliance Program, Department of History, and Deutsches Haus Columbia University.
Time
(Wednesday) 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Location
East Gallery, Buell Hall (Maison Française)
East Gallery, Buell Hall (Maison Française)
29mar2:00 pm- 3:30 pmBook Talk - Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America
Event Details
Date: March 29th, 2024 Location: 411 Fayerweather Hall Time: 2:00 - 3:30 PM
Event Details
Date: March 29th, 2024
Location: 411 Fayerweather Hall
Time: 2:00 – 3:30 PM
The Columbia-New York University 20th/21st Century History Workshop welcomes Margot Canaday (Princeton University), who will be speaking with us about her book, Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America (Princeton University Press, 2023).
Time
(Friday) 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
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