PAST EVENTS
november 2022
28oct - 11novoct 284:00 amnov 11IRAAS: "Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party"
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Fri. Oct 28 4PM EST In-Person Registration:
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Fri. Oct 28 4PM EST
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LiveStream: https://bit.ly/3CPna5I
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October 28 (Friday) 4:00 am - November 11 (Friday) 5:30 pm
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Buell Hall, Maison Française
515 West 116th Street, New York, NY, United States)
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Marking 50 years of Ireland’s EU Membership Minister of State Thomas Byrne in conversation with Adam
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(Tuesday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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Room 1501, International Affairs Building 420 West 118 Street
2nov6:00 pm- 7:30 pmIRAAS: "Black is the Journey, Africana the Name"
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REGISTER VIA GOOGLE FORM HERE Wednesday ,
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Wednesday , November 2nd, 2022 – 6:00pm
Location: Columbia University Faculty House – Garden Room
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(Wednesday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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Faculty House- Garden Room
64 Morningside Drive
4nov2:00 pm- 6:00 pmSOF/Heyman: Ottoman Algiers Beyond 1800
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(Friday) 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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Buell Hall, Maison Française
515 West 116th Street, New York, NY, United States)
5nov6:00 pm- 7:30 pmBK Museum Roundtable: Cultural Erasure of Islamic History in India (Manan Ahmed)
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Roundtable: Cultural Erasure of Islamic History in India
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Roundtable: Cultural Erasure of Islamic History in India
Saturday, November 5, 2022
6–7:30 pm
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11238
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor
Learn about the erasure of Islamic monuments and history in contemporary India at this roundtable copresented by Guernica magazine. Writer Madhuri Sastry moderates a discussion about politics, art, and cultural memory among historian Manan Ahmed, author and photographer Suchitra Vijayan, and artist Jaishri Abichandani. Joan Cummins, Lisa and Bernard Selz Curator of Asian Art at the Brooklyn Museum, introduces the conversation with an overview of our newly reopened Arts of South Asia gallery.
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(Saturday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Museum, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor, 200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY
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Event date: November 7, 2022 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm
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Colonial & Revolutionary Americas Workshop | Michael Witgen, Columbia University
Michael Witgen, Columbia University
Please note: Registration is not required to attend this workshop. We kindly ask that you please follow the current University Covid-19 guidelines(link is external).
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(Monday) 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Location
211 Dickinson Hall, Princeton University
7nov7:15 pm- 1:30 pmPablo Piccato at Queens College: All Violence is Gender Violence
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Arthur J. Viseltear Prize Award Presentation for 2022 Recipient: Dr. Merlin Chowkwanyun Evening with Adam Gaffney,
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Arthur J. Viseltear Prize Award Presentation for 2022
Recipient: Dr. Merlin Chowkwanyun
Evening with Adam Gaffney, M.D.
Westin Boston Convention Center, Marina 1
425 Summer Street, Boston, MA
Tuesday, November 8, 2022
6:00 – 8:30 pm
Recipient: Dr. Merlin Chowkwanyun, Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University for his book, All Health Politics Is Local: Community Battles for Medical Care and Environmental Health (UNC Press, 2022)
Dr. Adam Gaffney, M.D. M.P.H. is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a pulmonary and critical care physician at the Cambridge Health Alliance. His research focuses on national healthcare reform, healthcare equity, and disparities in lung health. He has authored or co-authored more than 50 journal articles, and is the author of the 2017 book To Heal Humankind: The Right to Health in History. The immediate past-president of the nonprofit research and advocacy organization Physicians for a National Health Program, Dr. Gaffney is also a frequent writer and commentator on matters of health policy in the media. He recently testified at a Hearing of the Budget Committee of the US Senate on Medicare for All legislation. Dr. Gaffney received his MD from New York University and his MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He completed his residency at the Columbia University Medical Center, where he served as chief resident, and his fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Woman’s Hospital, and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
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6:0 0 – 7:00 pm Reception: Hors d’oeuvres and Cash Bar
7:00 – 7:15 pm Introduction and Welcome
Oliver Fein, M.D.
Weill Cornell Medicine
Rosa Rodriguez-Monguio, Ph.D.
Department of Clinical Pharmacology, UCSF
Chair, Medical Care Section
7:15 – 7:20 pm Presentation of Viseltear Award for Public Health History
Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
7:20 – 7:40 pm Viseltear Awardee for Public Health History
Merlin Chowkwanyun, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor, Sociomedical Sciences
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
Author of: “All Health Politics is Local”
7:40 – 8:15 pm Adam Gaffney, M.D., M.P.H.
Pulmonary Specialist, Cambridge Health Allianee
Harvard Medical School
Past President
Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP)
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(Tuesday) 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location
Westin Boston Convention Center, Marina 1 425 Summer Street, Boston, MA
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Alvin Baltrop's Voyeurism: Sexual Perversity,
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Alvin Baltrop’s Voyeurism: Sexual Perversity, Race, and the Historical Uses of Photography
Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022 | 5:00–6:30 pm | 411 Fayerweather Hall
Since the 2019 solo exhibition The Life and Times of Alvin Baltrop at the Bronx Museum, black gay photographer Alvin Baltrop, known for his portraits of the gay sexual subcultures and abandoned warehouses at New York’s West Side Piers, has received increased scholarly and popular attention. However, Baltrop has been primarily discussed as a gay artist who focused on gay subcultures. Though Baltrop’s race, class, gender, and sexuality shaped his artistry, few scholars have analyzed how these identity markers shaped his life and times. This talk explores how Baltrop’s identification as a black gay voyeur shaped his artistic practice and life experiences in the 1970s. Since Baltrop viewed his photography as historical documentation of a fleeting gay subculture, the talk also considers how his voyeuristic approach to photography might intervene in the practice of queer history.
Darius Bost is Associate Professor of Black Studies and Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the co-principal investigator of the Provost’s Initiative on the Racialized Body. He is also co-editor of Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. Bost is the author of the award-winning book, Evidence of Being: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence (Chicago, 2019).
Co-sponsored by the Institute for Research in African American Studies
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(Thursday) 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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November 15th from 4:20pm - 6:00pm Workshop with Helen Kinsella. (Minnesota, Political Science and Law). "No Comfort in the Historical Context”: US-Native Wars and Unlawful Combatancy." Commenter
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November 15th from 4:20pm – 6:00pm Workshop with Helen Kinsella. (Minnesota, Political Science and Law). “No Comfort in the Historical Context”: US-Native Wars and Unlawful Combatancy.” Commenter TBD
Workshop location will be circulated closer to event date
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(Tuesday) 4:20 pm - 6:00 pm
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Then & Now: The Opportunities And Challenges Of Healthy Aging In New York City
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Then & Now: The Opportunities And Challenges Of Healthy Aging In New York City
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
5:00PM-6:00PM
This is a virtual event. Login information will be included in your confirmation email.
The event is free; a donation of $10 is suggested.
As part of NYAM’s 175th anniversary and our “Then & Now” series, this event will focus on a discussion of the politics and history of aging through the voices of older New Yorkers. Our guest historians will contextualize the experiences of today’s older adults through the lens of New York City history, seeking to understand pathways to better, healthier lives and strengthen generational, cultural, and community ties. Discussion themes will center on the 8 Domains of Healthy Aging in the World Health Organization’s Age-friendly Cities Framework.
NYAM gratefully acknowledges the Drs. Barry and Bobbi Coller Programming Fund for support of this program.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Elana Kieffer, MBA, is the Director of NYAM’s Center for Healthy Aging. She has nearly 15 years of experience working in a wide range of older adult services, with a focus on project management, program development, and sales and marketing. Prior to her time at the Academy, Elana worked at The New Jewish Home and at MJHS Hospice and Palliative Care. She also worked in affordable and market-rate senior housing for two Boston-based organizations, The Community Builders and Hebrew SeniorLife. Elana has an MBA in nonprofit management with a concentration in aging services from the Heller School at Brandeis University.
Mario Rubano, MPH, is a Policy Associate at The New York Academy of Medicine’s Center for Healthy Aging. He has a decade of experience in aging services and has worked in a variety of capacities including clinical service provision, community-life development, and program management. He plays a role in implementation and evaluation for several Center initiatives including Age-friendly Neighborhoods, digital inclusion, the ACL-funded Older Adults’ Equity Collaborative, and nursing home infection prevention and control. Before NYAM, Mario worked in New York City independent senior housing at The New Jewish Home, a non-profit, mission-driven healthcare system serving older adults. He entered the aging services field as a Board-Certified Music Therapist leading individual and group music therapy programs in long-term skilled nursing facilities in The Bronx. He holds an MPH from the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy with a concentration in Health Policy and Management.
Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, PhD, is Associate Professor of History at Columbia University and of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. She is a historian of public health and science, focusing on the politics of health and disease crises and lifecourse and aging in the global South, with a focus on South Asia and comparative research, with South Africa, SE Asia, and New York City. Her most recent research is supported by an NSF RAPID grant on COVID-19 in NYC, the global politics of aging, which she published in As the World Ages: Rethinking a Demographic Crisis (Harvard University Press, 2018). Her prior research has focused on the politics of ‘indigenous’ Ayurvedic medicine in late colonial India; social histories of epidemics; and cultures of aging and cognitive decline in India and South Africa. Prior to joining Columbia University, she graduated with a Tripos at Trinity College, Cambridge, and held fellowships at Harvard University and University College London. Her formal training in history and experience in archival work, policy debates, and public health practice provide a rich interdisciplinary perspective anchored in rigorous historical method.
Paul Theerman, PhD, serves as Director of the NYAM Library and Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health, a role he took up in 2018. In this capacity he oversees library operations, including cataloging and description, digitization, collection development, preservation and conservation, and user services, with a special emphasis on public engagement. Over a 40+ year career in museums, archives, libraries, and academia he has focused his efforts on connecting the interested and knowledgeable public with contemporary issues in science, technology, and medicine. He regularly teaches the history of public health in the Graduate Program in Public Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
David G. Troyansky, PhD, is Professor of History at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is author of Old Age in the Old Regime: Image and Experience in Eighteenth-Century France (Cornell University Press, 1989) and Aging in World History (Routledge, 2016), as well as a book to be published next year on career and retirement in post-Revolutionary France (forthcoming from Oxford University Press). He has published numerous articles on the history of old age and aspects of French cultural history and co-edited three books on French history and Francophone culture. He is currently co-editing, with Tim Parkin of the University of Melbourne, a 6-volume Cultural History of Old Age for Bloomsbury Press. As a native New Yorker who, in 2005, returned to the city after thirty years away, he is delighted to be bringing his scholarly expertise to an event that is focusing on aging in the city.
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(Tuesday) 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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(Tuesday) 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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Low Library Rotunda
16nov2:00 pm- 3:30 pmJames McCune Smith Annual Lecture: Professor Natasha Lightfoot
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Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies, University of Glasgow
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This year we are honoured to welcome Professor Natasha Lightfoot as the seventh James McCune Smith Speaker, titled:
“I Determined to Effect My Escape”: The 1855 Flight of John Ross and Fugitive Cosmopolitan Routes to Freedom
Natasha Lightfoot is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Faculty Fellow in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. Her research and teaching interests include Atlantic slavery and emancipation, Black community formation and acts of resistance, and daily practices of freedom in the nineteenth-century British Caribbean. She is the author of Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation (Duke University Press, 2015), which focuses on black working people’s struggles and everyday forms of liberation in British colonial Antigua after slavery’s end. She has also been published in The New York Times, as well as a number of academic journals including The CLR James Journal, Slavery & Abolition, Small Axe, and most recently the William and Mary Quarterly. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society, the Ford Foundation, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and most recently from the American Council of Learned Societies. She is currently writing a book titled Fugitive Cosmopolitans about enslaved people’s mobility, imperial subjecthood and struggles for freedom between empires in the Caribbean.
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(Wednesday) 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
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Early Modern History Workshop | Pamela H. Smith, Columbia University
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Early Modern History Workshop | Pamela H. Smith, Columbia University
Wednesday, November 16
4:30 p.m. | 211 Dickinson Hall & Zoom
“Making and Knowing in Sixteenth-Century Europe”
Pamela H. Smith, Columbia University
This workshop will be offered in hybrid format both on Zoom and in-person. Registration is only required for those who plan on attending via Zoom.
Zoom Registration(link is external)
We kindly ask that all in-person attendees please follow the current University Covid-19 guidelines(link is external).
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(Wednesday) 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
17nov3:00 pm- 4:30 pmUni of Glasgow: James McCune Smith Annual Lecture: Professor Natasha Lightfoot
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James McCune Smith Annual Lecture: Professor Natasha Lightfoot Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies, University of Glasgow
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James McCune Smith Annual Lecture: Professor Natasha Lightfoot
Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies, University of Glasgow
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About this event
This year we are honoured to welcome Professor Natasha Lightfoot as the seventh James McCune Smith Speaker, titled:
“I Determined to Effect My Escape”: The 1855 Flight of John Ross and Fugitive Cosmopolitan Routes to Freedom
Natasha Lightfoot is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Faculty Fellow in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. Her research and teaching interests include Atlantic slavery and emancipation, Black community formation and acts of resistance, and daily practices of freedom in the nineteenth-century British Caribbean. She is the author of Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation (Duke University Press, 2015), which focuses on black working people’s struggles and everyday forms of liberation in British colonial Antigua after slavery’s end. She has also been published in The New York Times, as well as a number of academic journals including The CLR James Journal, Slavery & Abolition, Small Axe, and most recently the William and Mary Quarterly. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society, the Ford Foundation, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and most recently from the American Council of Learned Societies. She is currently writing a book titled Fugitive Cosmopolitans about enslaved people’s mobility, imperial subjecthood and struggles for freedom between empires in the Caribbean.
Her first book is available from Duke University Press, here: https://www.dukeupress.edu/Troubling-Freedom/?viewby=title
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(Thursday) 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
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The Clements Bookworm: Online Event for History Lovers
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The Clements Bookworm: Online Event for History Lovers
November 18 Author Conversation “Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America” with Michael Witgen. A U-M Native American Heritage Month (NAHM) event
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(Friday) 10:00 am - 11:30 am
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SEEING THE VALLEY, FACING THE ACROPOLIS: A SYMPOSIUM IN HONOR OF STEVEN GREGORY
November 18,2022 – 1:00pm – 7:00p EDT.
Hybrid Event ( In-Person & Online)
Location : Columbia University Faculty House -President’s Ballroom
64 Morningside Drive, New York, NY 10027
Registration: https://forms.gle/s3FVjwAsuXyNVFUHA
In- Person registrants, Space is limited, registration does not guarantee seating. Masking is suggested in indoor spaces. If you require disability accommodations, please contact Columbia Disability Services at 212-854-2388 or disability@columbia.edu
Online Registrants please visit our Livestream
https://bit.ly/3D2QEft
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Introduction – 1p.
Kellie E. Jones, Chair Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Columbia University
1. Seeing the Valley – Black Urban Spaces
Listening to Lives, Seeing Livelihoods – 1p
Diedra Kelley (The Romare Bearden Foundation)
Elizabeth Chin (ArtCenter College of Design)
Patricia Zavella (University of California at Santa Cruz)
Jerry Philogene (Dickinson College)
Obery Hendricks (Columbia University)
Spatial Politics Against Global Anti-Blackness – 2:20p
Jacqueline Nassy Brown (Hunter College and the Graduate Center CUNY)
Anthony Johnson (Independent Writer and Scholar)
Brandi T. Summers (University of California at Berkeley)
Frank A. Guridy (Columbia University)
Coffee Break – 3p
2. Facing the Acropolis – Infrapolitical Practices of Resistance
Dialogic Encounters in Black Studies – 3:20p
Eric Tang (University of Texas at Austin)
Oneka LaBennet(University of Southern California)
Vanessa Agard-Jones (Columbia University)
Robert Gooding Williams (Columbia University)
Posthumous Futurity: Roundtable Introduction toThe Valley & the Acropolis– 4:10p
Jafari Allen (University of Miami)
Farah Jasmine Griffin (Columbia University)
Arlene Davila (New York University)
Vanessa Agard-Jones (Columbia University)
Closing Reflections – 5p
Mabel O. Wilson, Director Institute for Research in African American Studies
Invited guests
Exhibition – 5:30p
The Photography of Steven Gregory: Meditations on People and Place
Curated by Diedra Harris Kelly, Susan Gregory, and Mabel O. Wilson
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Time
(Friday) 1:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location
Columbia University Faculty House -President’s Ballroom, 64 Morningside Drive, New York, NY 10027
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Absent Words? Sciences, Scientists, and Scientific Expertise in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
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A. Tunç Şen is an Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University, specializing in the history of the Ottoman world from its beginnings in the 14th century through the early 20th century. His past and future publications focus on the history of sciences and divination, manuscript culture, the history of emotions, and the social history of scholarship. His forthcoming first book, based on his award-winning dissertation and tentatively titled Forgotten Experts: Astrologers and Scientific Expertise in the Ottoman Empire, 1450-1600, examines what “scientific authority” and “expertise” meant in the early modern context. Şen is a member of an international research project, Geographies and Histories of the Ottoman Supernatural Tradition (GHOST): Exploring Magic, the Marvelous, and the Strange in Ottoman Mentalities, funded by the European Research Council.
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(Monday) 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Location
202 Jones Hall
Princeton University
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November 21, 2022 6:30 PM
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IRAAS Conversation Lecture
In Celebration of Saidiya Hartman’s
“Scenes of Subjection: Slavery, Terror,
and Self-Making in 19th Century America”
Hybrid Event
Location: Wood Auditorium in Avery Hall
Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Online: Event Link sent with Registration
Registration is required . Space capacity is limited.
Registration does not guarantee seating.
Seating will be first come, first seated basis
Registration: https://forms.gle/cFp2Abk1H79Fk4As9
In Discussion
Saidiya Hartman, Columbia University
Torkwase Dyson, Artist & Scholar
Marisa Fuentes, Rutgers University
Sarah Haley, Columbia University
Cameron Rowland, Artist & Scholar
Alex Weheliye, NorthWestern University
In Scenes of Subjection, Saidiya Hartman’s first book, now revised and expanded—her singular talents and analytical framework turn away from the “terrible spectacle” and toward the forms of routine terror and quotidian violence characteristic of slavery, illuminating the intertwining of injury, subjugation, and selfhood even in abolitionist depictions of enslavement. By attending to the withheld and overlooked at the margins of the historical archive, Hartman radically reshapes our understanding of history, in a work as resonant today as it was on first publication, now for a new generation of readers. This 25th anniversary edition features a new preface by the author, a foreword by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, an afterword by Marisa J. Fuentes and Sarah Haley, notations with Cameron Rowland, and compositions by Torkwase Dyson.
Presented in co-sponsorship Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Fall Semester Events Co-Sponsors
Center or the Study of Ethnicity & Race-Columbia University
Department of Art History & Archaeology -Columbia University
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation- Columbia University
Institute for Comparative Literature & Society-Columbia University
Institute for the Study of Sexuality & Gender-Columbia University
The School of the Arts-Colombia University
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(Monday) 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
Wood Auditorium in Avery Hall, Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
30nov6:15 pm- 7:30 pmFeaturedSOF/Heyman Center: Celebrating Recent Work by Hilary Hallett
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Celebrating Recent Work by Hilary Hallett NEW BOOKS IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCES
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Wednesday, 6:15pm–7:30pm EST, The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room, Columbia University + Virtual Event
REGISTER FOR ZOOM LIVESTREAM HERE
- Free and open to the public
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Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Invented Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood
by Hilary Hallett
The modern romance novel is elevated to a subject of serious study in this addictively readable biography of pioneering celebrity author Elinor Glyn (1864–1943). In elegant prose, Hilary A. Hallett traces Glyn’s meteoric rise from a depressed society darling to a world-renowned celebrity author who consorted with world leaders from St. Petersburg to Cairo to New York. After reporting from the trenches during World War I, the author was lured by American movie producers from Paris to Los Angeles for her remarkable third act. Weaving together years of deep archival research, Hallett movingly conveys how Glyn, more than any other individual during the Roaring Twenties, crafted early Hollywood’s glamorous romantic aesthetic. She taught the screen’s greatest leading men to make love in ways that set audiences aflame, and coined the term “It Girl,” which turned actress Clara Bow into the symbol of the first sexual revolution.
With Inventing the It Girl, Hallett has done nothing less than elevate the origins of the modern romance genre to a subject of serious study. In doing so, she has also reclaimed the enormous influence of one of Anglo-America’s most significant cultural tastemakers while revealing Glyn’s life to have been as sensational as any of the characters she created on the page or screen. The result is a groundbreaking portrait of a courageous icon of independence who encouraged future generations to chase their desires wherever they might lead.
This event will be in person at the Heyman Center and livestreamed online. Please register for both in-person and virtual attendance via the link. Registration is mandatory for in-person attendance.
Please email disability@columbia.edu to request disability accommodations. Advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs.
About the Author:
Hilary Hallett is the Mendelson Family Professor and Director of American Studies, and Associate Professor of History where she teaches modern American cultural and social history. Her areas of specialization include women and gender history; histories of popular and mass culture from a transatlantic perspective; and histories of American culture industries, particularly theater, music, film, and Hollywood’s history. She is interested in mass media’s relationship to social change and to the big stories they tell about America and Americans over time.
About the Speakers:
Farran Smith Nehme has written about film and film history for the New York Post, Barron’s, the Wall Street Journal, Film Comment, the Village Voice, and Sight & Sound, as well as for her blog, Self-Styled Siren. Her novel, Missing Reels, was published in 2014.
Sharon Marcus teaches at Columbia University, where she is the Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature, specializing in nineteenth-century British and French culture. Her scholarship analyzes the cultural assignment of value in domains as diverse as architecture, social relationships, literary criticism, and performance culture. Her most recent book is The Drama of Celebrity (Princeton University Press 2019).
Pablo Piccato is a Professor and the Chair of the Department of History at Columbia University. His research and teaching focus on modern Mexico, particularly on crime, politics, and culture. He has taught as visiting faculty in universities in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and France, and has been director of Columbia’s Institute of Latin American Studies, Vice Chair of the Department of History, and University Senator.
Alice Kessler-Harris is the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor Emerita of American History at Columbia University, and former president of the Organization of American Historians. She is a specialist in American labor and comparative and interdisciplinary explorations of women and gender. Her most recent book is A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman (Bloomsbury Press 2012).
Time
(Wednesday) 6:15 pm - 7:30 pm
Location
The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room, Columbia University
december 2022
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(Thursday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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BCRW Conference Room, 614 Milstein Center Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
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Friday, December 2nd, 2022 • New York City Latin American History Workshop (Co-Sponsored by Dept., Hosted by Baruch College) - Rossana
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Friday, December 2nd, 2022
• New York City Latin American History Workshop (Co-Sponsored by Dept., Hosted by Baruch College) – Rossana Dent (Rutgers-Newark/NJIT(, “Studying Indigenous Brazil: Moral Economies of Research in A’uwe Territory”
11AM-1PM
Baruch College, Newman Vertical Campus, 55 Lexington Ave, Room 8-210
To register and obtain workshop paper please email: Mark Rice, mark.rice@baruch.cuny.edu
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(Friday) 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Location
Baruch College, Newman Vertical Campus, 55 Lexington Ave, Room 8-210
7dec6:00 pm- 7:30 pmIRAAS: Tiffany Nichols - Finding Stillness
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Tiffany Nichols - Finding Stillness December 7, 2022
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Tiffany Nichols – Finding Stillness
As astrophysics experiments become increasingly precise, where they are sited is of greater importance to ensuring the sensitivities of the instruments. This talk focuses on LIGO’s over one decade endeavor from 1981 to 1994 to find locations for its two twin laser interferometers that would provide the ability to detect faint gravitational waves produced from cataclysmic events in our universe such as the collision of two black holes. Tiffany Nichols will focus on approaches used by LIGO physicists to locate and investigate candidate locations and negotiate existing land uses present on the sites that were in conflict with the specifications of their experiment through a process Tiffany Nichols calls “finding stillness.”
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Tiffany Nichols, Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University
Event Information
This event is free and open to the public; Registration required. Please contact scienceandsociety@columbia.edu with any questions.
This event is part of the New York History of Science Lecture Series.
Sponsoring Organizations:
- The University Seminars at Columbia University
- Columbia University in the City of New York
- NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study
- The Graduate Center, City University of New York
- The New York Academy of Medicine
- The New York Academy of Sciences
The Center for Science and Society makes every reasonable effort to accommodate individuals with disabilities. If you require disability accommodations to attend a Center for Science and Society event, please contact us at scienceandsociety@columbia.edu or (212) 854-0666 at least 10 days in advance of the event. For more information, please visit the campus accessibility webpage.
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(Wednesday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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The Minbar in the Mosque of the Andalusīs in Fez: An Object Lesson in Interconnected Histories Date:
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The Minbar in the Mosque of the Andalusīs in Fez: An Object Lesson in Interconnected Histories
Date: Thursday, December 8
Location: Knox Hall, Room 207
Time: 4:10 PM – 6:00 PM
Held by Abigail Balbale (Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University)
ABSTRACT
This discussion draws from Balbale’s new book in progress, Al-Andalus: A History of Islamic Spain in Fifty Objects and Spaces, which uses material objects to illuminate a history of al-Andalus. These objects and spaces show al-Andalus’ integration into the broader Islamic world, and highlights the networks that link al-Andalus to points south and east. Rather than seeing al-Andalus as exceptional or peripheral, Balbale explores how texts and objects, together, can reveal the competition and interdependence that linked North Africa and Iberia, as well as the eastern and western sides of the Mediterranean.
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(Thursday) 4:10 pm - 6:00 pm
Location
Knox Hall - Room 207
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SAI: Afterlives of Babri Masjid: Thirty Years Later - Moderated by Manan Ahmed Date: Friday – Saturday, December 9-10
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SAI: Afterlives of Babri Masjid: Thirty Years Later – Moderated by Manan Ahmed
Date: Friday – Saturday, December 9-10
Time: 8:30am (December 9) – 12:45pm (December 10)
Online Only – Register Here
DAY ONE: Friday, December 9
8:30am – 8:45am: Introduction by Katherine Ewing (Religion; Director of South Asia Institute, Columbia)
8:45am-10:45am: Roundtable One: Historical Legacies and Re-imaginings
Moderator: Manan Ahmed (History, Columbia)
Irfan Habib (Prof. Emeritus, Aligarh Muslim University)
Peter van der Veer (University Professor, Utrecht University; Director Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Ethnic and Religious Diversity)
Audrey Truschke (History, Rutgers at Newark)
David Ludden (History, NYU)
Christine Marrewa-Karwoski (MESAAS, Columbia)
Anand Patwardhan (Filmmaker)
11:15am-12:45pm: Roundtable Two: Reaching Publics: Technologies of Representation and Performance
Moderator: Isabel Huacuja Alonso (MESAAS, Columbia)
Dheepa Sundaram (Religious Studies, Colorado at Boulder)
Rohit Chopra: (Communication, Santa Clara Univ.)
Arvind Rajagopal (Media Studies, NYU)
Jaclyn Michael (Religion, Univ. of Tennessee, Chattanooga)
DAY TWO: Saturday, December 10
8:30am-10:00am: Roundtable Three: Tracing Gender, Caste, and Minority Status
Moderator: Zehra Mehdi (Doctoral candidate, Religion, Columbia)
Kancha Ilaiah Shepard (Past Director, Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy (CSSEIP), Maulana Azad National Urdu University)
Tanika Sarkar (Emeritus Prof., History, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Khalid Anis Ansari (Associate Prof. of Sociology, Azim Premji University)
Deepak Mehta (Sociology, Ashoka University)
10:30am-12pm: Roundtable Four: Forging Religion, Secularism and the Nation within India and Beyond
Moderator: to be announced
Sarover Zaidi (Assoc. Prof., Jindal School of Architecture)
Hilal Ahmed (Assoc. Prof., Centre for the Study of Developing Societies)
Irfan Ahmad (Anthropology-Sociology, Ibn Haldun University)
Thomas Blom Hansen (Anthropology, Stanford)
12:00pm-12:45pm: Concluding conversation with all roundtable presenters and organizers.
Time
9 (Friday) 8:30 am - 10 (Saturday) 12:45 pm
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Online
9dec1:10 pm- 3:00 pmTwo Medieval Muslim Anthologists Reading Christian Arabic Poetry
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Two Medieval Muslim Anthologists Reading Christian Arabic Poetry Date: Friday, December 9 Location: Online
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Two Medieval Muslim Anthologists Reading Christian Arabic Poetry
Date: Friday, December 9
Location: Online via Zoom. Register here.
Time: 1:10 PM – 3 PM
Hosted by Sarah R. bin Tyeer (Columbia Middle East Institute) and Matthew L. Keegan (Barnard Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures) with presenter Nathaniel Miller (NYU) and discussant Salam Rassi (Edinburgh University).
ABSTRACT:
Several new poems by sixth-/twelfth-century Christian poets are now available in the recently rediscovered manuscript of Abū al-Maʿālī’s Zīnat al-Dahr. It is now possible to triangulate between ʿImād al-Dīn, who used Abū al-Maʿālī as a source, and several poems by Christians addressed to Muslims and vice versa, to reconstruct the space for Christian participation in late Abbasid literary discourse.
Time
(Friday) 1:10 pm - 3:00 pm
Location
Online
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february 2023
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Date: Thursday, February 2nd, 2023
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Date: Thursday, February 2nd, 2023
Location: Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room, 74 Morningside Drive, New York, NY 10027 and online via Zoom.
Time: 6:15 PM EST
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Hosted by James Stafford (Columbia University) with panelists Isaac Nakhimovsky (Yale University), Susan Pedersen (Columbia University), Pablo Piccato (Columbia University), and Nadia Urbinati (Columbia University).
Join us for our New Book Series event honoring The Case of Ireland: Commerce, Empire, and the European Order by James Stafford. The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries have long been seen as a foundational period for modern Irish political traditions such as nationalism, republicanism, and unionism. The Case of Ireland (Cambridge University Press, 2022) offers a fresh account of Ireland’s neglected role in European debates about commerce and empire in what was a global era of war and revolution. Drawing on a broad range of writings from merchants, agrarian improvers, philosophers, politicians, and revolutionaries across Europe, this book shows how Ireland became a field of conflict and projection between rival visions of politics in commercial society associated with the warring empires of Britain and France. It offers a new perspective on the crisis and transformation of the British Empire at the end of the eighteenth century and restores Ireland to its rightful place at the center of European intellectual history.
This event is organized by the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy and cosponsored by the Office of the Divisional Deans in the Faculty of Arts and Science and the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities.
Time
(Thursday) 6:15 pm - 7:15 pm
Location
Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room
Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room
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Friday, February 3rd, 2023 • New York City Latin American History Workshop (Co-Sponsored by Dept., Hosted by Baruch College) - Stephanie
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Friday, February 3rd, 2023
• New York City Latin American History Workshop (Co-Sponsored by Dept., Hosted by Baruch College) – Stephanie Huezo-Jefferson (Fordham), “Continuity in the ‘Promised Land’: Resistance as Embodied Memory in San José las Flores, El Salvador”
11AM-1PM
Baruch College, Newman Vertical Campus, 55 Lexington Ave, Room 8-210
To register and obtain workshop paper please email: Mark Rice, mark.rice@baruch.cuny.edu
Time
3 (Friday) 11:00 am - 23 (Thursday) 1:00 pm
Location
Baruch College, Newman Vertical Campus, 55 Lexington Ave, Room 8-210
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Date: Monday, February 6th, 2023 Location: Jerome Greene Hall, 435 W 116th Street,
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Date: Monday, February 6th, 2023
Location: Jerome Greene Hall, 435 W 116th Street, New York, NY 10027
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EST
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U.S. Senator Senator Sheldon Whitehouse will be making a special visit to the Community University community on Monday. February 6, 2023 to connect and speak to students, staff and faculty regarding Climate Change, U.S policy and give a special in-depth discussion on his new book : “The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court, and the damage the Court is doing to the fight against climate change.”
This event is sponsored by the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia’s Center for the History & Ethics of Public Health, and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law.
Time
(Monday) 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location
Jerome Green Hall
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Feburary 8th from 4:20pm - 6:00pm Workshop with Jungwon Kim (Columbia, Legal History). "Who Triggered My Death: Suicide and Punishment in Early Modern Korea" Comment by Pablo
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Feburary 8th from 4:20pm – 6:00pm Workshop with Jungwon Kim (Columbia, Legal History). “Who Triggered My Death: Suicide and Punishment in Early Modern Korea” Comment by Pablo Piccato (Columbia, History).
Workshop location will be circulated closer to event date
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(Wednesday) 4:20 pm - 6:00 pm
8feb4:30 pm- 7:00 pmRise from the Fall: Profile of a Vietnamese American Leader (Chinh Chu)
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Date: Wednesday, February 8th, 2023 Location: Low Memorial Library Rotunda, 535 West 116th Street,
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Date: Wednesday, February 8th, 2023
Location: Low Memorial Library Rotunda, 535 West 116th Street, New York, NY 10027
Time: 4:30 PM – 7:00 PM EST (Event runs from 4:30 – 6:00 PM, followed by a reception from 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM)
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SPEAKER: Chinh Chu, Founder & President of CC Capital
HOST: Professor Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Founder, Vietnamese Studies, Director, Weatherhead East Asian Institute
INTRODUCTIONS: Naja Pham Lockwood, Founder and CEO, RYSE Media Ventures
MODERATOR: Anh Do, Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times
Chinh Chu has had an illustrious 30-plus-year career as a private-equity investor and executive. He is the former Co-Chair of Blackstone Private Equity. He joined Blackstone in the early 1990s and spent 25 years at the firm, becoming head of the Software and Technology, Financial Services, Chemicals and Healthcare groups. He served on Blackstone’s Executive Committee, co-chaired its Private Equity group, and was a member of its Investment Committee. Mr. Chu led some of the most prominent and successful private equity deals at Blackstone. Mr. Chu founded CC Capital in 2016 and has since spearheaded both traditional private-equity investments as well as a series of SPACs (special purpose acquisition companies). He led the $7.2 billion going-private transaction of Dun & Bradstreet in February 2019 — and less than 18 months later, Dun & Bradstreet was taken public at a 3.5x return for CC Capital’s equity investors. CC Capital has created 5 SPACs since 2016, 3 in partnership with Neuberger Berman. Its SPACs have invested in high-quality businesses including Getty Images ($4.8 billion), the global leader in photo imaging and distribution; UTZ ($1.6 billion), the 100 year-old leading manufacturer of salty snacks; E2 Open ($2.6 billion), the leading supply chain software company; and FG Insurance ($2.1 billion), the life and annuities insurer. Mr. Chu has served on over 20 public and private corporate boards including: City Harvest, Getty Images, E2 Open, Dun & Bradstreet, NCR Corporation, Catalent, Kronos, SunGard Data Systems, Biomet, Celanese Corporation, Nalco, Nycomed, Alliant Insurance Services, London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE), Graham Packaging, AlliedBarton, and BankUnited. Before joining Blackstone, Mr. Chu worked at Salomon Brothers in the Mergers & Acquisitions department. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Buffalo’s School of Management.
Mr. Chu was born in Vietnam and emigrated to America at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. He is the eldest of 6 children born to Dennis and Linda Chu. Mr. Chu currently lives in New York City and is passionate about philanthropy, music, mountaineering, and, most importantly, his two daughters.
Lien-Hang Nguyen is the Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia, Director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, and co-founder of Vietnamese Studies at Columbia University. She is author of Hanoi’s War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam (2012), which won the Society for Military History Edward M. Coffman Prize and the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Stuart L. Bernath Prize. Professor Nguyen serves as the general editor of the Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, 3 vols., as well as co-editor of the Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations. She is currently working on a comprehensive history of the 1968 Tet Offensive with Random House. She has appeared on numerous documentaries including PBS History with David Rubenstein, CNN Documentary, and MSNBC’s A Rachel Maddow Special Report. Professor Nguyen received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania and her MA, MPhil, and PhD from Yale University.
Naja Pham Lockwood has produced multiple documentary and narrative films focusing on social justice issues including 76 Days, Try Harder!, Coming Home Again, Gook and Cries From Syria. She is the co-founder of RYSE Media Ventures, which supports stories of diverse voices, and an investor in Impact Partners Films, where she has financed the Academy Award winning documentary, Icarus as well as Won’t You Be My Neighbor and Audrie and Daisy. She served on the Sundance Utah Advisory Board and partnered with Sundance Institute to build and fund the Sundance Screenwriters Fellowships for Asian American filmmakers. She currently serves on the Board of the Utah Film Commission and Center for Asian American Media (CAAM). Naja is an associate instructor at the University of Utah teaching the Power of Storytelling: Asia and the Global Cinema. She is the Founder and CEO of www.najalockwooddesigns.com to support female artisans of Southeast Asia. Born in Vietnam, Naja immigrated to Massachusetts during the Fall of Saigon. She was the first Vietnamese-American to be appointed by Mayor Willie Brown and Mayor Gavin Newsom to be Arts Commissioner of San Francisco with a focus on community and diversity and the expansion and capital campaign development of the Asian Art Museum. Throughout Naja’s life, there has always been a commitment to social justice and making sure the voices of the under-represented, the minority and the oppressed are heard.
Anh Do is a Metro reporter covering Asian American issues and general assignments at the Los Angeles Times. A second-generation journalist, she has worked at the Seattle Times, the Orange County Register and Nguoi Viet Daily News, the largest Vietnamese-language newspaper in the US, based in California and founded by her late father. Born in Saigon, Do is a graduate of the University of Southern California with degrees in journalism and English and she has reported from Cuba, India, Mexico, Peru and Vietnam, elevating on-the-ground storytelling with cultural research and techniques honed from five years of living in Mexico City. Her writing on diaspora, race and trauma has won awards from Columbia University, Freedom Newspapers Sweepstakes and the Asian American Journalists Association. She is a recipient of Yale’s Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, and in 2016, she was part of the team that won a Pulitzer Prize for its breaking news coverage of the San Bernardino terrorist attacks. Apart from words, she’s passionate about all things canine, spending 27 years volunteering in dog rescue campaigns around the globe.
This event is sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University.
Time
(Wednesday) 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Location
Low Library Rotunda
8feb6:00 pm- 7:00 pmJust an Illness: The Black Death, Without its Metaphors (Patrick Boucheron)
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Talk in French by Patrick Boucheron with English text available. Date: Wednesday, February 8th Location: Maison Française, 515 West
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Talk in French by Patrick Boucheron with English text available.
Date: Wednesday, February 8th
Location: Maison Française, 515 West 116th Street New York, NY 10027
Time: 6:00 – 7:00 PM EST
Held by Patrick Boucheron (History of Powers in Western Europe from 7th to 16th century, Collège de France)
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How do we tell the history of the Black Death today? A global history of humanity’s largest demographic catastrophe over the longue durée, from our present pandemic times? Drawing from his teachings at the Collège de France and his Theatre of the Plague production with the Théâtre National de Bretagne, acclaimed medievalist Patrick Boucheron reflects back on his long standing engagement with the plague and its contagious, overflowing metaphors.
Patrick Boucheron is a Professor and Chair of the History of Powers in Western Europe from the 7th to the 16th century at Collège de France. He specializes in the Middle Ages, particularly in Italy. His work also concerns the writing of history and changes in the discipline. It was in this spirit that he wrote Histoire mondiale de la France (Seuil, 2017). Since 2017, he has partnered with the Théatre National de Bretagne (TNB) headed by actor and stage director Arthur Nauzyciel. For each program, he invites associates, academics, and artists to imagine and create with him a monthly gathering, “Rencontrer l’Histoire” (“A Rendez-vous with History”), based on the program’s themes or current affairs.
This performance is co-sponsored by Columbia Maison Française, ICLS Medical Humanities, Department of French, and Department of History.
Time
(Wednesday) 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location
Maison Française
515 West 116th Street New York, NY 10027
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Date: Tuesday, February 14th, 2023 Location: Margaret Liebman Berger Forum, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street New York,
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Date: Tuesday, February 14th, 2023
Location: Margaret Liebman Berger Forum, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street New York, NY 10018
Time: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM EST
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This Valentine’s Day, discover the story behind the modern romance novel and its connection to the life of celebrity author Elinor Glyn. From rose petals and silken lingerie to smoldering looks and lingering caresses, Elinor Glyn’s work in fiction and film laid the foundations for much of modern romance on the page and the screen. Her scandalous, sexually charged 1907 novel, Three Weeks, was simultaneously a bestseller and one of the most denounced books of its time. Working in early Hollywood films, she coined the term “It Girl” and turned actor Clara Bow into a symbol of America’s first sexual revolution.
Hilary A. Hallett’s biography, Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood, traces Glyn’s sensational life. She wrote it during her 2016–2017 Fellowship at the Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. She will be discussing the book with historian Alice Kessler-Harris.
Hilary A. Hallett is the Mendelson Family Professor and director of American Studies and Associate Professor of History at Columbia University. She is also the author of Go West, Young Women! The Rise of Early Hollywood, and has written for the Los Angeles Times.
Alice Kessler-Harris is the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor Emerita of American History at Columbia University and Professor Emerita at Columbia’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She is the author of many books, most recently A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman.
Time
(Tuesday) 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street New York, NY 10018
16feb6:30 pm- 7:30 pmHilary A. Hallett on Elinor Glyn: In Conversation with David Nasaw
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Date: Thursday, February 16th, 2023 Location: The Skylight Room, 9100 Graduate Center, CUNY 365 5th Avenue New York, NY 10016
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Date: Thursday, February 16th, 2023
Location: The Skylight Room, 9100 Graduate Center, CUNY 365 5th Avenue New York, NY 10016
Time: 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM EST
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In this groundbreaking portrait of a courageous icon of independence, Hilary A. Hallett traces Elinor Glyn’s meteoric rise from a depressed society darling to a world-renowned celebrity author who consorted with world leaders from St. Petersburg to Cairo to New York. After reporting from the trenches during World War I, Glyn was lured by American movie producers from Paris to Los Angeles for her remarkable third act. Weaving together years of deep archival research, Hallett movingly conveys how Glyn, more than any other individual during the Roaring Twenties, crafted early Hollywood’s glamorous romantic aesthetic. She taught the screen’s greatest leading men to make love in ways that set audiences aflame, and coined the term “It Girl,” which turned actress Clara Bow into the symbol of the first sexual revolution.
Hilary A. Hallett is the Mendelson Family Professor and director of American studies and associate professor of history at
Columbia University. The author of Go West, Young Women! The Rise of Early Hollywood, she has written for the Los Angeles Times.
David Nasaw is the Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of History Emeritus at the CUNY Graduate Center and a past president of the Society of American Historians. His most recent book is The Last Million: Europe’s Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War. He is also the author of The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy, a New York Times “Ten Best Books of the Year” and a Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Biography. His bestseller Andrew Carnegie was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist and the winner of the New-York Historical Society’s American History Book Prize. The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst was honored with several awards, include the Bancroft Prize for History.
Time
(Thursday) 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Location
The Skylight Room, 9100 Graduate Center, CUNY
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Date: Friday, February 17th, 2023 Location: Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room,
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Date: Friday, February 17th, 2023
Location: Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room, 74 Morningside Drive, New York, NY 10027 and online via Zoom.
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM EST
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In Poverty and Wealth in East Africa, Rhiannon Stephens offers a conceptual history of how people living in eastern Uganda have sustained and changed their ways of thinking about wealth and poverty over the past two thousand years. This history serves as a powerful reminder that colonialism and capitalism did not introduce economic thought to this region and demonstrates that even in contexts of relative material equality between households, people invested intellectual energy in creating new ways to talk about the poor and the rich. Stephens uses an interdisciplinary approach to write this history for societies without written records before the nineteenth century. She reconstructs the words people spoke in different eras using the methods of comparative historical linguistics, overlaid with evidence from archaeology, climate science, oral traditions, and ethnography. Demonstrating the dynamism of people’s thinking about poverty and wealth in East Africa long before colonial conquest, Stephens challenges much of the received wisdom about the nature and existence of economic and social inequality in the region’s deeper past.
Rhiannon Stephens is an Associate Professor of History at Columbia University and specializes in the history of precolonial and early colonial East Africa from the late first millennium CE through the twentieth century. She is the author of Poverty and Wealth in East Africa: A Conceptual History (Duke University Press, 2022), an interdisciplinary history of how people living in eastern Uganda have sustained and changed their ways of thinking about wealth and poverty over the past two thousand years. Her first monograph, A History of African Motherhood: The Case of Uganda, 700-1900 (Cambridge University Press, 2013), traced the history of motherhood as a social institution and an ideology across over a millennium of Ugandan political, economic and social change.
About the Speakers
Laura Fair is a historian of twentieth-century urban East Africa and the author of several award-winning books. She teaches in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies. Her scholarship focuses on gendered social and economic change, and urban popular culture in Swahili-speaking communities. Her first book, Pastimes and Politics: Culture, Community and Identity in Post-Abolition Urban Zanzibar, 1890–1945 (Ohio University Press, 2001), illustrates how former slaves used the social and cultural tools at their command to demonstrate their freedom from slavery and articulate alternative visions of justice under colonialism.
Raevin Jimenez is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan. Her work examines the gender history of Nguni-speakers in southern Africa between the 9th-20th century. Over a millennium, Nguni-speakers innovated and reconfigured masculine propriety and male relationships. Changing ideas of gender allowed Nguni-speakers to congregate young men into vast networks, define male identity, establish obligations of men as sons and husbands, and orient junior men towards political and economic opportunities.
Pablo Piccato is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University. He is the author of City of Suspects: Crime in Mexico City, 1900–1931, published by Duke University Press, and a co-editor of True Stories of Crime in Modern Mexico. His research and teaching focus on modern Mexico, particularly on crime, politics, and culture. He has taught as visiting faculty in universities in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and France.
Caterina Pizzigoni is Associate Professor of History at Columbia University. She specializes in the colonial history of Latin America. Her interests include indigenous populations and the study of sources in Nahuatl (indigenous language of central Mexico), social history, household and material culture, religion and gender. Her current research focuses on household saints in colonial Mexico.
Time
(Friday) 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Location
Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room
Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room
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Date: February 21st, 2023 Location: 1219 International Affairs Building, 420 W 118th Street, 12th floor Time: 12:00PM -1:30PM Register here (for both in-person and virtual attendance) The arctic climate is currently changing
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Date: February 21st, 2023
Location: 1219 International Affairs Building, 420 W 118th Street, 12th floor
Time: 12:00PM -1:30PM
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The arctic climate is currently changing faster than the climate of the planet; this phenomenon is known as ‘Arctic amplification.’ However, even before the beginning of the anthropogenic global climate change, the Arctic climate was quite changeable. The observations of the rapid warming of the Arctic caused by natural factors in the 1920s-1940s led scientists to acknowledge the possibility of short-term changes of the climate in general. This talk, on the one hand, illustrates climate as a driver for changes in abundance and migrations patterns of fish species important for the ecosystems of these seas and for the economy. On the other hand, the talk focuses on Russian scientists and their international networks, through which new knowledge on the changes of Arctic climate circulated. In addition, the legacy of this period for the Soviet / Russian climate science is discussed.
Julia Lajus received her degree in the history of science (the Russian equivalent of Ph.D. degree) from the Institute for the History of Science and Technology in Moscow in 2004 with a dissertation devoted to the history of relations between fisheries science and fisheries in the European North of Russia/Soviet Union. She is now working on a book manuscript, “Linking People through Fish, Climate and Environment: Transnational Connections of Russian/Soviet Science and Their Mediators,“ which explores encounters between international and national interests at governmental, institutional and individual levels, in which all parties needed to craft strategies for successful scientific cooperation.
Time
(Tuesday) 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
TILE VIEW
march, 2023
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Date: Thursday, March 2nd, 2023 Location: Fayerweather Hall, Room 411, 1180 Amsterdam
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Date: Thursday, March 2nd, 2023
Location: Fayerweather Hall, Room 411, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027
Time: 4:00 PM EST
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Presenter: Riva Kastoryano, Senior Research Fellow at the CNRS and Professor at Sciences Po Paris
Moderator: Adam Tooze, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History, and Director of the European Institute, Columbia University
How to reconcile diversity and integration in the multi-level European public space? This particular issue pertains to the settlement of ethno-religious groups along with their expression of collective identities, participation and recognition. Taking as a point of departure four normative approaches – multiculturalism, interculturalism, transnationalism and cosmopolitanism – the goal is to develop a new normativity based on their similarity, differences and/or complementarity empirically evaluated by minorities themselves and political actors.
This event is co-sponsored by the European Institute and by the Alliance Program.
Time
(Thursday) 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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Friday, March 3rd, 2023 • New York City Latin American History Workshop (Co-Sponsored by Dept., Hosted by Baruch College) -
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Friday, March 3rd, 2023
• New York City Latin American History Workshop (Co-Sponsored by Dept., Hosted by Baruch College) – Andrei Guardarrama (Columbia), “Automobiles, Urban Business, and Industrialization in Mexico City, 1920-1940”
11AM-1PM
Baruch College, Newman Vertical Campus, 55 Lexington Ave, Room 8-210
To register and obtain workshop paper please email: Mark Rice, mark.rice@baruch.cuny.edu
Time
(Friday) 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Location
Baruch College, Newman Vertical Campus, 55 Lexington Ave, Room 8-210
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Date: Tuesday, March 7th, 2023 Location: International Affairs Building, Room 1501, 420 West 118th
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Date: Tuesday, March 7th, 2023
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 1501, 420 West 118th Street, New York, NY 10027
Time: 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EST
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Every year, the U.S. government creates tens of millions of new secrets. Top secret documents have been turning up in the strangest places, triggering Justice Department investigations of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden. What are the consequences for national security and democratic accountability? And what can possibly be done to advance a more rational, risk-management approach to safeguarding dangerous information while accelerating the release of public records?
Join us for a panel discussion about the history, and future, of official secrecy. It will feature new discoveries from Columbia’s History Lab, which has been using artificial intelligence to analyze the world’s largest database of declassified documents. Participants will also bring fresh perspectives from the frontlines of law, journalism, and data science, and discuss whether it would be possible – and wise – to build a “Declassification Engine.”
Panelists:
Emily Bazelon, Senior Research Scholar in Law and Truman Capote Fellow at Yale Law School
Matthew Connelly, Professor of History at Columbia; author of The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals about America’s Top Secrets
Barton Gelman, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner; staff writer at The Atlantic
Timothy Naftali, founding director of the Nixon Presidential Library; clinical associate professor of public service at NYU
Chris H. Wiggins, Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics at Columbia; Chief Data Scientist of The New York Times
Time
(Tuesday) 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Location
IAB 1501
Event Details
Date: Thursday, March 9th, 2023 Location: 411 Fayerweather Hall, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027
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Date: Thursday, March 9th, 2023
Location: 411 Fayerweather Hall, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027
Time: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM EST
As part of the current upsurge of authoritarian politics and blood-and-soil ethnonationalism, U.S. Christians have rediscovered in Holy Russia an unlikely polestar. But this surge in the international “family values” movement is only the most recent iteration of a century-long relationship. From the Bolshevik Revolution through the present bromance with Putin, U.S. theocrats have used Russia as a resource for promoting sexual conformity, racial purity, and gender rigidity. Far from serving as mere “culture wars” distractions from law and economics, these theocratic ambitions are meant to secure a free market under God. This history suggests that when Christian nationalists tell us what they want, we should take them at their word.
Bethany Moreton is Professor of History at Dartmouth College and a series editor for Columbia University Press’s Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism. Her first book, To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise (Harvard University Press, 2009), won the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize for best first book in U.S. history and the John Hope Franklin Award for the best book in American Studies. Her most recent book is Entre Dios y el capital (Txalaparta, 2022).
Time
(Thursday) 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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March 22nd from 4:20pm -6:00pm Workshop with Kunal Parker. (U Miami, History). "The Turn to Process: Legal, Political, and Economic Thought in America, 1870-1970" Commenter Alma Steingart
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March 22nd from 4:20pm -6:00pm Workshop with Kunal Parker. (U Miami, History). “The Turn to Process: Legal, Political, and Economic Thought in America, 1870-1970” Commenter Alma Steingart (Columbia)
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Time
(Wednesday) 4:20 pm - 6:00 pm
Event Details
Date: Thursday, March 30th, 2023 Location: Fayerweather Hall, Room 513, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York,
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Date: Thursday, March 30th, 2023
Location: Fayerweather Hall, Room 513, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027
Time: 5:00 – 6:00 PM EST
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Presenter: Mark Ponte, City Archives Amsterdam
Moderator: Arnoud Visser, Queen Wilhelmina Visiting Professor, Columbia University, and Professor of Textural Culture in the Renaissance, University of Utrecht
In the seventeenth century, steadily more people of African descent came to the Dutch Republic, as servants (whether enslaved or free) or as seafarers. Recent research has revealed that from c. 1630 onward a small free black community emerged in Amsterdam, which can be located in the area around the Jodenbreestraat (‘Jewish Broad Street’). This was an area where also many painters lived, among whom Rembrandt. This new research is based on combining marriage registers with new archival findings, made possible by the progress of All Amsterdam Acts, a large-scale digital humanities project that aims to unlock the complete notary archives of Amsterdam.
Through a combination of presentation and interactive work, this workshop will explore the opportunities and challenges of this type of research, focusing on three components: archival research, digital humanities, and public history (public debates, social media, and exhibitions about the history of slavery).
Mark Ponte is a historian at the Amsterdam City Archives. He has been (co-)curator of recent exhibitions in Amsterdam (‘Black in Rembrandt’s Time’, Museum Rembrandthuis, 2020. ‘Amsterdammers and Slavery’, Amsterdam City Archives, 2020) and Alkmaar (‘Plantation Alkmaar’, Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar, 2022-23).
Preparation:
Mark Ponte, ‘Black in Amsterdam around 1650‘ in: Kolfin and Runia ed., Black in Rembrandt’s Time (W Books/Museum Rembrandthuis 2020) 44-61.
Further literature for those who read Dutch
Mark Ponte, ‘Zwarte vrouwen in het midden van de zeventiende eeuw’, in: Maarten Hell ed., Amstelodomum. Alle Amsterdamse Akten. Ruzie, rouw en roddels bij de notaris, 1578-1915 (Amsterdam 2022) 130-143.
Mark Ponte, ‘Al de swarten die hier ter stede comen’ Een Afro-Atlantische gemeenschap in zeventiende-eeuws Amsterdam’, TSEG/ Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, 15(4), pp.33–62. DOI: https://lnkd.in/eEvRw32X
This workshop is cosponsored by the Studies of the Dutch-Speaking World and the European Institute.
Time
(Thursday) 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location
513 Fayerweather Hall
513 Fayerweather Hall
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