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September 2019
New Directions in British Urban History
This conference will bring together leading scholars working in the field of modern British urban and planning history. Bridging this sub-field in the UK and in the US, this conference has three main objectives. The first is to provide a forum for discussing the current flurry of written work on British urban life (seven of the participants have recent or forthcoming monographs on twentieth-century British urban history). Our long term goal is to produce a special issue in "Planning Perspectives"…
Find out more »October 2019
Book Parts
The field of book history has never been more vibrant, nor has the importance of interrogating the material dimensions of text, its creation and circulation and consumption, been more clear, as digital media upend traditional modes of publishing, reading, and even academic librarianship. “What is a book?” is a question whose stakes have never been higher, and book historians and bibliographers have risen to the challenge, producing work that examines not just how books exist as physical objects, but how…
Find out more »November 2019
Indigenous Peoples and Borders: decolonization, contestation, trans-border practices
Indigenous Peoples’ sovereignty, cultural integrity, connection to the land and their overall well-being continue to be threatened, defined and constrained by borders. This symposium aims at offering a rare opportunity for indigenous (focused) scholars and practitioners to engage in dialogue in and through border studies. This burgeoning research field can enrich our global knowledge community and vice versa, stimulate border studies scholars to address topics of particular importance for the lived experiences of Indigenous Peoples. In a separate background note,…
Find out more »An Urban World: The Changing Landscape of Suburbs and Cities
3:00 pm to 6:30 pm on November 14th and 9:00 am to 6:00 pm on November 15th. RSVP to: smk2209@columbia.edu PROGRAM Thursday November 14, 3:00 pm – 6:30 pm 2:30–3:00 pm REGISTRATION 3:00 pm WELCOME Ira Katznelson, Interim Provost & Ruggles Professor of Political Science & History, Columbia University Lisa Keller, Chair, Seminar on the City, The University Seminars, Columbia University 3:15 pm KEYNOTE ADDRESS Introduction: Ann Thornton, Vice Provost and University Librarian, Columbia University Kenneth T. Jackson, Barzun…
Find out more »October 2023
Crooked Plow: Translating Social Justice in Brazil
Crooked Plow: Translating Social Justice in Brazil Join us for a discussion of Brazilian author Itamar Vieira Junior’s best-selling novel Crooked Plow, now available in English. Our speakers will explore translation, literary writing, social justice work, and the long shadow that slavery casts. Co-Sponsored by the University Seminar on Public Humanities: Expanding Scholarship and Pedagogy; Columbia University Department of History; The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities; Columbia Global Centers, Rio De Janeiro; Institute of Latin American…
Find out more »January 2024
Making Connections for the Study of the Hebrew Bible
The conference is intended to encourage regional HB scholars and PhD students to make or strengthen personal connections with one another. At the same time, we hope to highlight interdisciplinary, intercultural, and intertextual connections that many of us are making in our scholarship on the Hebrew Bible The day will be prepared for by gathering responses from planned participants (both attendees and presenters) with 1-2 sentences giving a brief pointer to how they have found an interdisciplinary connection useful for their research…
Find out more »April 2024
Criminalized Again: Culture(s) of LGBTQI+ In Search for Freedom
Please join the Harriman Institute, the University Seminar on Slavic History and Culture, the Department of Slavic Languages, and the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender of Columbia University and Leeds University UK for the conference “Criminalized Again: Culture(s) of LGBTQI+ in Search for Freedom.” Organized by Mark Lipovetsky (Columbia University) and Vlad Strukov (Leeds University, UK). REGISTRATION LINK
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