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March 2023

2023 Schoff Memorial Lecture Series, II

03/27/2023 at 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Faculty House, 64 Morningside Drive
New York,

Hidden Hybridities II: The Afrogenesis Hypothesis of Creole Language Origins Much of my academic work addresses the results in language of contact between groups. My main interests are in revealing hybridities hitherto unsuspected, and in refining our conception of hybridities more obvious. My goal, addressing a wide range of languages and also extending to music, is to wean us from preconceptions due to superficial appearances, distracting gulfs between the present and the past, and concerns more local to our moment…

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April 2023

2023 Schoff Memorial Lecture Series, III

04/10/2023 at 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Faculty House, 64 Morningside Drive
New York,

Hidden Hybridities III: The Black American Roots of the Broadway Musical Sound Much of my academic work addresses the results in language of contact between groups. My main interests are in revealing hybridities hitherto unsuspected, and in refining our conception of hybridities more obvious. My goal, addressing a wide range of languages and also extending to music, is to wean us from preconceptions due to superficial appearances, distracting gulfs between the present and the past, and concerns more local to…

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May 2023

50th Anniversary of Appetitive Behavior

05/03/2023 at 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Celebrating a Half-Century of the Columbia University Seminar on Appetitive Behavior Co-sponsored by:  NutriSci, Inc. and The University Seminar on Appetitive Behavior. A brief history of the seminar: The Appetitive Seminar had its first meeting on March 9, 1972. It was created to combine a number of disciplines to study appetite. As the founder, Dr. Theodore VanItallie stated in a letter (16 November 1971) proposing the seminar: “The regulation of food intake and its epiphenomena represent fundamental problems in human…

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Abolitionism and the Arts

05/06/2023 at 10:00 am - 9:00 pm
Heyman Center for the Humanities, 74 Morningside Drive
New York, NY 10027 United States

10 am - 5 pm Interdisciplinary Symposium at the Heyman Center for the Humanities 5:30 pm Concert at the Maison Française The goal of our conference is to bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to think through some key questions and issues that arise when we study the connections between the arts and the history of abolitionism in the Atlantic world, e.g.: What approaches did writers, musicians, and artists take to the problems of slavery and the slave trade? In what…

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October 2023

Memory Studies: New Directions

10/04/2023 at 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Faculty House, 64 Morningside Drive
New York,

  Please join us to discuss two recent collections in Memory Studies and to take stock of new directions in the field. Irene Kacandes, editor of On Being Adjacent to Historical Violence (De Gruyter, 2022), and Brett Kaplan, editor of Critical Memory Studies (Routledge, 2023), will each introduce their volumes and reflect on how the pandemic lock-down inflected the books' contributions. Contributors Claudia Breger, Leo Spitzer, Marita Sturken, Sonali Thakkar, and James Young will offer brief accounts of key memory studies concepts emerging from their essays.…

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Crooked Plow: Translating Social Justice in Brazil

10/05/2023 at 6:15 pm - 8:30 pm
Faculty House, 64 Morningside Drive
New York,

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…

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November 2023

Fall 2023 Schoff Memorial Lecture Series | Lecture I

11/13/2023 at 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Faculty House, 64 Morningside Drive
New York,

The Abundant In Between Time I: People in Me: Mapping Maya’s Circle, Following Abbey's Road Monday, November 13, 2023, 8 pm Farah Jasmine Griffin The William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African American and African Diaspora Studies, Columbia University Drawing upon Maya Angelou’s memoirs, The Heart of a Woman (1981) and All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986), these lectures identify a few of her friends, singer, composer, Abbey Lincoln, novelist, Paule Marshall and art historian, ethnographer, Sylvia Ardyn…

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Fall 2023 Schoff Memorial Lecture Series | II

11/20/2023 at 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Faculty House, 64 Morningside Drive
New York,

The Abundant In Between Time II: A Timeless Tale:  Paule Marshall’s Underappreciated Great Work, “The Chosen Place, The Timeless People” Monday, November 20, 2023, 8 pm Farah Jasmine Griffin The William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African American and African Diaspora Studies, Columbia University Drawing upon Maya Angelou’s memoirs, The Heart of a Woman (1981) and All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986), these lectures identify a few of her friends, singer, composer, Abbey Lincoln, novelist, Paule Marshall and…

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Fall 2023 Schoff Memorial Lecture Series | III

11/27/2023 at 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Faculty House, 64 Morningside Drive
New York,

The Abundant In Between Time III: To Be a Part of the Future:  The Quiet Quest of Sylvia Ardyn Boone Monday, November 27, 2023, 8 pm Farah Jasmine Griffin The William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African American and African Diaspora Studies, Columbia University Drawing upon Maya Angelou’s memoirs, The Heart of a Woman (1981) and All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986), these lectures identify a few of her friends, singer, composer, Abbey Lincoln, novelist, Paule Marshall and…

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January 2024

Making Connections for the Study of the Hebrew Bible

January 11 at 9:15 am - 5:00 pm

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…

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