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SUMMARY:Annual Dinner and Tannenbaum Lecture
DESCRIPTION:This event is open to members of The University Seminars community only. Registration is required. \nTANNENBAUM LECTURE\n“Arthur Mitchell: The Extraordinary Life of Harlem’s Ballet Visionary”\nLynn Garafola\nProfessor Emerita of Dance at Barnard College \nBorn in 1934 to parents who came to Harlem during the Great Migration\, Arthur Mitchell fell in love with ballet as a teenager and against all odds became New York City Ballet’s first African American star. Like Jackie Robinson and other civil rights heroes\, Mitchell stood on the front line of integration\, even as he left a lasting mark on ballets such as Agon and A Midsummer Night’s Dream by George Balanchine that defined a new era in American dance. Outraged by the assassination of Martin Luther King at the height of the Black Arts Movement\, in 1969 Mitchell founded Dance Theatre of Harlem\, the first enduring majority-Black company. Under Mitchell’s inspired direction\, DTH quickly became a racial and artistic change-maker\, enabling large numbers of Black dancers to pursue a professional career in ballet for the first time\, even as the company became the incubator of ballets that spoke directly to the Black experience. Mitchell seldom spoke of the racism he had encountered\, his closeted life as a gay man\, or the toll that DTH took on his private and professional life. Heroic\, mercurial\, and complex\, he was a larger-than-life figure\, blessed by higher powers to remake his chosen art. \nLynn Garafola is Professor Emerita of Dance at Barnard College\, Columbia University.  A historian and critic\, she is the author of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes\, Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance\, and La Nijinska: Choreographer of the Modern; editor of José Limón: An Unfinished Memoir\, The Diaries of Marius Petipa\, and other books\, and curator of several exhibitions\, including Dance for a City: Fifty Years of the New York City Ballet\, New York Story: Jerome Robbins and His World\, and Arthur Mitchell: Harlem’s Ballet Trailblazer. A former Getty Scholar and recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers\, she has just completed her second biography\, Arthur Mitchell: The Extraordinary Life of Harlem’s Ballet Visionary\, scheduled for publication by Yale University Press in September 2026. \nTANNENBAUM-WARNER AWARD\nFor distinguished scholarship and exceptional service to The University Seminars\nDavid Johnston\nProfessor of Political Philosophy at Columbia University \nDavid Johnston has taught at Columbia since 1986\, specializing in political philosophy and the history of moral and political ideas. He has served as President of the New York State Political Science Association and as Chair of the International Conference for the Study of Political Thought as well as several leadership roles within Columbia. His books include The Rhetoric of Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes and The Politics of Cultural Transformation; The Idea of a Liberal Theory; and A Brief History of Justice. He is editor of a selection of readings on Equality; co-editor\, with Nadia Urbinati and Camila Vergara\, of Machiavelli on Liberty and Conflict; editor and translator of Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan: A Norton Critical Edition\, 2nd ed. and (most recently) of Hobbes’s Leviathan: A Norton Library Edition. His current research focuses on the role of the idea of individual autonomy in modern political/economic/social imaginaries. \nThis event is open to seminar chairs\, members\, rapporteurs & friends of The University Seminars.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/annual-dinner-and-tannenbaum-lecture/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Annual Events
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SUMMARY:Schoff Memorial Lectures | Lecture III
DESCRIPTION:Postponed until Fall 2027\nArt of the Lecture\nBrent Hayes Edwards\nPeng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature \nLecture III: “Accompaniments of the Utterance” \nAlthough lecture courses are a staple of university teaching\, there is oddly little scholarship considering the lecture as a format. This series of lectures is framed neither as a straightforward history nor as a practical how-to guide\, but instead as an argument for the unique generic qualities and political stakes of the lecture as a mode that hovers between pedagogy and performance. \nBrent Hayes Edwards is the Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University\, where he is also affiliated with the Center for Jazz Studies and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Since 2021 he has served as the editor of the journal PMLA. Edwards’s books include The Practice of Diaspora: Literature\, Translation\, and the Rise of Black Internationalism (Harvard UP\, 2003); Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination (Harvard UP\, 2017); and the English translation of Michel Leiris’s Phantom Africa (Seagull\, 2017). He is the Harlem Renaissance period editor of the Norton Anthology of African American Literature (4th Ed.\, 2025) and has published scholarly editions of classic works by W. E. B. Du Bois\, Frederick Douglass\, Joseph Conrad\, and Claude McKay. His most recent books are Écrire le monde noir (Rot-Bo-Krik\, 2024)\, a collection of the interwar writings of the pioneering Martinican intellectual Paulette Nardal; and Easily Slip into Another World (Knopf\, 2023)\, the co-written autobiography of the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Henry Threadgill\, which won the 2024 American Book Award. Edwards was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2015\, and in 2020 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. \nLectures are free and open to the public. Registration is required. \nREGISTER FOR THE SCHOFF LECTURES
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/leonard-hastings-schoff-memorial-lectures-lecture-ii/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Annual Events,Spotlight Event
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SUMMARY:Schoff Memorial Lectures | Lecture I
DESCRIPTION:Postponed until Fall 2027\nArt of the Lecture\nBrent Hayes Edwards\nPeng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature \nLecture I: “Talking in and out of School” \nAlthough lecture courses are a staple of university teaching\, there is oddly little scholarship considering the lecture as a format. This series of lectures is framed neither as a straightforward history nor as a practical how-to guide\, but instead as an argument for the unique generic qualities and political stakes of the lecture as a mode that hovers between pedagogy and performance. \nBrent Hayes Edwards is the Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University\, where he is also affiliated with the Center for Jazz Studies and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Since 2021 he has served as the editor of the journal PMLA. Edwards’s books include The Practice of Diaspora: Literature\, Translation\, and the Rise of Black Internationalism (Harvard UP\, 2003); Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination (Harvard UP\, 2017); and the English translation of Michel Leiris’s Phantom Africa (Seagull\, 2017). He is the Harlem Renaissance period editor of the Norton Anthology of African American Literature (4th Ed.\, 2025) and has published scholarly editions of classic works by W. E. B. Du Bois\, Frederick Douglass\, Joseph Conrad\, and Claude McKay. His most recent books are Écrire le monde noir (Rot-Bo-Krik\, 2024)\, a collection of the interwar writings of the pioneering Martinican intellectual Paulette Nardal; and Easily Slip into Another World (Knopf\, 2023)\, the co-written autobiography of the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Henry Threadgill\, which won the 2024 American Book Award. Edwards was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2015\, and in 2020 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. \nLectures are free and open to the public. Registration is required.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/leonard-hastings-schoff-memorial-lectures/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Annual Events,Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lecture Series,Spotlight Event
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