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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. \nThis year’s Tannenbaum Lecturer is Lynn Garafola and the Tannenbaum-Warner Award recipient is David Johnston. \nMORE INFORMATION TO FOLLOW
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 II
DESCRIPTION:Postponed until Fall 2027\nArt of the Lecture\nBrent Hayes Edwards\nPeng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature \nLecture II: “A Brief History of the Podium Shuck” \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-2/
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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SUMMARY:Commencement
DESCRIPTION:Faculty House is closed for seminars and events.
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LOCATION:Columbia University
CATEGORIES:Annual Events
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SUMMARY:Spring Term Ends
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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. \nThis year’s Tannenbaum Lecturer is Margo Jefferson and the Tannenbaum-Warner Award recipient is Robert Pollack. \nTANNENBAUM LECTURE \nCriticism as Intellectual Inquiry and Emotional Invention \nBeing an Other in America teaches you to imagine what can’t imagine you. I was thinking\, when I first wrote this\, of certain kinds of otherness. Otherness in terms of race\, gender\, and class; in terms of temperament and aesthetics. I was thinking about the charged relations between fact\, practice\, ideology\, and passion when one writes criticism. And of the social structures that allow one to discuss any of this and be listened to. This is all part of what’s called Critical Authority. Critical authority traditionally favors omniscience. What happens when we treat critical authority as a process that encourages vulnerability\, ambiguity\, and ambivalence? A process that allows us to examine our own responses – anger\, despair\, exhilaration\, ecstatic confusion?  What happens when we’re willing to question ourselves as scrupulously as we do our subjects: to keep re-inventing our critic-personae?  \nMargo Jefferson is a critic and memoirist. She has published three books: On Michael Jackson\, Negroland\, and Constructing a Nervous System. She received a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism when she was a staff writer at The New York Times. She has also received a National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography\, a Windham Campbell Award for nonfiction and a Rathbones Folio Award for nonfiction. Her reviews and essays have been published in The Guardian\, New York Magazine\, The Washington Post and other periodicals. She teaches at Columbia University in the Writing Program. \nTANNENBAUM-WARNER AWARD \nFor Distinguished Scholarship and Exceptional Service to The University Seminars \nRobert Elliot Pollack (b.1940) grew up in the Seagate neighborhood of Brooklyn where he attended public schools. The first in his family to finish high school (his father ran a factory that manufactured cardboard boxes)\, Bob went on to major in physics at Columbia University\, graduating from the College in 1961 and serving as Dean of Columbia College from 1982 to 1989. In his freshman year\, he took a class with Robert Belknap\, whom he succeeded as Director of The University Seminars (from 2011 to 2019). He earned a PhD in biological sciences from Brandeis University in 1966 and was a postdoctoral fellow in pathology with Howard Green at NYU Medical Center and at the Weizmann Institute in Israel with Ernest Winocour. He was then recruited to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory by James Watson to establish a research program on reversion of cancer cells. He received tenure at SUNY Stony Brook Medical Center before returning to Columbia in 1978. He received the Alexander Hamilton Medal from Columbia University\, the Gershom Mendes Seixas Award from the Columbia/Barnard Hillel\, and held a Guggenheim Fellowship. His 1998 Schoff Lectures\, supported by The University Seminars and Columbia University Press\, led to his third book The Faith of Biology and the Biology of Faith. Bob retired from Columbia in 2023 as Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences. He credits his wife since 1961\, the artist Amy Pollack\, for teaching him the central importance of not being solely in charge.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/78th-annual-dinner-and-tannenbaum-lecture/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Annual Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250121
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SUMMARY:Spring Term Begins
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LOCATION:Columbia University
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SUMMARY:Winter Break
DESCRIPTION:The University Seminars office is closed from 6 pm on Friday\, December 20 until 10 am Monday\, January 6\, 2024 for the holiday break.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/the-university-seminars-office-is-closed/
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