• Schoff Memorial Lectures | Lecture III

    Art of the Lecture Series
    Faculty House 64 Morningside Drive, New York
    Annual Events

    Postponed until Fall 2027 Art of the Lecture Brent Hayes Edwards Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature Lecture III: “Accompaniments of the Utterance” Although 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. Brent Hayes Edwards is the Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature at […]

  • Annual Dinner and Tannenbaum Lecture

    Faculty House 64 Morningside Drive, New York
    Annual Events

    This event is open to members of The University Seminars community only. Registration is required. TANNENBAUM LECTURE "Arthur Mitchell: The Extraordinary Life of Harlem's Ballet Visionary" Lynn Garafola Professor Emerita of Dance at Barnard College Born 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 […]

  • Spring Recess

    Columbia University
    Annual Events

    Faculty House is closed for seminars and events.

  • Annual Dinner and Tannenbaum Lecture

    Faculty House 64 Morningside Drive, New York
    Annual Events

    Tentative Date This event is open to members of The University Seminars community only. Registration is required. TANNENBAUM LECTURE TANNENBAUM-WARNER AWARD More information to follow. To view a list of all lecturers and awardees, see the Annual Dinner archive page.