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SUMMARY:Environmental and Racial Justice in Shakespeare Studies
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The University Seminar on Shakespeare \nThis symposium brings together scholars and artists to consider the intersections of racial\, social\, and environmental justice in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The interlinked racial and environmental crises of our time seem to compound faster than mitigating efforts\, let alone the human imagination\, can keep up. But the reparative work they demand requires a deep investigation of the early modern past. As the imaginative literature from this period demonstrates\, premodern ideas of racial difference were inseparable from questions of geographical distance\, understandings about “nature\,” and the complexity of the more-than-human world more broadly. By bringing together scholars and artists who have been considering questions of racialization and environmental issues in early modernity\, this symposium will help us envision new methods and practices that enable us to engage ethically with the complex entanglements of racial and environmental injustice in Shakespeare’s world and in ours. \nSCHEDULE \n8:30 AM\nRegistration and Welcome  \n9:00 AM – 10:00 AM\nPANEL I:  Echoes of Early Modernity\nRuben Espinosa\, Arizona State University\nLowell Duckert\, University of Delaware \n10:15 AM – 11:15 AM\nPANEL II: The More-than-Human World\nPatricia Cahill\, Emory University\nDennis Britton\, University of British Columbia (Canada) \n11:30 AM – 1:00 PM\nLunch \n1:15 PM – 2:15 PM\nPANEL III: Race and Place\nVin Nardizzi\, University of British Columbia (Canada)\nEli Cumings\, Columbia University \n2:30 PM – 4:00 PM\nKEYNOTE CONVERSATION: Environmental Racism and Narratives of Settlement\nMadeline Sayet\, Arizona State University\nScott Manning Stevens\, Syracuse University \n  \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/environmental-and-racial-justice-in-shakespeare-studies/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Conferences/Symposia
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260424
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260427
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SUMMARY:SOF@50: Humanities in the World
DESCRIPTION:Co-Sponsored by The University Seminars on Cultural Memory and Public Humanities: Expanding Scholarship and Pedagogy \n(Faculty House and Heyman Center for The Humanities) \nFor the past 50 years\, the Columbia Society of Fellows has welcomed early-career researchers into a community of scholars whose research projects and teaching open new avenues of inquiry both within and across disciplines.  From its earliest years when it gathered in Faculty House\, the Society of Fellows has enjoyed a longstanding partnership with University Seminars in bringing together researchers to think together.  In celebration of this partnership and of the milestone anniversaries of both the Society of Fellows and The University Seminars\, the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities and The University Seminars on Cultural Memory (#717) and Public Humanities (#805) are hosting a three-day conference\, Humanities in the World\, to welcome scholars from across the generations to discuss topics and questions that are of particular urgency for scholar-citizens at the present time—and to celebrate what we have accomplished together.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/sof50-humanities-in-the-world/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Conferences/Symposia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260402T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260402T190000
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SUMMARY:Italians in/and the Maghreb: Between Integration and Isolation
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by The University Seminar on Studies in Modern Italy \nItalians in/and the Maghreb will expand discussions of colonialism\, migration\, race\, decolonial movements\, and postcolonial issues in Italian and Italian diaspora studies. While the study of Italian colonialism has blossomed in recent years with the country’s official colonies in Eritrea\, Somalia\, Libya\, Ethiopia\, and the Dodecanese Islands now the topic of many scholarly studies\, the history of Italians in Algeria\, Morocco\, and Tunisia has tended to remain marginal\, and mostly examined as an example of Italy’s aggressive emigration policies and attempts to pursue informal colonies. This seminar explores the exchanges between Italy and French North Africa\, focusing on imperial ambitions\, migration\, and the wide-ranging intellectual dialogues between the two regions. Papers span in focus and time frame—from the period of peak diaspora in the late nineteenth century to “repatriations” during long decolonization (Ballinger 2020)—and converse with recent studies such as L’Italia e Africa: Strategie e visioni dell’età postcoloniale\, 1945–1989 (Borruso 2024)\, Migration at the End of Empire. Time and the Politics of Departure between Italy and Egypt (Viscomi 2024); Storia del colonialismo italiano (Deplano and Pes 2024)\, and Italiani d’Africa. Racconti del Ritorno (Vigo 2025). \nPresenters: Sarah DeMott\, Valerie McGuire\, Erica Moretti\, Gabriele Montalbano\, Luca Peretti \nRespondents: Naor Ben-Yehoyada\, Columbia University; Youssef Ben Ismail\, Amherst College; Claudio Fogu\, University of California Santa Barbara; Mia Fuller\, Gladyce Arata Terrill\, University of California\, Berkeley \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/italians-in-and-the-mahgreb/
LOCATION:Italian Academy for Advanced Studies\, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences/Symposia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260327T090000
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SUMMARY:Unsettled in Dakar: Architectural Modernity in 20th century Senegal
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The University Seminar on Beyond France \nThis symposium on architecture and urban planning in Twentieth-Century Senegal spotlights new research on how the built environment in and around Dakar registered the continuities and ruptures between French rule and independence\, indigenous heritage and colonial legacies. What role did the built environment play in constructing citizenship? What opportunities did Senegal’s independence usher in for French and African designers? What effect did Léopold Sédar Senghor’s emphasis on the arts as a path to Négritude have on architectural production and training? Each panel will address one architectural scale: urban\, housing\, and monumental. Speakers include: Steven Nelson (UCLA); Nzinga Mboup (Worofilia); Ralph Ghoche (Barnard); Lucia Allais (Columbia); Gregory Valdespino (University of Iowa); Mamadou Diouf (Columbia); Martino Stierli (MoMA); Jana Ndiaye Berankova (Suture Press); Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Columbia); Frederick Cooper (NYU). \nSCHEDULE \n9:30 AM\nINTRODUCTIONS \n9:45 AM–11:15 AM\nFrom Urbanism to Urban Planning \n“Creating Colonial Dakar: Architecture and France’s Imperial Ambition”\nSteven Nelson\, University of California\, Los Angeles \n“The Makings of the Wooden Barrack House: A Marker of the Policy of Segregation and the Material Flows of the Colonial Administration”\nNzinga Mboup\, Worofila\, Dakar (Senegal) \nRespondent: Ralph Ghoche\, Barnard College \nCOFFEE BREAK \n11:30 AM–1 PM\nConcrete Domes and Mortgaged Homes \nMobilities: Dakar’s Maisons-ballons\, 1948-1952\nLucia Allais\, Columbia University \n“Dakar’s El Dorado: SICAP and the Promise of Prosperity”\nGregory Valdespino\, University of Iowa \nRespondent: Rosalind Fredericks\, Gallatin School\, New York University  \nMIDDAY BREAK \n2 PM–3 PM\n“Ghost Fair Trade” Film Screening (dir. Laurence Bonvin\, Cheikh Ndiaye 38 min.) \n3:00 PM–4:30 PM\nModernism in the Post-Colony \n“The Asymmetric Parallelism of the Centre International du Commerce Extérieur du Sénégal (CICES)”\nMartino Stierli\, The Museum of Modern Art\, NYC \n“Architecture as Objet-Témoin: Bureau d’Études Henri Chomette in Dakar”\nJana Ndiaye Berankova\, Czech Academy of Sciences\, Suture Press Prague (Czechia) \nRespondent: Souleymane Bachir Diagne\, Columbia University \nCOFFEE BREAK \n5:00 PM\nCLOSING REMARKS \nFrederick Cooper\, New York University \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/unsettled-in-dakar-architectural-modernity-in-20th-century-senegal/
LOCATION:East Gallery\, Maison Française\, Buell Hall
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SUMMARY:New Directions in the History of Knowledge and Material Culture
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The University Seminar on The History and Philosophy of Science \nMany recent works in the history of science and knowledge address various aspects of materiality\, including material culture\, agentive matter\, and the trajectories of materials\, objects\, and knowledge across geographic and epistemic borders. This workshop\, which accompanies a new graduate history course taught by Professor Pamela Smith\, seeks to introduce and discuss some of these new approaches. Visiting scholars Anna Grasskamp (University of Oslo)\, Dana Leibsohn (Smith College)\, and Alisha Rankin (Tufts University) will present their research in conversation with the work of local graduate students and scholars of material culture. \nAttendance by invitation only. Please email scr2165@columbia.edu if you would like to attend.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/new-directions-in-the-history-of-knowledge-and-material-culture/
LOCATION:Fayerweather Hall\, Columbia University
CATEGORIES:Conferences/Symposia
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260204
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SUMMARY:Desire\, Unreason\, and Truth in Affect
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The University Seminar on Affect Studies \nThis workshop seeks to explore the tension between the universal normative claim to truth and the singular claim to truth in affect\, focusing on one of the strongest human emotions and experiences: erotic desire. In the absence of an absolute in a post-secular society\, the role of affect has stepped in to substantivize many normative claims—either culminating in a ‘politics of feeling’ or in prioritizing individual emotions and affective economies over normative categories such as justice or freedom. This has major implications for two of the most contested concepts in religious\, philosophical\, political\, and literary thought: truth and reason. Erotic desire is often thought to unsettle those very concepts: conceived as inevitably singular moments of rapture and ecstasy and often associated with the loss of (self-)control\, desire is believed to be located at the edge of ratio and language and therefore without viable claims to truth. Our workshop will highlight the subversive power of desire and/or affect and its inherent\, even if problematic relation to truth and reason. \nFor in-person registration\, please email the organizers: \nPatricia A. Dailey\npd2132@columbia.edu \nCaroline Sauter\ncaroline.sauter@nyu.edu
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/desire-unreason-and-truth-in-affect/
LOCATION:Heyman Center for the Humanities\, 74 Morningside Drive\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251113
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SUMMARY:Black Europe: A Field on the Move 
DESCRIPTION:Scholars across disciplines are increasingly treating “Black Europe” as a pertinent object of study. Yet conversations continue to take place regarding what “Black Europe” is. Does Black Europe describe a place\, an identity\, an aspiration\, or something else? Scholars oscillate between terms such as “Afropean\,” “African-European\,” and “Black European.” The institutionalization of Black European studies remains a work in progress\, and views vary on whether it is an academic field\, a subsection of Black Studies or African Diaspora Studies\, or a reference point for a set of inquiries and practices that exceed the bounds of academic discipline. \nBlack Europe: A Field on the Move encourages interdisciplinary conversation on these questions with four panels and two keynote presentations by scholars from across Europe and the US. \n 
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/black-europe-a-field-on-the-move/
LOCATION:Heyman Center for the Humanities\, 74 Morningside Drive\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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