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  • “Cine-Memoria:” Past and Present in Latin American Cinemas

    Faculty House 64 Morningside Drive, New York +1 more

    Cine-Memoria: Past and Present in Latin American Cinemas is a conference and screenings that consider two times in the history of regional Latin American filmmaking. We return to the radical women’s movement and collective filmmaking of the 1960s and 1970s in screenings of rare short titles and reconsider this work in the light of political developments and the emergence of “global auteurs” with international recognition. The first day is dedicated to remembering the critical work of Cuban-American scholar Ana M. López and a third day features online presentations in Spanish and Portuguese. View the Detailed Schedule       PRESENTED […]

  • “Ab uno disce omnes”: A Conference in Honor of Christopher Baswell

    Butler Library 535 West 114th Street, New York, New York

    This conference celebrates the long and distinguished career of Christopher Baswell (Ann Whitney Olin Chair of English, Barnard College; Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University), a leading scholar of medieval literature. Baswell’s work combines analytical precision, theoretical sophistication, and astonishing erudition to probe a wide range of topics, from medieval reception of the classics, to multilingualism, to disability studies, to women’s poetry across time. He is the author of Virgil in Medieval England: Figuring the Aeneid from the Twelfth Century to Chaucer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), a dazzling demonstration of the ways manuscript study can inform literary analysis, […]

  • Black Europe: A Field on the Move 

    Heyman Center for the Humanities 74 Morningside Drive, New York, NY, United States

    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. Black Europe: A Field […]

  • New Directions in the History of Knowledge and Material Culture

    Fayerweather Hall, Columbia University

    Many 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. Attendance by invitation only. Please email scr2165@columbia.edu if you would like […]

  • Italians in/and the Maghreb: Between Integration and Isolation

    Italian Academy for Advanced Studies 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, United States

    Italians 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, […]