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SUMMARY:Thanksgiving Break
DESCRIPTION:Morningside Campus is closed. Faculty House is closed for seminars and events.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/thanksgiving-break/
LOCATION:Columbia University
CATEGORIES:Holiday
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SUMMARY:Election Day
DESCRIPTION:Morningside Campus is closed. Faculty House is closed for seminars and events.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/election-day/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Holiday
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SUMMARY:Academic Holiday
DESCRIPTION:Morningside Campus is closed. Faculty House is closed for seminars and events.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/academic-holiday/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Holiday
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SUMMARY:Lecture III: Learning from the Past after 1945: Ordinary Germans and Elites
DESCRIPTION:The Heavy Burden of Modern German History: Imperialism\, Wars\, Genocide in the Twentieth Century\, and the Fall-Out\n  \nVolker R. Berghahn\nSeth Low Emeritus Professor of History\nColumbia University \nLecture I: Debates Among Historians of Modern Germany\, 1950-2024\nMonday\, October 7\, 2024\, 8 pm \nLecture II: Hitler’s War Aims: Genocide and World Domination\nMonday\, October 21\, 2024\, 8 pm \nLecture III: Learning from the Past after 1945: Ordinary Germans and Elites\nMonday\, October 28\, 2024\, 8pm \nThese lectures will examine the development of Germany in the twentieth- and twenty-first- centuries up to the year 2024. As that development has led to at times heated debates among historians and social scientists\, the first lecture will analyze the most important controversies from 1950 to the present\, to provide the larger historical context. The second lecture will present the latest scholarship on Germany’s role in two world wars\, culminating in the genocide of the Jews of Europe and other minorities up to 1945. The third lecture will discuss how the Germans got out of the catastrophe of World War II and how\, with Allied help\, they reconstructed their political system\, their economy\, and their intellectual and cultural life\, raising the question of their capacity to learn from a horrific past. \nVolker Berghahn\, Seth Low Emeritus Professor of History at Columbia University\, specializes in modern German history and European-American relations. He received his M.A. from the University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill (1961) and his Ph.D. from the University of London (1964). He taught in England and Germany before coming to Brown University in 1988 and to Columbia ten years later. His publications include America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe (2001); Quest for Economic Empire (ed.\, 1996); Imperial Germany (1995); The Americanization of West German Industry\, 1945-1973 (1986); Modern Germany (1982); Der Tirpitz-Plan (1971); Europe in the Era of Two World Wars (2006); and most recently Industriegesellschaft und Kulturtransfer (2010). \n\n\nLectures are free and open to the public. IN-PERSON REGISTRATION IS CLOSED. Registration is still open to attend over Zoom. \n\n\n\n\nRegister for ZOOM access to Lectures II and III\n\n\n 
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/lecture-iii/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lecture Series
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SUMMARY:Lecture II: Hitler’s War Aims: Genocide and World Domination
DESCRIPTION:The Heavy Burden of Modern German History: Imperialism\, Wars\, Genocide in the Twentieth Century\, and the Fall-Out\n  \nVolker R. Berghahn\nSeth Low Emeritus Professor of History\nColumbia University \nLecture I: Debates Among Historians of Modern Germany\, 1950-2024\nMonday\, October 7\, 2024\, 8 pm \nLecture II: Hitler’s War Aims: Genocide and World Domination\nMonday\, October 21\, 2024\, 8 pm \nLecture III: Learning from the Past after 1945: Ordinary Germans and Elites\nMonday\, October 28\, 2024\, 8pm \nThese lectures will examine the development of Germany in the twentieth- and twenty-first- centuries up to the year 2024. As that development has led to at times heated debates among historians and social scientists\, the first lecture will analyze the most important controversies from 1950 to the present\, to provide the larger historical context. The second lecture will present the latest scholarship on Germany’s role in two world wars\, culminating in the genocide of the Jews of Europe and other minorities up to 1945. The third lecture will discuss how the Germans got out of the catastrophe of World War II and how\, with Allied help\, they reconstructed their political system\, their economy\, and their intellectual and cultural life\, raising the question of their capacity to learn from a horrific past. \nVolker Berghahn\, Seth Low Emeritus Professor of History at Columbia University\, specializes in modern German history and European-American relations. He received his M.A. from the University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill (1961) and his Ph.D. from the University of London (1964). He taught in England and Germany before coming to Brown University in 1988 and to Columbia ten years later. His publications include America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe (2001); Quest for Economic Empire (ed.\, 1996); Imperial Germany (1995); The Americanization of West German Industry\, 1945-1973 (1986); Modern Germany (1982); Der Tirpitz-Plan (1971); Europe in the Era of Two World Wars (2006); and most recently Industriegesellschaft und Kulturtransfer (2010). \n\n\nLectures are free and open to the public. IN-PERSON REGISTRATION IS CLOSED. Registration is still open to attend over Zoom. \n\n\n\n\nRegister for ZOOM access to Lectures II and III\n\n\n 
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/lecture-ii-hitlers-war-aims-genocide-and-world-domination/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lecture Series
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SUMMARY:General Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Meeting of all seminar chairs.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/general-committee-meeting/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241010T170000
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SUMMARY:Community Hour at Faculty House
DESCRIPTION:Community Hour at Faculty House is back. \nBefore you head home after work\, take some time to wind down and socialize with your colleagues and other Columbia community members. \n$15 for 3 drink tickets\, beer and wine\nComplimentary light snacks\nNo reservations required\nCash and credit cards both accepted
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/community-hour-at-faculty-house/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Community Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241007T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241007T220000
DTSTAMP:20260420T075318
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SUMMARY:Lecture I: Debates Among Historians of Modern Germany\, 1950-2024
DESCRIPTION:The Heavy Burden of Modern German History: Imperialism\, Wars\, Genocide in the Twentieth Century\, and the Fall-Out\n  \nVolker R. Berghahn\nSeth Low Emeritus Professor of History\nColumbia University \nLecture I: Debates Among Historians of Modern Germany\, 1950-2024\nMonday\, October 7\, 2024\, 8 pm \nLecture II: Hitler’s War Aims: Genocide and World Domination\nMonday\, October 21\, 2024\, 8 pm \nLecture III: Learning from the Past after 1945: Ordinary Germans and Elites\nMonday\, October 28\, 2024\, 8pm \nThese lectures will examine the development of Germany in the twentieth- and twenty-first- centuries up to the year 2024. As that development has led to at times heated debates among historians and social scientists\, the first lecture will analyze the most important controversies from 1950 to the present\, to provide the larger historical context. The second lecture will present the latest scholarship on Germany’s role in two world wars\, culminating in the genocide of the Jews of Europe and other minorities up to 1945. The third lecture will discuss how the Germans got out of the catastrophe of World War II and how\, with Allied help\, they reconstructed their political system\, their economy\, and their intellectual and cultural life\, raising the question of their capacity to learn from a horrific past. \nVolker Berghahn\, Seth Low Emeritus Professor of History at Columbia University\, specializes in modern German history and European-American relations. He received his M.A. from the University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill (1961) and his Ph.D. from the University of London (1964). He taught in England and Germany before coming to Brown University in 1988 and to Columbia ten years later. His publications include America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe (2001); Quest for Economic Empire (ed.\, 1996); Imperial Germany (1995); The Americanization of West German Industry\, 1945-1973 (1986); Modern Germany (1982); Der Tirpitz-Plan (1971); Europe in the Era of Two World Wars (2006); and most recently Industriegesellschaft und Kulturtransfer (2010). \nLectures are free and open to the public. Registration required. Register HERE.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/lecture-i-debates-among-historians-of-modern-germany-1950-2024/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lecture Series
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240913
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240916
DTSTAMP:20260420T075318
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SUMMARY:“Cine-Memoria:” Past and Present in Latin American Cinemas
DESCRIPTION: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. \nView the Detailed Schedule \n  \n  \n  \nPRESENTED BY  \nFilm and Media Studies MA Program at Columbia University School of the Arts \n\nCO-SPONSORS \nColumbia University \n\nInstitute for the Study of Latin American Arts\nInstitute for Latin American Studies\nLemann Center for Brazilian Studies\nDean of Humanities of Arts & Sciences\nColumbia University Seminar on Sites of Cinema\nLatin American and Iberian Cultures\nInstitute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender\nDepartment of History\nCenter for Study of Ethnicity and Race\nCenter for Comparative Media\nWriting MFA Program at the School of the Arts\n\nNew York Women in Film and Television\nWomen Make Movies\nRed de investigación del Audiovisual hecho por Mujeres en América Latina\nRadical Film Network
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/cine-memoria-past-and-present-in-latin-american-cinemas/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Conferences/Symposia
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240904
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240611T192426Z
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SUMMARY:Autumn Term Begins
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/autumn-term-begins/
LOCATION:Columbia University
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240902
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240903
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CREATED:20240611T185454Z
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SUMMARY:Labor Day
DESCRIPTION:Morningside Campus is closed. Faculty House is closed for seminars and events.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/labor-day/
LOCATION:Columbia University
CATEGORIES:Holiday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240619T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240619T170000
DTSTAMP:20260420T075318
CREATED:20240613T181710Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240617T194020Z
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SUMMARY:Test Conference
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URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/test-conference/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Conferences/Symposia
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240530
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240531
DTSTAMP:20260420T075318
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SUMMARY:GLP-1 Agonists: A New Frontier In The Treatment of Obesity
DESCRIPTION:There is considerable excitement about a new generation of anti-obesity medications (AOMs). These medications supply the body with analogues of hormones that are naturally produced in the gut\, including glucagon-like-peptide-1 (GLP-1)\, which signal the termination of eating and suppress hunger. Recent clinical trials demonstrate marked efficacy of GLP-1-based AOMs in promoting weight loss with some evidence that their primary mechanism of action is to limit food intake. Although work is needed to precisely characterize effects on eating behaviors\, initial data suggest that GLP-1 analogues can enhance satiation and curb appetite. Ultimately\, these new classes of AOMs have potential to counter the obesogenic modern food environment\, which promotes the overconsumption of calorie-dense foods. \nThe proposed conference will bring together scientific\, clinical\, and industry leaders in the fields of obesity and appetitive behaviors to (a) review advances in obesity pharmacotherapy\, (b) describe the findings of key trials of GLP-1-based therapies for weight loss\, (c) discuss the mechanisms of action of new-generation AOMs\, with an emphasis on effects on eating behaviors\, (d) examine the strengths and limitations of new obesity pharmacotherapies\, and (d) identify important avenues for future research. This conference will facilitate discourse between scientists working at the intersection of appetitive behavior\, obesity medicine\, and industry to advance our understanding of the impact of GLP-1-based AOM on the regulation of food intake and body weight.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/glp-1-agonists-a-new-frontier-in-the-treatment-of-obesity/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Conferences/Symposia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240501T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240501T220000
DTSTAMP:20260420T075318
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SUMMARY:Fall 2023 Schoff Memorial Lecture Series | Lecture I
DESCRIPTION:The Abundant In Between Time\nI: People in Me: Mapping Maya’s Circle\, Following Abbey’s Road\nMonday\, November 13\, 2023\, 8 pm\nFarah Jasmine Griffin\nThe William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African American and African Diaspora Studies\, Columbia University \n\nDrawing upon Maya Angelou’s memoirs\, The Heart of a Woman (1981) and All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986)\, these lectures identify a few of her friends\, singer\, composer\, Abbey Lincoln\, novelist\, Paule Marshall and art historian\, ethnographer\, Sylvia Ardyn Boone\, major artists and intellectuals in their own right\, who help us flesh out an understudied period in African American (particularly Black Women’s) intellectual and cultural history.  From the late fifties and early sixties this group of Black women came to call New York home and like those before them began to create identities and a body of work shaped by their political and aesthetic sensibilities.  More Pan-Africanist than Diasporic\, not yet and possibly never\, Black feminist\, they nonetheless saw themselves as modern\, global black women still bound by\, but in search of new understandings of gender and sexuality. By the end of the period under consideration in the early 1970s\, each of them would find themselves outside of the United States\, in Black majority countries\, creating works that are deserving of our continued attention and appreciation. \n\nFarah Jasmine Griffin is the William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African American and African Diaspora Studies.  Professor Griffin received her B.A. from Harvard and her Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale.   She is the author or editor of eight books including Who Set You Flowin?: The African American Migration Narrative (Oxford\, 1995)\, If You Can’t Be Free\, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday (Free Press\, 2001)\, Clawing at the Limits of Cool:  Miles Davis\, John Coltrane and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever (with Salim Washington\, Thomas Dunne Press\, 2008)\, and Harlem Nocturne:  Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II (Basic Books\, 2013).  In 2021 W.W. Norton published the critically acclaimed Read Until You Understand:  The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature. And her most recent In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays\, was published in March 2023. Griffin has been a Cullman Center Scholar\, a Guggenheim Fellow\, and Mellon Foundation Fellow in Residence. \n\nUpcoming Lectures\nII: A Timeless Tale:  Paule Marshall’s Underappreciated Great Work\, “The Chosen Place\, The Timeless People”\nMonday\, November 20\, 2023\, 8 pm\nIII: To Be a Part of the Future:  The Quiet Quest of Sylvia Ardyn Boone\nMonday\, November 27\, 2023\, 8 pm
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/fall-2023-schoff-memorial-lecture-series-lecture-i/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240328T181500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240328T200000
DTSTAMP:20260420T075318
CREATED:20240205T171005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240205T171005Z
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SUMMARY:Reception in Memory of Francesco Pellizzi
DESCRIPTION:The University Seminar for the Arts of Africa\, Oceania\, and the Americas will be hosting a reception to celebrate the life and achievements of Dr. Francesco Pellizzi\, who joined the ancestors in August 2023. \nFrancesco served generously as chair or co-chair of the seminar for 18 years (2005-23)\, which\, under his guidance\, made a huge contribution to the life of the department and the university. Thanks to Francesco’s international stature as an anthropologist\, art critic\, and the Founder and Editor of Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics\, Francesco was able to attract an astonishing caliber of scholars to speak. This included distinguished anthropologists such as Carlo Severi (EHESS)\, art historians such as Christopher Pinney\, and a wide range of international scholars from Italy\, France and Mexico\, The topics could range from Aboriginal Acrylic Paintings\, Aztec Sacrifice\, The Poetics of Iconoclasm in Papua New Guinea\, Art and Aliveness in the Pacific Northwest. We are also grateful to remember his attentive mentorship of students in the program. \nPlease join us to toast our dear friend and to exchange personal reminiscences. \n\nRSVP LINK
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/reception-in-memory-of-francesco-pellizzi/
LOCATION:The Stronach Center (Schermerhorn 8th Floor)
CATEGORIES:Celebration Events
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240111T170000
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SUMMARY:Making Connections for the Study of the Hebrew Bible
DESCRIPTION:The conference is intended to encourage regional HB scholars and PhD students to make or strengthen personal connections with one another. At the same time\, we hope to highlight interdisciplinary\, intercultural\, and intertextual connections that many of us are making in our scholarship on the Hebrew Bible \nThe day will be prepared for by gathering responses from planned participants (both attendees and presenters) with 1-2 sentences giving a brief pointer to how they have found an interdisciplinary connection useful for their research or teaching. Those responses will be collected and circulated to attendees so they have an idea of who is at the conference and what they are interested in. \nThe January 2024 conference “Making Connections” will deepen and broaden the conversation of the Columbia Hebrew Bible seminar\, allowing its members to connect with up-and-coming scholars of the region and also providing a full day-long opportunity for its more distant members (e.g. from Philadelphia\, Princeton and New Haven) to benefit from a trip to the city. This conference will be meeting on the site of its co-sponsor\, Union Theological Seminary in New York\, which happens to have been the site where the Society of Biblical Literature met (as a whole) almost every year from the 1800’s into the late 1960’s. Recognizing the historic importance of Union as a meeting place for biblical scholarship and the importance of this conference.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/making-connections-for-the-study-of-the-hebrew-bible/
LOCATION:Union Theological Seminary
CATEGORIES:Conferences/Symposia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231127T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231127T220000
DTSTAMP:20260420T075318
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SUMMARY:Fall 2023 Schoff Memorial Lecture Series | III
DESCRIPTION:The Abundant In Between Time\nIII: To Be a Part of the Future:  The Quiet Quest of Sylvia Ardyn Boone\nMonday\, November 27\, 2023\, 8 pm\nFarah Jasmine Griffin\nThe William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African American and African Diaspora Studies\, Columbia University \n\nDrawing upon Maya Angelou’s memoirs\, The Heart of a Woman (1981) and All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986)\, these lectures identify a few of her friends\, singer\, composer\, Abbey Lincoln\, novelist\, Paule Marshall and art historian\, ethnographer\, Sylvia Ardyn Boone\, major artists and intellectuals in their own right\, who help us flesh out an understudied period in African American (particularly Black Women’s) intellectual and cultural history.  From the late fifties and early sixties this group of Black women came to call New York home and like those before them began to create identities and a body of work shaped by their political and aesthetic sensibilities.  More Pan-Africanist than Diasporic\, not yet and possibly never\, Black feminist\, they nonetheless saw themselves as modern\, global black women still bound by\, but in search of new understandings of gender and sexuality. By the end of the period under consideration in the early 1970s\, each of them would find themselves outside of the United States\, in Black majority countries\, creating works that are deserving of our continued attention and appreciation. \n\nFarah Jasmine Griffin is the William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African American and African Diaspora Studies.  Professor Griffin received her B.A. from Harvard and her Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale.   She is the author or editor of eight books including Who Set You Flowin?: The African American Migration Narrative (Oxford\, 1995)\, If You Can’t Be Free\, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday (Free Press\, 2001)\, Clawing at the Limits of Cool:  Miles Davis\, John Coltrane and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever (with Salim Washington\, Thomas Dunne Press\, 2008)\, and Harlem Nocturne:  Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II (Basic Books\, 2013).  In 2021 W.W. Norton published the critically acclaimed Read Until You Understand:  The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature. And her most recent In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays\, was published in March 2023. Griffin has been a Cullman Center Scholar\, a Guggenheim Fellow\, and Mellon Foundation Fellow in Residence. \n\nPast Lectures\nI: People in Me: Mapping Maya’s Circle\, Following Abbey’s Road\nMonday\, November 13\, 2023\, 8 pm\nII: A Timeless Tale:  Paule Marshall’s Underappreciated Great Work\, “The Chosen Place\, The Timeless People”\nMonday\, November 20\, 2023\, 8 pm
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/fall-2023-schoff-memorial-lecture-series-iii/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
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SUMMARY:Fall 2023 Schoff Memorial Lecture Series | II
DESCRIPTION:The Abundant In Between Time\nII: A Timeless Tale:  Paule Marshall’s Underappreciated Great Work\, “The Chosen Place\, The Timeless People”\nMonday\, November 20\, 2023\, 8 pm\nFarah Jasmine Griffin\nThe William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African American and African Diaspora Studies\, Columbia University \n\nDrawing upon Maya Angelou’s memoirs\, The Heart of a Woman (1981) and All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986)\, these lectures identify a few of her friends\, singer\, composer\, Abbey Lincoln\, novelist\, Paule Marshall and art historian\, ethnographer\, Sylvia Ardyn Boone\, major artists and intellectuals in their own right\, who help us flesh out an understudied period in African American (particularly Black Women’s) intellectual and cultural history.  From the late fifties and early sixties this group of Black women came to call New York home and like those before them began to create identities and a body of work shaped by their political and aesthetic sensibilities.  More Pan-Africanist than Diasporic\, not yet and possibly never\, Black feminist\, they nonetheless saw themselves as modern\, global black women still bound by\, but in search of new understandings of gender and sexuality. By the end of the period under consideration in the early 1970s\, each of them would find themselves outside of the United States\, in Black majority countries\, creating works that are deserving of our continued attention and appreciation. \n\nFarah Jasmine Griffin is the William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African American and African Diaspora Studies.  Professor Griffin received her B.A. from Harvard and her Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale.   She is the author or editor of eight books including Who Set You Flowin?: The African American Migration Narrative (Oxford\, 1995)\, If You Can’t Be Free\, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday (Free Press\, 2001)\, Clawing at the Limits of Cool:  Miles Davis\, John Coltrane and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever (with Salim Washington\, Thomas Dunne Press\, 2008)\, and Harlem Nocturne:  Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II (Basic Books\, 2013).  In 2021 W.W. Norton published the critically acclaimed Read Until You Understand:  The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature. And her most recent In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays\, was published in March 2023. Griffin has been a Cullman Center Scholar\, a Guggenheim Fellow\, and Mellon Foundation Fellow in Residence. \n\nUpcoming Lectures\nIII: To Be a Part of the Future:  The Quiet Quest of Sylvia Ardyn Boone\nMonday\, November 27\, 2023\, 8 pm\nPast Lectures\nI: People in Me: Mapping Maya’s Circle\, Following Abbey’s Road\nMonday\, November 13\, 2023\, 8 pm
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/fall-2023-schoff-memorial-lecture-series-ii/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
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SUMMARY:Crooked Plow: Translating Social Justice in Brazil
DESCRIPTION:Crooked Plow:\nTranslating Social Justice in Brazil\nJoin us for a discussion of Brazilian author Itamar Vieira Junior’s best-selling novel Crooked Plow\, now available in English. Our speakers will explore translation\, literary writing\, social justice work\, and the long shadow that slavery casts. Co-Sponsored by the University Seminar on Public Humanities: Expanding Scholarship and Pedagogy; Columbia University Department of History; The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities; Columbia Global Centers\, Rio De Janeiro; Institute of Latin American Studies. This event is free and open to the public. \n\nAbout the Book \nDeep in Brazil’s neglected Bahia hinterland\, two sisters find an ancient knife beneath their grandmother’s bed and\, momentarily mystified by its power\, decide to taste its metal. The shuddering violence that follows marks their lives and binds them together forever. This fascinating and gripping story about the lives of subsistence farmers in Brazil’s poorest region\, three generations after the abolition of slavery\, is at once fantastic and realist\, covering themes of family\, spirituality\, slavery and its aftermath and political struggle. \nCrooked Plow has been heralded as the most important Brazilian novel of the century so far\, and Vieira Junior was profiled by The New York Times in early 2022; “Black Authors Shake Up Brazil’s Literary Scene.” Translated by Johnny Lorenz in June 2023\, Crooked Plow has been praised as “[an] engrossing story [that] gives visibility to many who have traditionally been marginalized\,” (Washington Post)\, “an impressive first novel by an important literary voice” (Financial Times)\, and “a compelling vision of history’s downtrodden and neglected” (New York Times Book Review). \n\nSpeakers: \nItamar Vieira Junior\nauthor\, Crooked Plow \nJohnny Lorenz\ntranslator\, Crooked Plow \nKeisha-Khan Perry\nauthor\, Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil \n\nREGISTRATION LINK
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/10847/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Conferences/Symposia
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SUMMARY:Memory Studies: New Directions
DESCRIPTION:  \nPlease join us to discuss two recent collections in Memory Studies and to take stock of new directions in the field. Irene Kacandes\, editor of On Being Adjacent to Historical Violence (De Gruyter\, 2022)\, and Brett Kaplan\, editor of Critical Memory Studies (Routledge\, 2023)\, will each introduce their volumes and reflect on how the pandemic lock-down inflected the books’ contributions. Contributors Claudia Breger\, Leo Spitzer\, Marita Sturken\, Sonali Thakkar\, and James Young will offer brief accounts of key memory studies concepts emerging from their essays. This event is open to the public. \nFliers to order books at a discount are attached\, along with the two introductions for seminar members to read in advance. Future meetings this fall will also focus on recent publications in the field. We look forward to our conversations.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/10853/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Presentations
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SUMMARY:Abolitionism and the Arts
DESCRIPTION:10 am – 5 pm Interdisciplinary Symposium at the Heyman Center for the Humanities\n5:30 pm Concert at the Maison Française\n\n\nThe goal of our conference is to bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to think through some key questions and issues that arise when we study the connections between the arts and the history of abolitionism in the Atlantic world\, e.g.: What approaches did writers\, musicians\, and artists take to the problems of slavery and the slave trade? In what ways did their creative activities subvert or reinscribe stereotypes about Africans and African-descended people? How did the materiality of the objects they produced—musical scores\, teapots\, broadsides—affect the types of abolitionist messages they promoted? Did these political artworks complement or stray from the official strategies of organizations like the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade? We are inviting scholars from art history\, literature\, musicology\, and history to present work that is grounded in their own fields but that also speaks to these wider historical questions. We hope the conference will create connections between scholars of different fields and inspire new scholarship on the theme of abolitionism and the arts.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/abolitionism-and-the-arts/
LOCATION:Heyman Center for the Humanities\, 74 Morningside Drive\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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SUMMARY:50th Anniversary of Appetitive Behavior
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating a Half-Century of the Columbia University Seminar on Appetitive Behavior\nCo-sponsored by:  NutriSci\, Inc. and The University Seminar on Appetitive Behavior. \n\nA brief history of the seminar:  \nThe Appetitive Seminar had its first meeting on March 9\, 1972. It was created to combine a number of disciplines to study appetite. As the founder\, Dr. Theodore VanItallie stated in a letter (16 November 1971) proposing the seminar: “The regulation of food intake and its epiphenomena represent fundamental problems in human biology and physiology. How food intake (appetite) is regulated is still poorly understood and should remain a subject of intense discussion for a long time to come.” Dr. VanItallie was prescient because\, in the years that followed\, “appetite” has not merely flourished as a subject of intense discussion; it has become a journal\, and several scientific societies and groups have formed to provide forums for scientific communication. \nIt is fitting that our 50th Anniversary will include talks covering a broad range of topics within the scope of appetitive behaviors\, including neural and metabolic control of feeding\, taste perceptions and flavor-based learning\, circadian regulation of eating behaviors\, and a role for appetitive behaviors in precision nutrition. Furthermore\, we will describe the history of this seminar and its place in the broader history of the field. The list of speakers is comprised of scientists of various career stages and expertise\, and the list of topics nicely represents the key goal of our seminar: To cross disciplinary boundaries to develop a comprehensive understanding of determinants and consequences of eating and drinking behavior. \n\nSymposium program committee: \nJohn Glendinning\, Chair \nAllan Geliebter\, Co-Chair \nFaris Zuraikat\, Rapporteur \nHarry Kissileff\, Past-Chair \nBlandine Laferrere\, Advisor \nAnthony Sclafani\, Advisor
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/celebrating-a-half-century-of-the-columbia-university-seminar-on-appetitive-behavior/
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SUMMARY:2023 Schoff Memorial Lecture Series\, III
DESCRIPTION:Hidden Hybridities\nIII: The Black American Roots of the Broadway Musical Sound\n\nMuch of my academic work addresses the results in language of contact between groups. My main interests are in revealing hybridities hitherto unsuspected\, and in refining our conception of hybridities more obvious. My goal\, addressing a wide range of languages and also extending to music\, is to wean us from preconceptions due to superficial appearances\, distracting gulfs between the present and the past\, and concerns more local to our moment than scientifically framed. In these three lectures I will present areas that I have found of particular interest in this vein. \nMy first lecture will argue that English\, based on its history of significant structural mixture from Celtic languages after the fifth century\, C.E. and extreme simplification due to use by adult Vikings after the eighth century\, C.E.\, qualifies as a creole language in the same sense that languages like Haitian and Cape Verdean do. My second lecture seeks a solution to the mystery of why there are so few Spanish creole languages\, recruiting a wide range of evidence to locate the origin of today’s Atlantic creole languages on the west coast of Africa around the castle forts established there by leading colonial powers starting in the seventeenth century. My final lecture will outline how black American musical styles created what we today know as the sound of “white” American theatre music. \n\nLectures are free and open to the public. No registration required.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/2023-schoff-memorial-lecture-series-i/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230327T220000
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SUMMARY:2023 Schoff Memorial Lecture Series\, II
DESCRIPTION:Hidden Hybridities\nII: The Afrogenesis Hypothesis of Creole Language Origins\n\nMuch of my academic work addresses the results in language of contact between groups. My main interests are in revealing hybridities hitherto unsuspected\, and in refining our conception of hybridities more obvious. My goal\, addressing a wide range of languages and also extending to music\, is to wean us from preconceptions due to superficial appearances\, distracting gulfs between the present and the past\, and concerns more local to our moment than scientifically framed. In these three lectures I will present areas that I have found of particular interest in this vein. \nMy first lecture will argue that English\, based on its history of significant structural mixture from Celtic languages after the fifth century\, C.E. and extreme simplification due to use by adult Vikings after the eighth century\, C.E.\, qualifies as a creole language in the same sense that languages like Haitian and Cape Verdean do. My second lecture seeks a solution to the mystery of why there are so few Spanish creole languages\, recruiting a wide range of evidence to locate the origin of today’s Atlantic creole languages on the west coast of Africa around the castle forts established there by leading colonial powers starting in the seventeenth century. My final lecture will outline how black American musical styles created what we today know as the sound of “white” American theatre music. \nFuture Lectures: \nIII: The Black American Roots of the Broadway Musical Sound\, Monday\, April 10 \n\nLectures are free and open to the public. No registration required. 
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/2023-schoff-memorial-lecture-series-i-copy-2/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
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SUMMARY:2023 Schoff Memorial Lecture Series\, I
DESCRIPTION:Hidden Hybridities\nI: The Eccentric and Creole Nature of the English Language\n\nMuch of my academic work addresses the results in language of contact between groups. My main interests are in revealing hybridities hitherto unsuspected\, and in refining our conception of hybridities more obvious. My goal\, addressing a wide range of languages and also extending to music\, is to wean us from preconceptions due to superficial appearances\, distracting gulfs between the present and the past\, and concerns more local to our moment than scientifically framed. In these three lectures I will present areas that I have found of particular interest in this vein. \nMy first lecture will argue that English\, based on its history of significant structural mixture from Celtic languages after the fifth century\, C.E. and extreme simplification due to use by adult Vikings after the eighth century\, C.E.\, qualifies as a creole language in the same sense that languages like Haitian and Cape Verdean do. My second lecture seeks a solution to the mystery of why there are so few Spanish creole languages\, recruiting a wide range of evidence to locate the origin of today’s Atlantic creole languages on the west coast of Africa around the castle forts established there by leading colonial powers starting in the seventeenth century. My final lecture will outline how black American musical styles created what we today know as the sound of “white” American theatre music. \nFuture Lectures: \nII: The Afrogenesis Hypothesis of Creole Language Origins\, Monday\, March 27 \nIII: The Black American Roots of the Broadway Musical Sound\, Monday\, April 10 \n\nLectures are free and open to the public. No registration required.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/2023-schoff-memorial-lecture-series-i-copy/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230310T103000
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SUMMARY:Analogues and Kinship: A Talking Circle
DESCRIPTION:[pdf-embedder url=”https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/analogues-and-kinship-flyer.pdf” title=”analogues and kinship flyer”]\nColloquium for Early Medieval Studies\nIndigenous Futures / Medieval Pasts\n“Analogues and Kinship: A Talking Circle”\nCo-hosted by Tarren Andrews (Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes\, Yale University)\, Gage Diabo (Kanien’kehá:ka\, Concordia University)\, Emma Hitchcock (Columbia University)\, and Stephen Yeager (Concordia University) \nSponsored by CEMS\, Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement\, Medieval & Renaissance Studies\, Department of English and Comparative Literature\, University Seminar on Medieval Studies\, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity \nREGISTER IN PERSON HERE | REGISTER FOR ZOOM HERE\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis CEMS talking circle and workshop facilitates a broad discussion about the politics\, power structures\, and potentials of thinking about medieval pasts in concert with Indigenous futures. Analogues are a key category of evidence in medieval literary studies. When parallels between phrases\, imagery\, or narrative elements in stories are specific enough that they do not seem to be merely conventional\, they empower us to make claims about the shared histories of texts and traditions\, and so also about connections in and between the cultural milieux that produced them. Analogic arguments narrativize not only the historical relationships between texts in the past but also political relationships between nations in the present. The studies of analogues so common to medieval studies are always in this sense studies of kinship\, between not only medieval peoples but also their modern descendants.The specific example of an analogue we proceed from is between the Great Law of Peace and the Bible. In his discussion of the Great Law\, Kayanesenh Paul Williams (2018) acknowledges the parallels between the figures of the Peacemaker and Christ\, and between the story of the Peacemaker’s conception and the story of the Annunciation. Such parallels have played a central role in the discussions of the Great Law that have aimed to evaluate its challenges to settler epistemologies of history. Our Circle will ask participants to think critically about the political traps of such comparisons. What might a methodology look like that would enable us to consider analogues like this one in such a way that speaks truly and productively to the interrelationship between European\, Haudenosaunee\, and other Indigenous peoples?The first half of the day the primary circle members—Tarren Andrews (Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes)\, Gage Diabo (Kanien’kehá:ka)\, Emma Hitchcock\, and Stephen Yeager—will share thoughts and engage in a conversation about the above prompt. After a lunch break\, the circle will expand to include all participants in the ongoing conversation. A full discussion prompt and recommended readings will be shared with registrants as pdfs.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/analogues-and-kinship-a-talking-circle/
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SUMMARY:New Directions in Black Film Studies
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URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/new-directions-in-black-film-studies/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Presentations
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SUMMARY:The 13th International Columbia School Conference on the Interaction of Linguistic Form and Meaning with Human Behavior
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URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/the-13th-international-columbia-school-conference-on-the-interaction-of-linguistic-form-and-meaning-with-human-behavior/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221116T180000
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SUMMARY:2022 Annual Dinner
DESCRIPTION:November 16\, 2022\n\n2022 Tannenbaum Lecture\nHecuba’s Howl: Poetry as Feminist Lament\nThis talk includes a reading from my newly published poetry collection\, Year of the Dog\, a Latina chronicle of the Vietnam War era\, and a discussion of the tradition and function of feminist elegy during times of disaster and atrocity. The talk interweaves my perspective as the daughter of a Mexican immigrant Vietnam veteran with other stories of historical and mythic women responding to Vietnam and other forms of warfare—as warriors\, widows\, antiwar activists\, and witnesses of violence. Drawing from the mythic figure of Hecuba\, who committed herself so fully to her grief in response to the horrors of war that she was transformed into a howling dog\, I explore how female figures have brought about transformations in the private and public realms as a result of their acts of lamentation. \nDEBORAH PAREDEZ is a poet\, performance scholar\, and an Associate Professor of Professional Practice in the School of the Arts’ Writing Program and in the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University. Her writing and teaching explores the workings of memory\, poetry of witness\, and Black and Latinx performance. She is the author of three books: the critical study\, Selenidad: Selena\, Latinos\, and the Performance of Memory (Duke 2009)\, and the poetry volumes\, This Side of Skin (Wings Press 2002)\, and Year of the Dog (BOA Editions 2020). Selenidad was the recipient of the 2010 Latin American Studies Association Latino Studies Book Award Honorable Mention and the 2011 National Association of Chicana/o Studies Book Award Honorable Mention. Year of the Dog\, a New York Times’ New and Notable Book\, was awarded the 2020 Writers’ League of Texas Poetry Book Award. Her poetry and essays have appeared in a range of publications including The New York Times\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, NPR\, Boston Review\, and the anthology\, Inheriting the War: Poetry and Prose by Descendants of Vietnam Veterans and Refugees (Norton 2018). Her book of literary nonfiction\, American Diva\, is forthcoming from Norton. She is the Co-Founder of CantoMundo\, a national organization for Latinx poets\, and serves on the board of the literary nonprofit\, CLMP: Community of Literary Magazines and Presses. \n2022 Tannenbaum-Warner Award\nMARIANNE HIRSCH\, who co-directs the University Seminar on Cultural Memory with Andreas Huyssen and Sonali Thakkar\, is William Peterfield Trent Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature and the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender. The recipient of numerous grants and awards\, including Guggenheim\, ACLS\, Mary Ingraham Bunting\, Bellagio\, Bogliasco and Stellenbosch fellowships\, Hirsch is a former President of the Modern Language Association of America and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is one of the founders of Columbia’s Center for the Study of Social Difference and of its global initiative “Women Creating Change.” Hirsch’s scholarly work combines feminist theory with memory studies\, particularly the transmission of memories of violence across generations. Her recent books include The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust (2012)\, (Spanish edition\, 2015 and Russian edition 2021)\, School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference and Ghosts of Home and The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory (2010)\, both co-authored with Leo Spitzer and the co-edited Women Mobilizing Memory (2020). Hirsch co-curated a 2020 exhibition on “School Photos and Their Afterlives” at the Hood Museum of Art\, Dartmouth College. With a group of artists\, activists and scholars\, she is currently working on the “Zip Code Memory Project: Practices of Justice and Repair\,” a community based Covid project in Upper New York City. \n\nREGISTRATION LINK FOR 2022 ANNUAL DINNER
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/2022-annual-dinner/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Celebration Events
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SUMMARY:Schoff Memorial Lecture Series\, Lecture III
DESCRIPTION:Photo by Jessica Collins \n\nDuring the decade of the First World War (1910-1920)\, African American philosopher\, W.E.B. Du Bois\, argued that white supremacy functioned both domestically and internationally to thwart the democratic political aspirations of the earth’s “darker peoples\,” thus intensifying their vulnerability to anti-black mob violence\, race-based economic exploitation\, and the devastation wrought by the war itself.  During the same decade\, Du Bois elaborated an aesthetics—a philosophy of beauty—that conceptualized beauty as a political force capable of supporting the struggle against white supremacy: of sustaining the moral resolve required to fight white supremacy and of undermining the grip of white supremacy on the individuals who perpetuated it.  The central topic of my Schoff lectures is Du Bois’s turn to beauty as a weapon for defeating white supremacy and for fostering a more inclusive democratic citizenship. \n\nRobert Gooding-Williams is the M. Moran Weston/Black Alumni Council Professor of African-American Studies and Professor of Philosophy and of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University.  He is the author of Zarathustra’s Dionysian Modernism (Stanford\, 2001)\, Look\, A Negro!: Philosophical Essays on Race\, Culture\, and Politics (Routledge\, 2005)\, and In The Shadow of Du Bois: Afro-Modern Political Thought in America (Harvard\, 2009).  Gooding-Williams was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018 and was 2020 Guggenheim Fellow. \n\nEvents are free and open to the public. Proof of vaccination required. Masking strongly encouraged. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\n \nhttps://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/j/91346582967?pwd=azJKQk0rc2tURFdBczg4Y3VpM0d3dz09\n \nPasscode: 427586
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/schoff-memorial-lecture-series-copy-copy/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
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