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SUMMARY:Memorial Day
DESCRIPTION:Morningside Campus is closed. Faculty House is closed for seminars and events.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/memorial-day/
LOCATION:Columbia University
CATEGORIES:Holiday
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SUMMARY:"Ab uno disce omnes": A Conference in Honor of Christopher Baswell
DESCRIPTION: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\, and of many articles that are required reading for anyone working on medieval literary study today. Baswell has transformed our understanding of the interactions among Latin\, French\, and Middle English literary traditions in the Middle Ages. This conference features presentations from Chris’s former students and colleagues related to his field-shaping research. \nREGISTRATION LINK
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/ab-uno-disce-omnes-a-conference-in-honor-of-christopher-baswell/
LOCATION:Butler Library\, 535 West 114th Street\, New York\, New York\, 10027
CATEGORIES:Conferences/Symposia
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SUMMARY:Commencement
DESCRIPTION:Faculty House is closed for seminars and events.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/commencement/
LOCATION:Columbia University
CATEGORIES:Annual Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250516
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SUMMARY:Spring Term Ends
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/spring-term-ends/
LOCATION:Columbia University
CATEGORIES:Annual Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250507T173000
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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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SUMMARY:Resisting Silence: Unveiling the Legacy of the Italian Resistance
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by The Columbia University Seminar on Studies in Modern Italy and the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies \nIn honor of the 80th anniversary of Italian Liberation Day\, April 25th\, 1945\, the Columbia University Seminar in Modern Italian Studies presents a special panel and conversation. Resisting Silence: Unveiling the Legacy of the Italian Resistance aims to explore the historical significance and contemporary relevance of Italian antifascism. By bringing together scholars\, activists\, and community members\, we will foster meaningful discussions that illuminate the lessons of resilience and social justice. \nProgram: \nIntroductory remarks by Elizabeth Leake\, Professor\, Columbia University \nChair\, Marla Stone\, Professor\, Occidental College \nBrian J. Griffiths\, Assistant Professor of Modern European History\, University of California\, Santa Barbara and Amy King\, Senior Lecturer in Modern Italian History\, Bristol University\, Where Monsters Are Born: Documenting a Fascist Revival in the Streets of Rome\, 2018-2019  \nJoshua Arthurs\, Associate Professor of History University of Toronto\, Bella ciao and the Power of Salutary Fictions: The Value of Resistentialist memory today  \nThe panel will be followed by refreshments \nRSVP by April 11\, 2025: modernitalianseminar@gmail.com \n 
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/resisting-silence-unveiling-the-legacy-of-the-italian-resistance/
LOCATION:Italian Academy for Advanced Studies\, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Presentations
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SUMMARY:Belonging with Songs: Towards an Historical Anthropology of Medieval French Chansons Emma Dillon
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by The University Seminar on Medieval Studies\, Columbia Maison Française\, Department of Music\, and the Medieval and Renaissance Studies program\nA Talk by Emma Dillon  \nWhy do we sing? How does singing shape how we see ourselves and how we relate to one another?  Emma Dillon takes up these universal questions in the context of a medieval song community. Her talk explores Medieval French songs (trouvère songs) as a social practice\, linked to specific people and families from Northern France and to other forms of social activity.  She offers a case study of twelfth-century trouvères (using new recordings of their songs)\, and shows how songs\, charters and seals foster a sense of belonging to a community. Her talk also introduces the UKRI-funded project\, Musical Lives\, which takes further the possibility of song-centred histories through interdisciplinary collaboration with scholars and performers. \nEmma Dillon is Thurston Dart Professor of Music (Medieval Music and Cultures) at Kings College London. Her research focuses on European musical culture from the 12th to the 14th centuries. Her work falls at the intersection of musicology\, sound studies\, medieval studies\, and the history of material texts. Her books include Medieval Music-Making and the Roman de Fauvel and The Sense of Sound: Musical Meaning in France\, 1260-1330. She is Principal Investigator of a five-year research collaboration\, Musical Lives: Towards an Historical Anthropology of French Song\, 1100-1300 (MUSLIVE). \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/belonging-with-songs-towards-an-historical-anthropology-of-medieval-french-chansons-emma-dillon/
LOCATION:East Gallery\, Maison Française\, Buell Hall
CATEGORIES:Presentations
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SUMMARY:Spring Break
DESCRIPTION:Faculty House is closed for seminars and events.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/spring-break/
LOCATION:Columbia University
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250121T235900
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SUMMARY:Deadline for Conference and Publication Proposals
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URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/deadline-for-conference-proposals/
CATEGORIES:Deadline
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250122
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SUMMARY:Spring Term Begins
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URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/spring-term-begins/
LOCATION:Columbia University
CATEGORIES:Annual Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250120
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SUMMARY:Martin Luther King Jr. Day
DESCRIPTION:Morningside Campus is closed. Faculty House is closed for seminars and events.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/martin-luther-king-jr-day/
LOCATION:Columbia University
CATEGORIES:Holiday
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241220
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250107
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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/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Annual Events
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241221
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SUMMARY:Autumn Term Ends
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/autumn-term-ends/
LOCATION:Columbia University
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241127
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241130
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241105
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241106
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241104
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241105
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241028T200000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241015T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241015T180000
DTSTAMP:20260420T105134
CREATED:20240611T191607Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240918T183653Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241010T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241010T190000
DTSTAMP:20260420T105134
CREATED:20240927T173758Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240927T173905Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241007T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241007T220000
DTSTAMP:20260420T105135
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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:20260420T105135
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240904T151901Z
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240903
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240904
DTSTAMP:20260420T105135
CREATED:20240611T191335Z
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
DTSTAMP:20260420T105135
CREATED:20240611T185454Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240709T162627Z
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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:20260420T105135
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:20260420T105135
CREATED:20240419T163502Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240520T183900Z
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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:20260420T105135
CREATED:20231012T184209Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240501T160620Z
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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:20260420T105135
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240111T091500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240111T170000
DTSTAMP:20260420T105135
CREATED:20240108T191021Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240108T191021Z
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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:20260420T105135
CREATED:20231012T191019Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231012T191019Z
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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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