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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250425T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250425T210000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250507T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250507T220000
DTSTAMP:20260409T071900
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250516
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250517
DTSTAMP:20260409T071900
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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;VALUE=DATE:20250521
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250522
DTSTAMP:20260409T071900
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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:20250523
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250524
DTSTAMP:20260409T071900
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250526
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250527
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250901
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250902
DTSTAMP:20260409T071900
CREATED:20250425T170158Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250425T170158Z
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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-2/
LOCATION:Columbia University
CATEGORIES:Holiday
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250902
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250903
DTSTAMP:20260409T071900
CREATED:20250425T170334Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250425T170334Z
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SUMMARY:Autumn Term Begins
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/autumn-term-begins-2/
LOCATION:Columbia University
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T170000
DTSTAMP:20260409T071900
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SUMMARY:Open Seminar Day
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in commemorating the 80th year since the founding of The University Seminars with an interdisciplinary dialogue and conversation among representatives of different seminars. Printed materials representing all the seminars will be made available as well as selected publications supported by the Leonard Hastings Schoff and Aaron Warner Publication Funds. The event will include a presentation of A Community of Scholars: 75 Years of The University Seminars at Columbia\, Thomas Vinciguerra (ed.) — the volume published for The Seminars’ 75th anniversary year. \n1:30 PM\, UNIVERSITY SEMINARS IN CONVERSATION\nDeath (founded 1971)\nFull Employment\, Social Welfare\, and Equity (founded 1987)\nPublic Humanities: Expanding Scholarship and Pedagogy (founded 2021)\nShakespeare (founded 1982)\n2:30 PM \nBrazil (Founded 1976)\nHuman Rights (founded 1978)\nLaw and Politics (founded 1963)\nThe Ancient Near East (founded 1966)\n3:30 PM\, PRESENTATION OF ‘A COMMUNITY OF SCHOLARS’  \nFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. REGISTRATION REQUIRED.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/open-seminar-day/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Community Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T170000
DTSTAMP:20260409T071900
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250429T194021Z
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SUMMARY:General Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Meeting of all seminar chairs.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/general-committee-meeting-tentative/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Presentations
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251103
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251104
DTSTAMP:20260409T071900
CREATED:20250425T170747Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250425T170747Z
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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-2/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Holiday
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251104
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251105
DTSTAMP:20260409T071900
CREATED:20250425T170905Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250425T170905Z
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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-2/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Holiday
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251110T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251110T213000
DTSTAMP:20260409T071900
CREATED:20250408T150543Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251017T165421Z
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SUMMARY:Schoff Memorial Lectures | Lecture I
DESCRIPTION:Postponed until Fall 2027\nArt of the Lecture\nBrent Hayes Edwards\nPeng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature \nLecture I: “Talking in and out of School” \nAlthough lecture courses are a staple of university teaching\, there is oddly little scholarship considering the lecture as a format. This series of lectures is framed neither as a straightforward history nor as a practical how-to guide\, but instead as an argument for the unique generic qualities and political stakes of the lecture as a mode that hovers between pedagogy and performance. \nBrent Hayes Edwards is the Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University\, where he is also affiliated with the Center for Jazz Studies and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Since 2021 he has served as the editor of the journal PMLA. Edwards’s books include The Practice of Diaspora: Literature\, Translation\, and the Rise of Black Internationalism (Harvard UP\, 2003); Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination (Harvard UP\, 2017); and the English translation of Michel Leiris’s Phantom Africa (Seagull\, 2017). He is the Harlem Renaissance period editor of the Norton Anthology of African American Literature (4th Ed.\, 2025) and has published scholarly editions of classic works by W. E. B. Du Bois\, Frederick Douglass\, Joseph Conrad\, and Claude McKay. His most recent books are Écrire le monde noir (Rot-Bo-Krik\, 2024)\, a collection of the interwar writings of the pioneering Martinican intellectual Paulette Nardal; and Easily Slip into Another World (Knopf\, 2023)\, the co-written autobiography of the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Henry Threadgill\, which won the 2024 American Book Award. Edwards was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2015\, and in 2020 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. \nLectures are free and open to the public. Registration is required.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/leonard-hastings-schoff-memorial-lectures/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Annual Events,Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lecture Series,Spotlight Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251113
DTSTAMP:20260409T071900
CREATED:20251028T151540Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251028T151540Z
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SUMMARY:Black Europe: A Field on the Move 
DESCRIPTION:Scholars across disciplines are increasingly treating “Black Europe” as a pertinent object of study. Yet conversations continue to take place regarding what “Black Europe” is. Does Black Europe describe a place\, an identity\, an aspiration\, or something else? Scholars oscillate between terms such as “Afropean\,” “African-European\,” and “Black European.” The institutionalization of Black European studies remains a work in progress\, and views vary on whether it is an academic field\, a subsection of Black Studies or African Diaspora Studies\, or a reference point for a set of inquiries and practices that exceed the bounds of academic discipline. \nBlack Europe: A Field on the Move encourages interdisciplinary conversation on these questions with four panels and two keynote presentations by scholars from across Europe and the US. \n 
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/black-europe-a-field-on-the-move/
LOCATION:Heyman Center for the Humanities\, 74 Morningside Drive\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences/Symposia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251117T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251117T213000
DTSTAMP:20260409T071900
CREATED:20250408T151025Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251017T165512Z
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SUMMARY:Schoff Memorial Lectures | Lecture II
DESCRIPTION:Postponed until Fall 2027\nArt of the Lecture\nBrent Hayes Edwards\nPeng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature \nLecture II: “A Brief History of the Podium Shuck” \nAlthough lecture courses are a staple of university teaching\, there is oddly little scholarship considering the lecture as a format. This series of lectures is framed neither as a straightforward history nor as a practical how-to guide\, but instead as an argument for the unique generic qualities and political stakes of the lecture as a mode that hovers between pedagogy and performance. \nBrent Hayes Edwards is the Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University\, where he is also affiliated with the Center for Jazz Studies and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Since 2021 he has served as the editor of the journal PMLA. Edwards’s books include The Practice of Diaspora: Literature\, Translation\, and the Rise of Black Internationalism (Harvard UP\, 2003); Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination (Harvard UP\, 2017); and the English translation of Michel Leiris’s Phantom Africa (Seagull\, 2017). He is the Harlem Renaissance period editor of the Norton Anthology of African American Literature (4th Ed.\, 2025) and has published scholarly editions of classic works by W. E. B. Du Bois\, Frederick Douglass\, Joseph Conrad\, and Claude McKay. His most recent books are Écrire le monde noir (Rot-Bo-Krik\, 2024)\, a collection of the interwar writings of the pioneering Martinican intellectual Paulette Nardal; and Easily Slip into Another World (Knopf\, 2023)\, the co-written autobiography of the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Henry Threadgill\, which won the 2024 American Book Award. Edwards was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2015\, and in 2020 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. \nLectures are free and open to the public. Registration is required. \nREGISTER FOR THE SCHOFF LECTURES
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/leonard-hastings-schoff-memorial-lectures-lecture-ii-2/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Annual Events,Spotlight Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251124T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251124T213000
DTSTAMP:20260409T071900
CREATED:20250408T150819Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251017T165552Z
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SUMMARY:Schoff Memorial Lectures | Lecture III
DESCRIPTION:Postponed until Fall 2027\nArt of the Lecture\nBrent Hayes Edwards\nPeng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature \nLecture III: “Accompaniments of the Utterance” \nAlthough lecture courses are a staple of university teaching\, there is oddly little scholarship considering the lecture as a format. This series of lectures is framed neither as a straightforward history nor as a practical how-to guide\, but instead as an argument for the unique generic qualities and political stakes of the lecture as a mode that hovers between pedagogy and performance. \nBrent Hayes Edwards is the Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University\, where he is also affiliated with the Center for Jazz Studies and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Since 2021 he has served as the editor of the journal PMLA. Edwards’s books include The Practice of Diaspora: Literature\, Translation\, and the Rise of Black Internationalism (Harvard UP\, 2003); Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination (Harvard UP\, 2017); and the English translation of Michel Leiris’s Phantom Africa (Seagull\, 2017). He is the Harlem Renaissance period editor of the Norton Anthology of African American Literature (4th Ed.\, 2025) and has published scholarly editions of classic works by W. E. B. Du Bois\, Frederick Douglass\, Joseph Conrad\, and Claude McKay. His most recent books are Écrire le monde noir (Rot-Bo-Krik\, 2024)\, a collection of the interwar writings of the pioneering Martinican intellectual Paulette Nardal; and Easily Slip into Another World (Knopf\, 2023)\, the co-written autobiography of the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Henry Threadgill\, which won the 2024 American Book Award. Edwards was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2015\, and in 2020 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. \nLectures are free and open to the public. Registration is required. \nREGISTER FOR THE SCHOFF LECTURES
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/leonard-hastings-schoff-memorial-lectures-lecture-ii/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Annual Events,Spotlight Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251126
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251127
DTSTAMP:20260409T071900
CREATED:20250425T170959Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250425T170959Z
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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-3/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Holiday
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251126
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251129
DTSTAMP:20260409T071900
CREATED:20250425T171103Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250428T145414Z
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SUMMARY:Thanksgiving Break
DESCRIPTION:The University Seminars office is closed.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/thanksgiving-break-2/
LOCATION:Columbia University
CATEGORIES:Holiday
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251219
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251220
DTSTAMP:20260409T071900
CREATED:20250425T171258Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250425T171258Z
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SUMMARY:Autumn Term Ends
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/autumn-term-ends-2/
LOCATION:Columbia University
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260120
DTSTAMP:20260409T071900
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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-2/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Holiday
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260121
DTSTAMP:20260409T071900
CREATED:20251202T200319Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251202T200319Z
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SUMMARY:Spring Term Begins
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/spring-term-begins-2/
LOCATION:Columbia University
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260204
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260207
DTSTAMP:20260409T071900
CREATED:20260112T162340Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260112T164738Z
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SUMMARY:Desire\, Unreason\, and Truth in Affect
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The University Seminar on Affect Studies \nThis workshop seeks to explore the tension between the universal normative claim to truth and the singular claim to truth in affect\, focusing on one of the strongest human emotions and experiences: erotic desire. In the absence of an absolute in a post-secular society\, the role of affect has stepped in to substantivize many normative claims—either culminating in a ‘politics of feeling’ or in prioritizing individual emotions and affective economies over normative categories such as justice or freedom. This has major implications for two of the most contested concepts in religious\, philosophical\, political\, and literary thought: truth and reason. Erotic desire is often thought to unsettle those very concepts: conceived as inevitably singular moments of rapture and ecstasy and often associated with the loss of (self-)control\, desire is believed to be located at the edge of ratio and language and therefore without viable claims to truth. Our workshop will highlight the subversive power of desire and/or affect and its inherent\, even if problematic relation to truth and reason. \nFor in-person registration\, please email the organizers: \nPatricia A. Dailey\npd2132@columbia.edu \nCaroline Sauter\ncaroline.sauter@nyu.edu
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/desire-unreason-and-truth-in-affect/
LOCATION:Heyman Center for the Humanities\, 74 Morningside Drive\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences/Symposia
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260316
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260321
DTSTAMP:20260409T071900
CREATED:20251202T200531Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251202T200531Z
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SUMMARY:Spring Break
DESCRIPTION:Faculty House is closed for seminars and events.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/spring-break-2/
LOCATION:Columbia University
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260327T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260327T170000
DTSTAMP:20260409T071900
CREATED:20251216T203921Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260112T164652Z
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SUMMARY:New Directions in the History of Knowledge and Material Culture
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The University Seminar on The History and Philosophy of Science \nMany recent works in the history of science and knowledge address various aspects of materiality\, including material culture\, agentive matter\, and the trajectories of materials\, objects\, and knowledge across geographic and epistemic borders. This workshop\, which accompanies a new graduate history course taught by Professor Pamela Smith\, seeks to introduce and discuss some of these new approaches. Visiting scholars Anna Grasskamp (University of Oslo)\, Dana Leibsohn (Smith College)\, and Alisha Rankin (Tufts University) will present their research in conversation with the work of local graduate students and scholars of material culture. \nAttendance by invitation only. Please email scr2165@columbia.edu if you would like to attend.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/new-directions-in-the-history-of-knowledge-and-material-culture/
LOCATION:Fayerweather Hall\, Columbia University
CATEGORIES:Conferences/Symposia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260327T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260327T173000
DTSTAMP:20260409T071900
CREATED:20260112T163640Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260324T161237Z
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SUMMARY:Unsettled in Dakar: Architectural Modernity in 20th century Senegal
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The University Seminar on Beyond France \nThis symposium on architecture and urban planning in Twentieth-Century Senegal spotlights new research on how the built environment in and around Dakar registered the continuities and ruptures between French rule and independence\, indigenous heritage and colonial legacies. What role did the built environment play in constructing citizenship? What opportunities did Senegal’s independence usher in for French and African designers? What effect did Léopold Sédar Senghor’s emphasis on the arts as a path to Négritude have on architectural production and training? Each panel will address one architectural scale: urban\, housing\, and monumental. Speakers include: Steven Nelson (UCLA); Nzinga Mboup (Worofilia); Ralph Ghoche (Barnard); Lucia Allais (Columbia); Gregory Valdespino (University of Iowa); Mamadou Diouf (Columbia); Martino Stierli (MoMA); Jana Ndiaye Berankova (Suture Press); Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Columbia); Frederick Cooper (NYU). \nSCHEDULE \n9:30 AM\nINTRODUCTIONS \n9:45 AM–11:15 AM\nFrom Urbanism to Urban Planning \n“Creating Colonial Dakar: Architecture and France’s Imperial Ambition”\nSteven Nelson\, University of California\, Los Angeles \n“The Makings of the Wooden Barrack House: A Marker of the Policy of Segregation and the Material Flows of the Colonial Administration”\nNzinga Mboup\, Worofila\, Dakar (Senegal) \nRespondent: Ralph Ghoche\, Barnard College \nCOFFEE BREAK \n11:30 AM–1 PM\nConcrete Domes and Mortgaged Homes \nMobilities: Dakar’s Maisons-ballons\, 1948-1952\nLucia Allais\, Columbia University \n“Dakar’s El Dorado: SICAP and the Promise of Prosperity”\nGregory Valdespino\, University of Iowa \nRespondent: Rosalind Fredericks\, Gallatin School\, New York University  \nMIDDAY BREAK \n2 PM–3 PM\n“Ghost Fair Trade” Film Screening (dir. Laurence Bonvin\, Cheikh Ndiaye 38 min.) \n3:00 PM–4:30 PM\nModernism in the Post-Colony \n“The Asymmetric Parallelism of the Centre International du Commerce Extérieur du Sénégal (CICES)”\nMartino Stierli\, The Museum of Modern Art\, NYC \n“Architecture as Objet-Témoin: Bureau d’Études Henri Chomette in Dakar”\nJana Ndiaye Berankova\, Czech Academy of Sciences\, Suture Press Prague (Czechia) \nRespondent: Souleymane Bachir Diagne\, Columbia University \nCOFFEE BREAK \n5:00 PM\nCLOSING REMARKS \nFrederick Cooper\, New York University \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/unsettled-in-dakar-architectural-modernity-in-20th-century-senegal/
LOCATION:East Gallery\, Maison Française\, Buell Hall
CATEGORIES:Conferences/Symposia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260402T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260402T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T071900
CREATED:20251222T200253Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260205T161820Z
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SUMMARY:Italians in/and the Maghreb: Between Integration and Isolation
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by The University Seminar on Studies in Modern Italy \nItalians in/and the Maghreb will expand discussions of colonialism\, migration\, race\, decolonial movements\, and postcolonial issues in Italian and Italian diaspora studies. While the study of Italian colonialism has blossomed in recent years with the country’s official colonies in Eritrea\, Somalia\, Libya\, Ethiopia\, and the Dodecanese Islands now the topic of many scholarly studies\, the history of Italians in Algeria\, Morocco\, and Tunisia has tended to remain marginal\, and mostly examined as an example of Italy’s aggressive emigration policies and attempts to pursue informal colonies. This seminar explores the exchanges between Italy and French North Africa\, focusing on imperial ambitions\, migration\, and the wide-ranging intellectual dialogues between the two regions. Papers span in focus and time frame—from the period of peak diaspora in the late nineteenth century to “repatriations” during long decolonization (Ballinger 2020)—and converse with recent studies such as L’Italia e Africa: Strategie e visioni dell’età postcoloniale\, 1945–1989 (Borruso 2024)\, Migration at the End of Empire. Time and the Politics of Departure between Italy and Egypt (Viscomi 2024); Storia del colonialismo italiano (Deplano and Pes 2024)\, and Italiani d’Africa. Racconti del Ritorno (Vigo 2025). \nPresenters: Sarah DeMott\, Valerie McGuire\, Erica Moretti\, Gabriele Montalbano\, Luca Peretti \nRespondents: Naor Ben-Yehoyada\, Columbia University; Youssef Ben Ismail\, Amherst College; Claudio Fogu\, University of California Santa Barbara; Mia Fuller\, Gladyce Arata Terrill\, University of California\, Berkeley \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/italians-in-and-the-mahgreb/
LOCATION:Italian Academy for Advanced Studies\, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences/Symposia
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260424
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260427
DTSTAMP:20260409T071900
CREATED:20260216T220312Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260216T225134Z
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SUMMARY:SOF@50: Humanities in the World
DESCRIPTION:Co-Sponsored by The University Seminars on Cultural Memory and Public Humanities: Expanding Scholarship and Pedagogy \n(Faculty House and Heyman Center for The Humanities) \nFor the past 50 years\, the Columbia Society of Fellows has welcomed early-career researchers into a community of scholars whose research projects and teaching open new avenues of inquiry both within and across disciplines.  From its earliest years when it gathered in Faculty House\, the Society of Fellows has enjoyed a longstanding partnership with University Seminars in bringing together researchers to think together.  In celebration of this partnership and of the milestone anniversaries of both the Society of Fellows and The University Seminars\, the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities and The University Seminars on Cultural Memory (#717) and Public Humanities (#805) are hosting a three-day conference\, Humanities in the World\, to welcome scholars from across the generations to discuss topics and questions that are of particular urgency for scholar-citizens at the present time—and to celebrate what we have accomplished together.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/sof50-humanities-in-the-world/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Conferences/Symposia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260424T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260424T160000
DTSTAMP:20260409T071900
CREATED:20260121T203008Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260309T150313Z
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SUMMARY:Environmental and Racial Justice in Shakespeare Studies
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The University Seminar on Shakespeare \nThis symposium brings together scholars and artists to consider the intersections of racial\, social\, and environmental justice in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The interlinked racial and environmental crises of our time seem to compound faster than mitigating efforts\, let alone the human imagination\, can keep up. But the reparative work they demand requires a deep investigation of the early modern past. As the imaginative literature from this period demonstrates\, premodern ideas of racial difference were inseparable from questions of geographical distance\, understandings about “nature\,” and the complexity of the more-than-human world more broadly. By bringing together scholars and artists who have been considering questions of racialization and environmental issues in early modernity\, this symposium will help us envision new methods and practices that enable us to engage ethically with the complex entanglements of racial and environmental injustice in Shakespeare’s world and in ours. \nSCHEDULE \n8:30 AM\nRegistration and Welcome  \n9:00 AM – 10:00 AM\nPANEL I:  Echoes of Early Modernity\nRuben Espinosa\, Arizona State University\nLowell Duckert\, University of Delaware \n10:15 AM – 11:15 AM\nPANEL II: The More-than-Human World\nPatricia Cahill\, Emory University\nDennis Britton\, University of British Columbia (Canada) \n11:30 AM – 1:00 PM\nLunch \n1:15 PM – 2:15 PM\nPANEL III: Race and Place\nVin Nardizzi\, University of British Columbia (Canada)\nEli Cumings\, Columbia University \n2:30 PM – 4:00 PM\nKEYNOTE CONVERSATION: Environmental Racism and Narratives of Settlement\nMadeline Sayet\, Arizona State University\nScott Manning Stevens\, Syracuse University \n  \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/environmental-and-racial-justice-in-shakespeare-studies/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Conferences/Symposia
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