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Events
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Belonging with Songs: Towards an Historical Anthropology of Medieval French Chansons Emma Dillon
East Gallery, Maison Française, Buell HallCo-sponsored by The University Seminar on Medieval Studies, Columbia Maison Française, Department of Music, and the Medieval and Renaissance Studies program A Talk by Emma Dillon Why 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), […]
Resisting Silence: Unveiling the Legacy of the Italian Resistance
Italian Academy for Advanced Studies 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesCo-sponsored by The Columbia University Seminar on Studies in Modern Italy and the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies In 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. Program: Introductory remarks by Elizabeth Leake, Professor, Columbia University Chair, Marla Stone, […]
Annual Dinner and Tannenbaum Lecture
Faculty House 64 Morningside Drive, New YorkThis event is open to members of The University Seminars community only. Registration is required. This year’s Tannenbaum Lecturer is Margo Jefferson and the Tannenbaum-Warner Award recipient is Robert Pollack. TANNENBAUM LECTURE Criticism as Intellectual Inquiry and Emotional Invention Being 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 […]
Spring Term Ends
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“Ab uno disce omnes”: A Conference in Honor of Christopher Baswell
Butler Library 535 West 114th Street, New York, New YorkThis 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, […]
Memorial Day
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Autumn Term Begins
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Open Seminar Day
Faculty House 64 Morningside Drive, New YorkPlease 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. 1:30 PM, UNIVERSITY SEMINARS IN CONVERSATION Death (founded 1971) Full Employment, Social Welfare, and Equity (founded 1987) Public Humanities: Expanding Scholarship and Pedagogy […]
General Committee Meeting
ZoomMeeting of all seminar chairs.
Academic Holiday
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Election Day
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Art of the Lecture Series
Schoff Memorial Lectures | Lecture I
Faculty House 64 Morningside Drive, New YorkArt of the Lecture Brent Hayes Edwards Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature Lecture I: "Talking in and out of School" Although 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. Brent Hayes Edwards is the Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia […]
Schoff Memorial Lectures | Lecture II
Faculty House 64 Morningside Drive, New YorkArt of the Lecture Brent Hayes Edwards Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature Lecture II: “A Brief History of the Podium Shuck” Although 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. Brent Hayes Edwards is the Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia […]
Schoff Memorial Lectures | Lecture III
Faculty House 64 Morningside Drive, New YorkArt of the Lecture Brent Hayes Edwards Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature Lecture III: “Accompaniments of the Utterance” Although 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. Brent Hayes Edwards is the Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he […]
Academic Holiday
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Thanksgiving Break
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