Events
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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 […]
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General Committee Meeting
ZoomMeeting of all seminar chairs.
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Academic Holiday
Faculty House 64 Morningside Drive, New YorkMorningside Campus is closed. Faculty House is closed for seminars and events.
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Election Day
Faculty House 64 Morningside Drive, New YorkMorningside Campus is closed. Faculty House is closed for seminars and events.
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Featured Art of the Lecture Series
Schoff Memorial Lectures | Lecture I
Faculty House 64 Morningside Drive, New YorkPostponed until Fall 2027 Art 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 […]
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Black Europe: A Field on the Move
Heyman Center for the Humanities 74 Morningside Drive, New York, NY, United StatesScholars across disciplines are increasingly treating “Black Europe” as a pertinent object of study. Yet conversations continue to take place regarding what “Black Europe” is. Does Black Europe describe a place, an identity, an aspiration, or something else? Scholars oscillate between terms such as “Afropean,” “African-European,” and “Black European.” The institutionalization of Black European studies remains a work in progress, and views vary on whether it is an academic field, a subsection of Black Studies or African Diaspora Studies, or a reference point for a set of inquiries and practices that exceed the bounds of academic discipline. Black Europe: A Field […]
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Schoff Memorial Lectures | Lecture II
Faculty House 64 Morningside Drive, New YorkPostponed until Fall 2027 Art 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 […]
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Schoff Memorial Lectures | Lecture III
Faculty House 64 Morningside Drive, New YorkPostponed until Fall 2027 Art 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 […]
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Academic Holiday
Faculty House 64 Morningside Drive, New YorkMorningside Campus is closed. Faculty House is closed for seminars and events.
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Thanksgiving Break
Columbia UniversityThe University Seminars office is closed.
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Autumn Term Ends
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