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October 2019
Book Parts
The field of book history has never been more vibrant, nor has the importance of interrogating the material dimensions of text, its creation and circulation and consumption, been more clear, as digital media upend traditional modes of publishing, reading, and even academic librarianship. “What is a book?” is a question whose stakes have never been higher, and book historians and bibliographers have risen to the challenge, producing work that examines not just how books exist as physical objects, but how…
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Indigenous Peoples and Borders: decolonization, contestation, trans-border practices
Indigenous Peoples’ sovereignty, cultural integrity, connection to the land and their overall well-being continue to be threatened, defined and constrained by borders. This symposium aims at offering a rare opportunity for indigenous (focused) scholars and practitioners to engage in dialogue in and through border studies. This burgeoning research field can enrich our global knowledge community and vice versa, stimulate border studies scholars to address topics of particular importance for the lived experiences of Indigenous Peoples. In a separate background note,…
Find out more »Schoff Memorial Lectures
THE UNIVERSITY SEMINARS & COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS announce the twenty-seventh series of the LEONARD HASTINGS SCHOFF MEMORIAL LECTURES Madeleine Zelin Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies; Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University CHINA SEMI-INCORPORATED: THE BATTLE FOR A CHINESE LEGAL MODERNITY IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2019, 8 PM I: The “Company” Will Save Us: Utopian Visions of the Corporation in Late Qing China MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2019, 8 PM II: Local…
Find out more »An Urban World: The Changing Landscape of Suburbs and Cities
3:00 pm to 6:30 pm on November 14th and 9:00 am to 6:00 pm on November 15th. RSVP to: smk2209@columbia.edu PROGRAM Thursday November 14, 3:00 pm – 6:30 pm 2:30–3:00 pm REGISTRATION 3:00 pm WELCOME Ira Katznelson, Interim Provost & Ruggles Professor of Political Science & History, Columbia University Lisa Keller, Chair, Seminar on the City, The University Seminars, Columbia University 3:15 pm KEYNOTE ADDRESS Introduction: Ann Thornton, Vice Provost and University Librarian, Columbia University Kenneth T. Jackson, Barzun…
Find out more »February 2020
Seminars Wine Reception
Come meet chairs and members from other seminars and bring along friends who are interested in learning more about The University Seminars program. The University Seminars office staff and Advisory Board will attend.
Find out more »Iraqi Studies: Past, Present, and Future
This two-day conference brings together a diverse group of established and emerging scholars working on the history of modern Iraq from the Ottoman period to the present to interrogate Iraqi studies; taking stock of its past, reflecting on the present, and looking towards its future. Studies of modern Iraq have grown qualitatively and quantitatively in recent years. There is now a critical mass of innovative scholars in the US, Europe, and the Middle East who work on Iraq and are…
Find out more »March 2020
All 2020 Spring Events Canceled due to COVID-19
The COVID-19 is now categorized as a pandemic by the CDC. Columbia's classes will be held virtually for the remainder of the semester and all non-essential gatherings are restricted. In line with these measures, The University Seminars has decided to cancel all in-person seminars and conferences for the remainder of the semester. Our Annual Dinner, which was originally scheduled for late April, has been postponed until the fall. For those who wish to hold meetings over Zoom, Skype or Google…
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INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF THE AMERICAS AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
In Honor of the First Commemoration of Indigenous Peoples Day at Columbia University REGISTER HERE
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Trans/Formations of Arabic Literary Theory: Prospects and Limits
Hosted by Columbia University’s Arabic Studies Seminar Institute for Comparative Literature and Society Sheikh Zayed Book Award Brill Academic Publishers In Memory of Jaroslav Stetkevych Organizers: Rebecca Johnson, Nizar F. Hermes, Chiara Fontana, Bilal Orfali and Sarah Monks This event will be hosted at Columbia University’s Faculty House and also available virtually for all. Columbia University Affiliates wishing to attend in person should register by clicking the below link. This link is only for Columbia University faculty, students, and staff.…
Find out more »October 2022
Schoff Memorial Lecture Series, Lecture I
Photo by Jessica Collins During 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…
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