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  • New Directions in British Urban History

    Conferences/Symposia

    This conference will bring together leading scholars working in the field of modern British urban and planning history. Bridging this sub-field in the UK and in the US, this conference has three main objectives. The first is to provide a forum for discussing the current flurry of written work on British urban life (seven of the participants have recent or forthcoming monographs on twentieth-century British urban history). Our long term goal is to produce a special issue in "Planning Perspectives" on this historiographical turn; the conference will be the key launching pad for this scholarly work. The second is to […]

  • Book Parts

    The Heyman Center and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library New York, NY, United States
    Conferences/Symposia

    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 those physical existences have been conditioned by historical circumstances, and how they in turn condition cultures and practices and reading […]

  • Indigenous Peoples and Borders: decolonization, contestation, trans-border practices

    Conferences/Symposia

    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, we provide an overview of this increasingly diverse international research field that started with a nearly exclusive focus on physical […]

  • Schoff Memorial Lectures

    Faculty House 64 Morningside Drive, New York
    Presentations

    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 Knowledge, Legal Transplants and the Struggle over Limited Liability MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2019, 8 PM III: What is Law when […]

  • An Urban World: The Changing Landscape of Suburbs and Cities

    Conferences/Symposia

    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 Professor of History, Columbia University “The Changing Landscape of Cities and Suburbs in the 21st Century” 4:15 pm    PANEL 1, […]

  • Seminars Wine Reception

    Faculty House 64 Morningside Drive, New York
    Celebration Events

    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.

    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 exploring new lines of inquiry in a number of different directions. It is common to see Iraq-themed panels and round […]

    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. For all others, see the links to register in the program. IN-PERSON REGISTRATION PROGRAM AND VIRTUAL REGISTRATION

    Schoff Memorial Lecture Series, Lecture I

    Faculty House 64 Morningside Drive, New York

    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 struggle against white supremacy: of sustaining the moral resolve required to fight white supremacy and of undermining the grip of […]

    Schoff Memorial Lecture Series, Lecture II

    Faculty House 64 Morningside Drive, New York

    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 struggle against white supremacy: of sustaining the moral resolve required to fight white supremacy and of undermining the grip of […]

    Schoff Memorial Lecture Series, Lecture III

    Faculty House 64 Morningside Drive, New York

    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 struggle against white supremacy: of sustaining the moral resolve required to fight white supremacy and of undermining the grip of […]

  • 2022 Annual Dinner

    Faculty House 64 Morningside Drive, New York
    Celebration Events

    November 16, 2022 2022 Tannenbaum Lecture Hecuba’s Howl: Poetry as Feminist Lament This talk includes a reading from my newly published poetry collection, Year of the Dog, a Latina chronicle of the Vietnam War era, and a discussion of the tradition and function of feminist elegy during times of disaster and atrocity. The talk interweaves my perspective as the daughter of a Mexican immigrant Vietnam veteran with other stories of historical and mythic women responding to Vietnam and other forms of warfare—as warriors, widows, antiwar activists, and witnesses of violence. Drawing from the mythic figure of Hecuba, who committed herself […]

    Analogues and Kinship: A Talking Circle

    Colloquium for Early Medieval Studies Indigenous Futures / Medieval Pasts "Analogues and Kinship: A Talking Circle" Co-hosted by Tarren Andrews (Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, Yale University), Gage Diabo (Kanien’kehá:ka, Concordia University), Emma Hitchcock (Columbia University), and Stephen Yeager (Concordia University) Sponsored by CEMS, Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement, Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University Seminar on Medieval Studies, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity REGISTER IN PERSON HERE | REGISTER FOR ZOOM HERE This CEMS talking circle and workshop facilitates a broad discussion about the politics, power structures, and […]

  • 2023 Schoff Memorial Lecture Series, I

    Faculty House 64 Morningside Drive, New York
    Presentations

    Hidden Hybridities I: The Eccentric and Creole Nature of the English Language Much of my academic work addresses the results in language of contact between groups. My main interests are in revealing hybridities hitherto unsuspected, and in refining our conception of hybridities more obvious. My goal, addressing a wide range of languages and also extending to music, is to wean us from preconceptions due to superficial appearances, distracting gulfs between the present and the past, and concerns more local to our moment than scientifically framed. In these three lectures I will present areas that I have found of particular interest […]

    2023 Schoff Memorial Lecture Series, II

    Faculty House 64 Morningside Drive, New York

    Hidden Hybridities II: The Afrogenesis Hypothesis of Creole Language Origins Much of my academic work addresses the results in language of contact between groups. My main interests are in revealing hybridities hitherto unsuspected, and in refining our conception of hybridities more obvious. My goal, addressing a wide range of languages and also extending to music, is to wean us from preconceptions due to superficial appearances, distracting gulfs between the present and the past, and concerns more local to our moment than scientifically framed. In these three lectures I will present areas that I have found of particular interest in this […]

    2023 Schoff Memorial Lecture Series, III

    Faculty House 64 Morningside Drive, New York

    Hidden Hybridities III: The Black American Roots of the Broadway Musical Sound Much of my academic work addresses the results in language of contact between groups. My main interests are in revealing hybridities hitherto unsuspected, and in refining our conception of hybridities more obvious. My goal, addressing a wide range of languages and also extending to music, is to wean us from preconceptions due to superficial appearances, distracting gulfs between the present and the past, and concerns more local to our moment than scientifically framed. In these three lectures I will present areas that I have found of particular interest […]

    50th Anniversary of Appetitive Behavior

    Celebrating a Half-Century of the Columbia University Seminar on Appetitive Behavior Co-sponsored by:  NutriSci, Inc. and The University Seminar on Appetitive Behavior. A brief history of the seminar: The Appetitive Seminar had its first meeting on March 9, 1972. It was created to combine a number of disciplines to study appetite. As the founder, Dr. Theodore VanItallie stated in a letter (16 November 1971) proposing the seminar: “The regulation of food intake and its epiphenomena represent fundamental problems in human biology and physiology. How food intake (appetite) is regulated is still poorly understood and should remain a subject of intense […]