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SUMMARY:INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF THE AMERICAS AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
DESCRIPTION:In Honor of the First Commemoration of Indigenous Peoples Day at Columbia University\n\nREGISTER HERE\n\n[pdf-embedder url=”https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Oct-12-poster-final.pdf” title=”Oct 12 poster final”]
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/indigenous-peoples-of-the-americas-and-the-covid-19-pandemic/
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SUMMARY:Iraqi Studies: Past\, Present\, and Future
DESCRIPTION: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 tables at international conferences. Given this volume of scholarly activity connected to modern Iraq\, it is an opportune time to critically reflect on and examine Iraqi studies and its status as a burgeoning sub-field of Middle East Studies. \nWe aim to discuss research trends\, to identify promising new questions and sources\, to exchange experiences and insights\, and to encourage networking across period-specializations and field boundaries. Each panel will comprise a discussant and several speakers. A keynote panel of senior scholars will critically reflect on the state of Iraqi studies. Confirmed speakers for the Keynote Panel: Dr. Dina Khoury (George Washington University); Dr. Orit Bashkin (University of Chicago); Dr. Eric Davis (Rutgers University); Dr. Sara Pursley (New York University). \nAmong the questions we seek to explore are: How do we define Iraqi studies? What various methodological approaches inform our study of Iraq? Is Iraqi studies an inherently nationalist endeavor? How do different frameworks support or break with nationalist conventions? How has Iraq’s recent turbulent history affected how scholars access sources to study the country\, its geography\, its people\, its history\, its literature\, etc.? How can we move past the sectarian and ethnic narratives of understanding the Iraqi past and present?
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/iraqi-studies-past-present-and-future/
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SUMMARY:Seminars Wine Reception
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/seminars-wine-reception/2020-02-10/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Celebration Events
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SUMMARY:An Urban World: The Changing Landscape of Suburbs and Cities
DESCRIPTION:3:00 pm to 6:30 pm on November 14th and 9:00 am to 6:00 pm on November 15th.  \n\nRSVP to: smk2209@columbia.edu\n\n \nPROGRAM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday November 14\, 3:00 pm – 6:30 pm \n2:30–3:00 pm  REGISTRATION \n3:00 pm    WELCOME\nIra Katznelson\, Interim Provost & Ruggles Professor of Political Science & History\, Columbia University\nLisa Keller\, Chair\, Seminar on the City\, The University Seminars\, Columbia University \n3:15 pm    KEYNOTE ADDRESS\nIntroduction: Ann Thornton\, Vice Provost and University Librarian\, Columbia University\nKenneth T. Jackson\, Barzun Professor of History\, Columbia University\n“The Changing Landscape of Cities and Suburbs in the 21st Century” \n4:15 pm    PANEL 1\, Race\, Gender & Ethnicity\nChair: Jacqueline Dowd Hall\, Julia Cherry Spruill Professor Emerita\, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill\nCraig Steven Wilder\, Barton L. Weller Professor of History\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology\nThomas Kessner\, Distinguished Professor of History\, Graduate Center\, City University of New York\nEstelle B. Freedman\, Edgar E. Robinson Professor in U.S. History\, Stanford University\nJeffrey S. Gurock\, Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History\, Yeshiva University \n6:00 pm    RECEPTION \n\nFriday November 15\, 9:00 pm – 6:00 pm \n8:30-9:00 am    REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST \n9:00 am    Panel 2\, Assessing Environment & Sustainability\nChair: Vincent J. Cannato\, Associate Professor of History\, College of Liberal Arts\, University of Massachusetts Boston\nEllen Stroud\, Associate Professor of History\, Pennsylvania State University\nRobert Lifset\, Associate Professor of History\, University of Oklahoma\nDavid Schuyler\, Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor of Humanities and American Studies\, Franklin and Marshall College\nBecky Nicolaides\, Research Affiliate\, University of California Los Angeles \n10:45 15 MINUTE BREAK \n11:00 am    Panel 3\, Urban Infrastructure\nChair: Kenneth R. Cobb\, Assistant Commissioner\, New York City Department of Records\nOwen Gutfreund\, Associate Professor\, Urban Planning & History\, Hunter College\nClifton Hood\, George E. Paulsen ’49 Professor of American History and Government\, Hobart and William Smith Colleges\nEugénie L. Birch\, Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research & Education\, University of Pennsylvania\nGail Radford\, Professor of History\, University of Buffalo\, State University of New York \n12:45-1:45    LUNCH BREAK \n2:00 pm    Panel 4\, The World View\nChair: Valerie Paley\, Senior Vice President\, New-York Historical Society\nNancy Kwak\, Associate Professor of History\, University of California San Diego\nRobert Beauragard\, Professor Emeritus\, Graduate School of Architecture\, Planning & Preservation\, Columbia University\nA.K. Sandoval-Strausz\, Associate Professor of History\, Pennsylvania State University\nGraeme Davison\, Professor Emeritus of History\, Monash University\, Australia \n3:45-4:00 pm    BREAK \n4:00-5:45 pm    Panel 5\, Looking to the Future of Cities and Suburbs\nRoundtable\nRohit T. Aggarwala\, Head of Urban Systems\, Sidewalk Labs\nDaniel L. Doctoroff\, Chairman and CEO\, Sidewalk Labs\nWalter A. Friedman\, Director of the Business History Initiative\, Harvard University\nTimothy J. Gilfoyle\, Professor of History\, Loyola University Chicago\nThomas J. Sugrue\, Professor of History\, New York University \n5:45-6:00 pm    CONCLUDING REMARKS: Kenneth T. Jackson
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/9209/
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SUMMARY:Schoff Memorial Lectures
DESCRIPTION:THE UNIVERSITY SEMINARS & COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS announce the twenty-seventh series of the \nLEONARD HASTINGS SCHOFF MEMORIAL LECTURES\nMadeleine Zelin\nDean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies; Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures\, Columbia University \n\nCHINA SEMI-INCORPORATED: THE BATTLE FOR A CHINESE LEGAL MODERNITY IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY  \nMONDAY\, NOVEMBER 11\, 2019\, 8 PM  \nI: The “Company” Will Save Us: Utopian Visions of the Corporation in Late Qing China  \nMONDAY\, NOVEMBER 18\, 2019\, 8 PM  \nII: Local Knowledge\, Legal Transplants and the Struggle over Limited Liability  \nMONDAY\, NOVEMBER 25\, 2019\, 8 PM  \nIII: What is Law when East meets West: The Lessons of the Ming Sung Umbrella Factory Case in the Shanghai International Mixed Court  \n\nLaw was central to China’s early twentieth-century transformation from empire to republic. This transformation not only uprooted the foundations of political life. It demanded the fashioning of a new and uniquely Chinese legal modernity in the shadow of Western extraterritorial privilege. In order to understand the ways in which law developed on contested ground in places like early twentieth-century China\, it may be useful to look at seemingly small struggles that reveal the larger processes at work. In these three lectures\, we will examine just such a struggle. In the first lecture\, we will see how the idea of the company was naturalized within a Chinese moral universe and came to represent law as the source of western power. In the second\, we will trace the resurrection of the customary realm as it challenged the hegemony of law on the books and the notion that before the arrival of Europeans China had no private law. Finally\, in the third lecture\, we will take a position as observers to the struggle between Chinese custom and the arrogance of Western legal universality at extraterritoriality’s premier forum\, the Shanghai International Mixed Court. \n\nMadeleine Zelin is Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies and Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. Beginning with her first book\, The Magistrates Tael\, Zelin’s work has focused on the intersection of formal and informal institutions in the economic\, political and legal development of China. The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Enterprise in Early Modern China was awarded the 2006 Allan Sharlin Memorial Prize of the Social Science History Association\, the 2006 Fairbank Prize of the Association for Asian Studies and the 2007 Humanities Book Prize of the International Convention on Asian Studies. Zelin served many years as director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and as Director of Columbia University ’s East Asian National Resource Center. Outside the university she has worked to promote understanding of China in the US and as an integral part of teaching and research in the social sciences\, in roles including Co-Director of the Luce Foundation-AAS Project on Emerging Fields in Asian Studies-Economic History\, and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Committee for US-China Relations. She is an avid New York amateur flutist. \n\nLECTURES ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC\nAll lectures are held in Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive \nReception immediately following each lecture \n\nCLICK FOR PDF INVITATION
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/schoff-memorial-lectures/2019-11-11/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
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SUMMARY:Indigenous Peoples and Borders: decolonization\, contestation\, trans-border practices
DESCRIPTION: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 and political border issues but has in recent decades examined social\, cultural and psychological dimensions. Some of the recent interdisciplinary scholarship\, often-coined as “borderology” in Scandinavia\, opens up for important new contributions from the humanities\, social sciences and law. The ever-evolving human rights regime has been opening up international accountability and elevating individuals\, groups and peoples\, including Indigenous Peoples\, to subjects of international law. Hence\, borders\, as vessels of territorial sovereignty of states\, become relativized through the emergence and broad expansion of international human rights and humanitarian law in the last 70 years. The approach of the Symposium will be a multi-dimensional notion of borders that should enable an exciting policy-relevant and intellectual occasion. The International Symposium’s priorities in terms of inquiry Given the breadth and vitality of border studies and indigenous studies the organizers hope that the Symposium can examine and debate useful specific examples (both case studies and comparative studies) on the ground that not only deepen academic understanding\, but also identify some possible solutions/directions that can have positive impacts on the vexed political\, legal\, environmental\, economic and cultural issues at hand. The organizers also hope that papers will be presented from various regions and sub-regions\, including the US-Mexico border\, the Canada-US border\, African border regions\, the borders between Bangladesh\, India and Myanmar\, Sápmi (transcending the borders of Norway\, Sweden\, Finland and Russia) and the regions of Central and South America where the Maya Indigenous Peoples live. \nThis two-day interdisciplinary Symposium is open to academics\, representatives\, and experts from Indigenous Peoples’ organizations and nations\, states\, non-governmental organizations\, and intergovernmental organizations.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/indigenous-peoples-and-borders-decolonization-contestation-trans-border-practices/
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SUMMARY:Book Parts
DESCRIPTION: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 and interpretation. The University Seminar in Material Texts proposes an event that will bring together scholars in this vibrant field\, including several Columbia faculty members\, to discuss new and ongoing work. \nSummer 2019 sees the publication by Oxford University Press of Book Parts\, edited by Dr. Dennis Duncan (writer and translator) and Prof. Adam Smyth (Balliol College\, Oxford)\, a bold and imaginative intervention in the fast-growing field of book history that “pulls the book apart.” In twenty-two chapters\, it tells the story of every component of the book\, from title pages to endleaves\, dustjackets to indices\, and everything in between. It shows how these parts of the book that we know\, love\, or take for granted emerged over time\, make meaning for book makers and users\, and hide in plain sight. The volume covers the pre-print era to the digital age\, and each chapter is written by an exciting scholar working in the field of book history today. The book’s editors are based in the UK\, as are many of its contributors\, but a number are based in the United States\, including three faculty members from Columbia alone. \nTo showcase the exciting and innovative work being done in the fields of book history and bibliography at Columbia and across the Atlantic seaboard\, the Columbia University Seminar in Material Texts will host a one-day “Book Parts” event on Friday\, October 11\, 2019. Eight speakers from among the volume’s contributors will speak about their “book part\,” and an invited keynote speaker will respond to the day’s papers and the volume as a whole. We will also work with Columbia’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library to include a pop-up exhibit session in Butler Library\, for which conference speakers will select items from Columbia’s rich Special Collections holdings that illustrate or speak to the phenomena in their presentations. \nPROGRAM:\n12:45 – 1:00pm Arrival\, coffee \n\n\n1:00pm – 1:15pm Welcome\nJoseph Howley (Columbia) and Alexis Hagadorn (Columbia\, Libraries)\nLocation: Heyman Center\, Common Room \n1:15pm – 2:30pm PANEL 1 \nLocation: Heyman Center\, Common Room\nWhitney Trettien (University of Pennsylvania)\, “Title Pages”\nJoseph Howley (Columbia\, Classics)\, “Tables of Contents”\nMeaghan J. Brown (Independent scholar)\, “Addresses to the Reader” \n2:30 – 2:45 Coffee break \n2:45pm – 4:00pm PANEL 2 \nLocation: Heyman Center\, Common Room\nNicholas Dames (Columbia)\, “Chapter Heads”\nRachel Sagner Buurma (Swarthmore)\, “Epigraphs”\nClaire M. L. Bourne (Pennsylvania State)\, “Running Titles” \n4:00 – 4:15pm Coffee break \n4:15pm – 5:05pm PANEL 3 \nLocation: Heyman Center\, Common Room\nJenny Davidson (Columbia)\, “Footnotes”\nDennis Duncan (University College London)\, “Indexes” \n5:30 – 6:30 pm KEYNOTE RESPONSE \n\nLocation: Butler Library Room 523\n\nLeah Price (Rutgers) \n6:30pm – 7:15 pm OBJECT VIEWING\nLocation: Butler Library Room 522
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/book-parts/
LOCATION:The Heyman Center and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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SUMMARY:New Directions in British Urban History
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe 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. \nThe second is to provide junior scholars (at the graduate and postdoctoral level) with international mentoring links\, guaranteeing the robustness of this field over the next decade. This will be achieved through roundtable conversations rather than traditional papers. \nThe final objective is to connect the British field to wider contexts in European and transnational urban history. This will be achieved by inviting leading scholars in European urban history (Rosemary Wakeman) and international planning history (Christopher Klemek) to provide remarks. These objectives reflect the direction of the seminar in recent years\, where there has been a cluster of research presentations on the British built environment\, the genealogies of neoliberalism\, the rule of experts in postwar life; all of these feed into the methods and themes currently animating British urban history. In addition\, we are at a moment when seminar-affiliated faculty\, students\, and alums (Mass\, Ortolano\, Wetherell\, Subramanian\, and Gorton) are all working on specifically British urban history projects. The conference will establish Columbia as a key site for the study of British urban history not just in the US\, but internationally. \nIn addition\, the structure of the seminar has moved towards a self-consciously interdisciplinary and internationalist ethos\, with discussants coming from other disciplines and other national fields. The proposed conference will continue this work\, connecting scholars in history\, planning\, and architecture.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/new-directions-in-british-urban-history/
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