Co-sponsored by The University Seminar on Studies in Modern Italy Italians in/and the Maghreb will expand discussions of colonialism, migration, race, decolonial movements, and postcolonial issues in Italian and Italian diaspora studies. While the study of Italian colonialism has blossomed in recent years with the country’s official colonies in Eritrea, Somalia, Libya, Ethiopia, and the Dodecanese Islands now the topic of many scholarly studies, the history of Italians in Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia has tended to remain marginal, and mostly examined as an example of Italy’s aggressive emigration policies and attempts to pursue informal colonies. This seminar explores the exchanges between Italy and French North Africa, focusing on imperial ambitions, migration, and the wide-ranging intellectual dialogues between the two regions. Papers span in focus and time frame—from the period of peak diaspora in the late nineteenth century to “repatriations” during long decolonization (Ballinger 2020)—and converse with recent studies such as L’Italia e Africa: Strategie e visioni dell’età postcoloniale, 1945–1989 (Borruso 2024), Migration at the End of Empire. Time and the Politics of Departure between Italy and Egypt (Viscomi 2024); Storia del colonialismo italiano (Deplano and Pes 2024), and Italiani d’Africa. Racconti del Ritorno (Vigo 2025). Presenters: Sarah DeMott, Valerie McGuire, Erica Moretti, Gabriele […]
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Co-Sponsored by The University Seminars on Cultural Memory and Public Humanities: Expanding Scholarship and Pedagogy (Faculty House and Heyman Center for The Humanities) For the past 50 years, the Columbia Society of Fellows has welcomed early-career researchers into a community of scholars whose research projects and teaching open new avenues of inquiry both within and across disciplines. From its earliest years when it gathered in Faculty House, the Society of Fellows has enjoyed a longstanding partnership with University Seminars in bringing together researchers to think together. In celebration of this partnership and of the milestone anniversaries of both the Society of Fellows and The University Seminars, the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities and The University Seminars on Cultural Memory (#717) and Public Humanities (#805) are hosting a three-day conference, Humanities in the World, to welcome scholars from across the generations to discuss topics and questions that are of particular urgency for scholar-citizens at the present time—and to celebrate what we have accomplished together. Sponsored by The University Seminar on Shakespeare This symposium brings together scholars and artists to consider the intersections of racial, social, and environmental justice in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The interlinked racial and environmental crises of our time seem to compound faster than mitigating efforts, let alone the human imagination, can keep up. But the reparative work they demand requires a deep investigation of the early modern past. As the imaginative literature from this period demonstrates, premodern ideas of racial difference were inseparable from questions of geographical distance, understandings about “nature,” and the complexity of the more-than-human world more broadly. By bringing together scholars and artists who have been considering questions of racialization and environmental issues in early modernity, this symposium will help us envision new methods and practices that enable us to engage ethically with the complex entanglements of racial and environmental injustice in Shakespeare’s world and in ours. SCHEDULE 8:30 AM Registration and Welcome 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM PANEL I: Echoes of Early Modernity Ruben Espinosa, Arizona State University Lowell Duckert, University of Delaware 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM PANEL II: The More-than-Human World Patricia Cahill, Emory University Dennis Britton, University of British Columbia […] |
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This event is open to members of The University Seminars community only. Registration is required. This year’s Tannenbaum Lecturer is Lynn Garafola and the Tannenbaum-Warner Award recipient is David Johnston. MORE INFORMATION TO FOLLOW |
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