Seminars

List of Seminars

Seminar #	Title	Year Founded	Chair(s)	Rapporteur(s)
403	The Problem of Peace	1945	Roy Lee royslee@optonline.net
405	Studies in Religion	1945	Tony Carnes editor@nycreligion.info Sidney Greenfield sidneygreenfield@gmail.com	Shreyaa Suresh ss6957@columbia.edu
407	The Renaissance	1945	Cynthia M. Pyle c.m.pyle@nyu.edu Alan Stewart ags2105@columbia.edu	Mackenzie Fox maf2292@columbia.edu
411	Content and Methods of the Social Sciences	1947	Tony Carnes editor@nycreligion.info Sidney Greenfield sidneygreenfield@gmail.com	Shreyaa Suresh ss6957@columbia.edu
417	Eighteenth-Century European Culture	1962	Carrie Shanafelt carrie.shanafelt@yu.edu	Lilith Todd ldt2120@columbia.edu
427	Studies in Political and Social Thought	1968	David Johnston dcj1@columbia.edu Karuna Mantena km3510@columbia.edu	Kaarish Shah Maniar kkm2152@columbia.edu
429	American Studies	1954	Diane Detournay ddetournay@fordham.edu Brandy Monk-Payton bmonkpayton@fordham.edu	Miriam Vonnahme miriamvonnahme@gmail.com
431	Medieval Studies	1954	Hannah Weaver hmw2147@columbia.edu Jeffrey Wayno jeffrey.wayno@columbia.edu	Jilian Pizzi jap2247@columbia.edu
435	Studies in Contemporary Africa	1956	Laura Fair lf2694@columbia.edu Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi asiddiqi@barnard.edu	Saumya Dadoo sd3409@columbia.edu
441	Classical Civilization	1957	Marcus Folch mf2664@columbia.edu Joel Lidov jlidov@caa.columbia.edu	Jazmín Novoa Lara jan2191@columbia.edu
443	Modern East Asia: China	1957	Nick Bartlett nbartlet@barnard.edu Ying Qian yq2189@columbia.edu William Charles Wooldridge william.wooldridge@lehman.cuny.edu	Xuexin Cai xc2546@columbia.edu
445	Modern East Asia: Japan	1960	Sarah Kovner sck25@columbia.edu	Samantha Laurel Ward slw2189@columbia.edu
451	The Study of the New Testament	1959	Colleen Conway colleen.conway@shu.edu Jeremy F. Hultin jhultin@uts.columbia.edu	Karl M. Taps kt2893@utsnyc.edu
459A	The City	1962	Mary Rocco mrocco@barnard.edu	Elizabeth Milagros Alvarez ema2200@columbia.edu
465	Law and Politics	1963	Simon Baatz sbaatz@jjay.cuny.edu	Jacob William LeMaster jwl2196@columbia.edu
471	Ecology and Culture	1964	Veronica Davidov veronica.davidov@gmail.com Paige West cw2031@columbia.edu	Antara Chakrabarti antara.c@columbia.edu
473	The Study of the Hebrew Bible	1968	David Carr dcarr@utsnyc.edu Karina Hogan kahogan@fordham.edu	Larry Figueroa lfiguer@gmail.com
477	South Asia	1964	Carla Bellamy carla.bellamy@baruch.cuny.edu	Saila Sri Kambhatla sk5125@columbia.edu
479	The Ancient Near East	1966	Allan S. Gilbert gilbert@fordham.edu K. Aslihan Yener akyener12@gmail.com	Shannon Oliver White sw3857@columbia.edu
483	Studies in Modern Italy	1966	Molly Tambor molly.tambor@liu.edu	Giulia Ricca gr2592@columbia.edu
491	Early American History and Culture	1966	John Blanton jblanton@ccny.cuny.edu Hannah Farber haf2126@columbia.edu	Richard Monastra rm4083@columbia.edu
495A	Pollution and Water Resources: Scientific and Institutional Aspects	1968	Richard Lo Pinto lopintor@fdu.edu	Joanne Lo Pinto jlp623@aol.com
497	Slavic History and Culture	1968	Jessica Merrill jem2159@columbia.edu Nathaniel Knight nathaniel.knight@shu.edu	Zachary Deming zjd2106@columbia.edu
501	Israel and Jewish Studies	1968	Elisheva Carlebach ecarlebach@columbia.edu Rebecca Kobrin rk2351@columbia.edu	Nesya Batsheva Lebeau Nelkin nbn2112@columbia.edu
503	Economic History	1969	Alan Dye adye@barnard.edu Susie Pak paks1@stjohns.edu David Weiman dweiman@barnard.edu	Whitney McIntosh wam2134@columbia.edu
507	Death	1971	Karla Rothstein kmsr16@columbia.edu Christina Staudt christinastaudt@gmail.com	Nikita Shepard ns3307@columbia.edu
509	The Art of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas	1971	Zoë Strother zss1@columbia.edu Lisa Trever lt2731@columbia.edu	Brandon Agosto ba2647@columbia.edu
515	Latin America	1971	Peter Winn pwinn2@gmail.com	Sara Pan Algarra smp2253@tc.columbia.edu
521	Population Biology	1971	Alison Cucco alisoncuc@gmail.com Kathleen A. Nolan knolan@sfc.edu	Lorna Jepkoech Kimaiyo ljk2158@columbia.edu
523	Political Economy of Society and Nature	1971	Omar Dahbour odahbour@hunter.cuny.edu Carol Gould carolcgould@gmail.com	Sara Wexler sara.wexler@columbia.edu
525	The Middle East	1971	Gary Sick ggs2@columbia.edu Lawrence Potter lgp5@columbia.edu	Sara Godfrey sjg2223@columbia.edu
529	Appetitive Behavior	1972	Allan Geliebter allan.geliebter@mountsinai.org John Glendinning jg263@columbia.edu	Faris Zuraikat fmz2105@columbia.edu
531	Culture, Power, Boundaries	1972	Patricia Antoniello pata@brooklyn.cuny.edu
533	The History and Philosophy of Science	1973	Marwa Elshakry me2335@columbia.edu Alma Steingart as2475@columbia.edu	Elizabeth Branscum eb3285@columbia.edu
535	Irish Studies	1973	Mary McGlynn mary.mcglynn@baruch.cuny.edu Seamus O’Malley seamusomalley@gmail.com	Audrey Siraud ads2277@columbia.edu
539	Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation	1974	Cynthia Lucia cindylucia@aol.com William Luhr luhrwg@aol.com	Bojun Chen bc3089@columbia.edu
545	Women and Society	1974	Maria DeLongoria historydoc@icloud.com Emily Sohmer Tai etai@qcc.cuny.edu	Katy Habr kjh2172@columbia.edu
551	Ottoman and Turkish Studies	1974	Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular la2142@columbia.edu A. Tunç Şen ats2171@columbia.edu Louis Fishman lfishman@brooklyn.cuny.edu	Yasemin Akçagüner ya2300@columbia.edu
553	Drugs and Society	1975	Frank McCorry famcc127@gmail.com Steve Rabinowitz steverabinowitz55@gmail.com	Lynder Atieno Ogembo lao2133@columbia.edu
557	Brazil	1976	Diana Brown dbrown@bard.edu John F. Collins zemilideias@yahoo.com Sidney M. Greenfield sidneygreenfield@gmail.com Vania Penha-Lopes vania_penha-lopes@bloomfield.edu	Tales Cardeal da Costa Cunha talescardeal@gmail.com
559	Arabic Studies	1977	Muhsin al-Musawi ma2188@columbia.edu	Ruwa Mohammed Alhayek rma2152@columbia.edu
561	Human Rights	1978	George J. Andreopoulos chrights@jjay.cuny.edu	Mariam Sousou ms6877@columbia.edu
567	Neo-Confucian Studies	1979	Ari Borrell arinborrell@gmail.com Tao Jiang tjiang999@gmail.com On-cho Ng oxn1@psu.edu	Sapphire Tang qt2154@columbia.edu
581	Shakespeare	1982	Jenny C. Mann jenny.mann@nyu.edu Allison Deutermann allison.deutermann@baruch.cuny.edu	Shanelle Kim sek2212@columbia.edu
583	Southeast Asia in World Affairs	1982	Ann Marie Murphy amm31@columbia.edu	Lauren Elizabeth Stricker
585	Ethics, Moral Education, and Society	1983	Elizabeth Cohn ec2341@columbia.edu Ronald Gross grossassoc@aol.com	Lorna Jepkoech Kimaiyo ljk2158@columbia.edu
603	Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience	1986	Christopher Baldassano cab2304@columbia.edu Herbert S. Terrace terrace@columbia.edu	Craig Poskanzer crp2170@columbia.edu
613	Full Employment, Social Welfare, and Equity	1987	Gertrude S. Goldberg trudygoldberg@njfac.org	Vignesh Ramesh Gaikwad vrg2120@columbia.edu
615	Iranian Studies	1987	Mahnaz Moazami mm1754@columbia.edu Marisa McCrone m.mccrone@yahoo.com	Angie Tao Henon ath2149@columbia.edu
629	Buddhist Studies	1990	Seong Uk Kim sk4236@columbia.edu Zhaohua Yang zy2200@columbia.edu
661	Religion in America	1997	Gale Kenny gkenny@barnard.edu Courtney Bender cb337@columbia.edu	Cella Masso Rivetti c.masso-rivetti@columbia.edu
667	The History of Columbia University	1998
681	Language and Cognition	2000	Robert Remez remez@columbia.edu	Esther Kim ek3436@tc.columbia.edu
689	Memory and Slavery: Social and Human Consequences	2001	John Delfs john@goodwolf.org	Chazelle Rhoden c.rhoden@columbia.edu
691	Early China	2002	Glenda Chao gchao@ursinus.edu Ethan Harkness harkness@nyu.edu	Yong-ha Kim yk2727@columbia.edu
701	Modern British History	2004	James Stafford jms2533@columbia.edu Ren Pepitone ren.pepitone@nyu.edu	Audrey Siraud ads2277@columbia.edu
703	Modern Greek	2005	Dimitrios Antoniou da2500@columbia.edu Nikolas P. Kakkoufa nikolas.kakkoufa@columbia.edu	Chloe Tsolakoglou ct3118@columbia.edu
711	Literary Theory	2005	Emily Apter emily.apter@gmail.com Bruno G. Bosteels bb438@columbia.edu	Connor Spencer connor.spencer@columbia.edu
717	Cultural Memory	2007	Marianne Hirsch mh2349@columbia.edu Andreas Huyssen ah26@columbia.edu Sonali Thakkar st4617@nyu.edu	Isabel Blankfield imb2142@columbia.edu
721	Comparative Philosophy	2007	Allison Aitken allison.aitken@columbia.edu Jonathan C. Gold jcgold@princeton.edu Hagop Sarkissian hagop.sarkissian@baruch.cuny.edu	Helen Han Wei Luo hl3631@columbia.edu
727	Theory and History of Media	2009	Stefan Andriopoulos sa610@columbia.edu Dennis Tenen dt2406@columbia.edu	Cecilia Resende Santos crs2217@columbia.edu
735	Sites of Cinema	2010	Racquel Gates rjg2184@columbia.edu Jane Gaines jmg2196@columbia.edu	Max Gaan mg4476@columbia.edu
737	Narrative, Health, and Social Justice	2010	Mario de la Cruz md2998@columbia.edu Zahra Khan zhk2107@columbia.edu
739	Columbia School Linguistics	2011	Soeren van D.P. dpvansoeren@gmail.com Joss Sackler josscsling@gmail.com Andrew McCormick A.mccormick081@gmail.com	Chazelle Rhoden c.rhoden@columbia.edu
743	Complexity Science, Modeling, and Sustainability	2011	Joshua Fisher jf2788@columbia.edu Jacqueline Klopp jk2002@columbia.edu Christoph Meinrenken cjm2177@columbia.edu	Christina Lee sl5211@columbia.edu
741	Global and Interdisciplinary Core Curricula	2011	Rachel E. Chung ec61@columbia.edu Gareth D. Williams gdw5@columbia.edu	Priya Chainani prc2126@columbia.edu
745	Catholicism, Culture, and Modernity	2011	Pierre Force pf3@columbia.edu Lorenzo Polvani lmp@columbia.edu
749	Studies in Dance	2011	Lynn Garafola lg97@columbia.edu	Juliana Ariel DeVaan jad2265@columbia.edu
751	Religion and Writing	2011	Dagmar Riedel dar2111@columbia.edu	Heidi Elizabeth Hansen heh2135@columbia.edu
757	Global Mental Health	2012	Claire Greene mg4069@cumc.columbia.edu Kathryn L. Lovero kll2153@columbia.edu	Sinmi Adeyemo ma4359@columbia.edu
759	Defense and Security Studies	2013	N.W. Collins nwcollins@columbia.edu	Ana Zuniga az2719@columbia.edu General Inquiries defensesecurity@columbia.edu
763	Beyond France	2014	Ralph Ghoche rghoche@barnard.edu Samia Henni samia.henni@mcgill.ca	Eponine Senay es4032@columbia.edu
765	Logic, Probability, and Games	2014	Haim Gaifman hg17@columbia.edu Yang Liu yl587@cam.ac.uk Rohit Parikh rparikh@gc.cuny.edu
769	Human-Animal Studies	2014	Brian Boyd bb2305@columbia.edu Naama Harel nh2508@columbia.edu	Fern Thompsett ft2502@columbia.edu
771	Indigenous Studies	2014	Pamela Calla pc1210@nyu.edu Elizabeth Hutchinson eh499@columbia.edu	Sara Pan Algarra smp2253@tc.columbia.edu
773	The Integrative Study of Animal Behavior	2014	Dustin Rubenstein dr2497@columbia.edu
775	The Future of Aging Research	2014	Jennifer Manly jjm71@cumc.columbia.edu Elizabeth Bradshaw emb2280@cumc.columbia.edu Kavita Sivaramakrishnan ks2890@cumc.columbia.edu	Matthew Coulson mjc2287@cumc.columbia.edu
777	Affect Studies	2015	Patricia Dailey pd2132@columbia.edu Thomas Dodman td2551@columbia.edu Lauren Mancia laurenmancia@brooklyn.cuny.edu	Jianna Rose Walker jrw2233@columbia.edu
779	Disability, Culture, and Society	2015	Julia Miele Rodas julia.rodas@bcc.cuny.edu Irina Carlota Silber isilber@ccny.cuny.edu	Anna Krauthamer ak4035@columbia.edu
783	Sustainable Finance	2016	Caroline Flammer caroline.flammer@sipa.columbia.edu
787	Material Texts	2017	Alexis Hagadorn ah333@columbia.edu Joseph Howley jah2220@columbia.edu	Joseph Romano jr3850@columbia.edu
791	Science and Subjectivity	2018	Robert Pollack pollack@columbia.edu Peter Gruenberger peter.gruenberger@gmail.com	Tara Anne Hillman tah2168@columbia.edu
793	Columbia University Collaborative of Community Programs for Youth and Families	2018	Shaba Keys sk3785@columbia.edu Alissa Mayers am4459@columbia.edu	Leopoldo Moncada ldm2160@columbia.edu
797	Korean Studies	2019	Jae Won Chung jchung@alc.rutgers.edu Dong-Sei Kim dongsei.kim@nyit.edu Sohl Lee sohl.lee@stonybrook.edu	Hetty Lee yl2693@columbia.edu Ye Lim Oh yo2294@columbia.edu
799	Menstruation and Society	2021	Marni Somner ms2778@cumc.columbia.edu Inga Winkler winkleri@ceu.edu	Isabella Brocato ib2550@cumc.columbia.edu
801W	New Directions in African Diaspora Studies	2021	Natasha Lightfoot njl2106@columbia.edu Rochelle Malcolm rochelle.malcolm@columbia.edu	Batel Levy bl2945@columbia.edu
803W	Prison Education and Social Justice Curricula	2021
805	Public Humanities: Expanding Scholarship and Pedagogy	2021	JM Chris Chang jcc2174@columbia.edu Amy Chazkel ac2227@columbia.edu Eileen Gillooly eg48@columbia.edu Maria Gonzalez Pendas mg2594@columbia.edu Amy Starecheski aas39@columbia.edu
807W	University and Society	2021	Katerina Gonzalez Seligman kgonzalez.seligmann@uconn.edu Chelsea Good Abbas cgabbas@widener.edu Frances Negrón-Muntaner fn2103@columbia.edu	Mateo Rispoli mar2361@columbia.edu
809	International Relations and Contemporary Foreign Policy	2021	Page Fortna vpf4@columbia.edu Ingrid E. Gerstmann ig79@columbia.edu Olivia Jenelle Grinberg-Phillips ojg2112@columbia.edu	Randall Schmollinger rs4543@columbia.edu
811	Drama, Theatre, and Performance	2023	Shonni Enelow senelow@fordham.edu Rebecca Kastleman rrk2157@columbia.edu Derek Miller dmiller@fas.harvard.edu	Adrian Guo Silver aas2250@columbia.edu
813	Cuba	2023	Margaret E. Crahan mec55@columbia.edu Antonio A. Mendez antoniomendezruiz@gmail.com Gabriel Vignoli gabrielvignoli@gmail.com	Sara Pan Algarra smp2253@tc.columbia.edu
815	Current Research in Applied Microeconomics	2023	Elizabeth Ananat eananat@barnard.edu Judith Scott-Clayton scott-clayton@tc.columbia.edu Sandra Black sblack@columbia.edu Anja Tolonen atolonen@barnard.edu	Hannah Amy Farkas haf2130@columbia.edu
817	World Philology	2024	Mana Kia mk3586@columbia.edu David Lurie dbl11@columbia.edu	Jacob William LeMaster jwl2196@columbia.edu
819	Comics and Graphic Albums	2024	Aubrey Gabel aag2188@columbia.edu

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Directories of Seminars, Speakers & Topics

Each fall, The University Seminars office publishes a Directory of Seminars, Speakers, & Topics cataloging the activity of the previous academic year.

The University Seminars office maintains a collection of paper & print directories from 1962 to the present. PDF versions from 2007 to the present are linked in the sidebar of this page.

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