Seminars

  • Founded
    1954
  • Seminar Number
    429

The concern of this seminar is the history, literature, and culture of the United States, focusing on the period from the nineteenth century to the present. Recent subjects have ranged from Margaret Fuller to the Hawaiian sovereignty movement, from Asian American fashion designers to letters from former slaves who settled in Liberia. A number of presentations have positioned the United States in transnational or comparative contexts. The seminar’s strength is the variety of fields represented by its intellectually active participants. The very lively discussion periods are one of the most appealing aspects of this seminar.


Co-Chairs
Diane Detournay
ddetournay@fordham.edu

Brandy Monk-Payton
bmonkpayton@fordham.edu

Rapporteur
May Niiya
mkn2129@columbia.edu

Meeting Schedule

10/18/2023 Faculty House, Columbia University
4:00 PM
A conversation with Neferti X.M. Tadiar (Barnard), author of Remaindered Life (Duke University Press 2022) and Reena N. Goldthree (Princeton)
Neferti X.M. Tadiar , Barnard College

Reena N. Goldthree, Princeton University



11/14/2023 Faculty House, Columbia University
4:00 PM
A conversation with Kelli Moore (NYU), author of Legal Spectatorship: Slavery and the Visual Culture of Domestic Violence (Duke University Press 2022), and Amber Musser (CUNY ), author of the forthcoming Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined (Duke University Press 2024)
Kelli Moore, New York University

Amber Musser, CUNY Graduate School



03/06/2024 Faculty House, Columbia University
4:00 PM
A conversation with Caitlin Meehye Beach (Fordham), author of Sculpture at the Ends of Slavery (University of California Press 2022), and Emilie Boone (NYU) , author of A Nimble Arc: James Van Der Zee and Photography (Duke University Press 2023)
Caitlin Meehye Beach, Fordham University

Emilie Boone, New York University



04/03/2024 Faculty House, Columbia University
4:00 PM
TBD
Clifton Boyd , New York University

Matthew Morrison , New York University