Seminars

Founded
1962
Seminar Number
459A

This seminar undertakes a wide-ranging consideration of the city—its history, functions, problems, and glories. Sessions are devoted to urban cultural and social history, and to the meaning of physical form and landscape of both American and world-wide cities. The heterogeneous nature of the seminar’s membership is reflected in the variety of subjects that the meetings address.

Chair
Professor Lisa Keller
lisa.keller@purchase.edu

Rapporteur
Nataly Shahaf
ns3050@columbia.edu

All seminars will continue to meet virtually through February 2022. Meeting links provided upon RSVP. Meeting dates and times are subject to change.

Meeting Schedule

10/13/2021	Online Meeting 5:30 PM	Screening of "The Automat" Lisa Hurwitz, Film Director

11/17/2021	Online Meeting 5:30 PM	Trading Floors, Back Offices, and the Transformation of Wall Street, 1960-2001 Aaron Shkuda, Princeton University

01/19/2022	Online Meeting 5:30 PM	Roundtable: The Museum in the Time of Covid Raymond Codrington, Weeksville Heritage Center Sarah Henry, Museum of the City of New York Annie Polland, Tenement Museum

02/24/2022	Online Meeting 5:30 PM	The Great American Transit Disaster: Austerity, Autocentric Planning, and White Flight Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Hunter College, City University of New York

03/23/2022	Online Meeting 5:30 PM	The Far West End of 42nd Street and How Decrepitude Disappeared Carole Krinksy, New York University

04/27/2022	Online Meeting 5:30 PM	Building 'Wall Street on the Water': New York, London, and the Limits of Transnationalism Sarah Miller Davenport, University of Sheffield (England, UK)