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SUMMARY:Final Day for Seminars in Faculty House
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URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/final-day-for-seminars-in-faculty-house/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260429T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260429T220000
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SUMMARY:Annual Dinner and Tannenbaum Lecture
DESCRIPTION:This event is open to members of The University Seminars community only. Registration is required. \nTANNENBAUM LECTURE\n“Arthur Mitchell: The Extraordinary Life of Harlem’s Ballet Visionary”\nLynn Garafola\nProfessor Emerita of Dance at Barnard College \nBorn in 1934 to parents who came to Harlem during the Great Migration\, Arthur Mitchell fell in love with ballet as a teenager and against all odds became New York City Ballet’s first African American star. Like Jackie Robinson and other civil rights heroes\, Mitchell stood on the front line of integration\, even as he left a lasting mark on ballets such as Agon and A Midsummer Night’s Dream by George Balanchine that defined a new era in American dance. Outraged by the assassination of Martin Luther King at the height of the Black Arts Movement\, in 1969 Mitchell founded Dance Theatre of Harlem\, the first enduring majority-Black company. Under Mitchell’s inspired direction\, DTH quickly became a racial and artistic change-maker\, enabling large numbers of Black dancers to pursue a professional career in ballet for the first time\, even as the company became the incubator of ballets that spoke directly to the Black experience. Mitchell seldom spoke of the racism he had encountered\, his closeted life as a gay man\, or the toll that DTH took on his private and professional life. Heroic\, mercurial\, and complex\, he was a larger-than-life figure\, blessed by higher powers to remake his chosen art. \nLynn Garafola is Professor Emerita of Dance at Barnard College\, Columbia University.  A historian and critic\, she is the author of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes\, Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance\, and La Nijinska: Choreographer of the Modern; editor of José Limón: An Unfinished Memoir\, The Diaries of Marius Petipa\, and other books\, and curator of several exhibitions\, including Dance for a City: Fifty Years of the New York City Ballet\, New York Story: Jerome Robbins and His World\, and Arthur Mitchell: Harlem’s Ballet Trailblazer. A former Getty Scholar and recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers\, she has just completed her second biography\, Arthur Mitchell: The Extraordinary Life of Harlem’s Ballet Visionary\, scheduled for publication by Yale University Press in September 2026. \nTANNENBAUM-WARNER AWARD\nFor distinguished scholarship and exceptional service to The University Seminars\nDavid Johnston\nProfessor of Political Philosophy at Columbia University \nDavid Johnston has taught at Columbia since 1986\, specializing in political philosophy and the history of moral and political ideas. He has served as President of the New York State Political Science Association and as Chair of the International Conference for the Study of Political Thought as well as several leadership roles within Columbia. His books include The Rhetoric of Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes and The Politics of Cultural Transformation; The Idea of a Liberal Theory; and A Brief History of Justice. He is editor of a selection of readings on Equality; co-editor\, with Nadia Urbinati and Camila Vergara\, of Machiavelli on Liberty and Conflict; editor and translator of Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan: A Norton Critical Edition\, 2nd ed. and (most recently) of Hobbes’s Leviathan: A Norton Library Edition. His current research focuses on the role of the idea of individual autonomy in modern political/economic/social imaginaries. \nThis event is open to seminar chairs\, members\, rapporteurs & friends of The University Seminars.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/annual-dinner-and-tannenbaum-lecture/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Annual Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260424T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260424T160000
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SUMMARY:Environmental and Racial Justice in Shakespeare Studies
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The University Seminar on Shakespeare \nThis 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. \nSCHEDULE \n8:30 AM\nRegistration and Welcome  \n9:00 AM – 10:00 AM\nPANEL I:  Echoes of Early Modernity\nRuben Espinosa\, Arizona State University\nLowell Duckert\, University of Delaware \n10:15 AM – 11:15 AM\nPANEL II: The More-than-Human World\nPatricia Cahill\, Emory University\nDennis Britton\, University of British Columbia (Canada) \n11:30 AM – 1:00 PM\nLunch \n1:15 PM – 2:15 PM\nPANEL III: Race and Place\nVin Nardizzi\, University of British Columbia (Canada)\nEli Cumings\, Columbia University \n2:30 PM – 4:00 PM\nKEYNOTE CONVERSATION: Environmental Racism and Narratives of Settlement\nMadeline Sayet\, Arizona State University\nScott Manning Stevens\, Syracuse University \n  \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/environmental-and-racial-justice-in-shakespeare-studies/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Conferences/Symposia
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260427
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SUMMARY:SOF@50: Humanities in the World
DESCRIPTION:Co-Sponsored by The University Seminars on Cultural Memory and Public Humanities: Expanding Scholarship and Pedagogy \n(Faculty House and Heyman Center for The Humanities) \nFor 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.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/sof50-humanities-in-the-world/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Conferences/Symposia
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SUMMARY:Martin Luther King\, Jr. Day
DESCRIPTION:Morningside Campus is closed. Faculty House is closed for seminars and events.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/martin-luther-king-jr-day-2/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Holiday
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251126
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SUMMARY:Academic Holiday
DESCRIPTION:Morningside Campus is closed. Faculty House is closed for seminars and events.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/academic-holiday-3/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Holiday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251124T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251124T213000
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SUMMARY:Schoff Memorial Lectures | Lecture III
DESCRIPTION:Postponed until Fall 2027\nArt of the Lecture\nBrent Hayes Edwards\nPeng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature \nLecture III: “Accompaniments of the Utterance” \nAlthough lecture courses are a staple of university teaching\, there is oddly little scholarship considering the lecture as a format. This series of lectures is framed neither as a straightforward history nor as a practical how-to guide\, but instead as an argument for the unique generic qualities and political stakes of the lecture as a mode that hovers between pedagogy and performance. \nBrent Hayes Edwards is the Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University\, where he is also affiliated with the Center for Jazz Studies and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Since 2021 he has served as the editor of the journal PMLA. Edwards’s books include The Practice of Diaspora: Literature\, Translation\, and the Rise of Black Internationalism (Harvard UP\, 2003); Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination (Harvard UP\, 2017); and the English translation of Michel Leiris’s Phantom Africa (Seagull\, 2017). He is the Harlem Renaissance period editor of the Norton Anthology of African American Literature (4th Ed.\, 2025) and has published scholarly editions of classic works by W. E. B. Du Bois\, Frederick Douglass\, Joseph Conrad\, and Claude McKay. His most recent books are Écrire le monde noir (Rot-Bo-Krik\, 2024)\, a collection of the interwar writings of the pioneering Martinican intellectual Paulette Nardal; and Easily Slip into Another World (Knopf\, 2023)\, the co-written autobiography of the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Henry Threadgill\, which won the 2024 American Book Award. Edwards was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2015\, and in 2020 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. \nLectures are free and open to the public. Registration is required. \nREGISTER FOR THE SCHOFF LECTURES
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/leonard-hastings-schoff-memorial-lectures-lecture-ii/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Annual Events,Spotlight Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251110T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251110T213000
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SUMMARY:Schoff Memorial Lectures | Lecture I
DESCRIPTION:Postponed until Fall 2027\nArt of the Lecture\nBrent Hayes Edwards\nPeng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature \nLecture I: “Talking in and out of School” \nAlthough lecture courses are a staple of university teaching\, there is oddly little scholarship considering the lecture as a format. This series of lectures is framed neither as a straightforward history nor as a practical how-to guide\, but instead as an argument for the unique generic qualities and political stakes of the lecture as a mode that hovers between pedagogy and performance. \nBrent Hayes Edwards is the Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University\, where he is also affiliated with the Center for Jazz Studies and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Since 2021 he has served as the editor of the journal PMLA. Edwards’s books include The Practice of Diaspora: Literature\, Translation\, and the Rise of Black Internationalism (Harvard UP\, 2003); Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination (Harvard UP\, 2017); and the English translation of Michel Leiris’s Phantom Africa (Seagull\, 2017). He is the Harlem Renaissance period editor of the Norton Anthology of African American Literature (4th Ed.\, 2025) and has published scholarly editions of classic works by W. E. B. Du Bois\, Frederick Douglass\, Joseph Conrad\, and Claude McKay. His most recent books are Écrire le monde noir (Rot-Bo-Krik\, 2024)\, a collection of the interwar writings of the pioneering Martinican intellectual Paulette Nardal; and Easily Slip into Another World (Knopf\, 2023)\, the co-written autobiography of the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Henry Threadgill\, which won the 2024 American Book Award. Edwards was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2015\, and in 2020 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. \nLectures are free and open to the public. Registration is required.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/leonard-hastings-schoff-memorial-lectures/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Annual Events,Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lecture Series,Spotlight Event
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251104
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SUMMARY:Election Day
DESCRIPTION:Morningside Campus is closed. Faculty House is closed for seminars and events.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/election-day-2/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Holiday
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251103
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251104
DTSTAMP:20260810T084603
CREATED:20250425T170747Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260518T172137Z
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SUMMARY:Academic Holiday
DESCRIPTION:Morningside Campus is closed. Faculty House is closed for seminars and events.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/academic-holiday-2/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Holiday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T170000
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SUMMARY:Open Seminar Day
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in commemorating the 80th year since the founding of The University Seminars with an interdisciplinary dialogue and conversation among representatives of different seminars. Printed materials representing all the seminars will be made available as well as selected publications supported by the Leonard Hastings Schoff and Aaron Warner Publication Funds. The event will include a presentation of A Community of Scholars: 75 Years of The University Seminars at Columbia\, Thomas Vinciguerra (ed.) — the volume published for The Seminars’ 75th anniversary year. \n1:30 PM\, UNIVERSITY SEMINARS IN CONVERSATION\nDeath (founded 1971)\nFull Employment\, Social Welfare\, and Equity (founded 1987)\nPublic Humanities: Expanding Scholarship and Pedagogy (founded 2021)\nShakespeare (founded 1982)\n2:30 PM \nBrazil (Founded 1976)\nHuman Rights (founded 1978)\nLaw and Politics (founded 1963)\nThe Ancient Near East (founded 1966)\n3:30 PM\, PRESENTATION OF ‘A COMMUNITY OF SCHOLARS’  \nFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. REGISTRATION REQUIRED.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/open-seminar-day/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
CATEGORIES:Community Events
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