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Winter 2020
The University Seminars
Newsletter
Dear Friends and Members of the Seminars,
I wish you all a Happy and Peaceful New Year.
We have some events coming up. The first is our Seminars Wine Reception on Febru-ary 10, 5-7pm in Faculty House. The purpose of this gathering is for members of The Seminars community to talk about their experience with their seminar or The Seminars in general. Chairs and members are welcome to bring a colleague or friend who is inter-ested in learning more about The University Seminars.
Our Annual Dinner is on Wednesday, April 22. Deborah Paredez is our Tannenbaum Lecturer. Deborah is an American poet, scholar, and cultural critic. She is the author of the poetry collection, This Side of Skin, and the critical study, Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory. An official invitation will be mailed out early spring and the event will be posted on our website. In the meantime, please mark your calendars. It will be an exciting evening.
Next November, we will celebrate the publication of a book of essays on 75 years of The University Seminars. Planning for this party is in the works. We will keep you posted.
Our office is wonderful and we welcome your questions, suggestions, or concerns.
Lunch meetings with me are possible and welcome.
Warm regards,
Alice Newton, Acting Director The University Seminars
LETTER from the DIRECTOR
The Belo Award aims to increase participation from emerging and independent scholars and non-tenured professors from underrepresent-ed groups in University Seminars events. The award may be used for expenses associated with attendance, over and above the cost of travel and accommodation usually covered by The Seminars office. Such expenses might in-clude dependent care, the cost of food, and other incidentals. Requests for the Belo Award are made by seminar chairs on behalf of their speakers through Submittable and are reviewed by a committee.
BELO AWARD
LINK TO SUBMITTABLEJane Belo, teacher, painter, anthropologist. Read more...
THE UNIVERSITY SEMINARS WINE RECEPTIONS
Announcing The University Seminars first Seminar Wine Reception for the Seminars community. Come meet chairs and members from other seminars and bring along friends who are interested in learning more about The University Seminars program. The University Seminars office staff and Advisory Board will attend.
The University Seminars Wine Reception will be held on February 10 and April 29.
February 10 and April 29, 2020
Please join us!5-7 pm
ANNOUNCEMENTS from the OFFICE
Research Fellow, Nataly Shahaf conducts a survey of the Robert L. Belknap Papers
We are delighted to announce that The Univer-sity Seminars now has a dedicated archive room in Faculty House. The archive room is a working space dedicated to the arrangement of The Uni-versity Seminars archival materials including the papers of past directors.
This room will serve an additional function as an archive reading room: a space for chairs, mem-bers, and rapporteurs to explore the digital ar-chive and the portion of the collection that is housed only in Faculty House.
And, our digital book shelf has 425 titles to date!
DIGITAL BOOK SHELF
News from the Archive...
invitation to follow...
The University Seminars 76thANNUAL DINNER MEETINGTannenbaum Lecture to be given by Deborah Paradez
APRIL 22, 2020Save the Date!
Wednesday 1.1 *+ New Year’s Day
Monday 1.20 *+ Martin Luther King, Jr., Day
Tuesday 1.21 Spring Term begins / FH reopens for meetings
Monday 2.3 FH reopens for lunch
Tuesday 3.10 Purim (begins sunset on 3.9)
Monday - Friday 3.16-3.20 *+ Spring Holidays / FH closed for all events
Monday 3.23 FH reopens for lunch
Thursday- Thursday 4.9-4.16 Passover (begins sunset on 4.8)
Friday 4.10 Good Friday
Sunday 4.12 Easter Sunday
Wednesday 4.22 University Seminars Annual Dinner / Tannenbaum
Friday 5.1 FH Dining Room closes 2 pm
Monday 5.4 Spring Term ends
Wednesday 5.20 Commencement
Monday 5.25 *+ Memorial Day
Friday 5.29 FH closes for meetings
*Morningside offices closed. +Faculty House is closed for seminars and events.
BAR DATES
1.21, 1.22, 1.30*
2.3, 2.5, 2.6*, 2.7, 2.12, 2.14, 2.18, 2.20*, 2.25, 2.27 3.2, 3.5, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12*, 3.13, 3.24, 3.26,
4.2, 4.3, 4.9*, 4.10, 4.14, 4.16*, 4.21, 4.23
5.1, 5.8, 5.12, 5.13
*Bar is open until 10pm
CALENDAR and EVENTS
SPRING | 2020
FACULTY HOUSE COMMUNITY HOURS1.31, 2.28. 3.27, 4.24, 5.15
Faculty HouseIvy Lounge, 1st Floor
Open to Columbia University Community. $15 open bar with beer and wine. Complimentary light snacks. No reservations required. Cash and credit cards both accepted.
FACULTY HOUSE CLOSED FOR LUNCH3.16-3.20 (Spring Break) and 3.6
EPIC YOGAYoga for EPIC members is led by Virginia Papaioan-nou, Professor of Genetics and Development, and a registered teacher with the Yoga Alliance Registry.
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CONFERENCES & SYMPOSIA551 | Ottoman and Turkish Studies
Iraqi Studies: Past, Present, and Future
2.28-2.29
This two-day conference brings together a diverse group of established and emerging scholars working on the history of modern Iraq from the Ottoman pe-riod to the present to interrogate Iraqi studies; taking stock of its past, reflecting on the present, and looking towards its future. Studies of modern Iraq have grown qualitatively and quantitatively in recent years. There is now a critical mass of innovative scholars in the US, Europe, and the Middle East who work on Iraq and are exploring new lines of inquiry in a number of different directions. It is common to see Iraq-themed panels and round tables at international conferences. Given this volume of scholarly activity connected to modern Iraq, it is an opportune time to critically reflect on and examine Iraqi studies and its status as a burgeoning sub-field of Middle East Studies.
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491 | Early American History and Culture
4.21
Claiming the State: Civics, Inclusion, and Power
from the American Revolution to the Civil War
Generations of research on the history of marginalized people in the United States have made it impossible for many scholars of American history today to cleave to a triumphant, teleological, or even hopeful narrative of American liberal governance. Yet for most groups marginalized within the United States, throughout its history, there has been little viable alternative to en-gagement with the state. We are convening this sym-posium to discuss the question: where do we go from here?
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719 | Injury Prevention and Control
5. 21
The University Seminar on Injury Prevention is co-spon-soring a symposium, ‘Columbia Science in Service to Safety”, Thursday, May 21, 2020 at the Mailman School of Public Health’s Rosenfield Building. Lou Klarevaris, author of Rampage Nation, will give the keynote. At-tendees can network over a continental breakfast and buffet lunch with roundtables covering topics on fire-arm violence, motor vehicle safety, drug overdose, ad-olescent suicide, and adverse childhood experiences. The event is free, but requires registration. For further information, contact Dr. Joyce Pressley, Director of Outreach, Columbia Center for Injury Science and Pre-vention (CCISP) and Chair University Seminar 719 at [email protected].
Register here...
PUBLICATIONS, AWARDS, and SPECIAL SESSIONS
417 | Eighteenth-Century European Culture
Gretchen H. Gerzina, Britain’s Black Past (forth-coming February 2020)
445 | Modern East Asia: Japan
Tatiana Linkhoeva, Revolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism
501 | Israel and Jewish Studies
This fall, the Israel and Jewish Studies University Seminar hosted two scholars for discussions of their recent work. In September, the seminar heard from Professor Yair Lorberbaum, currently a Visiting Profes-sor at the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, who discussed his current project, “Rejecting Reasons for (Jewish) Laws - Philosophy and History.” Professor Lorberbaum’s presentation was accompanied by a lively scholarly conversation. In November, the semi-nar hosted Professor David Sorkin, the Lucy G. Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History at Yale Universi-ty. Professor Sorkin discussed his pathbreaking new book, Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries. Professor Sorkin’s work reshapes our un-derstanding of the quest for civil and political rights in modern Jewish history, and the Seminar was de-lighted to hear from him.
509 | The Art of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
Joshua Cohen, The “Black Art” Renaissance: Sculp-ture and Modernism across Continents (forthcom-ing July 2020)
511 | Innovation in Education
Elizabeth Cohn, RN, PhD, the co-chair of the Semi-nar on Innovation in Education (#511), has launched a national campaign, “Health at the Ballot Box”, to encourage fellow nurses to vote in 2020 (www.Nurs-esWhoVote.org). Prof. Cohn is an Associate Re-search Scientist and Associate Director of the Com-munity Engagement Core Resource, Irving Institute of Clinical and Translational Science, Columbia Uni-versity and CUIMC.
Ronald Gross, Co-Chair of the Seminar on Innova-tion in Education, was appointed by the non-profit TED organization, as one of 140 persons over 40
countries, to pilot the new TED initiative, TED Circles. Anyone anywhere in the world can organize and run a regular discussion group using specially select-ed TED Talks by outstanding scholars and scientists, with suggested discussion guides, and participate in a global on-line community to share their responses -- all free and entirely volunteer-driven. 539 | Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation.
551 | Ottoman and Turkish Studies
Lale Can, Spiritual Subjects: Central Asian Pilgrims and the Ottoman Hajj at the End of Empire (forth-coming March 2020)
Mayte Green-Mercado Visions of Deliverance: Moriscos and the Politics of Prophecy in the Early Modern Mediterranean (forthcoming April 2020)
583 | Southeast Asia in World Affairs
Duncan McCargo, Fighting for Virtue: Justice and Politics in Thailand
615 | Iranian Studies
Mahnaz Moazami is co-editor of most recent pub-lication of the Encyclopædia Iranica, Fascicle 5 of Volume XVI, with several entries on Omar Khayyam and the Rubaiyyat in the context of world literature. A project of the Yarshater Center for Iranian Studies at Columbia University, Encyclopædia Iranica was pub-lished in October 2019 and available for purchase at Brill Publishers.
661 | Religion in America
Michael McNally, American Religious Freedom Be-yond the First Ammendment (forthcoming April 2020)
701 | Modern British History
Tobias Harper, From Servants of the Empire to Ev-eryday Heroes: The British Honours System in the Twentieth Century (forthcoming April 2020)
711 | Literary Theory
Matthew Hart, Extraterratorial: A Political Geogra-phy of Contemporary Fiction (forthcoming August 2020)
717 | Cultural Memory
The University Seminar on Cultural Memory is pleased to announce the publication of
SEMINARS COMMUNITY
School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference by Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer(University of Washington Press, December, 2019)Hirsch and Spitzer are also co-curators of a related exhibition: SCHOOL PHOTOS AND THEIR AFTER-LIVES HOOD MUSEUM OF ART, Dartmouth CollegeJANUARY 8- APRIL 12, 2020
739 | Columbia School Linguistics
Columbia School Linguistics in the 21st Century, ed-ited by Nancy Stern, Ricardo Otheguy, Wallis Reid & Jaseleen Sackler, was published by John Benjamins. The volume is a collection of papers presented at the University Seminar on Columbia School Linguistics and at a US-sponsored conference, and includes an introduction that describes the theoretical framework that was established by the late Professor William Div-er and his students at Columbia University in the 1960s and actively pursued since. University Seminar #739 is a continuation of the seminar Professor Diver created more than 50 years ago, as an avenue to pursue this framework to linguistic research.
IN MEMORIUM
477 | South Asia
Allison Busch, friend and colleague of the South Asia Seminar passed away on Saturday, October 19, 2019. Allison was an esteemed Associate Professor of Hin-di Literature in Columbia University’s Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, leg-endary for her brilliant scholarship and her dedication as a teacher and mentor. She was a pillar of our South Asia Seminar community, and behind the scenes she provided me with instrumental support in my role as Seminar Chair. On behalf of the University Seminar on South Asia, I extend deep condolences to her husband Professor Sheldon Pollock. Our thoughts are with him during this difficult time. Read more...
525 | The Middle East
Karl E. Meyer had a long association with the Middle East Seminar. He and Shareen were always there and always armed with a perceptive comment or question. He had missed a few sessions recently due to illness. He will be sorely missed. Read more...
667 | The History of Columbia University
Philanthropist, Columbia University Trustee, and mem-ber of The History of Columbia University Seminar, H. F. “Gerry” Lenfest died on Sunday, August 5 at the age of 88 in his beloved home city of Philadelphia. Gerry was a wise and deeply engaged Trustee, one of the most generous donors in the history of the institu-tion, and, most importantly, a true colleague in every major undertaking of the University over the last two decades. Read more...
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