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Fall 2012

December 13, 5 pm

Please joins us for a reception to celebrate the publication of recent books by

Joshua B. Freeman—American Empire: The Rise of a Global Power, the Democratic Revolution at Home 1945-2000

David Nasaw—The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy

James Oakes—Freedom National:  The Destruction of Slavery in the United States

 RSVP to

Marilyn Weber

 history@gc.cuny.edu.

November 13,  4 pm
Tea Party for the Colonial Dames in the State of New York

CUNY-GC History Program Lounge (Room 5114)

Join us in thanking The National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York, as they present their annual Fellowship to History student Thomas Hafer.  The NSCDNY has generously funded an award since 1967; winners from the fiv years are listed below. If you'd like more information about the Society, please visit their website - http://www.nydames.org.

November 16, 2012
Third Annual John Patrick Diggins Memorial Lecture

4 pm - A Reception for Dan Rodgers
CUNY-GC History Program Lounge (Room 5114)

6 pm - "American Ideals, American Arguments: How Ideas Do (and Don’t) Matter in the History of American Politics"
The Skylight Room (9100)

Join Dan Rodgers for the Third Annual John Patrick Diggins Memorial Lecture. Dan Rodgers, the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, is an historian of American ideas and culture who has taught at Princeton since 1980. He is the author of four prize-winning books, including The Work Ethic in Industrial America, 1850-1920, Contested Truths: Keywords in American Politics, and Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age, which has been translated into German and Chinese. His most recent book, Age of Fracture (2011), a history of social ideas and arguments in America in the last quarter of the twentieth century, is a co-winner of the Bancroft Prize. His articles run the gamut from American exceptionalism, to the career of ‘republicanism,’ to the election of 2000.

 

Monday, November 19, 2012 at 6:30 PM
David Nasaw on The Patriarch
Elebash Recital Hall

Professor Nasaw discusses his much-anticipated book The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy with acclaimed critic and biographer Gary Giddins.

Registration is free, but required - https://community.gc.cuny.edu/David_Nasaw_The_Patriarch
 

November 2nd and 3rd, 2012
Rousseau and the Great Thinkers 

November 2nd
9th Floor Skylight Room
 

What is Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Place in the Western Political Tradition? This conference will commemorate the tercentenary of Rousseau’s birth and the 250th anniversary of two of his most important writings on politics and morals: On the Social Contract and Emile, both originally published in 1762. Internationally renowned scholars from the US and Europe will discuss his enduring stature and legacy through a comparison with other great thinkers including Machiavelli, Montaigne, Moses Mendelssohn, Mary Wollstonecraft, Edmund Burke and Karl Marx. Join us for a series of public talks on the great thinkers.

9:15 Opening Remarks:

President William Kelly of the Graduate Center and Ambassador François Barras of the Swiss Consulate General

9:30-11:00

Maurizio Viroli (Princeton), Rousseau and Machiavelli

James Miller (New School), Rousseau and Montaigne

Mira Morgenstern (The Graduate Center, CUNY), Alienation and Freedom: Rousseau and Transcending the Nature/Culture Dualism

11:15-12:30

Bryan Garsten (Yale), Rousseau and Rameau

David Sorkin (The Graduate Center, CUNY), Rousseau and Mendelssohn

12:30-2:00: lunch break 

2:00-3:15

Anthony LaVopa (North Carolina State University), Rousseau and A.L. Thomas

Barbara Taylor (University of East London), Rousseau and Wollstonecraft 

3:30-4:45

Jonathan Israel (Institute for Advanced Study), Rousseau and the philosophes

Benjamin Barber (The Graduate Center), Rousseau and Burke 

5:00-6:15

Jerrold Seigel (NYU), Rousseau and Marx

David Bates (Berkeley), Rousseau and Schmitt

Conference organized by Helena Rosenblatt (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
 

November 3rd
Room 5114

Morning (9:15 – 1)

Introduction - Anne Deneys-Tunney and Yves Charles Zarka, Opening Remarks

Man in Relation to Himself

Lucien Nouis (NYU), "Livre de la nature et livres des hommes"

Guillemette Johnston (De Paul), "Amour-propre and amour de soi: Instinctive and Introverted Languages of Culture and Integration in the Educational Philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau" 

Christophe Martin, (Université Paris IV, La Sorbonne), " 'La nature a tout fait mais sous ma direction': Nature and Supplement in La Nouvelle Héloïse"

Afternoon (2:30)
Man in Relation to Others
Robert Stam (NYU), "Rousseau and the Brazilian Indian: From Jean de Léry to Lévi-Strauss"

Paul Audi (Paris), "Rousseau's Ethical Freedom"

Anne Deneys-Tunney (NYU), "La technologie et la nature"

Man in Relation to Power
Simon Critchley (The New School for Social Research), "Politics and Religion in 'The Social Contract' "

Pasquale Pasquino (NYU), "Rousseau’s Dictatorship – Between Machiavelli and Carl Schmitt"

Yves Charles Zarka (Sorbonne, Université Paris Descartes), "La Revolution J.J. Rousseau L’invention du Concept de Souverainete Actuelle du Peuple"

CANCELLED! WILL BE RESCHEDULED.
November 2nd, 1:00PM—3:00
Preparing for the Academic Job Market in History

CUNY-GC History Program Lounge (Room 5114)

Professor David Aliano (College of Mount Saint Vincent and GC History Program alumnus)
Professor Katherine Pence (Baruch)
Professor Benjamin Hett (Hunter)
Join us for a discussion about the market in academic jobs, how search committees evaluate applicants, and how you can maximize your chances of obtaining a tenure-track position in History. The discussion will offer suggestions for what students at every level of the program can do in order to built the sort of record that impresses search committees and lands jobs.