History Department Events 2011-2012
Spring 2012
Mock Job Talks
Monday, January 23, 1:00-3:00 pm
Room 5114, Graduate Center
Kristopher Burrell:"Where from Here? Ideological Perspectives on the Future of the Civil Rights Movement"
Tracy E. Robey:"Damnatio memoriae: Destroying documents, covering paintings, and cannibalizing traitors in the Italian Renaissance, 1250-1600"
"Spying at the Dry Cleaners: Economic Crisis and Cold War Politics in 1970s Mexico"
New York City Latin American History Workshop
Louise Walker, New School University
February 3, 11am-1pm
Room TBA, Graduate Center
The discussion is based on a pre-circulated paper; to receive the papers, please contact Julia del Palacio at ajd2128@columbia.edu
"'Victor's Justice' as 'Jewish Revenge': The Malmedy Massacre Trial and its Aftermath"
Steven Remy, Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center
Columbia Seminar on Twentieth-Century Politics and Society
Thursday, February 9, 7:30-9:30 pm
Free and open to the public
Columbia Faculty House, Second Floor
(directions: http://tiny.cc/q8uhz)
"Keywords for American Cultural Studies"
Rev Am Studies
Friday, February 10
12:30-2:00 pm, Room 8201.01
Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler
4:00 pm, Room 4406
Professors Burgett and Hendler
"European Union Gender Policies"
Mariagrazia Rossilli, University of Rome
Wednesday, February 15, 6:30 pm
Room 5114, Graduate Center
"Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality and the Law in the North American West"
Rev Am Studies
Friday, February 24
12:30-2:00, Room 8201.01,
Nayan Shah
"Biopolitics and Engagement: What Foucault Learned about 'Power' from the Maoists"
Richard Wolin, Graduate Center
Tuesday, February 28, 7:00-9:00 pm
Segal Theater, Graduate Center
Schedule of Candidates' Talks for Admission to GC Faculty
Room 5114, Graduate Center
Tuesday February 14
3:00 p.m.- Robert Maryks (Early Modern, Bronx Community): "Like worms that infect an apple": Jesuits of Jewish Ancestry in the Early Society of Jesus
4:00 p.m. - Sarah Covington (Early Modern, Queens College): "The Devil Come to Ireland": Historical, Folkloric, and Literary Afterlives of Oliver Cromwell in Ireland
Wednesday February 22
2:00 p.m. - Michael Pfeifer (American, John Jay): The History of American Lynching in Transregional and Transnational Context
3:00 p.m. - Barbara Naddeo (Early Modern, City College): Birth of a Metropolis: The Open City and the Social Sciences in Naples, 1650--1800
Thursday February 23
2:30 p.m. - Sandra Gambetti (Ancient, CoSI): Causes and Consequences of Letting Oneself Be Surprised (or How and Why One Ends Up Working on Alexandria)
Tuesday, March 6
2:00 p.m. - John Torpey (American, Graduate Center): Thinking Historically about Politics and Society
Wednesday, March 7
3:00 p.m. - Michael Rawson (American, Brooklyn College): City, Nature, Utopia: Environmental Thought in Historical Perspective
4:00 p.m. - Gregory Downs (American, City College): The Ends of the War: Rethinking the Post-Civil War United States
"A New Antiquity. Literatures of Art and Iberian Expansion in Early Modernity"
New York City Latin American History Workshop
Alessandra Russo, Columbia University
March 9, 11am-1pm
Room TBA, Graduate Center
The discussion is based on a pre-circulated paper; to receive the papers, please contact Julia del Palacio at ajd2128@columbia.edu
Recruitment Lunch for Newly Admitted Students
Wednesday, March 21, 12:00 noon
Room 5114, Graduate Center
"Lincoln and Marx"
Robin Blackburn, New School and Editor of New Left Review
Friday, March 23, 1:00pm
Room 5114, Graduate Center
"1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism"
Early American Republic Seminar
Nicole Eustace, Associate Professor of History and Program Director of the History of Women and Gender, NYU
Friday, March 23, 3:00pm
Room 5114, Graduate Center
"Between Proust and the Zohar: Deciphering Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project"
Richard Wolin, Graduate Center
Friday, March 23, 5:00 pm in the
Comparative Literature Lounge, Room 4116, Graduate Center
"A Tale of Two Dicks"
The Second Annual Jack P. Diggins Lecture
Robert Westbrook, History, University of Rochester
Thursday, March 29th, 6:00 pm
Skylight Room 9100, Graduate Center
GC 50th Anniversary Faculty Presentations
Monday, April 16th, 4:00 pm,
Elebash Recital Hall, Graduate Center
Herman Bennett on DIASPORA
Ruth Wilson Gilmore on INCARCERATION
Uday Mehta on VIOLENCE
Jesse Prinz on BRAINS
David Sorkin on the ENLIGHTENMENT
Anne Stone on SONG
"Peruvians in High Places: Aerial Modernity's Surprise Landing in the Andes, 1910-11"
New York City Latin American History Workshop
Willie Hiatt, Long Island University, Campus of C.W. Post
April 20, 11am-1pm
Room TBA, Graduate Center
The discussion is based on a pre-circulated paper; to receive the papers, please contact Julia del Palacio at ajd2128@columbia.edu