Fall 2019

The University Seminars

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LETTER from the DIRECTOR

Dear Seminar Members and Friends, Welcome to another year of The University Seminars. Our office is both excited and a bit trepidatious. Our Director, Bob Pollack, is on sabbatical and I am the Acting/Interim Director. As you may know, I love The Seminars and my colleagues. I have learned and en-joyed so much in working here and I’ve met many wonderful people, a few who are no longer with us. I still miss Bob Belknap, who thankfully hired me 14 years ago. It is an exciting institution and a great place to work. This year continues our 75th Anniversary, culminating with the 2020 Schoff Series and publication of an anniversary volume featuring essays by members of The Sem-inars community. I believe some of our seminars have important anniversaries com-ing up as well. Please let the office know so we can share this information in the next newsletter. Madeleine Zelin, the Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies at Columbia Univer-sity, is our Schoff Lecturer this fall. The Schoff dates are November 11, 18 and 25. The Tannenbaum Lecturer for our Annual Dinner is Deborah Paredez. At Colum-bia, she teaches courses on American poetry and performance, race, gender, and sexuality in the Writing Program and in the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER). Our dinner is on April 22, 2020. Although it is somewhat daunting to step into a position previously held by such cornerstones of the Columbia intellectual enterprise as Professors Pollack, Belknap, Warner, and Tannenbaum, I am inspired by my colleagues and the members of The University Seminars community. I promise to continue the tradition of facilitating The Seminars with efficiency, compassion, and humor.

Warm regards,

Alice Newton, Acting Director The University Seminars

ANNOUNCEMENTS from the OFFICE

WEBSITE REDESIGNThe updated University Seminars web-site is live! We hope you enjoy the new responsive interface and new features.

Check it out !Questions or concerns? Contact Summer Hart.

The University Seminars office has been working hard over the last couple of years to consolidate & clarify our operating procedures into a single publication. This fall we are pleased to present to you our Guidelines for Chairs, Members, & Rapporteurs.

This booklet is available as a downloadable PDF from the “Guidelines” section on our website.Printed copies are available in The Seminars office.

Guidelines for Chairs, Members, & Rapporteurs

LINK TO GUIDELINES

*NEW* GUIDELINES FOR CHAIRS, MEMBERS, & RAPPORTEURS

ID Card Redesign for AssociatesOver the past several months, Public Safety, CUIT, ID Centers and CU Li-braries and other service providers have engaged in a discussion on how to best identify members of the campus community who do not currently have a student, faculty, or staff role. The result has been to select a new ID card design for individuals that fall into these non-core campus roles.

Starting 9/17, all new and replacement cards printed for associates will fea-ture the new design. Benefits of membership remain the same.

There is no requirement for immediate replacement.

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SAVE the DATES

Schoff Lectures are free & open to the public.

please RSVP to the office by October 22nd.

Please join us!

Chairs

Monday 9.2 *+ Labor DayTuesday 9.3 Autumn Term beginsWednesday 9.25 FH opens for lunchMonday – Tuesday 9.30 –10.1 Rosh Hashanah (begins sunset on 9.29)Wednesday 10.9 Yom Kippur (begins sunset on 10.8)Monday – Sunday 10.14–20 Succoth (begins sunset on 10.13)Tuesday 10.29 USEMs General Committee Meeting 4 – 6 pmMonday 11.4 *+ Academic HolidayTuesday 11.5 *+ Election Day – University HolidayMondays 11.11, 18 and 25 Schoff Lecture SeriesTuesday – Friday 11.26 –11.29 FH Dining Room closed for Thanksgiving breakThursday – Friday 11.28 –11.29 *+ Thanksgiving HolidaysFriday 12.13 Autumn Term ends – FH Dining Room closes 2 pmFriday 12.20 FH closes for regular seminar meetingsMonday – Monday 12.23 –12.30 Hanukkah (begins sunset on 12.22)Tuesday 12.24 *+ University HolidayWednesday 12.25 *+ Christmas Day Tuesday 12.31 *+ University Holiday

Wednesday 1.1 *+ New Year’s DayMonday 1.20 *+ Martin Luther King, Jr., DayTuesday 1.21 Spring Term begins / FH reopens for regular meetingsMonday 2.3 FH reopens for lunchTuesday 3.10 Purim (begins sunset on 3.9)Monday - Friday 3.16-3.20 *+ Spring Holidays / FH closed for all eventsMonday 3.23 FH reopens for lunchThursday- Thursday 4.9-4.16 Passover (begins sunset on 4.8) Friday 4.10 Good FridaySunday 4.12 Easter SundayWednesday 4.1 or 4.22 University Seminars Annual Dinner / Tannenbaum Lecture (tentative)Friday 5.1 FH Dining Room closes 2 pmMonday 5.4 Spring Term ends Wednesday 5.20 CommencementMonday 5.25 *+ Memorial DayFriday 5.29 FH closes for regular seminar meetings

CALENDAR and EVENTS

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*Morningside offices closed. +Faculty House is closed for seminars and events.

FALL BAR DATES9. 5, 9.13, 9.19 (skyline w dinner)10.11, 10.1711.7, 11.8, 11.21 (seminar floor)12.5, 12.12, 12.13

FACULTY HOUSE COMMUNITY HOURSFriday, 10.4Friday, 11.8Thursday, 12.13

Faculty HouseIvy Lounge, 1st Floor

$15 open bar with beer and wine. Complimentary light snacks. No reservations required. Cash and credit cards both accepted.

FACULTY HOUSE CLOSED FOR LUNCH10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.18, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7, 11.8, 11.11, 11.12, 11.13, 11.14, 11.15, 11.27, 11.28, 11.29

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.

Read more...

CONFERENCES & SYMPOSIA459A | The City

11.14 – 11.15

An Urban World: The Changing Landscape of Sub-urbs and Cities

The seminar on The City will host the conference, An Urban World: The Changing Landscape of Suburbs and Cities at Columbia University’s Faculty House. The conference begins at 3:00 pm on Thursday No-vember 14 with a keynote address by Professor Ken-neth T. Jackson, Jacques Barzun Professor of History and an opening panel, and continues from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm on Friday November 15 with four additional panels. The conference is free and open to the public but reservations are required.

Please RSVP to: smk2209@columbia.edu

701 | Modern British History

9.12 - 9.13

New Directions in British Urban HistoryThis conference brought together leading scholars working in the field of modern British urban and plan-ning history. Read more...

771 | Indigenous Studies

11.11 – 11.12

Indigenous Peoples and Borders: decolonization, contestation, trans-border practices

Indigenous Peoples’ sovereignty, cultural integrity, connection to the land and their overall well-being continue to be threatened, defined and constrained by borders. This symposium aims at offering a rare op-portunity for indigenous (focused) scholars and practi-tioners to engage in dialogue in and through border studies. Read more...

787 | Material Texts

10.11

Book Parts

The field of book history has never been more vibrant, nor has the importance of interrogating the material dimensions of text, its creation and circulation and consumption, been more clear, as digital media upend traditional modes of publishing, reading, and even ac-ademic librarianship. Read more...

PUBLICATIONS and AWARDS

417 | Eighteenth-Century European Culture

John Richetti, associate member of the Seminar on Eighteenth-Century European Culture, edited The Cam-bridge Companion to Robinson Crusoe (May 2018).

An essay by Elizabeth Powers (formerly chair of the Seminar on 18th-Century European Culture and Seminar on Religion and Writing) appeared in the summer issue of The Hudson Review. It is entitled “Among the Barbar-ians: V.S. Naipaul and His Critics.”

In addition, her review of Goethe: Journeys of the Mind (by Gabrielle Bersier, Nancy Boerner and Peter Boerner) appeared in The Times Literary Supplement on July 16, 2019.

445 | Modern East Asia: Japan

Raja Adal, Beauty in the Age of Empire: Japan, Egypt, and the Global History of Aesthetic Education

Charlotte Eubanks, The Art of Persistence : Akamatsu Toshiko and the Visual Cultures of Transwar Japan(forthcoming December 2019)

471 | Ecology and Culture

Paige West, Claire Tow Professor of Anthropology at Bar-nard College and Columbia University, began her direc-torship of the Center for the Study of Social Difference this summer after having served as co-director of two CSSD working groups, Reframing Gendered Violence and Pacific Climate Circuits. Read more...

511 | Innovation in Education

Elizabeth Cohn, PhD, Co-Chair of the Seminar on Inno-vation in Education and Associate Research Scientist and Associate Director of the Community Engagement Core Resource, Irving Institute of Clinical and Translational Sci-ence, Columbia University and CUIMC, published “The ‘All of Us’ Research Program” in the New England Jour-nal of Medicine, August 15, 2019.

539 | Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation

Martha P. Nochimson, Television Rewired: The Rise of the Auteur Series

561 | Human Rights

Prof. George Andreopoulos, Co-Chair of the Human Rights Seminar, published a chapter on “Better Late than

SEMINARS COMMUNITY

Never? The Evolving Responsibilities of International Organizations” in Alison Brysk and Michael Stohl (eds.) Contesting Human Rights. Norms, Institutions and Practices. Edward Elgar, 2019; a chapter on “Geno-cide, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity,” in Mangai Natarajan (ed.), in International and Transna-tional Crime and Justice. Cambridge University Press, 2019; and an article on “The Resurgence of Hegemon-ic International Law,” in Global-e, Mellichamp Initia-tive on 21st Century Global Dynamics, Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, University of Cali-fornia at Santa Barbara. In addition, he served as Chair of the Organizing Committee of the Interdisciplin-ary Studies Section/International Studies Association (IDSS/ISA) Conference on Regionalist Perspectives on World Order held at Yonsei University, Republic of Ko-rea, July 4-6, 2019. The conference was organized in collaboration with the Korean Association of Interna-tional Studies (KAIS).

701 | Modern British History

Guy Ortolano, Thatcher’s Progress: From Social Democracy to Market Liberalism through an English New Town

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