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Dear Seminars colleagues,
We are in full swing already as I write this: a sign on the main floor of Faculty House features a “University Seminars Bar” for participants in the Seminars who will meet and share dinner tonight. Our simple commitment to assure that everyone will be heard in a Seminar and be taken seriously has become more important these days than in previous years. As Dr. King once said, "we may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.”
Welcome back, and smooth sailing for your Seminars.
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General Meeting for Seminar Chairs: CHAIRS Please RSVP by OCTOBER 17, 2017
NOTE: Chairs may send another seminar member as proxy, but rapporteurs may not attend in place of a chair.
Gift Accounts & Donations
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Does your seminar have a GIFT ACCOUNT? READ MORE
Donations may also be made to The University Seminars general fund. Donations to the office support our Publication Funds as well as conferences and symposia. READ MORE
Library Privileges for Members All University Seminar Associate Members have the following library privileges: - Physical access (with CUID)
- Off-campus access to e-resources, or, remote access, with UNI and password
- Borrowing privileges, no monthly fee READ MORE
Submissions
Proposals for the following are accepted through an online submissions manager:
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LEONARD HASTINGS SCHOFF MEMORIAL LECTURE SERIES
Medicine, Empire, Love: The Inner Life of Mrs. Dalloway
Given by Edward Mendelson
Held on three consective Mondays, Schoff Lectures are free and open to the public 8pm | The Faculty House | 64 Morningside Drive |
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| The University Seminars Fall Calendar |
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| Monday | September 18 | Faculty House opens for lunch | | Thursday-Friday | September 21-22 | Rosh Hashanah (begins sunset on 20th) | | Saturday | September 30 | Yom Kippur (begins sunset on 29th) | | Thursday-Weds. | October 5-11 | Succoth (begins sunset on 4th) | | Tuesday | October 24 | USEMS General Committee Meeting (4-6PM) | | Monday | November 6+ | Academic Holiday | | Tuesday | November 7+ | Election Day – University Holiday | | Mondays | Nov. 13, 20, and 27 | Schoff Lecture Series | | Thursday-Friday | November 23-24*+ | Thanksgiving Holidays | | Weds.- Weds. | December 13-20 | Hanukkah (begins sunset on 12th) | | Friday | December 15 | Autumn Term Ends – The Faculty House closes | | Monday | December 25*+ | Christmas Day (Observed) | | Tuesday | December 26*+ | University Holiday |
The University Seminars office will be closed from 6:00
pm on Friday, December 22, 2017 until 10:00 am on Wednesday, January 3,
2018.
Travel Fund Requests for spring, 2018, are due by January 19, 2018
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Mid-Day Music at Columbia Wednesdays at 1pm | Faculty House | Free and Open to the Public
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EPIC (Emeritus Professors in Columbia) YOGA
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613 | Full Employment, Social Welfare, and Equity
CELEBRATING NEW DEAL NEW YORK CITY: PROMOTING A GENDER & RACE INCLUSIVE JOB GUARANTEE 2017 (October 27-28, 2017)
The Seminar on Full Employment, Social Welfare, and Equity, along with the New School for Social Research, the National Jobs for All Coalition are the principal sponsors of a Public Meeting with a dual purpose…Read more... 497 | Slavic History and Culture
TWO REVOLUTIONS AND BEYOND (November 2-4, 2017)
The Bakhmeteff Archive and the Columbia University Slavic
Department will hold an international conference, Two Revolutions and Beyond, on November
2-4, 2017. The conference is both intended to open a broad discussion on
the global influence of the two Russian Revolutions (February and October 1917)
and to initiate a series of events commemorating the 100th anniversary of the
two revolutions…Read more... 729 | History, Redress, & Reconciliation
MEMORY LAWS: CRIMINALIZING HISTORICAL NARRATIVE (October 27-28)
Since the 1980s, interest in politically and legally shaping public memory regarding the Holocaust and other crimes perpetrated during the Second World War has been evident in a wide variety of arenas, from memorial museums to monuments, from war crimes trials to official commissions…Read more... PRESENT PAST: TIME, MEMORY, AND THE NEGOTIATION OF HISTORICAL JUSTICE (December 7-9, 2017)
In considering the politics and policies of commemorating the past, this conference probes how public discourses about memory change over time…Read more... |
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AWARDS, PUBLICATIONS, & SPECIAL SESSIONS
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431 | Medieval Studies
Jeanette Beer has supported a new scholarship: Jeanette Beer Graduate Studentship in Medieval French…READ MORE Elizabeth Cohn, co-chair of the Seminar on Innovation in Education (#511) has been designated a Fellow of the American Academy of Nurses. The Fellows are described as nursing's most accomplished leaders in education, management, practice, and research.
539 | Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation Chris Sharrett, An essay, The Function of Criticism at Any Time; a review of Beatriz at Dinner and other films; and For Tobe Hooper: 1943-2017 (all in Film International online).A review of Blow Up; and an essay entitled Cineaste in Another City, both published in the current CINEASTE. Annette Insdorf, A new book, Cinematic Overtures: How to Read Opening Scenes, scheduled for late October. FilmStruck will present Cinematic Overtures, a series of 8 films Prof. Insdorf will host as a tie-in to debut sometime this Fall. FilmStruck will also present Indelible Shadows in early October, a program of 9 films based on Prof. Insdorf's book of the same title about film and the Holocaust. Another book published in May, Intimations: The Cinema of Wojciech Has (Northwestern University Press). Marcelline Block, A chapter titled "Poete maudit and cineaste paria: Tristan Corbiere as Inspiration for Jean Rollin's films Les Amours Jaunes and La Rose de fer." Published in Lost Girls: The phantasmagorical Cinema of Jean Rollin (Spectacular Optical, 2017). Cynthia Lucia, A new book, Cineaste on Film Criticism, Programming and Preservation in the New Millennium, which she is co-editing with Rahul Hamid (University of Texas Press).
551 | Ottoman and Turkish Studies VISUAL SOURCES IN LATE OTTOMAN HISTORY: The Ottoman and Turkish Studies Seminar co-sponsored a conference last April and created a podcast to cover the event. LISTEN HERE
557 | Brazil Vânia Penha-Lopes, co-chair of the Brazil Seminar published Confronting Affirmative Action in Brazil: University Quota Students and the Quest for Racial Justice. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017.Sidney M. Greenfield, co-chair of the Brazil Seminar received a 2017 Outstanding Author Contribution award from Emerald Publishing for his article ‘The Alternative Economics of Alternative Healing: Faith Based Therapies in Brazil’s Religious Marketplace.” Published in Donald Wood, Ed, The Economics of Ecology, Exchange, and Adaptation: Anthropological Explorations, Volume 36 of Research in Economic Anthropology, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2016, pp. 315-336. Georges Flexor and Sergio Pereira Leite published “Land Market and Land Grabbing in Brazil during the Commodity Boom of the 2000s.” Contexto Internacional vol. 39(2) May/Aug 2017, pp. 393-419.
561 | Human Rights George Andreopoulos (co-chair of the Human Rights Seminar) has been awarded a Mercator Fellowship by the German Research Foundation. Under the auspices of the Fellowship, he will spend the fall 2017 semester in Berlin as a Visiting Professor at the Free University.
667 | The History of Columbia University A Provost’s Reflections, Columbia Magazine Fall 2017, features Ted Truman, son of former Columbia College dean and University provost, who talked at the University Seminar on the History of Columbia University last spring. READ HERE
703 | Modern Greek |
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Wm. Theodore de Bary, acclaimed
scholar of East Asian thought and a leader in the development of Asian Studies
in the United States, died peacefully in his home, Hotokudo, in Tappan, New
York, on July 14, 2017. READ MORE |
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