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Calendar of Events: Thursday Lecture Series
Fall 1998
Thursdays at 12:15
All lectures are held in the Common Room on the second floor of the Heyman Center, which is located in the East Campus Residential Center of Columbia University. Lectures are free and lunch is provided.
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October 1 |
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"The New World Court of Rio de Janeiro and the Dilemma of Slaves (1808-1821)"
Kirsten Schultz
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in Major Cultures Fellow in Latin American History |
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October 8 |
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"'Constructive Engagement' with Asian Values and Human Rights"
William Theodore de Bary
John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University and Provost Emeritus |
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October 15 |
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"The Twilight of the Christian Augustans: Neo-Latin Poetry and Intellectual Culture in Seventeenth-Century France"
April Shelford
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in History |
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October 22 |
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"Doing Intellectual History in the Year 2000: Perspectives on the State of the Discipline"
Suzanne Marchand, Professor of History, Princeton University; Tom Bender, Professor of History, New York University; Frank Turner, Professor of History, Yale University. Moderated by April Shelford Society of Fellows/Lecturer in History; and Darrin McMahon, Society of Fellows/Lecturer in History |
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October 29 |
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"Democratization and Ethnic Riots"
Steven Wilkinson
Hinduja Fellow with the Society of Fellows |
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November 5 |
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"Evoking a Sinister Past: Music and Violence in Capoeira (an Afro-Brazilian art)"
Gregory J. Downey, Jr.
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in Anthropology |
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November 12 |
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"Francesca da Rimini: Realpolitik, Romance, Gender"
Teodolinda Barolini
Professor, Italian Department, Columbia University |
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November 19 |
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"What a Loser: Visions of Failure in Nineteenth-Century America"
Scott Sandage
Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University; Alumnus, Society of Fellows |
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