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Calendar of Events: Thursday Lecture Series
Fall 1999
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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September 30 |
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"Pan-Africanism as Aesthetics: Brazilian Kinesthetics and Self-Formation in New York"
Greg Downey
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in Anthropology |
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October 7 |
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"Comparing Medieval Christian Clergy and Muslim Ulama"
Richard Bulliet
Professor of History, Columbia University |
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October 14 |
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"Subjectivity Rampant! Music, Hermeneutics, and History"
Lawrence Kramer
Professor of English and Music, Fordham University |
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October 21 |
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"Invented Nature: Maps and Cadastral Surveys of Timber Reserves in Renaissance Venice"
Karl Appuhn
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in History |
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October 28 |
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"Identity, Reflexivity, and the Ethnographic Encounter: Or, How I was (mis)Understood by the Egyptian Working Class"
Samer Shehata
Society of Fellows/Major Cultures Fellow |
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November 4 |
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"Wedding Discourses: Weddings, Burials, and Genre in Premodern China"
Christian DePee
Lecturer with the Asian Humanities program, Columbia University |
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November 18 |
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"The British Invention of Cultural Property"
Jordanna Bailkin
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in History |
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