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Calendar of Events: Thursday Lecture Series
Spring 1997
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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January 30 |
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"Alexander McGillivray as the 'Soul of the Creek Nation': Creek Indian History in the Context of the Atlantic World, 1783-1816"
Claudio Saunt
Society of Fellows/Leturer in History |
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February 6 |
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"Capital Punishment of Women: Debates About Law and Custom in Colonial India, 1818-1834"
Anne Waters
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in History and Anthropology |
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February 13 |
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"Hermes in Counter-Reformation Rome: The Obelisks of Sixtus V"
Anthony Grafton
Professor of History, Princeton University |
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February 20 |
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"States of the Disciplines: Italian Cultural Studies"
Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Fordham Unviersity; Robert Dombroski, Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Graduate School, CUNY; Silvana Patriarca, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Columbia University; Angela Dalle Vacche, Associate Professor, Department of the History of Art, Yale University. Moderator: Nelson Moe, Assistant Professor, Department of Italian, Columbia University |
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February 27 |
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"Contagion as Experience and Metaphor: The 'French Fever' in the 1790s"
Julius Scott
Professor of History, University of Michigan |
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March 6 |
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"A Reading by Black Lesbian and Gay Fiction Writers"
Bennett Capers, Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School; Author James Earl Hardy; Writer and Translator John Keene, Jr.; Author Catherine McKinley; Author Bruce Morrow; and Author Patricia Powell |
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March 13 |
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"What Was Not Mentioned: Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s Verse as Testimony in the Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case"
Andy McCord
Writer and Translator |
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March 27 |
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"The Religion of a Jurist: Faith and Law in the Thought of Justice David J. Brewer"
Linda Przybyszewski
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in History |
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April 3 |
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"After Apartheid: Teaching America in a Post-Colonial World"
Wayne Durrill
Professor of History, University of Cincinnati |
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April 10 |
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"Women in Early Jewish Magic"
Rebecca Lesses
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in Religion |
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