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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February 5 |
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"The Counter-Enlightenment and the Low-Life of Literature in Eighteenth-Century France"
Darrin McMahon
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in History |
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February 12 |
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"What’s the Second Law of Thermodynamics Got to do With Me? An Anatomy of the Public Debate Around C.P. Snow’s 'Two Cultures'"
D. Graham Burnett
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in History |
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February 19 |
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"New Directions for the American Council of Learned Societies"
John D’Arms
President, American Council of Learned Societies |
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February 26 |
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"'You Must Remember This': Memory and Structure in Schubert’s G-Major String Quartet"
Walter Frisch
Professor, Department of Music |
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March 5 |
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"Intellectual In-Between: A French Erudit (1630-1721) in an Age of Transition"
April Shelford
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in History |
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March 12 |
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"New York’s African Burial Ground: Revelations of a National Historic Landmark"
Dorothy Désir-Davis
Lecturer, Curatorial Studies, Bard College |
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April 2 |
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"The Nineteenth-Century Discovery of Maya Art"
Esther Pasztory
Professor, Department of Art History and Archaeology |
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April 9 |
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"Red Savages and Innocent Maidens: Moving Images of American Indians"
Claudio Saunt, Society of Fellows/Lecturer in History; Karl Kroeber, Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Department of English and Comparative Literature |
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