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Calendar of Events: Thursday Lecture Series

Spring 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.

February 4

"Looking for Happiness in the Late Enlightenment"
Darrin McMahon
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in History

February 11

"Roundtable Discussion with Simon Schama"
Simon Schama
Old Dominion Foundation Professor, Department of History

February 18

"What King Kabua and Kaiser Wilhelm Knew: Anthropological Objects and the Repression of History in the German Colonial Empire"
Andrew Zimmerman
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in History

February 25

"Richard Strauss’s Naturalistic Poetry Settings"
Suzanne Lodato
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in Music

March 4

"Sacred Space in America: Chicago and Mormon Nauvoo"
Richard Lyman Bushman
Gouverneur Morris Professor of History

March 11

"Gertrude Stein and the Modernist Critique of Biological Sex"
Maria Farland
Society of Fellows/Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature

March 25

"Major Cultures at Columbia: Perspectives on Teaching"
Patricia Grieve, Professor and Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese; Marc Van de Mieroop, Professor, Middle East and Asian Language and Cultures; Marcia Wright, Professor, Department of History. Moderated by Kirsten Schultz, Major Cultures Fellow, Society of Fellows



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