August 29, 2013
DIGITAL HISTORY BOUQUET
Abstract: An introduction to the issues and resources concerning Digital History for the History Department community. Panels will focus on Theoretical Digital Humanities, Computational Methods and Scholarly Communication.
Speakers: Alex Gil (Digital Scholarship Coordinator, Columbia Libraries), Manan Ahmed (History Department)
October 2, 2013
THE HUMAN RIGHTS RESTORATION-REVOLUTION
Abstract: The opening lecture in a seminar series revolving around the largely unknown 1949 Unesco Human Rights Exhibition.
Speakers: Marco Duranti (Lecturer, University of Sydney), Discussant: Samuel Moyn (History Department)
Location: Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma.
Co-sponsored with the Institute for the Study of Human Rights, the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society and the Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research.
October 30, 2013
METATRANSPARENCY
Abstract: A discussion of the preparation and publication of the official documentary history of U.S. foreign policy in the Foreign Relations of the United States series
Speakers: Joshua Botts and Lindsay Krasnoff
Location: 406 International Affairs Building
Co-sponsored with MA/MSc in International and Global History
October 30, 2013
ALTERNATIVE ACADEMIC CAREERS AND PUBLIC HISTORY
Abstract: A conversation between historians from the Office of the Historian, Department of State for a discussion on public history and alternative careers to academia
Location: 406 International Affairs Building
Time: 6:00-8:30pm
Co-sponsored with MA/MSc in International and Global History
October 30, 2013
JUDITH BUTLER AND CORNEL WEST, IN CONVERSATION
PALESTINE AND THE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL: HONORING EDWARD SAID
Abstract: On the Tenth Anniversary of Edward Said’s passing, renowned scholars Judith Butler and Cornell West will discuss what it means to be a public intellectual and Edward Said’s impact on the academic discourse of Palestine.
Location:
Speakers: Lila Abu-Lughod, James Schamus, Judith Butler, Cornel West
Time: 7:00pm
Co-sponsored with the Center for Palestine Studies (CPS) with the generous support of the Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS) and the Anthropology Department, as well as the Middle East Institute (MEI), Heyman Center for the Humanities, Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWAG), Center for International History (CIH), Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER) and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS).
November 13, 2013
BURSTING THE EXCEPTIONALIST BUBBLE
Abstract: Why North Americanists should read Brazilian History (and why most don’t)
Speakers: Rebecca Goetz (Professor, Rice University)
Location: 411 Fayerweather
Time: 10:00am-12:00pm
December 2, 2013
COOLIE WOMAN WITH GAUITRA BAHADUR
Abstract: A conversation with author Gaiutra Bahadur and Bruce Shapiro.
Speakers: Gauitra Bahadur (Author), Moderator: Bruce Shapiro
Location: Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma.
Co-sponsored with the Dart Center.
February 27, 2014
RE-PRESENTING PAKISTAN: Journalism, Justice and the ‘War on Terror’
Abstract: Pakistan has been called a failing state and the most dangerous country on earth. Western media has spotlighted the militancy and the duplicity of the Pakistani state towards its American partner. Yet, stories about the Pakistani victims of the “war on terror” remain scant even though thousands of Pakistanis have been bombed, disappeared, detained and displaced. This panel will examine the relationship between the representation of Pakistan in the media and the “war on terror.” It will discuss alternative models to pursue and publish ethical journalism.
Speakers: Asim Rafiqui (Photojournalist, Open Society Fellow), Sarah Belal (Human Rights Lawyer, Founder of Justice Project Pakistan), Madiha Tahir (Writer, filmmaker, Ph.D at Columbia Journalism School), Saadia Toor (CUNY Professor, Author of State of Islam: Culture and Cold War Politics in Pakistan)
Location: Columbia Journalism School, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall
Co-sponsored with The Sevellon Brown Fund, Columbia Journalism School Photojournalism Department, and the Center for International History
Monday, March 31, 2014
March 31, 2014
REMOVER OF OBSTACLES: GANESH AND THE PERSISTENCE OF MYTHOLOGICAL GENRE IN HINDI CINEMA
Abstract: The mythological, the founding genre of Indian cinema, is one of its most innovative forms. In the colonial period, it promoted nationalist ideals while avoiding censorship through its association with religion and tradition. It is usually thought that the mythological genre declined in popularity in Hindi cinema in independent India, eclipsed by the social which foregrounded new ideas of Indianness, a concern which continued through the Bollywood films about the diaspora and the recent flourishing of the biopic. Yet the mythological, ignored by many writers and critics, who saw the massive success of JSM in 1975 as a freak occurrence, has continued as a popular form in Hindi cinema, notably children’s animated films, up to the present, also flourishing in other media ranging from television, to popular English fiction. This paper looks at Hindi mythological films about Ganesh, the Remover of Obstacles, in the wider context of the evolving genre, discussing his changing image while also examining the nature of his gajatva or ‘elephantness’.
Location: Hamilton 303
Time: 10:30am
Speakers: Rachel Dwyer (SOAS)
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April 8, 2014
REFRAMING ‘INDIA’ IN EXILE: THE EXCENTRICITIES OF PERIPHERAL VISION AND A VIEW FROM THE CENTRE
Location: Fayerweather 411
Time: 5:30-7:00pm
Speakers: Benjamin Zachariah (Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University)
Abstract: In the first half of the twentieth century, political emigres and exiles from India found themselves in a position to become the voice of a colonised and oppressed country before an audience comprising often sympathetic, if not always well-informed, citizens of various countries of the world in which they found themselves. The ways in which they found this voice had much to do with their ability to reframe the problem of India in terms intelligible to these audiences. In so doing, they also embarked on a process of self-education and ideational translation that was transformative of the ways of conceptualising India in the world, and the world for India. The various framings of India, sometimes by the same person for different audiences, is revealing of the ways in which existing and emerging languages of legitimation were mobilised, and affected the reframing of ‘India’ both at home and away from India, by those identified with India as a national entity as well as those foreign to it. The ways in which peripheral subjects speaking from and to the centres of world power were crucial elements in conceptualising the periphery for its own subjects at home is an important aspect of the mobilisation and movement of diverse ideas in the first half of the twentieth century. How did the persons move back and forth? How did this movement of ideas work? How were these transmitted? These questions take us past the themes of the limited or constrained agency of the native informant, towards a more dynamic model of moving ideas.
April 25, 2014
SUICIDE AS EVENT? INTERVENING IN CHARLOTTE SALOMON’S INTERVENTIONS
Location: Fayerweather 411
Time: 4:00pm
Speakers: Darcy Buerkle (Smith College)
April 15, 2014
The Chile Reader: National History and Global Context in the Age of Transnational History
A book launch for The Chile Reader: Culture, Politics, History (Duke University Press, 2013) coedited by Elizabeth Quay Hutchison, Thomas Klubock, Nara Milanich, and Peter Winn
Panel discussion with Sol Serrano (Pontificia Universidad Católica, Chile) and Heidi Tinsman (UC Irvine)
Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd floor, Barnard Hall
Barnard College campus, entrance at 117th Street and Broadway
Sponsored by: Columbia Global Center/Santiago; Institute of Latin American Studies; Center for International History; Barnard Forum on Migration
A Panel discussion with Gaiutra Bahadur (journalist & writer), Dai Sil Kim-Gibson (independent filmmaker), Samip Mallick (archivist), Mae Ngai (professor, Columbia University), and Beresford Simmons (activist, musician)
- Gaiutra Bahadur, Journalist and Writer, Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture
- Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, Independent filmmaker, Sa-I-Gu, A Forgotten People: The Sakhalin Koreans,Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women
- Samip Mallick, Executive Director, South Asian American Digital Archive
- Mae Ngai, Professor of History and Asian American Studies, Columbia University
- Beresford Simmons, New York Taxi Workers Alliance; Creator of Taxi Vibes
What is the place of history in the shaping of narratives in and about immigrant communities in New York City? Immigration is often told as a story that begins with rupture and ends with assimilation – of severing roots, and building new ties. Yet, so often in New York with an immigrant population of 3 million, there are a richer, more complex stories to be found, archived, and told. How do immigrant stories shape New York, the “majority-minority” city? Join the Center for International History for a panel discussion as we navigate the question of immigrant histories and the shaping of NYC — through film, through literature- academic, fictional and journalistic- through music, archiving, and activism.