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THE BLUE and WHITE Voe VI, No , THE BLUE AND WHITE VoE VI, No. IV Aprii 2000 Columbia College, New York N Y Look closer... "A V' \ v ' \ V \ \ • \ V K CULINARY HUM ANITIES: A proposal by M a riel L. W olf son AREA STUDIES DEFENDED II THE LAST DAYS OF RIVER by Prof. Mark von Hagen A Conversation BARNARD SWIPE ACCESS TOLD BETWEEN PUFFS, FROM RUSSIA Blue J. Verily Veritas About the Cover: “Columbia Beauty” by Katerina A. Barry. m« € g é > C O L II M B 1 A J ^ copyexpress Copies Made Easy 5p Self-Service Copies • Color Copies 3 Convenient Campus • Evening Hours Locations • Offset Printing Services 301 W Lerner Hall 106 Journalism 400 IAB (next to computer center) (lower level) 854-3797 Phone 854-0170 Phone 854-3233 Phone 864-2728 Fax 854-0173 Fax 222-0193 Fax Hours Hours Hours 8am - 11pm M -Th 9am - 5pm M - F 8:30am - 8pm M - Th 8am - 9 pm Fri 8:30am - 5pm Fri 11am - 6pm Sat 12pm - 11pm Sun Admit it. You LOVE making copies. THE BLUE AND WHITE V o l. VI New York, April 2000 No. IV THE BLUE AND WHITE This number of The Blue and White proposes quite a bit of change in the way we do busi­ ness around here. But as the oldest magazine Editor-in-Chief on campus, we’re also believers in institution­ MATTHEW RASCOFF, C’01 al memory. Hilary E. Feldstein argues against Publisher Professor Mark von Hagen’s proposal, and in C. ALEXANDER LONDON, C’02 favor is the traditional departmental division Managing Editor o f academic labor. B. D. LETZLER, C’02 For our conversation we visited River Hall, Graphics Editor which is being gutted and totally redone over KATERINA A. BARRY, C’OO the summer. According to URH, River is the Conversations Editor place for “students who march to the beat o f a RACHEL R. ROBERTSON, C’OO different drummer.” Which means, according Literary Editor to residents of River, “students who smoke NOAM S. COHEN, C’OO crystal meth.” We certainly hope River won’t Online Editor abandon its traditions of mischief. MICHAEL SCHIRALDL E’OO <9 Lecture Notes Editor We’ve been up to a little mischief ourselves. YAACOB H. DWECK, C’02 See Curio Columbiana and Blue J for details. *9 Contributors “Letters from Abroad” is a new feature inau­ HILARY E. FELDSTEIN, C’01 RICHARD J. MAMMANA, JR., C’02 gurated in this issue. We have a note about MARIEL L. WOLFSON, C’02 Israeli kibbutz life and suggestions for sum­ mer travel in some out-of-the-way northern Senior Editors European and Far Eastern destinations. NOAM M. ELCOTT, C’OO Chances are you didn’t spend your spring M. T. TREADWAY, C’OO break in the Faeroes Islands, but if you see Columbians munching on lutefisk, you’ll know where they got the idea. The B&W invites the Columbia community to <9 contribute original literary work and welcomes letters from all our readers. Articles represent the Finally, we welcome some new members to opinions o f their authors. the Blue and White staff. We’re very excited to http:// www.theblueandwhite.org have: Richard J. Mammana C’02, Hilary E. [email protected] Feldstein C’01 and Mariel L. Wolfson C’02. We are currendy recruiting writers, artists, editors and layout staff for next year. We invite n additional course in the our readers to our general meeting at 8:00 PM core, a new undergraduate on April 10 in the 10th Floor Hartley Library. teaching mission for area If you’d like more information, we can be institutes, a treaty between reached by email at theblueandwhite@colum- Barnard and Columbia to bia.edu. allow mutual swipe access. A p r il aooo 75 Area studies and the future o f the academy II by Professor Mark von Hagen In the last issue o f the B&W, Professor o f History relationship between the social science and Mark von Hagen described the challenges facing humanities disciplines, on the one hand, and the regional institutes that study the non-American the area or regional institutes on the other is world. In this continuation o f his discussion, he two very different but complementary models offers a prelim inary set o f responses to the critics o f o f organizing similarity and difference. The area studies and suggests how these discussions are disciplines political science and economics related to important changes underway in under­ most clearly organize their institutional prac­ graduate education. tices and identities around “functional” simi­ larities that in most cases are presumed to exist ow do we begin to answer these criti­ in all societies and therefore transcend nation­ Hcisms, which are made considerably more al and regional boundaries. The area studies forceful in the wake o f the recent transforma­ centers, in contrast, are built around the prin­ tions o f the post-Soviet world toward market ciples of a different set o f unities or similarities, economies and diverse levels of democratiza­ namely the institutions, practices, social struc­ tion. These transformations are being under­ tures, and cultural formations that characterize stood as the triumph of the American way, or a region or set of states with a shared common the triumph o f the market economy, or global­ predicament that is presumed to be at least ization, and even as the “end o f history.” partly the legacy o f a commonly shared past. If, indeed, the American way has triumphed, (In this sense, they are closer to literature that triumph has already begun to change the departments and history department sub-fields way we understand the American way; but his­ that are organized closer to regional and torians might remind us that such total tri­ national boundaries.) umphs are usually not terribly permanent in Another response is that regional scholars any case. Incidentally, very few universities have rapidly become comparativists and enthu­ have North American regional institutes, and siastically applied theoretical models from out­ Columbia’s Institute on Western Europe has side the region to understand the once less- not been among the most visible of the region­ familiar processes o f ethnic mobilization, the al centers; in part, this was because most o f consolidation of democracies and the emer­ American social science theory has been fun­ gence of varieties o f post-communist capi­ damentally Euro-American in its origins and talisms. Even those who had “just” studied the thematic concerns, so there was less of a Soviet Union now face 15 successor states perceived need for Euro-American area stud­ and the emergence o f regions as political and ies as a distinctive sphere. economic actors. For several years now, the One o f our most important responses has Harriman Institute has hosted the annual been to insist that the two approaches conventions of the Association for the that are contrasted so sharply by our Study of Nationalities, one o f the most critics, the comparative, quantitative, international, interdisciplinary, inter- theory-driven research of the social generational, and inter-regional gath­ scientists and the deep, contextually- erings of scholars that has emerged based knowledge that is the essence of from the Soviet collapse. And some of area studies, are in fact complementary the most interesting writing about models o f knowledge. At some important nationalism, ethnic identity-formation, level, what we are talking about in the and ethnic conflict has come from 76 T h e B l u e a n d W h it e regional specialists as they struggle to make ture and their counterparts in the social sci­ sense o f the Yugoslav wars of succession, the ences and professional schools, and especially civil wars and ethnic violence in Transcaucasia with the regional institutes. and Tajikistan. And those same scholars are Let me suggest one very palpable way in reading the works of their colleagues who have which these two approaches differ significant­ studied communal violence in South Asia and ly, again from the vantage point o f a regional failed postcolonial states in sub-Saharan specialist, and that is in our insistence on local, Africa. In other words, area studies scholars, deep knowledge. In what exacdy does local, including the postcommunist institutes, have deep knowledge consist? I won’t presume to already moved a long distance from the picture offer a definitive characterization, but I think I of intellectual isolation that our critics have can open up some room for helpful discussion drawn. But I think we have also preserved the by focusing on one of the “sore points” of most important part o f our past approaches, regional scholars: mastery o f non-English lan­ and that is the insistence on local, deep knowl­ guages as a credential for scholarly authority. edge. Why, in other words, do we in the regional The kind o f local, deep knowledge with studies model place such intellectual and pro­ which area studies has become identified is a fessional investment in the fluent mastery o f a powerful testing ground for the theory that is foreign language (and moreover some pro­ developed or evolved in the traditional main­ longed in-country residence and research stream disciplines. More importantly, the space experience) that is native to the region we of inter-disciplinarity has been the site for study? In still other words, why do we treat many important theoretical “breakthroughs” those who don’t or won’t master a second lan­ by providing some institutional mechanisms guage with such skepticism as to their skills of for the transfer of knowledge, most often in interpretation? the form o f models or paradigms, from one Because those of us who have reached a cer­ discipline to another.
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