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Directory of Seminars, Speakers, & Topics
Columbia University | THE UNIVERSITY SEMINARS 2016 2015DIRECTORY OF SEMINARS, SPEAKERS, & TOPICS Contents Introduction . 4 History of the University Seminars . 6 Annual Report . 8 Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lectures Series . 10 Schoff and Warner Publication Awards . 13 Digital Archive Launch . 16 Tannenbaum-Warner Award and Lecture . .. 17 Book Launch and Reception: Plots . 21 2015–2016 Seminar Conferences: Women Mobilizing Memory: Collaboration and Co-Resistance . 22 Joseph Mitchell and the City: A Conversation with Thomas Kunkel And Gay Talese . 26 Alberto Burri: A Symposium at the Italian Academy of Columbia University . 27 “Doing” Shakespeare: The Plays in the Theatre . 28 The Politics of Memory: Victimization, Violence, and Contested Memories of the Past . 30 70TH Anniversary Conference on the History of the Seminar in the Renaissance . .. 40 Designing for Life And Death: Sustainable Disposition and Spaces Of Rememberance in the 21ST Century Metropolis . 41 Calling All Content Providers: Authors in the Brave New Worlds of Scholarly Communication . 46 104TH Meeting of the Society of Experimental Psychologists . 47 From Ebola to Zika: Difficulties of Present and Emerging Infectious Diseases . 50 The Quantitative Eighteenth Century: A Symposium . 51 Appetitive Behavior Festchrift: A Symposium Honoring Tony Sclafani and Karen Ackroff . 52 Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Unreported Struggles: Conflict and Peace . 55 The Power to Move . 59 2015– 2016 Seminars . 60 Index of Seminars . 160 Directory of Seminars, Speakers, & Topics 2015–2016 3 ADVISORY COMMITTEE 2015–2016 Robert E. Remez, Chair Professor of Psychology, Barnard College George Andreopoulos Professor, Political Science and Criminal Justice CUNY Graduate School and University Center Susan Boynton Professor of Music, Columbia University Jennifer Crewe President and Director, Columbia University Press Kenneth T. -
Newsletter Still Doesn't Have Any Reporting on Direct Queries and Submissions To: Recent Developments in U.S
N ewsletter NoVEMbER, 1991 VolUME 5 NuMbER 5 SpEciAl JournaL Issue In This Issue................................................................ 2 The Speed of DAnksess ancI "CrazecJ V ets on tHe oorstep rama e o s e PublJshER's S tatement, by Ka U TaL .............................5 D D ," by DAvId J. D R ...............40 REMF Books, by DAvid WHLs o n .............................. 45 A nnouncements, Notices, & Re p o r t s ......................... 4 eter C ortez In DarIen, by ALan FarreU ........................... 22 PoETRy, by P D ssy............................................4 4 FIctIon: Hie Romance of Vietnam, VoIces fROM tHe Past: TTie SearcTi foR Hanoi HannaK by RENNy ChRlsTophER...................................... 24 by Don NortTi ...................................................44 A FiREbAlL In tBe Nlqlrr, by WHUam M. KiNq...........25 H ollyw ood CoNfidENTlAl: 1, b y FREd GARdNER........ 50 Topics foR VJetnamese-U.S. C ooperation, PoETRy, by DennIs FRiTziNqER................................... 57 by Tran Qoock VuoNq....................................... 27 Ths A ll CWnese M ercenary BAskETbAll Tournament, Science FIctIon: This TIme It's War, by PauI OLim a r t ................................................ 57 by ALascIaIr SpARk.............................................29 (Not Much of a) War Story, by Norman LanquIst ...59 M y Last War, by Ernest Spen cer ............................50 Poetry, by Norman LanquIs t ...................................60 M etaphor ancI War, by GEORqE LAkoff....................52 A notBer -
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE (Div
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE (Div. I) Chair, Associate Professor CHRISTOPHER NUGENT Professors: BELL-VILLADA, CASSIDAY, DRUXES, S. FOX, FRENCH, KAGAYA**, NEWMAN***, ROUHI, VAN DE STADT. Associate Professors: C. BOLTON***, DEKEL, S. FOX, HOLZAPFEL, MARTIN, NUGENT, PIEPRZAK***, THORNE, WANG**. Assistant Professors: BRAGGS*, VARGAS. Visiting Assistant Professor: EQEIQ. Students motivated by a desire to study literary art in the broadest sense of the term will find an intellectual home in the Program in Comparative Literature. The Program in Comparative Literature gives students the opportunity to develop their critical faculties through the analysis of literature across cultures, and through the exploration of literary and critical theory. By crossing national, linguistic, historical, and disciplinary boundaries, students of Comparative Literature learn to read texts for the ways they make meaning, the assumptions that underlie that meaning, and the aesthetic elements evinced in the making. Students of Comparative Literature are encouraged to examine the widest possible range of literary communication, including the metamorphosis of media, genres, forms, and themes. Whereas specific literature programs allow the student to trace the development of one literature in a particular culture over a period of time, Comparative Literature juxtaposes the writings of different cultures and epochs in a variety of ways. Because interpretive methods from other disciplines play a crucial role in investigating literature’s larger context, the Program offers courses intended for students in all divisions of the college and of all interests. These include courses that introduce students to the comparative study of world literature and courses designed to enhance any foreign language major in the Williams curriculum. In addition, the Program offers courses in literary theory that illuminate the study of texts of all sorts. -
Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Fine Writers H
Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Fine Writers h Sherman Alexie 3/27 Jon Meacham 9/12 A. S. Byatt 11/12 Belle Boggs 1/16 James Dodson 10/14 Isabel Wilkerson 2/20 Martin Marty 9/13 Lou Berney 11/21 Junot Diaz 10/16 Joseph Bathanti 3/6 Mary Pope Osborne 4/5 VisitingWriters.LR.edu A Note from the Director s a visual artist, photographer, 2013–2014 VisitiNG and filmmaker, I have learned that WRITERS SERIES n our experience with the Visiting Writers Series, luck we foster communication when we STEERING COMMITTEE is not just random chance. It is an act of generosity from bring our stories together. When people who care about making a positive impact on the we take the time to read, to dare Chair SALLY FANJOY culture and emotional well-being of our community. The to be present with our neigh - Series Director RAND BRANDES gifts that we have received have made us feel very lucky bors, and to listen to differing Series Consultant LISA HART Iover the past twenty-five years. We were lucky that when we points of view, we are en - Student Asst. ABIGAIL MCREA presented the initial idea to start the Series to Dr. Robert riched and enlightened. Student Asst. MADISON TURNER Luckey Spuller, then Dean of Lenoir-Rhyne “College,” that We are transformed by fresh thoughts and new TONY ABBOTT he saw its potential and supported it the first year and for Aperspectives. ¶ The Lenoir-Rhyne Visiting Writers MARY HELEN CLINE years to come. We were lucky that subsequent university Series engages a wide spectrum of the community, LAURA COSTELLO Administrations continued to see the value of the Series, promotes civic discourse, creates opportunity for SANDRA DEAL which enabled us to enhance the Series and the cultural and people to come together and to hear new ideas and MIKE DUGAN educational experiences of our students. -
Carolyn G. Heilbrun I Beautiful Shadow: a Life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew Wilson PRODUCTION EDITOR: Amanda Nash [email protected] 7 Marie J
The Women’s Review of Books Vol. XXI, No. 3 December 2003 74035 $4.00 I In This Issue I Political organizers are serious, while the patrons of drag bars and cabarets just wanna have fun, right? Julie Abraham challenges the cate- gories in her review of Wide Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco. Cover story D I Before she died, Carolyn Heilbrun contributed a final essay to the Women’s Review—a discussion of Beautiful Shadow: A Biography of Patricia Highsmith. The piece expresses Heilbrun’s lifelong inter- est in writing women’s lives, and we publish it with pride and sadness, along with a tribute to the late scholar and mystery novelist. p. 4 Kay Scott (right) and tourists at Mona's 440, a drag bar, c. 1945. From Wide Open Town. I When characters have names like Heed the Night, L, and Celestial, we could be nowhere but in a Toni Morrison novel. Despite Tales of the city its title, Love, her latest, is more by Julie Abraham philosophical exploration than pas- Wide Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965 by Nan Alamilla Boyd. sionate romance, says reviewer Deborah E. McDowell. p. 8 Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003, 319 pp., $27.50 hardcover. I I The important but little-known n Wide Open Town, Nan Alamilla Boyd so much lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender feminist Lucy Stone, who stumped presents queer San Francisco as the scholarship, have served as key points of the country for women’s suffrage, Iproduct of a town “wide open” to all reference in US queer studies over the past forms of pleasure, all forms of money-mak- two decades. -
Cornerstones
Cornerstones .AnAnthology of ' African American K Literature edited by Melvin Donalson Pasadena City College/UCLA St Martin s Press New York Contents 15 PREFACE xiii ~> PART ONE The Oral Tradition 1 OVERVIEW 3 LYRICS 11 Spirituals 11 Sometimes I Feel L ke a Motherless Child 11 Go Down Moses 11 Steal Away to Jesus 12 Roll Jordan Roll 12 Blues 13 St Louis Blues 13 Hard Times Blues 14 Mamie s Blues 14 Backwate Blue 15 Pop Lyrics 15 Marvin Gaye (1939-84) What s Going On 15 Stevie Wonder (1950-) Living for the City 17 Siedah Garrett (b ') 18 Michael Jackson (1958-) Man n the Mirror 19 Rap Lyrics 22 Gil Scott Heron (1949-) The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 22 Public Enemy (1988-) F ght the Power 24 Queen Latifah (1970-) UNITY 26 ORATIONS SPEECHES AND SERMONS 28 Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) Address to the First Annual Meeting of the American Equal Rights Association 28 Frederick Douglass (1817-95) What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July' 30 Ida B Wells Barnett (1862-1931) Lynch Law in All Its Phases 34 Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955) A Century of Progress of Negro Women 47 vttt Contents Martin Luther King Jr (1929-68) Love Law and Civil D sobed ence 50 Cecil L Murray (1929-) Making an Offer You Can t Refuse 59 Barbara Jordan Q936-) who Then Will Speak for the Common Good' 62 Jesse Jackson (1941-) Common Ground and Common Sense 66 Suzan D Johnson Cook (1957-) God s Woman 76 FOLKTALES 81 Why Negroes Are Black 81 Why Women Always Take Advantage of Men 82 Ole Massa and John Who Wanted to Go to Heaven 84 What Smelled Worse 86 Who Ate Up the Butter' -
The Black Plumb Line: Re-Evaluating Race and Africanist Images in Non-Black Authored American Texts
The University of Southern Mississippi The Aquila Digital Community Dissertations Summer 8-2011 The Black Plumb Line: Re-evaluating Race and Africanist Images in Non-Black Authored American Texts LaShondra Vanessa Robinson University of Southern Mississippi Follow this and additional works at: https://aquila.usm.edu/dissertations Part of the Literature in English, North America Commons, and the Literature in English, North America, Ethnic and Cultural Minority Commons Recommended Citation Robinson, LaShondra Vanessa, "The Black Plumb Line: Re-evaluating Race and Africanist Images in Non- Black Authored American Texts" (2011). Dissertations. 663. https://aquila.usm.edu/dissertations/663 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by The Aquila Digital Community. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of The Aquila Digital Community. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The University of Southern Mississippi THE BLACK PLUMB LINE: RE-EVALUATING RACE AND AFRICANIST IMAGES IN NON-BLACK AUTHORED AMERICAN TEXTS by LaShondra Vanessa Robinson Abstract of a Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate School of The University of Southern Mississippi in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy August 2011 ABSTRACT THE BLACK PLUMB LINE: RE-EVALUATING RACE AND AFRICANIST IMAGES IN NON-BLACK AUTHORED AMERICAN TEXTS by LaShondra Vanessa Robinson August 2011 This study evaluates Africanisms (representations of racialized or ethnicized blackness) within three contemporary non-black authors’ texts: Jewish American Saul Bellow’s novel Henderson the Rain King, white southerner Melinda Haynes’ novel Mother of Pearl, and Nyurican poet Victor Hernández Cruz’s works “Mesa Blanca” and “White Table.” Though not entirely unproblematic, each selection somehow redefines black identity and agency to challenge denigrated representations of Africanist people and culture. -
The Ghost As Ghost: Compulsory Rationalism and Asian American Literature, Post-1965
ABSTRACT Title of Document: THE GHOST AS GHOST: COMPULSORY RATIONALISM AND ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE, POST-1965 Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014 Directed By: Professor Sangeeta Ray, Department of English Since the early 1980s, scholarship across disciplines has employed the “ghostly” as critical lens for understanding the upheavals of modernity. The ghost stands metaphorically for the lasting trace of what has been erased, whether bodies or histories. The ghost always stands for something , rather than the ghost simply is —a conception in keeping with dominant Western rationalism. But such a reading practice threatens the very sort of violent erasure it means to redress, uncovering lost histories at the expense of non-Western and “minority” ways of knowing. What about the ghost as ghost? What about the array of non-rational knowledges out of which the ghostly frequently emerges? This project seeks to transform the application of the ghostly as scholarly lens, bringing to bear Foucault’s notion of “popular” knowledges and drawing from Asian American studies and critical mixed race studies frameworks. Its timeline begins with the 1965 Immigration Act and traces across the 1970s-1990s rise of multiculturalism and the 1980s-2000s rise of the Multiracial Movement. For field of analysis, the project turns to Asian American literature and its rich evocations of the ghostly and compulsory rationalism, in particular Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior and China Men , Amy Tan’s The Hundred Secret Senses , Nora Okja Keller’s Comfort Woman , Lan Cao’s Monkey Bridge , Heinz Insu Fenkl’s Memories of My Ghost Brother , Shawna Yang Ryan’s Water Ghosts , and Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being . -
Japanese American Citizens League (75C Postpald Us.) 25 Cents
THE PACIFIC CITIZEN Established 1929 National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens League (75c Postpald us.) 25 Cents #2,581 Vol. 110 No.25 ISSN: 0030-8579 941 East 3rd St., Suite 200, Los Angeles, CA 90013 Friday. June 29. 1990 • New Notional JACL Officers Toke Office RESOLUTION PRAISES WWWS NISEI DRAFT RESISTERS SAN DIEGO, Calif. - Candidates for the ix ational Board Offices were JACL A H I C W d elected last week at the 31st Biennial JACL Convention. All ran without oppo - cts to eo ommun.ety oun 5 ilion but required a imple majority. The new JACL national officer.;, with the number of vote received, are: ~ident-Cressey akagawa (inl:), 88; vice pre ident for generaf operauons-PrisciUa Ouchida {mc.),73; Lillian Kimur'd (write·in), I; vice pl"C.'ldent for public affairs Floyd Mon, 72, vice pre ident for planning and development-William Kaneko. 9: Vice president for membership and >ervicl!lr- Ted 1asurnoto, I; secretary·treasurer-Tom akao Jr , 50; Randolph hibata (write-in). 1 AI 0 elected were the two board member.; repre enting youth. Kim Tachikl defeated Joe Takano for the po t of youth repre entalive, and Tri ha Murakawa, runmng unoppo ed. was elected national youth council chatr Only the youth repre entatlve cast ballots for the e offices 31 st Biennial JACL Convention in San Diego Ends; LEC Honors 12 • By Harry K. Honda from EnomOto; en Spark M. Matsunaga, POSl - humou Iy from Shig Wakamatsu; Sen i}aniel SAN DIEGO - Curtains for the 31 t Photo by Koren Serigucho K Akaka (D-Hawaii) In absenua from Mae Biennial ational JACL Convention Takahashi; Rep. -
Tim Yamamura Dissertation Final
UC Santa Cruz UC Santa Cruz Electronic Theses and Dissertations Title Science Fiction Futures and the Ocean as History: Literature, Diaspora, and the Pacific War Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3j87r1ck Author Yamamura, Tim Publication Date 2014 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 4.0 Peer reviewed|Thesis/dissertation eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ SCIENCE FICTION FUTURES AND THE OCEAN AS HISTORY: LITERATURE, DIASPORA, AND THE PACIFIC WAR A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in LITERATURE by Timothy Jitsuo Yamamura December 2014 The Dissertation of Tim Yamamura is approved: __________________________________________ Professor Rob Wilson, chair __________________________________________ Professor Karen Tei Yamashita __________________________________________ Professor Christine Hong __________________________________________ Professor Noriko Aso __________________________________________ Professor Alan Christy ________________________________ Tyrus Miller Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies © 2014 Tim Yamamura All rights reserved Table of Contents Abstract iv Acknowledgements vi Introduction: Science Fiction and the Perils of Prophecy: Literature, 1 Diasporic “Aliens,” and the “Origins” of the Pacific War Chapter 1: Far Out Worlds: American Orientalism, Alienation, and the 49 Speculative Dialogues of Percival Lowell and Lafcadio Hearn Chapter -
JOHN GIORNO, Dial a Poem Selection of Poems
JOHN GIORNO, dial a poem Selection of poems Vito Acconci 1. Hello, 2:05 2. There, Then, 1:52 3. Pronouncing, 1:25 4. Hair, Forehead, 2:06 5. Small, 2:00 Kathy Acker 1. I Was Walking Down The Street, 2:30 Helen Adam 1. Cheerless Junkie Song, 2:45 Miguel Algarin 1. Setanta Y Cinco Abriles, 1:43 Amiri Baraka 1. Our Nation Is Ourselves, 4:42 2. Wailers, 4:45 Laurie Anderson 1. Born Never Asked, 4:30 2. Closed Circuits, 7:26 3. Dr. Miller, 4:22 4. It was Up In The Mountains, 2:11 5. For Electronic Dogs, 3:10 6. Structuralist Filmmaker, 1:12 Drums, :30 John Ashbery 1. Definitions Of Blue 1:48 2. Civilizations and Its Discontent, 1:56 3. The Tennis Courty Oath, 1:58 4. Our Youth, 1:49 Bill Berkson 1. Stanky, 1:36 2. Leave Cancelled, 1:30 3. Sheerstrips, 1:40 Charles Bernstein 1. Wall As, 2:48 Ted Berrigan 1. Flying from London to New York, 1:48 2. And this last poem is called Report It’s called things to do in New York City, 1:58 3. Excerpt Memorial Day, 3:53 4. To Jack Keroac, .55 Joe Brainard 1 I Remember The Day when Joe Kennedy Was Shot, 1:46 2. I Remember Sack Dresses, 1:45 3. I Remember Liberace, 1:49 4. I Remember What I thought If You Do Anything Bad, 1:49 5. I Remember When Fiber Glass 6. I Remember Organ Music, 1:47 7. I Remember My First Attempt At A Three-some, 1:55 8. -
American Book Awards 2004
BEFORE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION PRESENTS THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS 2004 America was intended to be a place where freedom from discrimination was the means by which equality was achieved. Today, American culture THE is the most diverse ever on the face of this earth. Recognizing literary excel- lence demands a panoramic perspective. A narrow view strictly to the mainstream ignores all the tributaries that feed it. American literature is AMERICAN not one tradition but all traditions. From those who have been here for thousands of years to the most recent immigrants, we are all contributing to American culture. We are all being translated into a new language. BOOK Everyone should know by now that Columbus did not “discover” America. Rather, we are all still discovering America—and we must continue to do AWARDS so. The Before Columbus Foundation was founded in 1976 as a nonprofit educational and service organization dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of contemporary American multicultural literature. The goals of BCF are to provide recognition and a wider audience for the wealth of cultural and ethnic diversity that constitutes American writing. BCF has always employed the term “multicultural” not as a description of an aspect of American literature, but as a definition of all American litera- ture. BCF believes that the ingredients of America’s so-called “melting pot” are not only distinct, but integral to the unique constitution of American Culture—the whole comprises the parts. In 1978, the Board of Directors of BCF (authors, editors, and publishers representing the multicultural diversity of American Literature) decided that one of its programs should be a book award that would, for the first time, respect and honor excellence in American literature without restric- tion or bias with regard to race, sex, creed, cultural origin, size of press or ad budget, or even genre.