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Report from the Chair ...... 2 Report from the Executive Director ...... 4 Members of the 2019–2020 Governing Board ...... 8 Forty-Fifth Annual Society of Fellows Competition ...... 10 Fellows in Residence 2019–2020 ...... 12 • JM Chris Chang ...... 13 • Nisrin Elamin ...... 14 • Ardeta Gjikola ...... 15 • Zaid Jabri ...... 16 • Fernando Montero ...... 17 • Tyrone S. Palmer ...... 18 The Explorations in the Medical Humanities • Allison Turner ...... 19 Synapsis Writers Retreat. Pictured (left to Thursday Lecture Series ...... 20 right): Travis Lau, Chia Lien, Emilie Egger, • Fall 2019: Fellows’ Talks ...... 21 Diana Rose Newby, Kaitlin Pontzer, and Arden Hegele. • Spring 2020: Ambivalence ...... 24 Year in Review ...... 26 Event Highlights ...... 27 Series ...... 33 • Care for the Polis ...... 34 • Critique 13/13 ...... 35 • New Books in the Arts and Sciences ...... 36 • Rethinking Democracy in an Age of Pandemic ...... 38 Initiatives ...... 40 • Medical Humanities Initiative ...... 41 • Public Humanities Initiative ...... 44 Heyman Center Fellows 2019–2020 ...... 46 Alumni Fellows News ...... 48 Alumni Fellows Directory ...... 50

Annual Report | 1 REPORT FROM THE CHAIR

esignating as it does the extraordinary community of postdoctoral fellows and colleagues past and present, the “society” in Society of Fellows has made chairing the Governing Board of SOF/ DHeyman these past three years a singular honor and a truly unforgettable experience. In Spring 2020 that experience, like virtually all others, was fundamentally altered in a manner that these remarks will strain to record. Anything I say here cannot begin to capture the challenges and uncertainties, both personal and institutional, faced by SOF/ Heyman administrative staff, fellows, and faculty over this Reinhold Martin period. We all, of course, recognize the privilege that has enabled us to navigate these challenges successfully, and I must begin by thanking all those at the Heyman Center and at the University whose work has made ours possible. Most fundamentally of all, I thank Eileen Gillooly for her vision and insight in giving that “society” the many meanings that have enabled it to thrive.

I want also to begin this brief report by recalling with no small hint of melancholy a dinner with SOF/Heyman colleagues in late January 2020, immediately following a grueling—but intensely inspiring—day of interviews. Among that group was Dr. Rishi Goyal, a scholar in the medical humanities and member of the Governing Board who is also an emergency room physician. Over dinner, we nervously grilled Dr. Goyal about the deadly virus that had begun spreading around the world. Three months later, Dr. Goyal took time between ER rotations treating COVID-19 patients

2 | Annual Report to join an online writing workshop a paper we had just read, or the Those to whom with the current Fellows, in which he news of the world by which we “ responded eloquently to the work-in- were most troubled. In particular, the academy has progress circulated, and then stayed the retrospectively foreboding fall on to discuss his own work both in of 2019 had been enlivened by a been entrusted the ER and as a scholar, and especially running conversation stimulated by how we, as custodians of humanistic the Fellows’ work that, regardless bear a special thought, might share in that work. of discipline or archive, regularly responsibility I suspect that despite (or maybe referred the scholarship back to the because of) the Zoom-enhanced great themes of our times: social and to care for what alienation we all felt, that particular economic inequality, racial justice, gathering—one among so many—will ecological crisis, and more. All of this remains all too be long remembered by all present. had been shadowed by thoughts, human about This, too, is what the “society” in worries, and hopes about the future Society of Fellows has come to mean. even before the pandemic-induced the humanities.” Like Columbia’s other academic crisis fully formed. Those to whom units, SOF/Heyman transferred its the academy has been entrusted bear work online in early March 2020. a special responsibility to care for Up to that point the year had been, what remains all too human about like its predecessors, punctuated the humanities. For the opportunity by the rhythms of weekly lunchtime to exercise that responsibility, and for talks, periodic writing workshops, much else, I will be forever grateful. committee meetings, and ongoing collaborations with colleagues with Reinhold Martin whom the Society shares the Heyman Governing Board Chair of the Center building. We continued Society of Fellows and Heyman virtually all this work online. We Center for the Humanities also found ways to sustain those conversations previously held over lunch, drinks, or dinner related to a presentation we had just heard,

Annual Report | 3 REPORT FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

his past academic year—our second operating as the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities (or SOF/Heyman) and our forty-fifth as a society of postdoctoral humanists—began much like any Tother. Over the summer of 2019, we welcomed five new Fellows to their offices in the Heyman Center and to the departments and centers in which they hold their teaching appointments. Nisrin Elamin (Stanford PhD), an anthropologist working on Sudan, joined the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies. Fernando Montero (Columbia PhD), who studies everyday life under military occupation in the Afro-Indigenous Moskitia region of Honduras/Nicaragua, was appointed to both Anthropology and the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and

Race. Tyrone S. Palmer (Northwestern PhD), whose current Eileen Gillooly work focuses on the failure of Affect Studies to account for the singularity of Blackness, joined Columbia’s new Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies. Allison Turner (U Chicago PhD), appointed in English and Comparative Literature, writes about how our modern concept of environmental waste has its origins in British texts of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. And Zaid Jabri, an oft-commissioned composer who earned his doctorate from the Academy of Music in Krakow, joined the Departments of Anthropology and Music, having spent the previous year as an inaugural Fellow at Columbia’s Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris.

4 | Annual Report These five scholars—together with so much else, was abruptly halted in Heyman Board, 2015–2018) on the returning second-year Fellows mid-March by COVID-19. We relocated theme of Critique. Among the stand- JM Chris Chang (Columbia PhD), the workshops themselves, as well alone events that we sponsored in a historian of contemporary China as the works-in-progress seminar part or in full were The Novel and Its working on declassified dossiers of the Heyman Center Fellows, to Discontents: A Conversation with during the Maoist period, and Zoom, where we have all become John Banville and Richard Ford; Ardeta Gjikola (Harvard PhD), accustomed to living our intellectual the New York City premiere of The a historian of European science and social lives of late—even though Assistant (directed by Kitty Green), (sixteenth to nineteenth century) most of us still occasionally forget co-produced by James Schamus who explores the relations between to unmute. (More information on (SOF/Heyman Board, 2018–2021); objectivity and subjectivity in science the Thursday Lecture Series and the the Theater of War Productions and art—comprised our newest Heyman Center Fellows can be found reading and discussion of Sophocles’s cohort. (Please take a look at the within this report.) Ajax; Critical Caribbean Feminisms: Fellows in Residence profiles for a Upend, shutdown, pivot: these are Staceyann Chin and Alexis Pauline better understanding of the work of words that have come to describe our Gumbs; and Uncertain States: these remarkably interesting people.) year of living pandemically. Browse Narrative Journalism and Its Limits, Following long-standing tradition, through these pages to learn about organized by Brian Goldstone (SOF the Fellows took turns in presenting some of the fifty-five SOF/Heyman 2012–15) and Rachel Nolan (SOF their research to the Columbia events that took place (IRL) before 2018–19) and featuring a roster of community in the SOF Fall Thursday all was so thoroughly upended. award-winning long-form journalists, Lecture Series. They also gathered Some of these occurred in our “New including Rachel Aviv, Adrian Nicole monthly throughout the academic Books in the Arts and Sciences” LeBlanc, and Sarah Stillman. year to share work in progress, a series, now in its fourth year, which Before the general shutdown— practice we began some eight years is cosponsored by the Office of the when crossing national borders was ago. Customarily, these Friday Fellows Divisional Deans of Arts and Sciences still a viable option—we partnered Workshops, guest-chaired by a Board and celebrates recent publications with Columbia’s Global Center in member, ended with our collective by Columbia and Barnard faculty Rio to host a meeting of the Global decampment to a nearby pub for across the humanities and humanistic Humanities Institute project on further conversation, where we were social sciences. Others comprised Crises of Democracy. This multiyear often joined by other members of the the fifth season of the 13/13 series, project funded by the A.W. Mellon Board. Alas, this custom, along with organized by Bernard Harcourt (SOF/ Foundation through the Consortium

Annual Report | 5 of Humanities Centers and Institutes But curiously, serendipitously, this brought together faculty and early thorough upending of business as career researchers from Columbia, usual also opened up programming Trinity College Dublin, Jawaharlal opportunities previously unimagined. Nehru University, and the Universities Pivoting online, we were able not of Zagreb and São Paulo to identify only to welcome guest speakers the challenges to democratic values from around the world, via Zoom, facing societies throughout the world but also to expand our audience Care for the Polis and how best to address them. We reach. From late April through look forward to partnering with May, the SOF/Heyman partnered Columbia Global Centers on more with the Trinity Long Room Hub cross-institutional collaborations of (Dublin) on a five-part series entitled this kind—both on location, once we Rethinking Democracy in an Age are again permitted to travel, and of Pandemic, which asked what until then, virtually. COVID-19 might mean—both in The Ides of March ushered in the the immediate and long term— shutdown, and we spent the ensuing for democracies and democratic weeks indefinitely postponing values. Each episode focused on a the dozens of events that we had different, but overlapping, theme scheduled for the second half of (Nations and Borders, Marginalized Spring 2020. Among these were the Groups, Inequality, The Everyday, and annual Edward W. Said Memorial Democracy Without a Public Sphere) Lecture (by Marina Warner); a and brought together speakers and conversation with the Booker Prize attendees from four continents (with winners Bernardine Evaristo and audiences, comprising both live- Marlon James; and a panel discussion streamers and recording-viewers, hosted by Sam Lipsyte and Colm reaching into the thousands). Tóibín on new Irish fiction, with Colin Faced with the cancellation of Barrett, Kevin Barry, Nicole Flattery, their in-person conference Care for Mike McCormack, Belinda McKeon, the Polis—which focused on the and Sally Rooney. intersection of health, policies, publics,

6 | Annual Report and the built environment—María to these initiatives and other SOF/ Tingting Xu (U Chicago PhD), and González Pendás (SOF 2016–2019), Heyman activities. Benjamin J. Young (UC Berkeley who manages our Public Humanities Although we were prevented by PhD) will all be appointed Lecturers Graduate Fellows program, and the shutdown from celebrating our in Art History, and Ruth Opara (UC Arden Hegele (SOF 2016–2019), who departing Fellows and welcoming our Boulder PhD) and Suzanne Thorpe coordinates cross-campus efforts in incoming ones at our annual end- (UC San Diego PhD) will be Lecturers Medical Humanities, pivoted to an of-the-year dinner party, I am happy in Music. online format. Here they reimagined to do so here. Starting in Fall 2020, A reminder to send us your their collaboration as a series of Nisrin Elamin joins Bryn Mawr College news, including notice of your new conversations between architectural as Assistant Professor of International publications. As you know, the SOF/ historians, designers, physicians, Studies, and Zaid Jabri returns Heyman established a “New Books in disability scholars, and others about full time to composing, including the Society of Fellows” series, which the impact of the pandemic on the his collaboration with Barnard celebrates recent work by our alumni economy, on public care and public and Columbia colleagues Yvette Fellows. While these have been reconstruction, on police violence, and Christiansë and Rosalind Morris on hitherto imagined as in-person events, on the visibility of systemic racism. Southern Crossings—an opera about recent experience has taught us that María also relocated the presentations the fateful meeting between John book celebrations are exceptionally of the 2019–2020 Public Humanities Herschel and Charles Darwin in 1834. well-suited to a Zoom format. Graduate Fellows to Zoom, where We will welcome (in some cases the Fellows not only described their virtually, at least to start) eight new Eileen Gillooly civically engaged projects but also Fellows to the Society in Fall 2020, Executive Director of the Society of addressed how COVID-isolation bringing our overall number to a Fellows and Heyman Center for required them to rethink their goals record thirteen Fellows for 2020– the Humanities and to experiment with new methods 2021. Renzo Aroni (UC Davis PhD) as well. More information about our will be Lecturer in History and the Public Humanities Initiative— Center for the Study of Ethnicity and including our Mellon-funded Justice-in- Race; Leah Aronowsky (Harvard Education Initiative—and Explorations PhD) will be Lecturer in History; and in the Medical Humanities can be Naeem Mohaiemen (Columbia PhD) found on our website, along with will be Lecturer in Anthropology. links to videos and podcasts related Megan Boomer (U Penn PhD),

Annual Report | 7 MEMBERS OF THE 2019–2020 GOVERNING BOARD

Nadia Abu El-Haj John Ma Josef Sorett Anthropology Classics Religion Barnard College Sharon Marcus Joanna Stalnaker* Alexander Alberro English and Comparative Literature Chair, Literature Humanities Art History French and Romance Philology Barnard College Reinhold Martin* Chair of the Governing Board Dorothea von Mücke* Eileen Gillooly* Graduate School of Architecture, Seminar Co-Director, Executive Director Planning and Preservation Heyman Center Fellows English and Comparative Literature Germanic Languages Alessandra Russo Robert Gooding-Williams Latin American and Iberian Cultures Gareth Williams* Philosophy Director, Friends of the Emmanuelle Saada* Heyman Center Rishi Goyal French and Romance Philology Classics Institute for Comparative Literature and Society James Schamus Department of Emergency Medicine Film School of the Arts Turkuler Isiksel Political Science Elaine Sisman* Chair, Music Humanities Eugenia Lean* Music Seminar Co-Director, Heyman Center Fellows Pamela H. Smith East Asian Languages and Cultures History *Ex officio

8 | Annual Report Current and former Fellows. Pictured (left to right): Nisrin Elamin, David Gutkin, Arden Hegele (with Maud), María González Pendás, Rachel Nolan, Whitney Laemmli, Joelle M. Abi-Rached, Tyrone S. Palmer, Chris Florio, JM Chris Chang, and Ardeta Gjikola.

Annual Report | 9 FORTY-FIFTH ANNUAL SOCIETY OF FELLOWS COMPETITION

he forty-fifth Society of Fellows in the Humanities Fellows for 2020–21

fellowship competition closed on 2 October 2019, Renzo Aroni: PhD in History, with 848 applicants vying for the three fellowship University of California, Davis positions available for 2020–21. Representatives from Leah Aronowsky: PhD in History of Ttwenty-two departments, institutes, and centers conducted Science, Harvard University the first round of vetting. Each application recommended for Naeem Mohaiemen: PhD in advancement to the next level of competition received three Anthropology, Columbia University readings: two by members of the Governing Board and one by a current Fellow. Each applicant was ranked on a scale of one Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching to five and subsequently reviewed by the selection committee, Fellows for 2020–21 a subcommittee of the Governing Board. In mid-December, the Megan Boomer: PhD in Art History, committee invited fourteen applicants to campus for interviews, University of Pennsylvania which were held in January 2020 at the Heyman Center. Ruth Opara: PhD in Musicology The three available fellowships for 2020–21 were offered to and accepted (Ethnomusicology), University of by Renzo Aroni, Leah Aronowsky, and Naeem Mohaiemen. Additionally, five Colorado, Boulder Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellows in Art Humanities and Music Humanities Suzanne Thorpe: PhD in Integrative were invited to join the cohort. They are Megan Boomer, Ruth Opara, Studies, University of California, Suzanne Thorpe, Tingting Xu, and Benjamin J. Young. This expanded group San Diego of incoming Fellows will bring to the Society a multiplicity of perspectives and methodological approaches—spanning the visual arts, music, anthropology, Tingting Xu: PhD in Art History, history of science, and film—that promises to enrich our discussions and University of Chicago intellectual collaborations throughout the year. Benjamin J. Young: PhD in Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley

10 | Annual Report SOCIETY OF FELLOWS DEPARTMENT APPLICANTS % COMPETITION NUMBERS African American and African Diaspora Studies 18 2.12 Fellowships Starting in 2020–2021 Anthropology 69 8.14

Art History and Archaeology 58 6.84 136 Universities Represented Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race 18 2.12

Classics 27 3.18

East Asian Languages and Cultures 23 2.71

English and Comparative Literature 140 16.51

Film Studies 11 1.30

French and Romance Philology 15 1.77

Germanic Languages 12 1.42

History 183 21.58

Institute for Comparative Literature and Society 19 2.24

Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality 15 1.77

Italian 13 1.53

Latin American and Iberian Cultures 15 1.77

Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies 32 3.77

Music 50 5.90

Philosophy 32 3.77

Political Science 37 4.36 28 Countries Represented Religion 30 3.54

Slavic Languages 2 0.24

Sociology 29 3.42

TOTAL 848 100

Annual Report | 11 FELLOWS IN RESIDENCE 2019–2020 JM Chris Chang is a historian of modern China whose research examines systems of personnel filing and bureaucratic paperwork in the socialist era. His current project, “The Dossier: Archive and Ephemera in Mao’s China,” is a history of the institution of individual personnel dossiers on Chinese subjects known as dang’an. His research draws upon “grassroots sources”—files previously discarded from official archives and since resold in old book and paper markets—in order to address the intersection of political surveillance and human resources management in the lives of everyday Chinese citizens under Maoism. In December 2019, Dr. Chang published an article drawn from his book manuscript in a special issue of the journal Administory, edited by Matthew Hull and Stefan Nellen. The article was a case study of dossier justice involving an alleged “hooligan” at the time of China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The case centered on a construction worker in Hebei who was zealously investigated by his work unit for having an extramarital affair in 1974. The investigation gathered seized love letters, dubious confessions, and salacious bureaucratic reports into a thick JM Chris Chang, 2018–2021 dossier totaling hundreds of pages, revealing how the demands of documentation Columbia University, motivated the disciplinary process. A version of this article was previously presented Department of East Asian to the Society of Fellows as part of the fall lecture series in 2018, and conversations Languages and Cultures, stemming from the talk were invaluable in revising the piece for publication. PhD 2018 Dr. Chang co-organized a grassroots methodology workshop called “Revolutionary Routine: Work, Family, and Private Life in Mao’s China” with the support of a Luce- Research Project: ACLS Collaborative Reading Workshop Grant for 2019–20. The workshop took The Dossier: Archive and place over three days in September 2019 and brought together over twenty invited Ephemera in Mao’s China scholars from China and North America to read and discuss grassroots sources relevant to key methodological and thematic questions in modern Chinese history. Working closely with colleagues from a university in China, Dr. Chang co-edited a “Grassroots Source Reader” of unique documents that served as the empirical basis for the workshop seminars. Dr. Chang was previously scheduled to present two papers in Spring 2020, the first as part of a University Seminar and the second at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies in Boston; however, both events were canceled due to COVID-19.

Annual Report | 13 Nisrin Elamin is a cultural anthropologist whose current research project explores the connection between land, race, class, religion, and geopolitics in central Sudan. Drawing from her training in Africanist anthropology, feminist studies, and critical race theory, she uses land and disputes over land as a lens through which to examine state surveillance of Sahelian migration as well as Gulf Arab corporate and political interventions in Sudan and the broader Sahel region. Dr. Elamin defended her dissertation, “ ‘ When Mud Comes Between Us’: Land Enclosures and the Cultural Politics of Belonging in Central Sudan,” in December 2019 at Stanford University. In June 2020, she then published an essay entitled “‘Beyond regime change’: Reflections on Sudan’s ongoing revolution” in the Project on Middle East Political Science journal’s Africa and the Middle East: Beyond the Divides issue. She presented her work in multiple forums throughout the year, before going on maternity leave in January 2020. In November, she participated in the Africana Studies and the Future of Freedom Conference at Vassar College in celebration of the 50th anniversary of its Africana Studies program, giving a talk entitled “How Nisrin Elamin, 2019–2020 we talk about African Uprisings and what we can learn from them.” At the African Stanford University, Studies Association Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, she served as a panelist Department of Anthropology, on the Africa Now Roundtable: “After al-Bashir: What Now for Sudan and South PhD 2019 Sudan?” and presented a paper entitled “Negotiating Corporate Capitalism: African Encounters with Agribusiness and Extractive Industries.” In January 2020, she was Research Project: invited to present her work at the Environment, Development, and Sustainable Contemporary Land Communities in Africa Symposium at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Enclosures and the Her ongoing commitment to public scholarship included talks and commentary Politics of Claim-Making on Sudan’s ongoing revolution. In May 2019, she coauthored an article entitled “The in Central Sudan Many Mothers of Sudan’s Revolution” in Al Jazeera Opinion for which she interviewed Sudanese and South Sudanese women activists. Also in May, she presented on the role of labor unions in the Sudan Uprising to the City University of New York’s International Committee of the Professional Staff Congress, and in June she presented her work and participated in a panel, “On the Sudan Revolution,” at the University of Toronto. In November, she discussed issues related to land reform during Sudan’s transitional period as a panelist at the #KeepEyesonSudan Event at the City University of New York’s School of Law. In Fall 2020, Dr. Elamin will begin a new position as Assistant Professor of International Studies at Bryn Mawr College.

14 | Annual Report Ardeta Gjikola is a historian of science who is broadly interested in early modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire. Her current work focuses on the relations be- tween science and art, objectivity and subjectivity, and attitudes towards antiquities. Her book project, “ ‘ The Finest Things on Earth’: The Elgin Marbles and the Sciences of Taste,” analyzes the formation and circulation of aesthetic taste judgments by following the reception of the Parthenon sculptures in Britain in the early nineteenth century. Scholarly approaches have tended to consider taste judgments as either radically subjective or socially overdetermined. She examines instead the concrete observational and evaluative practices whereby artists and connoisseurs came to judge the Parthenon sculptures as “the finest things on earth” and to consider such judgment as certain as judgments of truth. During the academic year 2019–2020, Dr. Gjikola continued to revise her book manuscript. Dr. Gjikola also began a side project based on an epistemological question raised by artists’ study of human anatomy in sixteenth-century Italy. While there was agreement about the fact that such study was desirable, the degree to which artists Ardeta Gjikola, 2018–2021 ought to engage with anatomical knowledge became a matter of debate. She relates Harvard University, some responses to this predicament to the features of the artistic and scientific fields Department of the History artists navigated. In addition, Dr. Gjikola worked on a longer-term project that ex- of Science, PhD 2018 amines Ottoman modes of valuation of antiquities during the early modern period. These modes were not so much informed by classificatory or aesthetic frameworks Research Project: as by a belief that antique remains possessed numinous qualities. She analyzes such “The Finest Things on Earth”: beliefs in the context of healing and apotropaic practices, as well as theories about The Elgin Marbles and the the makeup of the human body, the work of the senses, and the nature of materials. Sciences of Taste She was invited to present her work and serve as a respondent at the British History Seminar and the Italian and Mediterranean Colloquium at Columbia University. In addition to planning an interdisciplinary workshop with the theme “The Science of Aesthetics and the Aesthetic of Science,” which will examine how aesthetic judg- ments are stabilized, and how they function as resources for the objectification of scientific claims, she designed and taught a new course at the Department of History. Titled “Science and Art in Early Modern Europe,” the seminar traced how the chang- ing definitions of “art” and “science”; common norms and practices of representation; and the circulation of tools, materials, and techniques between the laboratory and the artist workshop—as well as a range of other factors—created conditions for extensive interactions between the two cultural domains.

Annual Report | 15 Zaid Jabri is a Syrian music composer who works at the intersection of Western and Middle Eastern musical traditions. During the academic year 2019–2020, Dr. Jabri had the chance to work with the librettists of his new opera, Professors Rosalind Morris and Yvette Christiansë. Titled Southern Crossings, this chamber opera is set in Cape Town on a single night in March 1834, and it stages multilayered conversations about time, evolution, and freedom, between Charles Darwin and John Herschel; Herschel’s wife, Margaret; and their indentured servants, January and Leah. Dr. Jabri completed and revised the score, as well as writing the piano reduction of the work. Together with his librettists, Dr. Jabri presented the public lecture “Southern Crossings: Composition and Collaboration” at the Maison Française in December 2019. Other public engagements during the academic year included a conversation with writers and literary theorists on translation and transliteration in literature and music composition. Dr. Jabri also wrote a new piece for virtuoso soloist and electronics in Zaid Jabri, 2019–2020 collaboration with the Philadelphia-based cellist Kinan Abou-afach. The twenty- Academy of Music, Krakow, five-minute, one-movement piece, rich with microtones and clusters, explores the PhD 2014 sonic possibilities of the amplified cello and the multilayer electronics for creating a concerto. The piece will be premiered at Columbia University’s Global Center in Research Project: Paris, Reid Hall, in 2021. Southern Crossings: Opera Another piece Dr. Jabri started working on while a Fellow is titled in One Act “Hemispheres.” Commissioned by the Essen Philharmonic, this chamber music piece is for flute with double bass flute, oboe, clarinet with double bass clarinet, trombone, accordion, violin, viola, cello, and percussion, with a text by Yvette Christiansë. The premiere, performed by the Essen-based E-MEX-Ensemble for contemporary music, will take place at Festival NOW 2020, on 1 November 2020, in Essen, Germany.

16 | Annual Report Fernando Montero is an anthropologist specializing in security regimes and the War on Drugs in the Americas. This past year, he worked on his book manuscript, “Martial Love: Articulation and Detachment in the Military Occupation of the Moskitia (Nicaragua/Honduras),” which examines the everyday life of military occupation in the Moskitia region of Central America, inhabited by the Afro-Indigenous Miskitu people. Centering on the sexual and romantic affairs between Miskitu women and Nicaraguan and Honduran soldiers in Miskitu coastal villages recently occupied by the military, the book interrogates Central American security regimes, not only in relation to the history of war and extractivism in Afro-Indigenous regions, but also vis-à-vis Afro-Indigenous kinship and gender norms, property forms and economic practices, and overlapping jurisdictions of regional governance. He has also continued working on revisions to his coauthored book manuscript, “Cornered: The Carceral-Psychiatric Nexus in Puerto Rican North Philadelphia,” which is under contract with Princeton University Press. Written in collaboration with the anthropologists Philippe Bourgois, Laurie Hart, and George Karandinos, the book is Fernando Montero, 2019–2022 based on his half-dozen years of team-based, participant-observation fieldwork on Columbia University, the gendered and racialized interface between mass incarceration and the United Department of States’ Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program for psychiatric disability. Anthropology, PhD 2020 Dr. Montero presented his work on the Moskitia in various forums throughout the year, including an invited lecture at the Department of Anthropology at the Research Project: University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He co-organized a panel on “Intimate Martial Love: The Everyday Encounters Across Military, Urban, and Clinical Contexts” at the 2019 American Life of Military Occupation in Anthropological Association Meeting. the Afro-Indigenous Moskitia Other collaborations include working with an interdisciplinary team on the (Nicaragua/Honduras) National Institutes of Health–funded study “Heroin in Transition” (PI Daniel Ciccarone). The study examines the transformations in heroin supply and consumption throughout the United States from the 1990s to the present. Next year, he will be providing expert witness testimony at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in San Jose, Costa Rica, for a case involving Miskitu lobster divers in Honduras and the US restaurant franchise Red Lobster. With Anthropology professors Claudio Lomnitz and Naor Ben-Yehoyada, Dr. Montero received Columbia’s “Humanities War and Peace Initiative” grant for 2020–2021. The grant will fund their ongoing collaboration on criminalization and the permutations of organized and disorganized “crime” in their respective regions of study.

Annual Report | 17 Tyrone S. Palmer is a critical theorist whose work foregrounds the interventions of Black literature and expressive culture into discourses of affect and (post-) humanism, poetics, metaphysics, and continental philosophy. This past year he began work on his book manuscript, “Black Negativity: Unthinking the Grammars of Affect,” which explores how key Black literary and political texts theorize the failures of universalist conceptions of affect to account for the structures and grammars of feeling that emerge out of the singularity of Black experience. In addition to the book manuscript, Dr. Palmer spent much of the year working on an article entitled “Otherwise Than Blackness: Feeling, World, Sublimation,” which has been accepted for publication and is forthcoming in the journal Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences, published by Duke University Press. In November 2019, Dr. Palmer presented a paper entitled “Originary Defacement” at the American Studies Association Annual Meeting in Honolulu, HI, and moderated a panel celebrating the Thirtieth Anniversary of Hortense Spillers’s seminal essay “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book” at the Society for Tyrone S. Palmer, 2019–2022 Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) Annual Meeting, hosted by Northwestern University, Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA. Additionally, he has had numerous papers Department of African accepted to conferences this academic year, including the American Comparative American Studies, PhD 2019 Literature Association Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL; the Caribbean Philosophical Association Annual Meeting at the University of the Virgin Islands, Saint Croix; and Research Project: the SPEP Annual Meeting in Rochester, NY. Black Negativity: Unthinking the Dr. Palmer was also selected as a member of the inaugural cohort of the Being Grammars of Affect Human Summer Institute, a three-year summer session for early career scholars devoted to groundbreaking work on the question of the human in the humanities, organized by the Center for Religion and the Human at Indiana University Bloomington. Additionally, he has been invited to serve as a Visiting Fellow at the Affective Societies Center at the Freie Universität Berlin (Free University of Berlin) in Summer 2021. Alongside writing and presenting his work across the country, Dr. Palmer spent the bulk of this past year teaching the yearlong sequence of the Contemporary Civilization Core course. This coming spring he plans to teach a course on negativity in Black political thought in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies.

18 | Annual Report Allison Turner is a literary scholar whose research and teaching interests include eighteenth-century British literature and culture, the environmental humanities, global/empire studies, and the history and theory of the novel. In their first year at Columbia, Dr. Turner continued to revise and extend their book manuscript, “The Salvaging Disposition: Waste and the Novel Form,” which locates the emergence of a distinctly modern sense of waste in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when Baconian science and European colonialism began to conceive of the New World as an untapped spring of inexhaustible resources. In particular, Dr. Turner’s research examines the impact of new thinking about waste (as an ecological, economic, and political concept) on literary form in the eighteenth century, especially the novel. One of the central claims of the project is that the novel emerged in the period as a form for managing the waste generated by a rapidly shifting global economy. Over the past year, Dr. Turner had papers accepted at the annual conferences of the American Comparative Literature Association and the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, as well as at the annual meeting of the Bloomington Allison Turner, 2019–2020 Eighteenth-Century Studies Workshop. In addition, Dr. Turner was invited to contrib- University of Chicago, ute an essay on political ecology to a special issue of the journal Eighteenth-Century Department of English Theory and Interpretation, which is now under review. The essay, entitled “Disposable Language and World(s): Race and Commerce in Defoe’s Captain Singleton,” shows how Defoe’s fiction Literature, PhD 2018 dramatizes the racial hierarchy that was essential to the theory of global commerce he was advancing in his economic writings. Dr. Turner’s essay argues that this racial Research Project: hierarchy served not only to enrich Europeans but also to protect the white human The Salvaging Disposition: against the very disposability that the economic system depended on. Waste and the Novel Form This year, Dr. Turner also taught two courses, including a self-designed seminar in the Department of English and Comparative Literature called “Castaways and Con- tainers: Modernity at Sea,” which investigates the ambitions, challenges, and failures of globalization through the lens of castaway literature from the eighteenth century to the present. As part of this course, Dr. Turner organized and led a field trip to the Red Hook Container Terminal, Brooklyn’s last operating port, where students got to witness firsthand the complex network of agents and infrastructures upon which their transatlantic lives depend. In Fall 2021, Dr. Turner will begin a new position as Assistant Professor of English at Indiana University Bloomington.

Annual Report | 19 THURSDAY LECTURE SERIES FALL 2019 FELLOWS’ TALKS

26 September Mead, early computer science demonstrates that the face is the Cold War Drugs and the First Era researchers, and a generation of product of obliterative violence—a of Psychedelic Science, 1945–65 psychiatrists whose utopian ambitions social, political, and historical Benjamin Breen, Assistant Professor faltered in a nascent age of anxiety. construction contingent on Black of History, University of California, abjection. Santa Cruz, SOF 2015–16 3 October The Void of Faceless Faces: Ralph 10 October In 1952, psychiatrist Ronald Sandison Ellison and the Matter of Black Affect Contemporary Land Enclosures paid a visit to Sandoz Laboratories Tyrone S. Palmer, Lecturer in in Central Sudan: Troubling the in Basel, Switzerland, where he met African American and African Romanticization of the “Commons” chemist Albert Hoffman, today best Diaspora Studies Nisrin Elamin, Lecturer in remembered as the discoverer of Middle Eastern, South Asian, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). What is a face? And what might and African Studies Hoffman and his associates, Sandison it mean to be without one? In his recalled, “spoke of LSD as enabling talk, Tyrone S. Palmer posed these, In this talk, Nisrin Elamin situated them to hold a mirror to themselves, and related, questions through a contemporary Saudi and Emirati of enabling them to understand and reading of Ralph Ellison’s seminal large-scale land investments in see things in themselves which they novel Invisible Man. Specifically, he central Sudan within a layered had not known before.” From 1952 considered the deployment of the history of enclosures and unequal until the mid-1960s, Sandison began concept-metaphor of “facelessness” landed relations shaped by legacies to systematically prescribe LSD to his in Ellison’s text as a means of of colonialism and enslavement. psychiatric patients—and to himself. theorizing the matter of Black affect. Using a fine-grained analysis of This talk was part of a research project He argued that Ellison’s rendering several moments drawn from on this largely forgotten first era of of Blackness as facelessness ethnographic fieldwork in the Gezira “psychedelic science,” which spanned makes a key intervention into region of central Sudan, Dr. Elamin the period between 1945 and 1965. It is theories of affect that center on argued against a tendency within the a story that ties together, in surprising the face as the primary site of the contemporary literature on land grabs and sometimes profound ways, the affective encounter. Breaking with to romanticize and dehistoricize “the histories of Cold War intelligence dominant conceptions of the face commons” and the social relations that agents, experimental anthropologists as a universal, anatomical reality or govern access to communal land and like Gregory Bateson and Margaret an ethico-affective horizon, Ellison water resources. She aimed to trouble

Annual Report | 21 the idea of “community” that prevailing Mogul invasion of Syria; “Variations three-month rotations. The extensive conceptions of the “commons” rely on (R)evolution” for soprano, violin, practice of intimacy with soldiers in on, to show how rights and access to and piano, text by Yvette Christianse, the Moskitia does not lead to the land in central Sudan has long been commissioned by Beethoven Fest military’s local “incorporation,” nor to a shaped by hierarchical social relations. in Bonn to be performed in concert peaceful synthesis of soldier-resident To do so, Dr. Elamin demonstrated about the Arab Spring; and “30 cohabitation, but to a predatory that ongoing processes of land Articles for Viola and Electronics,” relation of domination in which dispossession are gendered and commissioned by Salt Festival in the military remains an awkward racialized, while examining how race, Victoria, Canada, and premiered appendage to Miskitu villages, class, gender, and enslaved descent in Ravensbruck concentration restricted to strategic but peripheral shape the different forms resistance to camp, as well as large-scale and geographic and quotidian locations. these processes can take. chamber operas. The talk included a This “intimacy without incorporation” is presentation of scores and recordings. reflected in the kind of local knowledge 17 October Dr. Jabri was joined in conversation by soldiers acquire and produce, as well The Voice and Historical Conscience Professor Rosalind C. Morris. as in the kinds of value they extract Zaid Jabri, Lecturer in from economies deemed legal or Anthropology and in Music 24 October illegal. In this talk, Dr. Montero outlined Martial Love: Intimacy Without the implications of “martial love” for Composers have long used the human Incorporation in the Military the literatures on the War on Drugs, voice as a medium of expressing and Occupation of the Moskitia indigeneity and multiculturalism, and critically addressing the historical (Nicaragua/Honduras) punitive prohibitionism. moment, and they have done so in Fernando Montero, Lecturer in very different ways, from Donizetti Anthropology and at the Center for 7 November to Schoenberg. In this talk, composer the Study of Ethnicity and Race The Form of Forms: Tables, Zaid Jabri discussed the ways in Information, and Nonsense which he has used the human voice Nicaraguan and Honduran soldiers in the Maoist Dossier in his own compositions over the last occupying Caribbean coastal villages in JM Chris Chang, Lecturer in East decade. These works include “Love and the Afro-Indigenous region of Moskitia Asian Languages and Cultures Mercy” for chorus and large symphony habitually entangle themselves orchestra, a piece based on a text sexually or romantically with one Beginning around 1945, the Chinese by Bar Hebraeus, written during the or more local women during their Communist Party drastically

22 | Annual Report redesigned its dossiers. Replacing 14 November 21 November narrative evaluations and epistolary Byproducts and the Novel from The Judgment of a Connoisseur reports, the Party adopted new Defoe to Richardson Ardeta Gjikola, Lecturer in History forms that reorganized information Allison Turner, Lecturer in English on persons of interest into neat and Comparative Literature The first Parthenon sculptures arrived fields of questions and answers in London in 1802. Initial remarks with headers, labels, and tables, all Allison Turner argued for the central about them were few and far between, locked into the graphic device of the importance of waste to the cultural, but it was a different matter when in rectangular grid. These new dossier social, and economic transformations 1806 Richard Payne Knight pronounced templates were part of a process that took place over the course of a judgment upon them. A wealthy of formalization in the 1940s that the long eighteenth century. Dr. British connoisseur and a member of transformed the paper instruments of Turner demonstrated how novelist the Society of Dilettanti, Knight judged bureaucratic work. They established Samuel Richardson adapted the the sculptures—by then known as a visual style for Chinese paperwork commercial logic of salvaging in the Elgin Marbles—as aesthetically that persists in official documents order to reconceive the literary worthless. He would repeat in years to this day. Biographical facts and domain as a set of materials itself in to come that he had “looked over” political histories of cadres and need of maintenance. In doing so, the marbles and arrived at the same enemies alike had to be abstracted, Richardson developed the notion of conclusion, a conclusion that stalled simplified, and reconfigured to fit literary plotting as a mechanism for Lord Elgin’s efforts to sell the marbles the parameters of grid-lined fields. recollecting textual byproducts—the to the British Government. This talk In this talk, Chang revisited several discarded characters and sequences considered two related questions: examples of Party personnel forms to of events generated by episodic why did Knight consider a quick visual show that, even as these new forms fiction. By making the recovery of examination of the marbles sufficient were not inherently more efficient in these characters a condition of for estimating their value, and why capturing information, they served to narrative closure, Richardson’s novels was his judgment influential? Rather communicate technocratic regularity helped establish a literary framework than taking connoisseurial authority as a distinct visual aesthetic. in which disparate persons could as an automatic attribute of social or appear both as the components of a institutional positions, Dr. Gjikola’s single plot and as members of a social talk examined how such authority totality more generally. was produced and circulated in early nineteenth-century London.

Annual Report | 23 SPRING 2020 AMBIVALENCE

20 February the relationship between literary 5 March Ambivalence and (anti)Blackness: atmosphere and gendered habits of “Europe Does Not Know Anything A Prolegomenon perception. Looking to poems by John about the Orient”: A Proto- Selamawit D. Terrefe, Donne and Aphra Behn, and giving Saidian Discourse Assistant Professor of English, special attention to Andrew Marvell’s Zeynep Çelik, Distinguished Tulane University “To His Coy Mistress,” Simon described Professor, Hillier College of a version of levity that depends on Architecture and Design, New Jersey What, precisely, is the Black’s relation an incomplete or frozen decision that Institute of Technology to her own death—unyielding in someone or something is unworthy of its familiarity, belated in its arrival, attention—a decision that establishes Reacting to the misconceptions, unheimlich in the effects its fantasies an experience of ambivalence in distortions, and factual errors in engender? This talk mapped which the outcome is determined but European representations of the ambivalence within the Black psyche’s not actually pursued. In these cases, “Orient,” a passionate Ottoman wrestling with, and wresting itself of, the gendered conferral of triviality discourse emerged in the 1870s and the death-drive on two primary fronts: on someone or something does not continued with fervor into the 1930s. a retreat within, or return to, fantasy; direct attention elsewhere but instead Well-acquainted with the European and the destruction of the notion of reframes attention as pleasurably political and cultural scene and the subject, or the political, itself. superfluous. Simon argued for the charged with their own ideological importance of levity, understood in agendas, the Ottoman and early 27 February these terms, as a subject for feminist Turkish Republican intellectuals turned Atmospheric Misogyny and and queer inquiry, and reflected and twisted the familiar debates the Lyric Tradition on the challenges of cultivating an around in an attempt to deconstruct David Simon, Associate Professor of antipatriarchal sensorium. the tired clichés. Listening to their English, University of Maryland voices forty years after the publication of Orientalism helps to recontextualize This presentation described the role and complicate Edward Said’s of levity in the reproduction of gender important arguments from an unlikely subordination. David Simon argued perspective. In her presentation, Dr. that lyric poetry, with its fine-tuned Çelik unpacked several themes that instruments of attention management, dominated this response. is an especially useful site for exploring

24 | Annual Report The screening of the Water, Sound, and Indigenous Series filmUshui was followed by a conversation with Amalia Córdova, NYU; José Gregorio Mojica Gil, Researcher; Rafael Mojica Gil, Photographer; and the series organizers—Ron Gregg, Film and Media Studies; and Ana María Ochoa Gautier, Music.

Annual Report | 25 YEAR IN REVIEW COLLABORATED WITH 39 UNITS ON CAMPUS Anthropology Institute for Comparative Literature Total Number of Events, Fall 2019: 40 and Society Art History and Archaeology Institute for Ideas and Imagination Barnard Center for Research on Women Institute for Religion, Culture and Barnard Women’s, Gender, and Public LIfe Sexuality Studies Institute for Research in African-American British Studies Studies

Brown Institute Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality Total Number of Events, Spring 2020: 40 Buell Center Institute for Social and Economic Butler Library Research and Policy

Center for American Studies Institute of Latin American Studies

Center for Ethnomusicology Italian Academy

Center for Justice Lenfest Center for the Arts

Center for Science and Society Maison Française

Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race 35 Events Cancelled or Postponed Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Due to COVID-19 African Studies Center for the Study of Social Difference Office of Postdoctoral Affairs Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought Office of the Dean of Humanities

Committee on Global Thought School of General Studies

Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma School of the Arts

English and Comparative Literature Sociology

European Institute University Seminars

Harriman Institute Weatherhead East Asian Institute

History

26 | Annual Report EVENT HIGHLIGHTS Water, Sound, and Indigenous Film: Ushui

he Society of Fellows has 18 September been a significant financial The Novel and Its Discontents: A Conversation with John Banville and Richard Ford supporter of Heyman Center events ever since the latter John Banville and Richard Ford, authors of many novels, Tbegan producing public programming winners of many prizes, and decades-long friends, engaged in 2005. Now that the Society and in a spirited, untheoretical back and forth about the supposed pleasures of the text. This event was organized the Heyman Center have become by Sam Lipsyte and co-sponsored by the Writing Division of a single entity, all Heyman Center the School of the Arts, a frequent partner of SOF/Heyman. programming is a product of their John Banville’s first novel, Nightspawn, came out in 1971, joint efforts. Both SOF Fellows and followed by Birchwood (1973), Doctor Copernicus (1976), Kepler (1981), The Newton Letter (1982), Mefisto (1986), The Board Members have been especially Book of Evidence (1989), Ghosts (1993), Athena (1995), The active this past year in organizing Untouchable (1997), Eclipse (2000), Shroud (2002), The Sea lectures, workshops, roundtables, (2005), The Infinities (2009), and Ancient Light (2012). Richard and performances for audiences Ford is a novelist, story writer, and essayist—in addition to being a professor in the Columbia Creative Writing on campus and beyond—events Program. He is the author of seven novels and four (soon- that explore, from the perspectives to-be five) collections of stories, plus a memoir; and his of the humanities and humanistic work has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Carnegie social sciences, issues of particular Gold Medal for Fiction, and the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, among many other distinctions. urgency and interest. Many of these are highlighted below. Additional 4 October programming and further details— Uncertain States: Narrative Journalism and Its Limits including information about speakers This symposium, organized by Society Fellows Alumni Rachel and co-sponsors—may be found at Nolan and Brian Goldstone, explored the possibilities www.sofheyman.com. and constraints of narrative journalism as it is practiced today. Participants reflected on issues central to this mode

28 | Annual Report of journalism, which are nevertheless rarely scrutinized: and transnational agribusinesses, hydroelectric projects, and choices of tone and structure, selection of themes, front mining corporations. These films also presented unique, stories, arguments, or central characters, and how to portray radical aesthetics and sounds through the influence of situations that don’t lend themselves to tidy conclusions. indigenous experience and understanding of sustenance, What’s at stake, they asked, in embracing the murky environment, nature, and conservation. This film screening and indeterminate—the less immediately sympathetic of Ushui was followed by a conversation with Amalia protagonist, the not-so-easily-resolved predicament—at a Córdova (NYU), José Gregorio Mojica Gil (Researcher), and time when the demand for moral and political decisiveness, Rafael Mojica Gil (Photographer). Ushui is about Sagas— for clear-cut villains and victims, has grown acute? How do women shamans—and their wisdom and relation to water; journalists handle issues of translation not simply across how to give birth and raise children, to sing to the spirits, languages but across sensibilities and worldviews? What and what to do when they turn against us like Shekuita, the are the implications of long-term, immersive reporting bad thunder that destroyed the town of Kemakúmake. It that resists the immediacy of the news cycle? Participants was produced by the Bunkuaneyuman Communications also asked the question of intervening—or not—in the Collective of indigenous Wiwa people of the Sierra Nevada lives of those we write about, particularly in the context of de Santa Marta in Colombia. suffering or injustice. The conversation that ensued covered the limits of journalistic “objectivity,” entrenched notions 30 October that journalism and advocacy are distinct endeavors, and Dialogues in Translation moments of reporting when these lines have become blurred, perhaps necessarily or productively so. Karen Van Dyck, Xiaolu Guo, Kaiama L. Glover, and Zaid Jabri, all inaugural fellows of Columbia’s Institute for Ideas 10 October and Imagination, discussed their diverse practices of Water, Sound, and Indigenous Film: Ushui translation and transliteration, and the artistic and political consequences of living, working, and moving between This screening and discussion of the film Ushui was languages. The conversation began in Spring 2019 at the organized by former SOF/Heyman Board Member Ana Institute in Paris around Karen Van Dyck’s research on María Ochoa Gautier (Music) along with Ron Gregg translingual writing of the Greek Diaspora, which addresses (Film and Media Studies) as part of the Water, Sound, the multilingual lives of migrants as a resource for literature, and Indigenous Film Series. This series focused on translation, and social policy. Using two different writing indigenous film productions that have engaged with local systems (Chinese ideograms and the English alphabet), environmental struggles between indigenous communities Xiaolu Guo then discussed migrant writers’ use of a second

Annual Report | 29 language to express their histories and illustrate ways in and contemporary works—followed by town hall–style which writers play with time and grammar to express a discussions designed to confront social issues by drawing different point of view. Zaid Jabri spoke about his strategies out raw and personal reactions to themes highlighted in of translation and transliteration in composing vocal music the plays. The guided discussions underscore how the plays that draws on a variety of alphabets and languages, and resonate with contemporary audiences and invite audience takes into account the performance of the text in his piece members to share their perspectives and experiences, “Love and Mercy” for chorus and large symphony orchestra helping to break down stigmas and foster empathy, based on text by Bar Hebraeus, sung in Syriac. Kaiama compassion, and a deeper understanding of complex issues. L. Glover addressed the ethics of literary translation as Theater of War Productions was co-founded in 2009 by an act of representation within contexts of material and Bryan Doerries and Phyllis Kaufman, and Doerries currently social disparity, focusing on the stakes and the practice of serves as the company’s artistic director. Since its founding, translating René Depestre’s 1988 novel Hadriana dans tous Theater of War Productions has facilitated events for more mes rêves, first to the space of metropolitan France and, than 100,000 people, presenting over twenty tailored subsequently, to an anglophone reading public—that is, to programs targeted to diverse communities across the globe. a global readership that most often views Haiti through the lens of irrevocable, demeaningly racialized difference. The 4 February discussion was moderated by Susan Boynton. This event Splicing Cultures: Xiaolu Guo on Novels and Filmmaking was part of an ongoing collaboration between SOF/Heyman and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination beginning with In a conversation with Carol Gluck (History), Xiaolu last year’s Crises of Democracy. Guo presented her work in words and film and drew connections to her own life. Xiaolu Guo is a British 6–7 November Chinese novelist, essayist, and filmmaker. Her memoir, Theater of War Nine Continents, received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography in 2017. She was an inaugural As part of the Humanities War and Peace Initiative fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Humanities, Theater at Reid Hall in Paris in 2018–19, where she was Abigail of War Productions brought Sophocles’s Ajax to Columbia R. Cohen Fellow. She is currently a writer in residence at over two days in staged readings held at Miller Theatre and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute; a visiting fellow at Riverside Church. Theater of War works with leading film, the SOF/Heyman; and a visiting professor in East Asian theater, and television actors to present dramatic readings Languages and Cultures, the Institute for Comparative of seminal plays—from classical Greek tragedies to modern Literature and Society, and the School of the Arts. This

30 | Annual Report Critical Caribbean Feminisms: Staceyann Chin and Alexis Pauline Gumbs

event was co-sponsored by the Maison Française and 11 February Institute for Ideas and Imagination as part of the Institute Critical Caribbean Feminisms: Staceyann Chin and at the Maison series. Alexis Pauline Gumbs

6 February and 5 March Staceyann Chin and Alexis Pauline Gumbs were joined Columbia/Brown Joint Seminar: The Visual Frequency in conversation with Kaiama L. Glover (Ann Whitney Olin of Black Life Professor of French and Africana Studies, Barnard College) for a discussion organized by former SOF/Heyman Board This innovative seminar, led by former SOF/Heyman Board Member Tina Campt. Poet, actor, and performing artist Member Tina Campt in parallel with Saidiya Hartman, Staceyann Chin is the author of the new poetry collection brought together students at Columbia and Brown Crossfire: A Litany for Survival and the critically acclaimed University to discuss how one represents Black life. Over a memoir The Other Side of Paradise; co-writer and original series of cross-campus discussions, students considered performer in the Tony Award–winning Russell Simmons what forms of accounting or reckoning are enacted by Black Presents Def Poetry Jam on Broadway; and author of the photo books. Defined by Gerry Badger as “a book—with or one-woman shows Hands Afire, Unspeakable Things, Border/ without text—where the work’s primary message is carried Clash, and MotherStruck. She proudly identifies as Caribbean, by photographs,” these texts offer densely layered accounts Black, Asian, lesbian, a woman, and a resident of New York of Blackness and Black sociality that are not restricted City, as well as a Jamaican national. The Anguilla Literary to the visual—they are haptic and sonic engagements Festival called Alexis Pauline Gumbs “the pride of Anguilla.” and improvisations that render Black life through visual She is the author of Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, M frequencies that register well beyond what we see in their Archive: After the End of the World, and Dub: Finding Ceremony images. Placing a series of historical and contemporary Black and co-editor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front photo books in conversation with sonic scripts, embodied Lines. Alexis lives in Durham, North Carolina, where she performances, and moving images inspired by and in stewards the Mobile Homecoming Trust Living Library of dialogue with them, the seminar unpacked the multiple Queer Black Brilliance. visual frequencies of Black life articulated in and through these works with an eye toward understanding the practices of Black refusal and futurity that structure their varied creative practices.

Annual Report | 31 Complex Issues: Screening of The Assistant. Pictured (left to right): Denise Cruz, Kitty Green, Scott Macaulay, and James Schamus. Photo Credit: Joel Jares.

13 February (History), brought together a new generation of historians Water, Sound, and Indigenous Film: Antonio and Piti and economists whose work engages with the nature and workings of French colonial capitalism; the reorientation This film screening and discussion of Antonio and Piti was of capital and labor from Haitian independence to the part of the Water, Sound, and Indigenous Film Series colonization of Algeria; economic life in France’s informal organized by former SOF/Heyman Board Member Ana empire; the circulation, production, and consumption of María Ochoa Gautier (Music) along with Ron Gregg (Film commodities; colonial public finance and inequality; the and Media Studies) and Maria Fantinato (Music). The film intersection of racial ideologies with the political economy of is set along the Amônia River, which runs near the border late colonialism; and the economic and financial dimensions of Brazil and Peru and where both indigenous Ashaninka of decolonization. The conference delineated the contours people and white settlers live in the municipality of of a new political economy of French colonialism in the Marechal Thaumaturgo. Produced by the Vídeo nas Aldeias nineteenth and twentieth centuries. collective, Antonio and Piti explores the love between a Peruvian-born indigenous man and the daughter of Chico 5–6 March Coló, a white rubber tapper soldier. The film tells the Music and Migration Conference story of their community-led reforestation project and the pressures of a predatory and extractive economy. The Co-organized by Alessandra Ciucci (Music) and former SOF/ screening was followed by a discussion with co-directors Heyman Board Member Ana María Ochoa Gautier (Music), Vincent Carelli and Wewito Piyãko and a response by this two-day conference included panels on performance, Esther Hamburger (School of the Arts). longing, belonging, subjectivity, and materiality in music and migration. Participants included Alejandra Bronfman (SUNY 28 February Albany); Julia Byl (University of Alberta); Claire Clouet (Basque New Political Economies of the French Empire Anthropological Research Institute); Brigid Cohen (New York 19th–20th Centuries University); Denis Laborde (CNRS, EHESS); Nicolas Puig (IRD, CNRS); and Adelaida Reyes (New Jersey City University), as While the cultural, political, legal, and social aspects of French well as Columbia faculty and graduate students Nandini colonialism have received much attention over the past thirty Banerjee-Datta, Alessandra Ciucci, Emily Hansell Clark, years, the political economy of the French colonial empire Andrés García Molina, and Althea SullyCole. has been largely neglected. This conference, organized by SOF/Heyman Board Member Emmanuelle Saada along with Gregory Mann (History) and Madeline Woker

32 | Annual Report SERIES

The Society of Fellows and Humanities Initiative and Lecturer in Art 4 June Heyman Center for the History and Archaeology (Columbia). Expanding Ecologies of Care Rachel Adams (Columbia) and Humanities sponsored several 1 May Bryony Roberts (Columbia) new and ongoing series: Care Germ City Exhibition: for the Polis, Critique 13/13, New A Conversation on Cities, Health, 11 June Books in the Arts and Sciences, and Public Humanities Toxic Bodies in Place Rebecca Hayes Jacobs (CUNY Graduate Samia Henni (Cornell) and and Rethinking Democracy Center), Arden Hegele (Columbia), and Chisomo Kalinga (University in an Age of Pandemic. María González Pendás (Columbia) of Edinburgh)

7 May 12 June Care for the Polis Emergency by Design Speaking of Worlds Without Police Rishi Goyal (Columbia) and María González Pendás (Columbia), Care for the Polis is a conversation Graham Mooney (Johns Hopkins) Arden Hegele (Columbia), and that took place in a multitemporal Amy Chazkel (Columbia) and virtual space, a space designed 14 May to reimagine how medical humanities Designs of Urban and 18 June and public humanities shape, and Medical Exclusion Ethics of Care and Space are shaped by, the city and its diverse Alexandre White (Johns Hopkins) Kathryn Tabb (Barnard) and Joy publics. In a series of weekly panels, and Leslie Topp (Birkbeck) Knoblauch (University of Michigan) invited speakers discussed the effects of health on the conception of cities 21 May 25 June and publics—including, in the context Collectives of Care Speaking of COVID-19, of pandemic, the foreclosure of public Meredith TenHoor (Pratt) and Now and in the Future space and what it means to become Camille Robcis (Columbia) Rita Charon (Columbia) and Margaret an online yet domestic-bound public. Crosby-Arnold (Southern University) It was organized by Arden Hegele, 28 May Medical Humanities Fellow and Lecturer Urban Infrastructures of Violence in English and Comparative Literature Amy Chazkel (Columbia) and (Columbia) and María González Jonathan Metzl (Vanderbilt) Pendás, Coordinator of the Public

34 | Annual Report Critique 13/13 11 September 13 November In Search of a Method Louis Althusser, Reading Capital Critique 13/13 is the fifth 13/13 Amy Allen (Pennsylvania State Étienne Balibar (Columbia) and seminar series held over the course University), Bernard E. Harcourt Bernard E. Harcourt (Columbia) of the academic year at the Columbia (Columbia), Étienne Balibar Center for Contemporary Critical (Columbia), Linda Goehr (Columbia), 4 December Thought. Organized by former SOF/ Joshua Simon (Columbia), and Michel Foucault, Les Aveux de la Chair Heyman Board Member Bernard E. Nadia Urbinati (Columbia) Guillaume le Blanc (University Harcourt, these seminars focus, each Paris-Diderot) and Bernard E. year, on a different set of topics at the 25 September Harcourt (Columbia) heart of contemporary critical thought Horkheimer and Adorno, Critical and action in philosophy, politics, Theory and Actuality of Philosophy 18 December law, and social inquiry. The seminar Axel Honneth (Columbia) and Theodor Adorno, Negative Dialectics for 2019–2020 examined the current Bernard E. Harcourt (Columbia) Martin Saar (Goethe Universität state of critical theory and asked how Frankfurt am Main) and Bernard E. contemporary critical thought and 16 October Harcourt (Columbia) practice functions in these troubled Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex times. In approaching these texts Judith Revel (Université Paris 15 January again today, the idea was to find new Ouest Nanterre La Défense) and Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition ways to use them, not to tear them Bernard E. Harcourt (Columbia) Seyla Benhabib (Columbia) and down and criticize them for their Bernard E. Harcourt (Columbia) faults but to discover what we can do 22 October with them today. Paolo Freire, Pedagogy of 19 February the Oppressed Jean-Paul Sartre, Critique of Maria Inês Marcondes de Souza Dialectical Reason (PUC-Rio University), Cecilia Boal Noreen Khawaja (Yale), (Director, “Theater of the Oppressed”), Jesús Velasco (Columbia), and Alessandra Vannucci (Federal Bernard E. Harcourt (Columbia) University of Rio de Janeiro), Antonio Pele (PUC-Rio University), and Bernard E. Harcourt (Columbia)

Annual Report | 35 NEW BOOKS in the rts ciences A &S

New Books in the 21 October 4 December Arts and Sciences Sharon Marcus, The Drama of Sarah Cole, Inventing Tomorrow: Celebrity (Princeton University Press) H.G. Wells and the Twentieth Century Sharon Marcus (Columbia), Alan Co-sponsored by the Society of (Columbia University Press) Stewart (Columbia), Alisa Solomon Sarah Cole (Columbia), Jed Esty Fellows and Heyman Center for (Columbia), and Arianne Chernock (University of Pennsylvania), Victor Humanities, the Office of the (Boston University) LaValle (Columbia), Sharon Marcus Divisional Deans in the Faculty of Arts (Columbia), and Alan Stewart & Sciences, and the Institute for Social 14 November (Columbia) and Economic Research and Policy, this series celebrates recent work Brendan O’Flaherty and Rajiv Sethi, 28 January by the Columbia Faculty with panel Shadows of Doubt: Stereotypes, discussions of their new books. Crime, and the Pursuit of Justice Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer, (Harvard University Press) School Photos in Liquid Time: Brendan O’Flaherty (Columbia), 26 September Reframing Difference (University Rajiv Sethi (Barnard), Valerie Purdie of Washington Press) Nara B. Milanich, Paternity: Greenaway (Columbia), Suresh Naidu Marianne Hirsch (Columbia), Leo The Elusive Quest for the Father (Columbia), Carla Shedd (CUNY Spitzer (Dartmouth College), Barbara (Harvard University Press) Graduate Center), and Miguel Urquioia Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (New York Nara B. Milanich (Columbia), (Columbia) University), Gil Hochberg (Columbia), Dorothy Y. Ko (Barnard), Maya Jasanoff Oluremi C. Onabanjo (Columbia), (Harvard), and Emmanuelle Saada 2 December and Jack Halberstam (Columbia) (Columbia) Gil Eyal, The Crisis of Expertise 19 February 14 October (Polity Press) Gil Eyal (Columbia), Peter B. de Mariusz Kozak, Enacting Musical Stathis Gourgouris, The Perils of the Menocal (Columbia), Steven Shapin Time: The Bodily Experience of New One (Columbia University Press) (Harvard), Diane Vaughan (Columbia), Stathis Gourgouris (Columbia), Music (Oxford University Press) and Shamus Khan (Columbia) Mariusz Kozak (Columbia), Elizabeth Hent de Vries (New York University), Margulis (Princeton), George Lewis Bruce Robbins (Columbia), (Columbia), Patricia Dailey (Columbia), Lydia H. Liu (Columbia), and and Ana M. Ochoa Gautier (Columbia) Étienne Balibar (Columbia)

36 | Annual Report NEW BOOKS 20 February in the Stephanie McCurry, Women’s War: Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War (Harvard University Press) Stephanie McCurry (Columbia), Drew rts ciences Gilpin Faust (Harvard), Camille Robcis A S (Columbia), Jeremy Kessler (Columbia), & Wor k by. . . en t and Christopher Brown (Columbia) ing R ec lebr at Ce 24 February Jennifer Wenzel, The Disposition of Nature: Environmental Crisis and World Literature (Fordham University Press) Jennifer Wenzel (Columbia), Nara B. Milanich Sarah Cole Paternity: The Elusive Mary Louise Pratt (New York Inventing Tomorrow: H. G. Wells and Quest for the Father the Twentieth Century Thursday, 26 September 2019, 6:15pm Wednesday, 4 December 2019, 6:15pm Milbank Hall, Ella Weed Room University), Eleanor Johnson The Heyman Center, (Columbia), Elizabeth Povinelli Second Floor Common Room (Columbia), and Mamadou Diouf Gil Eyal Stathis Gourgouris The Crisis of Expertise The Perils of the One Monday, 14 October 2019, 6:15pm (Columbia) Monday, 2 December 2019, 6:15pm The Heyman Center, The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room Second Floor Common Room 4 March Brendan o’Flaherty Sharon Marcus Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years’ and Rajiv Sethi The Drama of Celebrity Shadows of Doubt: Stereotypes, Monday, 21 October 2019 , 6:15pm War on Palestine: A History of Crime, and the Persuit of Justice The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room Thursday, 14 November 2019, 6:15pm Settler Colonialism and Resistance, International Affairs Building, The Kellogg Center, Room 1512 1917–2017 (Metropolitan Books) Rashid Khalidi (Columbia), Rosie Bsheer (Harvard), Manan Ahmed (Columbia), Gil Hochberg (Columbia), and Nadia Abu El-Haj (Barnard)

Annual Report | 37 Rethinking Democracy in 6 May an Age of Pandemic Marginalized Groups Rosemary Byrne (NYU, Abu Dhabi), Rose Anne Kenny (Trinity College As the world grappled to deal Dublin), and Vincent Schiraldi with the fallout from COVID-19, (Columbia) this special series of workshops explored the impact of the pandemic 13 May on democracies worldwide. The workshops were organized by the Inequality Colm Tóibín (Columbia), Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Shamus Khan (Columbia), and Sucheta Mahajan Humanities Research Institute in (Jawaharlal Nehru University, partnership with the Society of New Delhi) Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities and were part of the Crises 20 May of Democracy Global Humanities Institute project sponsored by the The Everyday Shane O’Mara (Trinity College Dublin), A.W. Mellon Foundation. Rita Duffy (artist), andRishi Goyal (Columbia) 27 April Behind the Headlines: Democracy 27 May in an Age of Pandemic Peter Baldwin (UCLA), Lillith Acadia Democracy Without a Public Sphere Bill Emmott (formerly editor-in-chief (Trinity College Dublin), Shamus Khan of The Economist), Melody Barnes (Columbia), and Ahuvia Kahane (Trinity (Virginia), and Fintan O’Toole College Dublin) (Irish Times) 29 April Nations and Borders Susan McKay (writer), Sarah Stillman (Columbia), and Etain Tannam (Trinity College Dublin)

38 | Annual Report New Books in the Arts and Sciences: Celebrating Recent Work by Sarah Cole. Pictured (clockwise from left): Gauri Viswanathan, Eileen Gillooly, [unidentified], Alan Stewart, Sarah Cole, Jed Esty, Sharon Marcus, and Victor LaValle.

Annual Report | 39 INITIATIVES Medical Humanities Initiative The Medical Humanities Initiative and the Public Humanities Initiative co- As a set of disciplines, the humanities face the challenge of sponsored a series of weekly panels on the effects of health on the conception how to write about embodied experiences that resist easy of cities and publics. For more verbal categorization such as illness, pain, and healing. The information on the series, see page 34. recent emergence of interdisciplinary frameworks such as narrative medicine has offered a set of methodological Collaborating Departments approaches to address these challenges. Conceptualizing a field of medical and health humanities offers a broad • Society of Fellows and Heyman umbrella under which to study the influence of medico- Center for the Humanities scientific ideas and practices on society. At stake are • Institute for Comparative Literature the problems of representation and the interpretation and Society of cultural products from the past and present through medical models, and the challenge of establishing a set • Department of English and of humanistic competencies (observation, attention, Comparative Literature judgment, narrative, historical perspective, ethics, • Department of Medical Humanities creativity) that can inform medical practice. and Ethics at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center The Medical Humanities Initiative, organized by Arden Hegele (Medical Humanities Fellow and Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia), provides an ongoing forum at SOF/Heyman to explore these challenges and to continue to discover new methodological approaches.

Annual Report | 41 Chris McGreal, Explorations in the Medical reporter for the Humanities Series Guardian, discussed The Explorations in the Medical his new book Humanities Series explores the American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy enigma of how what we write relates in Three Acts. back to the experience of bodies in different stages of health and disease. Our speakers consider how the medical and health humanities build on and revise earlier notions of the “medical arts.”

22 November Medical Humanities Synapsis Writers Retreat This workshop brought together past and present writers for Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal (medicalhealthhumanities.com), which Dr. Arden Hegele and Dr. Rishi Goyal have co-edited since 2017. It continued the work of the Explorations in the Medical Humanities Series (launched in 2017), with a new emphasis on creating collaborations among early career scholars from a variety of institutions.

42 | Annual Report 17 April Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal Big Pharma and the Opioid Co-edited by Arden Hegele and Rishi Goyal since 2017, Synapsis produced Epidemic: Buying Its Way Out a COVID-19 special issue in May 2020 that featured a “Letter from the of Accountability?—Online Event Emergency Room” documenting Dr. Goyal’s first-person experience of In this virtual conversation, Chris COVID-19 in New York City at the height of the first wave. In their long- McGreal, reporter for the Guardian, form articles, our writers addressed topics related to the pandemic that discussed his new book American are global in scope, from the microstructures of individual feeling to Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in ideological superstructures such as politics and religion. Three Acts. A former correspondent in Johannesburg, Jerusalem, and Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes Washington, DC, he has won awards Following the success of the 2019 Summer Institute at Columbia’s for his reporting on the Rwandan Global Center in Paris, the annual meeting of the Medical and Health genocide, on Israel/Palestine, and on Humanities Network, part of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and the impact of economic recession in Institutes, was hosted virtually by Columbia University representatives America. McGreal was awarded the Rishi Goyal (the chair of the Steering Committee) and Arden Hegele James Cameron Prize for “work as a (the Network administrator) in May 2020. The meeting boasted strong journalist that has combined moral attendance (75+ participants) as groups reported on progress in the vision and professional integrity.” medical and health humanities at their institutions, as well as on their He won the Martha Gellhorn Prize responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. A new interinstitutional Focus for Journalism for reporting that Project on COVID-19 is featured on the Network’s website. The Network’s “penetrated the established version of next Summer Institute will take place in a hybrid form in Denmark in 2021. events and told an unpalatable truth.” Chris McGreal was joined by Joanne Motherhood and Technology Working Group Csete (Mailman School of Public The Center for the Study of Social Difference at Columbia has selected Health) in a discussion moderated a new working group, Motherhood and Technology, for sponsorship by Lara J. Nettelfield (Institute for the beginning in 2020. The group is co-organized and co-directed by Rishi Study of Human Rights). Goyal and Arden Hegele; and it features participants from literature, obstetrics, sociology, law, and other disciplines. Dr. Goyal and Dr. Hegele presented the new group to the Women Creating Change Leadership Council in June 2020.

Annual Report | 43 Photo by Ted McGrath

Public Humanities Initiative For more information on the series, see page 34. The Public Humanities Initiative at the SOF/Heyman promotes civically engaged and public-facing modes of pedagogy and 2019–2020 Public Humanities Graduate Fellow Projects scholarship through a variety of fellowships, events, and As part of the 2019–2020 SOF/ mentoring to answer the question of how the humanities can Heyman Public Humanities Initiative, address and now help repair and reinvent our publics using our seven Public Humanities Graduate disciplinary strengths. Today, humanists are called on to operate Fellows, including two co-fellows with Humanities New York, designed in an expanded media field, to engage with publics well beyond and implemented six projects. This academia, and to better think through the conditions of social year’s cohort included students inequality that concern them. Critical new arts and humanities from the History, Classics, English research and teaching now develops in close collaboration with and Comparative Literature, and Latin American and Iberian Cultures communities and institutions that exist outside of academic silos, Departments and the Institute for beyond campus and the canon. Across Columbia University, Comparative Literature and Society. graduate students are increasingly imagining experimental modes The group met regularly under the of engaged scholarship—work that spills out of disciplinary-bound mentorship of the Public Humanities Coordinator, María González Pendás, methods. This work not only speaks to broader publics and to discuss project development, tackles issues of racial, environmental, gender, ableist, and ethnic community organization, and the justice but also expands graduate students’ career prospects. The broader challenges pertaining to SOF/Heyman Public Humanities Initiative provides such students, public humanities work. Fellows presented their projects in the Zoom as well as faculty, a space and resources to engage in the urgent workshop series Building Publics: and rapidly developing field of public humanities. In this year Humanities Combating Isolation in the of unprecedented public health crises, the Public Humanities summer of 2020. Initiative worked alongside the Medical Humanities Initiative to co- sponsor a series of weekly panels on the effects of health on the conception of cities and publics.

44 | Annual Report BUILDING PUBLICS Humanities Combating Isolation

Building Publics: Humanities signed to help Latinx youth communi- 13 May 2020 | 4:00 p.m. Combating Isolation ties build narratives of self-represen- Audio Media and New Orientations Wednesdays, 13 May–17 June tation; we discussed ways to generate in the Humanities In the spirit of the collective nature of public consciousness on environmental Milan Terlunen and Olivia Branscum the public humanities, and as a way to justice, whether inside a classroom or with Michelle E. Wilson and Sierra Eckert peek into the many conversations and walking by a river; and we addressed interactions that define the work, each the vivid inequities of the digital divide 20 May 2020 | 4:00 p.m. session included a conversation be- in pedagogy and heard how Luddite Podcast as Research tween the fellows and guest scholars, approaches—from letter writing to Milan Terlunen and Olivia Branscum community partners, and civic partners coloring and collaging—can help build with Mary Miss and Emily Bloom who had been part of the development connections and enrich the meaning of the project. Together, they discussed of the humanities in certain contexts, 27 May 2020 | 4:00 p.m. the origins of each project in a commit- including prisons. Such diverse tools Walking, Mapping, and Reimagining ment to break out of academic silos, helped our fellows build community the Environment how their understanding of the public ties but also produced new forms of Scot McFarlane with Wright Kennedy humanities shifted as they encoun- reciprocal knowledge critical, they ar- tered and worked with one another, gued, to the future of the humanities. 3 June 2020 | 4:00 p.m. and how—amid the isolation brought Multilingual Youth as Curators about by lockdown—they reinvented Please see the SOF/Heyman website for Alexandra Méndez with James Doyle their scope and methods of public en- event descriptions and bios of and Carisa Musialik gagement. In all, the series highlighted the Public Humanities Fellows ways to promote humanistic thinking (www.sofheyman.com). 10 June 2020 | 11:00 a.m. beyond the university and through a New Pedagogies in Justice variety of media. Erin Petrella and Meadhbh McHugh with Mia Ruyter, Joseph Howley, We heard about podcasting and map- and others ping as technologies that can help tell new stories and reach new audiences; 17 June 2020 | 4:00 p.m. we heard about how Google forms can New Pedagogies in Climate help reinvent elite curatorial settings, in Akua Banful with Ashna Ali and particular how a Met show can be rede- William Hinrichs

Annual Report | 45 HEYMAN CENTER FELLOWS 2019–2020

Funded by the Office of the Executive Vice President for Arts and Sciences, the Heyman Center Fellowships provided three junior and four senior Columbia faculty with course relief during the academic year. These fellowships allow faculty to reduce their teaching loads to a minimum of one course per semester during the award year in order to conduct research and to participate in a regular weekly seminar, chaired by seminar directors Eugenia Lean (East Asian Languages and Cultures) and Dorothea von Mücke (Germanic Languages). Five post-MPhil graduate students were appointed as Heyman Fellows and received a $5,000 research allowance for their participation. In addition to providing the opportunity to present works in progress, the seminar fostered discussion across disciplines and fields, creating opportunities for collaborative research and teaching in future semesters.

“This fellowship year has challenged my capacity to present my research to distinct audiences in a legible and engaging manner. This practice in framing my work for new audiences also developed my abilities as a teacher—both in engaging students and in working with students to be deliberate about crafting information for a specific audience in their own writing projects.” —Danielle Drees, English and Comparative Literature

46 | Annual Report SENIOR FACULTY FELLOWS JUNIOR FACULTY FELLOWS GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWS

Zainab Bahrani Charly Coleman Danielle Drees (Art History), “Landscape and (History), “Transmutations: Economic (English and Comparative Literature), Monumentality” Theology and the Catholic Origins “Staged Sleep: Sleep Theatre in Late of Capitalism in the Age of Lights” Capitalism” Patricia Grieve (Latin American and Iberian Hannah Farber Ibrahim El Houdaiby Cultures), “The 16th-Century (History), “Underwriters of the (Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Mediterranean and Transatlantic United States” African Studies), “A Corporate Worlds of Flores and Blancaflor” Route: The Suez Canal Company as Aubrey Gabel Government” Stephanie McCurry (French and Romance Philology), (History), “Postwars: Reconstructing “Not So Secret: The Secret Brianna Nofil Lives Amidst the Ruins, United Practices of Literary Groups” (History), “Detention Powers: Jails, States, 1865–1918” Camps, and the Origins of Immigrant Incarceration” Deborah Steiner (Classics), “Choral Constructions: James Purcell Choral Performances in the Art, (History), “Parsing Truth in Texts, Technology and Social Merovingian Gaul: Evidence and Practices of Archaic and Early the Early Medieval Critic” Classical Greece” Miriam Schulz (Germanic Languages), “Gornisht “We also experimented with various modalities of discussion that iz nit fargesn, keyner iz nit fargesn: allowed for intellectual inventiveness and broke down the Soviet Yiddish Culture, the Holocaust, and Networks of hierarchies that too often impede frank discussion. Having Memory 1941–1991” participated in countless workshops and seminars in my time at Columbia, I can honestly say that the Heyman fosters constructive, critical engagement as well as, if not better than, any other group with whom I have the honor of collaborating.” —Charly Coleman, History

Annual Report | 47 ALUMNI FELLOWS NEWS

Teresa Bejan (2013–14) published her Michele Hannoosh (1982–85) first book, Mere Civility: Disagreement published a monograph this year, and the Limits of Toleration, which Jules Michelet: Writing Art and History in came out in paperback with Harvard Nineteenth-Century France (University University Press in 2019. Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019). D. Graham Burnett (1997–99) addressed the challenges of the Murad Idris (2016–17) published current coronavirus pandemic by War for Peace: Genealogies of a Violent bringing together a set of weekly Ideal in Western and Islamic Thought international “Quarantine Gatherings” (Oxford University Press, 2019), which via Zoom to think about the issue won the Best Book Award from the of “Attention” (his ongoing research International Ethics Section of the interest). These virtual gatherings International Studies Association brought together 50 people a week (2020). Dr. Idris also published The over the course of 10 weeks. Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory (Oxford University Press, Lorraine Daston (1979–80) retired as 2020) this academic year, a project he director at the Max Planck Institute for started as an SOF Fellow and which he the History of Science, Berlin, in June edited with Leigh K. Jenco and Megan 2019 but continues to teach on a part- C. Thomas. time basis at the University of Chicago. Her latest book, Against Nature, was In 2020, Susan A Manning (1987–88) published by MIT Press in 2019 and co-edited an anthology with Janice Ross has been translated into German and Rebecca Schneider, titled Futures and Dutch. In 2020 she was awarded of Dance Studies, which was published the Heineken Prize for History by the by the University of Wisconsin Press. Royal Netherlands Academy and the The anthology featured research by Humanities Prize by the Gerda Henkel twenty-eight emerging scholars who Foundation in Germany. had taken part in the Mellon-funded initiative Dance Studies in/and the

48 | Annual Report ALUMNI FELLOWS NEWS

Humanities, which Manning had and Difference in Early Sanskrit Medical directed from 2012 to 2019. In addition Literature,” appeared in Asian Medicine: to sponsoring postdocs in dance Tradition and Modernity, Volume 14 studies at Northwestern, Brown, and (2019). Stanford, the project staged intensive summer seminars for emerging William Sharpe (1981–83) was a Fellow scholars. A cluster of essays that she at the Columbia Institute for Ideas edited on South African artist Nelisiwe and Imagination at Reid Hall in Paris Xaba in TDR: The Drama Review came in 2019–2020, working on the visual out this summer. history of walking.

Rachel Nolan (2018–19) published Will Slauter (2007–09) was elected a review essay titled “A Jagged Scrap Vice President of the Society for the of History: On the Shining Path” for History of Authorship, Reading, and Harper’s Magazine and has another Publishing (SHARP) in 2019. His book essay on deportation history coming Who Owns the News? A History of out in Harper’s in August. She also Copyright (Stanford University Press, reported, for the New Yorker, on asylum 2019) received the 2020 History Book seekers who speak Mayan languages Award from the History Division of the at the border. During her time at SOF/ Association for Education in Journalism Heyman, she organized a conference and Mass Communication (AEJMC). on the history of gossip and rumors, which led to a special issue that is now under peer review at the Journal of Social History.

Martha Ann Selby (1997–98) published Cat in the Agraharam and Other Stories with Northwestern University Press in March 2020. A new article, “On Anatomical Enumeration

Annual Report | 49 ALUMNI FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Joelle M. Abi-Rached (’17–’19) *Richard Andrews (’85–’88) Amy Bard (’02–’04) Invited Researcher Certified Nursing Assistant École Normale Supérieure Karl Appuhn (’99–’01) Celtic Angels Home École des Hautes Études en History Health Care Sciences Sociales New York University [email protected] [email protected] Robert Bauslaugh (’79–’81) History Vanessa Agard-Jones (’13–’14) Andrew Apter (’87–’89) Brevard College Anthropology History & Anthropology [email protected] Columbia University University of California, [email protected] Los Angeles Teresa Bejan (’13–’14) [email protected] Political Theory Molly Emma Aitken (’00–’02) University of Oxford Art History Jordanna Bailkin (’99–’01) [email protected] City University of New York History [email protected] University of Washington Sandrine Bertaux (’02–’04) [email protected] French Institute for Anatolian Michael Allan (’08–’09) Studies (IFEA) Comparative Literature Jeffrey M. Bale (’94–’96) Istanbul, Turkey University of Oregon Grad School of Intl. [email protected] [email protected] Policy & Management Middlebury Institute of Giorgio Biancorosso (’01–’03) April Alliston (’88–’89) International Studies Music Comparative Literature at Monterey University of Hong Kong Princeton University [email protected] Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong [email protected] [email protected] *Hilary Ballon (’85–’86) Michael Anderson (’94–’96) Akeel Bilgrami (’83–’85) Latin Jeffrey Andrew Barash (’83–’85) Philosophy Loomis Chaffee School Philosophy Columbia University [email protected] University of Picardie, Amiens [email protected] [email protected]

*Deceased

50 | Annual Report *Beth Bjorklund (’82–’84) John Bugg (’07–’08) William Clark (’89–’91) English Art History/Medieval Studies *Irene Bloom (’76–’78) Fordham University Queens College and Graduate Center [email protected] City University of New York Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski (’81–’83) [email protected] French & Italian (Emerita) D. Graham Burnett (’97–’99) University of Pittsburgh History Peter A. Coclanis (’83–’84) [email protected] Princeton University History [email protected] University of North Carolina Peter K. Bol (’80–’82) at Chapel Hill East Asian Languages & Civilizations Glenn R. Butterton (’86–’89) [email protected] Harvard University Law [email protected] University of Miami Ada Cohen (’90–’91) [email protected] Art History, Women’s, Gender, & George Bournoutian (’78–’80) Sexuality Studies History Maggie Cao (’14–’16) Dartmouth College Iona College Art History [email protected] [email protected] University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill James B. Collins (’80–’81) Betsy C. Bowen (’76–’77) [email protected] History Writer, Independent Producer Georgetown University [email protected] Mary Baine Campbell (’85–’87) [email protected] English & Comparative Benjamin Breen (’15–’16) Literature (Emerita) Julie Cooper (’03–’05) History Brandeis University Political Science University of California, [email protected] Tel Aviv University Santa Cruz [email protected] [email protected] David Castriota (’82–’84) Art History Jonathan Crary (’87–’89) Sarah Lawrence College Art History and Archaeology [email protected] Columbia University [email protected]

Annual Report | 51 *Brian A. Curran (’96–’98) Vidya Dehejia (’84–’86) Mary Dillard (’00–’01) Art History and Archaeology History James R. Currie (’00–’02) Columbia University Sarah Lawrence College Music [email protected] [email protected] The State University of New York, Buffalo Wiebke Denecke (’04–’06) Adrienne Donald (’92–’93) [email protected] Literature Faculty Massachusetts Institute Greg Downey (’98–’00) Lorraine Daston (’79–’80) of Technology Anthropology Director Emerita/Max Planck Institute [email protected] Macquarie University for the History of Science in Berlin [email protected] Committee on Social Thought / William Deringer (’12–’15) University of Chicago Program in Science, Technology, Laura Lee Downs (’87–’88) [email protected] and Society History and Civilization Massachusetts Institute European University Institute Elizabeth Davis (’05–’07) of Technology [email protected] Anthropology [email protected] Princeton University Laurence Dreyfus (’79–’81) [email protected] Naomi Diamant (’92–’94) Music (Emeritus) Stern School of Business University of Oxford Mary Dearborn (’86–’88) New York University [email protected] Independent Scholar [email protected] [email protected] Joshua Dubler (’08–’11) Deborah Diamond (’94–’96) Religion Mark DeBellis (’88–’90) Fels Institute of Government University of Rochester Social Sciences & Philosophy University of Pennsylvania [email protected] Borough of Manhattan [email protected] Community College City University of New York [email protected]

*Deceased

52 | Annual Report Heather Ecker (’00–’02) Joshua Fogel (’80–’81) James Hankins (’83–’85) Curator of Islamic and Medieval Art Chinese History History Dallas Museum of Art York University Harvard University [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Maria Farland (’98–’00) Douglas Frame (’80–’82) Michele Hannoosh (’82–’85) English Senior Fellow Romance Languages and Literatures Fordham University Center for Hellenic Studies University of Michigan [email protected] [email protected] *Anne Frydman (’77–’79) Constantin Fasolt (’81–’83) Daniel Harkett (’04–’06) History (Emeritus) Jonathan Gilmore (’99–’01) Art University of Chicago Philosophy Colby College [email protected] Graduate Center [email protected] City University of New York Ilana Feldman (’02–’04) [email protected] Gary Hausman (’96–’97) Anthropology Columbia University Libraries George Washington University Brian Goldstone (’12–’15) [email protected] [email protected] Franklin Humanities Institute Duke University Heidi Hausse (’16–’18) Ruben Cesar Fernandes (’78–’79) [email protected] History Auburn University Dana Fields (’10–’13) Jennifer Greeson (’01–’03) [email protected] Classics English State University of New York, Buffalo University of Virginia Arden A. Hegele (’16–’19) [email protected] [email protected] Public Humanities Fellow in Medical Humanities Chris Florio (’16–’19) David Gutkin (’15–’17) SOF/Heyman History Musicology Columbia University Hollins University Peabody Institute [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Annual Report | 53 Wendy B. Heller (’97–’98) Alan Houston (’88–’89) Sarah Jacoby (’06–’09) Music Political Science Religious Studies Princeton University University of California, San Diego Northwestern University [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

*James Higginbotham (’76–’78, ’79–’80) Don Howard (’80–’81) E. H. Rick Jarow (’91–’93) Philosophy Religion & Asian Studies Anne T. Higgins (’90–’92) University of Notre Dame Vassar College English [email protected] [email protected] Simon Fraser University [email protected] David Hoy (’81–’82) Anning Jing (’94–’96) Philosophy Art & Art History Hidetaka Hirota (’13–’16) University of California, Santa Cruz Michigan State University Institute for Advanced Studies [email protected] [email protected] Waseda University [email protected] Ronnie Po-chia Hsia (’82–’84) Amy E. Johnson (’78–’80) History [email protected] Victoria Holbrook (’85–’87) Pennsylvania State University Independent Scholar [email protected] David Johnson (’79–’81) Istanbul, Turkey History [email protected] Murad Idris (’16–’17) University of California, Berkeley Politics [email protected] Robert Holzer (’90–’92) University of Virginia Music [email protected] Janet Johnson (’85–’87) Yale University Independent Scholar [email protected] Trinity Jackman (’05–’07) [email protected] Royal Ontario Museum Norbert Hornstein (’80–’83) [email protected] Judith L. Johnston (’77–’79) Linguistics English University of Maryland Rider University [email protected] [email protected]

*Deceased

54 | Annual Report Dalia Judovitz (’81–’82) Hagar Kotef (’09–’12) Robert Lamberton (’84–’86) French & Italian Politics and International Studies Classics (Emeritus) Emory University SOAS, University of London Washington University [email protected] [email protected] in St. Louis

Jonathon Kahn (’03–’05) David Kurnick (’06–’07) Richard Landes (’84–’86) Religion English History Vassar College Rutgers University Boston University [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Paize Keulemans (’05–’06) Whitney Laemmli (’16–’19) Charles Larmore (’78–’80) East Asian Studies History Philosophy Princeton University Carnegie Mellon University Brown University [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Muhammad Ali Khalidi (’91–’93) Guolong Lai (’02–’04) Susan Layton (’81–’83) Philosophy School of Art and Art History Russian Literature Graduate Center University of Florida Visiting Scholar City University of New York [email protected] University of Edinburgh [email protected] [email protected] Vinay Lal (’92–’93) Dilwyn Knox (’85–’87) History Andrew Lear (’04–’06) Italian University of California, Los Angeles Oscar Wilde Tours University College London [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Kevin Lamb (’07–’10) Daniel Lee (’10–’11) Lauren Kopajtic (’17–’18) Litigation/Controversy Political Science Philosophy Wilmer Hale (Law Office) University of California, Berkeley Fordham University [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Annual Report | 55 Rebecca M. Lesses (’96–’98) John Lombardini (’09–’10) Ian McCready-Flora (’11–’14) Jewish Studies Government Philosophy Ithaca College College of William and Mary University of Virginia [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Theodore Levin (’79–’81) *Paul D. Lyon (’80–’81) Darrin M. McMahon (’97–’99) Music History Dartmouth College *David A.J. Macey (’76–’78) Dartmouth College [email protected] [email protected] Myron Magnet (’77–’79) Robin Lewis (’78–’81) Editor-at-Large, City Journal Cecilia Miller (’89–’91) President Manhattan Institute History World View Global communications@manhattan- Wesleyan University [email protected] institute.org [email protected]

Conrad Leyser (’92–’94) Susan A. Manning (’87–’88) Larry Miller (’84–’86) History English [email protected] Worcester College, Northwestern University Oxford University [email protected] Nancy Miller (’76–’78) [email protected] Comparative Literature, Joseph Masheck (’76–’78) English & French (Emerita) Suzanne Lodato (’98–’00) Fine Arts Graduate Center Institute for International Business Hofstra University City University of New York Indiana University [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Richard McCoy (’77–’79) Max Mishler (’16–’17) Marie-Rose Logan (’76–’78) English (Emeritus) History Queens College University of Toronto City University of New York [email protected] [email protected]

*Deceased

56 | Annual Report Amira Mittermaier (’06–’07) Jennifer Nash (’09–’10) David Novak (’07–’10) Religion & Near and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Music Middle Eastern Civilizations Studies University of California, Santa Barbara University of Toronto Duke University [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Emily Ogden (’10–’13) Scott Morrison (’04–’06) John Nassivera (’77–’79) English [email protected] Independent Scholar University of Virginia [email protected] [email protected] Marjorie Munsterberg (’84–’86) Independent Scholar Gülru Necipoğlu (’86–’87) Irina Oryshkevich (’03–’05) https://writingaboutart.org History of Art & Architecture Art History and Archaeology [email protected] Harvard University Columbia University [email protected] [email protected] Christian Murck (’78–’80) Trustee Rachel Nolan (’18–’19) Jesse Ann Owens (’77–’79) Harvard-Yenching Institute Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Dean [email protected] Studies Division of Humanities, Boston University Arts & Cultural Studies Liam Murphy (’90–’92) [email protected] University of California, Davis Law & Philosophy [email protected] New York University Deborah Epstein Nord (’80–’82) [email protected] English (Emerita) Esther Pasztory (’80–’82) Princeton University Art History and Archaeology Suzanne Nalbantian (’76–’78) [email protected] Columbia University English & Comparative Literature [email protected] Long Island University Calvin Normore (’83–’84) [email protected] Philosophy University of California, Los Angeles [email protected]

Annual Report | 57 Mariá González Pendás (’16–’19) Eloise Quiñones-Keber (’84–’86) David Russell (’12–’13) Coordinator of the Public Art History English Humanities Initiative Graduate Center Corpus Christi College, Oxford SOF/Heyman City University of New York [email protected] Columbia University [email protected] [email protected] Peter Sahlins (’87–’88) Ann Ramsey (’91–’92) History Dan-el Padilla Peralta (’15–’16) Fiona Animal Refuge University of California, Berkeley Classics Nuevo Leon, Mexico [email protected] Princeton University [email protected] Carmel Raz (’15–’18) Edgardo Salinas (’10–’13) Research Group Leader Music History David L. Pike (’93–’95) Histories of Music, The Juilliard School Literature Mind, and Body [email protected] American University Max Planck Institute [email protected] for Empirical Aesthetics Scott A. Sandage (’95–’96) [email protected] History Hilary Poriss (’01–’03) Carnegie Mellon University Music John Rogers (’89–’90) [email protected] Northeastern University English [email protected] Yale University Claudio M. Saunt (’96–’98) [email protected] History Linda Przybyszewski (’95–’97) University of Georgia History Mark Rollins (’85–’87) [email protected] University of Notre Dame Philosophy [email protected] Washington University in St. Louis Martha Porter Saxton (’88–’90) [email protected] History (Emerita) Amherst College [email protected]

*Deceased

58 | Annual Report Kirsten Schultz (’98–’99) Andrey Shcherbenok (’06–’09) Laura M. Slatkin (’81–’83) History Director, School of Advanced Studies Gallatin School of Individualized Study Seton Hall University University of Tyumen New York University [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Micah J. Schwartzman (’06–’07) Samer S. Shehata (’99–’00) Will Slauter (’07–’09) Law International & Area Studies UFR d’Etudes Anglophone University of Virginia University of Oklahoma Sorbonne Université [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Martha Ann Selby (’97–’98) April Shelford (’97–’99) Adam Smith (’09–’12) South Asian Studies History East Asian Languages and Civilizations University of Texas, Austin American University University of Pennsylvania [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Richard Serrano (’96–’98) Leo K. Shin (’95–’97) Robert Stillman (’80–’82) French & Comparative Literature Asian Studies English Rutgers University University of British Columbia University of Tennessee [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Pavlos Sfyroeras (’92–’94) Susan Sidlauskas (’90–’92) Ginger Strand (’93–’95) Classics Art History Independent Scholar Middlebury College Rutgers University [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Yanfei Sun (’10–’13) William Sharpe (’81–’83) Paul Silverman (’86–’88) Sociology English Zhejiang University Barnard College Patrick Singy (’07–’10) [email protected] [email protected] Union College [email protected]

Annual Report | 59 Mark Swislocki (’01–’03) Joanne van der Woude (’07–’08) Leonard Wallock (’82–’84) History American Studies Associate Director New York University University of Groningen Walter H. Capps Center Abu Dhabi [email protected] for the Study [email protected] of Religion & Public Life Kate Van Orden (’96–’97) University of California, Santa Barbara Jean Terrier (’04–’06) Music [email protected] Learning and Teaching – Harvard University Educational Technologies [email protected] Alicyn Warren (’93–’95) University of Basel School of Music [email protected] Franciscus Verellen Indiana University (’87–’89) [email protected] Miriam Ticktin (’02–’04) Director Anthropology Ecole Francaise d’Extreme-Orient Anne Waters (’95–’97) New School for Social Research [email protected] Zuckerman Institute [email protected] Columbia University Gauri Viswanathan [email protected] Barbara Tischler (’83–’85) (’86–’88) Associate Head of Curriculum English & Comparative Literature Leah Whittington (’11–’12) and Instruction Columbia University English St. Joseph’s Academy [email protected] Harvard University [email protected] [email protected] Joanna Waley-Cohen John Tresch (’00–’02) (’88–’90) Steven I. Wilkinson (’98–’99) Art History, History of Science, History Political Science and Folk Practice New York University Yale University Warburg Institute [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

*Deceased

60 | Annual Report Rebecca Woods (’13–’16) History and Philosophy of Science and Technology University of Toronto [email protected]

Grant Wythoff (’13–’16) Center for Digital Humanities Princeton University [email protected]

Nicholas Xenos (’80–’82) Political Science University of Massachusetts, Amherst [email protected]

Andrew Zimmerman (’98–’00) History, International Affairs George Washington University [email protected]

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