Non-GC Events Archive

As part of a public lecture series on

The History of Climate Change and the Future of Global Governance

The Hertog Global Strategy Initiative Presents:

Geoffrey Parker

Distinguished University Professor and Andreas Dorpalen Professor of European History at

The Ohio State University

“Climate and Crisis: War, Famine, and Empires in the 1590s”

Moderated by Professor Matthew Connelly, Columbia University

Thursday, May 30 at 6:00 p.m.

Please note that the location of this coming Thursday’s lecture has changed. The lecture will be held at the Maison Française (Buell Hall) on Columbia University’s main Morningside campus.

Columbia University

This event is free and open to the public. For more information and a full

schedule of events, visit http://globalstrategy.columbia.edu/lectureseries/.

Geoffrey Parker was born in Nottingham, England, in 1943 and holds BA, MA, Ph.D. and Litt.D. degrees from Cambridge University. He is Distinguished University Professor and Andreas Dorpalen Professor of European History at The Ohio State University and an Associate of its Mershon Center.

His best-known book, The military revolution. Military innovation and the rise of the West 1500-1800 (Cambridge, 1988; revised edition 1996), won the “Best Book” award from the American Military Institute and the “Dexter Prize” from the Society for the History of Technology. The Grand Strategy of Philip II (Yale University Press, 1998; paperback edition 2000) won the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize from the Society of Military History. His biography, Philip II (1978), is now in its fourth edition (Chicago, 2002) with translations into Spanish (multiple editions since 1984), Czech, Dutch, Italian and Polish; and in 2010 Editorial Planeta of Barcelona published a much expanded life of the king, modestly entitled Felipe II: la biografía definitive and covering 1383 pages. It is now in its fifth printing. In 2013, Yale University Press published Global Crisis war, climate change and catastrophe in the seventeenth century (902 pages), which examines the fatal synergy between climate change, on the one hand, and political, social and economic developments, on the other, that eliminated perhaps one-third of the global population between 1618 and the 1680s.

Parker’s other books include The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road: The logistics of Spanish victory and defeat in the Low Countries Wars, 1567-1659 (Cambridge, 1972; revised edition 2004); The Dutch Revolt (revised edition, New York, 1984); two collections of essays, Spain and the Netherlands, 1559-1659. Ten studies (revised edition, London, 1990), and Success is never final: empire, war and faith in early modern Europe (New York: Basic Books, 2002); and The Spanish Armada, co-authored with his former doctoral advisee Colin Martin (1988; revised edition 1999). All have been translated into Spanish.

In total, since 1970 he has written, edited or co-edited 37 books and published over 100 articles and book chapters, and almost 200 book reviews. He is currently at work on a biography of the Emperor Charles V (1500-58), based in part on previously unknown documents that he identified in the Library of the Hispanic Society of America.

He has also presented more than 200 lectures at universities and conferences in America (North and South), Europe and Japan, and directed or co-directed 30 doctoral theses to completion, with three more in progress. At Ohio State, he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on European and military history.

In 1984, Parker was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the highest award open to scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Britain; he is also a fellow of the Royal Hispanic-American Academy of Spain and of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. In 1992, the King of Spain made him a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic in recognition of his work on Spanish history. He holds honorary degrees from the Vrije Universiteit, Brussels (1991), the Katholieke Universiteit Brussels (2005), and from the University of Burgos (2010). He has held both a John Simon Guggenheim and a Harry Frank Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2006 he won an Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching at The Ohio State University; in June 2007 he became a Distinguished University Professor, OSU’s highest honor for faculty; and in 2012 the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences awarded him the A. H. Heineken Prize for History.

I am reaching out from the Museum of the City of New York Public Programs Department to provide the discount code, CUNY212 created for CUNY students, staff, and alumni/friends to provide you with $6.00 tickets for all of the following programs which Sarah Henry mentioned when she visited you last week:

-         New York City’s Crime Decline in the Age of Stop & Frisk – May 8th

-         “Versailles ’73: American Runway Revolution”: Documentary Film Screening and Discussion – May 16th

-         Ada Louise Huxtable and The Shape of New York – May 30th

A complete list of program descriptions can be found by visiting https://boxoffice.mcny.org/public/
The CUY212 code may be used upon online check out or by calling the Public Programs box office line, 917. 492. 3395

We hope to see you and all of our other friends from CUNY schools at upcoming programs.

Sincerely,
Sarah Greenbaum

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Now on View:

Making Room: New Models for Housing New Yorkers through Sep 15
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Stephen Burrows: When Fashion Danced through July 28
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Lindsey

Please join us for an interdisciplinary panel discussion of Marc Hertzman’s new book,

Please join us for an interdisciplinary panel discussion of Marc Hertzman’s new book, Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil (Duke University Press), which explores the development of recorded sound, intellectual property rights, and racialized anti-vagrancy projects in post-abolition Brazil.

Book Culture, 536 112^th Street.  Thursday, May 2 – 6:00 PM

Amy Chazkel (Organizer) – CUNY, History

John Collins – CUNY, Anthropology

Alexandra Vazquez – Princeton, African American Studies and English

Marc Hertzman – Columbia, Latin American & Iberian Studies

Description:

In November 1916, a young Afro-Brazilian musician named Donga registered sheet music for the song “Pelo telefone” (“On the Telephone”) at the National Library in Rio de Janeiro. This apparently simple act—claiming ownership of a musical composition—set in motion a series of events that would shake Brazil’s cultural landscape. Before the debut of “Pelo telephone,” samba was a somewhat obscure term, but by the late 1920s, the wildly popular song had helped to make it synonymous with Brazilian national music.The success of “Pelo telephone” embroiled Donga in controversy. A group of musicians claimed that he had stolen their work, and a prominent journalist accused him of selling out his people in pursuit of profit and fame. Within this single episode are many of the concerns that animate Making Samba, including intellectual property claims, the Brazilian state, popular music, race, gender, national identity, and the history of Afro-Brazilians in Rio de Janeiro. By tracing the careers of Rio’s pioneering black musicians from the late nineteenth century until the 1970s, Marc A. Hertzman revises the histories of samba and of Brazilian national culture.

Endorsements:

“In Making Samba, Marc A. Hertzman narrates with great skill and clarity the complex history of Brazil’s foundational musical genre. In doing so, he reveals how this celebrated, often romanticized Afro-Brazilian form emerged out of an acutely material set of social conditions and in close relation to Brazil’s modern struggles over race, artistic ownership, and popular culture. By focusing in large part on the actual laboring lives of the musicians who negotiated Brazil’s commercial/legal structures and technologies of circulation/dissemination, Hertzman brings alive samba’s modern story while also telling a powerful tale about the music’s generative cultural power. A remarkable contribution to popular music studies, suggesting compelling parallels with musical traditions to the north.”—Ronald Radano, Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of Wisconsin–Madison

“Making Samba is revisionist history at its best. Marc A. Hertzman takes on cherished myths of Brazilian popular culture and carefully debunks them, demonstrating through pioneering research and painstaking analysis where, how, and why they were created. In addition, he illuminates the links between popular music, race, labor, and intellectual property. This should attract considerable attention; no other study of Brazil has done similar work.”—Bryan McCann, author of Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil

“Samba, the quintessential ‘Brazilian’ musical genre, has been at the center of controversies and myths about national identity, racial democracy, and cultural authenticity for nearly a century, with each generation going over more or less the same ground. What these debates desperately needed was a fresh perspective, grounded in new and significant evidence, and that is just what Marc A. Hertzman provides in this deeply researched and cogently argued historical study. Making Samba takes the discussion of music, race, and authority to a whole new level of sophistication. Hertzman explores the changing contours of the music ‘business’ in Brazil, the spaces that black performers could carve out for themselves, and the costs musicians incurred when they sought to challenge existing racial, intellectual, and economic hierarchies. The result is a social and cultural history of samba that is by turns fascinating and sobering, and a book that anyone interested in questions of race, music, and nation will want to read.”—Barbara Weinstein, author of For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo, 1920–1964

About The Author

Marc A. Hertzman is Assistant Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures and Director of the Center for Brazilian Studies at Columbia University.

http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=48428

(Duke University Press), which explores the development of recorded sound, intellectual property rights, and racialized anti-vagrancy projects in post-abolition Brazil.

Book Culture, 536 112^th Street.  Thursday, May 2 – 6:00 PM

Amy Chazkel (Organizer) – CUNY, History

John Collins – CUNY, Anthropology

Alexandra Vazquez – Princeton, African American Studies and English

Marc Hertzman – Columbia, Latin American & Iberian Studies

Description:

In November 1916, a young Afro-Brazilian musician named Donga registered sheet music for the song “Pelo telefone” (“On the Telephone”) at the National Library in Rio de Janeiro. This apparently simple act—claiming ownership of a musical composition—set in motion a series of events that would shake Brazil’s cultural landscape. Before the debut of “Pelo telephone,” samba was a somewhat obscure term, but by the late 1920s, the wildly popular song had helped to make it synonymous with Brazilian national music.The success of “Pelo telephone” embroiled Donga in controversy. A group of musicians claimed that he had stolen their work, and a prominent journalist accused him of selling out his people in pursuit of profit and fame. Within this single episode are many of the concerns that animate Making Samba, including intellectual property claims, the Brazilian state, popular music, race, gender, national identity, and the history of Afro-Brazilians in Rio de Janeiro. By tracing the careers of Rio’s pioneering black musicians from the late nineteenth century until the 1970s, Marc A. Hertzman revises the histories of samba and of Brazilian national culture.

Endorsements:

“In Making Samba, Marc A. Hertzman narrates with great skill and clarity the complex history of Brazil’s foundational musical genre. In doing so, he reveals how this celebrated, often romanticized Afro-Brazilian form emerged out of an acutely material set of social conditions and in close relation to Brazil’s modern struggles over race, artistic ownership, and popular culture. By focusing in large part on the actual laboring lives of the musicians who negotiated Brazil’s commercial/legal structures and technologies of circulation/dissemination, Hertzman brings alive samba’s modern story while also telling a powerful tale about the music’s generative cultural power. A remarkable contribution to popular music studies, suggesting compelling parallels with musical traditions to the north.”—Ronald Radano, Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of Wisconsin–Madison

“Making Samba is revisionist history at its best. Marc A. Hertzman takes on cherished myths of Brazilian popular culture and carefully debunks them, demonstrating through pioneering research and painstaking analysis where, how, and why they were created. In addition, he illuminates the links between popular music, race, labor, and intellectual property. This should attract considerable attention; no other study of Brazil has done similar work.”—Bryan McCann, author of Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil

“Samba, the quintessential ‘Brazilian’ musical genre, has been at the center of controversies and myths about national identity, racial democracy, and cultural authenticity for nearly a century, with each generation going over more or less the same ground. What these debates desperately needed was a fresh perspective, grounded in new and significant evidence, and that is just what Marc A. Hertzman provides in this deeply researched and cogently argued historical study. Making Samba takes the discussion of music, race, and authority to a whole new level of sophistication. Hertzman explores the changing contours of the music ‘business’ in Brazil, the spaces that black performers could carve out for themselves, and the costs musicians incurred when they sought to challenge existing racial, intellectual, and economic hierarchies. The result is a social and cultural history of samba that is by turns fascinating and sobering, and a book that anyone interested in questions of race, music, and nation will want to read.”—Barbara Weinstein, author of For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo, 1920–1964

About The Author

Marc A. Hertzman is Assistant Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures and Director of the Center for Brazilian Studies at Columbia University.

http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=48428

During the economic crisis of the 1930s, the
written word became an activist political tool.
America’s “proletarian literature” movement
produced novels and poems that promoted social
reform and political revolution. Why did artists,
particularly writers, feel the need to become
political and what was the effect of their
work? Join noted essayist, fiction writer, film
critic, and poet PHILLIP LOPATE, distinguished
critic MORRIS DICKSTEIN, Professor of English,
CUNY, and LINDA GORDON, Professor of History,
NYU for a provocative conversation about literature, art, and politics.

Museum of the City of New York

1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
New York, NY 10029
www.mcny.org

Reservations Required
$6 students. When registering online, enter discount code EDU52
Register online at www.boxoffice.mcny.org or call 917-492-3395

On behalf of the Center for Jewish History (CJH) I would like to invite you to attend two upcoming seminars by members of 2012-2013 CJH Graduate Student Fellowship Cohort:

• On Wednesday April 24^th at 4 P.M, Anna Koch, a doctoral candidate in the departments of history and Jewish Studies at New York University and the 2012-2013 Cahnman Foundation Fellow, will deliver her lecture titled Home after Fascism – Heimat, Patria and Jewish Memories of Persecutions after 1945. A formal response to Anna’s seminar will be offered by Professor Federico Finchelstein of The New School for Social Research. 
• On Tuesday April 30^th at 3 P.M, Amy Weiss, a doctoral candidate in the departments of history and Jewish Studies at New York University and a 2012-2013 Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Fellow in Jewish Culture will deliver her lecture titled Planting Pines in Palestine: The Sprouting of American Protestant Holocaust Memorial Culture. A formal response to Amy’s seminar will be offered by Professor Yale Zerubavel of Rutgers University.   

The titles and abstracts of the seminars are as follows:

Anna Koch

Home after Fascism – Heimat, Patria and Jewish Memories of Persecutions after 1945

German and Italian Jews who chose to remain or resettle in Germany and Italy after 1945 struggled to regain a sense of home after years of persecution and ostracism. While Italian Jews generally maintained that Italy was still where they belonged, German Jews were uncertain they could still call Germany home. The different roles Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany played in the murder of European Jews, as well as the distinct postwar discourses and narratives in East Germany, West Germany, and Italy, shaped the ways in which Jews could relate to their home countries after 1945. The extent to which German and Italian Jews felt at home depended largely on how and what they remembered from their pre-emigration lives and on their ability to reconstruct a positive image of their country, be it by romanticizing its past or by envisioning a better future. I explore the different ways in which German and Italian Jews recreated a home for themselves, while at the same time shedding light on the difficulties and limitations they faced

Amy Weiss

Planting Pines in Palestine: The Sprouting of American Protestant Holocaust Memorial Culture

In 1947, Carl Hermann Voss, a Congregationalist minister and representative of the American Christian Palestine Committee, planted the first saplings in the Children’s Memorial Forest in Palestine. This forest, located near Nazareth and established in conjunction with the Jewish National Fund, served as a memorial to the more than 1 million Jewish children who perished during the Holocaust. President Harry Truman’s promotional appearance at the launch of the Children’s Memorial Forest’s fundraising campaign in Washington D.C., along with a scripted dramatization about the forest’s symbolism on the Jewish radio program “The Eternal Light,” highlighted both the national and Jewish interest in this afforestation Holocaust memorial project. Using the Children’s Memorial Forest fundraising campaign as a point of departure, this talk examines how the Holocaust has transformed mainline Protestant theology and affected Jewish-Protestant interfaith dialogue.

If you are interested in attending the seminars please RSVP to ezadoff@cjh.org

Sincerely,

Ethan Zadoff

Coordinator of Fellowship Programs

Center for Jewish History

15 West 16th Street

New York, NY 10011

(212)-294-8303

Points of Departure: On Religions and Social Transformations- A Lecture by John Torpey

Thursday, April 11th, 2013, 4-6 pm
509 Knox Hall, Columbia University

The distinguished British sociologist of religion David Martin has argued, above all on the basis of the global spread of Pentecostalism, that we are living through a period comparable in significance to the Protestant Reformation.  This lecture seeks to evaluate that claim by examining a number of other major “points of departure” in human history, most of them associated with the birth of major world religions.  Professor Torpey will seek to identify patterns in these other episodes that might help us set our own time in a broader perspective and hence to make better sense of it.

Rethinking Land and Language:

Dialogues in Early American and Indigenous Studies

Friday, April 26

2:00-7:30 pm

Columbia University Faculty House

(64 Morningside Dr., New York, NY 10027)

Co-sponsored by the American Studies Seminar and the Early American History & Culture Seminar

of the University Seminars at Columbia University

Attendance is free and open to the public

Please RSVP as soon as possible but no later than April 19 to earlyamericanseminar@gmail.com

Native histories and cultures increasingly have become central to the study of early America.  This year, the American Studies and Early American History and Culture Seminars of the University Seminars at Columbia University have organized a symposium that aims to take stock of new work being done by scholars at the intersection of the two fields. Specifically, “Rethinking Land and Language: Dialogues in Early American and Indigenous Studies” focuses on innovative scholarship being done to rethink the concepts of land and language from native studies-influenced perspectives. The conference organizers chose these two concepts because of their centrality to classic studies of native communities and European-native interactions.  They also continue to remain important in recent studies of colonialism, territorial possession and dispossession, native sovereignty, communication, and cultural exchange. The symposium will examine these topics via two roundtables, one on “Land” and the other on “Language.” Roundtable participants will each speak briefly before engaging in wider conversation with each other and the audience.

Full Program:

2:00-2:15 pm: Welcome/arrival
2:15-2:30 pm: Opening remarks

2:30-4:15 pm: Land

Christian Ayne Crouch (Bard College, History)
John Gamber (Columbia University, English and Comparative Literature, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race)
Elizabeth W. Hutchinson (Barnard College, Art History and Archaeology)
J. Kehaulani Kauanui (Wesleyan University, American Studies, Anthropology)

Coll Thrush (University of British Columbia, History)

Moderator: Karl Jacoby (Columbia University, History)
4:15-4:45 pm: Coffee/tea break

4:45-6:30 pm: Language
Birgit Brander Rasmussen (Yale University, American Studies, Ethnicity, Race, and Migration Program)

Céline Carayon (Salisbury University, History)
Karen Kupperman (New York University, History)
Andrew Newman (Stony Brook University, English)
Caroline Wigginton (Rutgers-New Brunswick, American Studies)

Moderator: James Merrell (Vassar College, History)

6:30-7:30 pm: Reception

Attendance is free and open to the public, although we do ask that you RSVP by April 19 to earlyamericanseminar@gmail.com For more information about the program, please contact one of the co-organizers: Zara Anishanslin (College of Staten Island/City University of New York, History), Julie Chun Kim (Fordham University, English), and Cristobal Silva (Columbia University, English and Comparative Literature).

Regionalizing the Globe: An Experiment with Senegambia, Kunming, and a Bend in the Ganges

Princeton University: April 19-20

This conference will rethink the emergence of globality by exploring the ways in which our contemporary world was not produced by a linear and bilateral connection between imperial nation-states and their colonial possessions by way of modernization. Rather than move from the metropole to the colonies, we begin at the “periphery” – in Chandernagor, India – and radiate out immediately to St. Louis, Senegal, and Kunming, China. Presentations and discussion will explore new lines of research into rethinking the history of globalization, independent of older area studies boundaries; and new kinds of intellectual and institutional connections across numerous national, linguistic, and disciplinary frontiers.