lecture Archive

Friday, November 9: Discussion with Professor Zara Anishanslin

By
Tracy E. Robey
 – November 8, 2012Posted in: History Program Events

CUNY EARS (Early American Republic Seminar) cordially invites our colleagues to a seminar meeting on Friday, November 9th, with Dr. Zara Anishanslin of the College of Staten Island.  Professor Anishanslin will be presenting “‘Language is Too Feeble:’ Making, Domesticating, and Remembering the American Revolution through Material and Visual Culture” as part of our monthly discussion of written works with established scholars in the field of the early American republic. Our conversations are lively and instructive, so we hope you’ll join!

The event will be held in the History Department Thesis Room on Friday, November 9, at 3 pm. Advance reading of the paper is required; please contact Alisa Harrison (aharrison@gc.cuny.edu) or Roy Rogers (royrichardrogers@gmail.com) to RSVP and to receive a copy of the paper.

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November 14th: Brazil Municipal Elections 2012

By
Tracy E. Robey
 – November 7, 2012Posted in: GC Events, Uncategorized

David Fleischer
Professor Emeritus,
University of Brasilia, Brazil

Moderator
Kenneth Erickson
Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY

Date: Wednesday, November 14, 4:00 PM
Location: The Graduate Center, Skylight Room
365 Fifth Avenue (@34th Street)

In this presentation Dr. Fleischer discusses results of the 2012 municipal elections and assesses Brazil’s democracy today. He breaks down the data by party for the 5,568 municípios, the 26 state capitals, and the 83 cities with over 200,000 voters. The reelection of mayors and the number of women elected mayor or to city councils are examined. The 2012 results are compared with previous municipal elections (2008, 2004 and 2000) and the results by party are projected regarding the election for deputies in 2014. Fleischer explores emerging trends and their broader political significance.

David Fleischer (Ph.D. University of Florida) joined the faculty of the University of Brasília (UnB) in 1972, where he was Chair of the Department of Political Science and International Relations (1985-1989) and member of the University Council (1985-1993). He was Director of the School of Social and Political Science at UniDF – Centro Universitário do Distrito Federal.
Fleischer has published widely on Brazilian politics (Congress, elections, political parties, and political corruption), and North-South Relations.
His more recent publications are: “Government and Politics” inBrazil: A Country Study (1998); Corruption in Brazil (2002); “Political Reforms: Cardoso’s Missing Link” in Reforming Brazil (2004); “Brazil: From Military Regime to a Workers’ Party Government” in Latin America: Its Problems and its Promises (2010); “Brazil” in Freedom House, Countries at the Crossroads – An Analysis of Democratic Governance (2010); and “Political Reform: A never-ending Story” in The Brazilian State: Debate and Agenda (2011). Currently, Professor Fleischer serves on the advisory board of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Brazil as well as on the board of the Brazil Studies Program at Harvard University.

Kenneth Erickson is a professor of Political Science at Hunter College. His areas of specialization include comparative politics, Latin American politics, democratization, drugs and public policy, and environmental and energy policy.

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November 9th: Caroline Walker Bynum lecture on “The Anthropomorphic and the Other: Medieval Holy Objects in Comparative Perspective”

By
Tracy E. Robey
 – November 7, 2012Posted in: GC Events, Uncategorized

Please join us for a lecture by Caroline Walker Bynum on Friday, November 9, 2012 at 4:00 pm in the Segel Theater of the Graduate Center, CUNY.* Dr. Bynum is Professor emerita of Medieval European History at the Institute for Advanced Study, and University Professor emerita at Columbia University.

“The Anthropomorphic and the Other: Medieval Holy Objects in Comparative Perspective”

Students of comparative religion, cognitive scientists, art historians, and historians sometimes use paradigms from non-western religions to raise questions about the role of material objects in Christianity.  Recently, such discussion has focused on images and controversies about them. In her talk, Prof. Bynum argues that the most important material manifestation of the holy in the western European Middle Ages was the Eucharist and suggests both that understanding it is enhanced by the use of comparative material and that considering it as a case study of divine materiality leads to a more sophisticated formulation of comparative paradigms.

*The Graduate Center is located at 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY.

This event is co-sponsored by the Pearl Kibre Medieval Study, Medieval Studies Certificate Program, and The Center for Humanities.

Caroline Walker Bynum Talk Invitation as a PDF

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Invitation to Rainer Forst (Nov. 8) and Abdullahi An-Na’im (Nov. 15) talks at the Mellon Sawyer Seminar

By
Tracy E. Robey
 – November 7, 2012Posted in: GC Events

We cordially invite you to the next two events in the  2012-13 Mellon Sawyer Seminar at The Graduate Center, CUNY, “Democratic Citizenship and the Recognition of Cultural Differences.” Both events are co-sponsored with the Center for Global Ethics and Politics.

This Thursday, November 8, we will be hosting Rainer Forst, Professor of Political Theory at Goethe University in Frankfurt, who will be presenting a talk entitled “Toleration and Democracy.” Adam Etinson, the Mellon Sawyer Post-Doctoral Fellow at The Graduate Center, will provide commentary on the talk. Please join us to reflect on these difficult questions regarding toleration following the US Presidential election. The event will be held at 4:15p.m. in Room 9206-7. We kindly request that you RSVP here.

On Thursday, November 15, we will be hosting Abdullahi An-Na’im, Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law, presenting a talk entitled “Beyond Minority Politics: American Muslims and Citizenship.” Andrew  March, Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University, will be providing commentary on the talk, all to be followed by group discussion. We are excited to host Prof. An-Na’im as he presents on a portion of his next book,What Is an American Muslim? (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), and hope that you are able to join us. The talk will be held at 4:15p.m. in Room C198. We request that you RSVP here.

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